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Hosted by Jared Michael · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 23 episodes
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The Canadians (formerly Bad Canadians) is a long-form conversation series hosted by Jared Michael exploring Canada’s contrarians, thinkers, and cultural outsiders through a working-class lens and a commitment to free speech.
Jared Michael hosts The Canadians, a society show with 23 episodes published.
Jimi Fritz is a writer, musician, filmmaker, entrepreneur, and the author of Rave Culture: An Insider’s Overview. A longtime traveler and legendary rave promoter, he has spent decades documenting and participating in one
Trevor Herriot is a Saskatchewan naturalist, conservationist, and award-winning author. Through decades of writing and conservation work, he has explored the relationship between people, place, and the natural world. We
Aaron Pete is a First Nation Chief, law graduate, and host of the Nuanced podcast. Through hundreds of conversations across Canada’s political, cultural, and ideological divides, he has earned a reputation for approachin
Modern society has become very good at communication and increasingly poor at understanding. In this solo minisode, Jared Michael explores the difference between listening and simply waiting for our turn to speak. He ref
Stephen Jenkinson is a culture worker, author, and founder of the Orphan Wisdom School. He holds master’s degrees from Harvard Divinity School and the University of Toronto and is the author of numerous books, including
Therapeutic coach Glynis Sherwood joins The Canadians for a conversation on scapegoating, family dynamics, shame, conflict, and public shaming. We explore the human tendency to place blame onto individuals rather than co
Andrew Weaver is a climate scientist, former leader of the BC Green Party, and one of Canada’s most prominent voices on climate policy. Widely reported to have endorsed John Rustad and the BC Conservatives’ climate plan
Nick Osmond-Jones is a former investigator with the Office of the Ombudsman in British Columbia. Before entering government, he spent a decade working in Alberta’s oil and gas industry, eventually returning to school to
Eric Kaufmann is a political scientist and professor at the University of Buckingham, and one of the few academics who has tried to define what people mean when they talk about “woke” as an ideology, rather than just a t
David Cayley spent more than thirty years as a producer for the CBC radio program Ideas, where he created hundreds of documentaries on history, philosophy, politics, religion, and culture. He is also the author of severa
Hal Niedzviecki built the heartbeat of North America’s zine movement — then lost it all for defending free expression. In the mid-90s, his magazine Broken Pencil championed DIY art, radical self-expression, and undergrou
STEPHEN R. BOWN is one of Canada’s leading writers of non-fiction, and the winner of the 2024 Governor General’s Award for Popular History (the Pierre Berton Award). His books The Company and Dominion stand among the mos
What hidden costs does inflation place on families, savers, and communities? On Bad Canadians, Jared Michael sits down with Seb Bunney, Bitcoin author and educator, to unpack the ideas behind his book The Hidden Cost of
Amy Hamm is a Canadian nurse, National Post columnist, and co-founder of CaWsbar, a women’s sex-based rights organization. In this episode, she recounts her years-long battle with the BC College of Nurses and Midwives, w
What happens when knowledge is treated as sacred dogma? On Bad Canadians, Jared Michael sits down with internationally renowned theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss, editor of the new anthology The War on Science, to ex
Eva Kurilova is a Canadian writer and thoughtful critic of today’s gender ideology. In this episode, she explores how the word “queer” is often misunderstood as a sexual orientation, when in fact it represents a broader
In this solo minisode, host Jared Michael takes a step back to reflect on the deeper mission behind Bad Canadians. Drawing on the work of social psychologist Jonathan Haidt and the metaphor of the “rider and the elephant
Lisa Bildy is the Executive Director of the newly launched Free Speech Union of Canada—a non-partisan organization defending freedom of expression in an era where that principle is increasingly under pressure. Prior to t
For nearly three decades, activist Ted Smith has been at the centre of Canada’s medical cannabis movement. As the founder of the Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club and a key figure in the 2015 Supreme Court case that opened t
Guest Lydia Perovic asks Canadians to look deeper - into places we've long taken for granted. What happens when the Enlightenment ideals that quietly shaped our identity are replaced by values most Canadians wouldn't rec
Stephen Jenkinson
Harvard-trained theologian, author, founder of the Orphan Wisdom School · Orphan Wisdom
1 appearance on this show
Andrew Weaver
climate scientist, former Green Party leader, former BC MLA · University of Victoria
1 appearance on this show
Eric Kaufmann
political scientist and professor · University of Buckingham
1 appearance on this show
SEB BUNNEY
Bitcoin author and educator · Looking Glass Education
1 appearance on this show
Lawrence Krauss
theoretical physicist and cosmologist · The Origins Project Foundation
1 appearance on this show
Ted Smith
Co-Founder and President of Union Square Advisors · Florida Automobile Dealers Association
1 appearance on this show
Tristin Hopper
reporter · National Post
1 appearance on this show
Eva Kurilova
Canadian
1 appearance on this show
Lisa Bildy
Free Speech Union of Canada
1 appearance on this show
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