The Orchardcast – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Dr. Tarek Loubani first came on my radar in 2013, when he and filmmaker John Greyson were arrested by the Egyptian military junta en route to Gaza.

In 2018, he was shot in both legs by Israeli snipers when he was in Rafah providing medical care during the Great March of Return.

Since Israel’s latest onslaught began last year, he’s been barred from enter…

For the past six years, Arshy Mann has been the voice of COMMONS.

When I heard that Mann and his producer Jordan Cornish recently decided to leave Canadaland and start their own project, the Hatchet, I knew I wanted to interview Arshy about the state of independent Canadian media.

We spoke about his latest project, the risks of going independent, why the…

“There’s no business like Shoah business,” former Israeli deputy prime minister Abba Eban is reported to have once said.

Anyone who follows developments in Israel and Palestine, even casually, knows how frequently Israeli political and military leaders invoke the Holocaust to justify their actions.

Brown University professor of Holocaust and genocide s…

That’s right, we’re talking about sports this episode.

Andrew Stoeten of THE BATFLIP and Blue Jays Happy Hour joins me to discuss the Toronto Blue Jays’ unwatchable 2024 season, in which they sit dead last in the American League East division, and what brought the team to this point.

What moves should they have made in the offseason last year? Why can’t …

Rumneek Johal, associate editor and B.C. reporter at PressProgress, joins the Orchardcast to discuss recent reporting in the Globe and Mail suggesting former defence minister Harjeet Sajjan put Canadian Forces and diplomats at risk during the fall of Kabul to rescue Afghan Sikh asylum seekers.

We talked about Rumneek’s work debunking this sloppy hit pie…

Friend of the Orchard David Moscrop makes his Orchardcast debut to discuss whether a Conservative majority government is an inevitability in the next Canadian election, just as a Labour majority was inevitable in the U.K. election.

We talk about how the Liberal Party’s bland centrism has failed to rise to the challenges of the moment and the NDP being g…

Independent Iranian-Canadian journalist Samira Mohyeddin (@SMohyeddin) joins the Orchardcast to talk about the nuances of Iranian diaspora politics, the presence of Iranian war criminals in Canada and differing views on an Iranian future without the Islamic Republic.

We then change track to discuss Samira’s coverage of the pro-Palestine encampment at th…

Shannon Phillips announced a couple weeks ago that she’s resigning her Lethbridge-West seat effective July 1, citing the growing toxicity of political discourse, not just in Alberta but internationally.

We spoke about how media amplifies and bolsters far-right narratives but also sometimes combats them, Lethbridge police officers’ harassment campaign aga…

Podcaster Eiynah (@nicemangos) used to be a New Atheist fellow traveller, admiring the likes of Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins. But as the movement’s right-wing, Western chauvinist worldview became more explicit, she’s since emerged as one of its sharpest critics.

She joins the Orchardcast to talk about why she still reluctantly id…

Jake Landau is a progressive Liberal politico and author of the Jake Landau Is Getting Tired newsletter. We actually agreed on a lot more than I expected in this discussion.

My position is that NATO plays a belligerent, needlessly provocative role in international affairs, largely at the behest of the U.S., and serves as an extortion racket for arms manufacturers.