Podcast Is Broken
Podcast Is Broken
Podcast Description
A weekly podcast where Brittlestar, Steve Boots, and Lisa B attempt to make Canadian News and Politics funner. www.brittlestar.com
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The podcast focuses on Canadian politics, political satire, and current events, with episodes discussing topics like Liberal Party leadership candidacies, historical political anecdotes, and humorous interpretations of governmental decisions. Specific episodes include interviews with Green Party leader Elizabeth May and exploration of quirky political events from 2024.
Canadian and Global Politics, Unspun.
Politics is messy, loud, and usually full of nonsense. Politics Is Broken takes all that chaos, filters it through a Canadian sense of humour, and hands it back in a way that actually makes sense. Hosted by Brittlestar (Stewart Reynolds) and Lisa B., it’s smart, funny, and just irreverent enough to make the news bearable.
Is Canada trying to protect kids online… or just trying to regulate the internet after it has already escaped the barn, stolen the tractor, and opened a TikTok account?
This week, Stewart and Lisa talk Bill C-34, the proposed under-16 social media ban, age verification, Ai safeguards, deepfakes, online harms, and why protecting kids online will take more than just telling Big Tech to behave.
They also get into Canadian content rules, streaming giants, the CRTC, Netflix, TikTok, Canadian creators, and whether Canada should be investing in its own culture instead of hoping American platforms fund it for us. Plus: butter tarts, migraines, Yik Yak, and the eternal truth that humans are garbage.
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