Jason C. McLean and Dawn McSweeney discuss the Rogers outage which also knocked debit transactions and e-transfers out for over a day then switch gears […]
Tag: Canada
FTB Saturdays: Pope Francis to Visit Canada, Musk Versus Twitter & Falaise St-Jacques Park
Jason C. McLean and Dawn McSweeney discuss Pope Francis’ planned visit to Canada to meet with Residential School survivors, Elon Musk’s attempt to buy Twitter […]
Canada’s Real Estate Market is in Hyperinflation
At some point a duck needs to be called a duck: Any reliable source will show that Canada’s real estate market has been inflating proportionately […]
An Old Problem Made Public: A Response to the Increase in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes from Your Friendly Neighbourhood Filipino Canadian
On Tuesday March 17, 2021 a white gunman walked into three massage parlors in Atlanta, Georgia and killed eight people, most of them Asian women. […]
FTB Fridays 02/26/2021: Canada’s Parliament Votes to Call China’s Treatment of Uighurs a Genocide
Host Jason C. McLean and Special Guest Niall Clapham Ricardo discuss Canada’s Parliament voting for the Conservative Party motion to declare China’s treatment of the […]
Canada to Extend COVID-19 Relief Benefits: CRB, CRSB and EI are Included
Canada’s COVID-19 numbers may be improving and the vaccine rollout continues, but the pandemic is still very much here with new variants of the virus […]
Bill C-21: Canada Proposes Strict New Gun Control Measures, a Buyback Program and Red Flag Laws
The Government of Canada wants to render the roughly 1500 assault-style guns they had previously banned last May effectively useless as a firearms. This is […]
What Took Us So Long? The Proud Boys Are Only Now Considered a Terrorist Organization in Canada
It’s official: As of last week, the Proud Boys are a terrorist organization according to the Canadian Government. Last Wednesday, Public Safety Minister Bill Blair […]
FTB Fridays 02/05/2021: Evaluating the Pandemic Responses with Special Guest Dawn McSweeney
Jason C. McLean and Dawn McSweeney discuss the federal, provincial and municipal governments’ responses to the COVID pandemic. They cover the curfew, museums re-opening, summer […]
FTB Fridays 12/18/20: #SupportCanadian Venues with Special Guest Jon Weisz
On the latest FTB Fridays, Jason C. McLean and Special Guest Jon Weisz of Indie Montreal and the Canadian Independent Venue Coalition talk about helping […]