The 10 Best COMMONS Podcast Episodes
1) DYNASTIES 5 - The Sahotas
The Sahotas are Vancouver’s most notorious slumlords. For decades they’ve let their buildings rot, leaving their tenants to live in filth and desolation. But the Sahotas are not like any other dynasty...Show More
2) REAL ESTATE 3 - Terminal City
Vancouver is obsessed with real estate. But what most people don't realize, is that it's been this way from the beginning. Three stories of the swindlers, segregationists and profiteers that made...Show More
3) DYNASTIES 2 - The Irvings
For almost a century, the Irving family has run New Brunswick like a personal fiefdom. They own the newspapers, the industry, and, according to some, even the government. So how does a single family c...Show More
4) CRUDE 10 - The Apocalypse is Now
Canoe-borne bandits strike an underwater town. A new generation of wealthy lobstermen is minted. An island disappears. And hellfire engulfs a highway jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power d...Show More
5) DYNASTIES 1 - The Stronachs
Canada is a country ruled by dynasties — political, commercial and criminal. In the first episode of our new series, we bring you the story of an eccentric, billionaire patriarch; his famous, charisma...Show More
6) DYNASTIES 8 - The Regans
Gerald Regan was the premier of Nova Scotia, the founder of a powerful political dynasty, and one of the most prolific sexual predators in Canadian political history. Even after his death last Novembe...Show More
7) DYNASTIES 6 - The Desmarais
The Desmarais family is by far the most influential Canadian dynasty of the last half-century. But if you don’t live in Quebec, chances are you haven’t even heard of them. Paul Desmarais had Prime Min...Show More
8) DYNASTIES 4 - The Rizzutos
The Rizzutos are Canada’s first family of crime. For decades, they dominated Montreal’s underworld with an iron fist. With the help of corrupt politicians and police officers, the Rizzutos built one o...Show More
9) CORRUPTION 10 - The Canadian Company Accused of Using Slaves Today
Canadian companies have committed all kinds of wrongdoing abroad. But this is on a different level. One Vancouver-based company has been accused by the United Nations and Human Rights Watch of using s...Show More
CORRUPTION 10 - The Canadian Company Accused of Using Slaves Today
32:32 | Feb 19th, 2019
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10) CORRUPTION 7 - The Only Canadian Imprisoned for Insider Trading
One of Canada's most notorious white-collar criminals speaks about his crimes.Support COMMONS: http://commonspodcast.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast....Show More
CORRUPTION 7 - The Only Canadian Imprisoned for Insider Trading
26:38 | Jan 8th, 2019
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