Podcasts about Canada

The biggest block of listening on this page is an argument about Ottawa. Across The Big Story, PrimeTime Politics with Michael Serapio, Full Comment, 10/3: Canada Covered, The Roy Green Show and The Andrew Lawton Show the same names keep coming round: Mark Carney and his majority, Poilievre, Justin Trudeau's last months, U.S. tariffs, the Supreme Court and the notwithstanding clause. Behind that sit true crime and narrative history, from a Mounted Police barracks in 1883 to a disappearance in Calgary in 2025. Sport, the largest single filing among shows about Canada, comes down here to a Toronto Raptors show and a running podcast.

What Canada is

Canada covers the northern half of North America and is the second-largest country in the world by area, with most of its people living close to the United States border. Ottawa is the federal capital, English and French are the official languages, and the economy leans on resources, manufacturing and trade with the U.S.

Ottawa from the roundtable and from the opinion desk

PrimeTime Politics with Michael Serapio is the measured end, a roundtable whose episode titles carry the date of the story. Its clip on Bill C-22, the lawful-access bill, plays the RCMP's case before Gary Anandasangri calls it "very narrow in scope"; another has the Liberals counting themselves "just two seats shy of a majority" after a floor crossing. The Big Story is the newsroom interview, Turnbull reading Poilievre's Richmond press conference as not the voice of someone handling things well. 10/3: Canada Covered is brisker and more story-led, from the three options architects see for 24 Sussex to the cocaine ring led by a former Vice editor.

The opinion desk is Full Comment, which treats public life as a live argument, Christian Luprecht saying Canada has no defence strategy and Bruce Pardee arguing the Supreme Court can turn Section 33 into whatever it wants. The Andrew Lawton Show is faster and more irritated: Chris Sims on the Fraser Institute finding that nearly half a household budget goes to taxes, and the verdict that Trudeau bungled immigration and turned Canadians against immigrants.

Rent, homes and cars

The Missing Middle Podcast argues affordability in numbers: only about thirty per cent of Canadian mothers qualify for paid parental leave because of how they work, and second-time buyers find the ladder entirely broken. The Roy Green Show supplies the case study, Yumna and Khadeja Farooq on a Toronto two-bedroom whose rent notice went from $2,500 to $9,500 a month. Automotive News Canada Podcast sounds like a trade paper in conversation: CVMA's Brian Kingston argues Canada's EV rules could send more than $3 billion to Tesla in credits, and Stellantis Canada's Trevor Longley concedes Brampton is still paused while the company works on "a solution for Brampton". Moving to Canada is the newcomer's walk-through, the social insurance number to sort at once and a health-coverage waiting period that can leave arrivals uncovered for months; Build Wealth Canada Podcast follows with Kornel Szrejber on money blind spots.

Crime with the province in the title

The true crime is Canadian by geography, and the titles say where: Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, Quebec, Calgary. Whose Crime Is It Anyway? has Lisa and Chelle on Roch Thériault and the Ant Hill Kids in Quebec, 17-hour days, rationed water, rituals in which members hit each other until they bled. Cold Canada: Unsolved Murders lays out the Sick Kids deaths, Justin Cook's toxic digoxin level confirmed by three laboratories in a child never given the drug. True North True Crime ranges widest, from the Don Jail on the night of Canada's last hangings, where the hangman misjudged Arthur Lucas's drop, to the recent disappearance of Deeanna Erickson, a Facebook account demanding $10,000 in Bitcoin with a photo investigators think was AI-generated. The Canadian Gothic has an episode on the same disappearance, but its clips come from its KEEP CANADA WEIRD strand, lighter in subject: a man in Prince George arrested for impaired driving after taking a three-year-old's pink Barbie Jeep to get a Slurpee.

History, straight and sideways

Craig Baird's Canadian History Ehx is the straight version, a solo narration that starts from a person and widens out: Jim Egan joining the University of Toronto's zoology department and then Connaught Labs' insulin production; Frank Oliver's change of law that took back 258,000 acres the Doukhobors had worked for a decade; Thanadelthur persuading more than a hundred Chipewyan to follow her for peace. Greg Koabel's The Nations of Canada is calmer and more analytical: the Continuous Voyage Regulation that made migration from India technically possible and practically impossible, and Louis Breithaupt asking what he is to do with his name as Berlin, Ontario votes to erase its German identity. Mounted police life in Canada is a numbered reading of Richard Burton Deane's book, Deane walking across the prairie to the Northwest Mounted Police barracks on a July morning in 1883 and lecturing his men on the vigilance of the nine night sentries. Canada is Boring is the sideways version, two hosts talking fast and over each other, jokes carrying the facts: William Ayotte, 69, going at a polar bear in Churchill, Manitoba with a snow shovel, which the hosts rate as very Canadian; Eddie Haymour losing Rattlesnake Island, meant for mini golf, pyramids and a giant camel, before taking twenty Canadians hostage in Beirut.

Sport, narrowly

Raptors Over Everything is possession-level Toronto Raptors analysis: how OG kept pushing Tyrese off his path to the basket in the Pacers win where Pascal Siakam scored 36, and how Scottie Barnes ran a play modelled on a 2018 Jonas Valanciunas action. Run Canada Podcast is Kirsten Parker's conversations with runners: Samantha Powderhorn, of Sayisi Dene First Nation, on addiction, motherhood at fifteen, cancer and loss on the way to finishing the Churchill Marathon, flagged up front as a heavy story with a happy ending; and Sarah, at the TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon, saying she was assaulted while running, which turns the conversation to safety.

Where to start

• For the federal fight as it stands: PrimeTime Politics with Michael Serapio for the roundtable, Full Comment for the argument.
• For Canadian true crime with the province named: Whose Crime Is It Anyway? and True North True Crime.
• For history: Canadian History Ehx with a person at the centre, The Nations of Canada for the long view, Canada is Boring for the jokes.
• For arriving and paying for it: Moving to Canada, then The Missing Middle Podcast on housing.

The Canada feed on this page plays clips from these shows.