Canuck is a Slur

Victoria Fraser (co-chair of the Squamish Language Commission), is here to teach us about Skwxwú7mesh sníchim —a critically endangered language of the Coast Salish family, effectively spoken by only a handful of people at present. Here is the article we discuss regarding the renaming of several BC Ferries ships. Please note that there is a version of this episode with slides, if you prefer. You ca...

Caitlin Durante from The Bechdel Cast brings you the rare "guest's choice" episode, in order to answer the question: can two goofy white dudes truly make a good movie? The answer may surprise you! Please note that there is a version of this episode with slides+video, if you prefer. You can watch the video on YouTube here. Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/CanuckIsASlur Join our Discord: h...

Goon (2011) is a bad movie that I decided wasn't worth subjecting an upcoming guest to. However, my partner had already sat through it...so I decided to double down and make her watch Slap Shot (1977), on the promise that it was a markedly better film. Here's how that went. Support us on Patreon for access to the full episode: https://patreon.com/CanuckIsASlur Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/...

Billy Wayne Davis is back for the second half of the voyages of Jacques Cartier, amidst the increasingly absurd promises of a wonderland of riches and mythical creatures...somewhere up the Saguenay River. Will they find it this time? Will they kidnap anyone else? Will people die from more than just scurvy? Tune in to find out! Please note that there is a version of this episode with slides+video,...

Comedian Billy Wayne Davis brings his expertise to the age-old question: "What if El Dorado was in Québec?" This proposition will carry us through two episodes covering the three 16th-century voyages of the Breton ship captain Jakez Karter—better known to history as "Jacques Cartier." Please note that there is a version of this episode with slides+video, if you prefer. You can watch the video on Y...

Chris, Chris and the Goo Gimp from Failure to Launch all enter the sick, twisted world of Twink Yahoo and come out slimier at the end of it. Topics include the Canadian/American goo gap, whether the Goo Gimp was complicit in 9/11, and what the Slime Master is up to today. Support us on Patreon for access to the full episode: https://patreon.com/CanuckIsASlur Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/RC...

Comedian Rick Green (The Frantics), co-creator of The Red Green Show and the creator of History Bites , is on the show to share his experience of trying to make pop history for television. We also talk a little Red Green, a little neo-fascism, and a little neurodivergence. We think one of those things is bad, to be clear. Please note that there is a version of this episode with slides+video, if yo...

A.J. Ditty from The Worst of All Possible Worlds brings his media analysis to the only fictional feature written and directed by American activist filmmaker Michael Moore: Canadian Bacon , in which an unpopular U.S. president (Alan Alda) flirts with waging war against Canada—as an intrepid American sheriff (John Candy) decides to become the tip of the spear. Please note that there is a version of...

Musician & writer Jordan Mandel facilitates a crash course on Marshall McLuhan, the 62nd Greatest Canadian. Support us on Patreon for access to the full episode: https://patreon.com/CanuckIsASlur Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/RCACQQue28 Follow our various socials: https://linktr.ee/CanuckIsASlur Find Jordan's album under the title "The Music is the Message" and the artist name "Spoke an...

Nicole (noted friend-, host-, and Nicole-of-the-show) is back for another round of punishment. This time, it's to read a book Kelly found in a trash bag: "Decoy Ops: Fighting Street Crime Undercover", which is about what happens when imaginative kids aren't allowed to join theatre groups and are forced to become cops instead. Does this relate to the established themes of this show? As it turns out...

In 1980, Terry Fox tried to run across the country on one leg to raise money for cancer research. Can we take this unproblematic, universally beloved, unequivocal hero and still extract a downer episode out of it? Tune in to find out! Please note that there is a version of this episode with slides+video, if you prefer. You can watch the video on YouTube here. Support us on Patreon: https://patreon...

Cariad finishes the story of the first computer crime in Canada, and we discuss its effects on the subsequent evolution of the theft of ones and zeros. Support us on Patreon for access to the full episode: https://patreon.com/CanuckIsASlur Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/RCACQQue28 Follow our various socials: https://linktr.ee/CanuckIsASlur Follow Cariad on Bluesky: https://cariad.bsky.social

Before Shoresy , before even Letterkenny , Jared Keeso was just some unknown hockey-player turned actor...portraying friend-of-the-show Don Cherry in a TV-movie series. And he's looking GOOD doing it, folks. I mean, REALLY hot. Jules and Lucas, our Australian subject matter experts, return to the show to cover Part 1—but first, we catch up on what Grapes has gotten up to since last year's recordin...

Cariad returns to the show to explain computers to Kelly like he's an idiot (because he is), and answer his questions on why they're evil. This is all to explain how the first-ever computer crime took place at the University of Alberta—which will be discussed in further detail in Part 2. Support us on Patreon for access to the full episode: https://patreon.com/CanuckIsASlur Join our Discord: https...

It's the Albanian Bunker Episode! It's an episode recorded in a bunker in Albania. Topics include: bunkers, tourism, and animal welfare. Please note that there is a version of this episode with slides, if you prefer. You can watch the video on YouTube here. Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/CanuckIsASlur Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/RCACQQue28 Follow our various socials: https://l...

Like many podcasts, we decided to give the public a free bonus episode for the holidays—and there's no holiday more important in the annals of Canuck is a Slur than Orthodox Christmas! Or, more accurately, Christmas according to the Julian calendar. By popular vote in the Discord server, the clear winner was Bonus #6, "Canuxploitation." Here is the original description: Bryan and Dave from Bring M...

The hosts of SeedPod are here to explain the ins and outs of herbicides, including glyphosate—the main target of the "Stop Spraying New Brunswick" campaign. Check out SeedPod wherever you get your podcasts! Support us on Patreon for access to the full episode: https://patreon.com/CanuckIsASlur Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/RCACQQue28 Follow our various socials: https://linktr.ee/CanuckIsASl...

Fresh off of learning about the unmitigated clownshow that was the Las Vegas Posse, we ask the question: "Okay but what if you made it really humid, too? What if you added circus animals?? What if the field tried to kill you???" We also ask the question: "How many CFL franchises do you get a crack at running into the ground with your small adult failson?" And additionally: "What do you do with you...

Eight episodes in, we finally directly address the question of "how did Canadian football come to be different from American football?" before skipping straight to the early 1990s to get to the good part! Namely, the time the CFL—on the brink of financial ruin—threw a Hail Mary by trying to expand into a market that was surely ripe to accept Canadian football: the United States of America. In this...

We begin the home stretch of this series with a look at the very deliberate creation of modern Gaelic football, which has managed to escape our attention thus far...then we move on to an era of American football so violent that the President gets involved. No, way more "violent" than how you'd mean it today—no, more "violent" than actual combat sports. It's so, so, so much more violent than that....

Andrew Grant —an Ontario-born, Vancouver-based comedian with a master's in linguistics—is on the show to help present an overview of general Canadian English, as well as some of the specifics of various Anglo-Canadian accents & dialects. We also cover some regional phrasing and terminology, from "parkade" and "bunny hug" to asking for your eggs "side by each" to specify "where they're to." Sup...

There's no getting around it: we shot our wad early with all the jokes about balls and busting...and now we have to catch up on history. The 1870s through the 1890s brought an eruption of rule changes that moved the Rugby game away from the Association game, and shaped the other five codes we have today, as everyone is desperate to do something about all the tedious "scrummaging." In Part 6, you'l...

In this installment, we track the progression from the heady college days of Canadian and American football, to the groups that would go on to form the Canadian Football League. Come along and find out, from among these many schools and clubs: which team names were the exact same, which ones were the dumbest, and which ones were the most racist (none of these categories are mutually exclusive). Pa...

This is an episode all about institutionalized bullying: from the halls of Eton and Rugby, as fictionalized in a transatlantic hit of a novel; to the fields of Harvard and Dartmouth, as materialized in the genocide of innumerable people and cultures. In Part 4, we track the continued evolution of ball games in the places that the English were creatively calling "New England," including the sports...

Now that we've finally finished with the ball jokes (mostly), we can set aside our three horrid little fancy-boy schools and get on to the important business of talking about...well, another fancy-boy school that the first three turn their noses up at: Rugby. In this episode, come learn about: which recurring CIAS character had a cameo role in the myth-making of rugby football's origins, what the...