Canuck is a Slur

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...

In the pursuit of covering the history of Canadian football, we've accidentally found ourselves covering the history of all football. Now that we've finally gotten out of our "ball-play" jokes out of the way, there shouldn't be any double entendres going forward. Right? In this episode, we investigate the primordial soup of proto-football games being played in 19th-century fancy-boy English school...

It's time we covered one of the absolute cornerstones of "Canadian sports," and for that, we have to begin with the logical starting point: England in the 14th century! It's going to be a long series. In Part 1, we investigate: whether you can be killed by a tennis ball, whether knives or "murther" have any place in sports, and if it's possible to be pranked so hard by "wags" that you have to leav...

Nicole is back to discuss the 2005 Québécois film The Rocket , about the life and career of Maurice Richard, up to the point of the 1955 Richard Riot. It also contains another recurring figure from the show. 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/CanuckIsAS...

After a bleak ending to Part 3, we cleanse the palate with the question: what if dril was a professional athlete tweeting under his own name? And got a lucrative media career out of it? And that's what leads us to our final Hockey Guy of the series: Paul "BizNasty" Bissonnette. Links I promised to include: the first collection of Biz tweets , the second collection of Biz tweets , and Biz's full "R...

Fresh on the heels of the worst-landed bit of all time, we explore the fallout from this incident, as well as the rest of Sean Avery's career. Then we get into his post-retirement activities...including his legal troubles. 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...

In the first full, proper episode of this series, Nicole finally gets to discover who Sean Avery is—and why she's being forced to learn about him. We explore the whole continuum of Hockey Decorum, including: how quickly you can alienate 28 teams in a 30-team league, how to navigate situations of you or your opponents marrying a sister-in-law, and the kind of violation of established norms that for...

Less than a year after getting out of the Tim Horton dungeon, Nicole is once again locked in a room to forcibly learn about the intersection of hockey guys, bad vibes, and questionable decisions. But first, we have to take a little time to thank each and every one of the show's wonderful, lovely patrons. This one is a little different than usual—we spent a lot of time goofing around, so what was p...

Kelly sits down with "Mao," a pseudonymous German doctor, to discuss the German TV program Unsere Besten ("Our Best"), which predates The Greatest Canadian by a year. 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

Plains Cree teacher Lisa Auger is on the show to tell us about: Plains Cree! Bush Cree! Other dialects of Cree! We talk about the forces that have tried to put indigenous languages down, the forces that have been trying to lift indigenous languages up, and of course: we learn how to say "dick." Please note that there is a version of this episode with slides, if you prefer. You can watch the video...

Kelly reunites with Emily, an old co-worker from many years back, to reminisce about Edmonton and talk about how Wayne Gretzky sucks. Also there's some stuff in there from a right-wing politician about how much she loves Gretzky, but who cares? 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://pat...

Kelly sits down with Nicole, his partially Britishized cousin, to talk about their shared Franco-Albertan heritage. 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

Jack & Sam from "See Podcast" (formerly "Bee Podcast") are here from the UK and US, respectively, to understand the province of Alberta by way of its defining artwork: the 2002 low-budget indie film FUBAR. 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 Dis...

Tamarack & Cariad from "Shawinigan moments" are here to tackle the pitch for the eventual winner of "The Greatest Canadian," Tommy Douglas—as pitched by Canada's Boyfriend, former MuchMusic VJ George Stroumboulopoulos. Please note that this is an audio version of a podcast intended for slides + video. You can watch the whole episode on YouTube here. The full on-screen list of things that the c...

Wade, my BeWelcome host and collections manager at The Rooms in St. John's, recorded with me in his living room to share his knowledge of the history and culture of Newfoundland and Labrador—and how it evolved distinctly alongside Canada before joining the country in 1949. Support us on Patreon for access to the full episode: https://patreon.com/CanuckIsASlur Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/R...

Kelly is joined by Joe from "Lions Led By Donkeys" to tell the story of the Richard Riot in an extremely roundabout way. In Part 3, we cover the events directly before, during, and after the riot. Please note that this is an audio version of a podcast intended for slides + video. You can watch the whole episode on YouTube here. Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/CanuckIsASlur Join our Disc...

Kelly is joined by Joe from "Lions Led By Donkeys" to tell the story of the Richard Riot in an extremely roundabout way. In Part 2, we cover the early history of the Montréal Canadiens from their founding to the beginning of the Rocket's career. Please note that this is an audio version of a podcast intended for slides + video. You can watch the whole episode on YouTube here. Support us on Patreon...