On the Trail with Isaac Peltz

Sign up for the newsletter, and support our work at https://onthetrail.info ! This is entirely reader funded, and we don't accept corporate payouts. Support the hardest hitting journalism in Quebec. Astoundingly, we’ve made it nearly 1500 KM into Ontario, with no end in sight. There remains another near 1000 Km to go. There are also few people in the west of the province, with a total of about 1/5...

Sign up for the newsletter, and support our work at https://onthetrail.info ! This is entirely reader funded, and we don't accept corporate payouts. Support the hardest hitting journalism in Quebec. A&W is clearly the dominant culture of Canada. It’s hard to believe, we know, but as we journey from place to place, it is without doubt that we have discovered the truth: A&W is the most full...

Sign up for the newsletter, and support our work at https://onthetrail.info ! This is entirely reader funded, and we don't accept corporate payouts. Support the hardest hitting journalism in Quebec. That’s a fancy way to say that we lost. To Front Burner! But we still got the honourable mention, which is something that will be going in our bios and whatnot. Still, we did well with a $2000 budget a...

Sign up for the newsletter, and support our work at https://onthetrail.info ! This is entirely reader funded, and we don't accept corporate payouts. Support the hardest hitting journalism in Quebec. This week the two of us recount our vast journey through Alberta and the experience that we had in Calgary. In the past week we have talked to dozens and dozens of people and interviewed people from ac...

Sign up for the newsletter, and support our work at https://onthetrail.info ! This is entirely reader funded, and we don't accept corporate payouts. Support the hardest hitting journalism in Quebec. This is the last 24 hours you have to sign up for the Paper Rag— this is a physical only version of the articles we’ve been publishing, with extra articles, poetry, and a ton of photo journalism. If yo...

Sign up for the newsletter, and support our work at https://onthetrail.info ! This is entirely reader funded, and we don't accept corporate payouts. Support the hardest hitting journalism in Quebec. Here we are, another week in. Many disasters have taken place. Many great conversations. Jay and Isaac break down week two of the trip across the country. We have encountered up to 50 people in our con...

Sign up for the newsletter, and support our work at https://onthetrail.info ! This is entirely reader funded, and we don't accept corporate payouts. Support the hardest hitting journalism in Quebec. Welcome to the Paper Trail Podcast, where we update you on our whereabouts and the hell we’ve been through so far. This week we began the journey across Canada. We’ve interacted with dozens of people,...

Sign up for the newsletter, and support our work at https://onthetrail.info ! This is entirely reader funded, and we don't accept corporate payouts. Support the hardest hitting journalism in Quebec. Today we have a special episode for you! Instead of breaking down the news, we look backwards and forwards and look at the state of the world right now. We assess the past year— radical shifts in Quebe...

I accidentally uploaded the French version of the podcast yesterday. Here is the English one. Sign up for the newsletter, and support our work at https://onthetrail.info ! This is entirely reader funded, and we don't accept corporate payouts. Support the hardest hitting journalism in Quebec. Sign up for the newsletter, and support our work at https://onthetrail.info ! This is entirely reader funde...

Sign up for the newsletter, and support our work at https://onthetrail.info ! This is entirely reader funded, and we don't accept corporate payouts. Support the hardest hitting journalism in Quebec. This week was an eventful one, but most importantly, we celebrate one year of Carney. Happy Carneyversary everyone! On the first anniversary of his 2025 election victory, Prime Minister Mark Carney ann...

Sign up for the newsletter, and support our work at https://onthetrail.info ! This is entirely reader funded, and we don't accept corporate payouts. Support the hardest hitting journalism in Quebec. Mark Carney earned a majority! It’s a tiny little majority bolstered by floor crossers. Many people have gone around calling this an illegitimate majority, but is it? And what are the consequences of t...

Sign up for the newsletter, and support our work at https://onthetrail.info ! This is entirely reader funded, and we don't accept corporate payouts. Support the hardest hitting journalism in Quebec. 12000 people are living on the streets in Quebec, a record amount. People are lining up more than ever at food supports, and for help with their basic needs, and as per usual, the government hasn’t don...

Sign up for the newsletter, and support our work at https://onthetrail.info ! This is entirely reader funded, and we don't accept corporate payouts. Support the hardest hitting journalism in Quebec. Another week with lots of headlines– but none more interesting than Lionel Carmant returning to be among the CAQ faithful. After leaving the party because of their poor management of doctor’s remunerat...

Sign up for the newsletter, and support our work at https://onthetrail.info ! This is entirely reader funded, and we don't accept corporate payouts. Support the hardest hitting journalism in Quebec. Avi Lewis is the new leader of the NDP, indicating a move to the left. The party has gone back to its roots, literally and philosophically. Lewis is the third in a lineage of Lewises who have led NDP p...

Sign up for the newsletter, and support our work at https://onthetrail.info ! This is entirely reader funded, and we don't accept corporate payouts. Support the hardest hitting journalism in Quebec. Gab and Isaac dive into one of the most important weeks in Canada since the 1980s. The results of this week's Supreme court case could change the future of the country, and of human rights in the count...

Subscribe today at https://onthetrail.ca for $5 a month, or for our free newsletter! We don’t live unless you help! It was a slow news week, but for Mark Carney it was a bad one. The war in Iran continues: the US and Israel bombed 20 schools & 13 hospitals in Iran in 1 week. War secretary Pete Hegseth boasted of unleashing death and destruction to provoke collapse with “no stupid rules of enga...

Soutenez-nous sur https://onthetrailmtl.ca ! Les États-Unis et Israël ont attaqué l’Iran sans l’approbation du Congrès. Trump continue de poser des gestes illégaux sans pratiquement aucune opposition, tant à l’échelle internationale que locale. Le monde se plie à toutes ses volontés. Mark Carney a déclaré que l’attaque était justifiée afin d’empêcher l’Iran d’obtenir la bombe nucléaire, faisant pr...

Subscribe today at https://onthetrail.ca for $5 a month, or for our free newsletter! The USA & Israel have attacked Iran, without Congressional approval. Trump continues doing illegal actions with essentially no push back internationally, and locally. The world cowtows to his every whim. Mark Carney said that the attack was justified, in order to prevent a nuclear bomb getting in the hands of...

Check out our work at https://onthetrailmtl.ca and support us for $5, or sign up for our free newsletter! Danielle Smith introduces a referendum that is to be held next October. In this referendum there are nine questions, ranging from highly racist to impossible and aspirational. It seems clear— Danielle Smith doesn’t want to be part of Canada anymore, but she wants to continue benefitting from t...

Good morning everyone, This week Gab and I couldn’t figure out the time. No biggie. Organizing is hard! A challenging week this week for the whole country, when a shooting took place in Tumbler Ridge, BC. This small community of 2000 people saw the largest massacre of children in Canadian history, and has resulted in mourning across the board. It’s likely you, along with everyone else, walked arou...

Welcome back to the best political show in history. This week was a slow news week, but nonetheless we talk about everything that happened this week, both nationally and internationally. This week the top topics are the olympics, which Gabrielle and I are hyped about, as well as the trial on the west coast for Amber Bracken who was arrested by the RCMP who were impeding upon her reporting. She see...

Another beautiful week begins. Luckily we got a break from being invaded this week, and instead we can talk about what really matters: Who’s to blame for all of this nonsense? All of us are a little sick of the chaos, and the sharp turn to the write globally. Well, a weak media without hard fact finding and an interest in pushing against power can lead to these places. Gab, an expert in media anal...

Gab forgot to wear her blazer. If you want to support our work, please support us with a one time donation on Ko-Fi, or support our work on Substack! The first, and last good news. (this is a joke) On the docket for this week: Another execution has occurred in Minnesota. ICE has ramped up their violence against citizens, particularly in that state. The man who was killed, Alex Pretti, was a 37 yea...

Abbonez vous de maintenant! Abonnez-vous à notre infolettre sur pivot.quebec , à cette chaîne et à notre balado, où que vous soyez! Notre podcast français est de retour pour une nouvelle année explosive, et quelles dernières semaines intenses ! Aujourd’hui, nous analysons la démission surprise de François Legault, les bouleversements géopolitiques majeurs au Moyen-Orient et les risques politiques...

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