The Megablast Podcast

How close were we to disaster during the Oka Crisis of 1990? Hear Albert describe how he and photographer Robert Galbraith literally did what the Canadian Military brass claimed was Mission Impossible: they boldly snuck through no-man’s land with a camera, and then made two award winning films about it. What is ‘laughology’ and how did the the 1965 Tanzanian laughing epidemic start? Hear Albert ta...

It's been 30 years since his Juno award winning album was released. Is there a life after fame and misfortune? Living in the fast lane as a rocker in Montreal to making a life as a musician and content producer in Ireland: the secret of transitioning. Sonny talks about his life as a musician growing up under the shadow of his father Sonny Greenwich Sr., regarded as one of the great jazz guitarists...

Music is your friend... until the end. TAZ and Jason go head to head on everything from drummers Keith Moon and Charlie Watts to what the complexities of the Beastie Boys and Les Colocs. TAZ expands on ways of getting to a deeper understanding of music by listening to it and how that leads to further musical disovery (what TAZ calls the 'discovery phase'). Both share their takes on the collective...

Lead singer of the 222s, Montreal's first punk band, Chris tells it the way it was: life in the fast lane with the beautiful and the damned; with a nod to Bowie, the tranny, bi drug scene, the music racket, from basement bacchanalias to the corner vomitorium, and against all the odds and oddballs, the inimitable Chris Barry isn't dead.

Is Haiti on the verge of collapse? Is it a failed state? What are the consequences for the Dominican Republic of the instablity in Haiti? What are the effects of the many thousands of Haitian migrants living in the DR? How effectively are they integrated into Dominican society? Join Milton and Jason on a deep dive discussion into the current state of affairs and the historical background.

Roy Eappen: Quebec Conservative Party candidate calls for radical health reform, which includes empowering non-doctors. Why are qualified doctors driving Uber? He is calling for constructive decentralization. Is this code for going private, that the well-to-do will be first in line and everyone else has to wait it out in emergency rooms bursting at the seams? Not so, he insists, and explains in th...

Kristian Gravenor: Election Quebec. Beware of the tyranny of the majority writes de Tocqueville (Democracy in America). Are the English getting hammered again? Can we expect another exodus to the rest of Canada? Is Legault drunk on power? Do the Liberals have to reinvent themselves? How important is charisma in the digital age? Note: this is the first in our regular meetings regarding all things M...

Christian Boutin: CAQ's craven Covid policy and the inexcusable death count. Is Pierre Polièvre Canada's new hope for freedoms crushed beneath the wheel of Liberal fiat. Trudeau and Trump as two peas in the pod bursting with vanity. Is democracy morping into totalitariansm through the cynical stoking of phony fears as an excuse to introduce autocratic rule. Is this Canada we want? Wouldn't it have...

Andrew Caddell: Founder of the Parti Canadien du Québec, Andrew has been on the front line of the linguistic divide for many years. He's calling for fairness and inclusivity as opposed to the all is fair in the endless, partisan language wars that make the rest of Canada sick and tired of petty Quebec politics. Jason and Andrew discuss Quebec identity from an English point of view. Can an anglais...