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[Recording Date: July 26 2022] It's a grab bag of topics on this episode from the other federal leadership race -- that of the Green Party of Canada -- to the sexual assault scandals rocking Canada's sporting world; from the war in Ukraine to a curious eviction; by way of the papal visit. The news has been coming at us fast and furious but we bring you the facts with the trademark goofballish good...

[Recording Date: July 24 2022] On this unexpected and unplanned episode of Beaver Bites, Messieurs Grizzly and Beaver delve into many other topic that have made for quite full news weeks of late: Though it is about the US, it is also  the​  turducken of plenty for political junkies, the January 6th hearings have now taken place with a what-was-to-be-final final prime time episode; but seems "the r...

[Recording Date: July 22 2022] On this episode of Beaver Bites, we had intended to casually catch you up on that which we could not fit in our previous episode -- and we do get to do a bit of that -- but as the political news never stops, we've been scrambling here at the Beaver Lodge, just to keep up. In the space of but two days: yet more Skippy (literally skippy) drama as he and the party now s...

[Recording Date: July 19, 2022] On this episode of Beaver Bites, we start off with a bit of headline news you can use, a special coast-to-coast-to-coast COVID booster update, and follow it up with a discussion of the recent bit of grand political theatre, complete with rehearsed song and dance act, offered to us by our baker's dozen of First Ministers. To help us with it, we've invited the delight...

[Recording Date: July 11] Hey there, Kits! This is the Audio portion of our live YouTube stream. You can view it here: https://youtu.be/gngcULpo2k4?t=15 Just prior to Mother's Day, the media outlet Politico published a leak of a draft of the Supreme Court of the United States' (SCOTUS) decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. At the time, we brought together a panel of 5 thoroughly fascinating women, all...

[Recording Date: July 10, 2022] On this episode of Beaver Bites, we start off with a bit of headline news you can use and then move on the utter sh!tshow that is the Chaos Party of Canada's leadership race; a contest that not only has already had more melodrama than a telenovela, but one that has Canadians wondering yet again why it is that the Canadian Conservative movement just can't seem to org...

[Recording Dates: July 3, 4, 6, 2022] Hey there, Kits! We're back with a bit of hybrid flagship show as this one contains a full interview. Today, given the global pressures of war in Ukraine, climate change, inflation, supply shortages, labour shortages, and so on, the price of food around the globe is soaring. In this episode, we look at the state of food insecurity both in Canada and around the...

Hey Kits! Last year, prior to going national via The Dean Blundell Network, we had recorded an interview with Devin Heroux from CBC Sports. He was generous enough to grant us an extended chat just prior to heading to Japan to cover the Tokyo 2020/2021 Olympic Games. Unfortunately, due to a series of odd technical difficulties and a move on my part, we had never gotten around to posting the second...

[Recording Date: June 21, 2022] It's been nearly a month since our previous  Bites  episode and so much as happened. On this episode we skip over the Ontario election aftermath and CPC Leadership race to tackle a selection of other stories that have made the press, from the January 6th Committee Hearings, to National Indigenous History Month, by way of guns, and lengthening line ups for service......

(Recording date: June 19, 2022) Hey Kits! Do you like the True North Eager Beaver podcast but sometimes don't have time for a whole bite? How 'bout just a Nibble? Our two-part interview with broadcasting personality Laura Mainella  really​ ​ resonated with our Kits. In fact, it struck such a chord that both parts quickly became our most heard Eager Beaver episodes, all formats combined, of all tim...

[Recording Date: June 11, 2022] Hey there, Kits! After an interview-heavy period and following the Ontario provincial election, our regular format for our flagship episode is back. Today we speak of two recent important political events; check in with our National COVID and CPC Convoy update (after about 5 weeks away); talk economy and housing, and of course, we’ll finish it off with our blog page...

[Recording date: June 6, 2022] The Eager Beaver Pod asks its guests if they're willing to provide an extended interview, so that we may better get to know them/what makes them tick. When they agree, we package it together and present it to you as part of this series. This week's guest, Radio Personality Laura Mainella. In Part 2 of a 2 part Interview, Laura talks about her workplace experience tha...

[Recording date: June 5, 2022] The Eager Beaver Pod asks its guests if they're willing to provide an extended interview, so that we may better get to know them/what makes them tick. When they agree, we package it together and present it to you as part of this series. This week's guest, Radio Personality Laura Mainella. In Part 1 of a 2 part Interview, Laura talks about her workplace experience tha...

June 2, 2022 was election day in Ontario, and though the result seemed like a foregone conclusion, The Eager Beaver and Mr. Grizzly rounded up some of their favourite critters for its first ever live stream show. We figured that friends don't let friends watch election results come in alone, especially since we likely were going to need to be consoled. Join us as we discuss the campaign, some of i...

[Recording date: May 30, 2022] The Eager Beaver Pod asks its guests if they're willing to provide an extended interview, so that we may better get to know them/what makes them tick. When they agree, we package it together and present it to you as part of this series. This week's guest, Melissa Dufoe-Osaabiikwe, is a longtime advocate for youth in care as well as the disability community, and right...

[Recording Date: Friday, May 28] With about a week left to go in the Ontario election, Premier BubbleWrap is doing his utmost to avoid camera, microphones, questions... and inconvenient citizen-journalist-lawyers. All media except Global's Sean O'Shea appear to have checked out. There seems to be a concerted effort to suppress the vote by delivering Doug Ford to as an 'inevitable'. But A.I. pollin...

(Recording Date: May 24, 2022) A major storm hits central Canada; Premier Ford Edsel seems to be  Jeez, aw shucks, folks -ing his way to a second term, and neither political adversaries, nor Canadian media are making much of an attempt to demand any serious accountability at all for the disastrous past 4 years -- and neither the Eager Beaver or Mr. Grizzly are impressed; Jason Kenney had to reassu...

(Recording date: May 19, 2022) It's the Eager Beaver's birthday but Canada is getting all the presents: A disastrous debate for both Doug Ford and Andrea Horwath; a Jason Kenney resignation; La Tamara may be going back to jail; and, Pippy Long Talkings keeps on having bad week after bad week. Your Eager Beaver and Mr. Grizzly check in for Just a Nibble prior to the long weekend. _____ Of course, r...

(Recording date: May 16, 2022) The Eager Beaver Pod asks its guests if they're willing to provide an extended interview, so that we may better get to know them/what makes them tick. When they agree, we package it together and present to you as part of this series. This week's guest, Cassidy Caron, is an extremely impressive Métis woman with roots in the historic Métis communities of Batoche and St...

(Date d'enregistrement : le 9 mai, 2022 - EN FRANÇAIS) Le balado Eager Beaver est extrêmement fier de pouvoir offrir sa toute première épisode en français ! Nous offrons à nos invités l'occasion pour un entretien de longue durée afin qu'on puisse en apprendre plus sur eux et sur ce qui leur motive. Quand ils acquiescent, nous assemblons le tout afin de vous le présenter dans le cadre de cette séri...

(Recording date: May 9, 2022) The Eager Beaver Pod asks its guests if they're willing to provide an extended interview, so that we may better get to know them/what makes them tick. When they agree, we package it together and present to you as part of this series. This week's guest, Matthew Pronovost, is an educator, father, volunteer firefighter and proud Franco-Ontarian, from the northern part of...

Recording date, April 21, 2022 The Eager Beaver Pod asks its guests if they're willing to provide an extended interview, so that we may better get to know them/what makes them tick. When they agree, we package it together and present to you as part of this series. This week's guest is Human Rights Scholar and Doctor of Laws David DesBaillets. We chat about accomplishing a Ph. D., homelessness and...

Recording Date: Friday, May 6] 12 declared candidates quickly got whittled down to 6, and the first (unofficial) debate of the COVID Party of Canada's leadership race was, sadly, imposed upon the nation via that which was once called The Manning Centre. Suffice it to say the whole event confirmed that as much as Conservatives claim they despise Liberals, they despise each other even more. The part...

Recording date, April 19, 2022 The Eager Beaver Pod asks its guests if they're willing to provide an extended interview, so that we may better get to know them/what makes them tick. When they agree, we package it together and present to you as part of this series. This week's guest, Tyler Watt, is a health care professional by training, a prolific Tweeter, and a man who decided that now was the ti...

(Recording Date: May 7, 2022) Title for today's show created By Holly Warner, Kits, On Tuesday, May 3rd, Canadians woke to terrifying news coming from the United States: A draft SCOTUS decision indicating that Roe Vs Wade would be overturned was leaked, and since, sadness, fear, trepidation, mobilization, anger, and shock has reverberated all around the globe. We have invited a panel of 4 women fr...