The Secret Life of Canada
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The Secret Life of Canada
The country you know and the stories you don't. Join hosts Leah-Simone Bowen and Falen Johnson as they reveal the beautiful, terrible and weird histories of this land. New episodes every second Thursday.Visit us at www.cbc.ca/secretlife for show links, transcripts and more!Follow us on Instagram, Fa...
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Falen’s new show! Introducing: See You in Court
The stories behind the legal battles that changed Canada — and the unlikely people who made it happen. Some were sh*t disturbers, some were convicts,...
Goodbye for now!
Falen and Leah say goodbye, in the last episode of The Secret Life of Canada.
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The Secret Life of Canada Introduces | Personally: Short Sighted
People don’t think Graham Isador is losing his sight. They think he’s an asshole.
Short Sighted is an attempt to explain what visi...
S6: Powwow
Ah, the smell of fry bread, bright regalia, and vendors selling everything from dreamcatchers to expensive jewellery — the modern day powwow is really...
S6: The Sex Scandal & The Spy
Our country’s first sex scandal! At the height of the cold war several ministers in John Defeinbaker's government decided to have an affair. Turns out...
S6: The final voyage of the Princess Sophia
It’s been called Canada’s Titanic. 106 years ago the Princess Sophia crashed into a coral reef on route to Vancouver and Victoria. Over 300 passengers...
Introducing: Don't Drink the Milk | Witch hunts – The medieval conspiracy that just won't die
Don't Drink the Milk – The curious history of things from DW is a podcast that traces the unexpected backstories of everyday things that have traveled...
S6: Canada's historic Palestinian immigration program you probably haven't heard of
In 1955, Canada’s immigration officials began a special experimental program to bring in Palestinian refugees through Pier 21. Falen and Leah take a l...
S6: I see dead people (in Winnipeg)
In honor of spooky season, Falen and Leah are joined by producer Eunice Kim to learn why Winnipeg became known around the world for communicating with...
S6: A Brief History of Nudism
Leah and Falen take a (fully clothed) deep dive into the history of nudism in Canada. They learn the origins behind the naturist movement which includ...
S6: An American Indian in London
In a lot of history books we hear the names of European explorers who “discovered” the Americas. Columbus, Cook, Champlain. All boo-worthy men. But wh...
S6: The Caribana* Episode (*and yes we're still calling it that)
How did this country end up with the biggest Caribbean Carnival in North America? Leah and Falen dive into history of how a small one time event durin...
S6: The Live Show!
The Secret Life of Canada went live at Hot Docs. Leah and Falen take a historical deep dive into the greatest thieves, crooks and liars that have made...
S6: Momma Beaver, a Canadian Burlesque Legend
People have been taking their clothes off for as long as they’ve been wearing them, but when did people start doing it for entertainment? In this epis...
S6: Was the plot to assassinate Lincoln hatched in Canada?
Why did John Wilkes Booth, the man who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, spend so much time in Montreal? We learn about how Canada was both the...
S6: Welcome to Canada’s island of wild horses
Sable Island is the stuff of legends. A desolate tiny island in the Atlantic Ocean, where no one is permitted to live, except for wild horses. We figu...
S6: Treaty 6
Deception, backdoor dealings, unfulfilled promises and Canada’s largest mass hanging.
Treaty 6 is one of the most well documented treaty signin...
Bonus: How to celebrate National Indigenous People’s Day all summer long
Today we have a special bonus episode for you from our sibling show Unreserved, a fearless space for Indigenous voices. Host Rosanna Deerchild is read...
S6: The Royal Proclamation
It’s been called the Indigenous Magna Carta and the Indigenous Bill of Rights. But what exactly does that mean? In this episode Falen and Leah dive in...
S6: Crash Course on Private Mary Greyeyes
A curious World War II-era photograph shows an unnamed woman in military uniform kneeling next to a man in a headdress who holds a pipe above her. We...
S6: Canadian Comedy
Comedy has been called one of Canada’s biggest exports. But why exactly is that, and why can’t the country seem to keep our funny people at home? In t...
S6: Crash Course on The Persian
It’s another baking episode! This time Leah and Falen look at why Thunder Bay, Ontario has their own sweet roll that you can't find anywhere else. We...
S6: General Idea
When three young queer men formed an art collective in the late 60s in Toronto named "General Idea", no one expected that they would end up becoming o...
S6: Crash Course on Icelandic Canada
Gimli is more than a dwarf in J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy series Lord of the Rings, in fact the community in Manitoba is home to the world’s largest Icel...
The Secret Life of Canada Introduces: Canadian Time Machine | ‘Humiliation Day’, A Look Back at the Impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act
Explore an important part of the rich history of Chinese-Canadians in this episode of Canadian Time Machine from The Walrus Lab. In the 1880s, Chinese...
S6: The Secret Life of the Canadian Teen Drama
From PSAs to Euphoria, the identity of the teen on TV has shifted a lot over the years. Leah and Falen take a look back at the invention of the teen a...
S6 Crash Course: How Black students led Canada's largest student protest
It would become one of the key moments in Black history in Canada. In 1968, six Black students from Sir George Williams University in Montreal filed a...
S6: Sorry not Sorry
Canadians are always apologizing, or are they? We are back for a sixth season and in this episode [1:29] Leah and Falen discuss how they use the word...
The Secret Life of Canada returns with Season 6!
Leah-Simone Bowen and Falen Johnson are back with a brand new season of conversations about the country you thought you knew. Catch our premiere episo...
BONUS | The story Falen never thought she’d tell: On stage at Hot Docs
Falen Johnson took to the stage at the Hot Docs festival to speak candidly about her experience of growing up on Six Nations, a place that was both id...
S5: Crash course on losing the Shanghai Restaurant
In this episode we talk about lost buildings across Canada. Falen and Leah look into the history of the now torn-down Shanghai Restaurant, owned by th...
S5: The Potlatch Ban
In 1921, Chief Dan Cranmer held a secret Potlatch — a ceremony celebrated by many First Nations along the Pacific Northwest. But because the ceremony...
S5: Crash Course on Bread and Cheese
Bread and Cheese. More than just two of Falen and Leah’s favourite foods. Did you know it’s also a day? In Falen’s community of Six Nations, every Vic...
S5: Eugenics in Canada: Leilani Muir's fight for justice
In 1992, Leilani Muir decided to sue the government. Along with thousands of other people Muir was forcibly sterilized as part of a robust government...
S5: Crash Course on homeless memorials
In the 1990s artist and activist Bonnie Briggs asked herself, “Why isn't there a memorial for homeless people?” In this crash course we look at the w...
S5: The Forgotten War
Not all Canadian history happens in Canada. Over 70 years ago, nearly 30,000 Canadians volunteered to fight in the Korean War. It was the third-deadli...
S5: Crash Course on a patty by any other name isn't a patty
In every part of the world a patty is just a patty, but in Toronto they are often called a "Jamaican Patty" and the why is connected to one of the wei...
S5: Crash Course on the Moose Jaw Tunnels
Deep below the city of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan lies a network of tunnels from the past. The stories connected to them have turned the passageways into...
S5: Jewish Montreal: A culinary history
How much history is contained in a meal, a restaurant or even a sandwich? Falen and Leah journey into the culinary history of Montreal’s Jewish commu...
S5: Newfoundland, the one who almost got away
Confederation took place in 1867 but Newfoundland only joined Canada in 1949. We find out why the province held out for so long, what it all meant for...