Best R E V Media Podcasts (2025)

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Yasmin Moll, "The Revolution Within: Islamic Media and the Struggle for a New Egypt" (Stanford UP, 2025) 1:03:07

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The New Preachers of Egypt—so named because of their novel preaching styles, which incorporate everything from melodrama to music to self-help—came to prominence on the world's first Islamic television channel on the cusp of the Arab Spring uprisings. They promoted an innovative and inclusive Islamic piety that millions of young middle-class viewer…

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TNEB Interview Project ft. Bonnie Critchley, Independent Candidate for Battle River-Crowfoot -- THEBMS 1:37:03

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In Episode 71 of The True North Eager Beaver Interview Project (aka Episode 669 of The Daily Beaver Morning Show), Bonnie Critchley, the Independent Candidate taking on Pierre Poilièvre in the upcoming federal by-election in Battle River-Crowfoot drops by the Beaver Lodge for a conversation. We talk about her motivation, the tough road ahead, her 2…

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G7, Notwithstanding, Airdrie Erring -- The Daily Beaver Morning Show 1:34:03

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We take a look at preparations for the G7. As the international guest list grows, it's more like an unofficial G20. A Senator seeks to make it harder for the notwithstanding clause to be invoked arbitrarily. Danielle Smith's next CorruptCare-like scandal emerges. ________________________________________________ The Daily Beaver Morning Show is 100%…

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Pride and Proprioception. -- The Daily Beaver Morning Show 2:21:13

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In Episode 667 of The Daily Beaver Morning Show, Prime Minister Carney had more to say about Canada's ability to sense its position and movement in space as the world is rapidly changing, when speaking of shoring up our national defence, noting that if we are not at the table, then we are on the menu. In addition, he confirms beyond any doubt to Ra…

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Carney Goes Big on Defense -- The Daily Beaver Morning Show 2:55:41

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In Episode 666 [eep!] of The Daily Beaver Morning Show, as the G7 meeting approaches, Prime Minister Carney surprises on matters of defense, announcing that Canada will finally meet its NATO commitment to spend 2% of GDP on defense. It's a bold move that has strategic implications related to several of his other goals. Also: More guests are invited…

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Modi, the G7, and Ugly Realpolitik -- The Daily Beaver Morning Show 2:33:40

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In Episode 665 of The Daily Beaver Morning Show, Prime Minister invites the PM of India, Narendra Modi, to Canada for the G7 and it raises many inconvenient and uncomfortable questions, not to mention much ire. We also wonder: "Is Danielle Smith high??!" following an interview on CTV's Question Period during which she makes yet another disconcertin…

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Kevin B. Anderson, "The Late Marx's Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism" (Verso, 2025) 1:04:22

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Kevin Anderson’s The Late Marx's Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism (Verso, 2025) encourages to look again at the intellectual and political work of a figure some may assume has been exhausted: Karl Marx. Following on from his earlier landmark study Marx at the Margins: On Nationalism, Ethnicity and Non-Western Socie…

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Trump/Elon Feud... D-I-V-O-R-C-E -- The Daily Beaver Morning Show 2:44:28

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In Episode 664 of The Daily Beaver Morning Show, Retrumplican men have decided to celebrate Pride Month in the most a propos way: f***ing each other over hard and Trumpy Wynette is S-A-D. It has all the drama of Bette vs Joan, but without the glamour or good taste. Also, Conservative politicians, whether federal or provincial, are aimless... The fe…

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Tamar R. Shirinian, "Survival of a Perverse Nation: Morality and Queer Possibility in Armenia" (Duke UP, 2024) 1:10:40

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Tamar Shirinian is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her new book, Survival of a Perverse Nation: Morality and Queer Possibility in Armenia (Duke UP, 2024), studies the relationships between gender, sexuality, nationalism, political-economy, and social reproduction and how these are experienced,…

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NDPeeved -- The Daily Beaver Morning Show 2:30:33

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In Episode 663 of The Daily Beaver Morning Show, the New Democratic Party drew much attention to itself — mostly negative — by talking a really big game about creating a situation that hypothetically could have led to the fall of the Government of Canada, extremely early in the mandate, promising it would vote against the Address in Reply to the Sp…

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The DeceptiCONS -- The Daily Beaver Morning Show 3:00:01

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In Episode 662 of The Daily Beaver Morning Show, the Conservative Party of Canada plays fast and loose with the truth with Canadians, and especially its own voters, claiming they have forced the governing party to table a spring budget — when reality is nautical miles away from the claim — and that they need to raise money for recounts — because, o…

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Magic Mark -- The Daily Beaver Morning Show 2:54:54

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In Episode 661 of The Daily Beaver Morning Show, the closing press conference from the meeting of the Prime and First Ministers was virtually a love-in, with even Super-High-Maintenance Alberta Premier Danielle Smith — for whom not one, but two meetings were required, saying she's "encouraged" by the talks. Does Prime Minister Carney have magic pow…

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Robert Garland, "What to Expect When You're Dead: An Ancient Tour of Death and the Afterlife" (Princeton UP, 2025) 53:49

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A lively story of death, What to Expect When You're Dead: An Ancient Tour of Death and the Afterlife (Princeton University Press, 2025) by Dr. Robert Garland explores the fascinating death-related beliefs and practices of a wide range of ancient cultures and traditions—Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Hindu, Jewish, Zoroastrian, Etruscan, Greek, Roman, Earl…

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Andrew Smith, "First People: The Lost History of the Khoisan" (Jonathan Ball, 2022) 1:18:34

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First people communities are the early groups of hunter gatherers, herders, and the oldest human lineages of Africa, some migrating from as far as East Africa to settle across southern Africa, in countries like Namibia, Botswana and South Africa. In First People: The Lost History of the Khoisan, archaeologist Andrew Smith, who has excavated at some…

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PM Carney Meets the Premiers (and One Hostage Taker) -- The Daily Beaver Morning Show 2:57:45

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In Episode 660 of The Daily Beaver Morning Show, after a meeting with Canada's big city mayors and members of the oil and gas industry (as Canada is literally burning), Prime Minister Carney's much touted big meeting with the nation's Premiers (and one hostage taker already setting the stage for more drama) to discuss and single out a series of pro…

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Agustín Fuentes, "Sex Is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary" (Princeton UP, 2025) 45:11

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Being human entails an astonishingly complex interplay of biology and culture, and while there are important differences between women and men, there is a lot more variation and overlap than we may realize. Sex Is a Spectrum offers a bold new paradigm for understanding the biology of sex, drawing on the latest science to explain why the binary view…

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Katarina Kušic, "Beyond International Intervention: Politics of Improvement in Serbia" (University of Michigan Press, 2025) 1:03:37

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Studies of statebuilding and peacebuilding have been criticized for their disregard of people living the consequences of intervention projects. Beyond International Intervention: Politics of Improvement in Serbia (University of Michigan Press, 2025) by Dr. Katarina Kušic takes on the task of engaging with spaces and peoples not usually present in I…

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Lina Pinto-García, "Maraña: War and Disease in the Jungles of Colombia" (U Chicago Press, 2025) 1:04:34

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In Maraña: War and Disease in the Jungles of Colombia (University of Chicago Press, 2025), Lina Pinto-García delves into the relationship between war and disease, focusing on Colombian armed conflict and the skin disease known as cutaneous leishmaniasis. Leishmaniasis is transmitted through the bite of female sandflies. The most common manifestatio…

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Defence! Defence! -- The Eager Beaver Morning Show 1:58:20

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In Episode 659 of The Daily Beaver Morning Show, as the Edmonton Oilers's great defence helped them cement their place as Canada's Team by punching their ticket to The Stanley Cup Finals, the Prime Minister and Government have also been talking a lot about defence... and it's way more than just a Golden Dome. PROGRAMMING NOTE: "How's your mental he…

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Maya Mayblin "Vote of Faith: Democracy, Desire, and the Turbulent Lives of Priest Politicians" (Fordham UP, 2024) 1:23:46

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A richly cinematic and compelling look at priest-politicians in Brazil and their religious and secular entanglements, Vote of Faith: Democracy, Desire, and the Turbulent Lives of Priest Politicians (Fordham UP, 2024) explores the complex intersection of democracy, patriarchy, and religiosity in Brazil. For over a hundred years, Catholic priests hav…

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They're Back / It's Back -- The Daily Beaver Morning Show 2:36:40

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In Episode 658 of The Daily Beaver Morning Show, full-fledged debate begins in the House of Commons as ReRun Poilièvre is stuck on the outside looking in. Meanwhile, in the background, the also very undesirable COVID virus seems poised to make a comeback and wildfires are here again. ________________________________________________ The Daily Beaver…

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"The True North Is Indeed Strong and Free!" -- The Daily Beaver Morning Show 2:32:39

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The King and the Jesters, Jokers, and Fools In Episode 656 of The Daily Beaver Morning Show, the King of Canada's reading of The Speech from the Throne went beyond that for which any patriotic Canadian could ever hope, with multiple references to our sovereignty and an assertion of it that was as unsubtle as it could be, from such an apolitical sou…

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The King and the Jesters, Jokers, and Fools -- The Daily Beaver Morning Show 2:32:39

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In Episode 656 of The Daily Beaver Morning Show, a new Speaker of the House has been elected. The King and Queen Consort have landed as all ears will be tuned into today's Speech from the Throne (scheduled for 11 a.m. EDT) to hear how King Charles III will send a subtly scripted message to the wannabe-imperialists south of us. Meanwhile ReRun Poili…

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Parliament Reawakens -- The Daily Beaver Morning Show 1:57:44

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In Episode 655 of The Daily Beaver Morning Show, as Parliament sets to resume, the leaders of the Liberal and Conservative parties held initial caucus meetings. Today, we will find out who the new Speaker of the House will be and tomorrow, for the first time in Canada's history, a King will read The Speech from the Throne. _________________________…

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Dmitri N. Shalin, "Erving Manuel Goffman: Biographical Sources of Sociological Imagination" (Routledge, 2024) 2:44:13

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We have long lacked a biography of Erving Goffman. Partly this can be explained by Goffman’s direction for his papers not to be opened to researchers after his death. This meant those who may wish to write Goffman’s biography had a lack of material to draw upon. Dmirti Shalin, author of Erving Manuel Goffman: Biographical Sources of Sociological Im…

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Greta Lynn Uehling, "Decolonizing Ukraine: The Indigenous People of Crimea and Pathways to Freedom" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025) 53:32

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In Decolonizing Ukraine: The Indigenous People of Crimea and Pathways to Freedom (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025), anthropologist Dr. Greta Lynn Uehling illuminates the untold stories of Russia’s occupation of Crimea from 2014 to the present, revealing the traumas of colonization, foreign occupation, and population displacement. Drawing upon extensive …

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Camilla Annerfeldt, "Clothing and Identity in Early Modern Rome" (Bloomsbury, 2025) 30:22

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Camilla Annerfeldt joins to discuss Clothing and Identity in Early Modern Rome (Bloomsbury, 2025). This is the first book-length exploration of the clothes worn in early modern Rome and provides novel insights into the city of Rome during one of its most fascinating periods. It also challenges the notion – well-established in dress historical resea…

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Toine van Teeffelen, "The Birthplace of Jesus Is in Palestine: A Memoir" (Wipf and Stock, 2024) 1:03:20

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The Birthplace of Jesus Is in Palestine: A Memoir (Wipf and Stock, 2024) is a narrative of a Christian family in Bethlehem in the West Bank. Based on diary entries and interviews from 2000 to 2023, the Dutch author--an anthropologist and peace activist--chronicles the spontaneous reactions of his Palestinian children and wife navigating the challen…

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TNEB Interview Project ft. Economist Dave Gray — Democracy in AB -- The Daily Beaver Morning Show 2:20:03

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In Episode 69 of The True North Eager Beaver Interview Project (aka Episode 654 of The Daily Beaver Morning Show), Friend of the Beaver Lodge, economist Dave Gray, drops in to speak of the concerning situation in Alberta and some "Because... Democracy Is Something You Do" initiatives in which he is involved. While here, we also ask him about PM Car…

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Of Big Mandates and Bigger Cabinets -- The Daily Beaver Morning Show 1:43:37

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In Episode 653 of The Daily Beaver Morning Show, the Liberal Cabinet met for a two-day planning forum and the PM made public the mandate letter outlining his now well-known priorities. Meanwhile, both The-Not-Leader of the Conservative Party, ReRun Poilièvre, and Alberta Premier-But-For-How-Long Danielle Smith send out the biggest — and we do mean …

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Michelle H. S. Ho, "Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo's Pink Economies" (Duke UP, 2025) 41:28

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In Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo's Pink Economies (Duke UP, 2025), Michelle H. S. Ho traces the genders manifesting alongside Japanese popular culture in Akihabara, an area in Tokyo renowned for the fandom and consumption of anime, manga, and games. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in josō and dansō cafe-and-bars, establishments wher…

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Yay, Civics! -- The Daily Beaver Morning Show 3:04:05

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In Episode 652 of The Daily Beaver Morning Show, Parliament is about the resume as King Charles III prepares to deliver The Speech from the Throne which will open a new session of Parliament. We look at the functions of the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition, because one can't claim to love Canada, if it has never at least taken it out…

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PM Carney: There Will Be a Budget -- The Daily Beaver Morning Show 3:15:28

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In Episode 651 of The Daily Beaver Morning Show, while in Rome for Pope Leo XIV's papal inauguration and inaugural mass, PM Carney meets with international dignitaries and bats a little clean-up, announcing there will indeed be a budget this year after all. We also talk about a potential imminent Canada Post strike and the newest inconvenient-for-A…

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Trump, Toronto Maple Leafs & Joe Biden -- The Daily Beaver Morning Show 58:59

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So, the delusional Presidency that is the Trump administration, with the assistance of DOGE is responsible for the death and destruction in Kansas; DOGE decimated the National Weather Service. The warning alarms were sounded far too late. Meanwhile, in Toronto, as per tradition, the Leaf's fell, once again, in the spring, losing at home 6-1. Joe Bi…

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M. Myrta Leslie Santana, Transformismo: Performing Trans/Queer Cuba" (U Michigan Press, 2025) 58:47

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In Transformismo, M. Myrta Leslie Santana draws on years of embedded research within Cuban trans/queer communities to analyze how transformistas, or drag performers, understand their roles in the social transformation of the island. Once banned and censored in Cuba, transformismo, or drag performance, is now state-sponsored events. Transformismo su…

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Andrew Ofstehage, "Welcome to Soylandia: Transnational Farmers in the Brazilian Cerrado" (Cornell UP, 2025) 46:19

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Following a group of US Midwest farmers who purchased tracts of land in the tropical savanna of eastern Brazil, Welcome to Soylandia: Transnational Farmers in the Brazilian Cerrado (Cornell University Press, 2025) by Dr. Andrew Ofstehage investigates industrial farming in the modern developing world. Seeking adventure and profit, the transplanted f…

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Kai Shmushko, "Multiple Liminalities of Lay Buddhism in Contemporary China: Modalities, Material Culture, and Politics" (Leiden UP, 2024) 1:04:04

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In the past decades, various forms of Buddhism have emerged in-between, above, and beyond conventional conceptions of religious and spiritual life in China. Multiple Liminalities of Lay Buddhism in Contemporary China: Modalities, Material Culture, and Politics (Leiden UP, 2024) is a qualitative study exploring manifestations of the massive revival …

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"To Budget Or Not To Budget?" -- The Daily Beaver Morning Show 2:15:15

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In Episode 649 of The Daily Beaver Morning Show, the announcement that PM Carney's first budget will not be coming in either the spring or fall sessions of Parliament -- and communications around it so far -- are rather unconventional and curious affairs. ________________________________________________ The Daily Beaver Morning Show is 100% by Cana…

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Unconventional Carney -- The Daily Beaver Morning Show 2:05:30

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In Episode 648 of The Daily Beaver Morning Show, Liberal MPs and freshly-minted members of the tiered Cabinet make a bunch of 'interesting' comments on day one that have earned a lot of press and may signal some slight initial lack of message discipline, as PM Carney moves forward on a major promise, while throwing a budgetary curveball into the mi…

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PM Carney's "Purpose-Built" Cabinet Day -- The Daily Beaver Morning Show 2:23:05

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In Episode 647 of The Daily Beaver Morning Show, Prime Minister Mark Carney has unveiled a Cabinet with two tiers of players, comprised of an inner circle of Cabinet Ministers and an outer circle of Parliamentary Secretaries, which he describes as "purpose-built" for the ambitious agenda he has. ________________________________________________ The …

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PM Carney Cabinet Day -- The Daily Beaver Morning Show 2:09:41

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In Episode 646 of The Daily Beaver Morning Show, as May is mental health awareness month and our annual MENtal Health Walk is approaching (June14), we delve into the issue. We continue our look at a few terrible interviews by the CPC's Andrew Scheer, prior to and after, being named interim leader. Finally, PM Mark Carney is slated to unveil his Cab…

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Carney-Trump Afterglow, Recounts, and Cabinet -- The Daily Beaver Morning Show 2:17:45

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In Episode 645 of The Daily Beaver Morning Show, the rave reviews and good news keep coming in for Prime Minister Carney following his meeting with the President of the United States. He emerges from the weekend one seat stronger following a recount as he plans to announce his Cabinet, tomorrow ________________________________________________ The D…

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Maron E. Greenleaf, "Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon" (Duke UP, 2024) 49:46

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Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon (2024) is an ethnography of forest carbon offsets and the wider effort to make the living rainforest valuable in the Brazilian Amazon. Situated in the state of Acre, which continuously had to grapple with a complex positionality between frontier and periphery, Maron E. Greenleaf explor…

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Dollars and Nonsense -- The Daily Beaver Morning Show 2:15:53

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In Episode 644 of The Daily Beaver Morning Show, The Governor of the Bank of Canada released its Fiscal Stability Report. The worst-case scenario is concerning. ________________________________________________ The Daily Beaver Morning Show is 100% by Canadians, for Canadians & broadcast LIVE (most of the time), weekdays at 7-ish a.m. (EDT). Join th…

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Premiers: Grandstanders and Grinders -- The Daily Beaver Morning Show 2:45:06

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In Episode 643 of The Daily Beaver Morning Show), Prime Minister Carney briefed the Premiers on his meeting with IQ47 and agreed to an in-person meeting in Saskatchewan in early June. Currently, two of them are making a lot of news, to distract from a lot of news, two are doing the work, and one is making a graceful exit. __________________________…

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Carney-Trump Meeting: Diplomacy Masterclass -- The Daily Beaver Morning Show 2:27:05

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In Episode 642 of The Daily Beaver Morning Show), Prime Minister Carney and Team Canada earn rave reviews, following a public meeting with IQ47 (aka POTUS Donald Trump), during which there a slew of potential political landmines and plenty of bait was thrown about the room. ________________________________________________ The Daily Beaver Morning S…

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Living Right: Far Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe 1:14:22

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What is the growing appeal of fascist idealism for young people? Why is radical nationalism on the rise in Europe and throughout the world? In Living Right: Far Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe (Princeton UP, 2024), Dr. Agnieszka Pasieka provides an in-depth account of the ideas and practices that are driving the varied forms of far-rig…

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(Trump) Meeting, Separating (Alberta) and (Pierre) Rejoining -- The Daily Beaver Morning Show 3:00:49

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In Episode 641 of The Daily Beaver Morning Show), Prime Minister Carney and Team Canada earn rave reviews, following a public meeting with IQ47 (aka POTUS Donald Trump), during which there a slew of potential political landmines and plenty of bait was thrown about the room. ________________________________________________ The Daily Beaver Morning S…

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The Loser, The President, and the King -- The Daily Beaer Morning Show 2:54:19

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On Episode 640 of The Daily Beaver Morning Show), Prime Minister Carney holds his first official press conference as Prime Minister. Not only does he impress, but he makes a lot of news in the process. Whatever fun and games the Conservative Party of Canada are planning, it appears the Prime Minister is both unbothered by the prospect and too busy,…

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Deana Jovanović, "Staging the Promises: Everyday Future-Making in a Serbian Industrial Town" (Cornell UP, 2025) 1:23:24

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Built on the shifting grounds of post-Yugoslav transformation, Staging the Promises examines how the residents of Bor — a Serbian copper-mining town marked by both socialist prosperity and post-socialist decline — became spectators to the staged enactments of promised futures. Deana Jovanović traces how local authorities and the copper-processing c…