The Copernic Affair | Canadaland Investigates

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Is Hassan Diab a terrorist or a scapegoat?

  • 36 minutes 35 seconds
    Episode 2: Move That Dope

    "This sounds like easy money."


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    11 June 2025, 10:00 am
  • 35 minutes 44 seconds
    Episode 1: Bob's Your Oyster

    "They pay you in coolness."


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    4 June 2025, 10:00 am
  • 38 minutes 54 seconds
    Capitalism: Market Failure | Canadaland Investigates x Scene On Radio

    Today we’re bringing you something a bit different, made by our friends at Scene On Radio: the debut episode of their seventh season, Capitalism.


    The world’s dominant economic system is on trial as it hasn’t been for at least half a century. Millions, young people especially, now see capitalism as the problem, not the solution. Others fear throwing out the baby with the bathwater. 


    By John Biewen, with co-host Ellen McGirt. Interviews with John Fullerton, Cassandra Brooks and Charlene Brooks. 


    Story editor: Loretta Williams. Music by Michelle Osis, Lilli Haydn, Alex Symcox, and Goodnight, Lucas. Music consulting by Joe Augustine of Narrative Music. Art by Gergo Varga and Harper Biewen. 


    “Capitalism” is a production of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, in partnership with Imperative 21.



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    2 April 2025, 10:45 am
  • 44 minutes 50 seconds
    Episode 6: The Trial

    Back in Canada, Hassan Diab’s life is hanging in limbo. He may be arrested at any moment, and Canada’s government won’t ensure his safety. What does justice mean for the victims of the Copernic attack, and what does it mean for Diab and his supporters?


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    19 February 2025, 11:45 am
  • 35 minutes 27 seconds
    Episode 5: The Detention

    Hassan Diab faces a new reality in Europe’s largest maximum security prison. But when Marc Trévidic is replaced by new investigative judges, the case is thrown into uncertainty - and Hassan's fortunes begin to shift.


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    12 February 2025, 3:11 pm
  • 34 minutes 46 seconds
    Episode 4: The Extradition

    France requests that Hassan be brought to Paris to stand trial. One of Canada’s most respected lawyers takes the case and fights the extradition. As the hearings drag on for years, more people start to question the French evidence against Diab.


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    5 February 2025, 2:36 pm
  • 42 minutes
    Episode 3: The Professor

    Hassan Diab, a sociology professor living in Ottawa, is finishing up his classes for the day when he learns that he is the primary suspect in France’s investigation into the Copernic synagogue bombing. At first, he doesn't believe this. But he begins to sense that he’s being surveilled. Then early one morning, he hears an unexpected knock on his door.


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    29 January 2025, 11:45 am
  • 23 minutes 7 seconds
    Episode 2: The Investigation

    After decades of dead ends, a young and ambitious judge - known for finding new ways to interpret old evidence - takes over the Copernic synagogue case. He narrows his search down to one man who he finds living a quiet life in the capital city of Canada.


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    22 January 2025, 11:46 am
  • 26 minutes 50 seconds
    Episode 1: The Attack

    Just before 6:30 pm on October 3rd, 1980, Oron Shagrir’s mother, Aliza, was walking down Rue Copernic in Paris, looking to buy some figs. Minutes later, she was killed, along with three others, in an explosion that still haunts France today.


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    22 January 2025, 11:45 am
  • 3 minutes 35 seconds
    Introducing: The Copernic Affair (Official Trailer)

    A sociology professor’s quiet life in Canada gets turned upside down when he is accused of carrying out a 1980 bomb attack on a synagogue in Paris. Hassan Diab says he is innocent — but French investigators are determined to prove otherwise.


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    17 December 2024, 1:00 pm
  • 40 minutes 24 seconds
    In Lakota Nation, People Are Asking: Who Does a Language Belong To? | Pretendians x Code Switch

    Today we’re bringing you something a bit different, made by our friends at NPR’s long-running, award-winning podcast, Code Switch. 



    Many Lakota people agree: It's imperative to revitalize the Lakota language. But how exactly to do that is a matter of broader debate. Should Lakota be codified and standardized to make learning it easier? Or should the language stay as it always has been, defined by many different ways of writing and speaking? We explore this complex, multi-generational fight that's been unfolding in the Lakota Nation, from Standing Rock to Pine Ridge.



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    20 November 2024, 11:00 am
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