Safe Space

Vicky Mochama

A weekly show about news and politics that is making a safe space for your questionable takes. hosted by Vicky Mochama.

  • 27 minutes 27 seconds
    Buying An (Affordable) House and How To Feel (Again)

    Vice News reporter Steven Zhou returns to the podcast for a conversation with Financial Post reporter and host of the Down to Business podcast Emily Jackson. The panel tackles the big tricky question of housing affordability: do election promises matter? Will they solve the problem and is there even a point to home ownership?

    4 October 2019, 10:00 am
  • 27 minutes 6 seconds
    Canada's Hot Corny Dad and The Case Against Halloween

    Co-host of Black Tea Melayna Williams and co-host of the Critics vs. Fans podcast Mike Sholars drop by the studio to recap the blackface scandal, the week that was and to answer who is corniest: Justin Trudeau or Chance the Rapper?

    27 September 2019, 11:28 am
  • 33 minutes 32 seconds
    An Ally in Blackface and the Power Rangers of Policy

    It's the first episode of the fifth season and the heady first weeks of the election! Macleans journalist Anne Kingston, Broadbent Institute policy analyst Brittany Andrew Amofah and Yellowhead Institute research fellow Courtney Skye are on the panel to talk through Justin Trudeau's blackface past, the questions on women's minds and the end of humility.

    20 September 2019, 9:00 am
  • 39 minutes 40 seconds
    Climate Change, Fake News and Kangaroos

    In an all-star fourth season finale recorded live at the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema, the panel takes on climate change, climate strikes and the Green New Deal with former environment commissioner Dianne Saxe, NDP candidate Matthew Greene and National Observer investigative reporter Fatima Syed. Buzzfeed News' Jane Lytvynenko quizzes Vicky and Ishmael on all the disinformation that isn't fit to print. Anne T. Donahue and Sarah Hagi ... well, they do their thing.

    Promotional support by Greenpeace Canada and the Canadian Association of Black Journalists.

    7 June 2019, 9:42 am
  • 32 minutes 53 seconds
    A Green Season and Bringing Common Sense to Periods

    Author and commentator David Moscrop and investigative journalist for the National Observer Fatima Syed join the panel to discuss climate change, the future of the Green Party and why Canada might need a nuclear bomb.

    17 May 2019, 8:00 am
  • 21 minutes 47 seconds
    Drake The Saviour and Our Best Takes, Live

    Listen to an unaired conversation about Drake and the role he plays in politics with writer Sarah Hagi and Globe and Mail columnist Denise Balkissoon. Also: we're doing a live show this month so listen to our best takes from the last live show with Sandy Hudson, Sarah Hagi and Lido Pimienta.

    10 May 2019, 11:38 am
  • 28 minutes 14 seconds
    Harper's Favourite Show and the Simpsons' Trip to Canada

    Editor of the Newfoundland and Labrador Independent Drew Brown and Canadian Press reporter Holly McKenzie-Sutter join the panel to talk about the Simpsons joke that has one province talking. Also, we talk about Murdoch Mysteries and a "sham" of an election.

    3 May 2019, 10:00 am
  • 17 minutes 11 seconds
    What The SNC?

    iPolitics reporter Marieke Walsh helps us understand everything that's been going on with the SNC scandal that's been rocking Canadian politics.

    30 April 2019, 11:15 am
  • 29 minutes 11 seconds
    Running for Co-Prime Minister And Raccoon Fight Club

    PEI has voted so journalist and podcaster Justin Ling joins the panel to explain the Green Party's chances, the Progressive Conservative win and what a better version of politics could be. Chatelaine senior writer Sarah Boesveld guest co-hosts with some warm memories of 8th grade.

    26 April 2019, 9:00 am
  • 30 minutes 17 seconds
    Grandma's Flat Tummy Tea and the End of Big Lettuce

    Buzzfeed News disinformation reporter Jane Lytvynenko and MobileSyrup reporter Shruti Shekar break down the new rules and regulations about your favourite social media sites. Also, instead of an Alberta election update, we celebrate Queen Bey.

    19 April 2019, 9:00 am
  • 24 minutes 36 seconds
    An Abundance of Todds and the End of Big Oil

    Writer and activist Bashir Mohamed joins ABToday reporter Catherine Griwkowsky to catch on all the high, lows and hopes of the upcoming Alberta election.

    12 April 2019, 12:49 pm
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