Vibes-based Journalism (ft. Andrew Neville)

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In this episode, we delve into the concept of being "qualified" in the workplace, examining who gets labeled as such, who doesn't, and the underlying reasons. We explore "competency checking"—the practice of scrutinizing individuals' abilities—and how it disproportionately affects underrepresented groups, often going unnoticed or unchallenged. Our discussion aims to redefine qualifications in a fair, equitable, and actionable manner. Our guest, Shari Dunn , is an accomplished journalist, former attorney, news anchor, CEO, university professor, and sought-after speaker. She has been recognized as Executive of the Year and a Woman of Influence, with her work appearing in Fortune Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Ad Age, and more. Her new book, Qualified: How Competency Checking and Race Collide at Work , unpacks what it truly means to be deserving and capable—and why systemic barriers, not personal deficits, are often the real problem. Her insights challenge the narratives that hold so many of us back and offer practical solutions for building a more equitable future. Together, we can build workplaces and communities that don’t just reflect the world we live in, but the one we want to create. A world where being qualified is about recognizing the talent and potential that’s been overlooked for far too long. It’s not just about getting a seat at the table—it’s about building an entirely new table, one designed with space for all of us. Connect with Our Guest Shari Dunn Website& Book - Qualified: https://thesharidunn.com LI: https://www.linkedin.com/today/author/sharidunn TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thesharidunn Related Podcast Episodes: How To Build Emotionally Mature Leaders with Dr. Christie Smith | 272 Holding It Together: Women As America's Safety Net with Jessica Calarco | 215 How To Defy Expectations with Dr. Sunita Sah | 271 Share the Love: If you found this episode insightful, please share it with a friend, tag us on social media, and leave a review on your favorite podcast platform! 🔗 Subscribe & Review: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music…

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Esteemed Twitter user and Dog Island alum Andrew Neville joins us to mock one of, and I'm not mincing words here, the worst pieces we have read. The culprit? None other than our old pal, Adam Zivo.
In this piece (published in the Daily Hive lol) Zivo tries to use statistics to argue that crime is out of control. The problem? It's based on an opinion poll. It gets so much worse.
Plugs and Recs
The Myth Of Affordable Housing In Toronto
Dubious crime statistics: a disturbing trend of police and media misleading the public

PressProgress Short Circuit Podcast - Police across Canada are investing in “copaganda” reports that criticize the social safety net

Play Overwatch 2/Warzone, go see Avatar 2, listen to Metallica and do purple city in Edmonton

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Big Shiny Takes

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Campus Manliness Crisis (ft. Dani Paradis) 51:48

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Are Canada's universities being feminized? It's a topic that's been consuming Leigh Revers – so much so that he wrote about it at length in the bad takes newspaper of record, the National Post Men are foregoing higher education and instead chopping wood in the forest and spending all their money on beard oil. This leads to an imbalance in education levels, which fuels the ongoing birth rate epidemic. Or something like that. Edmonton-based writer and educator Dani Paradis ( @DaniParadis ) joins us to uncover the depth of this pressing crisis. Plugs and Recs Edmonton Edge – MacEwan students confront president over refusal to address Palestine, financial disclosures Edmonton Edge – MacEwan University considers removing fall reading break in 2025-26 National Observer – Alberta's ruling party votes to dump emissions reduction plans and embrace carbon dioxide Family Ties: How a Ukrainian Nazi and a living witness link Canada to Ukraine today by Peter Mcfarlane The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro ALSO Subscribe to The Orchard Check out Unrigged The Hoser 's Grocery Tracker Buy Jeremy's book If you enjoyed this episode, make sure to leave us a five star review on Apple Podcasts and give us a follow on Twitter and Instagram .…

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Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Jews (ft. NiceMangos) 2:09:00

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At this time of increased antisemitism, who better to give Jews free advice than Dr. Order and Chaos himself, Jordan Peterson? The problem is his piece, published in the Spectator (London), is riddled with antisemitic tropes and basic misunderstandings of Jewish liturgy. Polite Conversations host Eiynah ( @nicemangos ) joins us to talk about why Peterson might want to sit this one out. Plugs and Recs Polite Conversations - “The Gaza Ghetto Uprising w/Rev and Reve” Polite Conversations - “Pinker’s Pernicious Politeness” The North State - “One Year of October” Tech Won’t Save Us - “Data Vampires” ALSO Check out Unrigged The Hoser 's Grocery Tracker Buy Jeremy's book If you enjoyed this episode make sure to leave us a five star review on Apple Podcasts, and give us a follow on Twitter and Instagram . For more Big Shiny Takes, sign up to our bonus feed here . If you enjoyed this episode make sure to leave us a five star review on Apple Podcasts, and give us a follow on Twitter and Instagram . For more Big Shiny Takes, sign up to our bonus feed here . If you enjoyed this episode, make sure to leave us a five star review on Apple Podcasts and give us a follow on Twitter and Instagram .…

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Save our campuses (ft. Mike Litwack) 1:30:49

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Jews are under attack on campuses! Actually, Zionism is, but that's good enough for Michael Geist to write about an apparent scourge of antisemitism at Canada's universities. We're joined by University of Alberta English and film professor Mike Litwack ( @mikeylitwack ) to take a look at a piece that purports that nobody who supports Israel can feel bad about things, ever. Plugs and Recs Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd Get Ghassan Kanafani: Selected political writings , OUT NOW! Keep an eye out for Muna Saleh's study on anti-Palestinian racism in the Edmonton school system ALSO Check out Unrigged The Hoser 's Grocery Tracker Buy Jeremy's book If you enjoyed this episode make sure to leave us a five star review on Apple Podcasts, and give us a follow on Twitter and Instagram . For more Big Shiny Takes, sign up to our bonus feed here . If you enjoyed this episode, make sure to leave us a five star review on Apple Podcasts and give us a follow on Twitter and Instagram .…

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We Might Have Committed Some Light Treason (Ft. Nora Loreto) 58:50

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Fancying himself some sort of Judge Dredd of protecting Canadian culture, Christopher Dummitt writes in a special to the National Post how such actions as land acknowledgments or taking a plaque down in an art gallery are giving China an edge. Canadian patriot Nora Loreto joins us to explain why having a deep-seated sense of national pride probably doesn't matter that much. Plugs and Recs Nora Loreto | Substack A political podcast. Just Listen. | Sandy & Nora Talk Politics (sandyandnora.com) Reserve The Social Safety Net – Canada in Decline Book One by Nora Loreto Pathways Alliance knows it can’t back up its claims | Canada's National Observer: Climate News by Jeremy Appel UK ‘tried to suppress criticism’ of alleged UAE role in arming Sudan’s RSF militia | The Guardian As Revue Cinema faces closure, the fight to save Toronto culture reaches crisis point | The Globe and Mail ALSO Check out Unrigged The Hoser 's Grocery Tracker Buy Jeremy's book If you enjoyed this episode, make sure to leave us a five star review on Apple Podcasts and give us a follow on Twitter and Instagram .…

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Full Bisexual Panic! (Ft. Sarah Rieger) 1:21:28

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"Are all these bisexuals for real? Or is this 'el gee bee tee cue' stuff just a fashionable trend? I'm just asking questions." That is about the extent of the analysis in this week's column from the Phoebe Maltz Bovy in Globe and Mail. Nevertheless, we torture ourselves and writer/pal Sarah Rieger by unpacking it. Join us for yet another incoherent boomer moment. Plugs and Recs Listen to Expats & Allies | A Podcast on Nazi Refugees The Hoser | Taking On a Grocery Empire: Understanding the Loblaw Boycott Surveillance and interference: Israel’s covert war on the ICC exposed Diddy’s Ex-Friends, Bad Boy Artists Detail Alleged Abuse, Violence Watch I Saw the TV Glow Go volunteer! If nothing else, there's likely free pizza. ALSO Check out Unrigged The Hoser 's Grocery Tracker Buy Jeremy's book If you enjoyed this episode, make sure to leave us a five star review on Apple Podcasts and give us a follow on Twitter and Instagram .…

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Big Joe Goes to Little Oakville (ft. Scott Martin) 1:03:31

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Oakville Town Hall is under siege from a red scourge and Sun journalist Joe Warmington is on the case after a hot tip. Can the People's Champion make sense of the situation? Will anyone talk some sense into these misguided youngsters? Freelance journalist Scott Martin (@YouCaughtScott) helps us unpack what really went on that day, since Joe failed to notice that he was actually just at the Fightback table at a pro-Palestine rally. Plugs and Recs Scott Martin - The Catch (readthecatch.ca) Read Resisting Eviction by Andrew Crosby Read Blackshirts And Reds by Michael Parenti New 9/11 Evidence Points to Deep Saudi Complicity - The Atlantic Spacing | Canadian Urbanism Uncovered | Spacing Watch Trailer Park Boys ALSO Check out Unrigged The Hoser 's Grocery Tracker Buy Jeremy's book If you enjoyed this episode, make sure to leave us a five star review on Apple Podcasts and give us a follow on Twitter and Instagram .…

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In Defence of Galen Weston (ft. Luke Savage) 48:22

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Stop being mean to grocer oligarchs. Stop it! We're warning you. You should be thanking them, they stock your treats and only gouge you a to a moderate degree. Everybody's gotta make a living, and besides, they're probably creating your job anyway. Toronto-based writer Luke Savage ( @LukewSavage ) joins us to take in the view from the National Post and be properly tut-tutted as we learn about the success story that is Galen Weston being born at the right time. Plugs & Recs (The Rinse) Buy The Dead Center by Luke Savage from your local bookseller Watch Eric talk Loblaw boycott on This is Vancolour Is a previously unheard-of First Nation just Canada’s latest Pretendian case? | The Guardian Check out Unrigged The Hoser 's Grocery Tracker Buy Jeremy's book Luke says read War and Peace , Marino says read One Piece . Go to your library! Rex Murphy, sharp-witted intellectual and columnist, dies of cancer | National Post (lol) If you enjoyed this episode, make sure to leave us a five star review on Apple Podcasts and give us a follow on Twitter and Instagram .…

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My Name Is Joe Roberts, I Work for the State (Ft. Noah Kulwin) 1:06:01

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American icon Noah Kulwin (@nkulw) joins the pod to talk about one of the most obnoxious Twitter personalities of the past several months, Joe Roberts. Roberts, co-founder of the Democratic Socialists of America - Canada and former co-host of New Left Radio , has gone full neocon since Oct. 7. So much so that he wrote a column for the National Post , where he's now a regular contributor, waxing nostalgic about George W. Bush, the guy everyone famously loves. Oh, and Sarah Palin too, because he's trying that hard. Plugs & Recs (The Rinse) Anatomy of a Moral Panic - Jewish Currents Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare - Phillip Short The Artist's Way - Julia Cameron Bound (1996), dir. Wachowskis University Of Toronto Encampment Organizers Call For Community Support Thursday Eve: "We Will Not Leave" - The Hoser Check out Unrigged The Hoser 's Grocery Tracker Buy Jeremy's book If you enjoyed this episode make sure to leave us a five star review on Apple Podcasts, and give us a follow on Twitter and Instagram . For more Big Shiny Takes, sign up to our bonus feed here . If you enjoyed this episode, make sure to leave us a five star review on Apple Podcasts and give us a follow on Twitter and Instagram .…

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The Birthrate Episode (ft. Stephen Magusiak) 56:58

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We love whinging about the fertility rate, don't we folks? The implications are grave, lowered birth rates could mean fewer DoorDash employees to bring columnists treats. BST Institute fellow Stephen @Magusiak of @pressprogress returns to pick apart a Globe and Mail opinion piece by John Ibbitson. According to Ibby, the ever-dwindling number of babies Canada produces threatens to tear the country apart. Scary stuff! Plugs & Recs (The Rinse) Get news coverage from PressProgress : Sign up for the ShiftWork newsletter and listen to the Sources Podcast Columbia Professor Shai Davidai's Family Tied to Weapons Manufacturing - CounterPunch.org Violent Crackdown at Land Day March - The Grind Magazine Dozens of International Students Are Dying in Canada. The Federal Government Isn’t Doing Anything. (pressprogress.ca) Check out Unrigged The Hoser 's Grocery Tracker If you enjoyed this episode, make sure to leave us a five star review on Apple Podcasts and give us a follow on Twitter and Instagram .…

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The Death of Woke (ft. Fae Johnstone) 1:10:48

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Executive Director of @Wisdom2Action and @QueerMomentum and unstoppable dynamo @FaeJohnstone joins us to discuss how Sydney Sweeney's breasts fortell the death of wokeness – according to the National Post . In a column that reads like a horny Looney Tunes cartoon, Amy Hamm, who is a nurse apparently , brings the bizarre discourse around the young actress to a crescendo. Plugs & Recs (The Rinse) Read The new generation of gay Conservative sellouts by Fae Johnstone Go to +972 Magazine for news from Israel & Palestine Buy Kenneyism by Jeremy Appel Check out Unrigged The Hoser 's Grocery Tracker Go read Dragon Ball , One Piece and Berserk If you enjoyed this episode, make sure to leave us a five star review on Apple Podcasts and give us a follow on Twitter and Instagram .…

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It Begins at the End of the Beginning (ft. Euan Thomson) 1:51:49

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The Big Shiny Takes Institute has returned to read a real stinker of a column by Rick Bell. Rick, a traditional dumb guy with a column, seems a little upset about how mean people are being to Calgary Chief of Police Mark Neufeld. We dig into this column (a glorified vanity piece about how the police are good, homeless people are super-criminals and everyone needs to shut up) with friend of the Institute, Drug Data Decoded's Euan Thomson. Plugs and Recs Kenneyism - Jeremy Appel Unrigged Drug Data Decoded If you enjoyed this episode, make sure to leave us a five star review on Apple Podcasts and give us a follow on Twitter and Instagram .…

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Existential Glee (ft. NiceMangos) 1:41:11

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Polite Conversations host and leading Intellectual Dark Web scholar Eiynah, a/k/a @NiceMangos, joins us to scrape the bottom of the IDW barrel. Gad Saad, who is now a National Post columnist, is a marketing professor who fashions himself as an expert in the defence of Western Civilization. He wrote a piece in the Post about how happy conservatives are, in which he informs the reader that he is very much not mad about the woke left. Plugs & Recs (The Rinse) Listen to Jeremy on Polite Conversations, part 1 Listen to Jeremy on Polite Conversations , part 2 Pre-order Jeremy's book, Kenneyism Eiynah's Woking Up series Check out Unrigged The Hoser 's Grocery Tracker If you enjoyed this episode make sure to leave us a five star review on Apple Podcasts, and give us a follow on Twitter and Instagram . For more Big Shiny Takes, sign up to our bonus feed here . If you enjoyed this episode, make sure to leave us a five star review on Apple Podcasts and give us a follow on Twitter and Instagram .…

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Scabs for Israel (ft. Muhannad Ayyash) 1:42:55

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Mount Royal University academic, Al Jazeera columnist and Al Shabaka fellow Muhannad Ayyash joins us to discuss how Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek cancelled Hanukkah. Calgary pundits lost their goddam minds over Gondek's decision to back out of at a totally apolitical menorah lighting ceremony that was billed as an opportunity to demonstrate "SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL." And according to reporting from Aryn Toombs at LiveWire Calgary , it didn't disappoint. Calgary Herald columnist Don Braid, who joined the paper as a filthy scab in 2000, went as far as to say the mayor isn't fit for office because of her disloyalty to Israel. Plugs & Recs (The Rinse) Decolonize Palestine reading list Read some of Muhannad's Al Jazeera columns Emma Paling - CBC featured more Israelis even as Palestinian casualties rose, data shows Vincent Bevins - If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution Tareq Baconi - Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance The Deprogram - Free Palestine (ft. Decolonize Palestine) James Clear - Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results If you enjoyed this episode make sure to leave us a five star review on Apple Podcasts, and give us a follow on Twitter and Instagram . For more Big Shiny Takes, sign up to our bonus feed here . If you enjoyed this episode, make sure to leave us a five star review on Apple Podcasts and give us a follow on Twitter and Instagram .…

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Forces of Light and Darkness™ (ft. Chuka Ejeckam) 1:41:57

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Chuka Ejeckam joins us again, this time to discuss the ongoing horror in Gaza and how Canadian pundits have assumed the role of IDF spokespeople. There’s no better example of this trend than Andrew Coyne, who wrote a column boasting of how little he’s learned since 9/11. Plugs and Recs UN Director for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Resignation Letter The Hoser Grocery Tracker Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy Tech Won't Save Us - Elon Musk Unmasked, Ep. 1 If you enjoyed this episode make sure to leave us a five star review on Apple Podcasts, and give us a follow on Twitter and Instagram . For more Big Shiny Takes, sign up to our bonus feed here . If you enjoyed this episode, make sure to leave us a five star review on Apple Podcasts and give us a follow on Twitter and Instagram .…

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Cop Worship with the Nightscrawler 1:00:54

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