91 - Mary Pickford: The Canadian Who Shaped Hollywood
In which Pat and Mack discuss who was once one of the most influential and powerful women in Hollywood history - an actress from Toronto! --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadian...
26 Feb 20241h 9min
90 - Frank Oliver Call: Bridging Victorian & Modernist Poetry
In which Patrick lectures by himself about a poet whose work, Acanthus & Wild Grape, actively tried to bring Canadian poetry into the realm of modern sensibilities. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.p...
12 Feb 202434min
Patreon Preview: Brendan Fraser
In which Pop Canada returns to discuss Brendan Fraser, who has become one of the most acclaimed actors of the 21st century - and played in Encino Man, the greatest movie of all time. Find the full epi...
5 Feb 20249min
89 - Steveston: Pre-WW2 Japanese-Canadians
In which Patrick talks alone in a microphone as Mack faces a cyclone! The show is going solo this week to talk a little about Japanese-Canadians and how Daphne Marlatt's Steveston interprets their his...
29 Jan 202432min
Beryl Potter: A Life of Disability Activism (w/ Dustin Galer)
In which Patrick sits down with historian Dustin Galer to discuss his new book, Beryl, which explores the life and times of the famous Canadian disability activist. Find the book here or at your local...
22 Jan 202448min
88 - Scary Reds! Communists in Canada
In which we unleash our anti-capitalist sides (again) to discuss how Marxism/communism was brought over into Canada, what it did and how it failed, as well as some lefty writers that sometimes are gre...
15 Jan 20241h 26min
On Writing Compassion & Illness; with Meg Braem
Patrick sits down with playwright Meg Braem to discuss her play Flight Risk, "an empathetic exploration of grief, friendship, and hope, [which] asks what we lose when we ignore the knowledge of our el...
25 Dec 202348min
87 - In the Skin of a Lion: Labour Strikes & (Post) Modernism
In which we discuss the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike in relation to Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion (1987). We get unhinged as we discuss strike tactics, modernism/postmodernism, and Christma...
18 Dec 20231h 16min
