#17 - The Family Business with Barbara Kay
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Wrongspeak hits pause as we say goodbye to Debra, and Jon interviews his mother Barbara Kay, columnist with Canada's National Post, for the first time. They discuss classical liberalism, Jewish intellectualism and, for the trollbait pièce de résistance, we find out if one Kay benefited from the other's nepotism.
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#16 - Our Lines are Open: Confessions of a Talk Radio Host with Matt Gurney
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Jon has a frank conversation with his friend and former colleague at Canada's National Post, Matt Gurney, a Toronto-based political commentator, about the inner workings of AM talk radio, the use of outrage as currency and the limitations of the medium.
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#15 - Khalistan in Canada with Balraj Deol and Niru Kumar of Desiland
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In a crossover episode with the new Desiland podcast, Jon speaks with host Niru Kumar and veteran journalist Balraj Deol, editor of Canada's Khabarnama Punjabi Weekly, on the Khalistan movement promoting a separate Sikh state in India and how its supporters gained so much influence in Canadian politics.
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#14 - Such a Shanda with Naftuli Moster
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Jon speaks with renegade Jewish activist Naftuli Moster. During his childhood, Moster was just another nice Jewish boy at a New York City yeshiva. But he isn't happy about the education he got—and now he's speaking out about it.
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#13 - Comedy Without Hashtags with Craig Lauzon
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We often hear about how political correctness is killing comedy. But for Craig Lauzon and other First Nations performers, that's just part of the challenge.
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#12 - Transparency Evangelism with Minds CEO Bill Ottman
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Founded in 2015, Minds is a niche social platform that uses an open-source software model, allowing community members to express themselves with little fear of censorship and reward each other for popular content. Jon recently spoke with co-founder Bill Ottman in New York City about his techno-utopianism and why censorship is undermining social networks.
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#11 - 35 Years of Wasted Time with Edward Hertrich
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Jon speaks with Edward Hertrich, recently released from prison after a 35-year sentence for crimes, including murder, committed in his youth. The Toronto resident now strives to spread a clearer understanding of life and redemption. His memoir, Wasted Time, is published by Dundurn Press.
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#10 - That's Not Funny with Mike Ward and Jamie Kilstein
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To end 2018 on a lighter note, Jon speaks with Canadian comic Mike Ward who was fined by a Human Rights Tribunal in Quebec for a controversial joke, and Debra chats with American comedian Jamie Kilstein on political correctness and censorship among liberals.
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#9 - "TERF" v. Trans with Meghan Murphy and Julie Rei Goldstein
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Jon and Debra examine both sides of a tense debate on the left between radical feminists and transgender activists. Meghan Murphy, the Feminist Current founder recently banned from Twitter for misgendering, and Julie Rei Goldstein, actress and trans activist, make their cases to Wrongspeak.
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#8 - Gender Dysphoria 101 with Dr. Susan Bradley
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Debra speaks with Dr. Susan Bradley, a world-renowned expert on gender dysphoria. She is a professor emeritus in psychiatry at the University of Toronto, the former psychiatrist-in-chief at Toronto's Sick Kids Hospital and the founder of the former Gender Identity Clinic at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), shuttered in 2015 following activist protests.
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