PREVIEW - DuffyGate Revisited w/ Luke LeBrun

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2021

⏱️ 2 minutes

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PATREON BONUS - https://www.patreon.com/posts/duffygate-w-luke-55808939 With Will on a temporary hiatus, Michael and Us is pleased to welcome Luke LeBrun, editor of my journalistic alma mater PressProgress, for a chill discussion of media coverage in Canada's ongoing federal election. With that behind us, Luke and I turn to a decidedly low-stakes political scandal from the already forgotten Harper era (colloquially known as DuffyGate), recount some old war stories from our days covering Canada's many right wing think tanks, and talk about one our country's most ignoble institutions: the Senate. Watch CBC's The Rise and Fall of Mike Duffy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK2CD7P6yrM Follow Luke on Twitter: https://twitter.com/_llebrun https://pressprogress.ca/

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, Luke here. You're listening to the preview of this week's Patreon episode of the Mike
0:06.2	Linus podcast. I'm doing it this way because my co-host Will Sloan is away on hiatus for the time
0:12.2	being and because the AV staff at the Gore Lieberman Studios are on strike. So I decided to put
0:18.3	this little promo together myself. On this week's Patreon episode,
0:22.4	available at patreon.com slash Michael and Us. I talked to one of Canada's great investigative
0:27.9	reporters, Luke Lebrun, a colleague of mine for many years at Press Progress, my journalistic
0:34.2	alma mater where I worked before Jacobin.
0:42.5	Luke and I had a nice, chill conversation about Canada's ongoing federal election and the ways it's currently being covered in the media.
0:44.4	We talked about the conservative party's current leftward faint and the way pundits are
0:49.6	more or less eating it up.
0:51.2	Then we turn to a decidedly low stakes political scandal from the Harper era,
0:56.3	share war stories about our many encounters with right-wing think tanks, and discuss Canada's
1:01.6	most ignoble political institution, our appointed upper house, the Senate, and its long history
1:08.1	as a place where democracy goes to die in broad daylight.
1:12.4	So that's available again at patreon.com slash michael and us, along with our entire back
1:17.2	catalog, a well over 200 episodes, bonus interviews, and lots of other goodies.
1:22.1	We'll be back with another free episode soon, and my co-host Will Sloan will be back as well.
1:27.1	See you soon, folks.

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