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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

LBJ's Humpday Podcast Picks for Aug 5th This week: Canadian tech, existential risks, and Canada-U.S. politics. h/t @jordanhr.bsky.social @eh-now.bsky.social @jbenbradford.bsky.social @npr.org @nprextra.bsky.social @ppforumca.bsky.social medium.com/@lanrickbenn...

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LBJ’s Humpday Podcast Picks

Who am I listening to today?

Are We Doomed

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'Public Policy Forum

Wonk Hosted by Amanda Lang'

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Laura Palmer 'Island Crime'🔎💀 @palmerl.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Check out my old pal Jordan Heath Rawlings @jordanhr.bsky.social new (ish) podcast, 'CanCon'. Big thanks to Jordan and his team for featuring me on today's episode! podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/c...

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CanCon

News Commentary Podcast · Updated Weekly · It's a fascinating time to be Canadian. This is a show that breaks all that wide open. Dangers. Opportunities. The stories that make this country what it is....

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Jordan Heath-Rawlings @jordanhr.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

@defector.com As a Canadian subscriber you guys need to get someone on the Canadian men’s team at least once in this World Cup. Triumph and tragedy today, more broadly a hockey nation becoming a soccer nation in real time. It’s a genuine Thing. Assign it! Or DM me if you just want a column. ;)

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I sat down with @jordanhr.bsky.social a few weeks ago to talk about housing in Halifax and that episode of CanCon is out now!

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Could Halifax's housing strategy be an example for Canadian cities?

Podcast Episode · CanCon · June 18 · 31m

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Jordan Heath-Rawlings @jordanhr.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

To our American friends. Even after all the… you know, when actual American citizens need Canada, we’re there for you without hesitation. I can’t imagine we’d never help American people who need us. Maybe think about that as we go along here… www.semafor.com/article/05/2...

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Exclusive: The US relied on a spurned friend during the Iran war: Canada

The US embassy in the UAE had to improvise to help Americans without passports after its facilities came under fire.

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Jordan Heath-Rawlings @jordanhr.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Incredibly weird to say this after the winter and spring we’ve had but boy I’m glad it’s cooling off tonight in Toronto. 🤷‍♂️

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Jordan Heath-Rawlings @jordanhr.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

You probably remember the music chaos of the late 90s and early 2000s, when we went from paying $20 for CDs to $0 for on Napster and Limewire to $0.99 a song on iTunes. This is a convo about what happened in Canada, and how we almost led the way, but didn’t. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/c...

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When music went digital Canada was at the front of the line. What happened?

Podcast Episode · CanCon · April 23 · 30m

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Jordan Heath-Rawlings @jordanhr.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Good morning! Can I interest you in a conversation between myself and @vassb.bsky.social about what exactly makes a company Canadian, and how fake Canadian companies keep getting billions in contracts from our federal government? It's ... quite something! podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...

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What makes a company "Canadian" enough for government contracts?

Podcast Episode · CanCon · April 9 · 22m

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What makes a company "Canadian" enough for government contracts?

Podcast Episode · CanCon · April 9 · 22m

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Jordan Heath-Rawlings @jordanhr.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

As a Canadian gamer since… oh god I’m old, it was a pleasure to talk to @jonore.bsky.social about the huge industry we’ve built up here and why it doesn’t get the kudos that our other creative industries do. You’ve played Canadian games and not even known it! podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/c...

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Canada's a video game powerhouse. Why don't we ever talk about it?

Podcast Episode · CanCon · March 26 · 25m

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Jonathan Ore @jonore.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

This was a fun conversation! Thanks for having me

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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

LBJ's Humpday Podcast Picks for Mar 25th Transit lessons, the state of Canadian podcasting, and the hidden power of 311. h/t @glynbowerman.bsky.social @spacingradio.bsky.social @podthenorth.bsky.social @jordanhr.bsky.social @99pi.org @spacing.bsky.social medium.com/@lanrickbenn...

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Jordan Heath-Rawlings @jordanhr.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

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Canada's a video game powerhouse. Why don't we ever talk about it?

Podcast Episode · CanCon · March 26 · 25m

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Jordan Heath-Rawlings @jordanhr.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Swiss Chalet should not be having a “seafood fest”. I’m sorry that is not right, stay in your lane. Ribs was a big big enough reach. Let’s leave it at that.

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Jordan Heath-Rawlings @jordanhr.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I've long been a fan of his shows, so it was a privilege to welcome @casinoshiftmd.bsky.social to Cancon to discuss the (troubling) state of Canada's emergency rooms six years after covid hit. You would think we'd have learned a lesson or two, but... Anyway: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/i...

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Inside Canada's struggling emergency rooms, six years after Covid struck

Podcast Episode · CanCon · March 19 · 28m

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Jordan Heath-Rawlings @jordanhr.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Was an absolute pleasure to chat with @338canada.bsky.social this week on Cancon about the (latest) surge in the polls, if we're effectively a 2.5-party system and the state of polling in the age of misinformation. Please have a listen: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/a...

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A year after a major flip, Canada's polls are shifting again

Podcast Episode · CanCon · March 12 · 24m

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Jordan Heath-Rawlings @jordanhr.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

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A year after a major flip, Canada's polls are shifting again

Podcast Episode · CanCon · March 12 · 24m

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jedimike.bsky.social @jedimike.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Please support this great pod by sharing! 🇨🇦😎

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Jordan Heath-Rawlings @jordanhr.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

If anyone here is interested in a difficult discussion about the Canadian podcast industry and if it’s actually viable, I had one with @podthenorth.bsky.social on CanCon this week. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/c...

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Is Canadian podcasting in trouble?

Podcast Episode · CanCon · March 5 · 27m

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Jordan Heath-Rawlings @jordanhr.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

This was an awesome convo, and if you’ve ever wondered why this country is full of monopolies… well, we were literally built on them.

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Is Canadian podcasting in trouble?

Podcast Episode · CanCon · March 5 · 27m

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Jordan Heath-Rawlings @jordanhr.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

This was an awesome conversation. I thought I knew and appreciated Canadian whisky, but Emily Osborne schooled me. I figured the largest distillers were internationally owned by now, but almost none of serious size that are still independent? Wild. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/c...

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The past, present and future of

Podcast Episode · CanCon · 2026-02-05 · 19m

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Jordan Heath-Rawlings @jordanhr.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The NFL is going to start the 2026 season in a country with suspended elections and killing in the streets and the guys in the booth are going to say things like “with all that’s going on we’re just happy to be a place where Americans come together regardless of our differences.”

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Jordan Heath-Rawlings @jordanhr.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The thing that will stay with me about this headline is that, oh, we’re just calling them “Agents” now?

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Jordan Heath-Rawlings @jordanhr.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I am BEGGING parents to let their kids play on their own and figure things out. I had my daughter with me all day today while I was working and the best 90 minutes of her day was when I kicked her out in the snow to go play in the backyard, Calvin and Hobbes mom style.

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Jordan Heath-Rawlings @jordanhr.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

For those of you who wondered if Elbows Up was ever coming back…. It’s not. At least not as it was. But if you haven’t deserted the feed yet, you’ll find something new in your podcast app tomorrow morning. Hope you’ll check it out!

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Jordan Heath-Rawlings @jordanhr.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I am firmly on the left—ask anyone!—and I think she looks nice! Great holiday outfit, nice lighting, perhaps an excessive amount of boobs but very pretty! Hope she’s happy! I am sorry to report I guess that I am the opposite of enraged. The culture war has entered a strange new dimension recently

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Jordan Heath-Rawlings @jordanhr.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

All the dollars I lost happily hedging against the Jays earlier this year are coming back to me and bringing friends and I honestly hate that. Might have to up the ante. Either we win the division or I make enough money to buy a Switch 2. Gotta go do some math.

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Jordan Heath-Rawlings @jordanhr.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

A lovely tribute to Ken Dryden by Paul Wells. Very much worth your time today. open.substack.com/pub/paulwell... Also, if you’ve never read The Game, now is the time to fix that.

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Team player

Ken Dryden and politics were an uneasy fit, but we can still learn from him

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Jordan Heath-Rawlings @jordanhr.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Not that anyone asked but my brother was doing a Remember Concerts We’ve Been To thing in the group chat, and the more the years go by the more I realize this is probably the best and most historic show I’ll ever have attended: www.setlist.fm/setlist/radi...

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Radiohead Setlist at The Opera House, Toronto

Get the Radiohead Setlist of the concert at The Opera House, Toronto, ON, Canada on June 2, 1997 from the OK Computer Tour and other Radiohead Setlists for free on setlist.fm!

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Jordan Heath-Rawlings @jordanhr.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

My child is growing out of wanting to eat goldfish but I am not…..

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Jordan Heath-Rawlings @jordanhr.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

I hope for a lot of things for this troubled world. But also, I spend a lot of time hoping that I will live to see a day when I don’t have to give even a first thought, never mind a second, to people like the ones named in this post.

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Jordan Heath-Rawlings @jordanhr.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Was talking with a friend about being old today and he raised a fun Q: can you remember who the first athlete was, that you watched their WHOLE career as a fan, who was elected to a hall of fame? You have to actually remember them as a rookie. I think my best is Griffey or Shaq, in 2016.

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Jordan Heath-Rawlings @jordanhr.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

This might very well make me an old man, but my album of the year so far is a country album and it isn’t currently close. music.apple.com/ca/album/the...

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The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy by James McMurtry on Apple Music

Album · 2025 · 10 Songs

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Jordan Heath-Rawlings @jordanhr.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Here’s a good Bluesky sports test. Anyone have thoughts on this 12 team SF best ball draft that I started from the 1.1 and think I like the most of all my teams through five rounds? This is a really entertaining build, with potential!

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Jordan Heath-Rawlings @jordanhr.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

That was an absolutely incredible tennis match. So glad I took the time to watch it.

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Jordan Heath-Rawlings @jordanhr.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

It really sucks that sports hasn’t taken off on here. Because I can’t justify, for the sake of my mental health, logging onto the Politics App at 9 pm. See y’all tomorrow.

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Jordan Heath-Rawlings @jordanhr.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Good for Bo. Great job, Bo. Go get some pitching now Ross.

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Jordan Heath-Rawlings @jordanhr.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

I will put the microbreweries in the Eastern Townships up against any area in the country. This was a quick stop at a random grocery store just to see what they had that I hadn’t tried last year. Ridiculous. These are all from various small towns within 20 mins from here.

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Jordan Heath-Rawlings @jordanhr.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

I’m taking a real beating over here folks but I’m ok with it, you’re welcome.

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Jordan Heath-Rawlings @jordanhr.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

I haven’t wished I was doing a daily news podcast since the day it ended for me, because everything has been horrible since November and my mental health would have suffered. It was honestly great timing. But man I wish I could do one just on the Blue Jays, just for fun.

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Jordan Heath-Rawlings @jordanhr.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

You might think I should trim back my garden. But you do not understand. One day I plan to sit down here and just let the plants have me.

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Jordan Heath-Rawlings @jordanhr.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I have to tell you folks. I enjoy emotional hedging as basically my only form of sports betting. And I’ve probably lost about $60-80 betting $3-5 against the Blue Jays every day since they got hot and it’s the best money I’ve ever spent.

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Jordan Heath-Rawlings @jordanhr.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

I put some spare money I had into BTC and Doge. Not because I like it. But it’s the same principle I use when I bet against my favourite sports teams. If the Bad Guys are going to win I want a piece of it. And it’s worth that money to me to see them lose if it happens.

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Jordan Heath-Rawlings @jordanhr.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Thoroughly enjoyed this episode of the Decibel, and I’m headed to the cottage for the next five days and now I have a new playlist. Great podcast. www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/the... A mixtape of you: The summer of the Great Canadian Playlist - The Globe and Mail

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A mixtape of you: The summer of the Great Canadian Playlist

How a great Canadian playlist can help us understand what it means to be Canadian

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Jordan Heath-Rawlings @jordanhr.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

The hilariously sad and yet totally predictable thing about cord cutting is that within a few years massive price increases have probably made it advantageous to the folks who just kept their cable channels and use them to log on to Sportsnet and the like. Was always going to end up this way…

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Jordan Heath-Rawlings @jordanhr.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

24 Hours, a paper I once worked for and which has not published in Canada since 2017, is more trusted than Fox News. And I can’t argue with that.

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Jordan Heath-Rawlings @jordanhr.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

We called up the reserves for this one.

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