# COMMONS

Hosted by Arshy Mann

### Latest Episodes

### [The Last COMMONS Ever / Introducing: The Hatchet](https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/the-last-commons-ever-introducing-the-hatchet/)
November 28, 2024

### [WORK #16 – Boss Fight](https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/work-16-boss-fight/)
This is the story of Canada’s first-ever video game union. And the lengths that the industry went to try to stop it in its tracks
July 3, 2024

### [WORK #15 – Canada’s New Underclass](https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/work-15-canadas-new-underclass/)
The huge rise in international students in Canada — most of them from Punjab, India — has become one of the biggest stories in the country.
June 26, 2024

### [WORK #14 – The Colossus of Roads](https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/work-14-the-colossus-of-roads/)
She expected to face opposition from tech companies and governments that are hostile to workers. But what she didn’t anticipate was that one of the biggest obstacles in her path would be a labour union.
June 19, 2024

### [WORK #13 – Flying Under the Radar](https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/work-13-flying-under-the-radar/)
Mandalena Lewis is one of far too many flight attendants who have been harassed or assaulted on the job. And her story is just one example of a culture of sexism and abuse that she alleges pervades the airline industry.
June 12, 2024

### [WORK #12 – The Crucible of Confinement](https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/work-12-the-crucible-of-confinement/)
In 2006, Zakaria Amara was arrested and imprisoned for planning what could have been one of the deadliest terror attacks in Canadian history. A ringleader of the so-called “Toronto 18,” he’s one of the most infamous Canadian convicts of the last few decades.
June 5, 2024

### [WORK #11 – The Way the Music Died](https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/work-11-the-way-the-music-died/)
♩♪ But Spotify, it’s nearly killed us Ticketmaster’s ground us to dust The companies got too large Now monopolies are in charge ♩♪
May 29, 2024

### [WORK #10 – Prison Labour Industrial Complex](https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/work-10-prison-labour-industrial-complex/)
Not only do Canadian prisoners work for for-profit businesses, but they’re sometimes doing the most dangerous and nauseating work around
May 22, 2024

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