Trish Wood is Critical

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Award-winning journalist Trish Wood digs deep with guests and thinks critically about the world, COVID-19 policy, true crime, wrongful convictions, epic media fails, addiction, the gender wars and sometimes basketball. Trish’s acclaimed interview style, empathetic but tough and agenda-free, explodes convention and exposes raw truth. Trish Wood's guests include: Matt Taibbi, Scott Atlas, Naomi Wolf, Abigail Shrier, Michael Shermer, Meghan Daum and Nancy Rommelmann. Listeners of this show also enjoy The Joe Rogan Podcast, Blocked and Reporter with Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog and Dave Rubin's show The Rubin Report as well as UK Talk Radio host Julia Hartley-Brewer.

Truth over Tribe Special
The freedom movement is being torn apart over issues of free speech and the right of citizens to protest. Trish does a deep dive into what is driving the conflict. In a heartfelt episode, she unpacks the negative response to her latest Substack, which...
Viva Frei on Tik Tok Censorship, and Trump
The mighty Viva Frei pops by to talk about the 100 billion bill that rescues Ukraine and Israel - and enables more censorship moves in the wake of the uniparty’s Tik Tok victory. Viva shares the podcasting load with Trish, still recovering. Also,...
Protest and Prison
Canada slides into a dark epoch as a jury verdict in three of the Coutts blockade cases portends jail time and an uncertain future for civil disobedience. Marco Van Huigenbos, who protested harmful C-19 policies, was convicted this week and tells...
Dr. Francis Christian — Is God Our Best Weapon Right Now
The heartbreak of the Covidian era is leading to a spiritual renewal - and even Joe Rogan is praising Jesus. On this Good Friday — Trish speaks to Dr. Francis Christian — dissident surgeon who paid a high price for warning about about...
Critical Extra: Bridge Collapse Details with a Navy SEAL and the Huberman Smear
The world woke up to a terrifying video of a bridge collapsing and people and cars falling into the dark, freezing water, near Baltimore. A former Navy skipper and trained SEAL answers our questions about how it happened and the likely fate of...
Martin Kulldorff Leaves Harvard
Our guest Martin Kulldorff on the end of his Harvard career, the price of truth, and how he is moving forward in his new life. And just as Trish was celebrating Candace Owens' courage on Gaza, Owens is fired from The Daily Wire by Ben Shapiro. Plus a...
Prime Minister Trudeau’s Brother — Kyle Kemper
Trish has an intimate conversation with the brother of one of the most unpopular prime ministers in history. Kyle Kemper is the younger sibling of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and he couldn’t be more different. He thinks Trudeau was wrong...
Midweek Extra: Royal Family Mystery
Trish and her friend, journalist Jacquie Bynon unpack the Princess of Wales mystery. They think they’ve uncovered the truth and have determined the proof of life photo is a pastiche — a fake pulled together with old photos. What the hell...
Mia Hughes on her Explosive Reporting on Trans Medicine
The body that advises world governments and clinics on trans medicine has been accused of malpractice in a blistering report by Canadian journalist Mia Hughes. With internal documents and shocking text messages — the inner workings of W-PATH have...
Free Speech is Dying in Canada
John Carpay of the Justice Centre of Constitutional Freedoms calls the Online Harms Act the worst assault on free speech in modern Canadian history. And Trish agrees. In this Trish Wood is Critical extra — the two of them take the bill apart....
Iraq War Veteran Garret Reppenhagen
Trying to be heard above the torrent of propaganda and outright lies - a young active duty airman douses himself in gasoline, and while he burns to death in front the Israeli embassy in Washington DC - shouts "free Palestine" until he is overcome....
Time for a Critical Review
The technical team is off this week and Trish is exploring the podcast's future. What better ways are there to serve listeners in an expanding and complex indy media environment. How do we turn off the noise but gain knowledge and information that...
Shaun Rickard & Karl Harrison: Looking Back at the Emergencies Act
This is a sad week as we remember the invocation of the Emergencies Act. Trish looks back on some of the Prime Minister’s controversial statements that divided the country and brought about a crisis. Special guests are Karl Harrison and Shaun...
Smartphones are the Weapon: Simon Elmer
Many people are addicted to their cellphones. It is a digital hypodermic needle of dopamine that keeps us tethered to it — ignoring our families, friends and neighbors as we walk, outsourcing our sense of direction and memory to this little...
Now it's the 'Coutts Two' - Mocha Bezirgan
Now out of custody for the first time in two years, Jerry Morin and Chris Lysak have gone home. They’ve both agreed to a plea deal involving gun crimes with the more serious charge of conspiracy to murder RCMP officers withdrawn — begging the...
Ann Bauer: Families Are Not Alright
A new fad is sweeping North America — adult children refusing any contact with their parents — many of them because they are now “living their truth”. One in four families are estranged in significant ways that feel like a kind of sad...
Freedom Wins: CJ Hopkins
An epic week of wins, for the truckers and free-speech lovers everywhere. Plus Tucker Carlson trolling our Prime Minister and the Liberals was icing on the cake. Justice Mosley nailed the government for an illegal use of the Emergencies Act and...
John Carpay and Vincent Gircys: Trucker Court Victory
For many Canadians, it felt like their victory too. Yesterday, Justice Mosley ruled that the Emergencies Act, declared by Prime Minister Trudeau, was illegal. After years of feeling that all institutions had failed, finally there is a recognition that...
Lessons From the Earliest Covid Dissidents
Trish reports on who the early Covid-19 dissidents actually were, what qualities they share, and why they were able to see what others missed. And a panel: Joseph Fraiman, Colin McAdam and Chris Klotz on their new book of Covid dissidents. And in the...
The Death of Veteran Reporter John Pilger and the End of Journalism *PREVIEW*
The death of John Pilger got me thinking about how much we lose when these terrific old-time indy journalists pass away. They are not being replaced, except by a few brave souls here and there. We are in deep trouble. In this premium episode, I...

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