031 Empire of Fur & Fire
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Long before Canada wore a crown or stitched a flag, it built its bones on beaver pelts, burned land, and brutal systems of control. In this episode, we take a dark descent into the legacy of the Hudson’s Bay Company—an empire cloaked in trade but soaked in blood. Behind the crisp blankets and quaint trading posts lies a centuries-long campaign of expansion, extraction, and erasure.
But the story doesn’t end in the past.
In our Current Case segment, we turn to the Wet’suwet’en Nation’s ongoing resistance to the Coastal GasLink pipeline, a modern…
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