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.

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. Aaron Bushnell was committing an act of conscience widely hailed as noble in past conflicts — but he is being smeared by supporters of Israel and American foreign policy. Trish interviews an Iraq War veteran about the importance of respecting this kind of statement from service members. Also - Trish eviscerates the so-called Online Harms Bill that has shocked observers far and wide.

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 will help guide us through increasingly difficult post-Covid times? Legacy media's failure means all of us on the indy side must up our game. Trish is pondering these questions and wants to hear from you at info@trishwoodpodcast.com. See you back here and on Substack.

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 Rickard — two brave men who fought the travel mandates in one of the most interesting stories to come out of Covidian times. Their suit exposed that travel mandates weren’t based on science, and that if motivated we can all fight back.

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 hard-drive that has taken over for much of our daily cognition. We are losing our ability to reason and think, and so we are being controlled. Simon Elmer is a brilliant essayist and researcher, and he thinks this was the plan all along. Pus Coutts 4 is now Coutts 2, Tucker in Russia, and Trish’s new musical obsession.

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 question — what was the Crown's actual case? The men, plus two others, had been held in custody for two years without bail, but recent momentum from the Mosley decision and advocacy from Tucker Carlson may have helped ease their way home. It is unclear if any deals are being offered to Chris Carbert and Anthony Olienick. The only accredited journalist actually in the courtroom was Mocha Bezirgan.

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 ghosting.

An epic week of wins, for the truckers and free-speech lovers everywhere and beloved playwright and satirist CJ Hopkins was acquitted by a German court for thought crimes that could have sent him to jail.

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 the Freedom Convoy was not the heinous enterprise described by the prime minister and portrayed in the media.

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.

I interview Kit Klarenberg, a bold journo based in Serbia who has reported from many hot-spots and has a reputation for courage and editorial dynamism. We talk about John, Julian Assange, Israel/Gaza and how the same crowd keeps marching the world into trouble.

Dr. Yasser Khan, a Canadian doctor just returned from besieged Gaza. He reports that the extreme level of violence being levelled by Israeli forces is causing high numbers of gruesome injuries, maiming, amputations and blindness. The bombardments come all day and the hospitals are overflowing with patients and refugees now homeless.

Videographer Lincoln Jay wasn’t expecting to record a jump interview that went global hitting 14 millions views. But that’s just what happened this week and he’s here to explain to Trish what went down, the art of the scrum and his trip, tonight to Davos.

Colonel Douglas Macgregor with a kick in the pants to Neocons bringing us all to the brink of a wider war in the Middle East. And the hollowing out of Ukraine by the same crew. The world is in terrible shape — thanks to Hillary Clinton acolytes and other inept holdovers from the Obama administration.

Why are Israel’s war supporters downplaying the evils of the Holocaust? We have an investigation into an ugly propaganda campaign. And Rashid Khalidi, one of the world’s foremost Palestinian scholars, joins Trish to analyze some of the talking points that keep the bombs dropping and a primer on the history of Palestinian grievance.

As Christmas draws near, Trish and her best friend, Jacquie, take stock of life in the new normal, surviving the horror that is Toronto, and share some stories of bravery from their true crime careers. These old friends offer a spicy diversion and uplift from the spiritual slog and torpor of our post Covid-19 world.

Trish discusses Israel’s folly in Gaza and the cruelty of its indiscriminate bombing campaign with Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson - - a high ranking member of Colin Powell’s team during the Iraq War. Wilkerson is a serious critic of any country that believes bombing civilians is justified.

Alberta lawyer Leighton Grey tells Trish about the corruption of our courts. Why recent decisions seemed to favour status quo and elites and despite data to the contrary — made judgements against plaintiffs questioning C-19 public health policy.

Dr. Michael Nehls’ brand new, about to be published book, called The Indoctrinated Brain, lays out in detail how exposure to propaganda and fear along with the vaccine’s spike protein, shrink the hippocampus — changing our personalities and cognitive abilities.

Ireland is burning… stabbing attacks lead to riots and now the country is facing dangerous new hate speech laws. Plus, Trish and David Thunder on how growing migrant numbers are turning the Emerald Isles red.