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A podcast about the weird and wonderful world of Canadian arts and culture, aka "Canadian Content." In hour-long episodes, Aaron and Naomi dive deep into Canadian film, television, literature, music, and more. Sometimes a friend joins them, too. Naomi K. Lewis is a writer and editor, and Aaron Giovannone is a writer and professor. Because of the dominance of the United States, Canada is a country where nearly all domestic culture relies on protectionist laws and public funding to exist. Whet ...
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Welcome to Sweater Weather, a Chicago Blackhawks podcast. We are not reporters, beat writers, or industry insiders. Just fans who love the game and this great hockey club. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sweaterpod/support
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C'est Comme Ça Que Je T'aime
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Naomi and Aaron discuss the TV show C'est Comme Ça Que Je T'aime (2020-2024). [If you enjoy Sweater Weather, become a patron of the show on Patreon. Go to patreon.com/canadiansweater for details.] In this episode we gush over the Québécois TV series C'est Comme Ça Que Je T'aime, also known by its less interesting English name, Happily Married. (You…
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Naomi and Aaron discuss the film Hard Core Logo (1996). [If you enjoy Sweater Weather, become a patron of the show on Patreon. Go to patreon.com/canadiansweater for details.] In this episode of Sweater Weather, we're diving deep into one of Canada's most iconic cult films, Hard Core Logo (1996). Directed by Bruce McDonald and based on Michael Turne…
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Naomi and Aaron discuss the TV show The Trades (2024). [If you enjoy Sweater Weather, become a patron of the show on Patreon. Go to patreon.com/canadiansweater for details.] This week Aaron and Naomi dive into the greasy world of The Trades, a Crave original TV show co-produced by the Trailer Park Boys. The Trades is a blue-collar, workplace comedy…
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Letterkenny, feat. Marcello Di Cintio
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Naomi and Aaron are joined by author Marcello Di Cintio to discuss the TV show Letterkenny (2016-2023). [If you enjoy Sweater Weather, become a patron of the show on Patreon. Go to patreon.com/canadiansweater for details.] How are ya now, Sweater Wearers? In this episode, we’re joined by friend and award-winning author Marcello Di Cintio to discuss…
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Naomi and Aaron discuss the TV show The Littlest Hobo (1979-1985). [This is a preview of a premium episode of Sweater Weather. To hear the full episode – and for access to all our premium episodes – subscribe to Sweater Weather on Patreon. As a patron, you'll receive a brand new episode every week! Go to patreon.com/canadiansweater for details.] Th…
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Naomi and Aaron discuss the documentary Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe (2023). [Want more Sweater Weather in your life? Subscribe to Sweater Weather on Patreon for access to our premium episodes. As a patron, you'll receive a brand new Sweater Weather every week! Go to patreon.com/canadiansweater for details.] This week we rumage around our…
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Naomi and Aaron discuss the TV show Breaker High (1997-98). [This is a free sample of a premium episode of Sweater Weather. To hear the full episode – and for access to all our premium episodes – subscribe to Sweater Weather on Patreon. As a patron, you'll receive a brand new episode every week! Go to patreon.com/canadiansweater for details.] Ahoy,…
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Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent
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Naomi and Aaron discuss the TV show Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent (2023-). [Want more Sweater Weather in your life? Subscribe to Sweater Weather on Patreon for access to our premium episodes. As a patron, you'll receive a brand new Sweater Weather every week! Go to patreon.com/canadiansweater for details.] In this edition of Sweater Weather,…
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Naomi and Aaron discuss the novel Bear (1976). Subscribe to Sweater Weather on Patreon. In this episode, we re-visit the controversial and classic Canadian novel Bear (1976) by Marian Engel. The winner of the Governor General's Award for fiction, Bear is known for its scandalous content and has sparked discussions for decades with its unconventiona…
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Naomi and Aaron discuss the film BlackBerry (2023). Subscribe to Sweater Weather on Patreon. In this episode, we dive into the movie BlackBerry (2023), starring Jay Baruchel, Glenn Howerton and Matt Johnson (Johnson also directed the film). The film rides a wave of early 2000s nostalgia and explores a pre-smartphone era. We reminisce about never ha…
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Naomi and Aaron discuss the documentary I Am: Celine Dion (2024). Support Sweater Weather on Patreon. In this episode of Sweater Weather, Aaron and Naomi discuss the documentary I Am: Celine Dion (2024), which is available on Amazon Prime. They explore Celine's image, her massive success, and her corny yet undeniably popular style. The documentary …
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#34—Ducks, feat. Marc Herman Lynch
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*TW: This episode includes discussion of sexual violence.* Today we talk Ducks, Kate Beaton’s celebrated graphic memoir — winner of Canada Reads, a New York Times Notable Book — about her two years working in the oil sands of Fort McMurray, where men outnumber women fifty to one. Harsh economic realities forced Beaton to leave her Cape Breton home …
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Sweater Weather Live! Talks Ducks with Marc Herman Lynch, Sun. Apr. 23 at the Memorial Park Library
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Reserve your free tickets at our Eventbrite page. Join Naomi and Aaron of the Sweater Weather podcast for their deep-dive discussion of Ducks, the award-winning graphic memoir by Kate Beaton about life in the Alberta oil sands. They'll be joined by special guest Marc Herman Lynch, a literary scholar, comics enthusiast, and novelist. This event take…
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#33—Ian Tyson, feat. Jeremy Klaszus
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Saddle up your quarter horse and grab that flask of whiskey for this ride through the life and works of country music legend Ian Tyson. Born in Victoria, BC, in 1933, Tyson’s recording career spanned six decades, from his time in the Greenwich Village coffeehouse scene as one half of the folk duo Ian & Sylvia, to his years as a solo country artist …
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Sweater Weather Live! Talks Ian Tyson with Jeremy Klaszus, Sunday Mar. 5 at 2 pm
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Reserve your free tickets at our Eventbrite page: www.eventbrite.ca/e/sweater-weather-live-talks-ian-tyson-with-jeremy-klaszus-tickets-528972780827 Join the audience for Sweater Weather Live! talks the life and music of country legend Ian Tyson. Our special guest will be Jeremy Klaszus, editor-in-chief of The Sprawl and ghostwriter of Ian Tyson's m…
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#32—Anne of Green Gables, feat. Cheryl Foggo
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In 1908, thirty-four-year-old Lucy Maud Montgomery published a novel set in the fictional Prince Edward Island town of Avonlea. Her heroine: a loveable and drama-prone red-headed orphan, adopted by an elderly brother and sister who turn out to need her as much as she needs them. The book is Anne of Green Gables, of course, a novel that made its aut…
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Sweater Weather Live! in Calgary, Sunday Feb. 12 at 2 pm
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Join Naomi and Aaron for this live recording of the Sweater Weather podcast as they discuss the enduring appeal of the classic novel Anne of Green Gables. They'll be joined by writer and documentary filmmaker Cheryl Foggo. This event takes place Sunday, February 12 at 2pm in the salon of the Memorial Park Library in Calgary, on Treaty 7 territory. …
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#31—The Other Side of Nickelback
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In this audio documentary special, Aaron dives deep into the history of Nickelback, the most commercially successful and critically despised Canadian band of their generation. In the aughts when Nickelback dominated the air waves and sold out stadiums, bashing them publicly became a competitive sport for tastemakers and social media users. What spu…
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#21—The Kids in the Hall (Full Episode)
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In the spirit of the season, we've brought out from behind the paywall our full episode on The Kids in the Hall. Happy holidays, everyone! Support us on Patreon ~~ Inspired by the recently released sixth season of The Kids in the Hall, Naomi and Aaron discuss this legendary sketch comedy show. We follow the Kids' paths to becoming comic actors, and…
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#30—The Hockey Sweater, feat. Maxime Raymond Bock
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One fateful day in the winter of 1946, a boy in the village of Sainte-Justine, Quebec, opened his Eaton’s package to find, instead of a coveted Montreal Canadiens jersey, the dreaded blue of the Toronto Maple Leafs. That despised hockey sweater was destined for literary, if not sports, fame. That boy became author Roch Carrier, who has published so…
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#29—Sarah McLachlan, feat. Kris Demeanor (Live)
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You will remember her—singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan was born in Halifax, studied music from the age of four, started winning singing awards not much later, and was offered her first major record deal at seventeen. Throughout the nineties, she won a boatload of Grammys and Junos for her work on the albums Solace, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy, and Su…
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Sweater Weather Live! in Calgary, Tues. Nov. 22
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The first ever live recording of Sweater Weather is happening Tuesday, November 22 at the Rose & Crown Pub in Calgary at 7 pm. Reserve your free tickets here at Eventbrite. We'll be fumbling towards the ecstasy that is the life and music of singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan. And if you're not already swooning in the arms of an angel, we'll be joine…
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In episode 28, we revisit the antics of shock comic Tom Green. In the early nineties, Green rose to local Ottawa fame with a rap album, a radio show, and a program on public-access television. In 1998, The Tom Green Show gained a national following on the Canadian Comedy Network, and in 1999 it jumped to the American big time on MTV. Green was the …
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#27—The Sweet Hereafter, feat. Abdul Malik
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Screenwriter Abdul Malik (Peace by Chocolate, CTV’s Transplant) joins us to talk about Atom Egoyan’s 1997 film, The Sweet Hereafter, one of Canada’s most celebrated movies and the pinnacle of the Toronto New Wave moment. We revisit the melancholic, majestic, and morally compromised town of Sam Dent, a fictional community in BC’s interior that has l…
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#26—Are You Afraid of the Dark? feat. Tasnuva Hayden
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We've got one question for you, Sweater Wearers: Are You Afraid of the Dark? This Montreal-produced kids' horror series aired on YTV in Canada, on Nickelodeon in the US, and on networks around the world—including in Norway where our special guest, poet Tasnuva Hayden, watched eagerly every Saturday night circa 1992. We light the proverbial campfire…
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