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🎧 Exciting news! Group Chat is featured this week alongside amazing Canadian creators in Acast & Amazon Music Canada’s Indie Podcast Amplifier! 🇨🇦🔥#CanadianIndyPods
Tune in today 👉 buff.ly/COAovLM
October 29, 2025 at 2:08 PM
We warmly welcome our new Board Member: Deval Pandya, VP and Head of AI Engineering @vectorinstitute.ai. Deval’s guidance will further our efforts to understand how technology is shaping Canada’s democracy. Learn more buff.ly/x18D7Zr
October 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
🧡 Today on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, hear Natan Obed of @inuittapiriit.bsky.social
on why Inuit self-determination is vital to 🇨🇦 Canadian democracy. 🎧 Hosted by @jenditchburn.bsky.social ( @irpp.org @policyoptions.irpp.org ). Listen: buff.ly/PDkRckp
September 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Strengthen your non-profit’s policy influence – apply to Maytree Policy School 2026! Six-month Toronto-based program Jan-Jun. Deadline Oct 15, 2025. Learn more: maytree.com/strengthenin...
September 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
🙌 Thanks to Sounds Good, CBC’s podcast newsletter, for featuring our 🎙️Group Chat Podcast today as a great back-to-school listening + classroom conversation starter 🎧 buff.ly/iNTZ74C
September 11, 2025 at 10:16 PM
We’re excited to warmly welcome Gregory Belton & Petros Kusmu to our Board!
A huge thanks to outgoing member Chad Rogers for his two terms of service.
Learn more: buff.ly/tlxDjOQ
August 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
🌎🇨🇦 With global & local politics more connected than ever, Group Chat explores how diaspora communities navigate the threat of foreign interference and the power of belonging in civic life with @jaskaransandhu.bsky.social , @neeeda.bsky.social & @sabreenadelhon.bsky.social 🎙️ 🎧 buff.ly/YVF6wOd
July 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
💻🗳️ Can tech save democracy? @audreyt.org & @glenweyl.bsky.social say we need more, not less. Plus, Bianca Wylie joins to explore the limits of tech and democracy.
Host @sabreenadelhon.bsky.social just added you to the Group Chat 🎙️. Listen now! 🎧 buff.ly/BJHREVh
July 3, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Is the notwithstanding clause a safeguard or a threat? 🤔 A hero like Wolverine 🦸‍♂️ or a wildcard like The Joker?🃏
@sabreenadelhon.bsky.social‬ breaks it down with Warda Shazadi Meighen, Karin Galldin and Peter Biro . 🎧 Listen today buff.ly/6cBekDz
June 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
🎓 Did you miss our webinar with @federationhss.ca‬?
Catch From Peer Review to the Public — a timely convo on how the humanities + social sciences can shape civic life, power & participation.
📺 Now on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhiA...
June 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
🎓 Did you miss our webinar with @federationhss.ca‬?
Catch From Peer Review to the Public — a timely convo on how the humanities + social sciences can shape civic life, power & participation.
📺 Now on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhiA...
June 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
On National Indigenous Peoples Day, we’re reflecting on last year’s In Defence of Democracy speaker—Pulitzer Prize and Peabody winner @conniewalker.bsky.social‬ —and her powerful call to truth-telling and storytelling as vital acts of reconciliation.
June 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
🎓 Did you miss our webinar with @federationhss.ca‬?
Catch From Peer Review to the Public — a timely convo on how the humanities + social sciences can shape civic life, power & participation.
📺 Now on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhiA...
June 20, 2025 at 1:03 PM
🎓 Did you miss our webinar with @federationhss.ca‬?
Catch From Peer Review to the Public — a timely convo on how the humanities + social sciences can shape civic life, power & participation.
📺 Now on YouTube: buff.ly/LWJ80LL
June 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
🗳️ Democracy is evolving! What bold ideas are bridging the gap between people & power?
Recorded LIVE at Institute for Research on Public Policy in Montreal, @sabreenadelhon.bsky.social‬ chats with Malorie Flon, Bianca Wylie & Sarah Yaffe.
Join the Group Chat 🎙️:
buff.ly/x7xE6xg
June 19, 2025 at 12:31 PM
📱💬 A secret, all-women, cross-partisan group chat was a lifeline for former Green Party leader Annamie Paul @annamiepaul.
It even inspired our NEW podcast hosted by @SabreenaDelhon. 🎙️Join our Group Chat, LISTEN NOW 🎧 buff.ly/2yDP9rm
June 12, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Introducing Group Chat 🎙️— our new podcast where we make sense of what’s happening in Canada’s democracy with a few friends. ✨
🎧 Listen to our trailer and find us on your favourite podcast app! buff.ly/oUhzHra
June 2, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Democracy is under strain—and so is academic freedom. How can scholars help defend civic life and support democracy in Canada? Join us and the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences at our webinar: May 28 at 1pm ET to explore the role of the humanities + social sciences. buff.ly/hrh8ghM
May 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Democracy is under strain—and so is academic freedom. How can scholars help defend civic life and support democracy in Canada? Join us and the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences at our webinar: May 28 at 1pm EST to explore the role of the humanities + social sciences. buff.ly/hrh8ghM
May 23, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Our new VERIFIED reports look at where we are seeing signs of potential foreign influence on YouTube and whether Canadian politicians are really embracing Bluesky. buff.ly/0WonIbQ
April 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Our new VERIFIED reports look at where we are seeing signs of potential foreign influence on YouTube and whether Canadian politicians are really embracing Bluesky. Link in Bio or visit: buff.ly/BuLu8mD
April 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Some highlights from our recent webinar with Apathy is Boring on tech and democracy designed to help you navigate online political conversations in the lead up to the election.
👉 Watch the full webinar here: buff.ly/OPF4C00
April 23, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Our 3rd VERIFIED report looks at media on Canada's largest subreddit - which news sources were present, permitted and popular.
👉 Go to samaracentre.ca/verified. Find out which 🇨🇦 media sources show up, if 🇺🇸 news is having a strong impact, & how moderation shapes online news.
April 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
🗳️ Have questions about our VERIFIED election project?
We're teaming up with Apathy is Boring for a pre-election webinar to help voters feel confident before hitting the polls! ✅
💬 Got Qs about how politics is playing out online? Drop them below! 👇
April 15, 2025 at 6:34 PM
What’s Canada’s biggest subreddit talking about?

Our second report for VERIFIED shows that Canada-US relations dominated the online political conversation in the early days of the federal election campaign.
👉 Go to samaracentre.ca/verified to find out who and what else was discussed!
April 11, 2025 at 8:56 PM