ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Because News is Canada's funniest news quiz. Host Gavin Crawford quizzes comedians and celebrities about the headlines. Get tickets for Season 12!
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29 minutes
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English
Canada
211 episodes
since Jan. 31, 2020
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~59.13% of listeners are from Canada.
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US
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PH
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IN
0.35%
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DE
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LATEST EPISODE 🔗
The Word of the Year is maxxing, which beat out mogging, carspreading, and fricy. Bryan Adams has entered his anti-Trump era with a new album, How’s It Goin’. Grocery store freezers in Europe are still getting hacked, and someone better save the Häagen-Dazs! Gavin Crawford quizzes Noah Reid (Schitt…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Trump won’t stop talking about butts during important election rallies. B.C.’s former premier David Eby made a political oopsie for the ages, and now “accidental premier” Lorne Doerkson is in charge of the province. And an AI conversation sounds so real that we can’t tell the difference. Gavin Craw…
Post-referendum, Premier Danielle Smith sings “It’s My Party and I’ll Comply If I Want To.” A drone delivered McDonald’s to a Quebec prison in what could only be the happiest of Happy Meals. What’s with all the Pepsi in Netflix’s Below? The series is making Newfoundland proud. Gavin Crawford quizze…
Not quite live, but still full price: Canadians paid big to see rapper Sidhu Moose Wala as a hologram. A new book calls Trump’s America an “Unreliable Boyfriend.” So, how should we deal with the White House? Use the “donut strategy.” Halloween decorations are too scary, so knock it off with all the…
Favourite quiz rounds about food… if you consider booze, chips, and lobster to be the main food groups! Giving thanks for some of our favourite panellists on this Thanksgiving episode. Gavin Crawford quizzes Priyanka, Emma Hunter, Mattea Roach, and Miguel Rivas.
Turns out washing your berries doesn't make a big difference. Alberta Wants to Know: Who’s an Albertan? We try to decipher the confusing referendum questions. Now you need all the subscriptions to watch the NHL on TV. And the PWHL comes to primetime TV. Wing nights get expensive because nothing is …
AI might kill us in only ten years; take that, climate change! “Copium” is now in the dictionary, but everything is fine, really. Star hockey goalie Connor Hellebuyck wants to be traded. Rumour has it he could switch from the Winnipeg Jets to the Sharks. What-in-the-West Side-Story is happening?!&n…
Canada’s in a “situationship” with the EU. Mark Carney wants to sell you an airport. Manitoba makes daily gym mandatory and that’s our literal nightmare. Gavin Crawford quizzes comedians Martha Chaves, Tom Hearn and Michael Balazo on this week’s news.
America needs our TP. It’s time to hold the roll, Canada. We have counter-tarriffed capes, cloaks and breeches. Apologies, aristocrats. Quebec has a Celine Dion lotto ticket: My Heart Will Gagnant! King Charles is on the $20 so bring on the Chuck Bucks. Gavin Crawford hosts the news quiz with comed…
Season 12 of Because News is back with Gavin Crawford! Subscribe on your favourite podcast app, or check out new episodes on CBC Listen.
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