Podcast: Canadian spies' corporate intel-sharing (E01: Sept 19, 2026)

HOSTS: Emma Arkell and David P. Ball

GUESTS:

• Zak Vescera (Investigative Journalism Foundation)
• Matt Simmons (The Narwhal)

Show notes:

TOPICS: 

• Their story was just shortlisted for a Jack Webster Foundation award for excellence in business reporting this week.
• How Canada’s biggest corporations successfully lobbied the federal government to enable access to sensitive intelligence information
• Concerns raised by civil liberties and environmental advocates over creating a chill effect on freedom of speech

STORIES:

• Canada’s spy agency now shares intel with corporations — thanks to a push from TC Energy (Oct. 23, 2025)
• The day pipeline security followed me — and what I learned later about Canada’s spy agency (Nov. 12, 2025)

CREDITS:

• Originally aired on Vancouver Co-operative Radio CFRO 100.5FM
• Theme music courtesy of Devours (November, Homecoming Queen, and 10 Things I Crave About You) with permission
• Broadcast from the unceded Coast Salish territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlil̓wətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations