Find the audio podcast here: https://pod.link/1730993828
Find the full-video version here: https://www.youtube.com/@PoliticsIsBroken
A festive recap of the year Canada stress-ate an entire fruitcake
I have a theory about 2025…
We didn’t live through it. We watched it the way you watch a raccoon in your garbage… curious, horrified, and quietly aware that if you make eye contact it becomes your dependent.
So Lisa and I did the only responsible thing: we turned the whole year into a holiday special.
Not the cozy kind… more like the kind where the tree is on fire, the turkey is raw, the group chat is political, and someone’s uncle keeps saying, “I’m just asking questions” while holding a microphone he bought online.
Welcome to The 12 Months of Crisismas… our year-end attempt to make sense of 2025, month by month.
What’s in the episode
January: Trudeau steps aside… and Canada experiences that unique national emotion: relief mixed with immediate nausea about what comes next.
February: Doug Ford wins a third majority… which was a real reminder that the internet is not a polling station. (Also… yes… I did a video with Bonnie Crombie. I accept full responsibility for reality.)
March: Mark Carney becomes Prime Minister… a technocratic pivot so pragmatic it almost came with an invoice. Also, conservatives got mad that he “just walked in” which is funny because that is, in fact, how Westminster systems work. Sorry your vibes weren’t consulted.
April/May: Election season… affordability, housing, and the creeping sense that the U.S. is the neighbour who keeps “accidentally” stepping onto your lawn while looking at your barbecue. Liberals win a minority… and the truly delicious subplot: Pierre Poilievre loses his seat in Ottawa-Carleton.
June/July: Internal trade barriers become a national obsession… which is wild because we’ve been a country for a while now. Turns out we should maybe be able to sell each other things without acting like every province is a separate airport security line.
August: Poilievre returns via by-election… because politics loves a comeback story even when you specifically asked it not to.
September: Alberta does what Alberta does… and the rest of Canada does that slow blink where you’re trying to stay polite while thinking, “We are not doing this… we are not importing this…”
October/November/December: Meetings, tariffs, memorandums, and the general vibe that adulthood is just nodding seriously while someone says something unhinged and you quietly Google, “Is this real.”
The part where we quote the chaos
We also do The 12 Quotes of Crisismas… which is basically us reading out loud the things leaders said this year and realizing… oh… we’ve normalized a lot.
And then… because self-preservation… we play Folks or Fiction, a game where Lisa has to guess whether a quote came from Doug Ford or a fictional character.
Spoiler: if you get most of them wrong, congratulations… you’re healthy.
Your homework (yes, you have homework)
Listen to the episode.
Laugh because coping is important.
Comment with the crisis we missed (because we definitely missed something… it’s 2025).
Do not treat us as your primary news source in 2026. We are… at best… a decorative calendar.
Thanks for sticking with us through the year. Take a break. Touch snow. Eat something that isn’t stress.
And we’ll see you in 2026!
Find the audio podcast here: https://pod.link/1730993828
Find the full-video version here: https://www.youtube.com/@PoliticsIsBroken
