Canada

Place

On 14 shows in Health & Science over 30 days

Canada is a country in North America whose ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean. It is the world’s second-largest country by total area and has the longest coastline of any country, with highly varied climatic and geological regions and a long international border with the United States.

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#12 over 30 days

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Not enough signal yet (fewer than 3 episodes scored).

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Mentions of Canada per 1,000 mentions of anything, 7-day rolling, health & science.

0.0‰2‰4‰6‰8‰Jul 11Aug 2Aug 25Sep 16Oct 8
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DayShare (7-day)Mentions
Aug 92.71‰2
Aug 113.20‰2
Aug 123.02‰1
Aug 143.17‰1
Aug 153.76‰1
Aug 173.40‰1
Aug 183.01‰1
Aug 193.15‰1
Aug 203.86‰1
Aug 280.48‰1
Sep 31.05‰1
Sep 51.04‰1
Sep 92.12‰2
Sep 102.27‰1
Sep 112.98‰1
Sep 144.08‰3
Sep 163.38‰1
Sep 182.67‰1
Sep 193.09‰1
Sep 212.95‰3
Sep 224.18‰3
Sep 235.00‰2
Sep 245.84‰1
Sep 274.74‰1
Sep 284.02‰1
Sep 301.89‰1
Oct 21.97‰1
Oct 51.49‰1

Why is it trending?

Canada appears across climate, health, wildlife, and personal stories

Canada is discussed in a vitamin K segment as a setting where midwife-attended births were 8 times more likely to involve refusal than physician-attended births.[1]

Health and science shows also connect Canada with climate risks, including projected warming in Nunavut and concerns about peatlands as carbon sinks.[2][3]

Other episodes use Canada in scientific and ecological contexts, including bison brought from Canada for tundra restoration and the Canadian lynx’s range.[4][5]

Several mentions are personal or incidental: guests describe being in or from Canada, while another episode notes willow material ordered from Montreal.[6][7][8]

The shows do not present one shared Canada-focused argument; they range from medical evidence and environmental concerns to geography, travel, and jokes about Canada’s political status.[1][9][10]

Sources · 10 moments

  1. 1.
    This Podcast Will Kill You · Ep 222 Vitamin K: Calling the shots
    Erin Welsh · Sep 22 · Listen at 55:39 ↗
    “Yeah. And 26% of those midwives would not give it to their own children and felt that it interfered with the natural birth process. A similar trend was found in Canada where births attended by midwives were eight times more likely to have v”
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    Ologies with Alie Ward — Discard Anthropology (GARBAGE) · Extreme Meteorology (EL NIÑO) with Marshall Shepherd
    Alie Ward · Sep 16 · Listen at 27:27 ↗
    “ramping up. All over the globe. A few weeks ago in late August, flooding and debris flows at the China -Nepal border killed over 1 ,300 people. Another 5 ,000 plus are still missing. So the death toll is going up literally minute by minute.”
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    Unexplainable · The bodies buried in the bog
    Anna North · Sep 28 · Listen at 22:05 ↗
    “There are— there's peatlands all around the world. So I think for Americans, we often think of bogs as being sort of an English or Irish phenomenon. I think some of that might be about the poet Seamus Heaney, who wrote these famous bog poem”
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    Huberman Lab Essentials · Bringing Extinct Species Back to Life | Dr. Beth Shapiro
    Beth Shapiro · Oct 5 · Listen at 36:50 ↗
    “for a long time, and they have been really interested in understanding what happens when you restore all of the species that used to live on the tundra to the tundra ecosystem. And they have bison that they've brought in from Canada and wil”

Written by AI from the cited moments; every quote is checked against the transcript.

The conversation on X

X focuses on residential schools, reconciliation, and disputes over historical denial

The posts are dominated by Canada’s residential-school history, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Indigenous survivors, and claims about abuse, deaths, graves, and institutional responsibility.

Most posts affirm the importance of remembering harms and addressing their continuing effects; a smaller group disputes or minimizes claims about deaths and graves, or frames discussion of the issue as politically motivated.

This differs from the podcast story: X is mostly discussing residential schools and Canadian politics, rather than Buddhist life, international podcast audiences, or personal history.

100% of the 70 posts report news or ask questions without taking a position.

Tone toward Canada on X

Negative

  • Very negative 7
  • Negative 34
  • Neutral 15
  • Positive 14

Also discussed

  • Residential schools and Indigenous history
  • Truth and reconciliation observances
  • Disputes over denial and evidence
  • Canadian politics and national identity
  • Unrelated Canada references
  • Note: The sample is heavily concentrated around the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and related residential-school debate, so it is not representative of all discussion about Canada.
  • Note: Many posts are institutional announcements, links, or reports rather than developed opinions; several others concern unrelated uses of the word Canada.

Written by AI from 70 posts on X in the week to Oct 5. Shares count the posts read, not a poll of opinion; quoted posts are shown as written.

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