Canada's original anti-Fascist army
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As a kid in the early 2000s, I joined a scrappy new video site called YouTube. We were girls creating content for other girls. But with our growing success came new rules from the man in charge. There was no reason to believe that anything dangerous was going on. No reason until he was taken away in handcuffs.
I'm Lauren White, and from CBC's split screen, this is There Goes My Childhood. Available now on CBC Listen or wherever you get your podcasts. This is a CBC Podcast. Welcome to Ideas, I'm Nala Ayad. Well, the first question I usually ask is, uh where were you?
On july eighteenth. Nineteen thirty six, which was the day that the Spanish war started. In 1960 five, a C BC researcher named Mac Reynolds collected the stories of Canadians who volunteered to fight in the Spanish Civil War some thirty years earlier. Well, I I was in Vancouver. I was unemployed.
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