Accidental babysitting for John Lennon and Yoko Ono, nostalgia and memory on Montreal’s Plateau Mont-Royal and why Stephen Harper is a terrible dinner guest. Plus: how the origins of the ‘Canada is Fake’ movement may lie in the 1995 Referendum.

All this and more with political commentator, talk radio legend and author of the new memoir 'Make-up Tips From Auschwitz: How Vanity Saved My Mother's Life' Tommy Schnurmacher on a very special holiday episode of the award-winning weekly politics and society interview podcast Unpacking the News.

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Music on this episode includes

* 'A Merry Christmas from 1928/1929'
* 'Joyeaux Noel', Ginette Reno
* 'Le Sentier de Neige', Les Classels
* 'Il Est Ne Le Divin Enfant', Mitsou
* 'Ca Bergers Assemblons Nous', The Stairwell Carollers
* 'Noel de Joie', Ginette Menard

This conversation was recorded on December 10th and 16th, 2019.