The Rodgers Brief

07/12/2025

Premiering tonight at 8:30pm - Dispersing the Fog E39 - NS Justice Min v Chiefs on Cannabis, Deporting Offenders, Provincial Homicide Stats, Guest Curt Petrovich on YVR Report

This week we welcome back former CBC reporter Curt Petrovich, to discuss the report into the four RCMP officers charged after the taser death of Robert Dzie...

30/11/2025

Premiering tonight at 8:30pm - Dispersing the Fog E38 - The Stringer, The (L)Awful Man, Guest Moira Webster on RCMP Smear Campaign https://youtu.be/frWdXmu2b0M?si=vn2b9Q-QvLmzMvBY via

This week, we welcome Moira Webster to discuss her former husband, Mike Webster, a former clinical psychologist with a focus on policing (and also CFL footba...

23/11/2025

Premiering tonight at 8:30pm - Dispersing the Fog - E37 - OPP YVR Report, Ryan Wedding's Lawyer Charged, Guest Tammy Oliver McCurdie https://youtu.be/b_MRwheWvfc?si=XSrItSR9Fha77CGi via

Our guest this week is Tammy Oliver McCurdie, sister of the late Jolene Oliver, who was killed along with her partner and daughter in the Portapique, Nova Sc...

16/11/2025

Premiering tonight at 8:30pm - Dispersing the Fog - Ep 36 - NS Death Reviews Secret, No Police for Newfoundland Fires, No Golf in West Mabou, Guest Dave Moore on Glen Assoun Coverup and Amber Alert for Sullivan Children https://youtu.be/mVWzmTzSJUg?si=sfnwZjpUED7t-qZI via

This week, we have the pleasure of a rare interview with retired RCMP analyst, Dave Moore. Dave discusses his investigation into the murder of Brenda Way, wh...

09/11/2025

Premiering tonight at 8:30pm - Dispersing the Fog Ep 35 - Poppies in Court, Crossing d'Entremont, Tipping Pitches, Guest Curt Allen https://youtu.be/yPF2tEI8LnQ?si=-kZHlduu0alHp6kf via

This week, we welcome back former RCMP Deputy Commissioner, Curt Allen, to discuss some of the stories we have been covering in recent weeks, and get his tak...

02/11/2025

Premiering tonight at 8:30pm - Dispersing the Fog - Ep 34 - Supreme Court Strikes Child P**n Mandatory Minimums, Guest Chief Edgar MacLeod on Policing, Game 7 Reflections https://youtu.be/zb6sYjzNyAA?si=V0T9rWhc8_cIxa4B via

26/10/2025

Premiering tonight at 8:30pm - Dispersing the Fog - Ep 33 - NS Cabinet Shuffle, NBA Betting Arrests, Guest Former RCMP Confidential Informant Paul Derry https://youtu.be/YhZu7TH4gWg?si=Mu8HpgMo-CVLJD8w via

19/10/2025

Premiering tonight at 8:30pm - Dispersing the Fog -Ep 32 - New Evidence in Sullivan Children Case, Bail Reform Politics, Death of Robert Dziekanski with Guest Former CBC Journalist Curt Petrovich https://youtu.be/WComOy4D4HI?si=YHkoqZsAK_2Ja7Pt via

This week we are very pleased to welcome former longtime CBC journalist, author Curt Petrovich, to the podcast. Curt has written 'Blamed and Broken, the Moun...

12/10/2025

Premiering tonight at 8:30pm - Dispersing the Fog - Ep 31 - MCC Latest Non-Update, Former Confidential Informant Sues RCMP, New DUI Defense, Guest Paul McNamara https://youtu.be/eyFsxH5_cmY?si=OZwalp38hen34OQp via

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! This week, we have a special guest, Paul McNamara, who spent many years working undercover operations in Canada, and has sinc...

05/10/2025

Premiering tonight at 8:30pm - Dispersing the Fog -Ep 30 - Halifax Police Board Critiques Province, Edmonton Police v. Crown, Guest - RCMP Whistleblower Janet Merlo. https://youtu.be/Kgq_9XpGGBA?si=dsYqzpoVSckNyCcJ via

This week we are thrilled to welcome Janet Merlo to the show. Janet is a former RCMP officer, who was central to the exposing of sexual abuse within the forc...

28/09/2025

Premiering tonight at 8:30pm - Dispersing the Fog - Ep 29 - Lisa Banfield Book Announcement, Sullivan Children Update, BC RCMP Dep/Comm Arrested, Notwithstanding Clause Arguments at Supreme Court https://youtu.be/1DZO2mt_rC0?si=pVxtw6VcdoEdPVja via

This week, Paul and Adam discuss the news that Lisa Banfield (along with two co-authors, her sister Maureen, and writer Sherri Aikenhead) has written a book ...

14/09/2025

Premiering tonight at 8:30pm - Dispersing the Fog -Ep 28 - Encounters in Alaska, Charley Kirk, Vancouver, Ryan Wedding Drug Network https://youtu.be/ZlPEd5J3EsE?si=jKsUwzYJ29hfUsFX via

This week, Paul is joining from BC, having spent an eventful week on an Alaskan cruise. In a very 'Paul' coincidence, he had dinner one night with a woman wh...