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SEASON 1, EPISODE 1

E1: The Mystery Broom

It’s 2015 and we’re at the international Grand Slam of Curling, hosted in Paradise, Newfoundland. A team led by home crowd favourite Brad Gushue debuts a new and strikingly effective new technique. Instead of sweeping the way curlers always have with two brooms, they’re using only one. Within weeks, every competitive curling team on the planet would switch to this technique and the special broom that enabled it. It was the start of the biggest scandal in curling history.

S1, E1

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27 min
SEASON 1, EPISODE 4

E4: Rumble at High Park

Another company, BalancePlus, decides to get into the broom modification game to challenge the Hardline broom. It all comes to a messy confrontation when teams go head to head at a 2015 bonspiel. The ice ends up shredded — and an emergency meeting is convened in Toronto to decide what to do.

S1, E4

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30 min
SEASON 1, EPISODE 5

E5: Sweeping Summit

For as long as curling has been a game there was nothing in the rulebook about brooms, and so players had nowhere to turn when Broomgate hit. Tensions kept growing, and there were near blow ups and confrontations on-ice. What’s a World Curling Federation to do? Create a sweeping summit — and decide the future of the sport forever.

S1, E5

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33 min
SEASON 1, EPISODE 6

EP 6: Broom to Broom

Host John Cullen has a heart-to-heart with producer Kathleen Goldhar about curling, Broomgate, and all the bonus stories they left on the cutting room floor.

S1, E6

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29 min
SEASON 1, EPISODE 3

E3: The Chess Master

Some people say Brad Gushue, Olympic gold medalist and world title holder, plays the sport of curling with the strategy and cunning of a chess grandmaster. So when he starts losing to two particular teams, he takes a closer look at why and he zeroes in on their brooms.

S1, E3

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24 min
SEASON 1, EPISODE 2

E2: Magic Mike

Flush with an infusion of cash from investors the brothers behind the Hardline Curling company are ready to take their revolutionary curling broom into the world. Now all they need is to convince a bonafide superstar to use it. Enter Winnipeg’s Mike McEwen.

S1, E2

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23 min
TRAILER

Introducing Broomgate: A Curling Scandal

A six-part series that tells the never-before-told story of how a broom almost killed curling. Featuring interviews with some of the biggest names in curling — and the men behind the infamous broom. Releasing May 6, 2024.

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3 min
SEASON 1, EPISODE 2

Scaachi and the Silent Treatment

Scaachi Koul is an outspoken writer with an undeniably bold presence. As night falls, she reveals the weight of her upsetting personal problem: the deterioration of an important relationship that has turned into a silent standoff. She says it's unsolvable

S1, E2

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28 min
SEASON 1, EPISODE 2

E2: Mistaken Identity

When baby Clarence Hynes was brought home from the hospital, someone casually asked if this small dark haired baby was really a Hynes? His parents ignored it, taught to let mysteries lie. And after they died early, Clarence put his head down and focused on being a good big brother and supporting his family. So when someone mistook him for an Avery brother, he shrugged it off: “Somebody always looks like somebody, right?” But the coincidences became too insistent to ignore.

S1, E2

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26 min
21/01/2022

The Big Game

St. Patrick’s High School in Ottawa has always had a strong basketball team, but in 1999-2000, the “Fighting Irish” were riding high. They won game after game, made it to the Ontario play-offs, and were invited to represent Ontario in a national tournament. But for a high school all-star, what happens in the years after the “Big Game”? And how do high school sports echo (like sneakers on a gym floor) for the rest of a player’s life? Meet some of the former members of that standout team and discover how basketball shaped who they are today.

21/01/2022

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53 min

A growing collection of podcasts that speak to the human condition. A hard-hitting journalist reveals the intimate details of her secret past. A father searches for the miracle key that could unlock his son’s mysterious illness. These stories — and dozens more — invite listeners into the lives of others to grapple with love, loss and life.