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Podcast: Pretty Heady Stuff
Episode: Sandra Battaglini takes a hard look at the business of comedy in Canada
Description: Sandra Battaglini is an actor, stand-up comedian and writer. She is also the founder of the Canadian Association of Stand-Up Comedians, an organization that represents comics in Canada and lobbies for them to be recognized as the brilliant, culturally significant artists that they are. I just wrote an article for The Breach that features Sandra, among other comedians, and looks at some of her efforts to push for fair pay, government recognition from the Canada Council, and organized resistance against the pull of American media imperialism.
Her left political perspectives are in many ways written in CASC’s DNA. She ta...