I'd like to report that I found a workaround which allows you to stream podcasts, just like in Canola 1. Choose a podcast and episode and then start the download. You can then double click on the episode and you are taken to the "now playing" page After some short delay the podcast will actually start to stream, even if it hasn't been fully downloaded.

if you want you can even go back to the podcast download page and stop + delete the download. The stream will continue to play, Often a "Error during download" message will appear but it does not stop the stream.

Great news! I was resigned to using the RSS reader to stream podcasts but it was a bit tiresome. Canola2 is much more streamlined, Hopefully the small wrinkles will be ironed out in the next release!

thanks for a great app!