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Que retenir de 2024? Beaucoup de sujets lourds, et quelques moments plus légers, affirme Manal Drissi au micro d’Emilie Nicolas. Ensemble, Manal et Emilie reviennent sur des événements marquants de l’année et dressent, en filigrane, un portrait critique de nos médias. Au menu de cet épisode du temps des fêtes, les liens entre transphobie et misogynie qui ont traversé les discours portés sur Imane Khelif, cette boxeuse médaillée d’or aux JO de Paris ; les viols de Mazan et la montée du masculinisme ; la controverse Haroun Bouazzi et le rôle que jouent les éditorialistes dans le traitement de l’actualité ; et enfin la manière dont les médias couvrent la situation à Gaza. En deuxième partie d’émission, Manal Drissi revient sur son retrait des médias depuis la pandémie et nous rappelle l’importance de prendre notre temps.
What to remember from 2024? Lots of heavy subjects and a few lighter moments, says Manal Drissi to Emilie Nicolas. Together, Manal and Emilie look back on some of the significant events of the year and provide, implicitly, a critical portrait of our media. On the menu for this holiday season episode, the links between transphobia and misogyny which ran through the story of Imane Khelif, the young boxer who won gold at the Paris Olympics; the Mazan rapes and the rise of masculinism; the Haroun Bouazzi controversy and the role that editorialists play in covering current events; and finally the way in which the media cover the situation in Gaza. In the second part of the show, Manal Drissi talks about her withdrawal from the media since the pandemic and reminds us of the importance of taking our time and slow living.
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What Toronto Star got wrong about UberEats, plus an update on the shaky Trudeau government.
Also, why cellos and Air Canada don’t mix, and new information on who an alleged ISIS plot was targeting in the GTA.
Host: Jesse Brown
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Chrystia Freeland kneecaps Trudeau, but his shaky government still stands. Jan Wong joins to sift through the aftermath of a very eventful Monday in Canadian politics.
Plus, an arsenal of 3D printed guns in Quebec and Jan’s tips for the GST holiday.
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It was a hell of a day for the Liberals yesterday, as Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland abruptly abandoned her post. Now, all fingers are pointed at one man: Justin Trudeau.
So what happened? And where do we go from here? Reporter for the Hill Times Stuart Benson sits down with Sam to break down Justin’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
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This is part two of our mini series: Black Market Babies (part one, here).
It’s a family story that lay hidden for decades. Then the tech was born, the DNA came to light, and after the shock, the investigation began.
An underworld tale of the international baby smuggling ring that bought and sold hundreds of newborns out of Montreal in the 1950s.
A family story told by the families. One reporter whose own mother was bought and sold. And another whose own DNA tied her to the one of the alleged masterminds behind the black market baby trade.
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What’s the deal with the “North American Arctic”?
Ottawa’s new policy for the North swaps Arctic sovereignty for strategic diplomacy. Could this be a preemptive concession to Trump?
Plus, Liberal climate reversals and big savings on Hannukah bushes.
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Testifying in Parliament last week, Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown revealed how India affected his 2022 bid to lead the Conservative Party of Canada. But was he a victim of foreign interference, as reported by CBC/Radio-Canada, or a willing conduit for Indian interests? San Grewal of The Pointer joins to explain how (and why) CBC got spun.
Note: Jaskaran Sandhu did not reply to our request for comment in advance of publishing this episode.
UPDATE (12/11/24): after publication, Jaskaran Sandhu responded to Canadaland’s request for comment with the following: “I did not bring, place, plant, or spin this foreign interference story to the CBC. I wish I was that powerful. But it is kind of nice knowing those like San think I am.”
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The political gender divide isnt just a U.S. phenonmenon, its showing up globally, from the U.K. to South Korea. It’s only a matter of time before the next Canadian election wherethese political dynamics could soon take center stage. Host Noor Azrieh sits down with Jack Gordon, a young conservative, to ask what he’s thinking about politics these days? And, why conservative politics are resonating with young Canadian men?
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People on the left call her a police informant, a self-hating Palestinian, a racist, a Zionist, a TERF, and a fascist. But she also has haters on the right, labelling her a leftist, Antifa, and a World Economic Forum diva.
She’s a lawyer by trade. But describes herself online as a journalist, a satirist, a media personality and a protest watcher. That last title is the one that brings the most trouble.
Anti-vax protests, freedom convoy protests, anti-trans protests, Israel/Palestine protests, over the last few years she’s captured and posted an archive of protest footage few mainstream outlets have either the time or resources to rival. Along the way she’s managed to irk the entire political spectrum.
She's been criticized by the Canadian Association of Journalists, the Canadian Anti Hate Network, and the Law Society of Ontario for allegedly harassing behaviour.
But how? Why? Caryma Sa'd joins Jesse Brown to answer those questions.
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Le Collège québécois des médecins de famille s’est récemment doté d’une nouvelle présidente, la docteure Geneviève Bois. La carrière foisonnante de cette praticienne engagée touche à de nombreux enjeux qui résonnent profondément avec les défis que le système de santé public peine à relever: médecine à deux (voire trois) vitesses, déterminants sociaux de la santé, médecine en milieu éloigné, et santé reproductive des femmes. Emilie Nicolas reçoit donc la docteure Geneviève Bois, non pas en tant que présidente du Collège des médecins de famille, mais en tant que soignante. Depuis ses études de médecine jusqu’à sa pratique à Eeyou Istchee et dans des centres de santé des femmes au sud du Québec, la docteure Bois revient sur ses engagements et sa vision de la médecine, une science avant tout humaine.
The Collège québécois des médecins de famille recently appointed a new president, Dr. Geneviève Bois. The prolific career of this committed practitioner touches on many issues that deeply resonate with challenges the public health system is struggling to meet: two- (or even three-)tier medicine, social determinants of health, medicine in remote areas, and women’s reproductive health. Emilie Nicolas talks health with Dr. Bois, not in her role as president of the Collège des médecins de famille, but as a physician. From her medical studies to her practice in Eeyou Istchee and in women’s health centres in southern Quebec, Dr. Bois reflects on her commitments and her vision of medicine, a science that is above all a human science.
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Canada’s legacy media is suing OpenAI, alleging they’re “strip-mining journalism” by using news articles to train its popular ChatGPT software. Do they have a case? Is this a last-ditch effort to secure some cash?
Plus, how will Australia’s social media ban for kids work? And an Edmonton journalist being surveilled for 7 months.
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Was the positive tone of Trudeau’s Mar-a-Lago visit overstated by Canadian media? Is Canada going to be the 51st state like Trump said at dinner? Was this the PR win that Trudeau needed? Harrison Lowman joins to break down Trudeau’s big day in Florida.
Plus, how was nearly $10 million stolen from one of Canada’s biggest music funder’s bank account? And, do Canadians see the value in CBC?
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Last Monday, U.S. president-elect Donald Trump posted to his beloved Truth Social with a hefty threat. If Canada and Mexico don't get the border in order, or the drugs in check, he’ll slap a 25 per cent tariff on all goods. These tariffs could crash several major U.S. industries and ruin Canada’s economy. But this isn’t the first time Trump’s threatened Canada. Host Noor Azrieh sits down with Vipal Monga to ask, did Canadian politicians learn anything from dealing with Trump the first time around, or are they stumbling into Trump 2.0 just as clueless?
And, the latest on a BC lawsuit against opioid manufacturers and distributors and alleged interference in the Conservative leadership race that got Conservative Leader Pierre Polievre elected.
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With the new national dental care plan, Canadian taxpayers are now underwriting the dental industry. More than one million Canadians have dental care under the new national insurance plan, with an average spend of $730 per patient. By 2025, the Canadian Dental Care Plan (CDCP) will expand in a big way, and will cover 6 million additional Canadians.
As taxpayers start to foot the bill for dental care, how do we make sure dentists are not overprescribing services for their patients?
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Are Canada Post employees scabbing for Santa?
With the no end in sight for the Canada Post strike, Noor and Cherise consider the media coverage so far, and wonder why the media is more interested in letters to Santa than the big labour questions at stake.
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The Millenium Bug was supposed to bring the world to a halt, but governments claimed they squashed the problem. Was it all a panic over nothing?
On a special episode of CANADALAND, COMMONS and The Hatchet host Arshy Mann speaks to the Canadian programmer who alerted the world to the Y2K Bug, and he speaks to the other Canadian programmer who was hell-bent on proving the bug was a hoax.
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On Friday, Trudeau made international headlines when he attended a Taylor Swift concert in Toronto while protests erupted in Montreal. But Noor Azrieh and Cherise Seucharan wonder: is the swift punishment warranted?
Plus, Trump announces 25% tariffs, Freeland’s vibecession, and Montreal’s fluoride finish line.
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Parliament froze in late September after the Conservatives launched a privilege motion, bogging down the government and demanding the Liberals hand over documents relating to a “green slush fund.”
Since then, the House has been on pause – no bills, no legislation, no nothing. Despite important government matters, this freeze could go on for a very long time, costing taxpayers millions.
Laura Osmon, The Logic’s Ottawa reporter, joins the show to make sense of this procedural nightmare, and explain how we could get out of this gridlock.
Host: Sam Konnert
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Sam Konnert (Host/Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Max Collins (Director of Audio), Cherise Seucharan (Editor), Jesse Brown (Editor), Tony Wang (Artwork)
Guests: Laura Osmon, MP Peter Julian
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A secret kept for a hundred years.
A family story that even the family didn’t know. Then the tech was born, the DNA came to light, and after the shock, the investigation began.
Black Market Babies is Canadaland’s new two-part special. An underworld tale of the international baby smuggling ring that bought and sold hundreds of newborns out of Montreal in the 1950s.
A family story told by the families. One reporter whose own mother was bought and sold. And another whose own DNA tied her to the one of the alleged masterminds behind the black market baby trade.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Reported by: Ilana Gordon and Adam Segal
Written by: Ilana Gordon, Adam Segal and Bruce Thorson
Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer)
Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer)
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Alors que les médias et les acteurs du milieu politique ne cessent de rejeter la faute de la crise du logement sur l’immigration, Détours se propose de regarder le problème en profondeur et de remonter jusqu’aux années 1960 pour en comprendre les origines. Au micro d’Emilie Nicolas, la professeure en études urbaines Hélène Bélanger analyse les raisons de cette crise multifactorielle et démonte, brique par brique, les fondements de notre culture de la propriété. En embrassant le point de vue des locataires, premières victimes de la crise et souvent considérés avec un certain mépris, Emilie et Hélène s’attaquent de front à un enjeu qui semble parfois sans issue. En deuxième partie d’émission, elles s’intéressent à l’itinérance, visible et cachée, aboutissement de trajectoires de vie rendues plus difficiles par la crise du logement.
While the media and political actors continue to blame immigration for the housing crisis, Détours takes a deep look at the problem, going back to the 1960s to understand its origins. Emilie speaks with urban studies professor Hélène Bélanger to analyze the reasons for this multifactorial crisis. They dismantle, brick by brick, the foundations of our culture of property and embrace the point of view of tenants, the first victims of the crisis, often regarded with a certain contempt. In the second part of the show, they focus on homelessness and view it as being the outcome of life trajectories made more difficult by the housing crisis.
Animation : Emilie Nicolas
Générique : Lucie Laumonier (Production), Tristan Capacchione (Production technique), max collins (Coordination de production)
Coanimation : Hélène Bélanger
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Is there an “appetizing upside” to Trump’s win for Canada? Betakit’s Douglas Soltys joins to consider the shifting perspectives in the Canadian tech scene, and why Justin Trudeau is no longer the “Tech Bro” Prime Minister.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), max collins (Director of Audio), Jesse Brown (Editor)
Guest: Douglas Soltys
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As Bluesky rides high, Jesse finally quits Twitter (two years too late.) Co-host Douglas Soltys explains why the fediverse might be our last best hope for social media.
Plus, an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate Irwin Cotler, and why Apple News is great for readers (and terrible for publishers)
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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith tabled a rehauled Bill of Rights with changes aimed at ending vaccine mandates, protecting gun ownership and ensuring property rights–a move she claims as “reflection of our shared values.” But it doesn't stop there, over 30 bills are making their way through the Alberta legislature, so host Noor Azrieh sits down with Ryan Jespersen and Mel Woods to make sense of the controversial changes and make sense of whether or not this bold stand for freedom (or play for Smith’s right-wing base) may alienate other Albertans.
And, the latest on the Canada post strike, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s 7 minute video addressing the mistakes made on immigration.
Host: Noor Azrieh
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Sam Konnert (Producer), Noor Azrieh (Host/Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Max Collins (Director of Audio) Jesse Brown (Editor), Tony Wang (Artwork)
Guests: Ryan Jespersen, Mel Woods
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Journalists have flocked to Substack. Abandoning legacy titles to pursue self-puslishing freedom at the occasionally controversial app.
Substack has incubated Bari Weiss's Free Press and Andrew Sullivan’s The Weekly Dish. Here in Canada, a lot of names that Canadaland listeners may be familiar with are thriving on Substack: Terry Glavin, Sam Cooper, Justin Ling, Jen Gerson and Paul Wells to name a few..
Valued at 650 million dollars and lauded as a threat to Twitter. It is a rare sign of hope and innovation and a working revenue model in a very desolate media landscape. And all of that has come with the usual share of controversies.
Top of that list was their “Nazi problem.” They garnered headlines and debates about freedom of expression when it was revealed that there were, yes, Nazi Substacks charging money. And the parent company, apparently taking their cut of those profits.
Today Substack founder Chris Best joins Jesse Brown to debate Substack’s controversies and discuss its possibilities with leading Canadian Substackers, Jen Gerson of The Line and Paul Wells.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), max collins (Production Manager), Jesse Brown (Editor and Publisher)
Featured guests: Chris Best, Jen Gerson, Paul Wells
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Veteran Canadian journalist David Pugliese defends himself in parliament against allegations that he’s a Russian spy codenamed “Stuart.” Meanwhile, alt-right influencer Lauren Chen, implicated in the Tenet Media investigation, won’t answer the committee’s questions about Russia.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), max collins (Production Manager), Jesse Brown (Editor)
Guest: Noor Azrieh
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Parliament has ordered the closures of the Toronto and Vancouver offices of the popular social media platform Tiktok, but users can still access the app. How successful is this maneuver really going to be in keeping Canadians' data away from political adversaries?
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), max collins (Production Manager), Jesse Brown (Editor)
Guest: Noor Azrieh
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Last week, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese landed in Canada, setting off a firestorm of controversy that Canadian politics was not ready for. She’s been accused of antisemitism, refused meetings by government officials, and had her talks protested.
She’s been calling the war in Gaza a genocide, but the big question isn’t what she has to say, but whether or not she was someone anyone should even be listening to.
This week, we sit down with Albanese to discuss the genocide, the accusations against her, and the power of the UN.
Host: Noor Azrieh
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Sam Konnert (Producer), Noor Azrieh (Host/Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Max Collins (Production Manager) Jesse Brown (Editor), Tony Wang (Artwork)
Guests: Francesca Albanese
Photo credit: AFP pic
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Introducing our latest long-form investigative series. From Thunder Bay to The White Saviors to Cool Mules, Canadaland has a record of reporting and publishing complicated, difficult and nuanced stories that other media can’t or won’t. The Copernic Affair is no different.
Acclaimed journalists Dana Ballout and Alex Atack have been working for years on our latest investigative series The Copernic Affair. It is a big, decades spanning investigation about how Hassan Diab, an unassuming sociology professor in Ottawa, ended up the prime suspect in a terrorism investigation that French authorities have been trying to solve since the 1980s.
Is he a terrorist? Or a scapegoat?
The Copernic Affair launches in late-January, but we are bringing you the first episode today.
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Aujourd'hui, on se tourne vers les États-Unis pour discuter des résultats des élections et de la victoire de Donald Trump. Pour en parler, on reçoit Kara Sheppard-Jones qui est spécialiste en mobilisation politique, qui a travaillé sur plusieurs campagnes électorales tant aux États-Unis qu'au Canada. Ensemble, elles discutent l'impact de cette élection sur la politique américaine et canadienne.
Today we look south to the United States to discuss the results of the presidential election and Donald Trump’s victory. Kara Sheppard-Jones, specialist in political movements who has also worked on numerous electoral campaigns in both the US and Canada, joins Emilie to discuss the impact this election will have on both American and Canadian politics.
Animation : Emilie Nicolas
Générique : Lucie Laumonier (Production), Aviva Lessard (Production), Tristan Capacchione (Production technique), max collins (Coordination de production)
Coanimation : Kara Sheppard-Jones
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Were the vibes around Kamala Harris overstated by the Canadian media? Did the CBC have a “meltdown” during US election night coverage? What kind of progressive candidates are viable going forward? Lisa Goldman joins to break down the US election from a Canadian perspective.
Plus, the Trudeau government’s very liberal budget for podcasting, and the part of the story we’re not hearing about the Israeli hostages.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor/ Mixer), max collins (Production Manager and Fact Checking), Jesse Brown (Editor)
Guest: Lisa Goldman
This episode features the audio short, “The Art of Vintage” by Laurissa Cebryk (Calgary, AB), one of the finalists from the 2024 Local Correspondents Audio Competition, a CanadaLabs initiative.
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An essay in the Toronto Star suggests there’s a rule in Canadian newsrooms that limits the coverage of Palestine. Lisa Goldman joins to unpack the idea that there’s a double standard when it comes to reporting on Israel and Palestine, and why she thinks we should be talking less about antisemitism right now.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor/ Mixer), max collins (Production Manager and Fact Checking), Jesse Brown (Editor)
Guest: Lisa Goldman
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This episode features the audio short, “Ug Wug: The Real Reason for Inflation” by Wes McClintock (Saint John, NB), one of the finalists from the 2024 Local Correspondents Audio Competition, a CanadaLabs initiative.
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It’s the 60th US Presidential election, and the stakes feel like they’ve never been higher. This episode is a pulse check on what people are doing, thinking, and feeling on our side of that Windsor-Detroit border. Host Noor Azrieh also looks back on the 2016 election and her feeling of powerlessness, and addresses the stakes, impact, and consequences of this election.
And, the latest on Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre’s proposed GST cut for home sales, Alberta’s bill of rights (again…), and Canada’s collective failure in upholding the legacy of Murray Sinclair.
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Host: Noor Azrieh
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Sam Konnert (Producer), Noor Azrieh (Host/Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Max Collins (Production Manager) Jesse Brown (Editor), Tony Wang (Artwork)
Guests: Michael Breshgold, Georganne Burke
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When COVID hit, the airlines were sitting with billions of dollars in cash that Canadians paid for flights that were all canceled. How much of that money was refunded? Why were vouchers offered instead? And why did the transport regulator that’s supposed to uphold the rules bend them to the advantage of Air Canada and other carriers?
Reporter Cherise Seucharan has obtained newly-unearthed communications from March 2020 that show airline industry execs, credit card companies, and the transportation ministry, cooperating - perhaps collaborating, to pressure Canada’s airline watchdog to bend the rules.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Cherise Seucharan (Reporter) Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor/ Mixer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), max collins (Production Manager), Jesse Brown (Editor and Publisher), Caleb Thompson (additional production assistance)
Featured guests: Gabor Lukacs
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This episode features the audio short, “The Boat Blow-Up” by Sophie Woodrooffe (Gibsons, B.C.), one of the finalists from the 2024 Local Correspondents Audio Competition, a CanadaLabs initiative.
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Canadian media is filled with doom over the possibility of a second Donald Trump presidency. Is Trump really that much of a threat to Canada?
Plus, why office space conversions aren’t going to happen in Ontario, and the real victim of Trudeau’s cuts to immigration.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), max collins (Production Manager and Fact Checking), Jesse Brown (Editor)
Guest: Frank Domenic
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This episode features the audio short, “In This Place, We Brook No Malice” by JR Williams, Gillian Reed & Braeden Doane (Toronto, ON), one of the finalists from the 2024 Local Correspondents Audio Competition, a CanadaLabs initiative.
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Is there more to Doug Ford’s buffoonery than $200 and a paper bag?
As Scott Moe hangs on to a majority in Saskatchewan, Doug Ford scrambles to woo voters ahead of a probable election in Ontario, and it seems to be working.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), max collins (Production Manager and Fact Checking), Jesse Brown (Editor)
Guest: Frank Domenic
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This episode features the audio short “The Secret Sauna” by Pippa Johnstone and Jane Sanden (Squamish, B.C.), one of the finalists from the 2024 Local Correspondents Audio Competition, a CanadaLabs initiative.
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Liberal MP’s have hopped on the #TrudeauHasGotToGo bandwagon after 28 caucus members asked for his resignation. The PM is in a completely different arena than when he arrived nine years ago. So did he change? Or did we?
Vox writer Zach Beauchamp sits down with host Noor Azrieh to unpack what kind of leaders are meeting this moment. What leaders are voters looking for? Are they looking for authenticity or radical change?
And, the latest on the Liberals’ slashed immigration targets, and calls for a public inquiry over more and more police killings of Indigenous people.
Host: Noor Azrieh
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Sam Konnert (Producer), Noor Azrieh (Host/Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Max Collins (Production Manager) Jesse Brown (Editor), Tony Wang (Artwork)
Guests: Zach Beauchamp
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This episode features the audio short “Fish Count” by Jean M. Sarrazin (Comox, BC), one of the finalists from the 2024 Local Correspondents Audio Competition, a CanadaLabs initiative.
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Questioning authority is a necessity for a functioning democracy. Continually calling power to account has to be a good thing, right? Maybe not, at least not all the time. So argues today’s guest, philosopher Mark Kingwell.
Have we let “speaking truth to power” degenerate into a Pavlovian response to any and all real, or merely perceived, sources of authority? Has this drive to habitually challenge institutions endangered politics, academia, science, and journalism?
Mark Kingwell joins Jesse to explore these questions which lay at the heart of his new book Question Authority.
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This episode features the audio short “Street Piano Superstars” by James Archer (Montreal, QC), one of the finalists from the 2024 Local Correspondents Audio Competition, a CanadaLabs initiative.
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La guerre au Moyen Orient impacte les Canadiens d’origine arabe de diverses manières. Pour Rim Mohsen, québécoise d’origine libanaise, l’un des changements les plus personnels a été celui de réévaluer et repenser son identité et ses interactions avec les autres. Au micro d’Emilie Nicolas, elle se confie sur la difficulté de naviguer entre deux mondes qu’elle gardait jusque là séparés. La consultante et spécialiste en mobilisation sociale discute aussi de ce que signifie l’espoir alors que le monde brûle. L’espoir, dit-elle, passe par le collectif. Dans la deuxième partie de l’émission, Emilie et Rim se tournent vers la jeunesse pour faire sens de sa détresse et, peut-être, y apporter des solutions.
The war in the Middle East impacts Canadians of Arab origin in various ways. For Rim Mohsen, a Quebecer of Lebanese origin, one of the most personal changes was that of reassessing and rethinking her identity and her interactions with others. She confides in Emilie Nicolas about navigating between two worlds that she had until then kept separate. The consultant and social mobilization specialist also discusses what hope means as the world burns. Hope, she says, comes through the collective. In the second part of the show, Emilie and Rim turn to young people to make sense of their distress and, perhaps, provide solutions.
Animation : Emilie Nicolas
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Veteran Canadian reporter David Pugliese was accused of being a Russian agent in a parliamentary committee by a former MP. So we called him up to ask if it’s true.
Plus, how did a Canadian Olympic snowboarder turn into an alleged violent, drug-smuggling kingpin, trafficking 60 tons of cocaine a year? The incredible story of Ryan Wedding and the transnational drug network run by Canadians.
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Provincial elections in New Brunswick and BC prove that Canadians want one thing: change. In the midst of a caucus revolt, will Trudeau be swapped out next?
Duly Noting: Vassy Kapelos’ “traitorous” interview with the Indian High Commissioner and the life-changing magic of Japanese toilets.
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A massive criminal campaign—extortion, intimidation, coercion, harassment, even murder—allegedly orchestrated by India on Canadian soil. This is a BIG deal. After Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused India and expelled six diplomats, Arshy Mann joins host Noor Azrieh to explain the impact and political blowback of these allegations.
And, the latest on the coup against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, political paralysis in parliament, and how we were right on the money with our BC election predictions.
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You can't really call Regina a news desert. They still have a newspaper. But if you actually look under the hood you’ll discover that they stopped printing the newspaper in Regina. They stopped editing it in Regina. The editor lives somewhere else. And as far the CBC goes, well, that acronym is now synonymous with layoffs.
Everyone from the legacy media who purports to be telling people in Regina what is going on in their own community is doing so with less resources than ever before. These are zombie news organizations. That creates a news vacuum. A place for someone new to step in. And somebody did.
And that somebody peddles garbage. That's not a value judgment of this new news source in Regina. It's just the objective truth. They're a garbage company called Just Bins. They provide dumpsters and news to the people of Regina. And they may be providing news to more people in Regina than anyone else.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Kevin O’Keefe (Reporter), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), max collins (Production Manager), Jesse Brown (Editor and Publisher), Caleb Thompson (additional production assistance)
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As war continues to escalate between Israel and Hezbollah, Noor Azrieh explains why Lebanon is uniquely digestible for a western audience (and why that’s a problem.)
Also, Trudeau’s (latest) stunning allegations about foreign interference–this time involving Conservative MPs. Plus, we read one of the longest sentences you’ll ever find in a Canadian newspaper.
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Bombshell allegations about India’s involvement in murder and extortion on Canadian soil in a stunning Thanksgiving Monday press conference from the RCMP and Trudeau. But, why are they telling us about it now?
Plus, Kamala goes on the Call Her Daddy podcast, and why the death of Jagmeet Singh has been greatly exaggerated.
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Shit-posting candidates, climate change denial, outright racism, and those damn paper straws. Host Noor Azrieh calls up Arno Kopecky, Shannon Waters, and Mo Amir to ask what the hell is going on in B.C.’s election.
And, the latest on the foreign interference commission, pharmacare, and Alberta’s Bill of Rights.
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It’s all about the T.
“T” as in the T at the end of ChatGPT. That T stands for Transformer. And it’s already transforming many aspects of your life. Novelist and essayist Stephen Marche recently investigated that T for the New Yorker magazine. He came away from the experience saying that it is the most important story he’s ever written. His piece details what he calls the Manhattan Project of our time. He also calls it, simply, magic, and he then goes on to define magic as “the word we use for things that are hugely powerful but we don't understand why.”
Marche joins Jesse Brown to tackle the questions: why was Toronto a hotbed for A.I. (as marked by last week’s awarding of the Nobel Prize to U of T prof Geoffrey Hinton for his pioneering work in the field)? Why is the Japanese punk band Transformer at the very heart of this whole story? And why exactly does Marche equate T with magic?
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Dans le Canada de 2024, beaucoup se sentent exclus, déshumanisés et se rendent compte que la place qu’ils croyaient occuper n’existe pas en réalité. Pour faire face à cet enjeu existentiel, et pour faire sens d’un monde hostile et brutal, Emilie Nicolas a invité le sociologue Philippe Néméh-Nombré. Le professeur de l’Université Saint-Paul (Ottawa) est auteur d’un nouveau livre, ‘Improviser le reste. Études noires, risques poétiques, relationalité décoloniale”, dans lequel il explore le rôle des études noires, de la débrouillardise et de l’inventivité pour se réinventer. Ensemble, Emilie et Philippe discutent de la manière dont les études noires permettent de critiquer et comprendre le monde contemporain et ses rapports de pouvoir. Ils montrent que les études noires peuvent nous outiller pour mieux définir notre place. La deuxième partie de l’émission s’intéresse aux campus universitaires: comment est-ce que les étudiants, notamment étrangers, vivent le contexte actuel? Et quelle place occupent les études noires dans les universités francophones?
In Canada, many feel excluded, dehumanized and realize that the place they thought they occupied does not actually exist. To tackle this existential issue and to make sense of a hostile and brutal world, Emilie Nicolas speaks with sociologist Philippe Néméh-Nombré. The professor from Saint Paul University in Ottawa has authored a new book, ‘Improvise the rest. Black studies, poetic risks, decolonial relationality”, in which he explores the role of Black studies, of resourcefulness and inventiveness in reinventing oneself. Together, Emilie and Philippe explore the way in which Black studies enable us to criticize and understand the world and its power relations. They show that Black studies can equip us to better define our place. The second part of the show focuses on university campuses: how do students, particularly foreign ones, experience the current context? And what place do Black studies occupy in Francophone universities?
Animation : Emilie Nicolas
Générique : Lucie Laumonier (Production), Tristan Capacchione (Production technique), max collins (Coordination de production).
Coanimation : Philippe Néméh-Nombré
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Pierre Poilievre continues to beef with mainstream media, but is cozying up with members of ethnic media outfits. What's he planning?
Plus, Danielle Smith’s chemtrails catastrophe and a CRTC raffle gone wrong
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Guest: Jen Gerson
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October 7th coverage in Canada was caught between memorializing a tragedy and reporting on an escalating war. Jen Gerson joins to discuss whether both should happen at the same time.
Also, duly noting what happens when a hurricane hits a news desert. Plus, Jesse shares some updates about Canadaland.
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It feels like we’ve never been closer to another world war. If our NATO allies called us, could we answer?
This week, host Noor Azrieh, with guests David Pugliese and Stephen Saideman, explore whether NATO targets matter, what we should be spending our money on, and if we’re at the mercy of our beefed-up southern neighbours.
And, the latest on Prime Minister Trudeau’s regrets with electoral reform, Canadians choosing to stay in Lebanon and the Bloc Quebecois Pierre-pressuring the Liberals.
Host: Noor Azrieh
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Sam Konnert (Producer), Noor Azrieh (Host/Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor/Mixer), Max Collins (Production Manager) Jesse Brown (Editor), Tony Wang (Artwork)
Guests: David Pugliese, Stephen Saideman
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Israel’s Ambassador to Canada, Iddo Moed, sits down with Jesse for a candid and intense discussion about how Israel’s actions during the war are impacting Canadians. Antisemitism, campus protests, Gazan visas, Lebanon, and setter violence in the West Bank – all of this is covered. Plus: is Jesse an Israeli collaborator?
Host: Jesse Brown
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Rogers buys Bell share of Maple Leaf Sports Entertainment for 4.7 billion–but how Ed Rogers’ power play whiffed on the Caitlin Clark era.
Plus, the most 90s baby ever and the unlikely return of Vice Magazine.
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Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), max collins (Production Manager), Jesse Brown (Editor)
Guest: Rahim Mohamed
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A frankensteined edit from a Poilievre scrum causes a shitstorm for CTV News and Bell Media. Is it proof of malicious media bias or just a careless mistake?
Rahim Mohamed joins to dig into what really happened at CTV National News and if the response from Poilievre and the Conservatives is justified.
Plus, duly noting a new era in oppo research and luxury bathtub madness on parliament hill.
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While world leaders meet and Israel’s war on Gaza spreads, Canadian MPs are at odds over recognizing a Palestinian state.
How much does Canadian recognition really matter? Why are we dragging our feet? Host Noor Azrieh sits down with Michael Lynk, the former Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territories, and Mark Kersten, a human rights and international criminal justice expert to find out.
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The late Norval Morrisseau is known as Canada's Picasso. He was the father of the Woodlands style. His work was exhibited at the Pompidou Center in Paris, the National Gallery of Canada, and he was a member of the Order of Canada. Morrisseau is without question one of the most important painters in Canadian history. So why are so-called original Morrisseau paintings selling on eBay for $129?
The answer is fraud. The market has been flooded with thousands of fake Morrisseau paintings and prints. In March 2023, eight people were charged and arrested in connection with these fakes and are now starting to be convicted. The police investigation started, in part, because of the Jamie Kastner documentary There Are No Fakes.
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Le 30 septembre est désormais la journée nationale de la Vérité et de la Réconciliation. Mais pour l’avocat, ancien député et organisateur communautaire Alexis Wawanoloath, on ne peut atteindre la réconciliation entre les Peuples autochtones et l’État colonial qu’en prenant le temps de mener un processus, long et difficile, de guérison et de restitution. Alexis Wawanoloath démontre que les intérêts politiques et économiques des agences gouvernementales priment toujours sur les droits des communautés autochtones, dans le continuum d’un projet colonial amorcé il y a des siècles. Dans la deuxième partie de l’émission, Emilie échange avec son invité sur la place des personnes autochtones dans les médias. Ensemble, ils se demandent comment dépasser le phénomène de ‘tokenisation’ et si tous deux doivent vivre avec ça.
September 30th is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. But for the lawyer, former MNA and community organizer Alexis Wawanoloath, reconciliation between Indigenous Peoples and the colonial state can only be achieved by taking the time to undertake a long and difficult process of healing and restitution. Alexis Wawanoloath demonstrates that the political and economic interests of government agencies always take precedence over the rights of Indigenous communities, in the continuum of a colonial project that began centuries ago. In the second part of the show, Emilie discusses with her guest the place of Indigenous People in the media. Together, they wonder how to overcome the phenomenon of ‘tokenization’ and whether they should have to live with it.
Animation : Emilie Nicolas
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Cue the sad trombone sounds for Rebel Media, who just lost an appeal to qualify for federal journalism tax credits. Where will they get funding from now?
Plus, BC Conservative John Rustad is anti-vax and anti-bug-eating. And, why diss tracks shouldn’t be admissible in court.
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Guest: Norman Spector
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In the aftermath of the stunning pager attacks in Lebanon and subsequent escalations in the Middle East, Canada’s former ambassador to Israel, Norman Spector, joins to unpack the narratives and larger geopolitical context of the current conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.
Plus, why aren’t we talking about the 45 000 Canadians still in Lebanon?
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Earlier this year, the UN Special rapporteur for human rights defenders raised concerns about a Canadian company called Belo Sun Mining. She said people protesting the Belo Sun mine, who she refers to as land defenders, report being threatened, harassed and intimidated - some even say they were driven off their land.
But Belo Sun denies these allegations, saying that they care about human rights, and that the project would bring much-needed economic development to an impoverished area - and the government of Brazil has seemingly supported their efforts.
So who is Belo Sun - and how did they become the driving force behind the biggest proposed gold mine in Brazil? Are they guilty of the things that they're accused of? And if so, what can the Canadian government do to stop it?
Host: Jesse Brown
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Is this the era of the A.I. election?
Lovers and haters of A.I. both claim the technology will change the world, for better or worse. Are the cheers and jeers just hype?
Paris Marx joins Justin Ling to sift through the discourse, both real and computer-generated.
Plus, why Canadian weapons are still ending up in Gaza, and updates on the (mostly forgotten) Polaris Prize
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With two byelections this week, the rhetoric is ramping up around the next Canadian federal election. Paris Marx joins Justin Ling to consider the online discourse that is poisoning political discussion in Canada, and how Pierre Poilievre is taking advantage of it.
Plus, is the controversial Russians at War documentary worth a viewing?
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Canada has 38 of the world’s 100 safe injection sites. But for how much longer will we be the global leader in this controversial form of dealing with addiction? Politicians and communities from BC to Ontario to New Brunswick are backing away from supporting the sites. With Ontario alone shutting down 10 sites.
Jesse and journalist Derek Finkle tackle a very personal story at the heart of the safe injection site closure debate.
Credits: Jesse Brown (Host), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor), max collins (Production Manager), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer)
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Traumavertissement: La deuxième partie de l’émission discute de sujets douloureux en lien avec les violences faites aux femmes.
Content warning: The second part of the show deals with traumatic topics connected to violence against women.
Pas de souliers à talons sur les pavés parisiens pour Emilie, en visite dans la capitale française. Dans une ambiance bien moins aseptisée que celle du célèbre show Netflix, elle a rencontré Rokhaya Diallo pour lui poser une question brûlante: Comment fait-elle? Comment fait la journaliste, autrice et réalisatrice, femme noire française et musulmane, pour trouver l’énergie de débattre à la télévision et à la radio de racisme et de sexisme, des sujets si difficiles à aborder outre-Atlantique? Diallo décrypte les enjeux politiques et culturels qui paralysent le milieu des médias français et rendent ces discussions presque impossibles. Dans la deuxième partie de l’émission, Emilie et Rokhaya s’intéressent à l’affaire dite “des viols de Mazan” qui offre un éclairage inédit sur les luttes féministes et le sexisme à la française.
No high-heeled shoes on the Parisian cobblestones for Emilie who’s visiting the French capital. A far cry from the innocuous atmosphere of the famous Netflix show, she speaks with Rokhaya Diallo to ask her a burning question: how does she do it? How does the French journalist, author, and director — a black Muslim woman — find the energy to debate racism and sexism on television and radio, two topics that are so difficult to tackle in France? Diallo deciphers the political and cultural issues that paralyze the French media community and make these discussions almost impossible to have. In the second part of the show, Emilie and Rokhaya focus on the so-called “Mazan rapes” affair, which offers unprecedented insight into the French feminist movement and the ‘made-in-France’ sexism.
Animation : Emilie Nicolas
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The press has been ridiculing Singh since he "tore up" the NDP's deal with the Liberals. But...maybe he knows what he's doing?
Plus, the legacy of Canadian journalism icon Stevie Cameron, and updates on New Brunswick’s mysterious neurological syndrome.
Host: Jesse Brown
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Guest: Jan Wong
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The surprising Canadian connections to an alt-right influencer network that is alleged to have been funded by Russia. How Lauren Chen, Lauren Southern, and some of the biggest names in the US alt-right took millions from the Kremlin, and why Tenet Media is probably just the tip of the iceberg.
Plus, Jan Wong on Peter Nygard’s long overdue sentencing for sexual assault, and Jesse takes stock of the state of terrorism in Canada.
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Getting an IUD can be painful. Really painful. Last month, new regulations came out in the US about managing this pain. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that before anyone gets an IUD, patients should be counseled on pain management ahead of time. But what about Canada?
Featured in this episode: Parisa Rezaiefar, Mariana Schuetze, James Murray, Rachel Murray, Adele and Sammi.
Credits: Mia Johnson (Reporter and Journalism Fellow), Jonathan Goldsbie (News Editor), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), max collins (Production Manager), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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Riley Yesno joins Emilie Nicolas to unpack the editorial sh*tshow at Elle Canada, as well as big changes at APTN.
To celebrate its 25th year as a national broadcaster, APTN is betting big on languages (18 of them to be precise) with the launch of the APTN languages channel. But can language preservation preserve the bottom line?
Then, how a list of groundbreaking Canadian women led to online backlash and a series of questionable editorial decisions at Elle Canada. Is Canadian media about to get a lot more boring?
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Host: Emilie Nicolas
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In this primer episode of The Worst Podcast, Canadaland publisher Jesse Brown reflects on why he’s backing The Worst Podcast. Host (and acclaimed underground documentary filmmaker) Alan Zweig expresses major doubts about all of it.
Follow The Worst Podcast wherever you get your podcasts. Season one launches September 4.
The Worst Podcast is a production of Double Double, a new imprint from Canadaland, publishing podcasts that are not a product of our newsroom.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Kattie Laur (Producer), Kevin Sexton (Producer), Julie Shapiro (Executive Producer), Alan Black (Commissioning Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), max collins (Production Manager)
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Depuis l’investiture de Kamala Harris à la candidature démocrate, le parti a le vent dans les voiles et devance le camp de Donald Trump de quelques points de pourcentage. Pour comprendre ce qui se joue en coulisse, Emilie reçoit Kara Sheppard-Jones, spécialiste de mobilisation politique et sociale. Américaine et Canadienne, Sheppard-Jones a œuvré pour plusieurs campagnes électorales, notamment aux États-Unis. Elle décrypte pour nous les enjeux qui sous-tendent la campagne de Kamala Harris et les divisions qui menacent le camp démocrate, avant d’analyser les stratégies de communication du parti Républicain. Dans la deuxième partie de l’émission, Emilie et Kara reviennent sur l’art de mobiliser, la professionnalisation grandissante de ce champ d’activité, et les différences culturelles entre l’activisme politique américain et québécois.
Since the nomination of Kamala Harris as the Democratic candidate, the party leads the race by a few percentage points. To better understand what is at play behind the scenes, Emilie speaks with Kara Sheppard-Jones, a Canadian-American political and social movement expert. Sheppard-Jones has worked for several electoral campaigns, including in the United States. She deciphers for us the stakes underlying Kamala Harris' campaign and the divisions that threaten the Democratic camp, before analyzing the Republican Party's communication strategies. In the second part of the show, Emilie and Kara look at the art of mobilizing, the growing professionalization of this field of work, and the cultural differences between American and Quebec political activism.
Animation : Emilie Nicolas
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With Postmedia ending daily print editions of The Telegram — leaving Newfoundland and Labrador without a single daily paper — we wonder how to keep talking shit about the news when the news itself keeps on disappearing.
Plus, while National Post columnist Adam Zivo’s unlikely foray into international espionage makes for a great anecdote, there's good reason why journalists shouldn’t moonlight as spies.
Karyn Pugliese joins for this very special farewell to Jonathan Goldsbie.
Host: Jonathan Goldsbie
Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor), max collins (Production Manager), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Guest: Karyn Pugliese
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Immigration Minister Marc Miller announced in May that Canada’s temporary visa program for Gazans would be expanded, from 1000 to 5000. But eight months into the program, only 206 people have actually made it over to Canada - and to do so, they had to find their own ways out of Gaza.
Meanwhile, thousands of Gazans are still waiting to hear back on the status of their applications.
What is going on? And has Canada misled people hoping for a way out of a crisis?
Host: Karyn Pugliese
Credits: Jonathan Goldsbie (News Editor), Cherise Seucharan (Reporter), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), max collins (Production Manager), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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It’s all optimism at the Democratic National Convention, and Canadian headlines are reflecting the enthusiasm around Kamala Harris, but is all this hope just wishful thinking? TikToker Frank Domenic joins to assess the return of optimism to political discourse in the US and Canada.
Plus, Pierre Poilievre promptly removes a promo video after it’s dragged online. Why stock images are only part of the problem with Poilievre’s campy cowboy vision of Canada.
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Part family-owned theme park and part roadside zoo, Marineland was once the kind of place where you could get kissed by an orca and feed corn pops to bears.
But then it kept being that kind of place, well into this century, and the problems piled up: newspaper exposés, official investigations, a federal law designed to end the captivity of whales and dolphins once and for all. Yet the Niagara Falls mainstay would defiantly reopen year after year.
Until this year. Marineland still welcomes visitors, but, like a dead mall, nearly everything inside is now closed. Recently, we trekked there to learn what this limbo looks like for Canada’s last captive cetaceans.
Host: Jonathan Goldsbie
Credits: Jonathan Goldsbie (News Editor), Cherise Seucharan (Reporter), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Mia Johnson (Journalism Fellow), max collins (Production Manager), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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Cette année à Montréal, le Festival de la Fierté a pris la forme d’une véritable vignette de l’année 2024, marquée par des pluies diluviennes et des inondations dues aux changements climatiques, des manifestations pro-Palestine, des policiers en grand nombre, et des droits civils toujours plus menacés pour les personnes de la communauté LGBTQIA+. Emilie revient sur ces événements avec Gabrielle Drolet, journaliste indépendante et illustratrice, qui était présente lors de la marche du 11 août. En plus de livrer son témoignage, Gabrielle revient sur l’histoire et les valeurs de la Fierté, un moment caractérisé par la joie et la fête, mais aussi la lutte et l’inclusion. En deuxième partie d’émission, l’illustratrice partage ses réflexions sur son rôle de cartoonist pour le Globe & Mail où elle publie chaque semaine un dessin d’opinion, et son travail de journaliste culturelle.
This year, the Montreal Pride Festival has been a veritable vignette of 2024, with torrential rains and floods due to climate change, pro-Palestine demonstrations, police in large numbers, and civil rights still at greater risk for members of the LGBTQIA+ community. Emilie analyzes these events with Gabrielle Drolet, an independent journalist and illustrator, who was present during the August 11 parade. Gabrielle tells Emilie what she saw and looks back on the history and values of Pride, characterized by joy and celebration, but also struggle and inclusion. In the second part of the show, Gabrielle shares her thoughts on her work as a cultural journalist and on her role as a cartoonist for the Globe & Mail, where she publishes a weekly opinion cartoon.
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Bots are buzzing about Pierre Pollievre and the McGill campus protests, but is it worth reporting? Elie Cantin-Nantel joins Justin Ling to assess the impact of two questionable “bot attacks” recently making headlines in Canada.
Plus, gonzo-style tactics have been adopted by conservative outlets in Canada. What an ambush of Justin Trudeau on a beach in Tofino tells us about the current state of independent media.
Host: Justin Ling
Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), max collins, (Production Manager), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Guest: Elie Cantin-Nantel
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Most of us find joy in melodies and rhythms. Catchy tunes we hear at the coffee shop, in the mall, or even muzak in the elevator can get stuck in our heads. That's what happened to Anya. Except, music did not bring her joy; it felt like torture. When songs got stuck in Anya's head, they would not stop; the music was loud, pounding incessantly, and it left her bewildered, exhausted, and desperate for a cure. Her condition stumped doctors for years. Then, hope. Via a new kind of brain surgery, pioneered, in part, here in Canada.
Content warning: Today’s episode talks about suicide ideation. If you or someone you know is thinking about suicide, call or text 9-8-8. Support is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Please take care as you listen.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Avis Favaro (Reporter), Kevin O'Keefe (Reporter), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), max collins (Production Manager), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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Image credit: Courtesy of Sunnybrook Hospital
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Google is found in a U.S. ruling to have an illegal monopoly on search. Michael Geist joins to compare the American antitrust approach to Big Tech to Canadian taxation efforts.
An alleged ISIS terrorist attack is narrowly avoided in Toronto, but who was it targeting? Why communities need access to information at times of heightened risk, and how antisemitism keeps getting downplayed in Canada.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor), max collins (Production Manager), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Guest: Michael Geist
Editor’s Notes: The image and title for this episode was chosen solely by the publisher, not the editorial team.
This piece states that hate crimes against Jews rose 100% last year. The year referred to 2023.
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Justin Ling has kind of had it.
While the veteran political journalist has endless patience for people in power trying to do the right thing, he can’t stand when a government refuses to see reality. So when Canada’s Heritage Minister reacted with surprise to the suggestion that, despite everything her government’s done for it, the country’s news media is still worse off than ever – well, that’s enough to radicalize a fella.
On this week’s show, Karyn and Jonathan talk to Justin about his dispiriting interview with Pascale St-Onge, why he believes the Trudeau government’s efforts to save the media have been across-the-board failures, and what it would take to actually turn things around for this industry before it finally collapses and takes Canada’s democracy down with it.
Correction: in an earlier version of this podcast it was stated 88 per cent of Canadians did not know Meta had wiped news from its platforms, this has been corrected. The number is 78 per cent.
Host: Karyn Pugliese
Guest: Justin Ling
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Pour la première fois, les Jeux Olympiques comptent autant d’athlètes hommes que d’athlètes femmes. Pourtant, parité ne signifie pas égalité. Que ce soit sur les terrains de sport ou dans les salles de nouvelles qui leur sont dédiées, femmes et hommes ne reçoivent ni les mêmes moyens ni un traitement égal. Pour cette émission, Emilie Nicolas reçoit Emna Achour, ex-journaliste sportive reconvertie en humoriste. Emna lève le voile sur les coulisses de ces rédactions et analyse les différences de traitement entre athlètes femmes et athlètes hommes. En deuxième partie, Emilie et Emna s’intéressent au rôle de l’humour et des humoristes dans l’analyse des nouvelles, un rôle que notre invitée perçoit comme étant éminemment politique.
For the first time, the Olympic Games showcase as many male athletes as female athletes. But parity does not mean equality. Whether on sports fields or in newsrooms dedicated to sports, women and men don’t benefit from the same resources, nor do they receive equal treatment. On today’s show, Emilie Nicolas welcomes Emna Achour, a former sports journalist turned stand-up comedian. Emna take us behind the scenes of sports newsrooms, and she and Emilie analyze the disparity between female and male athletes. In the second part of the show, Emilie and Emna examine the role of humor and comedians in the analysis of news - an eminently political role, says Emna.
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Drones make headlines at the Paris Olympics, and it’s all Canadian soccer’s fault. Mattea Roach joins Jonathan Goldsbie to consider the narratives around cheating in sports, and why it’s less personal than it was with Ben Johnson.
Plus, why exactly does Postmedia want to acquire Atlantic Canada newspaper chain SaltWire? Breaking down the economics of vulture capitalism in Canadian media and what it would take to actually save local news.
Host: Jonathan Goldsbie
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Guest: Mattea Roach
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@DieWorkWear, also known as the Menswear Guy, on Twitter (or X), is a sensation — a critic, a teacher, and a gentleman.
One million people follow him for his masterclasses on the outfits of the most famous and powerful men in the world.
On this episode he sits down with Jesse Brown to reveal what our politicians’ clothes say about them. And what they’re trying to say to us through those clothes.
Host: Jesse Brown
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All this talk of major leaders stepping aside, but it’s the Mayor of Kamloops BC, Reid Hamer-Jackson, who has our attention. In a raucous ‘resignation related” press conference, Hamer-Jackson singles out one Kamloops media member, radio host Brett Mineer, in particular.
Plus, Kamala Harris replaces Joe Biden, and the Canadian media revives her tenuous connections to Canada. Shouldn’t we be pressuring Trudeau to step aside? Jen Gerson explains why messianic ego and the Liberal’s lack of grit will keep Trudeau in place until the next election.
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Guest: Jen Gerson
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Gabor Lukacs has won over 25 regulatory complaints against airlines - and even taken airlines to court to uphold the rights of passengers. But he doesn’t want to keep his methods a secret - he’s here to tell you how to get a refund, get compensation for a cancelled flight, and even what to do if you’re sitting on the tarmac for hours.
Correction: In this episode it was originally stated that Flair airlines ceased operating. Flare airlines is in fact still operating.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor), Cherise Seucharan (Reporter) max collins (Production Manager), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Featured guest: Gabor Lukacs
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D’après le Digital News Report 2024, 40% des Canadiens évitent souvent ou parfois de s’informer. Derrière cette fatigue informationnelle se trouvent différentes raisons comme l’accumulation de mauvaises nouvelles, leur quantité, leur piètre qualité et les émotions qu’elles nous font ressentir. Emilie Nicolas en parle avec la psychologue clinicienne, autrice et chroniqueuse Nathalie Plaat. Ensemble, elles analysent ce phénomène et s’interrogent sur la manière d’y faire face. En deuxième partie d’émission, on s’intéresse à la démocratisation de la psychologie et le rôle, parfois ambivalent, qu’elle joue dans l’espace public et l’espace médiatique.
Université Laval’s “Centre d’études sur les médias” 2024 Digital News Report shows 40 per cent of Canadians often or sometimes stay away from the news. They’re doing it to avoid all the “bad” news: the sheer quantity of it, the poor quality of it, how it makes us feel, and how it piles up day after day. How do we deal with the seemingly never-ending bad-news cycle? Emilie Nicolas discusses this phenomenon with clinical psychologist, author and columnist Nathalie Plaat. In the second part of the show, Emilie and Nathalie look at the democratization of psychology, and the sometimes-ambivalent role it plays in both the public space and the media sphere.
Animation : Emilie Nicolas
Générique : Lucie Laumonier (Production), Caleb Thompson (Production technique), max collins (Coordination de production), Karyn Pugliese (Rédactrice en chef)
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Do we need to “dial down” our political rhetoric in Canada, following the attempted assassination of Trump? Canadian journalism icon Jan Wong joins us to consider Canadian responses to American political violence.
Plus, following the death of Canadian author Alice Munro, the truth has finally emerged about her husband’s sexual assault of her daughter Andrea Robin Skinner.
CORRECTION: In an earlier version of this episode, we incorrected referred to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith as “Allison Smith”. An updated version of this episode has fixed the error.
Host: Jesse Brown
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Today we are bringing you a sneak preview of an incredibly urgent, deeply compelling piece of audio journalism from Radio France. It was originally broadcast in French and was heaped with critical acclaim including the most prestigious prize in radio, The Prix Italia. It has now been translated into English and we have the privilege of bringing it to you. It's called Inside Kabul.
In the summer of 2021, the Taliban returns to power in Afghanistan and the destinies of two young women, Raha and Marwa, are forever changed. As they contemplate their futures, Raha and Marwa exchange and record hundreds of voice notes with noted French journalist Caroline Gillet.
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For forty years, Hal Newman worked in Emergency Medical Services. After retiring, he decided to start an online platform, The Last Ambulance, where he investigates the problems he saw in the EMS system.
Messages started pouring in from EMS workers from across the country. Now his platform has become a voice for many health care and emergency service workers who are demoralized, exhausted, hanging on by a thread – and who are afraid to speak publicly about what is happening inside the system.
Despite having worked in the system for so long, he didn’t realize just how broken it was until he started publishing The Last Ambulance.
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Over the past two weeks, the media has suddenly become experts in diagnosing neurodegenerative disorders following Biden’s stumbles at the debate. Canadian Youtuber J.J. McCullough joins Justin Ling to dissect this presidential testing of our patience.
Then, the Liberals are serious about stemming disinformation, and that’s why they’re paying social media influencers to spread government messages. Why this approach to disinformation won’t work and some ideas on what might.
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In our final episode, Investigative Reporter Molly Thomas showcases the hopes and frustrations of three Afghan girls, many years after the Taliban takeover.
In the spring of 2023, The Michener-Deacon Fellowship for Investigative Reporting was awarded to then CTV W5 correspondent, Molly Thomas, for her special project on education in Afghanistan.
Then, as part of a series of nation-wide cuts from Bell Media, Molly was laid off and the story was shelved.
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We’ve teamed up with Molly and the Michener-Deacon Fellowship to produce Dear Taliban, a new three-part investigation. Today we share episode two.
Dear Taliban spans three continents, taking listeners from the vice-regal pomp and ceremony of Rideau Hall, to one of the toughest hostile-training programs in the world — all to prepare her for a complex and volatile area of South Asia.
Host: Karyn Pugliese
Credits: Molly Thomas (Reporter), Riley Nimens (Associate Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor) Max Collins (Production Manager), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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Join Investigative Reporter Molly Thomas as she lands on the ground in South Asia to uncover the heartbreaking story of a young Afghan girl, with a unique connection to Canada.
In the spring of 2023, The Michener-Deacon Fellowship for Investigative Reporting was awarded to then CTV W5 correspondent, Molly Thomas, for her special project on education in Afghanistan.
Then, as part of a series of nation-wide cuts from Bell Media, Molly was laid off and the story was shelved.
That’s where Canadaland stepped in.
We’ve teamed up with Molly and the Michener-Deacon Fellowship to produce Dear Taliban, a new three-part investigation. Today we share episode two.
Dear Taliban spans three continents, taking listeners from the vice-regal pomp and ceremony of Rideau Hall, to one of the toughest hostile-training programs in the world — all to prepare her for a complex and volatile area of South Asia.
Host: Karyn Pugliese
Credits: Molly Thomas (Reporter), Riley Nimens (Associate Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Max Collins (Production Manager), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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En février 2022, les grands médias occidentaux envoyaient des journalistes en Ukraine couvrir les premiers temps de l’invasion russe. Émissions spéciales, directs avec l’Ukraine et dossiers consacrés à la guerre fleurissaient dans les journaux, à la radio et au téléjournal. Qu’en est-il aujourd’hui, alors que le conflit israelo-palestinien occupe les esprits? Emilie reçoit Pierre Alonso, journaliste indépendant installé à Kyiv, pour faire le point sur deux années de journalisme de guerre et sur la vie quotidienne dans un pays encore sous les bombes. Dans la deuxième partie de l’émission, Emilie et Pierre s’intéressent aux journalistes ukrainiens et à leur travail. Limités par la loi martiale imposant des contraintes éditoriales, les journalistes locaux réinventent leur rôle tout en menant une lutte acharnée contre la corruption.
In February 2022, major Western media outlets sent journalists to Ukraine to cover the early stages of the Russian invasion. Special shows, direct broadcasts with Ukraine and long pieces devoted to the war flourished in the newspapers, on the radio and on television. What about today, now that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is on everyone's minds? Emilie speaks with Pierre Alonso, an independent journalist based in Kyiv, to take stock of two years of war journalism and daily life in a country still under siege. In the second part of the show, Emilie and Pierre look at Ukrainian journalists and their work. Limited by martial law imposing editorial constraints, local journalists are reinventing their role while leading a fierce fight against corruption.
Animation : Emilie Nicolas
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It’s been a tough week for leadership in North America, with calls for resignation dominating the headlines on both sides of the border.
Paul Wells joins Emilie Nicolas to discuss the larger global context around Trudeau’s recent struggles, and how the international rise of the far right is an important and underreported factor in Canadian politics.
Then, Biden loses the debate and the New York Times. Unpacking the editorial board’s call for the president to step aside.
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“All I will say is that my scientific opinion is that there is something real going on in New Brunswick that absolutely cannot be explained by the bias or personal agenda of an individual neurologist.” Those are the words of Dr. Michael Coulthart, a microbiologist employed by our federal government, specifically by Public Health Canada. He’s talking about the mysterious neurological disease that is striking down people in New Brunswick. We were not supposed to read his words. They are from a leaked email obtained by Canadaland, first published by the newspaper The Guardian.
Then there was another leaked email. Doctor Samuel Weiss, a neuroscientist and the scientific director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. In his leaked email, he states, “I felt incredibly optimistic that an all out government effort to unravel the mystery was in the cards. However, in short order, the scientific effort was shut down at the request of the governments.”
It’s nine years since the first case was documented. The numbers, by some reports, have grown to over 300 suspected cases. And we still have no answers. Our reporters, Cherise Sucheran and Sarah Lawrynuik present the latest instalment in our ongoing investigation.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Cherise Sucheran and Sarah Lawrynuik (Reporters)
Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor), Max Collins (Production Manager), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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What’s going on in Han Dong’s defamation case against Global News? Last week, Ontario Superior Court Justice Paul Perell made a decision in that case. And, rightly or wrongly, it was scorching.
With The Epoch Times at the centre of a fraudulent money-laundering crypto scam, what does that mean for the Canadian columnists who write for them? Jonathan dives into the strange world of Shen Yun, Falun Gong, and propaganda rags.
Host: Jonathan Goldsbie
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Sam Konnert (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Guest: Lisa Taylor
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This was a time when Assange and other punks like him were running circles around governments. It seemed like the ability for the powers that be to keep secrets was over. It was just done. Thanks to Assange et al we were going to know if a cell phone company was surveying everyone. We were going to know if a government assassinated a bunch of people who turned out to be journalists. We were going to know. And between Anonymous and Wikileaks and Edward Snowden, it was happening in a way that felt like it was a force of nature, and there was no containing it. The authorities, what could they do? Information wanted to be free.
Then, it all ended. Julian Assange has been rotting away in Belmarsh prison in the UK. Edward Snowden tweets from Russia. Wikileaks. When's the last time they released anything? The Empire struck back. There were arrests, there were accusations, and the machine was surprisingly effective and merciless in containing the free flow of information and government secrets. That's what happened to all those guys. You don't hear about them much anymore. But what about Jacob Appelbaum? What about that guy? No, nothing? Name doesn't ring a bell? Jacob Appelbaum was known to the authorities as Wikileaks Associate Number Three. He was also once the toast of the cyber community, feted by European politcos, and making red carpet appearances.
Then the accusations came. And it all ended for Appelbaum. Just like that nobody wanted to talk about Jacob Appelbaum. But we do.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Max Collins (Production Manager), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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Après des résultats record aux élections européennes, l’extrême droite française est en passe de remporter les législatives. Si certains sont surpris, plusieurs observateurs ont remarqué que les idées d’extrême droite sont omniprésentes dans les médias depuis des années maintenant, notamment sur la chaîne télévisée CNews. Comment se déroule ce processus de banalisation? Quelles stratégies sont employées par les journalistes et les éditorialistes de CNews pour encourager la montée de l’extrême droite? Le journaliste de Médiapart Yunnes Abzouz en parle avec Emilie et démonte, brique par brique, la méthode CNews. Dans la deuxième partie de l’émission, on se tourne vers l’éditorialiste québécois préféré des médias français, et en particulier de CNews: Mathieu Bock-Côté. Yunnes explique comment le chroniqueur, auteur et sociologue emploie les mêmes stratagèmes que CNews, levant le voile sur les ressorts discursifs de la désormais célèbre “méthode MBC”.
After record results in the European elections, the French far right is on the verge of winning the legislative elections. While some are surprised, several observers have noticed that far-right ideas have been omnipresent in the media for years now, notably on the television channel CNews. How does this process of trivialization take place? What strategies are used by CNews journalists and editorialists to encourage the rise of the far right? Médiapart journalist Yunnes Abzouz talks about it with Emilie and dismantles, brick by brick, the CNews method. In the second part of the show, we turn to the favourite Quebec columnist of the French media, and in particular of CNews: Mathieu Bock-Côté. Yunnes explains how the columnist, author and sociologist uses the same stratagems as CNews, lifting the veil on the discourse of the now famous “MBC method’.
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Can a newspaper commit treason? The NSICOP report singles out China as the biggest foreign influence on Canadian media (and it’s more than just advertorial inserts.) Joanna Chiu joins us to unpack the scale and scope of foreign propaganda campaigns in Canada.
Is the daily coverage of campus protest encampments a form of bias, and what sorts of stories are getting missed as a result? Jesse responds to some tough questions about bias in the coverage of the war in Gaza.
Clarification (June 21, 2024, 12:20pm ET): an unclear statement in an earlier version of this episode could be interpreted to mean that Shree Paradkar spread messages advocating for the ethnic cleansing of Jews from Israel, which she did not. This statement should have been that Shree Paradkar spread messages from someone (Amanda Gelender) who has advocated for the ethnic cleansing of Jews from Israel.
Host: Jesse Brown
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When Canadaland commissioned its new series “A Field Guide to Gay Animals” (listen to it here), the topic wasn’t really in the news. But since then, it’s started to take the world by storm. From rage on the extreme right, a documentary series on Peacock, to the first photos of humpback whale sex being male-male.
And the relevance is more important than ever, legislation across Canada and the United States regularly denies queer rights, sometimes based on old-school notions that sex is about reproduction and the animal kingdom proves it. Except it doesn’t… 25 years ago, one Canadian scientist wrote a book that detailed the history and science of gay animals: Biological Exuberance.
Today, podcast hosts Owen Ever and Laine Kaplan Levenson join Jesse to talk about the wonderful world of gay animals.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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With Jesse away, Justin Ling takes over to talk about Google’s $100 million payment for Canadian news and how a ragtag group of independent publishers will end up deciding who gets the money. Is Google trolling us?
Plus, Canada has entered its foreign interference era, but are we too polite to name names? Paul McLeod helps unpack new allegations of treason in Ottawa, and what we should do about it.
Host: Justin Ling
Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Max Collins (Production Manager), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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Less than a year ago, Investigative Reporter and former Network Anchor Molly Thomas had her dream job as a Correspondent for CTV’s flagship show, W5; with the backing of this team, she applied for the most prestigious fellowship in Canadian journalism, the Michener-Deacon Award.
Molly won the Michener-Deacon fellowship for her special project on education in Afghanistan, the only country in the world where women and girls can't go to school.
Then, as part of a series of nation-wide cuts from Bellmedia (who owns CTV), Molly was laid off and the story was shelved.
That’s where Canadaland stepped in.
We’ve teamed up with Molly and the Michener-Deacon Fellowship to produce Dear Taliban, a new 3-part investigation that begins today.
Dear Taliban spans three continents, taking listeners to the vice-regal pomp and ceremony of Rideau Hall, to one of the toughest hostile training programs in the world - all to prepare her for a complex and volatile area of South Asia.
Host: Molly Thomas
Credits: Tristan Capacchione and Caleb Thompson (Audio Editing and Technical Production), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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En politique municipale, provinciale et fédérale, les départs de femmes s’enchaînent. En cause, l’intimidation dont elles sont victimes, la remise en question de leurs compétences, ou encore leur relégation à des rôles de moindre importance. Emilie reçoit l’autrice, essayiste et activiste Alexa Conradi pour mieux comprendre les racines du problème et les obstacles qui se dressent devant les femmes politiques. Dans la deuxième partie de l’émission, Alexa Conradi explique ce que signifierait faire de la politique en féministe, et comment intégrer pleinement les valeurs de ce mouvement dans notre paysage politique actuel.
Women keep leaving municipal, provincial and federal politics, due to intimidation, the questioning of their skills, or their relegation to less important roles. Emilie sits down with author, essayist and activist Alexa Conradi to better understand the roots of the problem and the obstacles that stand before female politicians. In the second part of the show, Alexa Conradi explains what it would mean to do politics in a feminist fashion, and how to fully integrate the values of this movement into our current political landscape.
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Trump’s 34 felony convictions made history in the U.S., but will his efforts to undermine the Rule of Law have an effect on Canadian attitudes towards the legal system?
And the CBC is (once again) accused of anti-Palestinian bias, this time in its documentary division. Lawyer and journalist Julie Sobowale helps us unpack the legal and labour implications of a series of inflammatory tweets.
Host: Jonathan Goldsbie
Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor), Max Collins (Production Manager), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Guest: Julie Sobowale
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This story started out like every other Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women case. But something happened that would change the trajectory of the case, the people, and even political leaders in Manitoba.
Karyn Pugliese sits down with Kathleen Martens of APTN to discuss the trial of Jeremy Skibicki, who has admitted to killing four women: Rebecca Contois, Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran, and an unidentified woman referred to as “Buffalo Woman”. These are the women whose bodies are presumed to be in Winnipeg landfills and for the past year, people have been calling on the government to search for them, and bring peace to the victim’s families.
Kathleen Martens has been in the courtroom for every day of this trial. In today's show she breaks it all down and provides insight into what it all means and where it might be going.
Content warning: there will be discussion of the murders of Indigenous women in this episode, and may not be suitable for all listeners. Take care when listening.
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Host: Karyn Pugliese
Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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Who’s buying a newspaper in 2024? Meet Kevin Klein, a politician, publisher, pretendian, and new owner of the Winnipeg Sun.
Then, things get heated, as Jesse and Robert Jago discuss cultural boycotting at the Vancouver Comic Arts Festival. Are cultural boycotts a fair and effective form of protest?
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Host: Jesse Brown
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CANADALAND host Jesse Brown introduces Dylan to a strange and decaying Quebecois fast food institution… housed inside a giant orange sphere. Today, the orange is a relic of a bygone era. But decades ago, this odd establishment was on track to become the McDonalds of Canada. We hear about the rise and fall of Montreal’s Orange Julep, and how its eccentric founder envisioned a Canada scattered with glowing orange spheres.
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There’s a small, sandy island off the coast of Nova Scotia where hundreds of horses run wild. They’ve been there since the 18th century, and are genetically unlike any other horse in the world. While these horses are beloved, an official animal of Nova Scotia, there have been voices over the years saying they’re an invasive species that needs to be removed, as much for the sake of the island as for themselves. So what does the future look like for the Sable Island horse?
Phillip McLoughlin, ecologist at the University of Saskatchewan who runs the Sable Island Horse Project, joins us.
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We’re launching a collaboration with The Atlas Obscura Podcast to tell the stories of Canada’s strange and wondrous places.
Today, we bring you a story about a black bear who traveled across the ocean with a group of World War 1 soldiers before becoming the inspiration for one of the most popular children’s characters of all time.
Lindsay Mattick, author of Finding Winnie and Winnie’s Great War, tells the story.
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Hot Docs, Vancouver Folk Music Festival, Just for Laughs, just the latest cultural institutions to join a long list of Canadian arts groups facing existential threats. Why is this all happening now?
Based on recent headlines, you might think that we are in the midst of a total cultural collapse in this country. Film festivals, comedy festivals, symphonies, cinemas, theater companies, arts magazines all closing down or telling us that they're about to. Corporate sponsors are pulling out. Leadership teams are crumbling. People are quitting en masse or getting laid off. There's been a lot of dirty laundry aired in public from within these organizations, open letters and accusations about mismanagement and workplace inequity within these arts organizations. It all sounds miserably dire. So just what is going on and why is it all happening now?
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Featured guests: Jesse Wente, Amy Blackmore & Dan Seligman
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Traumavertissement: Le segment ‘Bien Noté’ entre 22:30 et 27:00 aborde les violences subies par les enfants autochtones dans les pensionnats.
Fin avril, le premier ministre du Québec François Legault annonçait le contenu de son Musée national de l’histoire du Québec: des collections retraçant les 400 dernières années d’histoire, de Jacques Cartier à nos jours. Dans son discours, Legault réservait une place aux Premières Nations qui étaient là “avant nous” et ont “aidé” les colons à surmonter les épreuves. Pour décrypter ces discours empreints de colonialisme, Emilie reçoit l’activiste, animatrice et chroniqueuse Innue Melissa Mollen Dupuis. Ensemble, elles réfléchissent à tisser une nouvelle histoire du Québec, décoloniale et inclusive. En deuxième partie d’émission, Melissa Mollen Dupuis offre un éclairage passionnant sur le phénomène des fraudes d’identité autochtone, les “pretendians” ou en français “fautochtones”.
Trigger Warning: The ‘Bien Noté’ segment between 22:30 et 27:00 discusses the abuse inflicted on Indigenous children at residential schools.
At the end of April, Quebec Premier François Legault announced the subject matter of his National Museum of Quebec History: collections tracing the last 400 years of history, from Jacques Cartrier to the present day. In his speech, Legault reserved a place for the First Nations who were there “before us” and “helped” the settlers to overcome challenges. To decipher this discourse, marked by colonialism, Emilie is joined by Innu activist, host and columnist Melissa Mollen Dupuis. Together, they reflect on weaving a new history of Quebec that is both decolonized and inclusive. In the second part of the show, Melissa offers fascinating insight into the phenomenon of Indigenous identity fraud, the “pretendians” or in French the “fautochtones”.
Animation : Emilie Nicolas
Générique : Lucie Laumonier (Production), Tristan Capacchione (Production technique), Karyn Pugliese (Rédactrice en chef)
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Lessons from Winnipeg, Canada’s most Indigenous city. Emilie Nicolas talks to Niigaan Sinclair about what reconciliation looks like in practice and why Winnipeg is ground zero for Indigenous relations in Canada.
Plus, did wildfire season start early in Canada or did the fires never stop burning? Reflecting on the evacuation of Cranberry Portage and how journalism can make a difference in the face of climate fatigue and denial.
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Host: Emilie Nicolas
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Guest: Niigaan Sinclair
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Today we’re bringing you something a bit different. It’s a podcast produced by a wonderful team in the UK called Tortoise. Reporter Alexi Mostrous will tell you all about how a Canadian private intelligence practitioner and investigator, set him off on a quest to find out who trolled Amber Heard.
When you hear the name Amber Heard, what comes to mind? Liar? Survivor? Narcissist? Millions of us watched the celebrity trial of the century, Depp v Heard, in 2022. Amber Heard lost and Johnny Depp was vindicated. But what if Amber was actually the victim of an organised trolling campaign? What if the online hate against her was manufactured?
Alexi investigates what happened to Amber and who might have been responsible. It’s a story about how our own thoughts and opinions can be molded without us even realising.
All six episodes of Who Trolled Amber are now available to binge-listen here.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Special thanks: Jessica Vallentin (Audience Development Manager)
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There’s a Loblaws Boycott underway, but is it actually working? Jesse breaks his silence on the Reddit-fueled consumer action and brainstorms some guerilla grocery tactics.
A new CBC advisory committee aims to “modernize” the CBC, but Peter Menzies explains why it probably won’t move fast enough to make a difference.
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Guest: Peter Menzies
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The pretendian phenomenon has been known and discussed in indigenous circles for years, but it's become mainstream Canadian news lately thanks to three big name exposés: Buffy sainte Marie, Joseph Boyden, and Michelle Latimer. These people were arguably the most famous indigenous songwriter in Canada, the most famous indigenous novelist in Canada and the most famous indigenous filmmaker in Canada. And all three were revealed to not actually be indigenous or at a minimum, all three misrepresented their ancestries and their community connections.
But they are just the tip of the iceberg. The real issue with pretendians, according to a growing chorus of Indigenous leaders, is that Indigenous identity theft is vast and it poses an existential threat to First Nations.
In the United States, the number of people who identified themselves as native has grown from 552,000 back in 1960 to 9.7 million in 2020. That is a growth rate almost ten times as high as overall population growth in America. And most of it did not happen because new native people were born. It happened because millions of people shifted their identities. Here in Canada, we have 1.8 million people identifying as Indigenous today, up from just under half a million in 1980. That is almost a 400% increase. And again, most of it is not because indigenous people are having so many kids. Most of it is happening because so many Canadians are deciding that they're Indigenous. So what happens when people with newly claimed and highly contested Indigenous identities outnumber the Indigenous people that precede them?
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Featured guests: Robert Jago, Angel Ellis
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Si l’on en croit les médias et les discours des politiques, les immigrants seraient responsables de toutes les difficultés culturelles et économiques que connaissent le Canada et le Québec à l’heure actuelle. Pour décrypter ces discours nauséabonds, Emilie reçoit Mireille Paquet, professeure au département de politique de l’Université Concordia et spécialiste des politiques migratoires. Dans la deuxième partie de l’émission, elles reviennent sur les campements pro palestiniens installés sur les campus canadiens, témoins de tensions entre la haute administration universitaire et la communauté étudiante et professorale.
According to politicians and some media, immigrants would be responsible for all the cultural and economic troubles Canada and the province of Quebec are facing. To break down and analyze these xenophobic discourses, Emilie talks with Mireille Paquet, a Concordia professor of political science, who specializes in migratory policy. In the second part of the show, they look at the pro-Palestinian encampments on university campuses, which bear witness to tensions between university administrators and the student-professor community.
Animation : Emilie Nicolas
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The Drake/Kendrick rap beef has overtaken the internet. A flurry of diss tracks has captured the attention of millions, but now a shooting outside of Drake’s Toronto mansion reveals the violent potential of this rhetorical battle. Jan Wong reports from the Drake’s Mansion and Jesse offers his analysis of the journalistic underpinnings of the modern rap beef.
Plus, there was foreign interference after all, but was it everything the media reported? What Justice Hogue’s initial report tells us (and doesn’t tell us) about the state of Canadian democracy.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Guest: Jan Wong
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Open Line on VOCM-AM in Newfoundland has been called an institution. A religion. A must-listen show.
And we at Canadaland had never heard of it - until recently. But it attracts an audience bigger than any show in its time slot, and has consistently for years.
So in the age of podcasts and social media, in a time of layoffs and media cuts, how has this AM radio talk show managed to thrive?
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Cherise Seucharan (Reporter), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Jonathan Goldsbie (News Editor), André Proulx (Production Coordinator), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Featured guests: Paddy Daly, Greg Smith, Ryan Cleary, Justin Brake
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Campus protests have migrated to Canada and McGill is asking the cops for help. Why calling in the cops is the wrong approach, despite what’s being said (and chanted) at these protests.
Justin Trudeau seems to be popping up on podcasts everywhere these days. What to make of Trudeau’s podcast populism (and why it won’t work in 2024.)
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), André Proolx (Production Coordinator), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Guest: Justin Ling
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Canadian media coverage of the war in the Middle East has, unsurprisingly, focused on the impact on diaspora communities here in Canada. We have heard about Jewish Canadians, Palestinian Canadians, and we have heard in general terms about the many Muslim communities across Canada and how this is affecting them. But there's one diaspora community that is increasingly at the center of this conflict, who we have heard very little about. And that is the Iranian community.
Today on the show, three members of the Iranian-Canadian community, Amir Attaran, Samira Mohyeddin, and Kahve Shahrooz, join Jesse to talk about their own thoughts, feelings, and experiences about what is going on in their community.
Editor’s note: In the introduction to this episode, Jesse says, “Canada is home to the second largest Iranian diaspora community in the world. There are 400,000.”
According to Tehran, Canada is home to 400,000 Iranian-Canadians but Statistics Canada puts the number at closer to 200,000. In either case, Canada is still home to one of the largest Iranian diaspora communities in the world.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Jonathan Goldsbie (News Editor), André Proulx (Production Coordinator), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Featured guests: Amir Attaran, Samira Mohyeddin, Kahve Shahrooz
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Alors que l’année 2024 sera la plus chaude jamais enregistrée, on voit le public, épuisé par l'éco anxiété et une certaine fatigue informationnelle, se détourner des médias. Emilie Nicolas reçoit Étienne Leblanc, journaliste environnement et climat à Radio-Canada, pour échanger sur l’évolution de la couverture médiatique des changements climatiques depuis une vingtaine d’années et sur les solutions possibles afin de mieux communiquer sur le sujet.
Even if 2024 is projected to be the warmest year ever recorded, audiences are tuning out the news, exhausted by eco-anxiety and media fatigue. Emilie Nicolas talks with Étienne Leblanc, environment and climate reporter at the CBC, about the past twenty years of climate change coverage and how to find solutions to better communicate on the topic.
Animation : Emilie Nicolas
Générique : Lucie Laumonier (Production), Tristan Capacchione (Production technique), André Proulx (Coordonnateur à la production), Karyn Pugliese (Rédactrice en chef)
Coanimation : Étienne Leblanc
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As the hit Netflix documentary What Jennifer Did draws criticism for manipulating source materials, we talk to Karen K. Ho about the differences between True Crime and journalism.
Umar Zameer is acquitted of murdering a Toronto police officer, but the way his case was handled by the media and politicians raises questions about the impact of public narratives in high-profile legal cases.
Plus, Goldsbie sits court-side, and why Connie Walker deserves an apology.
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Host: Jonathan Goldsbie
Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor), André Proulx (Production Coordinator), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Guest: Karen K. Ho
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On April 12, 2024, news broke that Sylvie Hauth, the former police chief of Thunder Bay, was arrested and charged with a series of criminal offenses.
But none of the news reports explained much about just what the hell was happening this time.
Most of this story is still unknown, but this week, Karyn Pugliese, Ryan McMahon, and Jon Thompson will tell you what they can, what they have verified so far, and they will give you their best sense — let's call it a theory — of what the big-picture story is here.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Jon Thompson (Reporter), Ryan McMahon (Reporter), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Jonathan Goldsbie (News Editor), André Proulx (Production Coordinator), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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Did we just dodge WW3? As Iran retaliated against Israel with an unprecedented barrage of drones and missiles, deciphering facts from fakes and misinformation seemed trickier than ever. Is this the new digital fog of war?
Bill Maher somehow still exists, and now he’s roasting Canada for all the wrong reasons. What Bill Maher gets wrong about Canadian “Zombie Lies”?
Plus, is Rick Ross an anti-semite? Jesse weighs in on the Drake beef.
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Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), André Proolx (Production Coordinator), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Guest: Rahim Mohamed
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We’ve long heard about how the news business is failing - layoff after layoff, media execs have claimed that they have had no choice but to make cutbacks.
In Bell’s latest round of 4800 layoffs, CEO Mirko Babic defended his decision to a parliamentary committee, claiming the company was struggling in a tough economic environment - and that news was part of what was bringing them down.
But is that the full story?
Because before Google and Facebook ate up advertising dollars, the Canadian media companies of the 90s made a bad bet. And it failed to pay off.
And now… the news industry is taking the fall.
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Host: Jesse Brown & Cherise Seucharan
Credits: Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), André Proulx (Production Coordinator), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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Etienne Côté-Paluck, rédacteur en chef d’HAÏTI MAGAZINE et HAITI WEEKLY, des publications du collectif haïtien DÈYÈ MÒN ENFO, rejoint Emilie pour une discussion sur l’actualité de la crise qui se passe dans la ville et dans le pays.
Etienne Côté-Paluck, editor-in-chief of HAÏTI MAGAZINE and HAITI WEEKLY, publications of the Haitian collective DÈYÈ MÒN ENFO, joins Emilie for a discussion about what’s actually going on in the country.
Animation : Emilie Nicolas
Générique : Tristan Capacchione (Production), André Proulx (Coordonnateur à la production), Karyn Pugliese (Rédactrice en chef)
Coanimation : Etienne Côté-Paluck
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A spectre is haunting Canada — the spectre of Communist China.
Finally, a proper inquiry into election interference by China featuring testimony from Trudeau and his top aides, but, at this point, will anyone even care?
Rebel News personality David “The Menzoid” Menzies is arrested yet again at a protest in Toronto, which raises larger questions about how police are selectively enforcing the law at contentious public rallies.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), André Proulx (Production Coordinator), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Guest: Harrison Lowman
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Canadians have long thought of themselves as peacekeepers. But can we still make that claim today? Amid all of the the outrage towards our government over its relationship with Israel, are any protesters calling on Trudeau to send peacekeeping troops over there to intervene? When the guns finally fall silent there will likely be a call for some sort of peacekeeping force. But will Canada still be ready, or even willing, to resume our traditional role?
There's really just one statistic worth sharing here to illustrate that Canadians have lost nearly all capacity for peacekeeping. In the mid 1990s, there were over 3000 Canadian troops deployed as UN peacekeepers around the world. Today there are 60. That means we’re now at 2% of our former capability. What the hell happened?
We go looking for an answer for you today from Walter Dorn, professor of defense studies at the Royal Military College of Canada and the Canadian Forces College. Professor Dorn is an expert in arms control, international criminal law, just war theory, peace operations and the United Nations.
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Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), André Proulx (Production Coordinator), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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As Canadians prepare for a rare celestial event–a total solar eclipse–Jesse has one message: don’t look up!
On Monday, the price of carbon increased, and so did prices at the pumps. Carbon Tax savant Max Fawcett explains why it’s terrible politics, but still a great policy
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), André Proolx (Production Coordinator), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Guest: Max Fawcett
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Question: what is Canada's greatest contribution to the world of comedy? Is it Lorne Michaels and Saturday Night Live, which launched the careers of comedians like Dan Aykroyd, Mike Myers, and Norm MacDonald? What about Samantha Bee, who broke into the boys club of late night political satire? Nathan Fielder who may have redrawn the lines of reality itself, exposing the absurdity of modern life with his bizarre, intricate pranks? Professor Stephen Leacock, the Mark Twain of Canada?
Or is it a hidden-camera, prank comedy show that has been seen by millions and millions of people from all over the world?
Just For Laughs Gags has been running for almost 25 years, and it had no reason to stop, except that its parent company filed for creditor protection under Canada’s Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act on March 5, 2024. What was Gags and what will be missed if it never gets produced again?
Today on the show, we hear from the people that made it, and from people that were pranked by them.
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Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Reporter, Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Jonathan Goldsbie (News Editor), André Proulx (Production Coordinator), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Special thanks: Tamara Wise
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Il y a du pouvoir dans la réappropriation de son propre récit - c'est pourquoi Beata n'a pas seulement écrit un mémoire sur son expérience de fuite du Rwanda, mais aussi un recueil de poésie. Elle a cherché à retrouver des images qu'elle croyait exister, capturées par la BBC, d'un convoi de camions dans lequel elle était cachée pour fuir le pays - ce qui l'a menée à en découvrir davantage.
La conversation examine le rôle des médias occidentaux dans le reportage sur le Rwanda à l'époque. Où se trouvait la presse internationale pendant le génocide et pourquoi le récit était-il si incomplet ? Pourquoi ce génocide n'a-t-il pas été empêché malgré les avertissements plus d'un an auparavant ?
There’s power in re-appropriating your own story - which is why Beata has not only written a memoir about her experience fleeing Rwanda, but a book of poetry as well. She sought to track down footage that she believed to exist captured by the BBC of a convoy of trucks she was hidden in to flee the country - which led her on a path to discover more.
The conversation examines the role of western media reporting about Rwanda at the time. Where was the international media during the genocide and why was the narrative so incomplete? Why wasn’t this genocide prevented despite warnings over a year prior?
Animation : Emilie Nicolas
Générique : Aviva Lessard (Production), Tristan Capacchione (Production technique), André Proulx (Coordonnateur à la production), Karyn Pugliese (Rédactrice en chef)
Coanimation : Beata Umumbyeyi Mairesse
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Why are New Zealand libertarian think-tanks so into Canada’s Indigenous skyscrapers? In the midst of an ongoing housing crisis, is the Squamish Nation’s Sen̓áḵw project the future of Indigenous land development?
As Deadspin’s new ownership pivots to gambling referral, we consider how broadcast bingo supports Indigenous radio. Is “Radio Bingo” a replicable model for diversifying media revenue?
Host: Jonathan Goldsbie
Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Co-host: Robert Jago
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When governments and corporations want to stay on top of the “threats” posed by protest movements — from climate campaigns to animal-rights advocacy — there’s one company that they tend to turn to: Welund. Founded in the UK in 2007, it expanded to North America about a decade later, setting up shop in Calgary (where it’s now called Foresight Reports). So who are they? And what does it mean when public-sector bodies farm out their intelligence gathering to a private firm?
To find out, we put our own open-source intelligence skills to the test.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Jonathan Goldsbie (News Editor), André Proulx (Production Coordinator), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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As Elon Musk rails against content moderation in a disastrous interview with Don Lemon, Jesse and Ivor Shapiro reconsider Canada’s new approach to online speech.
Is the Online Harms Act as Orwellian as Margaret Atwood thinks it is?
Also, immigration is coming up a lot in the news these days. Is the recent media discourse actually….mature?
Clarification: When Jesse reads from Bill C-63 Online Harms Act 17 he says "A person may, with the Attorney General's consent, lay an information before a provincial court judge if the person fears on reasonable grounds that another person will commit hate speech." He meant to say Section 17 "refers to existing parts of the criminal code that govern hate speech."
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor), André Proulx (Production Coordinator), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Guest: Ivor Shapiro
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Andy Mill’s is the co-creator of The New York Times ground-breaking podcast, The Daily, and before that worked on the equally inventive and critically acknowledged podcast Radiolab. He’s also one of the very few journalists to gain the trust of J.K. Rowling for his series The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling. Finally, he’s been the subject of critical reporting from Canadaland for his work on the Peabody Award winning series for The New York Times, Caliphate. That series was stripped of the Peabody and Mills himself was “cancelled” for a combination of the Caliphate controversy and a series of attacks on twitter for his past work-place behaviour.
It’s a rare opportunity to speak with someone with a CV like Mills’ and even rarer for Jesse to have the opportunity to come face to face with someone who has been the subject of intense scrutiny from Canadaland’s reporting.
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Host: Jesse Brown
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Alors que la guerre à Gaza fait rage, Emilie Nicolas et Raed Hammoud font le point sur la couverture de cette guerre dans le cadre de leur travail au sein de l'écosystème médiatique québécois. Raed évoque également le travail documentaire de longue haleine qu'il a réalisé afin de créer des liens entre des personnes de différentes parties du monde, notamment ses séries documentaires T'es où, Youssef ? Immigrants de souche et Demain l'Afrique.
As the war in Gaza wages on, Emilie Nicolas and Raed Hammoud take stock of what it’s been like to cover this war in their work in the Quebec media ecosystem. Raed also discusses the long form documentary work he has done in order to create connections between people in different parts of the world, including his docu-series T’es où Youssef, Immigrants de Souche and Demain L’Afrique.
Animation : Emilie Nicolas
Générique : Aviva Lessard (Production), Tristan Capacchione (Production technique), André Proulx (Coordonnateur à la production), Karyn Pugliese (Rédactrice en chef)
Coanimation : Raed Hammoud
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The laughter has stopped at the Just For Laughs festival, as ownership applies for creditor protection and cancels the Montreal and Toronto 2024 festivals. Toronto Comedian Sam Sferrazza explains how the Just For Laughs systems worked (and didn’t work) for Canadian comedy.
Is there anything behind the Katespiracy? As a manipulated photo of Princess Catherine and her kids goes viral worldwide, Jesse wonders if any photograph… ever should have ever been trusted.
Host: Jesse Brown
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Guest: Sam Sferrazza
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Labour used to be a beat. A major beat for any newspaper. Which, you know, makes sense. Because what happens with work, with the world of work, that matters to so many more people than any other section in the newspaper, more than politics or foreign affairs or even business. But the age of the working person's newspaper is just about dead, and along with it, the labour beat.
But maybe not to news audiences. We get constant emails from you asking us to take a closer look at work in Canada. The entire new season of our sister show Commons is called Work, and this week we hand the show over to the Commons team. Arshy Mann, Jordan Cornish, and Noor Azrieh are going to tell you about what they have found, about what it means to work and be a worker in Canada.
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Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Arshy Mann (Host and Producer), Jordan Cornish (Producer), Noor Azrieh (Producer), André Proulx (Production Coordinator), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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From Winnipeg to Wuhan, Canada is embroiled in an international spy situation, but why does no one seem to care anymore? Recent documents released from the investigation of scientist Dr. Xiangguo Qiu contain bombshells that may point back to the COVID lab leak theory.
As the obituaries and puff pieces roll in, the Canadian media seems to have forgotten that Brian Mulroney was - in fact - divisive. Correcting the record on “Conservative Titan” Brian Mulroney.
Clarification (March 18, 2024): While the Investigative Journalism Foundation’s Open By Default database includes roughly 20,000 records released by federal departments and agencies in response to access-to-information requests, The Globe and Mail’s Secret Canada project is broader in scope, encompassing summaries of more than 300,000 requests made to over 600 federal, provincial, territorial, and municipal institutions across the country.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: James Nicholson(Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), André Proulx (Production Coordinator), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Guest: Jan Wong
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Let’s skip two years of horse race punditry and commentary. It's over already. Barring some unforeseeable act of God, Pierre Poilievre is not just going to win, he is going to stomp to victory. The Liberals will likely be rebuilding from close to scratch and this country might be looking at a good long period of right wing rule. What does that look like? What does it mean for housing, crime, and the media landscape?
Today on the show, Jesse speaks with prominent journalists, Jen Gerson, Paul Wells, and Stephen Marche to find out more.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), André Proulx (Production Coordinator), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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Dans sa nouvelle autobiograhie, la professeure en droit transféminine Florence Ashley, théorise l’academic smut ou smut therapy comme la thérapie par l'écriture érotique. Gender/Fucking: the Pleasures and Politics of Living in a Gendered Body met en lumière le bordel de l'existence humaine à travers le récit de Florence - ses expériences romantiques, sexuelles, sa transition et des vérités qui sont beaucoup plus grandes qu’ille qui s'étendent à la jeune communauté trans actuelle.
Les nouvelles politiques d'identité de genre annoncées en Alberta mélangent le droit des enfants avec le droit des parents dans un contexte où les corps et esprits des personnes trans sont déjà sous contrôle social, familial, politique, médical et juridique, et leur sentiment le plus profond par rapport à leur identité, constamment délégitimisé.
Animation : Emilie Nicolas
Générique : Laetitia Dogbe (Production), Tristan Capacchione (Production technique), André Proulx (Coordonnateur à la production), Karyn Pugliese (Rédactrice en chef)
Coanimation : Florence Ashley
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Vice Media was once valued at 5.7 billion dollars - This week it closed its doors. One final episode of the podcast Cyber was released to give listeners a peek into what was going on at Vice. The staff knew something was amiss when the quality of the snacks began to deteriorate.
The Liberals tabled Bill C-63 to take aim at online hate. If this new bill comes into force it could make some online hate speech punishable by life in prison.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Guest: Justin Ling
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The Pikwakanagan First Nation seemed to be doing well - it has a good economy, high graduation rate, it has been revitalizing its culture, the books are tight. But things have gotten bad in the last five years. Pikwakanagan is not immune to the troubles infiltrating the towns surrounding it.
Late last year, Chief Greg Sarazin declared a State of Emergency over Opioids in the small rural community, just 150 kilometers from Ottawa. When a crisis hits a city like Belleville it makes headlines, but First Nations are not getting attention, or all the help they need to fight addiction. They are relying, in many ways, on their own devices.
There were at least five overdoses last year in a community with only 250 adults; that’s 1 in 50 people. Even more people must be using. But it's not just about those on reserve. When you count the cousins, the kids and the other family members living away, there have been dozens. What happened, and what is the community doing to try and stem the crisis.
Host: Karyn Pugliese
Credits: Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer)
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Liberal MP Rob Oliphant was caught being critical of the Trudeau government’s policy on the Gaza war in a leaked phone call with a constituent. He is the parliamentary secretary to the foreign affairs minister and says he’s considering quitting. First announced in the 2018 Federal Budget the Local Journalism Initiative (LJI) has given 50 million dollars to help underserved communities maintain local media… This funding is set to expire at the end of March.
Host: Jonathan Goldsbie
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Guest: Allison Smith
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Dr. Ayman Oweida he’s doing everything he can to help his family survive. But he hears the bombs getting closer when speaking to them on the phone.
The eyewitness of Aunt Fatimah, who says she is the sole survivor of an attack by the IDF, has lead Oweida to sign onto a coalition asking the Canadian government to cease arms exports to Israel.
It might not save his family - but it might do something.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Cherise Seucharan (Reporter), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Jonathan Goldsbie (News Editor), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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Selon Yara El-Ghadban, romancière et éditrice montréalaise d’origine palestinienne, le rêve est un acte révolutionnaire. Dans cet épisode, Emilie invite Yara à partager des extraits de son ouvrage Les racistes n'ont jamais vu la mer, coécrit avec Rodney Saint-Éloi. Au cours de cette discussion franche, l’expression artistique, le deuil, et l’espoir s'entremêlent.
According to Yara El-Ghadban, a Montreal novelist and editor of Palestinian origin, dreaming is a revolutionary act. In this episode, Emilie invites Yara to share excerpts from her book Les racistes n'ont jamais vu la mer, co-written with Rodney Saint-Éloi. Over the course of this candid discussion, artistic expression, grief, and hope coalesce.
Animation : Emilie Nicolas
Générique : Nancy Pettinicchio (Production), Tristan Capacchione (Production technique), Karyn Pugliese (Rédactrice en chef)
Coanimation : Yara El-Ghadban
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Is radio not a viable business anymore? Bell Media said this in a release in the wake of massive layoffs. And Pierre Poilievre is waging a bizarre battle with the media … including the (controversial) Canadian Press.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), André Proulx (Production Coordinator), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Guest: Jon Pole
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Introducing CanadaLabs – a hub for the next generation of audio journalists! To learn more, including how to apply to the Audio Journalism Fellowship Program or submit to our first short-form audio contest, visit canadaland.com/canadalabs
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After Max Krangle left Big Tobacco he went to work for the porn business. Jesse and Max explore whether the business lessons learned in porn, one of the world’s most successful enterprises, can apply to journalism, one of the world’s most vulnerable industries.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Jonathan Goldsbie (News Editor), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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The Alberta Premier has a UCP leadership election this year, and apparently she needs transphobic voter support more than she cares about keeping the government out of classrooms and kids’ pronouns. And invitations for Nazis, cancellations for Jews - we analyze the shameful takedown of NDP MLA Selina Robinson and try to figure out where exactly the line for cancellable offence is.
Correction (Feb. 8, 2024): This episode originally described Susan Kim as a member of British Columbia’s Legislative Assembly, suggested that Premier David Eby allowed her to continue in her role after she apologized for casting doubt on the use of sexual violence by Hamas. Kim is in fact a Victoria city councillor who added her name to a late-October open letter that made reference to “the unverified accusation that Palestinians were guilty of sexual violence.” While Municipal Affairs Minister Anne Kang called on Kim to apologize (which she subsequently did), and declined to call for Kim’s resignation, Premier Eby himself did not weigh in.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Jess Schmidt (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Guest: Rachel Matlow
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Two journalists, Kathleen Martens and Brandi Morin, have been closely following the ongoing crises faced by unhoused people, largely Indigenous, in so-called “tent cities”. They have been documenting the political and police action to remove the encampments. In Brandi’s case, she was arrested for doing her work as a journalist, which brought the eyes of the world on her. But the story isn’t about Brandi, it’s about the people she has been speaking with.
Editor-in-chief Karyn Pugliese sits down with Kathleen and Brandi to talk about the people they have met, their experiences, and what some of the causes of homelessness are for them.
Have tent cities and homelessness become the new normal?
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Featured guests: Kathleen Martens, Brandi Morin
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En début de semaine, la chroniqueuse Toula Drimonis a vu la publication en français de son livre "Nous, les autres", suite au succès de la version originale anglaise en 2022. Fille d'immigrants grecs, l'auteure partage son vécu ainsi que celui des immigrants d'autres horizons au sein de la société québécoise. Dans un contexte où les débats sur l'immigration retournent à l'avant-scène de l'actualité, Toula se joint à Emilie pour évoquer les risques liés à l'attribution de la crise du logement à l'immigration. Parallèlement, alors que les immigrantes sont surreprésentées dans des maisons d’hébergement du Québec, leurs voix sont-elles entendues dans le paysage médiatique actuel ?
AVERTISSEMENT : Dans la deuxième partie de cet épisode, nous discutons de violence à caractère sexuelle et de violence basée sur le genre. Si vous êtes à la recherche de soutien, le lien suivant vous dirigera vers des ressources à travers le Canada : https://canadianwomen.org/fr/vous-cherchez-un-soutien/
Earlier this week, columnist Toula Drimonis saw the publication in French of her book "Nous, les autres", following the success of the original English version in 2022. As the daughter of Greek immigrants, she shares her experiences and those of immigrants from other backgrounds within Quebec society. With debates on immigration once again taking centre stage in the news, Toula joins Emilie in discussing the risks of associating the housing crisis solely with an increase in immigration. And while immigrant women are over-represented Quebec shelters, are their voices heard in today's media landscape?
WARNING: In the second half of the episode, the co-hosts discuss sexual violence and gender-based violence. If you are seeking support, the following link will direct you to resources across Canada: https://canadianwomen.org/support-services/
Animation : Emilie Nicolas
Générique : Nancy Pettinicchio, Tristan Capacchione, Karyn Pugliese
Coanimation : Toula Drimonis
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How much information should the public get when it comes to the motivations of a suspected shooter attacking a government building? And the new global order of internet governance that applies only to Taylor Swift - unpacking AI-generated deep fake porn.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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Every social media platform prizes something different. With Instagram, it’s aesthetics. On TikTok, it’s theatre-kid energy. And with Twitter, it was information and wit, conveyed via the written word.
Jonathan Goldsbie is very good at Twitter. But Twitter is no longer Twitter.
Every platform gradually withers — but since Elon Musk purchased it, the site’s ongoing transformation into the very worst version of itself has been by design.
So what’s a person like Goldsbie to do, when confronted with the prospect of terminal, destructive decline? What happens when X spots a mark?
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Jonathan Goldsbie (News Editor), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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From cash cows to scapegoats, has there been a change in how we talk about international students? And how Canada’s provincial governments have, one by one, told the Canada Border Services Agency that they no longer want a role in a system decried as inhumane.
Clarification: Canadaland would like to clarify there are other requirements to maintain a permanent residency in Canada. One such example is a residency requirement. While there are some exceptions, individuals generally need to have spent at least 730 days (the equivalent of two years) in Canada over the previous five years.
Host: Jonathan Goldsbie
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Guest: Damilola Onime
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For years Canadian media has been saying that Canada is a world leader in regulating big tobacco and is a global success story when it comes to weaning the public off of cigarettes.
Last week there were headlines about the decline of tobacco use in Canada — according to the World Health Organization stats that say we are beating just about every country when it comes to convincing people to kick the habit.
Given the tone and the content of news coverage on Canada's anti-smoking effort, and you might have the idea that:
According to Max Krangle, a lawyer who worked for Big Tobacco companies like RJ Reynolds for 12 years, you would be wrong. He says the cigarette business is more profitable than ever and that government regulations are the reason why.
Correction: In a previous edition of this episode, the guest Max Krangle said that, to account for tobacco revenue loss, income tax would have to increase by 10%. Host Jesse Brown, misinterpreted this and asked if that would mean that tobacco revenue accounts for 10% of total tax revenue. Krangle mistakenly agreed. That exchange has been removed.
Host: Jesse Brown
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AVERTISSEMENT : Dans la deuxième partie de cet épisode, nous discutons de violence à caractère sexuelle et de violence basée sur le genre. Si vous êtes à la recherche de soutien, le lien suivant vous dirigera vers des ressources à travers le Canada : https://canadianwomen.org/fr/vous-cherchez-un-soutien/
Dans cet épisode spécial de début d'année, Vanessa Destiné, chroniqueuse et animatrice, se joint à Emilie pour discuter des sujets marquants de janvier. Elles abordent les conséquences de prendre position (ou de rester silencieux) sur le génocide en Palestine, ainsi que l'état du star système dans le milieu du cinéma et de la télévision en France et au Québec. À l’approche des élections américaines, Emilie et Vanessa partagent leurs prédictions pour 2024.
CONTENT WARNING: In the second half of the episode, the co-hosts discuss sexual violence and gender-based violence. If you are seeking support, the following link will direct you to resources across Canada: https://canadianwomen.org/support-services/
In this special episode to kick off the new year, columnist Vanessa Destiné joins Emilie to discuss key issues in the media this January. The co-hosts discuss the consequences of taking a stand (or remaining silent) on the genocide in Palestine, as well as the state of the star system in film and television in France and Quebec. With the upcoming American elections in mind, Emilie and Vanessa share their predictions for 2024.
Animation : Emilie Nicolas
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I know you want to read about what celebrity chef Mary Berg did, but DON’T click on the link - it’s clickbait! And Trump is back in a big way. Did we learn anything from the last time?
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Guest: Sandy Garossino
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Activist Esra’a Al-Shafei has gone to extreme lengths to keep her image offline. But one day that privacy was breached — or so she thought.
Her story is just one of many of the real life impacts of our development and use of artificial intelligence.
Can Canada create a guardrail good enough to protect us — and our data — from these kinds of harms? Or have we passed the point of no return?
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Cherise Seucharan (Reporter), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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Canada’s major newspapers take a stance on antisemitic attacks happening in Toronto. And PM Justin Trudeau heads to the beach.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Guest: Phoebe Maltz Bovy
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For newsrooms across the country, covering the war with Israel and Palestine has been tremendously difficult. Tensions are high, emotions are very fragile, and resources are at record lows. Today, we're going to try to give you some idea of just what it has been like for journalists to work under these conditions.
Canadaland Editor-in-Chief, Karyn Pugliese, sits down with Dave Seglins, a CBC journalist who spent 25 years as a frontline reporter and investigative journalist. After experiencing work-related PTSD, he's purposed himself as a champion of well-being in the newsroom. She also speaks with Brent Jolly, the president of the Canadian Association of Journalists, about what he's hearing from reporters across the country.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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There’s a really popular Canadian politics YouTube channel with hundreds of anti-Trudeau videos. Something seemed a little fishy though. Jesse, Jonathan, and Karyn start pulling at a thread that ultimately takes their search to the other side of the world.
There’s a video on YouTube titled “Trudeau’s Alleged AFFAIR with Minister of AFFAIRS” that baselessly suggests the prime minister’s marriage fell apart due to a dalliance with a member of his cabinet. It has 473,903 views.
It’s the biggest hit for a channel called Street Politics Canada that, for more than a year, has been churning out anti-Trudeau content day after day. Street Politics claims to be an “independent news organization” based in Canada that is “clear and upfront” about their biases — but who are they, and why haven’t we heard of them before?
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Often underreported or ignored by national media, the unique and complex issues facing the people who call Yukon home rarely get the attention they deserve. In this LIVE TAPING Mattea Roach, Michelle Friesen, Tosh Southwick, and Carissa Waugh take part in a smart, nuanced, and engaging conversation centering the opportunities, and political and social challenges up north. But most importantly, this episode speaks to the absolute need to have tough and sometimes uncomfortable conversations about reconciliation.
Host: Mattea Roach
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Noor Azrieh (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Guests: Michelle Friesen, Tosh Southwick, Carissa Waugh
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In the 1960s and 70s, there was a fear that cult leaders were brainwashing young people into joining their new, strange movements. But is it even possible to “brainwash” anyone?
At a psychiatric hospital in Montreal, one mad scientist, with the help of the CIA, tried to find out.
Featured in this episode: Alison Steel, Lisa Ellenwood
To learn more:
Brainwashed by Michelle Shephard, Lisa Ellenwood & Chris Oke on CBC Podcasts
The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control by John Marks
Father, Son and CIA by Harvey Weinstein
MK Ultra: CIA mind control program in Canada by CBC’s The Fifth Estate
“Federal government quietly compensates daughter of brainwashing experiments victim” by Elizabeth Thompson in CBC News
Credits: Arshy Mann (Host & Producer), Jordan Cornish (Producer), Noor Azrieh (Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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Stories of big news breaking when everyone else is on vacation
People might take holidays, but the news doesn’t. For your holiday listening needs, here are stories from reporters who have worked Christmas in their newsrooms. It’s the good, the bad and the funny.
A Canadaland tradition, now updated with a new story.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Bruce Thomson (Producer) Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor) Jonathan Goldsbie (News Editor), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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Dans ce dernier épisode de l'année, Emilie Nicolas co-anime avec Aurélie Lanctôt, chroniqueuse au Devoir et doctorante à l'Université McGill. Revenant sur un été marqué par des feux de forêt records, les co-animatrices s'interrogent sur le paradoxe entre les effets de plus en plus tangibles des changements climatiques et l'absence inquiétante d'action politique de la part de nos gouvernements fédéral et provinciaux. Alors que les grèves se poursuivent dans le secteur public québécois, le gouvernement caquiste changera-t-il son ton lors des négociations en cours ?
In this final episode of the year, Emilie Nicolas co-hosts with Aurélie Lanctôt, columnist for Le Devoir and doctoral student at McGill University. Looking back on a summer marked by record forest fires, the co-hosts reflect on the paradox between the increasingly tangible effects of climate change and the disturbing lack of political action on the part of our federal and provincial governments. As strikes continue in Quebec's public sector, will the CAQ government change its tone during ongoing negotiations?
Animation : Emilie Nicolas
Générique : Nancy Pettinicchio (Production), Caleb Thompson (Production technique), Karyn Pugliese (Rédactrice en chef)
Co-animation : Aurélie Lanctôt
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Islamophobia and antisemitism are on the rise in Canada - but if there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s that teenagers becoming radicalized and making homemade bombs is not okay.
Plus, the latest on how Bill C-18 the Online News Act continues to screw over independent media…this time with Google’s $100 million exemption pie for Canadian broadcasters to scrap over.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Jess Schmidt (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Guest: Jan Wong
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We asked people to call Jesse and argue about… whatever, in the true spirit of this festive season.
A return for a second listen to this evergreen Holiday Season special from 2020. Featuring CBC Radiohost Piya Chattopadhyay, newsletter maker Marc Weisblott, journalist Kareem Shaheen, Maureen from Calgary, Simon from Toronto and so many more….
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With so much going on in the world, how could we possibly cover it all on one Short Cuts? By breaking it up into digestible chunks of varying levels of importance, that’s how!
Jonathan and Karyn reteam for an all–Duly Noted edition of Short Cuts, spanning everything from the National Post’s somehow-even-more-conservative-than-before coverage of Israel to that one baseball man who people thought was on his way to Toronto but wasn’t. And did a whistleblower actually deliver anonymous, in-person testimony to Parliament this week? Sort of!
Host: Jonathan Goldsie
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Guest: Karyn Pugliese
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Usually when Canadaland does a story on reporters in conflict we’re talking to a reporter who has had boots on the ground, someone who’s dodged bullets in hot zones and has the scars and the PTSD to prove it. But not this time. This time we’re speaking with Anthony Feinstein a professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He specializes in the psychological distress of journalists. He treats journalists as patients, and he does research into the kind of psychological trauma that commonly afflicts them. In fact, he created the field of study focused on psychological trauma in journalists - it simply did not exist before him.
Host: Jesse Brown
Guest: Anthony Feinstein, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.
Credits: Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Jonathan Goldsbie (News Editor), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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À la suite de son mandat de députée de Québec solidaire à l'Assemblée nationale de 2018 à 2022, Catherine Dorion s'est lancée dans l'écriture d'un livre. Paru le 13 novembre dernier, Les têtes brûlées : Carnets d'espoir punk raconte l'attention médiatique qui a entouré Catherine durant son mandat. L’ex-députée se joint à Émilie, qui a elle aussi grandi dans la région de Québec, pour réfléchir à l'influence des médias – en particulier de la radio-poubelle – non seulement sur la politique provinciale, mais aussi sur la vie quotidienne de divers groupes marginalisés. Un échange sincère entre deux femmes de Québec qui dérangent.
Following her mandate as a Québec solidaire Member of National Assembly from 2018 to 2022, Catherine Dorion set out to write a book. Released on November 13, Les têtes brûlées : Carnets d'espoir punk recounts the media attention that surrounded Catherine during her mandate. Catherine joins Emilie, who also grew up in the Quebec City region, to reflect on the influence of the media – and more specifically of trash-radio – not only on provincial politics but also on the everyday lives of various marginalized groups. A heartfelt exchange between two Québec City women who disrupt the status quo.
Animation: Emilie Nicolas
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David Suzuki spent decades of his life sounding the alarm about environmental destruction, as host of the CBC TV show The Nature of Things and other radio programs. When he looks at the world today, he’s frustrated. “We haven’t done a goddamn thing about the issues being raised,” he tells Jesse.
He also talks about the failures of Capitalism, the people who have tried to take him down, and his concerns with the state of discourse today.
This conversation was recorded in September, 2023
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CBC makes huge cuts - with plans to eliminate 600 positions. Is it time for a good hard look in the mirror to figure out what its future could look like? And Pierre Poilievre turns to documentary film to explain the housing crisis.
Host: Jesse Brown
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Guest: Paul Wells
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Editor’s note: An earlier version of this episode contained characterizations of slain Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar that Canadaland has been unable to independently verify, and as such have been removed.
To put it lightly, Canada’s relations with India and China have lately been a mess, with allegations of assassination, retaliation, interference, and spying. And that was before a recent Globe report raised new questions about why China detained the “Michaels,” and before U.S. prosecutors charged an Indian national in a “murder-for-hire conspiracy” apparently connected to the killing of a Sikh activist in Surrey.
Today’s conversation with Sam Cooper, the reporter who broke the story about alleged Chinese interference in Canadian elections, will take you inside the mess — and help make sense of it.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Jonathan Goldsbie (News Editor), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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Margaret Atwood returns to talk about getting in trouble, being treated in the media as some sort of prophet, and whether there are times when authoritarianism could in fact help us solve major problems.
This conversation was recorded in September, 2023
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Danielle Smith’s Sovereignty Act is like trying to get away with amending the Constitution via a hastily-scrawled Post-it note, flimsily affixed while no one’s looking. Spare a thought for the poor Alberta reporters who have to explain that, on top of their normal work of attempting to make energy policy engaging.
And if 10 years is a long time in the life of a digital media company, how do we describe 20 for an indie magazine?
The Narwhal’s Drew Anderson co-hosts.
Host: Jonathan Goldsbie
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Canadaland publisher Jesse Brown has been asked to stop talking about antisemitism.
He's also been asked whether he will denounce Israel, or if he is in fact a Zionist.
In this opinion piece, Jesse tries to clear things up once and for all.
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Journalists report the news. They hear about a story, write it up, verify the facts, and then hit “publish”.
But, occasionally a story comes in from someone else and then they, more or less, just hit “publish”.
Public relations professionals are master spin doctors. They know how to get the story they want to tell, which may or may not be true (or at least not the full truth), published in major newspapers and sites across the country.
Everyone does this: governments, corporations, institutions, police departments, and so on. And as the number of journalists in the country continues its slow decline, the number of people working in PR has increased by nearly eight times in the past thirty years. With that disparity, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to verify and dedicate time to every story that comes in.
Journalist Cecil Rosner sits down with Jesse and Karyn for a rich discussion about the power that PR firms can hold in setting the narrative in what the public should think and believe.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Jonathan Goldsbie (News Editor), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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Clarification (December 12, 2023): In the conversation, host Jesse Brown remarks that he’s “never read a story from PressProgress that would embarrass or contradict the agenda of the NDP,” adding, “Maybe they can correct me on that.” Taking Jesse up on this offer, PressProgress editor Luke LeBrun draws our attention to five stories critical of policies from British Columbia’s NDP government, and, stressing the outlet’s journalistic independence, notes they have “no rules forbidding our journalists from criticizing the NDP or any requirement that they must dogmatically align with the NDP’s policies or messaging on anything.”
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Une mobilisation citoyenne à grande échelle a lieu au Canada pour inciter le gouvernement Trudeau à demander un cessez-le-feu entre Israël et la Palestine. Jonathan McPhedran Waitzer se joint à Emilie pour discuter de la place des personnes alliées au sein des mouvements sociaux, soulignant particulièrement le rôle des personnes juives solidaires avec le peuple palestinien. Dans un deuxième temps, Jonathan, membre de l'équipe d'organisation nationale de Ressources en mouvement, met en lumière cette communauté de jeunes disposant de privilèges de classe qui luttent pour des changements systémiques au Canada.
Protestors have taken to the streets across Canada to urge the Trudeau government to call for a ceasefire between Israel and Palestine. Jonathan McPhedran Waitzer joins Emilie to discuss the place of allies within social movements, highlighting the role of Jewish people in solidarity with the Palestinian people. Jonathan, a member of Resources Movement’s national organizing team, highlights the community of young people with class privilege who are fighting for systemic change in Canada.
Animation: Emilie Nicolas
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Rick Mercer started his career as a media critic of sorts. He broke into the national consciousness with a one man show taking on an establishment journalist, called Show Me the Button: I'll Push It (or Charles Lynch Must Die). He talks to Jesse about his path from angry young outsider to palling around with politicians on TV. He also talks about developing his pioneering blend of news and comedy in This Hour Has 22 Minutes and The Mercer Report, why he wouldn’t do Talking to Americans in the Youtube age, and why political satire in Canada is far friendlier than its American counterpart.
This conversation was recorded in September, 2023
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As news breaks of a temporary ceasefire in Gaza, Emilie Nicolas and Mattea Roach discuss anti-Palestinian media bias in media as well as look at the deaths of over 50 journalists in the region. They also talk about dwindling faith in Canadian media as more layoffs rock the industry.
Host: Emilie Nicolas
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Guest: Mattea Roach
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Ryan McMahon and Jon Thompson team up with Cherise Seucharan for the conclusion to Post Mortem, a two-episode dive into the connection between the police, the coroners, and the canary in a coal mine for death investigations across the province.
Host: Jesse Brown
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As sexual assault convictions stack up for Peter Nygard, another alleged predator is walking free in Montreal. And an Ontario teacher under fire for teaching about socialist economics - in his economics class.
Host: Jesse Brown
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Guest: Jan Wong
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What defines someone’s national identity? Is it a drop of blood from a distant relative? Is it living in a community? Is it being accepted by that community as a member? Do we approach that question differently if we have Italian ancestry versus Indigenous ancestry?
Justin continues his conversations with Qalipu leaders, community members, and distant relatives in his search to understand what it means to be Mi’kmaq, whether it’s right to claim a Mi’kmaq identity, and what he should tell his kids about who they really are.
Host: Justin Brake
Credits: Justin Brake (Writer & Reporter), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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For over five years, Canadaland has been investigating Thunder Bay, Ontario. Specifically, we have been trying to figure out why there were so many unanswered questions around the deaths of Indigenous people in this one Ontario town.
We have looked at the cops. The schools. The courts. The government. The people in the town itself. But we never looked at the coroners and the forensic pathologists who are a central part of death investigations. And once we started to do so, freedom of information requests and leaked reports pointed to even greater problems with how deaths are investigated, that could span the entire province.
And so we went back to Thunder Bay.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Cherise Seucharan (Reporter), Jon Thompson (Reporter), Ryan McMahon (Reporter), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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Un nouveau documentaire, Ados et armés, traite de la question de l’usage croissant des armes à feu chez les adolescents québécois. Le film donne la chance aux adolescents concernés de parler pour eux-mêmes. Le réalisateur du film, Fabrice Vil, se joint à nous pour parler des problèmes systémiques qui nous ont amenés ici. Nous parlons aussi de racisme dans le sport, suite à une histoire dans Le Droit concernant le traitement choquant infligé à deux joueurs racisés dans une ligue de hockey jeunesse à Gatineau.
A new documentary, Ados et armés, digs into the issue of rising gun use among Quebec teens, giving the affected teens a chance to speak about it in their own voices. The director, Fabrice Vil, joins us to talk about the systemic problems behind this issue. We also talk about racism in sports, following a shocking story in Le Droit about the treatment of two racialized players in a youth hockey league in Gatineau.
Animation: Emilie Nicolas
Générique: Nancy Pettinicchio (Production), Kevin Sexton (Production), Tristan Capacchione (Production technique), Karyn Pugliese (Rédactrice en chef)
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You’ve heard a lot from Jesse this crowdfunding campaign, it's time for Editor in Chief Karyn Pugliese (Pabàmàdiz) to share her vision for Canadaland.
Karyn has seen journalism change Canada before, knows that it actually can make a difference in the conversations we have in this country, and in our democracy.
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The new refrain in the press gallery is that Trudeau has got to go. How seriously should we take this? And the world of deep fakes has come for Canadian news anchors. Glen McGregor co-hosts.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Guest: Glen McGregor
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When Newfoundland joined Canada as the tenth province in 1949, both the new province and the federal government neglected to mention in their terms of union that any indigenous people lived there. That meant Canada had no legal obligations to Mi’kmaq or Innu under the Indian Act. So First Nations peoples there were left out.
Over the decades, Mi’kmaq on the island fought for official recognition. Following the creation of Miawpukek First Nation (Conne River) in the early 1980s, the federal government finally agreed in the 2000s to recognize Mi’lkmaq in Central and Western Newfoundland, The Qalipu Mi’kmaq First Nation was formed. More than 100,000 people applied to join the new band, leading many to question the authenticity of those claims.
Justin speaks with experts and Qalipu community leaders to figure out how the community defines who is or isn’t Mi’kmaq. He wants to know because he and his family enrolled with Qalipu, but as Justin learned more about his ancestry, he began to question whether that claim was legitimate.
And if that claim wasn’t legitimate, what would that mean for the thousands of other Qalipu members?
Host: Justin Brake
Credits: Justin Brake (Writer & Reporter), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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Jill Heinerth is one of the most accomplished aquanauts in the world. With over 8500 dives, she is hired by some of the most notable names in film and television, from David Suzuki, to James Cameron.
But her life isn’t all about shooting epic underwater scenes for the big screen, a lot of her life is doing research in underwater caves, looking at organisms that few have ever seen before. She does this as part of scientific research that leads to groundbreaking medical discoveries, with applications for AIDS, breast cancer, and even COVID.
These dives are dangerous though, and each time she goes under, could be her last.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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It was impossible to look away once CBC released the story and Fifth Estate documentary questioning Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Indigenous identity. How well did the CBC do in its reporting? And an update on the Greenbelt scandal under Doug Ford - including an RCMP investigation. Kim Wheeler co-hosts.
Host: Jonathan Goldsbie
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Guest: Kim Wheeler
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In 2001, 9/11 forced airplanes from all over the world to suddenly land in Newfoundland. As communities responded to the crisis and welcomed people into their homes, there was a chance encounter between a Rabbi from England and an elderly person from Gander, Newfoundland: Edward Brake, grandfather of reporter Justin Brake.
Edward told the Rabbi that he was a Holocaust survivor and had suppressed his Jewish identity his whole life. But now, he said, it was time to share his story before it was lost forever.
How could the entire Brake family be unaware of this history? If the story is true, what does that mean for Justin? Justin sets off on a quest, speaking to family and digging through provincial archives in search of answers.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Justin Brake (Writer & Reporter), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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We are way off our target for our crowdfunding goal this year. When we launched our campaign a few weeks ago, we had the best launch day ever.
And then a war broke out….
We have so many really exciting stories to report and plans for the coming year to tell you about, and our ability to move on them depends on your support right now.
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Le gouvernement caquiste du Québec a récemment proposé une nouvelle mesure qui, selon le premier ministre François Legault, protégera la langue française. Cette mesure consiste à augmenter les frais de scolarité pour les personnes non-québécoises souhaitant étudier dans une université au Québec. Comme cette hausse aurait certainement un impact sur les universités anglophones qui accueillent un grand nombre d’étudiant.es de l'extérieur de la province, les médias à travers le pays ont rapidement exprimé leur inquiétude. Andrew Parkin, directeur général de l'Environics Institute, se joint à Emilie pour discuter de la façon dont cette nouvelle mesure influence la perception du Québec par le reste du Canada. Andrew nous offre également un aperçu d'une nouvelle enquête par l’Environics Institute et l’Initiative du Siècle qui démontre que les attitudes envers l'immigration sont en train de changer parmi les Canadiens.
Quebec's CAQ government recently proposed a new measure which, according to Premier François Legault, will protect the French language. The measure involves raising tuition fees for non-Quebecers wishing to study at a university in Quebec. As this increase would certainly have an impact on English-language universities, which welcome a large number of students from outside the province, media outlets across the country were quick to express their concern. Andrew Parkin, Executive Director of the Environics Institute, joins Emilie to discuss how this new measure affects the rest of Canada's perception of Quebec. Andrew also provides an overview of a new study by the Environics Institute and the Century Initiative, which shows that attitudes towards immigration are changing among Canadians.
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Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre goes international by chomping on an apple. And journalist Tim Bousquet could face jail time for articles he published about a murder trial in Nova Scotia.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Guest: Tim Bousquet
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At ten years old, the Canadaland network has had its share of successes: investigative journalism, powerful accountability interviews, thoughtful analysis, critique of the media when it’s at its worst, and telling the weird, often untold stories about Canada.
It has also had a few misses, like hiring the voice actor for Lisa Simpson to advertise for the company.
Today’s episode features a few segments from the recent live show at the Hot Docs Podcast Festival, with hosts Mattea Roach, Jonathan Goldsbie, Allison Smith, Karyn Pugliese, Arshy Mann, and popular Short Cuts co-host Jan Wong interviews Jesse Brown.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Special Thanks: Crystal MacDonell, Michael Robinson, Patrick McKenna and the rest of the Hot Docs team who helped coordinate the event.
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As the conflict in Gaza and Israel continues to escalate, Pacinthe Mattar sits down with Jonathan to consider the ways in which narratives are shaped, journalists are obstructed, and parameters of discussion get enforced.
They also look at the RCMP’s response to photojournalist Amber Bracken’s wrongful-arrest lawsuit, which somehow finds a new way to wring controversy from the term “occupation.”
Correction: A previous version of this episode featured claims of an altercation between an alleged Israeli police officer and Arabic-speaking reporter, elements of which Canadaland has since not been able to verify.
Clarification (Nov. 6, 2023): Further clarification has been added to our web post.
Host: Jonathan Goldsbie
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Guest: Pacinthe Mattar
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Award-winning podcaster Connie Walker joins Jesse in studio to talk about the problems and racism she faced at the CBC, including the pushback she received when trying to tell stories about Indigenous women.
But that racism and pushback didn’t deter her. During her time at the CBC, she created what is now known as CBC Indigenous. She also created the hit podcast series Missing & Murdered which, despite its success, was canceled after two seasons. She remains committed to telling those stories, making sure that they are more than just footnotes in Canadian history, with her work on the series Stolen, at Gimlet Media, for which she recently won a Pulitzer Prize and a Peabody award.
Host: Jesse Brown
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L’Israël et le Hamas sont au centre de l’attention des médias du monde entier à la suite de l’escalade du conflit israélo-palestinien la fin de semaine dernière. Michel Cormier, ancien correspondant international et ancien directeur général de l'information à Radio-Canada, se joint à Émilie pour discuter de la couverture médiatique d’enjeux particulièrement sensibles. Que doivent garder à l’esprit les journalistes pour assurer une couverture juste et éthique ? Suite à plusieurs années à s’immerger dans des villes telles que Moscou, Paris et Pékin, Michel réfléchit à l’impact de ses correspondances internationales sur sa propre vision du monde.
Israel and Hamas are the focus of worldwide media attention following last weekend's escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Michel Cormier, former foreign correspondent and former Executive Director of News and Current Affairs at Radio-Canada, joins Emilie to discuss media coverage of particularly sensitive issues. What should journalists keep in mind to ensure fair and ethical coverage? After immersing himself in cities such as Moscow, Paris and Beijing for several years, Michel reflects on the impact of his role as a foreign correspondent on his own worldview.
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The violence that erupted in Israel and Gaza this past weekend has spawned a hurricane of misinformation. So, we’re fact-checking some of the early claims and posts about this war of the words from here in Canada. Plus, having the conversation you can’t have - we continue to explore the topic of empathy, Palestine, and Israel in a double-header episode to give it the attention it deserves.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Jess Schmidt (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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There’s a video on YouTube titled “Trudeau’s Alleged AFFAIR with Minister of AFFAIRS” that baselessly suggests the Prime Minister’s marriage fell apart due to a dalliance with a member of his cabinet. It has nearly half a million views.
It’s the biggest hit for a channel called Street Politics Canada that, for more than a year, has been churning out anti-Trudeau content day after day. Street Politics claims to be an “independent news organization” based in Canada that is “clear and upfront” about their biases — but who are they, and why haven’t we heard of them before?
On this week’s CANADALAND, host Jesse Brown, editor-in-chief Karyn Pugliese, and news editor Jonathan Goldsbie start pulling at a thread that ultimately takes their search to the other side of the world.
Host: Jesse Brown
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Elon Musk accused Justin Trudeau of “trying to crush free speech in Canada.” The jab was prompted by Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, which creates new regulations for online creators in Canada. So what does the law actually say? And what’s behind this growing international movement of painting Trudeau as a tyrant?
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Kevin Sexton (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Guest: Sabrina Maddeaux
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In 2016, a 56 year old Saskatchewan farmer named Gerald Stanley shot an unarmed 22 year-old Indigenous trespasser named Coulten Boushie in the back of the head. Stanley was acquitted of murder in 2018 — and nobody was happy.
Indigenous people considered the verdict proof positive of racial bias in the courts and a tacit declaration of open season on Indigenous people, including hunters, who take their lives in their hands when they exercise their treaty rights to access land.
Meanwhile, rural settlers in Saskatchewan formed a facebook group called Farmers with Firearms to protest slow RCMP response times to what they considered a growing epidemic of rural crime. 8500 people joined, and the comment section was filled with anti-Indigenous rhetoric and vows to exercise vigilante justice on anyone who sets foot on their property.
How do these two seemingly irreconcilable groups… reconcile?
Some Saskatchewan farmers and Indigenous hunters are trying to figure that out. As you might expect, reconciliation isn’t always easy.
Freelance reporter Kerry Benjoe brings you this true story from Saskatchewan, on this National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Kerry Benjoe (Reporter), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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La tension monte entre le Canada et l'Inde après que Justin Trudeau a accusé le gouvernement indien d'avoir joué un rôle dans l'assassinat du leader sikh Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Maïka Sondarjee rejoint Emilie pour discuter des angles morts des médias dans la couverture de cette accusation et des réactions qui s'ensuivent. Ce n'est pas la première histoire controversée impliquant le Canada et ses relations internationales dernièrement. Quelle est la réputation internationale actuelle du Canada ?
Tension rises between Canada and India after Justin Trudeau accused the Indian government of playing a role in the assassination of Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Maïka Sondarjee joins Emilie to discuss the media's blind spots in covering this accusation and the reactions that followed. This isn't the first controversial story involving Canada and its international relations in recent news. What is Canada's current international reputation?
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A “Ukrainian who served in Nazi unit” was applauded in Canadian Parliament - let’s just call a Nazi a Nazi. And history is repeating itself in the “parental rights” movement.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Guest: Andrea Houston
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This week’s show features Chris Oliveros, publisher and founder of Montreal’s Drawn and Quarterly, one of the most respected publishing houses for comic book literature in the world.
Chris has brought to the world books from authors like Robert Crumb, Julie Doucet, Chris Ware, Kate Beaton, Chester Brown and Dan Clowes.
But eight years ago Chris left his job as publisher at D&Q to write and draw his own comic - his first in almost 30 years. It's called “Are You Willing to Die For The Cause,” a work of journalism that tells the largely forgotten story of the real origins of the FLQ - the militant, violent Quebec separatist group that changed Canadian history forever.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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If it weren’t for the Globe and Mail, would Prime Minister Trudeau have publicly accused India of being involved in the killing of Hardeep Nijjar? And Canada loses 70 newspapers as Metroland ends their print circulation.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Guest: Shree Paradkar
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André Proulx is a wine writer who has worked for Newstalk 1010, CTV News, Quench Magazine, and Toronto Life. As dollars in traditional media disappear for journalists, it’s getting harder and harder to make money writing lifestyle content — including wine writing. In today’s landscape, is one of Canada’s most influential wine writers double-dipping, taking money from both The Toronto Star - and the people who represent the wines she’s reviewing?
To discuss the current landscape of wine writing André spoke with Chris Waters, wine writer for the Globe and Mail, and Rick VanSickle of Wines in Niagara. To explain how wine sales with the LCBO works he spoke with Ben Hardy of Vintage Selector wines, tech experts Carmi Levy and Dan Spearin, and media lawyer Miro Oballa.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: André Proulx (Reporter), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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Le 10 septembre 2001, Rima Elkouri devient chroniqueuse au journal La Presse. Le 11 septembre 2001, elle devient chroniqueuse arabe. Rima se joint à Emilie pour réfléchir aux histoires nécessaires et nuancées qu'elle écrit depuis les 25 dernières années. Puis, dix ans après la présentation de la Charte des valeurs québécoises à l’Assemblée nationale, est-ce qu’il y a eu une évolution dans les médias québécois sur le sujet de la laïcité ?
On September 10, 2001, Rima Elkouri became a columnist for La Presse. On September 11, 2001, she became an Arab columnist. Rima joins Emilie to reflect on the necessary and nuanced stories she has written over the course of the past 25 years. And ten years after the Parti québécois presented the Quebec Charter of Values to the National Assembly, has the subject of secularism evolved in Quebec media?
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Oh what a circus, oh what a show, as a newly reenergized Conservative Party of Canada holds its first convention with Pierre Poilievre as leader. Under this tent, everyone from anti-trans activists to British aristocrats are apparently welcome, because nothing says “populism” like telling people you know what’s best for them.
And as the strike at TVOntario creeps toward month two, we anxiously await Polkaroo’s show of solidarity.
Jacobin’s Luke Savage joins Jonathan on Short Cuts.
Host: Jonathan Goldsbie
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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Rob Goodman was a congressional staffer in the US and as a rising authoritarian movement brought America to the brink of a coup, he did what all Americans threaten to do when they are fed up with their country: he moved to Canada. Now an Assistant Professor in the department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University, he has an urgent warning for his adopted country.
Jesse sits down with Rob to talk about his new book, “Not Here: Why American Democracy Is Eroding and How Canada Can Protect Itself.”
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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We’re beginning to see the consequences of the Greenbelt scandal. Why does Premier Ford refuse to take accountability? As the trial for the convoy organizers begins, Tamara Lich’s cult of personality is ramping up in the press.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Guest: Alan S. Hale
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This episode originally aired on May 3, 2015
It’s possible that Chantal Hébert’s journalism once held Canada together. She joins Jesse for a discussion about what’s appropriate in political news coverage, and what (if anything) needs to change.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Cassidy Villebrun-Buracas (Associate Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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Le modèle familial traditionnel est en pleine évolution. Comment l'adoption internationale s’inscrit-elle dans les conversations actuelles autour de la parentalité ? Emilie invite Amandine Gay pour discuter de son travail en tant que cinéaste, autrice et militante qui lutte pour les personnes adoptées et, plus précisément, pour leur prise de parole. Emilie et Amandine réfléchissent à la manière dont le racisme est abordé (ou effacé!) en France. Peut-on mieux comprendre la société québécoise en déchiffrant la politique française ?
The traditional family model is in the midst of evolution. How does international adoption fit into current conversations surrounding parenthood? Emilie invites Amandine Gay to discuss her work as a filmmaker, author, and activist fighting for adoptees and, more specifically, for their voices. Emilie and Amandine reflect on how racism is addressed (or how it is erased!) in France. Can we better understand Quebec society by examining French politics?
Animation: Emilie Nicolas
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With more provinces jumping aboard the prejudiced pronoun panic, Jesse and Karyn pick apart the misleading narratives that are helping fuel it.
They also shine light on a legal battle the Toronto Star has quietly been waging to protect a confidential source.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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In the past several years, Loblaws, Metro and Empire have spent billions on their own stock - And at a time of food price inflation and grocery workers on strike.
Why are they doing it? And why do some economists say stock buybacks should be abolished?
Featured in this episode:
William Lazonick, professor emeritus of economics at University of Massachusetts
Jim Stanford, director of the Centre for Future Work
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Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Cherise Seucharan (Reporter), Jonathan Goldsbie (News Editor), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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With Canadians in the North and West fleeing their homes to escape the encroaching infernos, wouldn’t it be great if there were places online they could congregate to share news?
Ollie Williams of Yellowknife’s Cabin Radio joins Jonathan to examine how the wildfire evacuations in the Northwest Territories have offered a (surprisingly encouraging!) glimpse into our post-social-media future.
Also: How many CRTC commissioners does it take to reject an application for a broadcast license? They won’t say!
Host: Jonathan Goldsbie
Credits: Kattie Laur (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Guest: Ollie Williams
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After months of national coverage, we still don't really know.
Today we're going to hear from a senior journalist, about his skepticism regarding Foreign Interference. We're going to hear an editorial, an opinion - but a reported opinion and an informed one. Bruce Livesey knows about which he speaks - he knows about the specific newsrooms of which he speaks, because he used to work for both of them. He was an investigative reporter for both of the news organizations that have been reporting leaked CSIS documents - The Globe and Mail and Global News.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Bruce Livesey (Additional Reporting), Jonathan Goldsbie (News Editor), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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AVERTISSEMENT : Dans cet épisode, nous discutons de violence à caractère sexuelle et de violence basée sur le genre, y compris la violence impliquant des mineurs. Si vous êtes à la recherche de soutien, le lien suivant vous dirigera vers des ressources à travers le Canada : https://canadianwomen.org/fr/vous-cherchez-un-soutien/
Alors que le mouvement #MoiAussi battait son plein en 2017, le gouvernement du Québec adoptait une loi-cadre qui vise à prévenir et combattre les violences sexuelles dans les cégeps et les universités. Emilie invite Léa Clermont-Dion pour discuter de l’impact de cette loi-cadre, ainsi que des efforts militants et politiques pour mettre en place une telle loi dans les institutions préscolaire, primaire et secondaire. Auteure et chercheure universitaire, Léa explore également les questions féministes par le biais du cinéma. Emilie et Léa abordent le sujet difficile de la cyberviolence en discutant du film documentaire co-réalisé par Léa, Je vous salue salope : La misogynie au temps du numérique.
CONTENT WARNING: In this episode, the co-hosts discuss sexual violence and gender-based violence, including violence involving minors. If you are seeking support, the following link will direct you to resources across Canada: https://canadianwomen.org/support-services/
While the #MeToo movement was in full swing in 2017, the Quebec government adopted a framework law aimed at preventing and combating sexual violence in CEGEPs and universities. Emilie invites Léa Clermont-Dion to discuss the impact of this framework law, as well as the activist and political efforts to implement such a law in preschools, elementary schools, and high schools. An author and academic researcher, Léa also explores feminist issues through filmmaking. Emilie and Léa tackle the difficult subject of cyber-violence by discussing the documentary film co-directed by Léa, Backlash: Misogyny in the Digital Age.
Animation: Emilie Nicolas
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Does Pierre Poilievre touting conspiracy theories count as news? And will the revelations about Doug Ford’s development of the Greenbelt amount to anything?
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Guest: Nora Loreto
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In Cuba wide public access to the internet is only a few years old. The press is still severely restricted by the government. But there is something of a small podcast boom taking shape in the country.
So in a country where the press is under constant threat of intimidation, interrogation, and being jailed, how do you make a podcast that can challenge the government?
Today we talk to Cuban podcaster Camilo Condis.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Jonathan Goldsbie (News Editor), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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With Meta making good on its threat to expunge news from Facebook and Instagram, Canada’s publishers and broadcasters pin their hopes on the Competition Bureau to set things right. (We’re doomed?)
And when the Liberals promised to plant 2 billion trees, they probably weren’t betting that anyone would actually try to keep count.
The Narwhal’s Mike De Souza joins Jonathan on Short Cuts.
Host: Jonathan Goldsbie
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Guest: Mike De Souza
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Jesse Brown might think himself quite the question master, but today the tables have turned and our guest host, the Jonathan Torrens, investigates the inner workings of this show's host. Is it possible to be too cynical?
Featured in this episode: Jonathan Torrens, actor, performer and writer best known for his beef with Jesse Brown and hosting shows like Street Cents, Jonovision and his role in Trailer Park Boys; Jesse Brown, early guest on Jonovision (and, I guess, the publisher of the Canadaland podcast network).
Credits: Jonathan Goldsbie (News Editor), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Sarah Lawryniuk (Former Senior Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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Xavier Watso, militant et créateur de contenu abénaki, se joint à Emilie pour discuter de l’évolution de la participation des personnes autochtones dans les médias québécois. Ayant récemment démissionné à la suite à 16 ans d’enseignement en art dramatique dans une école secondaire, Xavier nous partage également ses réflexions sur l’état actuel du système scolaire. Est-ce qu’il y a un écart entre la manière dont les médias couvrent le système éducatif au Québec et la réalité ou est-ce que les écoles s’écroulent pour de vrai ?
Xavier Watso, Abenaki activist and content creator, joins Emilie to discuss the evolution of the participation of Indigenous people in Quebec media. Having recently left his job as a high school drama teacher after 16 years, Xavier also shares his thoughts on the current state of the school system. Is there a gap between the media portrayal of the education system in Quebec and reality, or are schools really falling apart?
Animation: Emilie Nicolas
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Grocers sure are making it easy for us to be mad at them. And a serial killer, a landfill, and an all-too real metaphor playing out in Winnipeg. Plus Justin Trudeau and Sophie Grégoire Trudeau are calling it splits - and it’s probably all we’re going to hear about for the next while.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Guest: Karyn Pugliese
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What does Toronto’s response to the refugee crisis actually look like on the ground?
Just across the street from the Canadaland office, a crisis unfolded: dozens of asylum seekers camping out as they were unable to get space in city shelters. Some had been there for weeks.
After the federal government and the city both pledged that more support would be given to the asylum seekers, many were still there - being helped by a tenuous system of volunteers, donated goods, religious outreach and good samaritans.
Join reporter Cherise Seucharan and Editor in Chief Karyn Pugliese as they follow asylum seekers at 129 Peter Street as they search for a place to spend the night.
Credits: Jesse Brown, Host & Publisher, Cherise Seucharan, Reporter, Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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When anti-racism training goes wrong. Really, really wrong. How should the media talk about diversity, equity and inclusion responsibly?
And, Canada has its very own James Bond and its retired RCMP Officer, Bill Majcher. Only, Majcher was arrested this week and Canadian media has barely scratched the surface when it comes to answering, “who is this guy?”.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Kattie Laur (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)
Guest: Jan Wong
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Our news editor, Jonathan Goldsbie, ventured out to find his inner Polkaroo by way of an exhibit on the history of Canadian children’s television programming at Toronto’s Myseum. As he’d heard rumours that our publisher Jesse Brown and intrepid reporter Cherise Seucharan were actually children themselves, once upon a time, he invited them along.
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Skinnamarinky doo,
Now you can listen too!
Host: Jonathan Goldsbie
Credits: Jonathan Goldsbie (News Editor), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Featured in this episode: Ed Conroy Toronto-based cultural historian, archivist and online video producer. He is the Founder of Retrontario.com
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Originaire de Shediac au Nouveau-Brunswick, Xavier Gould nous partage des extraits de son tout premier livre des fleurs comme moi, un recueil de poésie témoignant de son vécu en tant que jeune personne queer en Acadie. Au courant de cette discussion avec Emilie, Xavier partage ses réflexions autour de la transidentité, l’humour et la langue. Ensemble, elles se demandent : quel impact a eu la montée des conservatismes transphobes sur les communautés queer rurales au Canada ?
Originally from Shediac, New Brunswick, Xavier Gould shares excerpts from their first book, des fleurs comme moi, a collection of poems about their experiences as a young queer person in Acadia. In this discussion with Emilie, Xavier shares her thoughts on trans identity, humour and language. Together, they ask: how has the recent rise of transphobic conservatisms impacted queer rural communities in Canada?
Animation: Emilie Nicolas
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Canada created a new pathway to permanent residency for a large number of Ukrainian refugees, as a group of asylum claimants from other countries were sleeping in the streets of Toronto. We discuss the political calculations involved in supporting displaced people. We also try to make sense of the ups and downs of the Bank of Canada.
Host: Erica Ifill
Credits: Kevin Sexton (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)
Guest: Nicholas Keung
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“When you can’t afford to lose” is not just Navigator’s trademarked slogan; it’s also its core business proposition. Although it offers a range of services, from market research to communications, Navigator is best known as the firm to which Canada’s rich and powerful turn when facing a crisis that could cost them that wealth and power.
Its highest-profile clients have included Michael Bryant and Jian Ghomeshi. More recently, it’s been a player in the controversies around Hockey Canada, the Special Rapporteur on Foreign Interference, and the Ottawa Police response to the convoy occupation. Bit by bit, we’ve gotten more insight into the work they do behind the scenes to — as one observer once put it to the Toronto Star — change your perceptions without you even knowing it.
On today’s episode, host Jesse Brown and news editor Jonathan Goldsbie offer a primer on the company that’s been a common thread running through many of the biggest Canadian news stories of the past 15 years.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Jonathan Goldsbie (News Editor), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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The Trudeau government won’t back down on Bill C-18 – except now they are. We also talk about the crypto crime that never happened, a threatening cop, Danielle Smith’s ‘vindication’ and updates to the Burns Lake Tribunal Hearing.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Guest: Dani Paradis
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Last month the Globe and Mail reported that Anton Skyba, their photojournalist in Ukraine, applied to the Ukrainian government to have his press credentials renewed - and was denied. Ukrainian security services accused him of holding a Russian passport, demanded that he take a lie-detector test, and questioned whether his work as a journalist was aligned with Ukraine’s “national interests.”
It was not an isolated incident.
Last year, Ukrainian Security - the SBU - sent a list of names to their friends in the FBI. The SBU explained that it was a list of people who they suspected of spreading “fear and disinformation” about Ukraine through their Twitter accounts. They asked the FBI to get Twitter to remove these peoples’ accounts - to censor them. One of the names on that list was Aaron Mate, a Canadian journalist who works for the website GrayZone.
Skyba and Mate talk to Canadaland about the state of press freedom in war-torn Ukraine.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Sarah Lawrynuik (Reporter), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor in Chief)
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Le 9 juin dernier, la ministre responsable de l’habitation au Québec propose le projet de loi 31 qui, entre autres amendements, vise à permettre aux propriétaires de refuser une cession de bail sans motif sérieux. La cession de bail étant un outil important au Québec pour prévenir les augmentations de loyers déraisonnables, cette proposition du gouvernement caquiste a suscité un débat sur le droit au logement et la réalité des locataires. Emilie et Nora Loreto, co-animatrices de l’épisode, discutent également du meutre d’un adolescent franco-algérien par un policier à Nanterre, France lors d’un contrôle routier. Est-ce que les conversations politiques et médiatiques autour de la violence policière en France résonnent au Canada ?
On June 9, Quebec's housing minister proposed Bill 31, which, among other amendments, would allow landlords to refuse a lease transfer without serious grounds. As lease transfers are an important tool in Quebec to prevent unreasonable rent increases, this proposal by the CAQ government has sparked a debate on housing rights and the reality of tenants. Emilie and episode co-host Nora Loreto also discuss the killing of a Franco-Algerian teenager by a police officer in Nanterre, France. Are there parallels between the political and media conversations around police violence in France and in Canada?
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Google and Meta respond to Bill C-18 by threatening to block Canadian news. And the first woman to head up the Assembly of First Nations is out after just two years, due to some combination of any or all of her own alleged misconduct, a conspiracy to depose her, and/or run-of-the-mill misogyny.
Host: Jonathan Goldsbie
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)
Guest: Karyn Pugliese
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Marc joins Jesse for a conversation about his plans to emigrate to Vancouver and the differences between Canada and the U.S. when it comes to fascism, comedy, and Jews.
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Toronto Star owner Nordstar and Postmedia are in talks to merge - a death knell to Canadian print media. Jesse and co-host Jaskaran Sandhu unpack the killing of Sikh community leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey - possibly at the hands of the Indian government. AND an expose of alleged misbehaviour at a middle school in Brampton.
Host: Jesse Brown
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Vancouver’s SROs are home to some of the most vulnerable people in the province, and some of the most challenging housing to run. So when Atira Women’s Resource Society stepped up to run several buildings, concerns that the CEO was in a relationship with the CEO of BC Housing, the provincial corporation in charge of that housing, were dismissed.
In the years that followed, there was growing concern about the conditions of the SROs, and why Atira’s portfolio kept growing.
Recently an explosive report released by third party investigators Ernst and Young revealed the truth.
This week’s episode by Cherise Seucharan looks at how a problem ignored for over a decade, came to light.
Featured in this episode: Jen St Denis, reporter at The Tyee; Frances Bula, reporter, The Globe and Mail.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Cherise Seucharan (Reporter), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)
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Avec May Chiu (coordinatrice de la Table ronde du Quartier chinois de Montréal et membre de l’Association des Chinois progressistes du Québec), Emilie se penche sur l’impact de l’actualité des derniers mois sur la communauté chinoise du Canada. Quels sont les impacts sur le terrain des enquêtes journalistiques du printemps sur l’ingérence de Beijing au pays ? La diversité des points de vue chez les Canadiens d’origine chinoise a-t-elle sa place dans les médias ? Comment protéger la démocratie canadienne contre l’ingérence étrangère sans stigmatiser toute une diaspora ?
With May Chiu (coordinator of the Montreal Chinatown Roundtable and member of the Association of Progressive Chinese Quebeckers), Emilie examines the impact of the news of recent months on the Chinese community in Canada. What are the impacts on the ground of last spring's journalistic investigations into Beijing's interference in the country? Does the diversity of views among Chinese Canadians have a place in the media? How can we protect Canadian democracy against foreign interference without stigmatizing an entire diaspora?
Animation: Emilie Nicolas
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Coanimation: Mei Chiu
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Do the billionaires on the missing Titan submarine deserve sympathy or scorn? While Canada and the US pull out all the stops to find it, days before, a boat off the coast of Greece capsized, killing 300, with minimal international attention. And we get into the behind-the-scenes of the CTV layoffs at Bell Media.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)
Guest: Ethan Cox
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It was in the winter of 2021 that the world first became aware of a mounting number of patients being seen in New Brunswick with unusual neurological symptoms. A year later, the Government of New Brunswick released a report dismissing the entire issue, claiming there was never a cluster of patients to begin with.
CANADALAND has obtained thousands and thousands of pages of internal documents that take us behind the scenes of that investigation that once caught the attention of the nation, before being dropped like a hot potato.
In this update to the story Dr. Marrero reveals new theories on the disease’s origins and the fact that his caseload has quadrupled to over 200 since our last report on the story.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Sarah Lawrynuik (Reporter), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)
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After weeks of navigating accusations of conflict, special rapporteur David Johnston finally ran aground. If you’re trying to persuade people of your unimpeachable independence, maybe don’t hire a communications firm that’s connected to everyone?
And, ah crap, the far right is fixated on queer people again.
The Rev. Dr. Cheri DiNovo co-hosts.
Host: Jonathan Goldsbie
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Guest: Cheri DiNovo
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In the mid-2010s, BuzzFeed News seemed like the most exciting place in media: an almost cloyingly whimsical carnival of abundance where journalists were actually happy. At a time when everything else appeared to be crumbling, it burst with hope and possibility.
Last month, after just a few years of layoffs and withering, it shut down for good.
And if the quick life and death of BuzzFeed News represented the whole past, present, and future of media collapsed into a single decade, then BuzzFeed Canada was a micocosm of that, living fast and dying young in just a fraction of the time.
Today, BuzzFeed Canada founding editor Craig Silverman (now with ProPublica) and longtime writer Elamin Abdelmahmoud (now with CBC Radio) sit down with Canadaland news editor Jonathan Goldsbie to look at how this strange thing got built up so fast, and what it was like on the inside as it rapidly slipped away
Host: Jonathan Goldsbie
Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Noor Azrieh (Associate Producer)
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Avec France-Isabelle Langlois (directrice générale d’Amnistie internationale Canada francophone) et Maïka Sondarjee (professeure adjointe à l’Université d’Ottawa, cofondatrice de Femmes expertes et auteure), Emilie se penche sur la haine (en ligne) à laquelle les femmes s’exposent de plus en plus lorsqu’elles prennent la parole publiquement sur les enjeux qui leur tiennent à cœur. Pourquoi est-ce que l’arène publique devient de plus en plus violente ? Comment les femmes se sont-elles adaptées et comment résistent-elles ? Et qu’est-ce qui peut être fait pour venir à bout de cette violence ?
Cette conversation a été enregistrée au Centre PHI à Montréal, le 8 juin 2023. Merci à l’équipe du Centre PHI.
Emilie is joined by France-Isabelle Langlois (Executive Director of Amnesty International Canada Francophone) and Maïka Sondarjee (assistant professor at the University of Ottawa, co-founder of Femmes Expertes and author) to discuss (online) hatred women are increasingly exposed to when they speak out publicly on the issues that matter to them. Why is the public arena becoming increasingly violent? How have women been coping, and resisting? And what can be done to put an end to this violence?
This conversation was recorded live at the PHI Centre in Montreal on June 8, 2023. Thank you to the team at the PHI Centre for their help with this event.
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Coanimation: France-Isabelle Langlois, Maïka Sondarjee
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Wildfires are coming at us from all sides. How can local reporters get at the root issues? And the implementation of Quebec's language law municipalities making fun of the new rules. Tim Bousquet co-hosts.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)
Guest: Tim Bousquet
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There's no beat more likely to get you an audience and a paycheck. It's trend-proof and recession-proof. Yes, true crime is freakishly popular right now, but it was never unpopular. Audiences have been showing up for gangster stories and murder stories and heist stories and scam stories steadily, for at least a hundred years, and probably a lot longer. It's big business.
But it’s a business that can come with a personal cost for its practitioners. How can you dig into the darkest parts of the human psyche, the most notorious crimes, and not feel guilty?
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)
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Despite Danielle Smith’s involvement in numerous scandals, she won a majority in Alberta’s election. Albertan Dani Paradis helps us understand why. And senior citizen sex shows, sex toy exhibits and art by Bryan Adams - you may not like it, but you’ve been paying for them, taxpayer! Well, no more.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)
Guest: Dani Paradis
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Big tech critic Cory Doctorow lays out a four-part plan to save the news media from big tech’s stranglehold.
The plan: create a comprehensive new privacy law, open up the app stores to true competition, return to the internet’s founding principle of true end to end delivery, and finally, splinter Meta and Google into smaller independent competing companies.
Would it work? How close are we to any of this?
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)
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Hockey is a hell of a lot of fun. But right now, the sport is going through a reckoning. Allegations of racism, corruption, sexual misconduct and so much more are rocking the game to its core.
But the truth is that in Canada, hockey is more than just a sport. It’s a civic religion, with a billion dollar business attached to it.
Over the next seven episodes, COMMONS will be digging into the cult of hockey, scrutinizing its doctrines and exposing its secrets.
Featured in this episode: Ian Kennedy (The Hockey News)
Editor’s Note: a different version of this episode was published on the subscriber-only feed of Commons. No inaccuracies were found in the original version, changes were made by the Editor in Chief for storytelling purposes.
To learn more:
“How a Toronto hockey league turns kids’ joy into an $8.8m cash cow” by Ian Kennedy and Nathan Kalman-Lamb in The Guardian
“Aliu says GTHL rejected organization that would have assured spots for BIPOC players” by Rick Westhead in TSN
“Prospective buyer says he was coached to skirt GTHL’s rules on organization sales” by Rick Westhead in TSN
“Rinks of dreams: The Little One had style” by Bruce Lowitt in The Tampa Bay Times
Credits: Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)
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The Special Rapporteur is back with a hotly anticipated release - No Public Inquiry! David Johnston made his decision – rage and frustration ensued. And the Toronto Mayoral race heats up with Olivia Chow leading the polls.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)
Guest: Jan Wong
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The odds were stacked against us, but here we are. This year Canadaland turns ten. To mark the occasion, Canadaland Founder and Publisher, Jesse Brown, shares why he started a podcast and how that morphed into a thriving media company. Jesse reflects on the impact our journalism has and continues to have, why the work the team does is more important than ever, and how our supporters have enabled it all.
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While the press of today might not be reporting on aliens with the same fervour, many of the tropes from those days are still alive and well in modern-day journalism.
Stories about how no one wants to work anymore, or how technology is killing the art of conversation, have been told for over 130 years… and counting.
What are the tropes that keep coming back again and again? And are we really so different from the hysterical, partisan press of yesteryear?
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Cherise Seucharan (Reporter), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)
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Des feux de forêt font rage en Alberta alors qu’une élection provinciale est en cours. Emilie discute de l’état du conservatisme en Alberta, mais aussi la nouvelle génération d’intellectuels conservateurs au Québec avec Frédéric Boily, auteur et professeur de sciences politiques au Campus Saint-Jean de l’Université de l’Alberta.
While forest fires rage in Alberta, a provincial election campaign is underway. Emilie discusses the state of conservatism in Alberta, as well as the new generation of conservative intellectuals in Quebec with Frederic Boily, author and Professor of Political Science at the Saint-Jean Campus at the University of Alberta.
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Jesse Brown and co-host Manisha Krishnan dismantle a 10,000 word piece in the National Post claiming safe supply programs are killing people and fuelling a new opioid crisis. And three cheers for the new Canadian passport!
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)
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canadaLANDBACK is a co-production by Canada’s National Observer and Canadaland.
Host Karyn Pugliese, producer Kim Wheeler, contributors Trina Roache and Cara McKenna reflect on the season, and — wait for it — Karyn and Jesse argue about whether or not journalism can change the hearts and minds of people.
Contributors: Trina Roache, Cara McKenna, Jesse Brown
Host: Karyn Pugliese, editor-in-chief, Canada’s National Observer
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Amidst escalating tensions between Canada and China, an independent MP thinks he’s found the shadowy hand manipulating his fate. If a person asserts there’s been a plot against them but can’t offer any proof, does that count as a literal conspiracy theory?
And has this government ever met a poorly-conceived policy for media regulation it didn’t like? Well, it has now!
PressProgress editor Luke LeBrun joins Jonathan on Short Cuts.
Host: Jonathan Goldsbie
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Guest: Luke LeBrun
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For nearly a decade, Research in Motion was the global leader in smartphones with its iconic QWERTY-keyboard-having Blackberry. Through a mix of guerilla marketing and an unexpected boost in sales after 9/11, the rather simplistic email device was transferring some of the world’s most closely guarded secrets, from government officials, business leaders, and celebrities through some servers in Waterloo, Ontario.
What was the cause of its demise? The iPhone? Google? Hubris?
Jesse chats with Cherise and Jonathan about his interview with Sean Silcoff, co-author of Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry, also written by Jacquie McNish. The book is also the source material for the new film by Matt Johnson, Blackberry, starring Glenn Howerton and Jay Baruchel, which releases on May 12, 2023.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Cherise Seucharan (Reporter), Jonathan Goldsbie (News Editor), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)
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BuzzFeed is going bust and Vice is headed for bankruptcy - is it the end of viral news sites? And the press has been reporting for years the name of a prominent and powerful man accused of abusing Indigenous children - but now it’s illegal for us to do so.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)
Guest: Karyn Pugliese
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Ads are everywhere in our life and they seem to keep creeping into more and more places. Movies, games, sponsored “news” content, and of course, the digital tracking that follows your every online move to sell you something you’ve already bought. (You know, you can never have enough washing machines.)
For eighteen years, Terry O’Reilly has been studying and explaining human nature through the lens of advertising. His first show, called O'Reilly on Advertising, started on CBC in 2005 followed by The Age of Persuasion in 2006, and since 2011 it continues as both radio show and podcast, by the name Under the Influence, on his own network, Apostrophe.
Jesse sits down to talk with Terry about all things advertising, podcasting, and why some people want to touch their favourite radio show hosts.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)
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From his perch at the top of the far-right ecosystem, Tucker Carlson regularly soaked up stories from Canada and half-jokingly called for forcible regime change here. But when it comes to demagogues who suddenly find themselves with time on their hands, even the half-jokes might merit another look.
And speaking of people who managed to maintain a mainstream platform long after their views took dark, paranoid turns, Toronto Sun columnist Tarek Fatah passed away.
APTN’s Dani Paradis joins Jonathan to talk about both.
Host: Jonathan Goldsbie
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)
Guest: Dani Paradis
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The recent expansion of the Safe Third Country Agreement — which started as a 9/11 era deal that Canada negotiated in order to exert more control over immigration levels — prohibits asylum seekers from entering at unofficial ports of entry.
The agreement allows Canada to share responsibility for asylum seekers with the US, because the US is “safe” for refugees.
But there are years of documented evidence suggesting the US is not actually safe, including two Supreme Court rulings, reports from international human rights organizations, and data on the detainment and deportation of asylum seekers.
So why have we ignored it?
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Cherise Seucharan (Reporter), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)
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Deux lettres ouvertes ont été publiées récemment. Une appelle à la prudence avec la recherche en intelligence artificielle, l’autre à une accélération de sa législation par le gouvernement fédéral, via le projet de loi C-27. Montréal rassemble certains des meilleurs chercheurs mondiaux en IA. Aujourd'hui, Emilie s'entretient avec Benjamin Prud'homme, directeur exécutif de IA pour l'Humanité - Mila, l'Institut québécois d'intelligence artificielle. Ensemble, ils démystifie les enjeux éthiques et les dangers qui nous guettent, et réfléchissent au rôle des journalistes scientifiques dans le contexte.
Two open letters have been published recently. One calls for caution with AI research, the other for an acceleration of the federal government’s legislation around AI, C-27. Montreal is home to some of the world’s leading researchers in AI. Today, Emilie speaks with Benjamin Prud’homme, Executive Director for AI for Humanity at Mila, the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute. Together, they break down the ethical issues and the dangers that could arise, and discuss the role of scientific journalists in this context.
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We’re talking the CBC leaving Twitter after being labeled “government-funded media”, while Pierre Poilievre thanks Elon Musk for what he was already going to do. The real losers here are the Canadian public.
And Barry Hertz’s Globe and Mail takedown of the 11th Canadian Screen Awards - a cringe-y, dull, and insulting showcase of what not to do when highlighting Canadian productions.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Ren Bangert (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)
Guest: Nora Loreto
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canadaLANDBACK is a co-production by Canada’s National Observer and Canadaland.
The landback movement isn’t just about getting land back. It’s more than that. It’s a reclamation of culture too.
We take a deeper dive into Indigenous versus Canadian law, examine how Canada is hoarding land.
Our guests are Métis artist, activist and thinker Christi Belcourt and Anishinaabe artist and knowledge keeper Issac Murdoch, who took land back and established the culture camp Nimkii Aazhibikong.
Onaman Collective is formed by artists Christi Belcourt and Isaac Murdoch https://onamancollective.com/who-we-are/
Check out other CNO podcasts, including Hot Politics available on Apple Podcasts and wherever you listen to your favourite podcasts.
Host: Karyn Pugliese
Credits: Karyn Pugliese (Producer), Kim Wheeler (Producer), Beverly Andrews (Additional Research)
Featured guests: Christi Belcourt, Issac Murdoch
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From Minecraft to statecraft, Jacobin’s Luke Savage joins Jonathan to chart the bizarre course of a U.S. intelligence leak with potentially explosive implications for Canada. And seemingly inspired by the Musk-fragrant “Twitter Files,” a Conservative MP went on a fishing expedition for examples of the Canadian government over-policing social media. Does turning up a single really solid instance count as a success?
Host: Jonathan Goldsbie
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)
Guest: Luke Savage
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The University of Victoria campus used to be overrun with rabbits. It now has few, if any, rabbits.
So what happened to them? Where did they go?
Whatever you’re thinking, you’re probably correct.
Andrew Hynes and Amanda Watland take us down one of Canada’s strangest rabbit holes. Happy Easter!
Produced by Andrew Hynes and Mary Decker, a version of this episode was originally presented on CFUV’s U in the Ring podcast on August 1 and 8, 2019.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Jonathan Goldsbie (News Editor), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)
Featured guests: Judith Lavoie, Laura Lee Shaw, Sorelle Saidman, Barbara Smith, Georgeanne Lenham
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A story about criminal charges, a potential lawsuit against the press, leaked tape suggesting a huge overreach of power — could a certain populist politician have finally gone too far? We’re talking about Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.
And enough is enough in Quebec — a defiant open letter in Le Devoir demanding an end to the toxicity in political discourse, signed by hundreds of scholars and writers.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)
Guest: Emilie Nicolas
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Jody Vance has dealt with harassment for most of her career as a broadcast journalist, but starting in 2015 one of her harassers was different, constantly sending hateful, vile emails. When COVID hit, the problem only got worse as the harasser started targeting more of her guests and B.C.’s Provincial Health Officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry. Who was this person and how do you bring an anonymous online tormentor to justice?
On March 10, 2023, after seven years of vitriolic emails, Jody finally had her day in court and faced her harasser.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Reporter, Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Jonathan Goldsbie (News Editor), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)
Featured guests: Jody Vance, Jesse Miller, Erica Ifill
Special thanks to Sandy Garossino, columnist at the National Observer
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Either Beijing has corrupted our democracy at the highest level or agents in the Canadian security apparatus are subverting the PMO by illegally leaking information that's either mistaken, exaggerated or both. Both scenarios are troubling. And the national crime spree that we can’t legally talk much about - youth crime & reporting bans.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor & Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)
Guest: Joanna Chiu
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If news can’t be searched for on Google or shared on Facebook, is it even really online? Bill C-18, the Online News Act, is currently before the senate. Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez says that this Bill will help save small newsrooms and local journalism outlets by giving them the power to negotiate with tech giants, deals for payment of news content that is shared on their platforms.
But Meta and Google’s response has been simple: they just won’t allow Canadian news on their platforms. In March, Google ran a test where one million Canadians could no longer see results for Canadian news searches. At the Canada Strong & Free conference in Ottawa last week, Meta said they would also disallow sharing of anything that looks like news on their sites, like Facebook and Instagram.
Last year, Canadaland and a group of other independent news publishers formed a consortium to lobby the government on this Bill. Today, Jesse sits down again with Senator Paula Simons, as Publisher of Canadaland, to discuss the Bill and not just his own issues with it, but hers too.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)
Featured guests: Paula Simons
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The Toronto Star’s Allan Woods joins Jonathan to look at the prospect of Trump fundraising off a mugshot, and how a Montreal fire might finally accomplish what years of journalism and advocacy have not, pushing authorities there to take action against illegal Airbnbs.
Host: Jonathan Goldsbie
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)
Guest: Allan Woods
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The best newspaper in Canada is a podcast.
Every Monday, we bring you original reporting on the most interesting story in the country. Every Thursday, we bring you analysis of the Canadian media.
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Last month, the Senate proposed twenty six amendments to Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, and the Heritage Minister rejected eight. One of those rejected amendments was proposed by Senators Paula Simons and Julie Miville-Dechêne. Its rejection may have a huge impact on many digital-first creators. Jesse sits down with Senator Simons to talk about the bill, this amendment in particular, and what the Senate can do in situations like this.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)
Featured guests: Paula Simons
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Co-host Sean Silcoff walks us through the Silicon Valley Bank collapse and what it might mean for Canadians. And the Supreme Court Judge who mysteriously went missing from the bench for weeks and the alleged misconduct unearthed by journalists.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)
Guest: Sean Silcoff
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canadaLANDBACK is a co-production by Canada’s National Observer and Canadaland.
Landback is not just about returning real estate.
It is about Indigenous people reclaiming who we are and making ourselves whole again.
An elder once told me that he believed residential schools were designed to hurt women, because "They knew that when you break the hearts of our women, you break the strength of our nations."
That story and other teachings tell us that women are central and even sacred to our communities. This episode looks at how women are reclaiming their role as mothers, teachers, leaders, and sacred beings, despite everything colonialism has thrown at them.
This is not a story of hope, so much as it is a story of resilience and courage.
In this episode of landback we interview three women, whose stories intersect; Terri Brown, a former chief of the Tahltan First Nation in British Columbia, and former president of the Native Women’s Association (NWAC); Dr. Beverly Jacobs, Mohawk, Six Nations, is the Senior Advisor to the President on Indigenous Relations and Outreach at the University of Windsor and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, who is also a former President of NWAC; Tori Cress Ojibway and Pottawattami, G’Chimnissing is a land and water defender.
Music “Dare to Dream” by Brandi Morin
Please be warned this episode contains stories of violence, sexual assault and mentions the name and decribes some actions of a serial killer in B.C.
Host/Producer: Karyn Pugliese
Producer: Kim Wheeler
This episode contained research by Beverly Andrews.
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À l'automne dernier, le journaliste politique Paul Wells a assisté à l'enquête publique sur l'utilisation de la loi sur les mesures d'urgence lors du convoi de la liberté de 2022. Avec comme point de référence un chapitre du prochain livre de Paul sur le sujet, Paul et Emilie discutent de la réaction policière aux manifestations, et plus précisément du rôle des équipes de liaison. Puis quel serait l’impact du projet de loi C-18 sur les nouvelles en ligne sur le journalisme canadien ?
Last fall, political journalist Paul Wells attended the public inquiry into the use of the Emergencies Act during the 2022 Freedom Convoy. With a chapter from Paul's upcoming book on the subject as a reference point, Paul and Emilie discuss the police response to the protests, specifically the role of police liaison teams. And what impact would online news legislation Bill C-18 really have on Canadian journalism?
Animation : Emilie Nicolas
Générique : Nancy Pettinicchio (Production), Tristan Capacchione (Production technique)
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The story about Chinese interference in our elections continues to evolve and the opposition leader has seized on it. Prime Minister Trudeau has now called for two probes despite specific calls for a public inquest - could this be the scandal that breaks him? And a conspiracy theory facilitated by Chat GPT. Arshy Mann co-hosts.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)
Guest: Arshy Mann
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Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, has been a long-time coming. After initially being proposed in 2021 as Bill C-10, it is in the final stage of becoming law. The bill would regulate online video streamers, forcing them to contribute towards the Canadian Content system and promote “CanCon” on their platforms, like traditional Canadian broadcasters do. Online-only creators have fears it would impact their livelihood.
Most Canadians aren’t even watching CanCon, will this Bill change that? Will it make CanCon better? Can a system that was built for traditional film and TV, be made to work for an increasingly online, global market?
Audio Editor and Technical Producer Tristan Capacchione sits down with Canadian filmmakers to talk all about the “CanCon” system and the problems they’ve experienced with it.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Reporter, Audio Editor, and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)
Featured guests: Matt Johnson, Andrew Chung, Marc Almon, Valerie Creighton, Miki “Xwater” Ljuljdurovic
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As we cross the one-year anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, former Canadaland producer Sarah Lawrynuik returns to Short Cuts to talk with Jonathan about why she became a freelance war correspondent, taking night trains to the front lines.
They also look at China’s reported interference in Canada’s elections & why our institutions tend to throw up their hands the moment they encounter even slightly sophisticated malfeasance.
Host: Jonathan Goldsbie
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor & Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)
Guest: Sarah Lawrynuik
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There aren’t a lot of dedicated spaces for Black, Indigenous and People of Colour in Nova Scotia. One community group wanted to change that.
They decided to create a cottage retreat for BIPOC in Birchtown, Nova Scotia, a site of significant Black history. It would be owned and run by the community, a place where they could rest, relax and have access to nature. They raised money through donations and memberships.
But now some of the organizers of Buy Black Birchtown are speaking out, saying they were promised a safe space for the community - but instead were betrayed.
Clarification: Shekara Grant became involved with Buy Black Birchtown via the Change is Brewing Collective in early 2021, not in 2020 as some listeners may have concluded.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Cherise Seucharan (Reporter), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor & Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)
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Rouleau has rolled out his verdict and Prime Minister Trudeau is vindicated. What precedent does this set? And a look at how anti-trans rhetoric manifests in the Canadian media landscape - we’re looking at you National Post. Ziya Jones co-hosts
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)
Guest: Ziya Jones
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Ian Runkle, firearms lawyer, makes the pro-gun case to Jesse, following a political victory for gun rights advocates.
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La notion du Québec bashing a provoqué un déferlement de réactions dans les médias en français et en anglais suite à la nomination d'Amira Elghawaby comme représentante spéciale dans la lutte contre l'islamophobie. Puis quel est le lien entre les anglophones du Québec et les francophones dans le reste du pays face à la réforme de la Loi sur les langues officielles ? Émilie Nicolas anime cet épisode de Détours avec Frédéric Bérard.
The notion of Quebec bashing provoked an outpouring of reactions in both French and English media following the appointment of Amira Elghawaby as special representative in the fight against Islamophobia. And what is the link between anglophones in Quebec and francophones in the rest of the country regarding the reform of the Official Languages Act? Émilie Nicolas hosts this episode of Détours with Frédéric Bérard.
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Martin Leclerc : La torture, le viol et l’humiliation dans un aréna près de chez vous
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A tasting menu of scandals from Ontario’s municipal and provincial governments, with a newsroom scandal thrown in for kicks. And Fuck the Police - legally! The Narwhal sues the RCMP. Lisa Taylor co-hosts.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)
Guest: Lisa Taylor
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CORRECTION: Corrections have been made about the City of Hamilton’s media accreditation proposal and the mention of Chrystia Freeland lending support to John Tory. Details can be found on our website: https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/john-tory-and-his-sin-city/
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Andrew Wilkinson and former media editor-in-chief Farhan Mohamed founded Overstoy Media Group (OMG) on the promise of revitalizing local news. But after the firing of four star journalists on January 30th, Mohamed admits the company was losing money on hard journalism - and that moving to a ”community” focus would save them.
Current and former staff have expressed concern at the direction of the company - and some allege that OMG executives tried to interfere in editorial content. They paint a picture of a workplace where failed expectations of growth often lead to layoffs.
Cherise Seucharan and Jonathan Goldsbie examine the fallout at OMG, and what it means for journalism, hopeful tech millionaires, and the state of democracy overall.
Credits: Cherise Seucharan, Jonathan Goldsbie, Tristan Capacchione, Annette Ejiofor
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Canadaland’s first TV series premieres next Friday, February 17, 2023 on CRAVE. Based on our work for the hit podcast series Thunder Bay, Ryan McMahon returns to the eponymous city to tell the ongoing story in north Ontario.
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Locals call it Murder Bay. It might be the most dangerous city for Indigenous youth in the world. But to others, it’s their white nirvana.
Host Ryan McMahon wants to know – not who killed all those kids, but what killed them. This is Thunder Bay.
Host: Ryan McMahon
Credits: Jesse Brown (Writer & Producer), Ryan McMahon (Writer), Brigitte Noel (Additional Research), David Crosbie (Reporting Assistance), Jolene Banning (Reporting Assistance), Cris Derkson (Music), Chaundra Bulucon (Sound Design & Mixing), Kevin Sexton (Managing Editor)
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Following the melting of the No Name price freeze, Loblaw had a bit of its own public meltdown. Meanwhile, the country’s largest newspaper chain continues its own perpetual self-dissolution, leaving damp puddles where once stood proud big-city dailies.
Host: Jonathan Goldsbie
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)
Guest: Vass Bednar
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canadaLANDBACK is a co-production of Canada’s National Observer and Canadaland.
Since 2019 five journalists have been arrested at land defenses, several others have been detained or threatened with arrest - why?
Host Karyn Pugliese believes the answer is to be found in two land defenses that unfolded in the 1990s.
Kanesatake
Gustafsen Lake
Of all the things journalists have to cover in Indigenous communities, land actions are the most complicated, involving a tangle of history and relationships journalists trip into unprepared.
Landback movements question Canada’s legitimacy as a nation, and its character as a champion of human rights.
How the media understood and told these stories mattered.
State violence as a response to a human rights issue is indefensible, but it is a justified response to a criminal matter.
So what are land defenses?
Is the state enforcing the rule of law against armed terrorists?
Or is Canada using violence to crush human rights defenders?
This episode is not about the land defenses themselves - but about the emergence of a public relations war to control the story the media tells.
Host/Producer: Karyn Pugliese, editor-in-chief, Canada’s National Observer
Producer: Kim Wheeler
Additional research and support for this episode Beverly Andrews and Cara McKenna.
See the RCMP's full statement here.
For information on sources and sounds used in this episode, visit the CANADALAND website
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Quebec’s overblown backlash to the appointment of Amira Elghawaby as special representative on combatting Islamophobia in response to her analysis of a poll from back in 2019. And is the government telling us to only drink two alcoholic beverages a week? Sarah Hagi co-hosts.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)
Guest: Sarah Hagi
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The Chinese state has infiltrated Canadian democracy at all levels, according to a bombshell report from investigative reporter Sam Cooper of Global News. But Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has issued a stern denial, throwing cold water on the story. Who's telling the truth? And exactly what is Beijing up to in Canada? Sam Cooper explains his work.
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McKinsey is on everyone’s lips, but it’s just one of the many consulting firms the government is spending millions on. And as the provinces and federal government battle it out when it comes to healthcare, whose side are we supposed to be on? Nora Loreto co-hosts.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)
Guest: Nora Loreto
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It was in the winter of 2021 that the world first became aware of a mounting number of patients being seen in New Brunswick with unusual neurological symptoms. A year later, the Government of New Brunswick released a report dismissing the entire issue, claiming there was never a cluster of patients to begin with.
CANADALAND has obtained thousands and thousands of pages of internal documents that take us behind the scenes of that investigation that once caught the attention of the nation, before being dropped like a hot potato.
Read more about CANADALAND’s investigation here.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Sarah Lawrynuik (Freelance Reporter), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)
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Le chemin Roxham, un passage frontalier irrégulier au Québec, a fait l'objet d'une attention médiatique considérable ce mois-ci suite au décès de Fritznel Richard. Puis lors de la couverture de sujets sensibles comme la migration, que doivent garder en tête les journalistes en matière de traumavertissements ? Émilie Nicolas anime cet épisode de Détours avec Lela Savić.
Roxham Road, an irregular border crossing in Quebec, received considerable media attention this month following the death of Fritznel Richard. And when covering sensitive issues such as migration, what should journalists keep in mind in regards to trigger warnings? Emilie Nicolas hosts this episode of Détours with Lela Savić.
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Radio-Canada : À l’ombre de Roxham, des migrants font le chemin inverse
Le Devoir : Avertissement: ce traumavertissement ne fonctionne pas
Le Devoir : Petite histoire des traumavertissements
Le Devoir : Attention: ce musée contient des traces d'histoire
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And the Financial Post’s polar bear “expert” has some questionable associations in her past and a tendency to downplay climate change. Matt Gurney co-hosts.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), André Proulx (Production Coordinator), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)
Guest: Matt Gurney
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Marc joins Jesse for a conversation about his plans to emigrate to Vancouver and the differences between Canada and the U.S. when it comes to fascism, comedy, and Jews.
Further reading:
Marc interviews Lorne Michaels: http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episodes/episode_653_-_lorne_michaels
Jesse interviews Hart Pomerantz: https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/hart-pomerantz/
The late, great Mike MacDonald, Canadian comedian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xpl9ClEpcY
Gavin McInnes' failed standup career https://censored.tv/watch/shows/free-shit/episode/brotherhood-of-the-traveling-rants
No-one ever wrote a good rock song about Vancouver, including Nazareth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-k-qAtZPWg
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Is PM Trudeau a stealth warmonger? Co-host David Pugliese explains why it is so difficult to wrap one’s head around military spending. And Jordan Peterson’s latest drama over a banal request from the College of Psychologists of Ontario’s request for social media training after complaints over inappropriate tweets.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), André Proulx (Production Coordinator)
Guest: David Pugliese
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Kanye West, Dave Chappelle and Kyrie Irving have breathed new life into the antisemitic trope that Jews control the media. Is Jew-hatred from Black cultural icons more dangerous than the usual bigotry? And why is it so difficult for Jewish and Black communities to hear each other when it comes to racism? Emilie Nicolas joins Jesse to lay out a framework for better conversations.
Further reading:
Blacks and Jews, Again. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/20/opinion/kyrie-irving-kanye-west-antisemitism.html
Kanye says 'Jewish Zionists' control the media, Jews own the Black voice. https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-719843
What to Know About Irving’s Antisemitic Movie Post and the Fallout. https://www.nytimes.com/article/kyrie-irving-antisemitic.html
Jon Stewart Defends Dave Chappelle’s Controversial SNL Monologue. https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/11/jon-stewart-defends-dave-chappelle-controversial-snl-monologue
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The Shorties! Or Cutties! Or Shortcuttys! A special awards show highlighting variably consequential media weirdness from the year past. Dani Paradis co-hosts.
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Host: Jonathan Goldsbie
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), André Proulx (Production Coordinator)
Guest: Dani Paradis
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canadaLANDBACK is a co-production by Canada’s National Observer and Canadaland.
Land claims can take generations to settle. Sometimes communities lose patience, sometimes development forces them to take a stand or risk losing their land forever. Barricades have become a familiar scene in Canada.
The land issue is rarely settled when barricades come down. Instead the community is left with court cases, post traumatic stress, and unresolved human rights issues.
Some of those people are children..
There is a saying I told you about last time: we get the grandchildren we deserve.
We raised this generation together Canada, your people and mine.
Who did these children become?
This is their episode.
In the first half of this episode, we’ll introduce you to three people who survived land conflicts.
In the second half, they share their experiences with each other as they meet for the first time.
Please be warned: This episode contains two descriptions of violence against children.
Host/Producer: Karyn Pugliese
Producer: Kim Wheeler
This episode contained reporting by Trina Roache
Check out other CNO podcasts, including Hot Politics available on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your favourite podcasts.
In this podcast: interviews with Tracey Deer, Alabama Bressette, Curtis Bartibogue.
Tracy Deer’s film Beans is available on Prime Video.
Alabama Bressette is a co-author of Our Long Struggle for Home: The Ipperwash by Aazhoodenaang Enjibaajig
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This episode was originally aired on December 7, 2022
WIND Mobile, now known as Freedom, was a small company that tried to break through Canada’s telecom oligopoly. It did not have an easy ride.
WIND faced numerous hurdles from regulators, it was subjected to dirty tricks from the telecom oligopoly, and was eventually sold to Shaw. But it also helped lower cell phone rates and brought in unlimited data and U.S. roaming, changing the wireless market permanently.
This is the inside story of WIND Mobile, from the people who were there.
Featured in this episode: Simon Lockie, Brice Scheschuk, Tony Clement
To learn more
“Why can’t TTC riders use their cellphones on the subway? Ask Bell, Rogers or Telus” in The Toronto Star by Lex Harvey
“Wind Mobile backer regrets Canadian launch” in CBC News
“Globalive offers $3.75-billion to buy Freedom Mobile” in The Globe and Mail by Alexandra Posadzki
Credits: Arshy Mann (Host and Producer), Jordan Cornish (Producer), Noor Azrieh (Associate Producer), André Proulx (Production Coordinator)
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Sarah Polley has come forward with memories of a violent sexual encounter with Jian Ghomeshi when she was 16. But why is the press tongue-tied about describing the alleged violence? Sarah sits down with Jesse to discuss how to safely run towards danger, and whether it’s even possible to ethically use child labour in the production of TV and film.
This episode was originally aired on March 14, 2022
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Sarah Lawrynuik (Former Senior Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Kieran Oudshoorn (Former Managing Editor)
Guest: Sarah Polley
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Why Twitter should be run more like a newsroom and a look at the Twitter Files. And the latest in CTV’s Lisa LaFlamme story and who was left out of the narrative. Jan Wong co-hosts.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), André Proulx (Production Coordinator)
Guest: Jan Wong
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People might take holidays, but the news doesn't. For your holiday listening needs, here are stories from reporters who have worked Christmas in their newsrooms. It's the good, the bad and the funny.
A Canadaland tradition, now updated with a new story.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer)
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Former crime reporter Tamara Cherry — who now works as a specialist-for-hire on trauma-informed practices — joins Jonathan Goldsbie to consider what allegations swirling around Leah McLaren’s memoir have taught us about what could be called “trauma-indifferent” writing. They also look at how publication bans on the identities of victims can sometimes serve to re-victimize them, and how Canada seems to be on the verge of finally addressing that.This episode contains discussions of sexual assault.
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The largest National Park in Canada is Wood Buffalo, currently celebrating its 100th anniversary. But the people who inhabited it for thousands of years before that want it back. Brandi Morin travels to Wood Buffalo (and to Fort MacMurray and to Fort Chipewyan) to tell the real story of the Dene, the Cree, and the land they were expelled from to make way for Wood Buffalo National Park.
Further reading:
Wood Buffalo National Park: an Untold Story. An account from Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation.
http://acfn.woodbuffaloexpulsion.ca/
Wood Buffalo and the American Bison: Get to Know This Place and an Amazing Animal. (Doc Planet documentary referenced in this episode.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsxQKVfIxzE
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Hunters are mad about the new big list of guns to be banned by the Liberals - but why should we care if it helps reduce gun violence? And the not so credible Blacklock’s reporter’s story about being evicted from the Press Gallery. Grant LaFleche co-hosts.
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Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), André Proulx (Production Coordinator)
Guest: Grant LaFleche
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It’s the holidays, and on your TV or radio you’re inevitably hit with ads telling you that this is the season of giving - it’s time to donate to a food drive. Conservative politicians, Liberal politicians, banks, broadcasters, grocery stores: they all are united in this message.
With the promotion of food banks from virtually every institution and elected official in the country, you might conclude that they are the best solution to food insecurity.
Except - they’re not. Food bank use in Canada is at an all-time high, and experts, community organizers, even staff at food banks say that the growing need just shows how our government has failed to address poverty and hold corporations to account.
In this episode:
Kitty Raman Costa, Executive Director, Parkdale Community Food Bank
Dr. Valerie Tarasuk, Principal Investigator at PROOF, University of Toronto.
Jade Guthrie, Community Learning and Engagement Manager, FoodShare
Professor Dennis Raphael of York’s School of Health Policy and Management
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AVERTISSEMENT : Dans cet épisode, nous discutons de violence à caractère sexuelle et de violence basée sur le genre. Si vous êtes à la recherche de soutien, le lien suivant vous dirigera vers des ressources à travers le Canada : https://canadianwomen.org/fr/vous-cherchez-un-soutien/
Dans le cadre des 12 jours d'action contre la violence faite aux femmes, cet épisode revient sur la couverture médiatique actuelle au Québec autour de la dénonciation de violence à caractère sexuelle. Quel rôle jouent les journalistes dans l'accompagnement d'une personne victime ou survivante qui choisit de dénoncer ? Emilie Nicolas anime cet épisode de Détours avec Sophie Gagnon.
CONTENT WARNING: In this episode, the co-hosts discuss sexual violence and gender-based violence. If you are seeking support, the following link will direct you to resources across Canada: https://canadianwomen.org/support-services/
As part of the 12 Days of Action Against Gendered Violence, this episode looks at the current media coverage in Quebec around the reporting of sexual violence. What role do journalists play in supporting a victim or survivor who chooses to speak out? Emilie Nicolas hosts this episode of Détours with Sophie Gagnon.
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Isabelle Hachey dans La Presse : Des cicatrices et des regrets
Lettre de Sophie Gagnon et Léa Clermont-Dion dans La Presse
The Walrus sur Tamara Thermitus
Commanditaire : Oxio
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The potential hypocrisies of condemning human rights abuses in Qatar during the FIFA World Cup. And the increasing difficulty of writing critically about Israel. Shree Paradkar co-hosts.
Host: Jonathan Goldsbie
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), André Proulx (Production Coordinator), Cassidy Villebrun-Buracas(Associate Producer)
Guest: Shree Paradkar
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*A note to listeners: Today’s episode deals with sexual violence inflicted on Indigenous minors and won’t be suitable for all listeners.
In 2006, RCMP Const. Joseph Kohut kicked down the door to his ex’s home in Prince George, B.C., and left with certain belongings. His ex said that one of the things Kohut took was a videotape showing him sexually harassing an underage Indigenous girl. Kohut had already been investigated for sexual misconduct after a local judge pled guilty to sexually assaulting several Indigenous minors. Kohut’s ex, also a Mountie, reported the alleged theft of evidence. So what happened next? Reporter Jessica McDiarmid tells the story of 16-years of entropy and indifference within the RCMP.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer)
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Poilievre's toxic lie about safe supply. And the confusing and contradictory CSIS intelligence on China and the Freedom Convoy. Garth Mullins co hosts.
Host: Jesse Brown
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In part two: After a peaceful reclamation of the army base built on their land in 1993, elders of Stoney Point lead a movement to take back Ipperwash Provincial Park, which was also part of their original land and contained a burial ground. Racism and political interference turned a peaceful movement into a violent act of state aggression on September 6, 1995. This episode recalls the events of that night, and examines the fallout in the 28 years since, asking if reconciliation will ever be possible for the people of Stoney Point.
In this podcast: interviews include Bonnie Bressette, Caroline “Cully” George, Pierre George, Kevin Simon, Claudette Bressette, Alabama Bressette, and Donald Worme.
The episode is in memory of Anthony “Dudley” George.
Deep thanks to Heather Menzies editor, and Kerry Kilmartin publisher of “Our Long Struggle for Home: The Ipperwash” by Aazhoodenaang Enjibaajig
Host: Karyn Pugliese
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The tense relationship between Canada and China after allegations of interference in our federal election. And do we need a mask mandate to prevent mask laziness and save our kids? Steven Zhou co-hosts.
Host: Jesse Brown
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Thanks to David Wallace and Richard Marsh, the Klondike Papers blew up online - and nothing garnered more attention than Wallace’s claim that there was a plot to get rid of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Could it be true? Cherise and Jesse try to get to the bottom of what actually happened, and in doing so discover a complex network of Brethren business with extensive political connections around the globe.
Written and reported by Jesse Brown and Cherise Seucharan
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Le calcul politique de Doug Ford se retourne contre lui alors que les Ontarien.nes démontrent leur soutien aux travailleurs et travailleuses de l'éducation suite à la tentative du gouvernement provincial d'empêcher une grève historique. Puis quelle est la conversation entourant le bilinguisme au Nouveau-Brunswick suite à la nomination controversée de Kris Austin au Comité de révision de la Loi sur les langues officielles ? Emilie Nicolas anime cet épisode de Détours avec Stéphanie Chouinard.
English: Doug Ford's political maneuvering backfires as Ontarians show their support for education workers after the provincial government tried to prevent a historic strike. And what is the conversation surrounding bilingualism in New Brunswick following the controversial appointment of Kris Austin to the Official Languages Act review committee? Emilie Nicolas hosts this épisode of Détours with Stéphanie Chouinard.
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Poll: 6 of 10 Ontarians blame Ford government for labour disruptions
Chantal Hébert sur la loi 28 en Ontario
Andrew Coyne sur la loi 28 en Ontario
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Correction : L'épisode a été modifiée pour corriger une erreur factuelle. Les travailleurs et travailleuses de l'éducation en Ontario revendiquent une augmentation de salaire de 3,25 $ l’heure et non pas une augmentation de 11% par année sur trois ans.
Correction: This episode has been edited to correct a factual error. Education workers in Ontario are demanding a wage increase of $3.25 per hour, not an 11% increase per year over three years.
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Unpacking the changes at Twitter and how chaos is Elon Musk's product. And what would it take for Canadians to change their mind on the use of the Emergencies Act? Douglas Soltys co-hosts.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio and Technical Producer), André Proulx (Production Coordinator)
Guest: Douglas Soltys
Further reading:
Protected Duffins Creek wetland in Ontario has been damaged The Narwhal
Editorial: Conservatives cozy up to biased Facebook National Post
Millions Following Emergencies Act Commission. Most are Concluding Ottawa Had No Better Choice Abacus Poll
Was the Emergencies Act necessary? Globe and Mail
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Richard Marsh was born into the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church. He got out of the group he calls a cult and has made it his mission to expose the Brethren for their alleged abuses. Now he’s on the run from Brethren members who’ve been searching for him for years. The man hired to hunt Marsh down? David Wallace.
Written and reported by Jesse Brown and Cherise Seucharan
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The curious case of a journalist charged with the vandalism of a Nazi statue. And the first order of business for 10 newly elected politicians in Hamilton is to boycott the local newspaper. Jeremy Appel co-hosts.
Host: Jesse Brown
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Guest: Jeremy Appel
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Meet David Wallace, political fixer and dirty tricks operative.
After a career in the shadows, he’s turned whistleblower, leaking his files and sparking a conspiracy theory.
But why? And can he be trusted?
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Update (January 15, 2024) On October 31, 2022, Canadaland published an article and podcast prompting legal action by Shane and Edith Wenzel, which has now been resolved. Canadaland accepts that there exists no evidence that Shane or Edith Wenzel were aware of or knowingly contributed to a plan to deceive and entrap Mayor Nenshi.
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Like the next-piece box in Tetris, the United States often offers a preview of political trends that will soon come to Canada. So with dozens of 2020-election deniers set to be elected to Congress next month, what does that bode for our own near future?
The Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur joins Jonathan Goldsbie to chew over that and also why the right seems to have a structural advantage in the media.
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What began as a peaceful land reclamation would turn into one of the most terrifying acts of violence and state force against unarmed people in Canada.
In part one: Bonnie Bressette was only 5 years old when a truck came to Stoney Point, and she watched as her house was loaded up onto the truck to be taken away. Her father explained the government was taking their land to build an army base, but promised to return it after the war. Legally, the government had to. They didn’t.
In episode one we hear from three generations of Stoney Pointers of how every system failed them. They explain their longing to rebuild their community and what led them to take over a military base in 1993.
The story of Stoney Point is, in many ways unique, but in many ways it is the story of every land action: unresolved, intergenerational, highly politicized by Canada, that leads to confrontations between protestors and heavily armed police. The story sets up to ask, why have these scenes become so acceptable in Canada, and is there a way out?
In this podcast: interviews include Bonnie Bressette, Caroline “Cully” George, Pierre George, Kevin Simon.
The episode is in memory of Anthony “Dudley” George.
Host: Karyn Pugliese
Credits: Karyn Pugliese (Producer), Kim Wheeler (Producer)
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Loblaws takes the heat over a tone-deaf price freeze. And the unprecedented, unjustified, and perhaps unnecessary federal government power grab that nobody cares about. Our very own Arshy Mann co-hosts.
Host: Jesse Brown
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Kate Beaton has written the best book about the oil sands, ever. It's a nonfiction comic book called Ducks, and it's about class in Canada as much as it's about anything. She talks with Jesse about what it's like to be a migrant worker in your own country.
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A controversial comment about Burqas in a Toronto Star column crossed the editorial line. And business drama at this Toronto paper. Jonathan Goldsbie hosts with co-host Sarah Hagi.
Host: Jonathan Goldsbie
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The Beachcombers was a wildly long-running series, by any measure. With 387 episodes, the CBC dramedy had more installments than CSI, and five times as many as Schitt’s Creek. For nearly two decades, it was just always there — until one day it wasn’t. Since the last episode aired in 1990, The Beachcombers has largely been forgotten, its title reduced to a punchline.
But there’s one place that can’t forget. Producer Sophie Woodrooffe pays a visit to Gibsons, BC, the town that takes The Beachcombers more than a little seriously.
Link: Coasters, Sophie Woodrooffe’s upcoming podcast miniseries about BC’s Sunshine Coast, for which this episode was originally created.
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Élection après élection, la réforme du mode de scrutin devient le sujet chaud, malgré que le premier ministre du Québec considère que la question n'intéresse personne, à part quelques intellectuels. Et pourquoi la pénurie d'enseignants reste-t-elle un enjeu grave dans tout le pays ? Emilie Nicolas anime cet épisode de Détours avec Nicolas Rouleau.
English: Election after election, electoral reform becomes the hot topic, despite the fact that the Premier of Quebec considers the issue to be of interest to nobody except for a few intellectuals. And why does the teacher shortage remain a serious problem across the country? Emilie Nicolas hosts this episode of Détours with Nicolas Rouleau.
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Shari Graydon sur la parité de genre en politique
Une caricature jugée islamophobe publiée dans l’Acadie Nouvelle dérange
La goutte qui a fait démissionner Anne-Marie par Patrick Lagacé
Katherine Brulotte sur la pénurie d'enseignants
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Emilie Nicolas and Toula Drimonis break down the Quebec election for those outside of the Quebec bubble. And is the CBC changing their Journalistic Standards and Practices or is this just part of the rumour mill?
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Jesse sits down with Lyndsie Bourgon, author of “Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods” to discuss the dark world of tree poaching in British Columbia. Hidden infrared cameras, park law enforcement, and… forest courts?
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Tree Thieves – Greystone books
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There have been major developments in the Saskatchewan stabbing story, but most journalists have moved on - except for Global reporter Ashleigh Stewart. And why do reporters try to elicit emotional responses from victims of natural disasters? Ashleigh Stewart co-hosts.
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Correction: A previous version of this story indicated former CTV News employee Erin Paul died due to an overdose after her dismissal. Though she did die in Nov. 2020 at the age of 49, her sister stated that was not her cause of death.
Lisa LaFlamme was but one CTV News employee. Dozens more speak to us about a toxic workplace where abuse, bullying, and burnout have allegedly been normal. This culture comes from a deliberate corporate plan. In one case, the consequences may have been fatal.
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(Toronto Star) Inside the massive Bell Media downsizing that pushed out Lisa LaFlamme
Bell Executive Who Fired Lisa LaFlamme Interfered With CTV News Coverage, Says Colleague
“It was very well-sequenced” – Bell Executives Face Angry Staff Over LaFlamme Ousting
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A recent encounter between Pierre Poilievre and David Akin of Global News demonstrates the tactics politicians have been using to avoid accountability. And how the popular #TrudeauMustGo campaign is being dismissed as bots and treated as if it doesn't exist. Nora Loreto co-hosts.
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Every pop culture reference to Sasquatch or Bigfoot can be traced to one Macleans Magazine article from 1929, written by Indian Agent J.W. Burns, who stole the story of Sas’qets, a core part of Sto:lo cultural identity for thousands of years. Robert Jago is a Sto:lo writer and Sasquatch enthusiast who set out to take Sasquatch back. But the process of cultural appropriation turns out to be more complicated than passing a physical object back and forth, and Jago tells a unique story of how the Sts’ailes people kept their culture alive in the face of genocide, by appropriating appropriation.
Links:
Macleans, 1929: Introducing B. C.’s Hairy Giants
https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1929/4/1/introducing-b-cs-hairy-giants
Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre, by Max Brooks
https://www.amazon.ca/Devolution-Firsthand-Account-Sasquatch-Massacre/dp/1984826786
The Sasquatch, the Fire and the Cedar Baskets by Joseph (Tony) Dandurand
https://www.amazon.ca/Sasquatch-Fire-Cedar-Baskets/dp/0889713766
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Suite au décès de la reine Elizabeth II, de nombreux journalistes soulignent les qualités admirables de la reine, alors que d'autres mettent la politesse de côté pour appeler à une réflexion plus critique autour de la monarchie. Puis comment les médias francophones couvrent-ils les sujets de l'immigration et de la langue française dans le premier débat de la campagne électorale au Québec ? Emilie Nicolas anime cet épisode de Détours avec Maïka Sondarjee.
Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, many journalists spotlighted her admirable qualities, while others put politeness aside to call for a more critical reflection on the monarchy. And how is francophone media covering immigration and the French language following the first debate of the Quebec election campaign? Emilie Nicolas hosts this episode of Détours with Maïka Sondarjee.
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La reine était nue par Patrick Lagacé
No, I do not mourn the Queen par Shree Paradkar
Quel «dérapage»? par Christian Rioux
L’avenir du français au Québec par Jean-Benoît Nadeau
Le choix de François Legault par Paul Wells
Pour en finir avec le déclin de la langue française par Jean-Benoît Nadeau
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Canadians have greeted the death of Elizabeth II with a mix of sadness and ambivalence, hostility and indifference. Film writer Will Sloan joins Jonathan Goldsbie to look at how media has grappled with evolving attitudes toward the monarchy, and how it’s covered the rare sort of development that’s both wholly inevitable and the biggest breaking news in the world.
They also go deep on a cartoon elf.
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A new Netflix documentary documents the violent life and death of John McAfee, a silicon valley magnate who became a murder suspect and the target of an international manhunt. But ten years after it all went down, do we actually know what happened? Rocco Castoro was the young editor in chief of VICE News who embedded with McAfee during his wild run from the law. He tries to set the record straight, and clear his own reputation.
Links:
Running With The Devil (Netflix) https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/who-is-john-mcafee-running-with-the-devil
‘This is really shady and low’: Netflix’s John McAfee documentary attacked by people who appeared in it https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-is-really-shady-and-low-netflixs-john-mcafee-documentary-attacked-by-those-who-appeared-in-it-11661943486
The Knows - Rocco Castoro's news site https://www.theknows.net/
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An on-the-ground account of what it has been like to cover the Saskatchewan stabbing spree. And the end of Kiwi Farms after a Canadian Twitch streamer was swatted in London, Ontario. Zak Vescera co-hosts.
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Squirrel toupee guy, Bobby from Bobby versus Satan, cabbage head, the little guy who picks fights at the bar and won’t stay down, or the flying pig. These are just some of the memorable characters that Bruce McCulloch portrayed on Kids in the Hall.
This week we chat with Bruce about the beginning of Kids in the Hall from the gritty streets of Edmonton to the state of Canadian comedy, the CBC, TallBoyz, working with Lorne Michael.
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The Lisa LaFlamme story continues to smolder in the headlines. And Canada turns into a denunciation nation when it comes to weighing in on Chrystia Freeland's verbal attack. Priya Sam co-hosts.
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After we turn off our microphones, here at CANADALAND, it would be great to think we brought you the definitive version of the story. But what actually happens is that life keeps on rolling and stories continue to add new chapters. Three stories CANADALAND originally brought you in 2021 and 2022 demanded that we publish an update.
First, the latest from the two communities that might soon be home to all of Canada's high-grade nuclear waste. Second, we check in on Ari Ben-Menashe and what the international lobbyist-for-hire has been up to since he began repping Myanmar's military junta in 2021. And lastly, we bring you an update on Starbucks' unionization that is more of a mea culpa than a new development but adds to the story we originally told you all the same.
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The remaining staff at Toronto’s NOW Magazine haven’t gotten a regular paycheque in months. But as the beloved alt-weekly disintegrated around them, they kept on putting out issues. Norm Wilner, who spent 14 years as NOW’s film writer, joins former colleague Jonathan Goldsbie on Short Cuts to consider the slow decay of a publication that served as the city’s internet, before the internet was a thing. They also look at the Toronto Star’s successful battle to overturn a strange publication ban masking the identity of an upper-crust private school.
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Dozens of people in New Brunswick have reported mysterious neurological symptoms over the past two years. People as young as 18 are experiencing full-blown dementia. Is there a single cause for these reported illnesses? The government has previously said they believed there was. Now, they have said there is no single cause. This week, we revisit a mystery we originally told you in January 2022.
Featured in this episode: Leyland Cecco, the Guardian's Canadian correspondent; Stacie Quigley Cormier, step mother of Gabrielle Cormier who began experiencing dementia-type symptoms at the age of 20.
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What's really behind Lisa LaFlamme's abrupt departure from CTV National News? And John Derringer's years of alleged workplace abuse at Toronto's Q107 and the straw that broke the camel's back for ending his show. Teri Hart co-hosts.
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Cities and cars and a climate crisis, oh my! For the past 70 years, urban design in Canada has been centred around the car. Cities have started making changes, but are they doing enough to meet Canada’s climate goals?
Featured in this episode: Dr. Edda Bild, postdoctoral fellow at McGill University and lead soundscape researcher for Sounds in the City. Jason Slaughter, creator of the YouTube channel Not Just Bikes. Brent Toderian, city planner and urbanist at TODERIAN UrbanWORKS.
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Correction: A previous edition said that British Columbia was the only province to offer rebates on electric bikes. In fact, BC, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and the Yukon offer rebates on the purchase of electric bikes.
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La visite du pape pour la présentation d’excuses aux peuples autochtones a provoqué diverses réflexions autour de l’histoire du catholicisme au Québec. Puis quelle est la conversation autour de la violence armée au Canada ? Emilie Nicolas anime cet épisode de Détours avec Christopher Curtis.
Content warning : residential schools and colonization
English: The Pope's visit to apologize to Indigenous peoples provoked various reflections on the history of Catholicism in Quebec. And how is the media talking about gun violence in Canada? Emilie Nicolas hosts this episode of Détours with Christopher Curtis.
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Tuerie en N.-É. : impression d’ingérence politique
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How many ways must healthcare break down before you can call it “collapsed”? And how can journalists be better supported when they receive threatening hate mail? Moira Wyton co-hosts with Jonathan Goldsbie.
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Jesse Brown might think himself quite the question master, but today the tables have turned and our guest host, the Jonathan Torrens, investigates the inner workings of this show's host. Is it possible to be too cynical?
Featured in this episode: Jonathan Torrens, actor, performer and writer best known for his beef with Jesse Brown and hosting shows like Street Cents, Jonovision and his role in Trailer Park Boys; Jesse Brown, early guest on Jonovision (and, I guess, the publisher of the Canadaland podcast network).
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The dam has broken on hockey's toxic culture. And a new BC Supreme Court ruling threatens confidential sources. Laura Robinson co-hosts.
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Jody Porter worked for CBC in Thunder Bay for more than two decades. Her work on the injustices faced by Indigenous people in Northwestern Ontario from Grassy Narrows to Thunder Bay was cited in many hearings and reports including the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. And yet, she viewed her work with a very critical lens toward the end of her life after she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer.
In July, Jody succumbed to cancer and died at the age of 50. We are re-airing a conversation Jesse had with Jody in November 2020 during the Brayden Bushby trial.
Featured in this episode: Jody Porter, senior reporter at CBC News
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The media actually did a pretty good job of covering the Pope's apology. And Wendy Mesley's re-branding as a woman of ill repute. Karyn Pugliese co-hosts.
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So many people encounter injustice and accept it as the way things are. Others refuse to accept the status quo and will not rest until those injustices are done away with. Cindy Blackstock is one of the latter. This is the story of how her work resulted in the largest financial compensation settlement the Canadian government has ever made because of the systemic neglect of First Nations' children in the child welfare system over the course of decades. A report from Danielle Paradis.
Featured in this episode: Cindy Blackstock, executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada; Alanis Obomsawin, documentarian.
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Our changing perception of the Nova Scotia mass shooter's partner Lisa Banfield. And thwarting the apocalypse through journalism. Sarah Lawrynuik co-hosts.
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When a CBC host used the N-word in pre-production meetings, she was taken off the air. When the French arm of the public broadcaster, Radio-Canada, had a program just months later where the N-word was used four times in both languages, the broadcaster dismissed charges that there was anything wrong with the program. That is, until the CRTC stepped in and said an apology was in order.
Why two different responses at the same company in two languages? And why does the 1968 book by Pierre Vallières always seem to be at the heart of the controversy?
Featured in this episode: Emilie Nicolas, host of Canadaland's French-language show Détours and columnist at Le Devoir
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Three telecoms in a trench coat and other Canadian oligopolies. And we need a new playbook when it comes to engaging with Pierre Poilievre. Vass Bednar co-hosts
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Patrick Brown was disqualified from the Conservative Leadership race. He's denied allegations filed by a whistleblower that he was knowingly mismanaging how campaign staff were being paid. He's vowed to appeal the disqualification decision. But in the meantime, what would this move mean for Canadian politics? Does it mean a Pierre Poilievre coronation?
Canadians are known for voting parties out of office, not into office. Which means after the Liberals have been in power for seven years and we're looking to be on the cusp of a recession, the person who leads the Conservative party next could easily be Canada's next prime minister.
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Plus d’une cinquantaine de têtes d’affiches de Radio-Canada contestent la décision du CRTC concernant l’utilisation du ‘mot en n’ sur l’émission radiophonique Le 15-18 en août 2020. Puis dans le climat politique actuel, quelle est la conversation autour des fêtes nationales dans les médias ? Emilie Nicolas anime cet épisode de Détours avec Vanessa Destiné.
English: More than 50 well-established Radio-Canada employees disagree with the CRTC's decision regarding the use of the 'n-word' on the radio show Le 15-18 in August 2020. And considering the current political climate, what does the media conversation surrounding national holidays look like? Emilie Nicolas hosts this episode of Détours with Vanessa Destiné.
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A Supreme Court decision that hasn't gotten much attention in Canada. And the National Post is calling for an end to the bullying of reporters, meanwhile its own columnists are attacking their own. Jan Wong co-hosts.
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Raging wildfires are now a normal part of summertime in Canada. Climate change comes at you fast, but the impact of these fires is far from equal across different regions. Those most likely to have to flee their homes are Indigenous people, and this disproportionate risk is only growing. The number of evacuees from First Nation reserves doubled over the last decade. Producer Sarah Lawrynuik travels to a remote Manitoba community to look at what fire has done to one community, and examines the implications for tens of thousands of other people in the years to come.
Further Reading:
Social science research on Indigenous wildfire management in the 21st century and future research needs (Amy Cardinal Christianson) – https://www.publish.csiro.au/WF/pdf/WF13048
Indigenous fire teams in Sask. aim for bigger role after B.C. blazes – https://thestarphoenix.com/news/local-news/indigenous-fire-teams-in-sask-aim-for-bigger-role-after-b-c-blazes
U of S prof studies impact of fire evacuations on First Nations (2015) – https://www.ckom.com/2015/07/17/u-of-s-prof-studies-impact-of-fire-evacuations-on-first-nations/
From the Ashes: Reimagining Fire Safety and Emergency Management in Indigenous Communities: https://www.ourcommons.ca/Content/Committee/421/INAN/Reports/RP9990811/inanrp15/inanrp15-e.pdf
The art of fire: reviving the Indigenous craft of cultural burning: https://thenarwhal.ca/indigenous-cultural-burning/
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In covering the end of widespread reproductive freedom in the United States, the CBC goes the both-sides route. At what point should something be considered a human-rights issue and no longer subject to debate?
And the Convoy — or at least something similar — is set to rematerialize in Ottawa. What has the media learned since last time, and are we any closer to putting our finger on a diffuse movement that’s very different to different people? Jonathan Goldsbie fills in for Jesse and Rachel Cairns co-hosts.
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Universities across Alberta have experienced huge funding cuts over the last three years. Come fall, students will be paying for that with huge tuition increases (some as high as 104%). But these changes are bigger than just dollars and cents, they beg the question: What is the point of getting a post-secondary education?
Freelance journalist Oumar Salifou reports on the impacts seen in Alberta and host Jesse Brown interviews Alberta's minister of higher education.
Featured in this episode: Anita Cardinal, law student at the University of Alberta; Reginald Wiebe, assistant professor of English at Concordia University of Edmonton; Dave Lamont, a caretaker at the University of Calgary; Brenda Austin-Smith, president of the Canadian Association of University Teachers; Demetrios Nicolaides, Alberta's minister of higher education
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A scandal in Canada's sacred sport. And can journalists do more to unpack the crypto craze and crash? Emilie Nicolas fills in for Jesse and Julian McKenzie co-hosts.
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A Canadian scientist wanted to demonstrate how he could use DNA barcoding to distinguish between different strains of cannabis; a pretty valuable thing to be able to do during the weed marketing gold rush.
To prove it, he just took a graph of U.S. arrest data, changed the title, and said 'here, here's my evidence.'
He did a lot more than that. And it might have all gone unnoticed, if not for some meddlesome researchers. Senior producer Sarah Lawrynuik gets into it.
Featured in this episode: Charles Piller, investigative journalist for Science Magazine; Ken Thompson, post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University; Paul Hebert, director of the University of Guelph's Centre for Biodiversity Genomics
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In the midst of a climate crisis, why do we continue to report business news as usual? And is Minister Mendicino being mendacious over the Emergencies Act when he says police advised the government to invoke it? John Woodside, climate reporter for Canada's National Observer co-hosts.
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Of the more than 1,400 Starbucks stores in Canada, only a single location in Victoria, B.C. has a union. One former barista spoke to Canadaland about the working conditions that led baristas to organize for better protections - and how the flurry of anti-union messaging from Starbucks HQ was still not enough to deter the workers.
But companies across Canada and the U.S. have been employing these types of tactics for decades to prevent their workers from unionizing: including persistent messaging, hiring third-party crisis management firms, and even shuttering stores completely.
Do these new unionized workers stand a chance? Cherise Seucharan reports.
Featured in this episode: Izzy Adachi, former Starbucks worker; Pablo Guerra, organizer with United Steelworkers; Mitch Thompson, journalist; David J. Doorey, professor of labour law at York University
Correction: An earlier version of this episode incorrectly identified the Victoria Starbucks location as the first location in Canada to unionize. While it is currently the only location that is unionized there were a number of stores that unionized in the ‘90s and 2000s. These locations are no longer unionized for a number of different reasons.
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Devenir propriétaire d'une maison n'est désormais plus qu'une chimère pour toute une génération de Canadien‧ne‧s. Et qu'est-ce qui s'est passé avec la couverture médiatique de l'élection ontarienne ? Emilie Nicolas anime cet épisode de Détours avec Émilie Gougeon Pelletier.
English: Owning a home is now no more than a pipe dream for a whole generation of Canadians. And what happened with the Ontario election media coverage? Emilie Nicolas hosts this episode of Détours with Émilie Gougeon Pelletier.
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Finding misinformation in the Quebec government's misinformation campaign on Bill 96. And why Tiktokers are speaking out against Bill C-11. Lela Savić co-hosts.
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Ostensibly the idea was to do media criticism. That is what the article in the National Post, The Year Of The Graves, set out to do; to hold the press to account and to correct errors that occurred in the reporting of the discoveries of unmarked graves at former Indigenous residential schools.
But that was not its impact.
Featured in this episode: Terry Glavin, author of Year Of The Graves and National Post columnist; Karyn Pugliese, executive editor at National Observer; Robert Jago, freelance writer and entrepreneur.
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Denials of the unmarked graves at residential school sites push through to the mainstream. And a new report shows that journalists' mental health is in jeopardy. Dani Paradis co-hosts.
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A field report from coast Salish territory on the irreconcilable conflict between the Tsleil-Waututh Nation and the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion project. There are 73 remaining Southern Resident Killer Whales in existence. The Tsleil-Waututh Nation consider the survival of these orcas and the survival of their people to be the same thing. The government insists a compromise can be met. The Tsleil-Waututh reject this notion, and many are prepared to die in defense of their "wolves of the sea". Brandi Morin reports.
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A glowing opinion piece about Doug Ford has us wondering how he miraculously overturned his sinking approval ratings. And why Jesse can't report on the Online News Act anymore. Stephen Maher co-hosts.
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Sometimes investigative journalism begins with an anonymous tip. Sometimes it begins with an access to information request for secret government documents. In this case, Marcello Di Cintio started his investigation because he had an article reprinted without permission. But the story he walked away with in the end was so much better than he could have imagined.
Featured in this episode: Marcello Di Cintio, Calgary-based journalist and author.
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The many, many opinion pieces on why Pierre Poilievre shouldn't fire the head of the Bank of Canada. And why some Canadians insist on bragging about how we're better than America while ignoring the hate being brewed here. Ryan Thorpe co-hosts.
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Operation Medusa has become the most celebrated battle in recent Canadian history. It was hailed as a stroke of military genius that may have vanquished the Taliban once and for all.
But the soldiers and commanders who were on the ground in 2006 have a different story to tell. A rushed battle. Flawed intelligence. And generals putting political considerations ahead of Canadian lives.
And even though Canada had defeated the Taliban on the battlefield, that didn't mean they were winning the war.
Featured in this episode: Cpl. Sean Teal, Canadian Armed Forces; Bruce Moncur, veterans advocate and former reservist; Lt.-Gen. Omer Lavoie, Canadian Armed Forces; Adnan R. Khan, journalist and contributing editor at Maclean's; Eugene Lang, fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute
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Des chefs de plusieurs nations autochtones s'opposent à l'adoption de la loi 96 au Québec, une loi qui, parmi d'autres conséquences, aura un impact sur les personnes nécessitant des services publics dans une langue autre que le français. Et est-ce qu'il y a une différence entre la façon dont les médias francophones et anglophones couvrent la course à la chefferie du Parti conservateur ? Emilie Nicolas anime le tout premier épisode de Détours avec Romeo Saganash.
English: Leaders from several Indigenous nations oppose the adoption of Bill 96 in Quebec, a law that, among other consequences, will have an impact on people requiring public services in a language other than French. And is there a difference between the way the French and English media are covering the Conservative leadership race? Emilie Nicolas hosts the very first episode of Détours with Romeo Saganash.
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The canucksploitation is egregious in Mike Myer's new Netflix show the Pentaverate. And the chairman of Post Media absolutely had to write an opinion piece in the National Post defending Patrick Brown. Jesse's back in the saddle and Mel Woods co-hosts.
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With the seemingly imminent repeal of Roe v. Wade in the United States, it's time to refamiliarize ourselves with Canada's long fought history for abortion access. And explore how that story is anything but ancient history, with one provincial ban being overturned as recently as four years ago. Today's episode features just a few of the people who have been on the frontlines of that fight as well as a historian who studies nothing but reproductive justice.
Featured in this episode: Christabelle Sethna, professor in the Feminist and Gender Studies Faculty of Social Sciences University of Ottawa; Deb Miller, retired family lawyer and abortion access advocate; Colleen MacQuarrie, professor of psychology at the University of Prince Edward Island and abortion access advocate; Autumn Reinhardt-Simpson, PhD candidate at the University of Alberta and abortion doula.
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With the imminent upheaval of abortion rights to the south, Canada's media reflects on the state of things here at home. And going by headlines, you'd think Canada's ban on gay men giving blood was repealed - but you'd be only somewhat correct. Jeopardy! champ Mattea Roach joins Canadaland news editor Jonathan Goldsbie to look at rights, laws, and how the media mediates our understanding of both.
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Did you know during a recent storm the City of Winnipeg released 60 million litres of raw sewage into the Red River? Did you know the City of Morden, Manitoba almost ran out of potable water during the extreme drought last summer?
Climate change has already started wreaking havoc on the water systems of the Prairies and that is having substantial impacts on cities across Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, and adapting is going to cost Canadians billions. This week, senior producer Sarah Lawrynuik will explain why.
Featured in this episode: Brandon Burley, mayor of Morden; Santokh Randhawa, deputy city manager of Morden; Bill Buhay, associate professor at the University of Winnipeg; Frank Frigo, City of Calgary water resources engineer; Dave Sauchyn, the director of the Prairie Adaptation Research Collaborative (PARC); Raven Sharma, manager of utilities for the City of Selkirk; Duane Nicol, chief administrative officer for the City of Selkirk; Saman Razavi, associate professor at the University of Saskatchewan.
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You can probably guess why this one is about Twitter, but why does Short Cuts talk about it so very often? Also, what is the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, and why do we not talk about it more?
Gawker's Sarah Hagi joins Canadaland news editor Jonathan Goldsbie to see how much fun they can have in Jesse's absence.
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The digital advertising industry is worth billions, but many companies don't actually know where their ad dollars end up. Programmatic ad exchanges and other third-party platforms have enabled companies to buy ads without the hassle of going to each seller. But in doing so, these ad exchanges have opened the door for fake news and disinformation sites to profit. As reporter Cherise Seucharan finds out, it has become easier and easier for these sites to proliferate, while real news websites lose out.
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Nandini Jammi and Claire Atkin, co-founders of Check My Ads; Augustine Fou, anti-ad fraud consultant; Danny Rogers, co-founder and executive director at The Global Disinformation Index
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How Pierre Poilievre cultivated his attack-dog charm. And should we care about what the new CEO of the Toronto Star tweets? Jen Gerson co-hosts.
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Is it Indigenous stewardship ownership or is it becoming just another holographic bumper sticker? What does Landback mean to you, and to your nations and homelands? And is there room for settlers in this movement? This is the first episode of a new 6-episode podcast called CANADALANDBACK!
In it, we talk about what Landback means, we host our first round table discussion and take you inside a land-based education program.
Featured in this episode is: Kahsenniyo Williams, Jada-Gabrielle Pape, Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, Philip Brass, Sol Mamakwa, Piyeshiw Crane, Zacchary Fontaine, Kyla Lesage, Molly Swain, Chelsea Vowel, Maureen Googoo, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Inti Nemoga Stout, Riley Yesno, Autumn LaRose-Smith, Sam Achineepineskum, Jessica Johns, Willie Ermine and Gordie Liske and Randy Baillargeon.
We would also like to thank: Rachael Michael, Rick Harp, Jordan Koe, Patricia Johnson-Castle, Dani Paradis, and Dani Lanoutte.
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Welcome to AlbertaLand, where it's cold and greasy. And how the media is bored with the sixth wave. Dani Paradis co-hosts.
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Canada is two years into a news media bailout that was lobbied hard for by the country's newspapers. As it turns out the money that's flowed has had uneven impacts on the industry. And last week the Online News Act was tabled that will mandate tech companies - like Google and Facebook - to pay news companies compensation for posting their content on their sites.
Will this expansion of government news aid inflame disparities? Will it help an industry in crisis? Are we destined for a media landscape where government approvals are the only way to survive?
Featured in this episode: Colette Brin, journalism professor at Université Laval; Tim Bousquet, editor-in-chief of the Halifax Examiner; Emma Gilchrist, editor-in-chief of the Narwhal
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Fact-checking the war in Ukraine. And the ‘Pay Me for Clickbait Act' - sorry, the ‘Online News Act.' Olena Goncharova co-hosts.
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Canada is two years into a news media bailout that Trudeau cabinet ministers promised would be conducted with the utmost transparency. Instead, the process and which outlets are getting funding (and how much) is information that has been veiled in secrecy.
What's more is that in order to apply for these government bailout programs, one must first pass the (also secretive) litmus test for whether or not it is worthy of being deemed a Qualified Canadian Journalism Organization (QCJO).
This week, we speak to the chair of the board who helps make these decisions.
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The public inquest into the Portapique massacre is far from revealing. Will we ever get the answers to the many, many questions still remaining? And journalists are being blocked from covering events at the Indigenous delegations' visit to the Vatican. Paul Palango co-hosts.
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In 2015, award-winning author and (former) UBC professor Steven Galloway became the target of a social media storm after an allegation was leveled that he had sexually assaulted a student. An allegation, Galloway has denied ever since.
But at the time, a number of both staff and students at UBC came out publicly in support of the accuser. In turn, Galloway sued them for defamation. Defendants include 20 people who tweeted, commented, or spoke about the allegations. In one case, the individual being sued simply reviewed an art show, and never even printed Galloway's name.
Many of these defendants said this defamation suit is meant to silence sexual assault survivors, so they filed a SLAPP suit in response. Some were dismissed by a judge, others weren't. And which were and which weren't leads to all kinds of questions about how the legal process deals with sexual assault allegations. Meanwhile, Galloway says the SLAPP suit has delayed his ability to clear his name by years.
Is this case a path to justice for a CanLit star who was ruined by an online mob? Or does this represent the silencing of survivors and the #metoo movement?
Featured in this episode: David Wotherspoon, partner at Dentons; Hilary Young, law professor, University of New Brunswick; Glynnis Kirchmeier, defendant.
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Short Cuts is off this week, so instead we bring you our latest episode of the best politics show in Canada, The Backbench. As nations around the world cut off business with Russia, can Canada help fill the international demand for oil and gas? More importantly, should we? And the pandemic caused unprecedented government spending, as well as shifting priorities on everything from work to healthcare. How will that all play out in the upcoming budget?
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So many journalists would look down their noses and sneer at the likes of BlogTO, Narcity, MTL Blog or any of the similar media companies that have populated the Canadian landscape over the last decade. But while companies that pride themselves on hard news are struggling to find a funding model that works, BlogTO just sold for $15 million.
Featured in this episode: Tim Shore, Founder of BlogTO
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Canadian MPs wax poetic about how President Zelensky inspires them… but is that really going to change anything? And how defamation lawsuits help cover up the truth and keep journalists silent. Jan Wong co-hosts.
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Sarah Polley has come forward with memories of a violent sexual encounter with Jian Ghomeshi when she was 16. But why is the press tongue-tied about describing the alleged violence? Sarah sits down with Jesse to discuss how to safely run towards danger, and whether it's even possible to ethically use child labour in the production of TV and film.
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Patrick Brown has had his name cleared - according to an anonymous source. And the media loves a good war story. Karen Geier co-hosts.
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Canadaland doesn't have a foreign bureau, so we can't bring you the latest on the ground conflict in Ukraine. What we can do is show you another side of the conflict that has deeply influenced this ground invasion: the information war. This week, we take a deep-dive into the inner workings of Russia's information chaos machine and how its use in Ukraine laid the groundwork for what was to come in other countries, including - you guessed it: Canada. We also get a first-hand look at how the information war has led to the rise of cyber sleuths, like our friend James. (Not his real name.)
Featured in this episode: Alya Shandra, editor-in-chief of Euromaidan Press, Douglas Selvage, a senior research fellow at the Institute for History, Humboldt University (Berlin); Aaron Erlich, assistant professor at McGill University.
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Why do stories coming out of Ukraine feel different from other wartime coverage? And we look at the uneven media treatment of those who are impacted by war. Our French-language correspondent Emilie Nicolas and senior producer Sarah Lawrynuik co-host in Jesse's absence.
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Long before Ottawa Police Chief Peter Sloly stepped down amidst criticism that the force had failed to stop the convoy occupation, there was trouble brewing within the Ottawa Police Service.
Officer misconduct, sexual harassment, abuse, and violent behaviour, has been a pattern within the OPS for years.
Dan Donovan, publisher of Ottawa Life magazine, knows these cases well, and he's currently being sued by Sloly himself, for publishing an article titled 'Rapes and lies—the cancerous misconduct at the Ottawa Police Service'.
Donovan sat down with reporter Cherise Seucharan to discuss the case, as well as recently a leaked video of Sloly being questioned about his conduct when he was a staff inspector with the Toronto Police Service.
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Overcorrecting an overstatement creates confusion; how nice were the police in Ottawa really? And the emergency is over! Though the media seemed to suggest there wasn't really one anyways. Managing Editor at Ottawa Lookout Robert Hiltz co-hosts.
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There's a lot of chaos and division in Canada right now. Beyond the people who got arrested in Ottawa over the past few days, there are thousands more Canadians who have financially supported the Freedom Convoy or been rooting for them from afar.
In this episode, the CANADALAND team reaches out to regular everyday people who support the Convoy to ask about who they are, how they ended up supporting the Convoy and what they think about the racist and dangerous aspects of the movement.
This is not a scientific survey, we did not do a poll. These three people are not necessarily representative of everybody else who supports this movement, but we've got to start somewhere.
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The kinder, gentler Emergencies Act should not be underestimated. And framing the convoy as foreign-funded and US-inspired does more harm than good. Writer Nora Loreto co-hosts.
UPDATE: An earlier version of this episode included a partial comment without proper context. The comment has been removed.
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This week's episode is bursting your love bubble by digging into the dark side of love. You'll hear four personal stories that show, with increasing intensity, just how broken Canada's divorce system is. People who were held hostage for years by a slow-moving process that sent them hurdling into debt.
And beyond that, we rarely talk about divorce as a life or death situation, but it certainly can be.
Senior producer Sarah Lawrynuik brings you this one.
For people who are living with family violence, don't struggle alone. Here is a list of resources available to you in your area. Or the Assaulted Women's Helpline is 1-866-863-0511.
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Angry, bias-confirming echo chambers seem evident this week when it comes to the Freedom Convoy. And "a Toronto star at the Toronto Star" dies this week and Jesse dares to speak ill—or at least some truth—of the dead. Maclean's senior writer Paul Wells co-hosts.
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CANADALAND has spent a lot of time in Thunder Bay exploring the deep-rooted racism in the city and the stories of Indigenous people who live there, not to mention the stories of the Indigenous people who have died there.
In 2018, the Office of the Independent Police Review Director released the Broken Trust report, concluding that Thunder Bay's police service was a home for systemic racism. The civilian oversight board and the police force executive leadership was cleared and new people were brought in. But the outcome of the staffing changes and all the reports - at least to this point - is not a success story. The cycle of denial has continued.
This story is reported by Thunder Bay-based journalist and producer on the Thunder Bay series, Jon Thompson.
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The media may have missed the Freedom Convoy plot yet again. And as several Canadian artists pull their music from the platform, Spotify wades into publisher territory as they work towards content advisories for select podcasts. National Observer columnist Sandy Garossino co-hosts.
UPDATE: This episode says there's been a vacuum of information on Canadian truckers stuck at the Alberta-Montana border at Coutts, AB. Since recording this episode, journalists have reported that one lane has opened in each direction.
UPDATE 2 (Feb 9, 2022): In this episode, Jesse referenced a clip where a protester asked another attendee whether they were a white supremacist to which they responded yes. Jesse says that this was the moment the first protester was made aware that they were among extremists and he hoped they would up and leave. Since publishing, it has been brought to our attention that the person who said they were a white supremacist was likely a person of colour and they may have been joking.
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It's a story about deception, coverups, and some say, about murder. This is a story about Groundhog Day. The true story of Wiarton Willie.
CANADALAND Editor Jonathan Goldsbie digs into the shell game of dead groundhogs that spans decades.
Featured in this episode: Liam Casey, a reporter/editor in the Ontario bureau for the Canadian Press; Frank Gunn, a national photographer for the Canadian Press
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Yet another Wiarton Willie is dead. Here's a look at the strange history behind the beloved groundhog, Liam Casey, Canadian Press/CBC
The legend of Wiarton Willie lives on (2011), Toronto Star
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How many anti-vax trucker convoys were there?! And people are making the case to break up the CBC again.
Canadaland contributing editor Danielle Paradis cohosts.
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Canada has a nuclear problem... a nuclear waste problem. Since the dawn of nuclear power technology, solutions to waste have all been remarkably temporary given the longevity of the danger the material presents.
For decades, the hunt for a solution has spanned across provinces — even across countries. But the hope is that by 2023 Canada will have found a home - and permanent solution - for all of the country's nuclear waste.
This endeavor is pitting neighbour against neighbour — community against community. And the stakes are high for the future of the nuclear industry.
CANADALAND senior producer Sarah Lawrynuik ventures to Northwestern Ontario to bring you this story.
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The hunger for stories about Toronto's snow backfires. And when a story is about a hostage situation at a synagogue, why is there reluctance to call it antisemitism?
Canadaland contributing editor Danielle Paradis co-hosts.
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There's a mystery disease that's plaguing people in New Brunswick. It starts with some muscle pain or spasms, before basic tasks like reading become impossible. For many, the disease progresses to full-blown dementia. For patients and families, government response has proven to be lackluster and desperation and frustration is taking hold as the search for answers drags on.
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Whistleblower warns baffling illness affects growing number of young adults in Canadian province, Leyland Cecco, The Guardian
New Brunswick monitoring more than 40 cases of unknown neurological disease, CBC News
N.B. health minister questions validity of mysterious neurological disease after report, Global News
New Brunswick's Mystery Disease: Why Did the Province Shut Out Federal Experts?, The Walrus
No longer a sure thing: Records show how N.B. investigation into mystery illness changed over time, CBC News
Help Gabrielle battle unknown neurological disease, GoFundMe
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Healthcare workers against pandemic restrictions tell on themselves by suing for libel. And two Haitian journalists die reporting for a Montreal online radio station.
Columnist Emilie Nicolas co-hosts.
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A CBC employee resigned from the public broadcaster because she says it's become too woke.
The article she wrote about her departure has caused quite the buzz since it dropped. The National Post put it on the front page of the paper. Fox News, America reporter Glenn Greenwald, the British Daily Mail, and Canada's Leader of the Opposition Erin O'Toole have all wanted a piece of this story.
But who the heck is the author, Tara Henley? And is any of this criticism warranted? Or is it a feeding frenzy for conservatives who are eager to jump on the "defund the CBC" bandwagon?
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Publishing record COVID case counts might not be that helpful anymore. And a woman quits the CBC to start her own thing and Jesse isn't sure how to feel about it.
Writer Nora Loreto co-hosts.
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After we turn off our microphones, here at CANADALAND, it would be great to think we brought you the definitive version of the story. But what actually happens is that life keeps on rolling and stories continue to add new chapters.
Three stories CANADALAND originally aired in 2021 demanded that we add another chapter to the story we told.
First, the case of pretendians and how Indigenous identity has been co-opted by people who are not, in fact, Indigenous.
Second, the story of MindGeek, Canada's largest tech company, that is known the world over for its porn platforms, like Porn Hub. When last we left the company, they were under a fair amount of scrutiny...
And lastly, in October, we brought you the story of Madeline who was considering medically-assisted death once she ran out of money for the expensive treatments she needed to manage her life-long disease. What ever happened to her?
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Short Cuts is off this week, so we are sharing an absolutely shocking story from Commons' current season on mining in Canada.
For a century, Canada was one of the world's leading exporters of asbestos, most of it mined from the small town of Asbestos, Quebec. But during that time, governments and corporations in Canada did everything they could to hide the fact that asbestos is deadly.
They went to extraordinary lengths — secret organ smuggling, corporate-supervised police torture — to keep the ugly truth from the world.
Today, there's no longer a town called Asbestos, QC. But more people than ever are dying from what was mined out of the ground there.
Featured in this episode: Heidi von Palleske, Jessica van Horssen, Tavia Grant (The Globe and Mail)
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A Town Called Asbestos: Environmental Contamination, Health, and Resilience in a Resource Community by Jessica van Horssen
“No Safe Use: The Canadian Asbestos Epidemic” by Tavia Grant in The Globe and Mail
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People might take holidays, but the news doesn't. The best, worst, and funniest stories from reporters working Christmas in the newsroom.
This might be an earth-shattering concept... but the CANADALAND team is taking a week off for the holidays. The office is closed. No one is here. However, in newsrooms across the country, that is not the case. For your holidays listening needs, here are stories from reporters who have worked Christmas in their newsrooms. It's the good, the bad and the funny.
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Justin Trudeau tells-all in his revealing year-end interview, oh wait, he just stuck to the same old talking points. And yes, we're still going on about Omicron. Data journalist David Weisz co-hosts.
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He's the academic expert people love to hate. But he considers stirring the pot his moral duty. This week, CANADALAND brings you a profile of Amir Attaran.
Amir Attaran might not be a name you know off the top of your head, but if you listen or read Canadian media, you've definitely come across him before.
He is a professor at both the University of Ottawa law school and also its School of Epidemiology and Public Health. He's got a PhD in immunology from Oxford, along with a law degree from UBC.
Attaran has been a real sh*t disturber throughout the pandemic, criticizing all levels of government for their public health responses, but he liked stirring the pot long before COVID-19 reared its head. He makes the case that it is his duty.
The Prime Minister scolded him. Twitter deplatformed him. Journalists have largely stopped calling him… Well, that is, except for us.
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The media is scaring the bejesus out of us about the Omicron variant, but being on perpetual high alert can backfire. And the case against feeding the hungry. Writer, activist and podcaster Nora Loreto co-hosts.
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March 16, the day the restaurants died. Or did they? Food industry writer, Corey Mintz, dissects what COVID-19 and the rise of third-party delivery apps have meant for the industry and our culture surrounding food.
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The Indigenous delegation headed to the Vatican was canceled and the media seems most focused on a papal apology. And is coverage of the Ring of Fire simply echoing the Conservative party lines? Ryan McMahon sits in for Jesse this week with co-host Pam Palmater.
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Amber Bracken and Michael Toledano are freelance journalists who were arrested by RCMP officers on the morning of Nov. 19, 2021 while they were covering the demonstrations of Wet'suwet'en people and hereditary chiefs against the construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline.
The standoff on unceded territory was the top news story of 2020, until the pandemic hit. But since then, coverage has waned and in-depth looks have largely been left to freelancers and smaller independent news outlets that have fewer resources to fight charges in court.
If the state police lock up members of the press for doing their jobs, can we really call Canada's media a free press?
Amber Bracken and Michael Toledano join Jesse to dig into it.
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RCMP arrest journalists, matriarchs and land defenders following Gidimt'en eviction of Coastal GasLink, The Narwhal
Video footage shows RCMP Wet'suwet'en raid, Michael Toledano for CBC News
RCMP tracked photojournalist Amber Bracken in active investigations database, The Narwhal
Amber Bracken honoured by Canadian Association of Journalists for Wet'suwet'en coverage, (June 2020) The Narwhal
Canada's Supreme Court recognizes Wet'suwet'en law. So how is Coastal GasLink moving ahead?, National Observer
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The latest COVID variant offers mixed messaging about the severity of the virus. And an obituary to memorialize an alleged murderer does not sit right with Jesse and at least one of our listeners. Veteran journalist and freelance obituary writer Fred Langan co-hosts.
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Did an Instagram account kill a vulnerable teenager? 6ixBuzz has unparalleled clout in Toronto with young audiences and it used that influence to make "Debby Gang" or "Debby Parkway" (real name Alexis Matos) a certain brand of local celebrity — the kind that is repeatedly filmed when spotted on the street, and is then is the subject of mockery and scorn.
When Alexis Matos died of an apparent fentanyl overdose, hundreds immediately blamed 6ixBuzz and called for its cancellation. But is what 6ixBuzz does any different than how traditional media exposes and exploits people?
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The struggle against Coastal Gaslink was bigger news this week because journalists got arrested. And even CBC can't seem to avoid the wrath of covering WE Charity. Canadaland contributing editor Danielle Paradis co-hosts.
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Failure to protect hundreds of missing and murdered Indigenous women. Violent arrests at Wet'suwet'en and Fairy Creek. And now, Portapique. In recent years, controversy has hounded Canada's storied national police force. Reporter Jane Gerster has made it her mission to understand why these problems are happening, and she says that the Mounties - which originated as a paramilitary force to defend Canada's interests in the West - must grapple with the nature of the institution if they can ever hope to be reformed.
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Jane Gerster's latest piece in the Walrus, “The Dark Side of the RCMP,”
Jane Gerster's story in Vice about Kystle Knott
CBC's Mounties on Duty: A History of the RCMP
The RCMP is Broken by Stephen Maher
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As British Columbia assesses the damage from the downpour, what is the media's role when disaster strikes? And Jian Ghomeshi's lawyer is back in the news over a controversy but is Jesse too close to the story to critique it? National Observer columnist Sandy Garossino co-hosts.
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On the heels of COP26, Jesse heads back to school as he and his new senior producer, Sarah Lawrynuik, duke it out over whether climate change is either a) boring or b) the most exciting story ever told. Sarah takes Jesse through the psychological factors at play, the history, the politics and the morality of the climate crisis, while making her case for the latter. Will Canadaland move forward with stories about climate change? Listen to find out.
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A veteran Black columnist at The Star calls out Desmond Cole's activism out of nowhere. And CBC officially closes the comment section on Facebook. Writer Ish Aderonmu co-hosts.
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A new breed of hyper-connected, steroid-abusing, gender-bending, "entitled" thugs are changing the landscape of organized crime in Canada, according to veteran crime reporters Peter Edwards and Luis Najera. Also, the Mexican Cartels are here with them.
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The 'saying-stuff business' gets some clarity from different courts regarding what one can and cannot express online; the results may surprise you. And former prime minister Jean Chrétien gets the media to let him off the hook for his involvement with residential schools for a brief moment.
Columnist and Canadaland's French-language correspondent Emilie Nicolas co-hosts.
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Who are the Rogers family? How did they get so powerful? Why have they turned against one another? And what does it matter?
We've spent a week immersed in Rogers history to bring you this unofficial narrative of Canada's telecom overlords.
Further reading:
Kelly Pullen's 2014 story in Toronto Life on the "ruthless" power struggle at Rogers: https://torontolife.com/from-the-archives/edward-rogers-the-man-who-would-be-king/
Ted Rogers' last interview, with Alan Gregg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B-hlNXKYZ0
Ted Rogers' Anniversary novelty song: https://vimeo.com/95189390
The Globe and Mail's best (and perhaps only) headline about a significant butt-dial: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-rogers-ceo-joe-natale-learned-of-edward-rogerss-plan-to-oust-him/
Ted Rogers' Autobiography, "Relentless" - https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00E7S2P9A
High Wire Act: Ted Rogers and the Empire that Debt Built, by Caroline Van Hasselt : https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B003E8AJRE
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Anti-trans narratives found its way into three different media organizations this past week. And everybody appears to hate Rogers - even the Rogers. Staff Writer at Xtra Magazine Mel Woods co-hosts.
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Right now there are people who are choosing medically assisted death, because they don't have enough money to get the care they need to live with dignity.
Changes to Canada's medical assistance in dying (MAiD), combined with lack of supports and poverty-level benefits for disabled and chronically ill people have resulted in people seeking assisted death because they can't afford to live.
Madeline, a BC woman who describes herself as being on a “death clock”, is one of many Canadians facing that choice. And legislators are now pushing for a further expansion of MAiD - while disability supports remain unchanged.
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Asking how much fuel in drinking water is safe is just not the right question. And mannequins in the ICU beds of a CBC story sparks a fact check from Reuters. Ryan McMahon cohosts.
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Raging wildfires are now a normal part of summertime in Canada. Climate change comes at you fast, but the impact of these fires is far from equal across different regions. Those most likely to have to flee their homes are Indigenous people, and this disproportionate risk is only growing. The number of evacuees from First Nation reserves doubled over the last decade. Producer Sarah Lawrynuik travels to a remote Manitoba community to look at what fire has done to one community, and examines the implications for tens of thousands of other people in the years to come.
Further Reading:
Social science research on Indigenous wildfire management in the 21st century and future research needs (Amy Cardinal Christianson) - https://www.publish.csiro.au/WF/pdf/WF13048
Indigenous fire teams in Sask. aim for bigger role after B.C. blazes - https://thestarphoenix.com/news/local-news/indigenous-fire-teams-in-sask-aim-for-bigger-role-after-b-c-blazes
U of S prof studies impact of fire evacuations on First Nations (2015) - https://www.ckom.com/2015/07/17/u-of-s-prof-studies-impact-of-fire-evacuations-on-first-nations/
From the Ashes: Reimagining Fire Safety and Emergency Management in Indigenous Communities: https://www.ourcommons.ca/Content/Committee/421/INAN/Reports/RP9990811/inanrp15/inanrp15-e.pdf
The art of fire: reviving the Indigenous craft of cultural burning: https://thenarwhal.ca/indigenous-cultural-burning/
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The woes of fancy restaurants across Canada have been percolating - Who are we supposed to relate to? And the saga of the New York Times hit podcast comes to a close. Writer and restaurant-owner Jen Agg co-hosts.
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Virologist Angela Rasmussen listened to a recent Canadaland about the origins of COVID-19 and says we had it all wrong. Today she walks Jesse through the science and explains why the lab-leak theory remains highly improbable, what she feels previous guest Elaine Dewar got wrong, and how journalists should cover science during a pandemic and otherwise.
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Jesse was not on board with #CdnMediaFailed when it came to the story on Trudeau in Tofino. And attacks on journalists might be more of a Canadian problem than we care to admit. CBC Managing Editor of Investigative Karyn Pugliese cohosts.
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It's a question that has dogged the PPC since its inception. A question that leader Maxime Bernier blasted journalists for even coming close to asking.
One People's Party supporter spoke to our Backbench host Fatima Syed on why he believed the party was not racist, just like he wasn't. He is one of over 800,000 Canadians who just voted for the PPC in the last election. Surely, they can't all be racist either?
In our attempt to answer that question, we found a startling string of connections between the PPC and white supremacist groups - and evidence that suggests the party is being used by these groups to accomplish their own goals.
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The release of Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig shows what China really thinks about Canada. And Maxime Bernier asks his followers to "play dirty" with reporters. Jan Wong co-hosts.
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The lab-leak theory has more evidence supporting it than ever before. Journalist Elaine Dewar has written a new book documenting little-known scientific evidence and acts of deception and obfuscation from Chinese, American, and Canadian officials. So what exactly were they all trying to hide?
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On the Origin of the Deadliest Pandemic in 100 Years
Vanity Fair: The Lab-Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover COVID-19's Origins
The Intercept: Leaked Grant Proposal Details High-Risk Coronavirus Research
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We look back on the coverage of an absolutely underwhelming, demoralizing election. And we contend with a troubling aspect of Norm Macdonald's legacy.
CANADALAND contributing editor Danielle Paradis co-hosts.
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There's a video from the Fairy Creek anti-logging demonstrations on Vancouver Island that shows police unleashing pepper spray at close range onto a crowd of activists. At one point, an RCMP officer rips the masks off of two women, shown clearly on the tape. Other witnesses from the scene allege even worse - that officers were kicking and dragging activists, and aiming pepper spray into their mouth, eyes and private areas.
As reporter Cherise Seucharan finds out, the avenues available to the public to hold RCMP accountable don't seem to be working when it comes to these reports of escalating police violence at Fairy Creek. The courts, the police complaints system, and even the media have not been able to stop RCMP from acting in ways that have been condemned by experts, civil rights lawyers and by the RCMP's own watchdog.
Is it possible to police the police at Fairy Creek?
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Trudeau is getting upset and it seems to be working for him. And the English leaders' debate was widely derided. Was it deserved?
Vice senior editor Manisha Krishnan co-hosts.
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Non-disclosure agreements are incredibly common. But they protect abusers, and block journalism. They are also, as it turns out, often unenforceable. Zelda Perkins, who blew the whistle on Harvey Weinstein, has joined forces with law professor Julie Macfarlane to launch a global campaign against NDAs, called Can't Buy My Silence.
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After protestors threw gravel at the Prime Minister during a campaign stop, we ask: has this gotten too much coverage, or not enough? And we scrutinize a budding conspiracy about Michael Spavor, the Canadian entrepreneur detained in China.
Writer and National Observer columnist Sandy Garossino co-hosts.
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With the election coming in two weeks, Jesse sits down for an interview with Tiffany Lam, producer of The Backbench, to discuss what kind of politics show her and Fatima are making and how a politics show can be fun, accessible and nutritious.
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The Liberals promised to inject 6-billion more dollars into our healthcare system last week, but will more money mean more healthcare? Meanwhile, regional federal parties have dropped their platforms with distinct climate plans, posing a possible threat to major parties.
This week's contributors: Leena Minifie, Emilie Nicolas, Stuart Thomson
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Many journalists are condemning the unruly protestors following Trudeau on the campaign trail. But is that our role? And co-host Jen Agg talks about how she became the centre of a major story after dealing with her own unruly protestors at her restaurants.
Jen Agg is a restaurateur and author of I Hear She's a Real Bitch.
Here's her Twitter thread that got the attention of the media.
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Last year there were 540,000 international students in Canada according to Immigrations Refugees and Citizenship Canada, IRCC. Many of these students came to Canada with one goal - permanent residency. Our producer, Damilola Onime, herself a former international student, shares the story of how the international education industry is run in Canada. The story of how these students, because of their ambition for greener pastures are exploited by the government, the schools the attend, recruitments agents and every other party involved in their temporary resident to permanent resident journey.
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Twitter became the centre of the election this week when they put a "manipulated media” tag on one of Chrystia Freeland's tweets, which contained an edited video of Conservative leader Erin O'Toole. And is science journalism at a crisis point in Canada? An analysis finds Canada's biggest newspapers gave about half as much coverage to the IPCC's major recent climate report as US ones did.
Fatima Syed hosts with Sean Holman as co-host
Further Reading:
The Tyee: When Dire Climate News Came, Canada's Front Pages Crumpled
Politico on the political connections at Twitter
Chrystia Freeland's edited video of Erin O'Toole and the full video
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Craig Kielburger was the Greta Thunberg of the 90s – a 12 year-old kid from the suburbs who dreamed of freeing the world's children from slavery. His activism made him famous, and he was endorsed by Oprah, the Pope, the Queen, and the Clintons. His campaign became a global movement and a powerful brand.
But right from the start, there were uncomfortable questions about money and exploitation. Decades later, it all came crashing down. But the seeds of WE's self-destruction were planted right from the start…
Official responses from WE:
According to the WE Organization: neither the WE Organization nor Marc or Craig Kielburger have ever been investigated by a law enforcement agency, currently or in the past.
The WE Organization maintains that all financial transactions between its various entities, both charitable and for-profit, have followed all applicable laws.
In his libel claim against Saturday Night Magazine: Craig Kielburger said that the article was false and led people to wrongly believe he was keeping the money for himself. According to a reported statement by a Free the Children accountant, donations made prior to the organization becoming a registered charity were deposited in a separate bank account, and the group was being run as a charity pending Revenue Canada's approval of its application.
2018 investigation:
https://www.canadaland.com/all-of-wes-answers-to-canadaland-and-letters-from-their-lawyers/
2019 investigation:
Further reading:
Canadaland's reporting on WE Charity: https://www.canadaland.com/?s=we+charity
The WE Charity story, according to WE:
https://www.we.org/en-CA/about-we/we-charity/our-story
WE.org Transparency page:
https://www.we.org/en-CA/transparency-reporting/we-charity
WE.org Financials page:
https://www.we.org/en-CA/about-we/we-charity/governance/
ME to WE Transparency page:
https://www.we.org/en-CA/transparency-reporting/me-to-we
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Recent stories about Canada's role in the War in Afghanistan fall short. And if Justin Trudeau is Veruca Salt, who then is Erin O'Toole? Photojournalist and author Paul Watson co-hosts.
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Shad's Hip-Hop Evolution is an incredible piece of journalism that nobody is talking about.
Hip-Hop Evolution is a remarkable piece of journalism and an exhaustive look at the history of hip-hop. It's also made by a group of Canadians. Rapper and broadcaster Shad, director Darby Wheeler, and writer Rodrigo Bascuñán join to talk about their award-winning documentary series.
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Co-host Pauls Wells may be the only person aside from Trudeau who wants an election right now. We look ahead to the campaign and debates to come. WE is back in the news. And The Rebel has another defamation case dismissed.
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Over 25 years, WE built a golden brand by inspiring children to rally around their charismatic leader. But behind the scenes, employees experienced a cult-like culture and a troubling blur of charitable and commercial activities. In the aftermath of a national scandal, thousands of donors and volunteers (and dozens of ‘celebrity ambassadors') are left wondering where the money went, and whether the savior industry creates a constant need for victims.
From CANADALAND, the news company that exposed it all, this is the exclusive story of a charity that did well when it was supposed to be doing good.Subscribe to The White Saviors. Episode one drops on August 20th
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It Takes a Child
Craig Kielburger's Story - A Journey into Child Labour
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The Story of Craig Kielburger
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CPAC
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In Search Of Character
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Elkind+Sweet Communications, Inc
https://www.livewiremedia.com/product/in-search-of-character/
The Price WE Paid
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Interview with Craig Kielburger
CSPAN
Craig Kielburger NSB Speakers promotional video
Youtube
Marc Kielburger NSB Speakers promotional video
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WE Movement Youtube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm6agaIkn5aBJlLLds7P1HQ
MeToWe Youtube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm6agaIkn5aBJlLLds7P1HQ
CTV News - Kielburger brothers interview with Lisa Laflamme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_p5PRLy2os
MTV Cribs: Craig Kielburger Episode
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In late 2020, FBI agents showed up at the New York home of activist and journalist Masih Alinejad, and told her that agents of the Iranian regime were plotting to kidnap her. Months later, an indictment from the US Department of Justice revealed details of the plot - including surveillance of her home and family, and a plan to take her to Venezuela by boat. But it also mentioned three people in Canada were also targets.
As our reporter Cherise Seucharan finds out, many journalists and dissidents who have left countries such as Iran, China, Mexico and Pakistan for safety in Canada, have found themselves the victim of threats and intimidation by what they believe to be foreign actors. In one case, involving Pakistani activist Karima Baloch in Toronto, these threats ramped up before her unexpected death. Kiran Nazish, founding director of the Coalition for Women in Journalism, explains how extensive these threats are, and how the Canadain government has so far failed to act to protect these dissidents.
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Une journaliste scientifique a porté plainte à Radio Canada et a reçu beaucoup de haine. Et est-ce que les journalistes répondent finalement aux militants?
Emilie Nicolas et Nora Loreto prennent le relais en l'absence de Jesse.
En anglais: A science journalist complained to Radio-Canada and received a lot of hate for it. And are journalists finally responding to activism the way they should?
Emilie Nicolas and Nora Loreto take over in Jesse's absence.
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Teachers accused of abusing Indigenous children at Catholic schools are among us. John Furlong is quoted regularly in the press as the man leading a possible Vancouver bid for the 2030 Olympics. It's as if the people accusing him of physical and sexual abuse don't exist. Today we hear Jesse's original 2014 conversation with journalist Laura Robinson, who broke the Furlong story, and an update about all that has happened since, and why the upcoming tribunal on the case may be different.
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Laura Robinson's original piece on Furlong in the Georgia Straight
The words of (some of) Furlong's accusers
Canadian Human Rights Commission complaint regarding the RCMP investigation of John Furlong
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A draft of the anti-Alberta inquiry was leaked and didn't find what it thought it would. And Facebook is partnering up with The Globe and Mail and Jesse wants in. Writer Sandy Garossino co-hosts.
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Ryerson University (aka X University) has a Journalism department in turmoil over student grievances. As similar reckonings sweep Canada's other J-Schools, Jesse sits down with departing Ryerson Prof Karyn Pugliese and former Undergraduate Director Lisa Taylor to discuss why they both left their posts. Then, reporter Cherise Seucharan talks to Ryerson alum Sarah Krichel and student Reah Singh, an organizer of the open letter that became national news.
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A report on the crisis at Ryerson's J-School
The Open Letter from Ryerson students
The National Post on the Jonathan Bradley case
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The resignation of BC Civil Liberties Union's executive director sparks controversy on both mainstream and social media. And National Post might be successfully carving out its place in the Canadian podcast space. Maclean's contributing editor Andray Domise co-hosts.
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Travel Writer and Journalist, Marcello Di Cintio talks to Jesse about his one year journey around Canada, in search of the secret stories etched in the minds of Canadian taxi drivers. During that year, Marcello says he listened to incredible life tales of the men and women behind the wheels, hurling passengers around their cities, with no set destination - some of which he documents in his latest book, Driven: The Secret Lives Of Taxi Drivers.
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The election hasn't even been called yet but our major parties' social media strategies already deserve some attention. And as more Canadians get vaccinated, how will COVID beats evolve? Freelance journalist Nora Loreto co-hosts.
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Pornhub is a massive Canadian website that few talked about until the New York Times called it out for profiting from the exploitation of children and rape victims. Now government is rushing to regulate all online pornography. But the NY Times piece has its origins in an anti-porn crusade from an anti-gay, racist evangelic church. Sandra Wesley, executive director of the sex worker advocacy group Stella, says that bad laws will harm sex workers, and that the "moral panic" over porn could even kill them.
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The New York Times on "The Children of Pornhub"
The Daily Beast's investigation of Exodus Cry
The Globe and Mail on Feras Antoon's muddy online footprints
The Logic on a new lawsuit against Mindgeek
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Twitter conversations seem more interesting than the media's coverage on Canada's first Indigenous Governor-General. The Bay tries to empower BIPOC while stealing one's likeness without consent. And Canada's new "guiding principles" for diverse content online feel off to Jesse.
Writer and lawyer Hadiya Roderique co-hosts.
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News stories are frequently updated, clarified or corrected online, after they've been published. But when there's no disclosure that a story has been changed, something's usually up.
Producer/reporter Alex de Boer digs deep into one such case, when an article in Victoria News about a demonstration in support of the Wet'suwet'en protests originally centred an Indigenous land defender. That version disappeared without explanation, and a new, drastically different story suddenly appeared in its place, along with a video from Victoria's Police chief, containing claims of violence that people present say, are simply not true. How and why were these changes made? Why were they not explained? Did the police demand, and receive, a re-write? And what can we learn about Black Press, the newspaper chain that publishes Victoria News and many more B.C. papers?
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The media is fixated on whether to celebrate Canada Day as the Lower Kootenay First Nation announces the discovery of another 182 unmarked graves in BC. And after recording, Lytton BC began evacuation and we're trying to understand what a heat dome is.
Former Executive Director of APTN Karyn Pugliese co-hosts.
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As reports of Chinese government influence in Canadian media gain traction, South China Morning Post reporter Ian Young reveals an incredible tale from the past. Almost 20 years ago, the PRC's media company actually bought a Canadian newspaper. But all is not as it seemed, and media mogul Li Bolun may have had other plans besides propaganda. Sadly, he died in a Beijing jail cell following scandalous drug and fraud charges and cannot explain his side of the story. What's left is a messy court battle and enduring concerns about who controls Chinese language media in Canada.
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Who Was Li Bolun? by Ian Young https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3103793/who-was-li-bolun-disgraced-citic-media-moguls
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The Toronto Star published a "Saturday Debate" about Egerton Ryerson's legacy that contradicted the TRC - and they knew it. And it appears a police dog's life mattered more than a Métis man's in Alberta.
Canadaland French-language correspondent Emilie Nicolas and Canadaland contributing editor Danielle Paradis take over in Jesse's absence.
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CLARIFICATION (June 26, 2021, 10:38AM): Photojournalist Ian Willms has told Canadaland that he was given an unconditional release upon reaching the station, without any criminal charges, but it was not immediately clear if there was a provincial trespassing charge against him when the CAJ statement came out. Published within hours of his release, details were not yet clear at that time. Police have issued a statement clarifying that there were no charges.
CLARIFICATION (June 28, 2021, 1:45PM): This episode says the people living at the Trinity Bellwoods Park encampment were moved to temporary housing. Activists say that only some were moved to temporary housing while many have just moved do different parks. Toronto Mayor John Tory has since said “most” were offered hotel rooms; the City claims to have only moved 14 out of (by their count) 31 people, and those 14 went to “either a shelter or hotel program.”
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Queen's University quickly rejected the findings of an anonymous report accusing six people associated with the school of misrepresenting their Indigenous identities. That prompt dismissal has raised questions about the non-status Ardoch Algonquin group, and the controversial academic from the U.S. who co-founded it.
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Ed the Sock doesn't seem okay since Bell announced it would reboot MuchMusic. CBC won't let their audience comment on their articles on Facebook anymore. And a Global radio host loses his job for using a racial slur - Is the era of edgelord talk radio over? Vice Senior Editor Manisha Krishnan co-hosts.
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"Coercive control" is how cults like NXIVM entrap followers and how abusive partners dominate their victims. A growing movement is calling for a law against it. But what about the many people who want to surrender their will to others? Sarah Berman is the author of Don't Call It A Cult, a deep investigation of NXIVM.
Don't Call It a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM, by Sarah Berman
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Muslim-Canadians call out the media for harming their community. And the controversy around CBC cancelling Kim's Convenience goes international. Freelance journalist and The Backbench's host Fatima Syed co-hosts.
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Recordings of 911 calls from the night of the Portapique massacre have been leaked to the press, and they prove that the RCMP have been lying from the start about a crucial piece of information. But somehow it's the journalists that published the calls who are facing an angry public backlash. Frank Magazine publisher Andrew Douglas and reporter Paul Palango discuss their bombshell story, and what the RCMP may still be hiding about Gabriel Wortman.
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The discovery of 215 residential school children in a mass grave spurs this week's discussion on how journalists report stories about Indigenous people. And in the wake of this news, a Bill that could empower Indigenous children is largely eclipsed.
Thunder Bay host Ryan McMahon and IndigiNews' child welfare reporter Anna McKenzie co-host in Jesse's absence.
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There have been dozens of arrests at Fairy Creek... but not much footage to show for it.
That's because the RCMP have been blocking and corralling journalists from freely covering the demonstrations. But according to court precedent and the RCMP's own guidelines, journalists do have the right to be present even when there is a court injunction.
So why does it keep happening? And why is it always Canada's independent media at the forefront of this fight?
Reporter Cherise Seucharan finds out.
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Covering BC's anti-logging protests raise issues about journalists' decorum, access, and how stories about land protectors are framed. And Native Twitter gets a CNN pundit fired for spewing racist views about Indigenous people.
Thunder Bay host Ryan McMahon and photojournalist Amber Bracken take over in Jesse's absence.
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A repost of one of the most popular Canadaland episodes ever, from way back in 2014.
The Irvings are secretive billionaires who have a monopoly on New Brunswick's news media. Journalist Jacques Poitras, author of Irving vs Irving, describes how the family subtly suppresses criticism and destroys competitors.
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CIJA has called-out Canadaland for not adequately denouncing last week's guest. Meanwhile, controversy over coverage of pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Canada. And filmmaker Michelle Latimer launches her inevitable comeback campaign, damn the consequences. Thunder Bay host Ryan McMahon and Independent Jewish Voices' communications lead Aaron Lakoff take over in Jesse's absence.
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The Canadian Armed Forces has known that they have a problem with sexual misconduct for over two decades. Why can't they figure out how to stop it?
In 1998, several women came forward to Maclean's magazine about their experiences being raped or sexually harassed in the military. Many years and many victims later, there was finally an investigation which lead to the creation of Operation Honour, which was supposed to address problem.But it didnt.Now many members of the Canadian military have come forward yet again, and the government has pledged to do another investigation. Reporter Cherise Seucharan looks into why this has been such a problem, and if it will be different this time.
A warning for listeners: this episode contains detailed descriptions of sexual assault.
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Reporting on the occupation of Palestine is "all stick, no carrot." And Canada's National Newspaper Awards is more like the Golden Globes than we thought. Writer and researcher Dalya al-Masri co-hosts.
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Migrant farm workers aren't the only temporary foreign workers who have been largely forgotten and failed during the pandemic. Producer Sula Greene brings us the voices of workers some of us see every day but who nevertheless often remain invisible. What do these women endure to become Permanent Residents of Canada, and is that goal even possible given our current system?
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Torstar publishes pro-gambling content now. And the Rogers family vacation at Mar-a-Lago. Data journalist David Weisz co-hosts.
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In 1972, the government funded an absurd study to measure the impact of cannabis on productivity.
Show Notes: Young women were sequestered in a hospital ward for 98 days and administered daily doses of super-potent, government-grown marijuana. They smoked 2 joints a day while weaving macrame belts for money.
Their story is the subject of a new indie film, The Marijuana Conspiracy
But it was first told to reporter Diana Zlomislic by Doreen Brown, who now bring it to us.
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Media reacts to a perplexing Court decision on Bill 21, Quebec's law banning some public servants from wearing religious symbols. And Rebel News is facing new scrutiny. CANADALAND's French language media correspondent Emilie Nicolas co-hosts.
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Ever since the Canadian government announced recommendations that adults from Indigenous and racialized communities should be given priority for a COVID-19 vaccination, accusations of reverse racism have filled comment sections and social media posts.
Now, racial minorities with vaccine priority are facing racism and other structural barriers to getting the jab.
Our new reporter, Cherise Seucharan, has been trying to find out exactly why these policies are needed, how they're working out — and whether the Canadian public is willing to back them.
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As provinces fail spectacularly to control the third wave of the pandemic, is the press adequately holding them to account, or making things worse? And what are the ethics of publishing a a picture of a nude MP accidentally caught on Zoom?
Freelance journalist Justin Ling co-hosts.
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Filmmaker Daniel Lombroso spent four years following Lauren Southern, Richard Spencer, and Mike Cernovich with a camera, as their stars rose and the bigotry and xenophobia they championed went mainstream.
The result is White Noise, a feature-length documentary produced by The Atlantic.
And though they're less prominent these days, and we might be eager to forget about Southern, Spencer, Cernovich and their alt-right acolytes, Lombroso warns us that we do so at our peril.
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GraceLife Church and Montreal riots against public health directives had us wondering why mainstream narratives about vaccine hesitancy focus so much on racialized communities. And journalists are officially hella tired. Freelance journalist Fatima Syed and Torstar Editor Evy Kwong co-host.
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The Landlord Credit Bureau lets landlords review their tenants and report their payment habits. The information is shared with other landlords, and it can damage a tenant's credit rating.
But is that legal?
In the midst of the pandemic, Hamilton resident Joey Nicol and her partner found they'd been signed up for the Landlord Credit Bureau by their landlord. Fearing eviction, they started to investigate.
Jesse speaks with Nicol about her family's experience. Then he talks to MPP Jessica Bell, housing critic for the Ontario NDP, and to privacy lawyer David Fraser.
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An uprising of frontline workers forces change to COVID policies. And with a major merger in the works, a telecom giant makes the case that less competition is good for Canada. Freelance journalist Nora Loreto co-hosts.
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Restaurants have struggled badly during the pandemic.
But food writer Suresh Doss takes us to a parking lot, a subway stop, and a home cook's kitchen to show us a thriving underground food scene.
This episode first aired on September 20, 2020.
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CBC puts an end to Randy Bachman's Vinyl Tap after just 16 years of self-indulgent, uninspiring radio. What will take its place? And it turns out one of the reporters who's most friendly to Doug Ford is in a relationship with the Premier's director of media relations.
Fucked Up singer and Turned Out A Punk host Damian Abraham co-hosts.
Read Jonathan Goldsbie's piece about Brian Lilley and Ivana Yelich here.
CORRECTION: In the episode, we refer to Ivana Yelich as Premier Doug Ford's press secretary. That was her former title. She is currently Ford's director of media relations.
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A site called SeaWestNews describes Alexandra Morton as “BC's loudest anti-salmon farming activist,” and her writing as “rambling” and “conspiracy-laden.”
Originally a whale biologist from California, Morton was shocked into activism when her research revealed the devastating results of industrialized salmon farming.
Since then, she's been subject to attack campaigns meant to discredit her, intimidated by sea Mounties, and surveilled by armed operatives in boats with tinted windows. And she's exposed the salmon industry's influence on the government department meant to protect the oceans.
It's all documented in her book, Not on My Watch: How a renegade whale biologist took on governments and industry to save wild salmon.
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Are stories about vaccine efficacy doing more harm than good? And Canadian politicians are following a road paved by Trump, singling out critics for scorn. Montreal Gazette health reporter Aaron Derfel co-hosts.
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The culture war icon is back with a new bestseller. We revisit our examination of Jordan Peterson the media phenomenon, which asks how an obscure Canadian psychology professor rose to international stardom.
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What's the best way to cover allegations of sexual misconduct in the Canadian Armed Forces - or just generally, really? And the Alberta government has some harsh words for an animated Bigfoot movie.
Freelance journalists Fatima Syed and Maggie Rahr co-host.
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Ari Ben-Menashe has been an Israeli spy, sold weapons to Iran, survived a firebombing, and been the target of at least one RCMP investigation. He crossed paths with Jeffrey Epstein. And he's worked for Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, Libya's Khalifa Haftar, and Sudan's Transitional Military Council.
Ben-Menashe runs the lobbying firm Dickens & Madson (Canada), based Montreal.
And on March 5th, it was reported that he'd been awarded a US$2 million contract to lobby the U.S. and other governments on behalf of the military generals in Myanmar who seized power in a coup on February 1st.
Julian Pecquet broke that story for his site ForeignLobby.com, and he tells Jesse what he knows about Ben-Menashe, his source.
Then Jesse talks to Ari Ben-Menashe himself.
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HuffPost Canada is dead. The Ryerson School of Journalism faces a crisis. And a very serious, important conversation about Dr. Seuss.
The Nation's national affairs correspondent Jeet Heer co-hosts.
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A Haitian senator's wife paid $4.25 million—all money down—for a house in Laval, Quebec. Meanwhile in Haiti, people have been protesting against corruption, kidnapping, and a president who they say is over-staying his term in office. How do we talk about Haiti without reproducing unhelpful tropes and stereotypes?
Vélina Elysée Charlier, an activist with Nou Pap Dòmi, joins us from Port-au-Prince to explain why Haitians are taking to the streets.
Canadaland's French-language media correspondent Emilie Nicolas breaks down how these events are resonating in Montreal's Haitian community, and discusses how Canadian media should report on Haiti to avoid facile and racist clichés.
Then Ottawa-based activist Jean Jafrikayiti Saint-Vil makes the case for why doing that work is so vital.
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Torstar gets into the gambling business. Americans get caught up on the WE scandal. And documents suggest Canada's two major newspaper chains traded notes on shutting down each others' papers before they swapped them.
The Tyee's tech and privacy reporter Bryan Carney co-hosts.
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In February, as the Australian government prepared to introduce a link tax, Facebook blocked all news from its Australian platform. The new legislation, lobbied for by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp and other big media organizations, would have forced Facebook and Google to pay them each time their content is shared online. Facebook's strong-arm tactic forced the government to amend the legislation, potentially exempting Facebook altogether if it cuts its own deals with news organizations. In return, Facebook reversed the news ban. Everyone seems happy now…except for smaller independent publishers who are still not sure exactly how they fit into this picture.
The Canadian government is also talking about imposing a link tax, as well as other plans to regulate online media that go well beyond Australia's contentious legislation.
Worried about what the future has in store, Jesse talks to Susannah George. She's the founder and CEO of Urban List, a lifestyle site and Australia's biggest independent digital media company.
And he speaks with Michael Geist, Internet law professor at the University of Ottawa, about the Canadian policy measures up for discussion and what they might mean for us.
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Canada's vote to call China's treatment of Uyghurs a genocide exposes an online wave of China apologists on the far left. And the New York Times brings back Cortland Cronk in an attempt to prove that Canadians are actually not very nice.
Author and retired journalist Jan Wong co-hosts.
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LifeSiteNews may be the biggest Canadian news outlet you've never heard of — a kind of Breitbart for traditionalist Catholics. A new investigation published by the Canadian Anti-Hate Network shows how LifeSite, which has its roots in an anti-abortion lobby group, has grown. It's become a megaphone for an anti-LGBTQ+ movement. And as it has collided with the far-right infosphere, it has platformed anti-Muslim, anti-Semitic and white nationalist voices, and embraced Trumpism and QAnon.
CAHN investigator Hazel Woodrow joins Jesse to talk about her report.
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Canadian media have lost the plot around the vaccine rollout. And a Montreal-based website makes the list of COVID-19 conspiracy theory superspreaders.
Globe and Mail health columnist André Picard co-hosts.
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Michelle Latimer was the buzziest Canadian director and showrunner of 2020. Her documentary Inconvenient Indian premiered at TIFF and reaped plaudits and awards. Her series Trickster, based on a novel by Eden Robinson, debuted on the CBC and was slated for a second season. But it all came crashing down in December when a CBC investigation called into question Latimer's Indigenous identity claims.
Why does the Canadian cultural establishment make darlings of figures like Latimer? Ryan McMahon joins Jesse to discuss.
Then documentary filmmaker Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, who is featured in Inconvenient Indian, considers the ethics and responsibility of storytelling, and why this controversy has been hurtful to so many Indigenous people.
And Steven Lonsdale, whose seal hunt Latimer filmed for Inconvenient Indian, explains what he'd like to see done with that footage now that the documentary has been pulled from distribution.
Correction: In this episode, Jesse says that author Eden Robinson has promised to donate all future author royalties from the Trickster books to the Haisla Language Authority. In fact, Robinson has promised to donate future income from the Trickster TV series to the Haisla people.
Clarification: In an earlier version of this episode, Jesse said, “The CBC dug in to census records that say Latimer's grandfather was not Indigenous or Métis, as [Latimer] had claimed, but French-Canadian,” a formulation that erroneously and unintentionally implied that the Métis are not Indigenous. We have amended the episode to remove this implication.
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Our digital worlds are collapsing. Jon Kay is on Fox News complaining about Seth Rogen, while celebrities are sharing the stage with normal people on Clubhouse to talk about ramen. What is Clubhouse anyway? And why did China ban it? Plus, a student journalist files a human rights complaint against his school paper, claiming they fired him over his Catholic beliefs. Freelance writer Roger Huang co-hosts.
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The Indian government doesn't take criticism lightly, whether it's from Prime Minister Trudeau... or Rihanna. Baaz co-founder Jaskaran Sandhu breaks down why thousands of Indian farmers are camped out around Delhi, their connection to the Sikh and Punjabi diaspora here in Canada, and how his three-week-old newsletter plans to cover it.
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Reddit did not actually stand up to Wall Street and prove the power of the little guy. Jon Kay briefly sparks joy. The Canadian government is working to radically transform the internet and Facebook wants in.
Maclean's contributing editor and partner at the Rezistans Nwa podcast network Andray Domise co-hosts.
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The New York Times' wildly popular podcast Caliphate came into question after its central character, a Canadian man who claimed he'd joined ISIS and committed executions, was charged with perpetrating a terrorist hoax. A re-investigation of the podcast by The Times concluded that, according to an editor's note attached to the podcast, “episodes of Caliphate that presented Mr. Chaudhry's claims did not meet our standards for accuracy.”
The debacle caused Rukmini Callimachi, the reporter and voice of Caliphate, to be reassigned to a new beat. And it has resurfaced allegations of workplace misconduct by Caliphate producer Andy Mills, provoked concerns about The Daily host Michael Barbaro's efforts to shape coverage of the fallout, and set off a wider conversation about who gets to tell stories in podcasting.
In this episode, Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple discusses where Caliphate went wrong. Laila Al-Arian, executive producer of Al Jazeera's Fault Lines, critiques the reporting biases she believes contributed to the error. Then, podcast host Jolenta Greenberg weighs in on what this episode tells us about the rise of the podcast industry.When asked for comment by Canadaland, The New York Times pointed us to this letter from assistant managing editor Sam Dolnick, written in response to a letter of complaint by members of the Public Radio Program Directors Association. In it, Dolnick writes: “We believe we've handled what was a significant journalistic lapse with accountability.”
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Sponsored messaging from Alberta says climate journalists are helping to stage a covert revolution. And media empires strike back to protect their own. CANADALAND contributing editor Danielle Paradis co-hosts.
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Comics journalist Joe Sacco tells Jesse about how he draws stories out of people— then draws them onto the page. Most famous for his journalistic comics about people living in war zones from Gaza to the Balkans, Sacco's newest book Paying the Land took him to the Northwest Territories. He visited Dene communities to ask for their views on resource extraction on their land, and found that he had to portray it in the context of the complicated history of colonialism, its effects on these Indigenous people, their culture, and how they see their future.
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Reporter Ahmar Khan tried to blow the whistle on systemic racism at CBC... and they fired him. Maclean's publishes a big, powerful list. Ryan McMahon guest co-hosts with Ryerson journalism professor and former APTN news boss Karyn Pugliese.
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Many people who broke into the Capitol broadcast their crimes across social media. Twitter, Facebook and other platforms responded by deleting accounts, but other people rushed to preserve and organize all their posts from the assault on the Capitol, as well as photos and videos from journalists present. The collective Bellingcat uses open-source intelligence to investigate events around the world. Their training director Aric Toler tells Jesse how they work. Then, Kurt Phillips used what he found on social media and internet forums to unmask racist Canadian groups for more than a decade on his blog Anti-Racist Canada. He tells Jesse about the trends he's seen in the Canadian hate movement and how his own identity was made public last year.
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Premiers activate shitty dad mode. And tech companies clamping down on Trumpism could have unintended consequences.
CANADALAND's new French language media correspondent Emilie Nicolas co-hosts.
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With COVID-19 cases in many parts of Canada on the rise, what about the people who can't stay home? The Toronto Star's labour reporter Sara Mojtehedzadeh has found that workplaces are a “major source” of transmission, and precarious work is helping the spread.
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A pro-Trump mob invades the U.S. Capitol building, the hunt continues for Canadian politicians who ignored COVID travel advisories and we reflect on whether Julian Assange has gotten a raw deal from the press.
Jen Gerson joins us with a special announcement.
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In rural communities and in the North, people pay ridiculously high bills for ridiculously slow Internet.
But decent Internet access isn't a luxury. Lower Internet speed equals lower access, lower opportunity and lower status in just about every aspect of modern life.
And while the digital divide isn't new, the pandemic has widened it, leaving people from Iqaluit to rural Alberta and Ontario frustrated and fuming at ISPs like Xplornet.
Sula Greene reports.
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Here's an episode of the podcast Crackdown, hosted by Garth Mullins.
In 2015, Crackdown editorial board member, Jeff Louden, was on morphine pills for his chronic pain. The medication allowed Jeff to find some stability and avoid Vancouver's increasingly dangerous drug market. But, when Jeff's doctor unexpectedly cut down his medication, he turned to the street to outrun dopesickness.
Five years later, Garth Mullins investigates what happened to Jeff. What can it tell us about North America's so-called “overprescribing crisis?”
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A teenage boy and his friends start robbing banks in Toronto. A future Prime Minister is deported from Montreal. A Black Panther in Baltimore goes to prison for four decades. And the RCMP is split apart by the biggest scandal in the force's history. At the heart of it all is one man. He calls himself the General.
Featured in this episode: Ricky Atkinson, David Austin, Robin Philpot, Lennox Farrell, Gary Cristall
To learn more: The Life, Crimes and Hard Times of Ricky Atkinson, Leader of the Dirty Tricks Gang by Richard Atkinson with Joe Fiorito Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex & Security in Sixties Montreal by David Austin Ninth Floor by Mina Shum Marshall Law: The Life & Times of a Baltimore Black Panther by Marshall “Eddie” Conway
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Stories of big news breaking when everyone else is on vacation.
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The holidays, as we know them, are cancelled. So we asked people to call Jesse and argue about... whatever, in the true spirit of this festive season.
Featuring CBC Radio host Piya Chattopadhyay, 12:36 newsletter maker Marc Weisblott, journalist Kareem Shaheen, Maureen from Calgary, Simon from Toronto, and more.
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They're lobster criminals, not lobster vigilantes. Does the CBC's President live in Brooklyn or just sleep there in a house she owns? And Brayden Bushby's verdict offers a moment to reflect on who deserves humanity. Former CAJ President Karyn Pugliese co-hosts.
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Here's MIT Technology Review's story on biased algorithms and Timnit Gebru getting fired: https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/16/1014634/google-ai-ethics-lead-timnit-gebru-tells-story/
Here's our story on the President of the CBC living in Brooklyn: https://www.canadaland.com/the-president-of-the-cbc-lives-in-brooklyn/
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A Uyghur man imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay for years was released over a decade ago, after the U.S. decided he wasn't an “enemy combatant” after all. But Ayoob Mohammed can't reunite with his wife and two kids who live in Canada. According to our immigration authorities, he was a member of an elusive terror organization. Our producer Tiffany Lam reports.
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The New York Times says Canada needs to stand up against child exploitation on PornHub — but their columnist's suggestions could create new problems. And aliens are reportedly among us. This is no joke! NSFW reporter for The Daily Dot Ana Valens co-hosts.
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The Westons might be Canada's Jeff Bezos, argues Vass Bednar, and not just because they're very rich.
They own Loblaw, which is much more than a grocer. It's an insurance company, a bank, a medical cannabis company and a media company. When you put it all together, that amounts to the largest private ownership of data in Canada.
Loblaw knows a lot about you. Isn't it time to learn more about them?
Bednar is executive director of the Master in Public Policy at McMaster University, and writes the newsletter “regs to riches.”
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A petulant sandwich slinger gets attention as restaurants struggle across the country. A Global News Radio host quits over threatening messages about herself and her baby, while the company says dealing with trolls is part of the job.
Vice President of the Canadian Association of Journalists Fatima Syed co-hosts.
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Last summer, allegations of sexual misconduct were levelled against prominent Iranian-Canadian artist Aydin Aghdashloo during Iran's #MeToo moment. More than a hundred powerful and influential Iranian men were called out for allegedly committing sexual harassment and rape. Journalist Farnaz Fassihi broke the Aghdashloo story for the New York Times, and she joins Jesse to talk about the allegations, as well as the context in which Iran's #MeToo movement is playing out. Then Soudeh Ghasemi, president of the board of the Iranian Canadian Congress, discusses why the Aghdashloo allegations have been slow to provoke a reaction in some sections of the Iranian-Canadian community.
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A couple of Manitobans make a show of the media lying. Keean Bexte uncovers a socialist incubator. And copaganda tries out podcasting. Winnipeg-based freelance multimedia journalist Shannon VanRaes cohosts.
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Jesse speaks with the late Christie Blatchford, the notorious National Post columnist and court reporter who once called his work "another low-water mark in journalism."
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Addressing the drinking water crisis in First Nations communities is not rebuilding post-war Europe. And mandating Indigenous content on Canadian broadcasters could get baked into the Broadcasting Act.
Return to Thunder Bay host Ryan McMahon and co-writer/reporter Jon Thompson take over in Jesse's absence.
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Since we last spoke to Karl Dockstader and Sean Vanderklis about the occupation of a development site in Caledonia, Ontario known as 1492 Land Back Lane, tensions between land defenders and local authorities have flared. At the end of October, an Ontario Superior Court judge granted the developers a permanent injunction against the encampment. A violent confrontation between protesters and the OPP erupted. The One Dish, One Mic co-hosts return with an update from the site, and to explore why federal government inaction just makes things worse.
After this episode was recorded, on Friday Nov. 13, 1492 Landback Lane issued a press release: “The Federal Government reached out to Land Defenders during the summer, as well as to the Six Nations Elected Council (SNEC) and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chiefs Council (HCCC) to begin discussions on a negotiations table, but have not updated their position for more than 50 days. Six Nations people continue to demand a real response to the situation from the Federal Government.”
Later the same day, the office of Carolyn Bennett, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations, also released a statement. “Our government is committed to continuing to work collaboratively addressing Six Nations historical claims and land rights issues. (…) Federal government officials have been in regular communication with representatives of Six Nations Elected Chief and Council, Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chiefs Council and Ontario throughout this process with regard to our offer to meet. We look forward to meeting with the community at the earliest opportunity.”
At the time of publication, no meeting or negotiation has been announced.
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Beware of the FANG! And how to cover Chinese infiltration — or anti-Chinese infiltration? Recovering journalist and media consultant Anita Li co-hosts.
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The Brayden Bushby trial has once again raised some uncomfortable questions about how stories involving Indigenous people get reported by settler journalists. Jesse sits down with CBC's Jody Porter, whose recent essay for Maisonneuve touches upon her experiences reporting on "Indigenous issues" and how writing about other people's pain can be a way of hiding from your own.
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We may not know yet who won the U.S. election, but the results aren't reassuring. At least some of the Canadian coverage was soothing. And Prime Minister Trudeau takes a stance on free speech — but only in French.
Le Devoir columnist Emilie Nicolas co-hosts.
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Rebel News personality Keean Bexte is suing Canadaland for defamation.
In this special “Publisher's Note” edition of the podcast, Jesse breaks down who's suing us, how we got here and what we're going to do about it.
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National Post doubles down on their right to publish status quo opinions. And Bell Media confuses self-promotion with local community engagement. 12:36 'news burrito filler' Marc Weisblott co-hosts.
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MSNBC host and journalist Ali Velshi has been traveling to U.S. swing states talking to voters in the lead-up to the presidential election. He tells Jesse about getting shot by a rubber bullet covering the protests in Minneapolis, then getting mocked by Trump for it; about lessons learned from the 2016 election; and what he thinks could happen following Election Day if the results are contested.
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Hulk smash colonialism! And public health messaging crosses a line when trick or treating directives are unclear. Return to Thunder Bay host Ryan McMahon cohosts.
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Santai Kimakeke blew the whistle on WE. Then he recanted his allegations and disappeared. Before he did, he said he was afraid for his safety.
After three months of reporting and in collaboration with John-Allan Namu of Africa Uncensored, we bring you this investigation.
A reporter was offered money to kill this story.
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Media's anti-masker intrigue has Canadaland staff divided. And almost 300 CBC journalists raise concerns about leveraging the broadcaster's credibility for CBC Tandem. Montreal Gazette health reporter Aaron Derfel co-hosts.
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Jonathan Torrens talks about the CBC, what really happened on Trailer Park Boys, and about that one song you love to hate.
From hosting his own show on the CBC to playing J-Roc on Trailer Park Boys, Jonathan Torrens has been a mainstay of the Canadian entertainment industry for decades. So what's his deal? Is he a comedian? A talk show host? Or is he just that guy who wrote a truly terrible song called “Thank U Canada”.
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A trifecta of powerful (potentially socialist) forces rally behind #NationalNewspaperWeek—or not. And the bias of coherence muddles COVID-19 messaging. Canadaland news editor Jonathan Goldsbie co-hosts.
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Quebec's distinct culture reacts differently to global movements like #MeToo and Black Lives Matter. Jesse is joined by Emilie Nicolas, a columnist, journalist, anthropologist and soon-to-be instructor of a Black Lives Matter and the Media course at the University of Toronto.
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RCMP charges a podcast star with not being a terrorist. And Edmonton radio host chooses the wrong put-down. Al Jazeera English journalist and filmmaker Laila Al-Arian co-hosts.
On Wednesday, Sept. 30 The New York Times issued a statement: "While the uncertainty about Abu Huzayfah's story was explored directly in episodes of Caliphate that featured him, his arrest and the allegations surrounding it have raised new and important questions about him and his motivations. We're undertaking a fresh examination of his history and the way we presented him in our series. We will have more to say when we complete that effort."
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The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel calls corporate social responsibility's bluff.
Co-directors Joel Bakan and Jennifer Abbott on how, almost twenty years after their first documentary came out, corporations are still driven by psychopathic greed— but are making it look like they're out to save the world.
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Mi'kmaw fishermen earning a ‘moderate livelihood' seems to be too much for Nova Scotia's settler lobster harvesters. And CBC leverages its credibility for its new corporate clients. APTN video journalist Trina Roache co-hosts.
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Restaurants have suffered huge losses during the pandemic. But food journalist Suresh Doss takes us to a parking lot, a subway stop, and a home cook's kitchen to show us a thriving underground food scene.
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Erin O'Toole wants to protect children from a movie he has never seen. And former CBC journalist Terry Milewski resurfaces from retirement to insult an entire ethnicity - again. Former Executive Director of the World Sikh Organization and occasional Canadaland contributor Jaskaran Sandhu co-hosts.
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There's a broad undertaking to shake up who gets arts funding, and who governs it. Jesse speaks with Jesse Wente, the new President of the Canada Council for the Arts, about who gets to make contemporary Canadian art, and who pays for it.
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Breaking news on WE. An Indigenous journalist is criminalized for doing his job. And mass panic appears to be on the newly minted curriculum. One Dish One Mic's Karl Dockstader co-hosts.
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Does anyone really care about indignities to the legacy of John A.Macdonald? And the inside story of co-host Manisha Krishnan's scoop about the "culture of retribution" at Global News.
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The Toronto Star's new internal ombud tells us what the job is, discusses power and race in the newsroom, and responds to that reply all email.
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What might Jesse and Erin O'Toole have in common? And newsrooms continue to struggle with what it means to respond to this summer's reckoning with racism. Chatelaine Executive Editor Denise Balkissoon co-hosts.
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The Epoch Times' COVID-19 special edition raised controversy when it landed in mailboxes across Canada in April. The paper was accused of spreading misinformation and fomenting anti-Chinese racism. Producer Tiffany Lam shares her reporting on The Epoch Times: Who's behind it, why you may have received a copy last spring, and how it came to be favoured by the Trump White House.
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Prime Minister Trudeau just needs a quick reset. And Postmedia stands in solidarity with Rebel News. Former CAJ President and Ryerson journalism professor Karyn Pugliese co-hosts.
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This week marks a month since the start of a land occupation to block a residential development at the edge of Caledonia, Ontario — and the Six Nations of the Grand River Reserve.
Contributors Sean Vanderklis and Karl Dockstader, hosts of One Dish, One Mic, tell Jesse what they saw on a recent trip to the encampment.
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The Prime Minister’s Office leaks secret intel on how amazing it is. And Quebec’s French print papers somehow continue to thrive.
The Logic’s Martin Patriquin co-hosts and explains Quebecor’s secret.
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Crackdown covers the war on drugs from the trenches, and these war correspondents are drug users.
Host Garth Mullins joins Jesse to talk about how after watching the media get so much wrong about the opioid crisis—if they covered it at all—he and other drug user activists got together to start a monthly podcast based on their stories, their reporting, and scientific research.
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Nardwuar the Human Serviette is one of the biggest media personalities to come out of Canada. He’s a prolific interviewer with a knack for shocking his guests by bringing up little-known personal details about their lives during interviews. He’s an absurd figure beloved by hip hop stars. He’s a punk from Vancouver who has 100s of millions of views on YouTube but still does his weekly community radio show. This is his story as told by the people who know him best.
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This episode originally aired on February 17, 2020.
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Last week’s House Finance Committee hearings into the WE Charity scandal yielded few new insights into why the government awarded it a massive sole-source contract or how the organization itself operates. Thankfully, the press has continued to turn up information that MPs have not.
Craig Silverman, media editor at BuzzFeed News, joins us to unpack the latest revelations about efforts to burnish WE Charity’s online image while burying Canadaland’s reporting.
Then, Mark Blumberg, a lawyer specializing in non-profits and charities, tells us how he’s never seen anything quite like WE before.
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The Kielburgers testified before the House of Commons finance committee, updates on the Nova Scotia shooting, and the plan for a Nazi colony in Cape Breton. 2020, am I right?
Tim Bousquet co-hosts.
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A new law in Alberta is Jason Kenney’s latest front in the oil war. Freelance journalist Grace Lisa Scott spoke to the people fighting back against Bill 1.
CORRECTION: A previous version of this episode incorrectly identified Marlene Poitras. She is Assembly of First Nations Regional Chief for Alberta, not Grand Chief. We regret the error.
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Jesse testified before the House of Commons Finance Committee about Canadaland's reporting on the WE organization, and, while accusing a Black person of anti-Blackness, The Globe and Mail itself has been accused of anti-Blackness.
Andray Domise co-hosts.
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Peter Aldhous reported that a Canadian lab’s prenatal paternity test was “unreliable." During the 18-month investigation, Aldhous found couples who'd been given results that turned out to be wrong. The lawsuit the lab launched against him lasted nearly ten years.
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We have some questions about WE’s government contract and their internal accounting. And the story of how a Canadian media outlet suppressed assault allegations against Peter Nygard.
Paul Wells co-hosts.
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It’s a scandal that could—but probably won’t—take down Justin Trudeau. After swearing otherwise, WE was forced to admit that it paid Justin's mom and brother more than $350,000 in speaking fees. It's triggered an ethics inquiry and a call for a criminal investigation. And all because Canadaland produced the receipts.
Jaren Kerr, Canadaland’s former deputy editor, joins Jesse to discuss his 2018-19 investigation into WE Charity—reporting that set the groundwork for the scandal unfolding now. And Jesse talks about his own reporting, and how it spurred the latest developments in this fast-moving story.
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The press seems to have given the Rideau Hall intruder the white glove treatment, and why on Earth did so many people sign that letter from Harper’s Magazine?
Nora Loreto co-hosts.
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At Canadaland, we really didn’t expect to find ourselves reporting on the WE organization again.
But then it was the focus of the biggest politics story in the country, and we obtained a recording of a strange conversation between one of its founders and a person who was then a senior employee in the group’s Kenyan operations.
Jesse sits down with our managing editor, Andrea Schmidt, to discuss what we learned - and how, while we were investigating WE, one of its lawyers had commissioned his own investigation of us.
You can read WE’s responses in full here: shorturl.at/eEGH9
And our recent article about the recording (with the full, unedited recording included) here: https://www.canadalandshow.com/crime-and-fraud-at-we-charity-in-kenya/
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The Globe and Mail is now 176 years old. You can read all about its accomplishments elsewhere. Writer Jamie Bradburn takes us through the paper's darker moments.
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This episode originally aired on March 4, 2019.
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Karl Dockstader and Sean Vanderklis, co-hosts of the radio show and podcast One Dish, One Mic, join Jesse to talk about the history of policing back to John A. Macdonald, the killing of Dudley George at Ipperwash in 1995, and how it has impacted their lives as Indigenous men. Plus, Karl and Sean spoke with Senator Lillian Dyck about her call for RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki’s resignation.
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Can you really be “cancelled” if you still have a platform? A look at Margaret Wente, Wendy Mesley, and the Mulroneys. And was the Nova Scotia shooter an RCMP informant?
Desmond Cole co-hosts.
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Adrian Harewood is a news anchor at CBC Ottawa News and the host of weekly current affairs show, Our Ottawa.
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Journalists across Canada are speaking out about their experiences with racism in the newsroom. And as Wendy Mesley is suspended from hosting duties, it’s time to reevaluate the language used in news meetings.
Jan Wong co-hosts.
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Lord Tim Bell worked for a rogues' gallery of international clients, and co-founded one of the most powerful PR companies in history.
But it all came crashing down when leaked emails exposed Bell Pottinger’s role in fomenting unrest in South Africa to distract from the Zuma government’s corruption.
Richard Poplak and Diana Neille were on the team of journalists who obtained those leaks. Their documentary Influence chronicles the rise of weaponized advertising, and the fall of a controversial PR man.
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InfoLab imagined newspapers' transition from print to digital, creating multimedia digital news in the basement of The Hamilton Spectator back in the early '90s.
Jesse talks to its former director, journalist Wayne MacPhail, about what the InfoLab did, and why it shut down shortly after Conrad Black’s company bought the newspaper chain.
This episode originally aired on May 27, 2019.
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Dr. Cheryl Thompson is an assistant professor at Ryerson University’s School of Creative Industries, and the author of Beauty in a Box: Detangling the Roots of Canada’s Black Beauty Culture. She’s currently working on a new project about the history of blackface in Canada, and joins Jesse to tell us about her research.
This episode originally aired on September 29, 2019.
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Protests have erupted around the world in response to police violence against Black people. Trump is violating the rights of his own people. Police are openly targeting and arresting journalists. Something has changed and Canadian media has failed in covering this historic moment.
Sandy Hudson, co-founder of Black Lives Matter Canada and co-host of Sandy and Nora Talk Politics, co-hosts. This episode is supported by WealthBar and Dispatch Coffee.Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join
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The pandemic could be an "extinction event" for American newspapers and so their publishers want their own government bailout. Meanwhile Canadian papers want money from Google and Facebook, too. Jeff Jarvis lays out the problems with all that, and Cory Doctorow and Emily Bell suggest a better way: breaking up the tech giants.
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“My biggest fear is that not enough will change, and not enough lessons will be learned.”
Kim Campbell is a former Prime Minister of Canada, the first and only woman to hold the post to date. She lives in Vancouver.
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Torstar was just sold for $52 million, droves of people were chastised for going to the park, and Jesse opens himself up to some rare scrutiny.
Erica Ifill co-hosts.
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"I had a confrontation with someone in the line up for a grocery store... and that moment of slow honeyed ease was totally interrupted."
Kaie Kellough is a novelist, poet, sound performer and the Canadian winner of the 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize.
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“I’m going to be very careful about how much I leave my property until there’s a vaccine.”
Xanthe Vallentin is a teacher in Hamilton, Ontario, and the sister of Canadaland patron coordinator Jessica Vallentin.
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The child welfare system is failing Indigenous children, and APTN's Kenneth Jackson can't stop covering it. His reporting throughout the COVID-19 pandemic has given him a glimpse of what political will could do to transform it.
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"After this pandemic, we can create a new normal that's better for everyone."
Mumilaaq Qaqqaq is the MP for Nunavut.
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The incredibly controversial painting of Justin Trudeau, François Legault’s problem with anglophone media, and the story about Gaza that CBC disappeared.
Christopher Curtis co-hosts.
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Omar El Akkad is the author of the novel American War and was a reporter at the Globe and Mail.
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“In the silence you start to wonder…how are we going to find each other again?”
Martha Wainwright is a singer-songwriter, who describes herself as being best known for being a bloody motherfucking asshole.
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In the face of a global pandemic, it’s hard to focus on anything else. Three journalists tell us stories that have broken on their beat that you might’ve missed, but could have far-reaching consequences.
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"The wild oscillations of feeling are abnormal for me."
Jesse Brown is the publisher of Canadaland.
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Bryan Adams pulls a Morrissey, an Indigenous ceremony is broken up by the RCMP, and Ghomeshi attempts another comeback.
Ryan McMahon co-hosts.
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“I never believe in going down without a fight…I’m a triple fire sign.”
Brooke Manning is the owner of Likely General, a store and gallery space in Toronto.
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“Hugs feel like they’re going to be euphoric.”
Weyni Mengesha is the artistic director of Soulpepper Theatre Company in Toronto.
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Prime Minister Trudeau said naming the Nova Scotia mass shooter was giving him "the gift of infamy." Romayne Smith Fullerton investigates how different democracies cover crime, and what that reveals about our relationship to government, and to each other.
Read more at Canadaland: "The Surprising Reason Some Countries Don't Publish The Names Of Accused Persons"
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"I fucking hate Zooming... and having to look at my own face."
John Semley is a writer and author who splits his time between Toronto and Philadelphia. But mostly Toronto these days.
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When police searched journalists’ offices in the Alberta legislature, we wondered how government reporters were faring in the age of COVID-19. And after securing millions from the federal government, Canada’s big newspaper chains are finding new ways to ask for more money.
Allison Smith co-hosts.
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"I guess like a positive abnormal and unusual thing I did was propose to my girlfriend, which was pretty cool."
Jaren Kerr is an editor at Yahoo Finance Canada. He is also the former deputy news editor of CANADALAND Media.
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"I think I may have had coronavirus."
Martin Lukacs is a journalist and author based in Montreal.
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Kenny Hotz achieved fame as the co-star of Kenny vs. Spenny, one of Canada’s most successful TV shows. The comedy series, built around a competition between two supposed friends and the crude humiliation of the loser, premiered on the CBC in 2003. It was cancelled after just one season, but was then picked up in the U.S. and became an international sensation. It’s been a decade since the last episode of Kenny vs. Spenny went to air, and Hotz reflects on the legacy of the show, the nature of his own success, and the possibility of a reboot, in what turned out to be a revealing discussion.
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"Pushing for a world where we accept the risks of having a body... That's where we need to go."
Kai Cheng Thom is a writer and performer based in Toronto.
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The more we learn about the shooting in Nova Scotia, the worse it becomes. And did the star-studded Stronger Together COVID-19 special show us anything but how completely anachronistic celebrity has become during this pandemic? Seriously. Did anyone watch it?
Tim Bousquet co-hosts.
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"I want my friends and family to be safe from this"
BJ Snowden is an American musician who has written many songs about Canada.
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"I like to remind people the chances of getting infected by somebody walking or running by you outside— they're virtually nil"
André Picard is a health reporter and columnist at The Globe and Mail.
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Journalists across Canada tell us how Covid-19 has changed how they bring us the news.
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"It'll probably be like a mega-hedonistic orgy after this."
Chris Locke is a comedian in Toronto. He has a new podcast called "Happy Good."
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The confluence of the pandemic, reliance on police for information, and slashed newsroom budgets means that reporting on the Nova Scotia shooting was all but doomed from the start. And a tweak to government media subsidies makes more organizations eligible for the funding.
Tim Bousquet co-hosts.
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“This virus is a bitch, for sure.”
Tanya Talaga is the author of Seven Fallen Feathers and All Our Relations. She is also a former health reporter at the Toronto Star.
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"I’m helping other people to be safe."
Surinder Mann is a cleaner who lives in North Delta, BC, and is also the mother of COMMONS' host, Arshy Mann.
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When journalist Eva Holland lost her mom, she went on a quest to understand the science behind her phobias, and conquer them. In her book, Nerve: A Personal Journey Through the Science of Fear, we learn why and how we are afraid, and why we don't want to live without fear.
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"My ten-year old got his first octopus all by himself"
Severn Cullis-Suzuki is a writer, television host, and a board member of the David Suzuki Foundation. She lives in Haida Gwaii.
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Do the same rules apply to Justin Trudeau and Andrew Scheer as to the rest of us? Do the rules matter any more? Could this finally be the end of conspiracy theories?
Nora Loreto co-hosts.
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"If we are looking like we are one of the girls just dancing having fun, it's probably performative"
Brad Allen and Andrés Sierra are two of the co-founders of Club Quarantine, a nightly queer party that meets on the video-conferencing platform Zoom.
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"I do participate in society."
Kate Beaton is an excellent cartoonist.
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The Deplorables that surrounded the Trump presidential campaign have all but disappeared from the mainstream web, but New Yorker writer Andrew Marantz says it's the ideology of Silicon Valley that allowed them to prosper, and what catapulted them to fame remains.
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For weeks, we’ve all been trying to flatten the curve. But how do we measure our success if the numbers informing that curve aren’t reliable? And how do the big newspaper chains justify taking government wage subsidies at the same time as laying off staff?
Chris Selley co-hosts.
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"I got scolded by the deputy mayor of Los Angeles for not including Funyuns in my tweet"
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"This is the death of neoliberalism."
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Reporter Justin Ling speaks with prisoners across Canada terrified of COVID-19 sweeping through the prison population.
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"When this is all over, I never want to Zoom again."
David Sax's new book is coming out in the midst of a pandemic.
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Has the messaging about whether to wear a face mask been contradictory? How do you report on sports in a world without them? And a roundup of the bad COVID-19 coverage from the last week.
Morgan Campbell co-hosts.
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“I have been obsessed with virtual reality”
Robert Jago is a writer and head of an education firm. He lives in Montreal.
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"I've been watching old NBA games and breaking them down on Instagram Live."
Shad is an artist and host of Hip Hop Evolution, available on Netflix.
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Our first ever call-in show. From Quebec to British Columbia to Nunavut to Brooklyn, Coronavirus has disrupted the lives of Canadaland listeners. Here's what they have to say.
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COVID-19 coverage continues, for the most part, to be even-handed. But that’s not why you listen to this podcast. A look at what’s going wrong in Canadian reporting, as well as the personal and economic impact the pandemic is having on newsrooms.
Jan Wong co-hosts.
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"If it really goes down, I can always shoot a moose."
We're doing a call-in show! If you want to vent to Jesse about your living situation, call 844-929-1331 on Wednesday March 25th, from 4-6pm EST.
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"My life is never exactly normal. But it's normal for me."
We're doing a call-in show! If you want to vent to Jesse about your living situation, call 844-929-1331 on Wednesday from 4-6pm EST.
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Independent movie theatres were in trouble before COVID-19 became a global pandemic, and now even the industry giants like Cineplex are taking a hit. Eric Veillette, programming director at Toronto’s Revue Cinema, joins to unpack the ongoing distribution conflict between rep cinemas and Cineplex. Also, Jesse Wente, Exec-Dir. of the Indigenous Screen Office, joins to talk about what COVID-19 means for movie theatres and whether or not it's curtains for the movie exhibition industry.
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"So they told us music is free, so it's all about the shows now. You gotta make the shows, you gotta sell things at the shows. Now we don't have shows."
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Mental Health resources for the COVID-19 Pandemic:
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In a time like this, we’re so flooded with information that good, quality journalism matters more than ever. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t stuff to make fun of. Plus, how are newsrooms coping with the realities of a contagious virus?
Jesse Hirsh co-hosts.
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Restaurateur Jen Agg just wants to get home.
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What feels most weird right now? Doing normal things.
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We are facing an unprecedented shutdown of services and businesses across the country. Health columnist Andre Picard was an early voice calling for Canada to “shut it down” in the pages of the Globe and Mail. He talks to us about how COVID-19 compares to other epidemics he’s covered, the media coverage so far and why he was pushing for social distancing before the government embraced it.
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As COVID-19 is declared a global pandemic, how are Canadian media handling the coverage? And what opportunities can moments of crisis provide for a shift in business reporting?
Garth Mullins co-hosts.
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Is The New York Times a model for success in the news business, or a monolithic news brand that's crushing the competition? Former BuzzFeed News editor-in-chief Ben Smith just started his media columnist at the Times. And his first column is titled: "Why the Success of The New York Times May Be Bad News for Journalism"
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A front-page story tells us that Canada is broken. Is it, or is this exactly how the country was designed to work? And, as a senior editor leaves the CBC, our national broadcaster pivots to audience.
Anita Li co-hosts.
Read the Martin Lukacs thread on "outside agitators."
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In 2015, five young people were arrested for smuggling cocaine into Australia. They had a common connection: Slava P, a music editor at VICE Canada. At the time of the bust, Slava was silent. But years later, he decided to sit down and tell us everything. CANADALAND senior producer Kasia Mychajlowycz has turned those conversations, and subsequent reporting, into our new investigative series, Cool Mules. Kasia talks with Jesse about how the story came together, the ethics of giving Slava a platform and what it all says about the media.
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Do journalists need to be protestors to get better access to Wet'suwet'en solidarity actions? Plus, the Teck Frontier oilsands mine withdraws its application and who the media is blaming will shock you - or not. Media Indigena's Rick Harp co-hosts from Winnipeg.
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Jesse answers tough questions from our supporters.
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In a rare interview, Nardwuar talks about his career, his techniques, his reputation and what keeps him going after more than 30 years of blowing minds.
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Jason Kenney’s War Room sets its sights on that white whale of fake news: The New York Times. And as protests spread, reporting on Wet’suwet’en remains fairly feeble.
Jeremy Klaszus co-hosts.
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Nardwuar the Human Serviette is one of the biggest media personalities to come out of Canada. He’s a prolific interviewer with a knack for shocking his guests by bringing up little-known personal details about their lives during interviews. He’s an absurd figure beloved by hip hop stars. He’s a punk from Vancouver who has 100s of millions of views on YouTube but still does his weekly community radio show. This is his story as told by the people who know him best.
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Jordan Peterson’s familial PR team, Christie Blatchford’s legacy, Ezra Levant’s civil disobedience, and the campaign to discredit national protests.
Nora Loreto co-hosts.
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Last week, the RCMP arrested six people for obstruction on Wet’suwet’en territory. They then threatened to arrest the journalists who were there covering the ongoing conflict between protestors and police. In response, the Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) stated “we remind the BC RCMP that Canada is not a police state. Police do not have the right to control what is published.” CAJ president and former Executive Director of News for APTN Karyn Pugliese joins.
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The Heritage Minister doesn't seem to understand his own plan for regulating the internet (or not), so we break it down for you. And a group that doesn't exist just ran a major political ad campaign in the country's top newspapers.
The National Post's Chris Selley co-hosts.
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Conflict and controversy as Gavin McInnes and others remember Voice of Montreal, a government-subsidized community newspaper in the 90s that grew into a global brand.
This episode originally aired on February 3, 2014.
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Have we learned anything about reporting on viruses since SARS? And what can a new documentary about Idle No More teach us about our present state of reconciliation?
Ryan McMahon guest hosts, and Rick Harp co-hosts.
Watch "The Power Was With Us" on APTN.
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Every year, Bell shines the spotlight on mental health for Let’s Talk Day. So we’re taking a look at their prison phone contract, which advocates say exacerbate mental health problems for inmates.
Featuring Souheil Benslimane, coordinator and co-founder of the Jail Accountability and Information Line and co-author of a report that calls Bell’s contract with with Ontario prisons "predatory."
Read the viral Twitter thread from the Toronto Prisoners’ Rights Project that inspired this episode.
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What was up with those "protesters" outside Meng Wanzhou's extradition hearing? And could monarchical migration have an impact on privacy in Canadian media?
Bob Mackin co-hosts.
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The CBC wants to play by the same rules that govern digital platforms like Netflix and Amazon. No rules at all. Daniel Bernhard, the executive director of the advocacy group, Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, joins to talk about how our public broadcaster should serve Canadians.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Paul Watson resigned from the Toronto Star in 2015 when they banned him from reporting on a story. We spoke to him at the time, while he was still working on getting it published elsewhere. The story has since come out and won a National Magazine Award. We follow up to figure out what he knew that the Toronto Star didn't want him to publish. During the conversation, a new story emerges about mental health in the newsroom.
Paul writes extensively about his years as a war correspondent and his mental health struggles in his 2007 memoir Where War Lives. His latest book is Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition.
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We’ve heard so much from south of the border about Iran, but how are Canadian media treating this conflict? And The Fifth Estate delivers some spurious reporting on “Birth Tourism” and Antifa.
Kaveh Shahrooz co-hosts.
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For more than half a year, protesters in Hong Kong have clashed with police. Legacy media organizations in Canada have covered the protests, but a big part of the conversation is taking place somewhere else. Producer Tiffany Lam reports on a disruption at Hong Kong protest zine exhibit in Toronto and wonders how much Canadian media adopts Chinese Community Party lines.
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“Unanswered Questions” by Kevin Macleod, “Western Shores” by Philipp Weigl, and “Drop of Water in the Ocean” by Broke for Free, adapted.
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This episode originally aired on August 12, 2019.
Reporter Anna Mehler Paperny talks about her book, Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person, which covers her search for answers about depression and her personal experiences.
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The Sahotas are Vancouver’s most notorious slumlords. For decades they’ve let their buildings rot, leaving their tenants to live in filth and desolation. But the Sahotas are not like any other dynasty you’ve ever heard of. Their story is far stranger, and far darker, than anything you can imagine.
Featured in this episode: Jen St. Denis, Christopher Cheung (The Tyee), Sam Dharmapala
To learn more:
“For low-income residents in Vancouver, a different kind of real estate crisis” by Wendy Stueck and Mike Hager in The Globe and Mail
“’Out-of-control’ SROs: Everyone wants to help, but no one seems to have the tools” by Denise Ryan in The Vancouver Sun
“Room 821” by Crackdown
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“I Am A Man Who Will Fight For You Honor” by Chris Zabriskie, adapted.
“Unanswered Questions” by Kevin Macleod, adapted.
This episode originally aired on November 27, 2019.
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This episode originally aired on December 23, 2018.
We reached out to Canadian journalists to get their stories about spending the holidays at work. Newsrooms have fewer staff this time of year, but that doesn't mean that the news stops. Check out these stories of big news breaking while everyone else is on vacation.
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Earlier this month, Toronto’s alt-weekly NOW Magazine was sold to Media Central. Former co-owner and founder of NOW, Michael Hollett, joins to talk about the rise and fall of Canada’s alt-weekly magazines, running ads from sex workers, and his feud with the Toronto Star.
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Everyone knows that Andrew Scheer resigned because of his tuition scandal; what this podcast presupposes is: maybe he didn’t? And the manufactured outrage surrounding Jody Wilson-Raybould’s office.
Hadiya Roderique co-hosts.
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Last week, Canadaland’s new team published a story about how The Globe and Mail’s management repeatedly campaigned the Prime Minister’s office for research-and-development funding and tax law changes that could benefit the paper’s owners. Paul Adams, associate professor at Carleton University’s School of Journalism and former senior political correspondent for the Globe, joins to help unpack the story.
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A look inside Jordan Peterson’s new social media platform, which bans photos, memes, and emojis in the name of anti-censorship! Also, The Toronto Star turns to public shaming. Freelancer John Semley co-hosts.
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A couple of examples of The Star articles we are referencing here and here.
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Canada’s media organizations are reluctant to release their diversity stats. But Asmaa Malik and Sonya Fatah from Ryerson’s School of Journalism found a way to compile 21 years' worth of diversity statistics by looking at Canada’s columnists. They join to discuss their research.
CORRECTION: The show notes originally misspelled Asmaa Malik's last name. We regret the error.
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Leaked audio from a NATO summit reveals Trudeau’s totally reasonable reaction to Trump. Did an Edmonton school board try to shut down a radio interview advocating for a student? The Globe and Mail’s China coverage is... inconsistent.
Bashir Mohamed co-hosts.
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This episode originally aired on October 12, 2014.
Cartoonist Kate Beaton is an exemplary weirdo. Her webcomic about Canadian historical figures and literary ephemera has gained a global following of one million monthly readers. She has published an acclaimed book and her work has appeared in The New Yorker, but she still is largely a self-published online creator. Jesse tries to learn her secrets.
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More details have emerged about Warren Kinsella’s secret work to expose Maxime Bernier as a racist. And what’s at stake as the CBC renegotiates its licence to broadcast in Canada?
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Documentary filmmaker Alethea Arnaquq-Baril joins and talks about how the media continues to misrepresent Indigenous people.
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Torstar announced the closure of five papers across Canada, CBC tried to consolidate broadcasts across its radio stations in the North, and Don Cherry returned with an expertly produced podcast.
Taryn Grant co-hosts.
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A conversation about the similarities between journalism and porn becomes a tense disagreement about online shaming. Jon Ronson, journalist and author of The Psychopath Test and The Men Who Stare at Goats, talks about his recent podcast The Last Days of August, which examines the death of a Canadian-born porn star who was publicly shamed on Twitter.
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Don Cherry drafts his first Quillette essay: “The Day the Social Media Mob Came for Me.” Also, opinion writing in Canada post-Margaret Wente turns out to be mostly the same. Freelance sports writer and Burn It All Down podcast co-host Shireen Ahmed joins us.
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Covering the extreme right has become its own beat in Canada. But is there a thin, blurry line between coverage and giving a platform to those with hateful views? Steven Zhou joins.
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A national news media start-up hires then fires its staff in a month. Also, Elizabeth May has harsh parting shots for the media. Freelancer Sarah Hagi co-hosts (and spills the tea on FreshDaily)
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CORRECTION: In this episode, Jesse says that on the day the Toronto Star/Associated Press story about unsafe drinking water in 11 Canadian cities broke, the Globe and Mail was among the news sites that did not promptly pick up the story. This is inaccurate: the Globe ran the AP’s story before 8am on the morning of Monday, November 4th. We regret the error.
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Meghan Bell wants Canada to tax the rich. Of course, that belief would be a lot easier to explain at the dinner table if her own family wasn’t massively wealthy. Bell joins to talk about her recent piece in The Walrus that pulls back the curtain on what it’s like to grow up rich and why Canada needs an aggressive wealth tax.
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The New York Times’ Canada bureau chief goes up to visit an Inuit community three times so she must know what she’s talking about… right? Also, podcasting is getting way too popular. Thunder Bay host Ryan McMahon co-hosts.
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Major announcement about what's next for Canadaland on this episode.
After that: Had It Coming is Robyn Doolittle's new book, which asks "what's fair in the age of #MeToo?" Fair to whom? Sparks fly as Jesse questions the premise, and Robyn pushes at Jesse's idea about the media's role.
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Thank God, it's over - last sound off about how dull the 2019 election coverage was, we promise. Plus, StarMetro journalists cry fake news at activists pretending climate propaganda is the real thing. Writer and climate activist from 350.org Cam Fenton co-hosts.
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Last month APTN reported that 102 Indigenous children died in Ontario’s child welfare system. It’s a tragic and infuriating look at how the system fails Indigenous children and puts their lives at risk. It’s also a story about unconscionable inequality in a system that is supposed to protect vulnerable children. Cindy Blackstock joins to talk about that story and about taking the government to court on behalf of the rights of Indigenous children.
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The CBC sues the Conservative Party of Canada for copying them! Plus, Toronto journalists and writers push back on the kind of space public libraries should be. Wikimedia Chief of Staff Ryan Merkley co-hosts.
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It's possible that Chantal Hébert's journalism once held Canada together. She joins Jesse for a discussion about what's appropriate in political news coverage, and what (if anything) needs to change.
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That debate. The rumour mongering. The memes. Do Canadian politics have to suck this hard? A lament. And PostMedia finally responds to our investigation - or somebody’s. Freelance journalist Danielle Paradis co-hosts.
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Hip-Hop Evolution is a remarkable piece of journalism and an exhaustive look at the history of hip-hop. It’s also made by a group of Canadians. Rapper and broadcaster Shad, director Darby Wheeler, and writer Rodrigo Bascuñán join to talk about their award-winning documentary series.
CORRECTION: A previous version misspelled Rodrigo Bascuñán's last name. We regret the error.
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Canada's national paper seems shy about printing news on the national climate march. Also, another blackface scandal - at Global News. Plus, a discussion on if numbers flatten Indigenous folks' stories. Ryan McMahon guest hosts with Vice Senior Editor Sarah Berman.
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Cheryl Thompson joins to help walk us through Canada’s history with blackface and why this story is not about race.
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Trudeau in blackface, 3 times: how did we miss that? And Canada’s reporters bravely declare their independence - from their own union. CANADALAND Deputy Editor Jaren Kerr co-hosts with an announcement.
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Are we really considering CanCon for the internet? Well, kinda. Big changes could be coming to the Broadcasting Act and the country’s biggest media organizations are eager to be part of the conversation. Dr. Emilia Zboralska joins to help unpack what this all means and spars with Jesse about the future of the Canadian media landscape.
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A bonus segment on Trudeau's "make-up" with guest co-host, Arshy Mann. Plus, one reporter’s real life story on the gift of poutine from Trudeau. And this week’s news has been about the three worst people in Canada: Faith Goldy, Maxime Bernier, and Ezra Lavant. Why? Paul Wells co-hosts for our regularly scheduled programming.
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Doctors, celebrities, and journalists have all played a role in spreading misinformation about women’s bodies. Dr. Jennifer Gunter, author of The Vagina Bible, is often called “Twitter’s gynecologist” and she wants all of us to do better when we talk about vaginas.
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The Vancouver Sun is very, very sorry about publishing that inflammatory anti-immigration screed. They'll tone it down a little next time. Also, why is election coverage so boring? Journalist and COMMONS host Arshy Mann co-hosts.
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Thirty Helens agree that The Kids in the Hall was a watershed moment not just for Canadian comedy, but for comedy as we know it. Comedian Bruce McCulloch talks about the legacy of Canada’s weirdest sketch show, Lorne Michaels, and the CBC.
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Sexy Hurricane Headlines: “Dorian Relentlessly Pounds Bahamas” - What is up with the disaster porn? And Justin Trudeau’s Malaysian ancestry, and other things I learned on Netflix. Author and The Guardian environment reporter Martin Lukacs co-hosts.
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Alberta's premier wants a referendum on ... what exactly? And Justin Ling wants you to calm down about climate change "muzzling." Plus, meet some intriguing candidates to keep an eye on.
P.S. OPPO has news: We’re going weekly! We’ll be in your feeds every Tuesday until the end of the election.
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Canoe-borne bandits strike an underwater town. A new generation of wealthy lobstermen is minted. An island disappears. And hellfire engulfs a highway jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive. Just another normal day amidst Canada’s climate catastrophe.
Featured in this episode: Catherine Griwkowsky (Alberta Today), Brendan Kennedy (Toronto Star), Keith Stewart (Greenpeace), Markus Harvey.
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“There will be floods” by Brendan Kennedy in the Toronto Star
“Big Oil braced for global warming while it fought regulations” by Amy Lieberman and Susanne Rust in the Los Angeles Times
“When climate change hits home” by Nick Purdon in CBC News
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“A List of Ways to Die” by Lee Rosevere, “Night Owl” by Broke for Free, “Drop of Water in the Ocean” by Broke for Free, and “Cylinder Five” by Chris Zabriskie, adapted.
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A respected doctor put women’s health and lives in danger for money and the public almost never heard about it. Michael Lista talks about his precedent-setting Toronto Life story about an OBGYN who committed dangerous procedures without consent for years and the fight to expose him.
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Is the press protecting the liberal party? And the debate about climate change somehow continues and Elections Canada suggested we might not be allowed to have it. Former crown prosecutor and National Observer journalist Sandy Garassino co-hosts.
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Over the past couple of years, a few Canadian media outlets and writers have become obsessed with trans people, painting their campaign for human rights as a menace to society. This coverage has hit a peak with the story of Jessica Yaniv, a trans woman who’s taking multiple beauticians to the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal after they refused to wax to her genitals. Where did this obsession come from? And why has this particular story taken off?
Featuring journalist Mary Rogan.
Read "Growing Up Trans" by Mary Rogan in The Walrus.
Watch Mary debate Jordan Peterson on TVO's The Agenda.
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Reporter Anna Mehler Paperny talks about her book, Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person, which covers her search for answers about depression and her personal experiences.
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Is it time to start reporting the strange behaviour of young white men? Why do we still have columnists? And a study of Canadian media consumption shows that the real threat to media literacy is Canadian media consumption.
Paul Wells co-hosts.
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Steven Page, former frontman and founding member of Barenaked Ladies, talks about his career, why he chose to leave a beloved and wildly successful band, and the fickle realities of Canadian stardom.
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The hunt is on. Newsrooms across the country are chasing down everyone from psychiatrists to Survivorman himself to speculate on the fate of two murder suspects. And are the journalistic standards of Doug Ford's state-funded propaganda channel slipping?? We take a closer look with Wag the Doug's Allison Smith.
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Glen Assoun spent nearly 17 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit. But even after his sentence was overturned, the evidence that freed him remained sealed. Reporters fought successfully to have that evidence released. What they found not only raises questions about the investigation, but reveals the outright deletion of evidence pointing to another killer.
Tim Bousquet of The Halifax Examiner fought for transparency in this case, alongside the CBC and the Canadian Press. You can read all of his reporting here.
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From Canadian news sites to InfoWars, a BC trans woman has become a fixation of conservative media. And new details emerge from the national media bailout that exclude -- surprise!!! -- nearly anyone who isn't a newspaper.
Zane Schwartz, CAJ chair and investigative journalist with The Logic, co-hosts.
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In 2017, the New York Times released an astonishing front-page story about the American government’s multi-million dollar black budget investigation into UFOs. So aliens, right? Well… probably not. Brigitte Noël guest-hosts and talks with UFO aficionado and freelance journalist Nick Rose about how journalists have failed when covering mysterious things in the sky.
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Sandy Hudson and Nora Loreto take over CANADALAND for this episode about the paltry coverage of Canada's migrant detention policies and the devastating loss of leftist Twitter’s most stalwart defender, Lindsay Shepherd.
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We asked our listeners to send us their burning questions and this is the result. Hear us answer questions about everything from the future of Canadaland to Jesse’s personal finances.
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The secularism bill banning public workers from wearing religious symbols finally passed in Québec. Google News gathered together the heads of major media companies for a meeting and (surprise!) didn’t tell the public. And VICE reporter Ben Makuch lost a legal challenge to keep private background material from the RCMP.
Sarah Hagi co-hosts.
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Politics may dominate the news cycle, but every Canadian is touched by our health care system. But while there are countless reporters covering politics in this country, only one person has spent their career reporting on and analyzing health care. André Picard talks about health horror stories, scandals, and what it’s like covering health in the age of GOOP.
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A Canadian cartoonist drew a provocative image of Trump, blithely ignorant of the fatal consequences of his border policy. After it blew up online, the cartoonist was let go from the company who'd published his work for 17 years. And what was with that viral clip of Trudeau getting "snubbed" at G20?
Jan Wong co-hosts.
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Twenty-two people spoke to us confidentially about working for WE. But Josh Keenan went on the record. Hear what he had to say, and WE’s response.
Read Jaren Kerr’s full investigation here.
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ADDITIONAL MUSIC CREDITS:
“Night Owl” and “Drop of Water in the Ocean” by Broke For Free, adapted; “Blonde” by Nctrnm, adapted; and “Easy Life” by Lee Rosevere.
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Pour one out for Margaret Wente: she's leaving the Globe. The Irvings tighten their grip on New Brunswick news, and some Toronto councillors are learning not to cross Warren Kinsella.
Sean Craig co-hosts.
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Something strange has been going on for the last little while and we’re ready to talk about it. This is a story about a Republican-affiliated scheme against Canadaland and yes, we’re serious.
The Executive Director of WE Charity, Dalal Al-Wahedi states: Navigator is a long-time supporter of WE Charity. Since May 2017, the charity has engaged Navigator in an advisory capacity. This work has been limited in scope to strategic advice, assisting with drafting press releases statements and in reviewing legal texts. Navigator has not been engaged in any online, editorial, media, partner or public outreach. Mr. Portela contacted WE in the fall for comment for his article, but WE declined to comment. WE Charity and its team have never heard of “Riverwood Strategies” and/or any of its representatives. And WE Charity has had no relationship(s) whatsoever with any of the other names mentioned in your email. WE Charity has been contacted by literally hundreds of people across Canada and the United States who have universally expressed their deep frustration with the false reporting of Canadaland, including the website knowingly publishing multiple disproven claims, manufactured evidence such as digitally altered images, and continuously failing to correct when presented with clear and undisputable facts. Canadaland, Jesse Brown, and Jaren Kerr have all wrongly implied, at multiple points via social media and articles, that “difficulties” experienced by their website and blog posts could be attributed to WE Charity, including at one occasion, pointing to its temporary Internet outage, and on another occasion, pointing to crude social media bots. As was the case with WE Charity’s formal communications at the time to Canadaland, WE Charity strongly rejects and has repeatedly rejected these false claims. We refer to the note which was communicated to your legal counsel on November 18th, 2018: “The clear implication is that my clients have had some responsibility for the generation of the messages. These messages did not emanate from our clients nor were they authorized by them. Any contrary allegation or innuendo by Mr. Brown, Mr. Kerr or Canadaland will be relied on in the pending libel proceedings as further evidence of their malice toward our clients.”
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“A List of Ways to Die” by Lee Rosevere, adapted
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What better way to recognize a climate emergency than by approving the Trans Mountain Pipeline? Why did the Raptors’ president get carded after his team won? And what's with U.S. media suddenly paying attention to Indigenous people in Canada?
Ryan McMahon guest hosts, and Andray Domise co-hosts.
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Greed, money, and revenge culminate with a gruesome murder on the driveway of a Vancouver mansion. Canada correspondent for The New York Times, Dan Bilefsky, talks about what happens when the Canadian dream goes very, very wrong and the weird balkanization of Canadian news.
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Rest assured, Canadians! Jason Kenney is here to protect you from the evils of the Green Left. A look at the Alberta government's anti-environment "War Room," plus the imminent Raptor Rapture.
Fatima Syed guest hosts, and Kieran Leavitt co-hosts.
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From hosting his own show on the CBC to playing J-Roc on Trailer Park Boys, Jonathan Torrens has been a mainstay of the Canadian entertainment industry for decades. So what's his deal? Is he a comedian? A talk show host? Or is he just that guy who wrote a truly terrible song called "Thank U Canada".
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The majority of our media is bending backward to avoid acknowledging Canadian genocide. Why? And Lindsay Shepherd travelled to Ottawa to complain about her weeklong Twitter ban: a look at the online hate hearings and the right's war on free speech.
Sarah Krichel co-hosts.
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Canada’s national news organizations are helmed by a handful of people. The news bosses decide what gets to be news and what doesn’t for the entire country… and we think it’s time someone talks to them about that. We’ve reached out to the heads of every news organization across the country. APTN’s Karyn Pugliese is the first to accept.
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As one of Canada's most beloved radio personalities leaves the job she's held for 17 seasons, who could possibly have anything negative to say? Also, Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott have finally revealed their schemes to... run as independents. And should media unions have a say in deciding who gets federal media funding?
Nora Loreto co-hosts.
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InfoLab imagined newspapers' transition from print to digital, creating multimedia digital news in the basement of The Hamilton Spectator back in the early '90s. Jesse talks to its former director, journalist Wayne MacPhail, about what the InfoLab did, and why it shut down shortly after Conrad Black's company bought the newspaper chain.
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Lord Conrad Black, First of His Name, The Unedited, King of Columns, Breaker of Laws, Flatterer of American Presidents, and Father of the National Post. Did Canada’s favourite criminal Lord just schmooze his way into a pardon from Donald Trump or is the American justice system to blame? Also, speaking of ancient things, Canada’s dusty old privacy laws are back in the spotlight thanks to the government’s new digital charter.
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But will the $2.5 million judgment against the far-right twice-defeated mayoral candidate Kevin J. Johnston actually stop him spreading hate online? Jesse speaks with media lawyer Justin Safayeni, and founding board member of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network Amira Elghawaby about what the ruling means for Johnston and his ilk.
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It's Nazi season in Canada! From the "controversial" flag in Saskatchewan to the neo-Nazi working in an Ontario city hall, Canada's working hard to normalize racism. And Mark Norman apparently had it worse than Omar Khadr. Who was in Guantanmo Bay. As a minor.
Sandy Garossino co-hosts.
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The new podcast Narcos PQ hands the mic to those who bring Canada its drugs: bikers, drug mules, outlaw chemists. Co-hosts Brigitte Noël and Félix Séguin take over this week to translate some of their most revealing tape, and tell us why we should listen to criminals.
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In the prurient rush for lurid details about Bruce McArthur and his victims, maybe it’s time to re-examine the way we consume true crime. And the ongoing saga of the Mark Norman affair becomes even muddier.
Deidre Olsen co-hosts.
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Digital media has been gentrified into a mall, says the digital rights activist and author. Cory Doctorow tells Jesse how consolidation and platform silos keep the biggest tech and media companies on top, at our expense.
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Was the recent Simpsons episode about Canada offensive? Was it even funny? And, finally, the mainstream media seems to be paying attention to the rising threat of white terrorism in Canada.
Alheli Picazo co-hosts.
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A popular pundit has a curious connection: her company worked for China. South China Morning Post's Vancouver correspondent Ian Young tells Jesse that the Canadian media has "blind spots" when it comes to how the Chinese government tries to influence the conversation in Canada.
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Who among us hasn't stabbed a lecherous raccoon with a dessert fork? And Omar Khadr gave his first big interview on Québec television; where was English media on this one?
Nora Loreto co-hosts.
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And if so, can government regulation crack down on hate speech and election interference on social media without crushing free speech? Jesse asks Natasha Tusikov, a criminology professor who researches where technology and regulation meet.
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Journalism that exposes racism, homophobia, and election fraud: does any of it matter? All of this and more in a look at the Alberta election. And then a check-in with the Globe and Mail's Thunder Bay bureau.
Jen Gerson co-hosts.
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Former CBC exec Richard Stursberg tells Jesse all about it, and about his new book, The Tangled Garden: A Canadian Cultural Manifesto for the Digital Age.
CORRECTION: In this episode, Jesse says Fox News is not available in Canada. It is.
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Jason Kenney's United Conservative Party is imploding before our very eyes — but the Albertan electorate doesn't seem to mind much. And who does Justin Trudeau think he's fooling with a libel threat? Definitely not Andrew Scheer.
Bashir Mohamed co-hosts.
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Crackdown covers the war on drugs from the trenches, and these war correspondents are drug users. Host Garth Mullins joins Jesse to talk about how after watching the media get so much wrong about the opioid crisis— if they covered it at all— he and other drug user activists got together to start a monthly podcast based on their stories, their reporting, and scientific research.
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If there's one lesson we can take away from what's happened with Jody Wilson-Raybould, it's to tape all of your calls. And what's more important to the Trudeau Liberals: reconciliation or cold hard donations?
Wawmeesh Hamilton co-hosts.
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The CANADALAND interview with former Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who targeted the press before it was cool. Now, conservatives from Donald Trump to Doug Ford walk in his footsteps. How does he account for his dubious legacy?
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Collusion? Obstruction? Why can't Canadians stay focused on the domestic scandal? And what does the dawn of Apple News+ mean for Canadian media?
Jaren Kerr co-hosts.
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When Ottawa Citizen reporter David Pugliese called the government to follow up on a tip, he heard back from the PR arm of Irving Shipbuilding. And then the president of that company called, and threatened to sue him. Turns out the tip didn't lead to a story, but that phone call did. Pugliese joins Jesse to talk about why.
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Andrew Scheer’s first statement about the terrorist attack by a white supremacist in New Zealand failed to mention a few things... like Muslims and white supremacy. Also, the federal budget was announced and so were the details of that controversial media bailout.
CORRECTION: In this episode, the shooter at the Pulse Night Club in Orlando is referred to among a list of angry white men. He is not white.
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Who do you turn to when the news messes up? It turns out there's a council for that.
Pat Perkel and John Fraser from the National NewsMedia Council talk about the powers and limits of their organization. They can tell a news org to print a correction, but can they stop a columnist from being racist? And what happens when a media outlet won't be deterred by shame?
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While we're all busy talking about the propriety of the SNC-Lavalin affair, it bears revisiting the company's sordid past. Also, how is the media culpable for whitewashing reconciliation? And Pizzagate comes to Canada.
Sandy Garossino co-hosts.
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Canada's most ubiquitous TV host talks about his many, many gigs, from MuchMusic VJ to CNN interviewer -- and why he's turned to YouTube for the latest one.
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Gerry Butts breaks his silence on SNC-Lavalin. And the thing that Andrew Scheer can get away with, but Jagmeet Singh cannot. Paul Wells co-hosts.
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This week marks 175 years of The Globe and Mail. You can read all about its accomplishments elsewhere. Writer Jamie Bradburn takes us through the paper's darker moments.
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The former Minister of Justice testified before the House of Commons justice committee this week and it was like nothing we've seen in recent memory. And what did Howie Mandel do to make so many Canadian comedians so upset?
Sandra Battaglini co-hosts.
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In the past year or so, the podcast industry has seen an explosion --or bubble, depending on who you ask-- with companies like Entertainment One, Corus, and Rogers making big plays in the market.
Ben Cannon of Constant Listener and Marc Weisblott of 1236.ca join Jesse to take stock of the landscape. Who are the big players? What are they trying to do? And are their podcasts any good?
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Reports of a massive protest convoy driving across the country have been greatly exaggerated ... except for the whole racism part. And a probing examination of all the Butts stuff in Ottawa.
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There's a lot to learn from what politicians and journalists can and can't tell us, their lowly constituents and readers. We read between the lines of the news coverage of the SNC-Lavalin scandal with BuzzFeed News' Paul McLeod. Then, Macleans columnist Anne Kingston helps translate politicians' passive-aggressive, condescending, or coded messages, passed to us through resignation letters, speeches, and even Twitter likes.
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How did the Canadian press cover the biggest scandal yet to hit the Trudeau government? Will the SNC-Lavalin affair blow over? With this level of potential corruption, will anyone care or remember at election time?
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In English media, there are whole organizations and departments devoted to debunking fake news. But in Quebec, a lot of the work falls to one guy: Jeff Yates. He talks to guest host Brigitte Noël about the unique challenges of combatting fake news in French and why he thinks it's time to destigmatize sharing bogus stories.
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Is Netflix threatening Canadian culture through neo-imperialism? Never mind the copyright infringement, was the Conservative Party's Heritage Minute any good? And did the new Indigenous Languages Act accomplish anything?
Jesse Wente guest hosts and Garvia Bailey co-hosts.
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Paula Simons did something that makes a lot of journalists cringe. She went into politics. The former Edmonton Journal columnist is now an independent senator. She speaks about crossing over, using social media to pull back the curtain on Canadian politics... and about the Senate's secret snack machine.
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What's with our ongoing fascination with serial killers? What do we lose when Bruce McArthur pleads guilty to his charges? What does all this say about Canadian society? Plus, Jesse reveals the details of a top-secret media bailout meeting.
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What do warnings of globalism, support for pipelines and calls to execute Trudeau have in common? They're all part of the rhetoric of Yellow Vests Canada. CANADALAND producer David Crosbie investigates how a French working class protest against a fuel tax has inspired a right wing, populist movement holding rallies across Canada.
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Did a viral video actually show all the ugliness, racism, division, and indecency of the current moment, or did it show all the ugliness, racism, division, and indecency of the current moment?
And look out! Big Government is coming for your Netflix.
James Wilt co-hosts.
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Canada's in a bad way with China. Has the media prepared us to deal with the growing superpower?
With tensions rising, it may be more important than ever for Canadians to understand China. The Star Vancouver's deputy bureau chief Joanna Chiu takes us through various forces standing in the way -- a lack of understanding of Chinese media among English Canada, the misogynistic culture of the foreign press in Asia, and government control over Chinese social media, even in Canada. Plus, she talks about her team's recent scoop that Karen Wang, the Liberal candidate for the Burnaby South byelection, attacked Jagmeet Singh for being of "Indian descent" on WeChat. Wang resigned after that story. Joanna's study for PEN, Forbidden Feeds: Government Controls On Social Media In China. Joanna's piece for Foreign Policy, "Sexpat Journalists Are Ruining Asia Coverage"Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join
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As the Trudeau government trumpets its track record on supporting women's rights abroad, newborn children continue to be separated from their parents right here in Canada. And how did Jagmeet Singh's most recent round of media appearances go?
Erica Ifill co-hosts.
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Something like the half of all activity on the internet is fake. Yes, there are bots. But there are also fake websites that cater to bots. And then there are the ways real people adjust their behaviour to try to game the bots. Where does this leave the idyllic internet we were promised?
Former Gawker EIC and current New York Magazine writer Max Read tells us how what's fake infects what's real. Read his piece in New York Magazine "How Much of the Internet is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually."
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Is reconciliation still a possibility when the Canadian government marches armed police onto Indigenous land? It's time for Canada to grow up. And Canada's first female PM seems to have the best Twitter game of them all.
Jesse Wente co-hosts.
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A bunch of new partisan political websites are fighting to shape the narrative in the run-up to the federal election. Reporter Graeme Gordon is here to tell you which organizations to look out for on your Facebook and Twitter feeds, what their political objectives are, and who's paying for them.
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The Canadian government owns up to treaty obligations after 168 years, Maclean's staff puts in a bid to buy the magazine, and Rex Murphy kicks a journalist while they're dead.
Rick Harp co-hosts.
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Stories of big news breaking when everyone else is on vacation.
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Two big Toronto papers got some things horribly wrong. The Sun has been censured by the National NewsMedia Council for its fictitious goat-slaughtering story, and The Sun and Star both recklessly outed a sex worker for no justifiable purpose.
Fatima Syed co-hosts.
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Blazing wildfires. Pipeline stand-offs. Unpredictable floods. Men in suits arguing...
One of our era's most urgent, high-stakes stories is also the hardest one to get right.
The Discourse's environment reporter Lauren Kaljur takes Jesse on a tour of the biggest misses and tropes of Canadian media's climate change coverage in 2018. Kaljur explains how reporters can go beyond stale narratives and crisis reporting, and argues that a solutions-based approach to telling these stories could make them easier to engage with.
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The Canadian federal government plans to issue nearly $600M in tax credits and incentives to bolster the country's media industry over the next five years.
What will this mean for the independence of the Canadian press? And will CANADALAND be applying for funds?
Jesse speaks with American media critic and NYU professor, Jay Rosen.
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What does the heavily redacted – er, revised – federal report on Trudeau’s trip to India tell us about the internal machinations of the government? And what does a Supreme Court ruling about journalists’ sources mean for the profession?
Sandy Garossino co-hosts.
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CANADALAND's investigative podcast Thunder Bay published its series finale last week. Host and creator Ryan McMahon reflects on the year-long production process, and he, Jesse and Connie Walker — host of CBC's award-winning podcast Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo — speak at ImagineNATIVE Film & Media Arts Festival about the challenges that come with telling such sensitive, complex stories through the true crime genre.
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Will federal media subsidies save a dying industry or merely protract the inevitable? And how did the Anglophone press react to the Ford government’s Francophone cuts?
Brigitte Noël guest hosts, along with Martin Patriquin.
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After 25 years at the CBC, tech columnist Jesse Hirsh decided to risk it all. During an interview about Facebook, he turned the tables, asking why CBC continues to promote Facebook as we've seen what that company has done to undermine democracy.
CBC refused to post the segment online, saying it violated their journalistic standards and practices. Hirsh's future with the CBC is unclear, but the incident raised a lot of questions about what you can and cannot say on our public broadcaster.
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Despite bringing the horrifying events at a private school in Toronto to the attention of police, the media have been getting some backlash from parents. A CBC columnist dared to call out the CBC on its Facebook practices, and Jesse makes some connections on the CANADALAND conspiracy cork board.
Bill Dunphy co-hosts.
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The most controversial Maclean's cover in years, Ontario Proud's leaked fundraising documents, and Justin Trudeau becomes the latest champion of the free press. Paul Wells co-hosts.
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When the CBC tweeted out a series of news alerts following Brazil’s election of a far-right presidential candidate... people had a lot to say. The tweets flagged, “fresh opportunities for Canadian companies looking to invest in the resource-rich country” and noted President-elect Jair Bolsonaro’s free market and pro-business stance — but neglected to initially mention his sexism, homophobia, and open declaration of being in favor of a dictatorship.
The tweets went viral, with readers and journalists alike expressing outrage with the CBC’s framing, but some were surprised by the attention it drew, saying that analysis focused on investment opportunity was common and could be found in any mainstream business publication.
So, was this a misunderstanding of the role and audience of business news, or an example of irresponsible journalism?
Guest host Karen K. Ho explores how these ethical concerns are becoming a core component of many big stories, and what some reporters are doing to expand business journalism's audience and sources. Bloomberg’s Jordyn Holman who covers gender, race and class, and Bill Grueskin, former managing editor of the Wall Street Journal and professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, join Karen.
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Debunking the Munk Debates, Tony Clement's sordid social media habits, and Ontario Proud goes national.
Ira Wells co-hosts.
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For a long time, CANADALAND was (proudly) the number one podcast in the country — but that's no longer true.
Australian-born Kristi Lee works in marketing by day... but late at night, you can find her sitting in her closet, recording meticulously-researched scripts about the country's most horrific crimes.
Her Canadian True Crime podcast boasts an impressive listenership, and it's not alone. Lee's is among a burgeoning group of popular indie true crime podcasts made across Canada. But with such a following, why do we rarely hear about these shows?
Kristi joins Jesse to discuss the economics, entertainment, and ethics of true crime podcasting in Canada.
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Google's sister company, Sidewalk Labs, has partnered with every level of government to build the first-ever 'smart city' in Toronto — but with several high-profile resignations and mounting privacy concerns, will this project ever break ground?
Reporter Amanda Roth (The Logic) has spent the last eight months investigating Sidewalk Labs and Waterfront Toronto's 'smart city' plan, and has broken story after story on the tech giant's project.
David Skok is the editor-in-chief of The Logic, a new media start-up reporting on the innovation economy. He speaks with Amanda about the timeline of her reporting, how to responsibly cover big tech, and why people should be concerned by more than just potential privacy issues when it comes to this partnership.
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Despite mounting human rights violations and the seemingly state-sanctioned murder of a journalist, Canada continues to sell arms to Saudi Arabia. Plus, how are municipal elections in Canada supposed to compete with period pieces?
Sandy Garossino co-hosts.
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The debut episode of our new series, hosted by Ryan McMahon.
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Thunder Bay. The highest homicide and hate crime rates in the country. A mayor charged with extortion. A police chief who went to trial for obstruction of justice. Nine tragic deaths of Indigenous teenagers.
Why does it all happen here?
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The entirely credible reports of a Toronto Sun "investigative columnist" ritually sacrificing scapegoats, and the pivotal role Facebook played in the creation of video at the expense of news.
Steven Zhou co-hosts.
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Craig Kielburger founded WE when he was 12 to fight child labour. Now, the WE brand is used to promote products made by children. Reporter Jaren Kerr presents the findings of his 4-month long investigation. Read Jaren's report here. Read WE's full responses here. To provide information to Jaren Kerr, email him at jaren@canadalandshow.com, or message him securely on Signal at 530-517-7538.
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The miraculous refinery explosion in New Brunswick, Faith Goldy tricks the press again, and the changing landscape of cannabis coverage.
Damian Abraham co-hosts.
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Next week, recreational weed will become legal across Canada. In anticipation, mainstream media has begun taking cannabis coverage seriously. Overnight, nearly every major outlet across the country has hired full-time reporters to cover it — but before we celebrate industry growth, how sustainable is this beat?
Guest host Manisha Krishnan is joined by Financial Post's cannabis reporter, Vanmala Subramaniam and Grasslands founder Ricardo Baca — America's first weed editor, who co-led the now-defunct The Cannabist (The Denver Post's weed journalism vertical) — to discuss why journalists should cover weed like every other industry, their strangest reporting experiences, and their criticisms of cannabis coverage so far.
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What does the election of a right-leaning populist party in Quebec mean for the future of the province? And how do you pronounce USMCA? It sounds a lot like NAFTA.
Martin Patriquin co-hosts.
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Guest Host Sheila Heti (Motherhood, How Should a Person Be?) speaks with fellow "autofiction" author Rachel Cusk (A Life's Work, Aftermath, et al). The Giller-nominated writers discuss receiving harsh criticism, why memoir is a dead end, and how Cusk is reimagining the novel, and making art and meaning out of mid-life crisis and divorce with her critically-acclaimed trilogy (dubbed a "literary experiment").
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Exploring Maxime Bernier's ties to the Koch Brothers, Andrew Coyne's love for the monarchy, and proof, if you needed it, that Jordan Peterson is full of shit.
Justin Ling co-hosts.
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Sara Mojtehedzadeh may very well be Canada's last full-time labour reporter.
This past fall, as the Toronto Star's work and wealth reporter, Mojtehedzadeh went undercover for a month at Fiera Foods—a factory in Toronto where a temp agency worker was recently killed.
Her month-long stint led to Undercover in Temp Nation, an explosive year-long investigation into the company. Her and Brendan Kennedy's reporting is exemplary, but its kind is nearly extinct. In a time when robust coverage of unions and 'workplace issues' is scarce, and sporadic-at-best labour stories are relegated to the business section, investigations like Mojtehedzadeh's are rare.
Guest Host Elamin Abdelmahmoud speaks with Mojtehedzadeh and the Globe and Mail's (Vancouver) longtime former labour reporter Rod Mickleburgh about how the labour beat has changed over the years, and what less coverage means for working Canadians in a time when precarious employment rules and the gig (economy) is definitely not up.
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A series of essays by men accused of sexual misconduct, in which they attempt to defend themselves, have appeared in the press lately. Jesse and co-host Anne Kingston tackle that essay in the New York Review of Books, as well as the publisher of Harper's performance on the CBC.
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Guest Host Chip Zdarsky (Spectacular Spiderman, Sex Criminals) is joined by Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF) co-founder and longtime friend, Chris Butcher. They discuss the state of the Canadian comic book industry, what it's like to work for Marvel, TCAF's far-reaching influence, The Beguiling, and the void that Koyama Press' departure will create in Canadian publishing.
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A look at how the Ford government's notwithstanding invocation has been covered by the press, as well as a look at the spurious media diet of the alleged Fredericton shooter.
Arshy Mann co-hosts.
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Confusion over "off the record" played a pivotal role in global affairs this past week. So — how does this oft-misunderstood agreement actually work, and why do so many powerful people continue to misuse it?
Jesse speaks with Toronto Star's Daniel Dale about his scoop on Trump's off the record comments about Canada amid NAFTA talks, and to Buzzfeed News' editor-in-chief Ben Smith about an "off the record" email Elon Musk sent to one of his reporters.
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Jesse talks to Graeme Gordon about his controversial interview with former Rebel personality, current Toronto mayoral candidate, and avowed white supremacist Faith Goldy. Plus Trump's "off the record" drama with Toronto Star reporter Daniel Dale.
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Paul Tadich joins Jesse in the studio to talk about what it was like producing multiple cities worth of news from a windowless green-screen room in Don Mills, Toronto. He compares his time working at Global TV to a "news sweatshop".
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BuzzFeed’s Paul McLeod has covered politics in both capitals. Jesse reaches Paul in D.C. to speak about what it’s like to cover politics on both hills: Parliament and Capitol.
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Saudi Arabia leads the charge in exposing the human rights violations of Jordan Peterson, Alex Jones becomes the latest casualty in the Info Wars, and a review of Doug Ford's foray into the news business.
Sandy Garossino guest hosts.
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Welcome to Wag The Doug, a pop-up podcast about Doug Ford. Hosts Allison Smith and Jonathan Goldsbie help make sense of the Ford era.
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Food journalist Corey Mintz speaks with Jesse about how influencers, marketing and Instagram have impacted food writing and eating.
Check out the most recent episode of Corey’s new podcast, Taste Buds, where Corey sits down to break bread with chefs and restaurant insiders.
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The mass shooting in Toronto's Danforth neighbourhood quickly headed into conspiracy territory.
And should members of government be forced to endure Twitter trolls?
Guest host Elamin Abdelmahmoud is joined by Reuters reporter Anna Mehler Paperny.
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We are releasing a new podcast this week called Taste Buds. Food writer and former critic Corey Mintz sits down for a meal with chefs, cooks and restaurant owners for real talk about food. These are the conversations insiders have at the table when the customers have gone home.
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The newspaper business is in rapid decline. La Presse, Québec’s largest news-site, announced its plan to become a non-profit.
Jesse joins Pierre-Elliot Levasseur, the President of La Presse in Montréal and speaks to him about their new non-profit structure. We learn about La Presse’s move to digital and how they’re holding out hope for a government news bailout.
Is this the future for news media in Canada? Or is it simply a neat exit strategy for Power Corporation, the Desmarais owned holding-company that severed ties with the newspaper business?
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What's Wrong With White People Pretending To Be Musical Black Slaves? Answer: Everything. And the 18 year old story of the then goateed dude-bro, now prime minister, copping a feel at a west-coast beer fest that we don't to talk about. Ever. again.
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The book world has been thrown into turmoil by sexual assault allegations, inter-generational fighting and questions over Indigenous ancestry. Is this inside baseball for a tiny industry, a microcosm of the culture wars or a battle over who gets to tell Canada's story?
Hannah McGregor is the editor of the upcoming book, Refuse: CanLit in Ruins.
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Why should you trust the press when politicians have Twitter? And we read the Steven Galloway "article" in Quillette so you don't have to; turns out there may have been a slight conflict of interest.
Justin Ling co-hosts.
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Almost every news story about cannabis is accompanied by a stereotypical stoner pic. The same few photos are used again and again. Why? Who took these pics? Who are the smokers in them? And what's the deal with the most overused stoner pic of all, the pic known as "Weed Toque Girl"? WHO IS SHE?
This week we go deep, and bring you answers.
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Rogers Media's questionable new approach to publishing (hint: there's just less of it), Scaachi Koul's journey into the heart of Rebel darkness, and Jesse's failed fortune cooke writing gig.
Jan Wong co-hosts.
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The weekly radio show On The Media was one of the main inspirations for CANADALAND. This week, their co-host Bob Garfield talks to Jesse about the Trudeau we get vs. the Trudeau Americans get.
Here's our cut of that conversation.
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Why is no one in Canada reporting on that Justin Trudeau groping allegation? How does The Globe & Mail go from publishing one of the most important pieces of journalism about sexual assault in recent years to publishing an alleged sexual assailant's version of events? And what can we learn from the New York Magazine profile of everyone's favourite hipster Ponzi scheme, VICE?
Danielle Paradis co-hosts.
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Canada's broadcast regulator has put forward a proposal to tax everything from porn to podcasts to help pay for Canadian content.
Greg O'Brien, editor and publisher of Cartt.ca talks about why the CRTC is reviving the Netflix tax debate and what their plan would mean for the internet.
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We have reached peak batshit in the Ontario election. Ford suing Ford, octogenarians in "physical altercations" with seventh-graders while illegally campaigning at schools, loopy NDP candidates – and that's just this week.
And no one, NO ONE, can believe that Trump is following through on his campaign promise to dissolve NAFTA.
Joey Coleman co-hosts.
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How do you cover celebrities in a country that's so bad at making them?
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Never mind a Tesla in every Mars driveway, Elon Musk is going to save journalism, one truth at a time. The Toronto Sun has found Hitler's body – or his ghost, anyway. The NDP have it. And a far-right group muscled its way into VICE's Montréal office.
Paul McLeod co-hosts.
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CBC has a reputation in Canadian media for reporting on other people's scoops without giving credit. Reporters at other outlets have often grumbled about it. When Graeme Gordon, a frequent CANADALAND contributor, set out to look for more stories about this happening, the floodgates opened.
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Keeping the "debate" out of the Munk Debates, getting the best Canadian coverage from American press, and serving Anthony Bourdain the unpalatable best of Canadian media.
Laura Howells co-hosts.
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Why did every national news organization in Canada change its headline about the mass-killings in Gaza last week? And is the media biased for Israel, against it....or both?
Elamin Abdelmahmoud is an editor of news curation for BuzzFeed News.
Karen Mock is a human rights consultant and president of JSpaceCanada.
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AMBER ALERTS. Stephen Harper's back! MP Christine Moore's ongoing public ordeal, and Doug Ford has found some standards (apparently).
Jan Wong co-hosts.
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While journalists worry about Facebook algorithms and digital advertising, every other industry gets to be excited about technology. So today, we try our hardest to find the positive tech stories for the news industry.
Joshua Benton is the director of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard. He joins Jesse to discuss new technological frontiers in journalism, from Apple News, to blockchain-based journalism, to the surprising ways artificial intelligence can benefit news coverage.
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An update on our investigation into possible bias at Ford Nation Live, a look at the Ivory Tower's imperative to let absolutely anyone speak their mind, and Erin Weir's expulsion from the NDP caucus.
Emma McPhee co-hosts.
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Whistleblowers from within the federal government revealed to National Observer reporter Mike De Souza how the Trudeau government effort pretended to ask First Nations and other stakeholders permission for the Kinder Morgan pipeline. In fact, no outcome other than an approval was ever possible.
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How did an online subculture of lonely men inspire the murders of 10 people in Toronto?
After 10 people were killed in the Toronto van attack, a Facebook post surfaced from accused killer Alek Minassian, citing the "Incel Rebellion." Incels, or "involuntary celibates," are just one of a group of anti-feminist online subcultures that make up the "manosphere."
Xtra reporter Arshy Mann began immersing himself in the online manosphere years ago. He says we need to understand these groups and take them seriously.
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Why were some people so determined to label the Toronto van attack as Islamist? How is it that U.S. media are capable of breaking key points of developing Canadian stories before their domestic counterparts? And how do you sift through online signal noise to report accurately in the midst of a high-profile event?
Jonathan Goldsbie co-hosts.
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More than a year after their expansion into Canada, the New York Times is prospering here. And they're doing it with only three reporters. But what exactly is their goal here? And what does it mean for Canadian news and news consumers?
Catherine Porter is the Canadian bureau chief of the New York Times.
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A look at the media diet of Alexandre Bissonnette, charged with the January, 2017 terror attack at a Quebec City mosque that killed six and wounded nineteen, plus Facebook continues its Canadian outreach program.
Amira Elghawaby co-hosts.
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We talk to two Canadian journalists who are facing legal consequences --including jail time-- for doing their jobs. VICE reporter Ben Makuch is heading to the Supreme Court to try to stop the RCMP from getting access to communications he had with alleged ISIS recruit Farah Shirdon in 2014. APTN's Justin Brake, formerly of The Independent, is facing criminal charges for disobeying a court injunction while following Indigenous land protectors onto the site of the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project in 2016.
The outcomes of these cases could set precedents for how the press is allowed to operate.
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Media coverage of the Humboldt Broncos tragedy, a statement from the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression sets off alarms, and a fond farewell to Rick Mercer.
Tom Henheffer co-hosts.
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Richard Stursberg was the most hated CBC executive in recent history. What advice does he have for Catherine Tait, the CBC's new president? And what does he have to say about his own infamous legacy?
Correction: An earlier version of this episode stated that Richard Stursberg lost the rights to Hockey Night In Canada and that he put ads on CBC Radio 2. He did neither of those things.
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The Toronto Star goes national, the CBC finally has a female president, and Canada's left mourns the loss of one of its most stalwart intellectuals.
Laura Howells co-hosts.
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Tim Fontaine "set fire" to his journalism career last December, when he launched Walking Eagle News.
After 20 years of covering tragedy and injustice for CBC and APTN, Tim is turning his attention to criticizing and creating the news—as opposed to reporting it.
He's written about everything from Justin Trudeau and the Liberal government's poor attempts at reconciling with Indigenous peoples, to rez dogs on the verge of forming single consciousness.
Tim joins Jesse from Winnipeg.
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Hot takes! If the CBC runs a picture of you without your consent, do they owe you a column? And why was one Canadian taxpayer-subsidized show available on Netflix everywhere around the world — except in Canada?
Courtney Shea co-hosts.
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Creative Commons CEO Ryan Merkley still believes in the dream of The Internet.
Remember that dream? Before Russian troll-bots, “fake news,” Cambridge Analytica, digital monopolies and worse — it was a common one.
Is an open, free, glorious Internet still possible? Do we still even want that?
Ryan joins Jesse.
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Is all of your Facebook data up for sale? What do the Cambridge Analytica revelations mean for Canada? When does journalism cross the line into criminal harassment? And if there hasn't been any major violence in 20 years, why are we all of a sudden freaking out about Khalistan so much?
Sandy Garossino co-hosts.
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In an age of sensationalized true crime podcasts and Netflix docudramas—and with no end in sight—can longform crime reporting reach beyond morbid fascination?
For those journalists who cover crime, what are their responsibilities as reporters interviewing the accused? How do they know if they’re being used by calculated manipulators, and if they are, should they still report it?
To get answers, guest host Omar Mouallem speaks with Globe and Mail reporter, Jana Pruden.
You can read Jana’s story, Fear On The Family Farm here.
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Another populist businessman turned politician defeats a more-qualified female candidate. Will the Competition Bureau actually do anything other than raid some offices? And does the CBC hate Sikhs? Kieran Delamont co-hosts.
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Patrick Brown announced last month that he would be suing CTV, after they published a report of his alleged sexual misconduct — but whether or not Brown actually goes through with the lawsuit is yet to be seen.
Being threatened with a defamation lawsuit is arguably a rite of passage for journalists. The fear of libel hangs over every newsroom, so this is a risky business — but maybe it's not as risky as we like to act like it is.
Media litigation lawyers Justin Safayeni and Adam Wygodny speak with Jesse about how often people sue for libel, the precedence of the 2009 Grant vs. Torstar ruling, and how 'anti-SLAPP' laws in Ontario are helping to protect journalists.
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Has Tom Power gotten an easy ride? Facebook finds a new way to manipulate the news. And with so many awful people on Twitter, how are they choosing who to ban?
Sarah Hagi co-hosts.
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After two years of reports and stuffy consultations, the slow-moving train-wreck that's been the "news bailout" has made its way into the proposed 2018-19 federal budget.
The budget dedicates $50 million dollars over five years to "supporting local journalism," but who's eligible for funding? Though crucial details are pending, PostMedia Network's CEO Paul Godfrey and former Globe and Mail EIC Ed Greenspon are not happy—so maybe this isn't such a bad thing after all!
Jesse speaks with entrepreneurs running innovative, independent digital media startups across the country to gauge their reactions, and to see if any of them will be vying for a piece of the government-made pie.
Maureen Googoo of Ku'Ku'Kwes News (Atlantic Canada), Tim Bousquet of The Halifax Examiner (Halifax), Erin Millar of Discourse Media (Vancouver), Jeremy Klaszus of The Sprawl (Calgary), and James Baxter of iPolitics (Ottawa) join Jesse.
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Why did CBC News let Justin Trudeau use them like a cheap tool? Why did Patrick Brown quit (this time)? And what's up with the newspaper bailout plan? Stephen Maher co-hosts.
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After years of dodging emails about the internal politics of the country's largest subreddit, r/Canada, Jesse finally jumps down the weirdo-message-board rabbit hole.
Nearly 340k people are subscribed to r/Canada, with many using it as a primary source of national news. This past week, private messages were leaked between two of the subreddit's moderators, in which one moderator named u/Perma wrote that they were "slowly becoming" a white nationalist.
Freelance journalist and CANADALAND contributor, Evan Balgord joins Jesse to get a sense of how one of Canada's biggest informal, "non-partisan" news platforms begun skewing (alt)right and how Reddit influences mainstream media (and politics).
Jesse also speaks to the person responsible for leaking the conversation, "Neil" AKA u/UsedToDonateBlood, the founding moderator of r/OnGuardForThee — the breakout subreddit pushing back against the "censorious," and increasingly "alt-right" editorial slant of r/Canada. An earlier version of this episode made reference to a Justin Trudeau AMA on r/CanadaPolitics. This was in fact an April Fool's hoax.
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Did CTV actually f**k up its Patrick Brown exposé? Can we reverse engineer his crisis communications PR strategy? When can we talk about anything else?
Graeme Gordon co-hosts.
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On February 9, Gerald Stanley — the farmer accused of killing 22-year-old Cree man, Colten Boushie, in Battleford, Saskatchewan — was acquitted of second-degree murder.
In the wake of the verdict, Jesse revisits a conversation he had in Saskatoon with Betty Ann Adam (Saskatoon StarPhoenix), Rob Innes (Assistant Professor, University of Saskatchewan), and Mylan Tootoosis (PhD candidate, University of Saskatchewan).
This show was recorded live at Winterruption in Cosmo Seniors Centre on January 20th, 2017. The original airing of this episode was produced by Katie Jensen.
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The Gerald Stanley verdict was a crucial moment - was the media equal to it? Was Patrick Brown set-up by CTV? And why is the newspaper bailout a thing again? Danielle Paradis co-hosts from Edmonton
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After ending the campaigns of several Tory candidates with his muckraking during the 2015 federal election, Macleans dubbed Robert Jago, "the most dangerous blogger in Canada".
The next year, Jago broke the Joseph Boyden scandal, and this past January he exposed Senator Lynn Beyak for publishing racist letters on her website, which resulted in her being ousted from the conservative caucus.
Jago has quickly risen as an incisive, evocative voice in Canadian media. He's now a regular contributor to The Walrus and CANADALAND — but he says he doesn't plan on giving up his day job anytime soon.
So. Who is this guy?
Robert Jago joins Jesse.
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Denise Balkissoon co-hosts. Topics: Tina Fontaine and Colten Boushie: why must the news media disrespect and blame dead Indigenous kids? And the allegation against Steve Paikin: hmmm...
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Why did an obscure Canadian psychology prof suddenly become an international media star? It's a much better question than "is he right or wrong?"
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Ontario's political scene lately - why so boring?! Jordan Peterson was a guest on CBC. The media's angle on the ongoing coverage of Toronto's accused serial killer story.
With Allison Smith.
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One year ago today, a 27-year-old white man, named Alexandre Bissonnette, walked into the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City and opened fire on over 40 worshippers.
Azzeddine Soufiane, Mamadou Tanou Barry, Khaled Belkacemi, Aboubaker Thabti, Ibrahima Barry, and Abdelkrim Hassane were murdered. Five others were badly injured, including Aymen Derbali.
A year later, what — if anything — has changed? Many, like activist Syed Hussan, feel it has slipped from our collective conscious.
Hussan recently went to the scene of the massacre in Quebec City, and wrote about it, in an effort to combat our country's "collective forgetting."
We attempt to make sense of a senseless act — and look at how the media played a role before, during, and after the massacre.
Hussan and The Imposter's Aliya Pabani are urging Canadians to remember and share where they were on January 29, 2017. You can learn more about their #RememberJan29 project here.
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In which we discuss the media's bizarre long-term silence on the disappearances from Toronto's gay village, the Rogers-Vice Canada fallout, and Toronto Star's problematic reporting on the Sherman deaths. With Justin Ling.
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Conspiracies! They're out there... and Vice Canada's Mack Lamoureux is getting to the bottom of them.
You name it, he's covered it: The Berenst(a)ein Bears. Hollow Earth Theory. Iraq Stargate...
But what happens when these twisted narratives stop being just kooky, and start getting scary? As extremist right-wing groups grow their presence in Canada, and around the world, there's a personal cost to covering conspiracists.
Mack's 8-month-long investigation into Canada's armed, anti-Islamic "patriot" group — 'the III%ers'— is alarming:
"Connected to the anti-Islam sentiment is a sense of paranoia in the group, one that is reinforced by the sharing of debunked news stories and far-right wing commentary from sites like Rebel Media or Infowars. The members of the group, like their counterparts worldwide, are distrustful of mainstream news and often stray into extreme conspiratorial territory."
Mack Lamoureux joins guest host Omar Mouallem.
For more on extremist right-wing groups in Canada, check out COMMONS' deep dive from this past July.
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On coverage of the hijab cutting hate crime that never was and the job of journalists in reporting stories of sexual harassment. Naheed Mustafa joins guest host Elamin Abdelmahmoud.
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If you thought Bill C-51 was concerning, boy do we have an update for you!
Bill C-59 is the Liberal government’s national security reform bill, and it covers a lot of ground.
According to the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab’s report, the potential activities allowed by Bill C-59 are “limited only by imagination”: Mass dissemination of false information, leaking foreign documents in order to influence political and legal outcomes, large-scale denial of service attacks, interference with the electricity grid…
The report also warns that Bill C-59 contains a loophole which would allow the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) — the country’s spy agency focusing on electronic communications — to cause death or bodily harm, and to interfere with the “course of justice or democracy.” (*tugs collar* emoji)
This follow-up to Bill C-51, the Harper government’s controversial anti-terrorism Act, is making its way through parliamentary committees, but has yet to draw similar national attention or scrutiny.
But it’s not all bad. Bill C-59 also addresses institutional blindspots like lack of organizational oversight and accountability, and sheds some light onto the CSE's inner workings. Lex Gill, a researcher with Citizen Lab, says that only 3% of Canadians know what CSE is.
Gill, along with fellow researchers, outlines over 50 recommendations for amendments to Bill C-59. To learn more, see their 75-page report.
Lex Gill joins Jesse.
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Novelist and poet Zoe Whittall joins Jesse to talk creepy professors, racist letters, and predatory men. @zoewhittall
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Governments around the world are cracking down on Facebook. But not Canada's.
Forget taxes and regulations — Trudeau's Ministers are getting photo-ops and a $500,000 investment in Canada's journalism industry from Facebook.
Here's Facebook's head of Canadian public policy, Kevin Chan hosting Minister of Democratic Institutions, Karina Gould, at FB's Oct 19 launch of the Canadian Election Integrity Initiative.
So. Why scrutinize Facebook when you can partner with them?
Leaders from dozens of countries, including Germany and Australia, aren't as smitten.
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Canadian grocery store billionaires duped us for 14 years— Vive la gift card!!
Joshua Boyle, former Taliban hostage, faces 15 charges including sexual assault and administering a noxious drug. What did media miss in its initial welcome-home coverage?
Mayor John Tory and Toronto city staffers cite 'miscommunication' as the reason homeless people were turned away from shelters across the city (which were definitely not at capacity, alright?).
The Quebec mosque shooting took place nearly a year ago. So how is Aymen Derbali— who was shot 7 times and left paralyzed when he attempted to stop the gunman — only just being acknowledged by Canadian media?
Journalist and activist Desmond Cole joins Jesse.
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At the end of this season of The Imposter, Aliya will do a live comedy set onstage at Second City.
But first—she needs to learn how to tell a joke.
On the first episode of this harrowing journey, Aliya recalls the 1968 comedy that ruined laughter for her, phones her dad up to talk about brownface, and goes to standup school.
As part of our holiday programming, we're playing you the best stuff from across our network.
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The Imposter's "I Pity The Country" sits alongside Radiolab and The Heart on Constant Listener's 8 best podcast episodes of 2017. You can read that list here:
http://constantlistener.com/best-podcasts-2017/
So this holiday, we present it to you in full.
It's a story featuring incredible music by Indigenous artists from the 60s, 70s and 80s that was nearly lost. And it asks the question: how do we distinguish between art and artifact?
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Over the holidays, we're presenting some of the best episodes from across CANADALAND Media.
"If the police don't want you to see a file, you're never gonna know it exists."
Lorimer Shenher, author of That Lonely Section of Hell: The Botched Investigation of a Serial Killer Who Almost Got Away, talks to COMMONS about his time with the Vancouver police, where he investigated serial killer Robert Pickton.
This is part one of a two-part series on police accountability.
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Last week, billionaires Barry and Honey Sherman were found dead in their Toronto home. As we parse through language in the press like "suspicious" and "police sources," what do we know and which interests are at play?
Metro columnist and former CANADALAND employee Vicky Mochama called Lindsay Shepherd a crying white girl on CBC's Sunday politics show, infuriating an army of people who have probably never seen the show before.
True crime writer and veteran crime reporter James Dubro guest hosts.
James's twitter: @jamesdubro
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PressProgress calls itself "Canada’s most shared source for progressive news and information." They get real scoops, using the traditional tools of journalism, like access to information requests, fact-checking and seeking comment from politicians.
But they're not a traditional news source. They're backed by the Broadbent Institute, a progressive think tank founded by a former leader of the NDP. So how does that affect their coverage and what should we do with that information?
PressProgress editor Luke LeBrun and producer/staff writer Luke Savage join us.
**Correction: An earlier version of this episode stated that Stephen Harper said the root cause of terrorism is terrorists. It was in fact Conservative MP Pierre Pollievre. We regret the error.
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A terrible BBC documentary about transgender kids was pulled from CBC scheduling. A journalists' materials were seized from a Niagara Regional Council meeting by staff who were exercising "enthusiastic caution." A mill pressurized a bookstore to suppress a book-signing for a book written about that mill. Questionable CBC workplace policies. Independent crowdfunded journalist Joey Coleman co-hosts.
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After working in media, PR and politics, Jeff Ballingall understands the political power of Facebook. His top Facebook page gets more engagement than the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star combined.
Spanning vicious attacks in rap form to sentimental content about landmarks, Ontario Proud is in a meme war against Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne. And they're really effective.
Ballingall joins us to talk about what he's doing, why he's doing it and who's paying for it.
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After 34 newspapers were abruptly killed by Postmedia and Torstar last week, Postmedia CEO Paul Godfrey made the case that it was just part of an inevitable decline in the industry.
Chris Powell vehemently disagrees. After cutting his teeth at a community newspaper, Powell spent a career covering the news business in trade publications like Strategy and Marketing Magazine. He's spoken to the publishers and executives, he's studied the business models and he says there is a path forward.
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A lot of Canadians lost their community news this week, after two news giants traded 41 newspapers and shut nearly all of them down. Postmedia CEO Paul Godfrey says he didn't know Torstar was planning to kill the newspapers he was giving them. Torstar says pretty much nothing at all.
Rogers reportedly won't pay for VICE's fanciful foray into cable TV any longer.
The Financial Post will publish your incoherent rant about climate change if you happen to be an ex-Cabinet minister.
BuzzFeed social news curator Elamin Abdelmahmoud co-hosts.
Elamin's Twitter: @elamin88
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Gerard Ryle is the director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, who are behind the Paradise Papers, the Panama Papers and other similar investigations.
Major revelations are continuing to come out of the Paradise Papers in Canada and around the world.
One prominent columnist dismissed the whole thing as "another cheap shot at the wealthy," while other people are asking why this story isn't causing riots in the streets.
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A Master's student was reprimanded for showing her students a public TV clip of psychology professor/YouTuber Jordan Peterson explaining why he refuses to use people's preferred pronouns. Now the whole country's stuck talking about it.
Steve Paikin staged a debate about whether Canada is keeping Indigenous people in crisis, with guests who believe things like North American settlers were more advanced than Indigenous people and that Indigenous people should just assimilate.
The Peterborough Examiner published the real name of a sex worker, as well as the street they live on, in their coverage of a protest.
Alex Verman co-hosts.
Alex's Twitter: @misgenders
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Reporters Anna Merlan and Madeleine Davies were investigating and writing about Louis CK well before the New York Times story came out. And they faced a lot of criticism for it.
They join Jesse to talk about the line between rumour and news, and whether standards have changed around reporting on sexual misconduct in the post-Weinstein world.
Madeleine Davies is a senior writer for Jezebel.
Anna Merlan is a senior reporter at Gizmodo Media's Special Projects Desk.
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Bill Morneau tries to turn down the heat through tales of his spicy past, CBC takes a stand for landlord rights and Jagmeet Singh tries out some slam poetry.
COMMONS co-host Hadiya Roderique joins Jesse.
Hadiya's Twitter: @deeroderique
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Is local media doomed? We speak to three entrepreneurs who are making a go of it with three very different models.
Dave Bidini publishes the West End Phoenix, a recently-launched, print-only monthly newspaper that covers west Toronto.
Jeff Elgie is the CEO of Village Media, a digital-only company that provides hyper-local news to nine small communities, mostly in Ontario.
Jeremy Klaszus is the founder and editor of The Sprawl, a Calgary news site that practices "pop-up journalism."
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CBC's flagship TV newscast The National is revamped with a four-host format and released into the world.
The Paradise Papers reveal what the Toronto Star calls a "worldwide shadow economy worth trillions of dollars." But the Financial Post's Terence Corcoran thinks the whole thing is just "another cheap shot at the wealthy." Find extensive reporting on the leak at The Star and the CBC.
A white photographer at a concert refuses to listen to Polaris Prize winner Lido Pimentia's calls to make space for brown girls. Some crucial details are missing from the initial reporting.
Freelance reporter Sarah Hagi co-hosts.
Sarah's Twitter: @geekylonglegs
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“Objectivity for the sake of objectivity often means make sure that the powerful always get their say. And sometimes Caesar shouldn’t have his say. Sometimes the truth is just true.”
As a foreign war correspondent, Jeremy Scahill revealed secret military campaigns in Yemen, Pakistan and Somalia that resulted in congressional investigations. His books Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army and Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield were widely celebrated and he could have gotten a high-profile job in mainstream media. But instead, he became a founding editor of The Intercept, a news outlet dedicated to "fearless, adversarial journalism." He hosts their podcast, Intercepted.
Jeremy Scahill talks about excoriating mainstream networks on their own platforms, who Canada is killing overseas and why he hopes the media is learning lessons right now that they will carry beyond Trump.
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A series of media scoops have shown that some politicians are actually rich people who want to keep their money.
Bernie Sanders comes to Canada to tell us about our healthcare system.
The government has been debating the so-called Ghomeshi rules, new legislation that would change how sexual assault cases are dealt with in court.
BuzzFeed News Washington correspondent Paul McLeod co-hosts.
Paul's Twitter: @pdmcleod
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Adam Gopnik lived out a certain Canadian fantasy. He left the country and became a prominent New York intellectual. He writes about the move in his new book, At the Stranger's Gate.
Gopnik is now a staff writer at the New Yorker, where he writes about Canada — like in this profile of Michael Ignatieff or the recent piece, "We Could Have Been Canada."
He talks about how New York has changed, whether it still has anything to offer to dreamy exiles, and the bright side of Canada being run by a small pool of political elites. Jesse tries to keep up.
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Quebec passes a racist law.
A bunch of media outlets ran a story that used video manipulation and questionable translation to make it look like an imam was calling for the slaughter of Jews. After he lost his job, his reputation was ruined and there were hateful protests at his mosque, Toronto Star --who ran the original story-- exposed the dangerous flaws of the early reporting.
Student leader Masuma Khan faced censure from Dalhousie University for a vulgar, anti-Canada 150 Facebook post and some of the usual free speech purists are conspicuously silent.
And we address listener questions about a weird story in Fast Company about Casper and the online mattress industry.
Massey journalism fellow Naheed Mustafa co-hosts.
Naheed's Twitter: @NaheedMustafa
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The Toronto Star's Daniel Dale has become one of the most-watched journalists in Washington in part by simply enumerating Donald Trump's lies (Dale counted 720 as of last week). He got his start covering pomp and fatuousness by being the Star's reporter in charge of following the Rob Ford administration.
This episode was recorded live at the Hot Docs Podcast Festival in Toronto on October 15, 2017.
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The Conservative Party leader walked away from a scrum when pressed about his campaign manager working in far right media company The Rebel's office during his campaign.
We look at the language around Gord Downie's death.
And there are a lot of unanswered questions in the story of freed hostage Joshua Boyle.
Freelancer and former VICE reporter Justin Ling co-hosts.
Justin's Twitter: @justin_ling
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Sarah Polley talks about how she helped Jesse break a major story.
And she discusses domestic abuse, sexual harassment and assault, and the culture that fuels it.
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An "unprecedented national collaboration" between The National Observer, Global, The Toronto Star and more exposes the dangers of sour gas in Saskatchewan. But as OurSask.ca points out, they forgot to mention the CBC broke the story two years ago.
The Globe and Mail pillories the Liberals' tax plan.
CBC journalists find creative ways to criticize the CBC.
The National Post's Jen Gerson co-hosts.
Jen's Twitter: @jengerson
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The way we make culture in Canada is finished. The CanCon system was built around radio frequency and cable subscriptions. That's done.
Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly had the thankless task of crafting a new culture plan that was sure to disappoint. She is now being viciously attacked by the press, the same press that did not get their requested newspaper bailout.
In the plan, Joly announced a boost (as yet unspecified) to the Canadian Media Fund, funding for a cultural export strategy and a digital news incubator envisioned as a joint venture between Ryerson University and Facebook.
But all anybody seemingly wants to talk about is the deal in which Netflix has pledged $500-million over five years toward original Canadian content - and why that's somehow a terrible thing.
Joining Jesse is University of Ottawa professor and digital technology expert Michael Geist to unpack the deal.
Also on this episode Ira Wells, contributor to The Walrus, discusses how Canada's revamped cultural policy aims low and ignores art.
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Co-host Omar Mouallem lives in the Edmonton neighbourhood where the terror attack took place over the weekend. He discusses what he saw in the news versus what he saw in real life.
On Jagmeet Singh's first interview with CBC's Power and Politics as the NDP's leader, Terry Milewski takes the opportunity to grill him about the Air India bomber.
The takes are in for the Government's #DigiCanCon plan, AKA The Netflix Deal, to revamp the Canadian content industry.
Omar's Twitter: @omar_aok
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When we found out the Trudeau Government was selling armoured vehicles to Saudi Arabia, despite their terrible human rights record, there was little public debate. When a professor launched a bid to stop the deal, the Federal Court rejected it, saying there was no proof that the vehicles were being used against Saudi citizens.
Then this summer, videos surfaced that appeared to show that Ontario-made combat vehicles were in fact being deployed against Saudi civilians. That news barely made a splash.
The Globe and Mail's Steven Chase has been following this story closely - and is one of few reporters who have been covering it at all. You can read all of his reporting at the Globe and Mail.
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This American Life ponders the question:Is Gavin McInnes actually racist? We help them find the answer.
The Globe and Mail launches a project to teach kids about media manipulation... through media manipulation.
Freelancer David Berry co-hosts.
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Michael Enright got Jesse his first job in radio. He was also CANADALAND’s first ever guest, drinking bourbon and talking sh*t about the Canadian media. For our 200th show, he’s back to talk about how the media has changed since that day... and how Air Canada ended up publicly denouncing him on Twitter.
Michael hosts a show on CBC Radio called The Sunday Edition. Jesse used to work there.
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Indigenous writer and activist turned politician Wab Kinew scored a historic victory last weekend by decisively winning the leadership of the Manitoba NDP.
Only days before the election, however, allegations of domestic assault surfaced. A former partner of Kinew filed charges in 2003. Those charges were stayed in 2004.
How has the media handled this story, and who pushed the court records to the press? Was it, in fact, someone from his own party?
The National Post's Jen Gerson joins us.
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For one week every year, the Canadian press transforms into movie industry experts. Our newspapers run glossy red carpet photos of Hollywood stars and stories about which movies penned distribution deals with who. But is any of this actually good for Toronto or Canada's film industry?
Norm Wilner has been covering the Toronto International Film Festival for 30 years. As a film critic at NOW Magazine, he's seen it grow into the monster it's become.
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Jagmeet Singh gracefully responded to a racist idiot, which proves he can lead a major political party, we guess. Also, racism is totally not a problem anymore, according to the most widely-read columnists in the country.
Omar Mouallem co-hosts.
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Who thought we'd have a Nazi problem in 2017? Richard Warman did. Years before the current "Should I punch a Nazi" debate took off, he was taking neo-Nazis to court.
As a human rights lawyer, Richard Warman went on mission to take down neo-Nazis using our legal system. He filed more complaints for online hate speech than any other Canadian -- and was hugely successful.
But in the process, he got on the bad side of a lot of the media.
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Post columnists pen truly offensive shit; another media outlet lays off workers; Donald Trump has us all scrambling.
Another day, another 81¢ (rounded for inflation).
The team of our Commons podcast weighs in.
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It's clear that sports journalism is facing many of the same issues as other facets of the industry: declining ad revenues, job insecurities, and too much content vying for too few eyeballs. It also has some unique challenges.
Joining us to unpack the state of sports media are The Athletic's James Mirtle, Morgan Campbell of the Toronto Star, and longtime freelance journalist Richard Whittall.
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Americans are debating the removal of monuments to problematic historical figures, so I guess we are too.
Old folks don't want to hear sad stories about feelings on their CBC. Young folks do, apparently.
And the Globe And Mail is slimming for winter.
BuzzFeed Social Media Editor Elamin Abdelmahmoud joins us.
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It's been, to put it mildly, a shit week for Rebel Media's self-styled 'Rebel Commander' Ezra Levant:
- Following the tragedy in Charlottesville last weekend, Rebel Media co-founder Brian Lilley, and periodic columnists Barbara Kay and John Robson all severed their ties to the organization;
- By Thursday it was learned that Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes was moving on. According to Levant, he'd been poached by an organization with deeper pockets.
- The same day, Levant announced he'd fired popular Rebel personality Faith Goldy after her appearance on a neo-nazi podcast;
- A bombshell video from two disgruntled former Rebel staffers was released alleging Levant was paying 'hush money,' to keep quiet about the company's business practices;
- A disavowal came out from Conservative leader Andrew Scheer, who says he will refuse all media requests from the organization until its 'editorial direction changes' (whatever that means);
- Press Progress revealed that Levant was receiving funding from an anti-Muslim think tank;
- And even the much-hyped Rebel Cruise was cancelled.
The CANADALAND team pulled out all the stops this week to cover the flurry of announcements, and CANADALAND Editor Jonathan Goldsbie joins Jesse to walk through the week's developments.
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A growing list of contributors and politicians are cutting ties with far right website The Rebel after their coverage of the white nationalist protest in Charlottesville. Meanwhile, "Rebel commander" Ezra Levant wants to distance himself from the alt-right, claiming he's just learned it's a racist movement.
Chronicle Herald workers are back in the newsroom after a year and a half on strike, working alongside those who crossed the picket line to fill the paper with some seriously sh*tty journalism.
Reporter Maggie Rahr co-hosts.
Maggie's Twitter: @MaggieRahr
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The term 'fake news'has been popularized, bastardized, and now wholly appropriated. What was previously defined as 'A deliberate untruth published strictly for monetary or political gain,' has now come to mean 'I don't like this story. It makes me look bad.'
Immediately following the election of Donald Trump south of the border, Craig Silverman and the team at Buzzfeed wrote the defining article on fake news, showing that completely fabricated stories like 'Hillary Sold Weapons to ISIS' actually outperformed legitimate political coverage from the likes of the New York Times on Facebook.
In a followup piece, Silverman shows how the misinformation industry has shifted its focus to avoid Facebook's crackdown on fake news pieces. Now it's all about hyperpartisan media -- websites that will blend legitimate reporting with clickbait viral headlines to create a morass where you can't be sure what's real and what isn't.
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Joseph Boyden has emerged from his winter burrow like a collared lemming (it's an arctic mammal -- look it up!) to plug his forthcoming book weigh in again on questions of his Indigenous ancestry. Despite his insistence that his connection to -- and friendship with -- Indigenous communities should automatically confer some sort of Indigenous status, he went ahead and got a DNA test anyway.
Robert Jago wrote an excellent dissection of Boyden's latest plea for acceptance/publicity stunt, while Eric Andrew-Gee dug into Boyden's complicated family history in a Globe & Mail feature.
Also, with literally no Canadians waiting with baited breath, the CBC finally announced its cadre of Peter Mansbridge replacements.
Rosemary Barton, Ian Hanomansing, Adrienne Arsenault, and Andrew Chang have collectively made the cut, while network mainstays Ernie Coombs, Bruno Gerussi, and Al Waxman remain in reserve in case any of the lead anchors bolt for CTV.
National Post journalist and Commons co-host Ashley Csanady joins us.
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This week we present a podcast based on our stage show which was based on our book which was based on this podcast. Talk about coming full circle.
In it: should you fuck your Prime Minister?; Why Canadians secretly love climate change; why we love the RCMP; and a peek at the Canada of the not-too-distant future.
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The Toronto Star built an entire exposé on female genital mutilation based predominantly around a mid-level civil servant's email from three years ago.
Also, CBC Comedy is so unfunny it's funny. Or is that the other way around? Either way, a former member of Kellie Leitch's team has made it his mission to bring it down.
Writer/broadcaster, and producer Naheed Mustafa joins us.
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We revisit a couple of stories that we haven't been able to follow up on to the level to which we'd hoped. At least not on the website, where our News Editor Jonathan Goldsbie makes the ultimate call as to what gets published.
In this episode Jonathan and Jesse go head to head and reveal new facts about Andrew Potter's abrupt departure from McGill after his Maclean's diatribe about Quebec, and what happened after Leah McLaren's column about attempting to breastfeed Michael Chong's baby was spiked.
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The Conservative Party takes their latest wedge issue to the US media, a Quebec town won't let Muslims bury their dead and Trudeau lays out some hot summer jams.
BuzzFeed's Elamin Abdelmahmoud co-hosts.
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When the vitriol started to fly over Omar Khadr's $10.5 million settlement and apology from the government, Michelle Shephard got frustrated with just how much people were getting the basic facts wrong.
As national security reporter for the Toronto Star, author of the book Guantanamo's Child and co-director of the documentary of the same name, she's been the top reporter on Khadr's story for the past 15 years.
She speaks to guest host Omar Mouallem about how Khadr's public image has evolved over the years and what the media and the public continues to get wrong about the story.
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Journalist Evan Balgord has been covering fringe right groups like the Proud Boys, Soldiers of Odin, and the Three Percenters for the better part of the past year. He joins the COMMONS team to discuss the ongoing street protests and what’s driving these groups’ discontent.
CANADALAND will be back on Monday.
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Ren Bostelaar posted nude pictures of women he knew to 4chan without their consent. He avoided a criminal record by apologizing and taking a peace bond. Was justice served? Is revenge porn legal in Canada? What is the state of the law and social media, years after the Amanda Todd and Rehteah Parsons cases? Privacy lawyer David Fraser launched a successful constitutional challenge against Nova Scotia's anti-cyberbullying law. But he supports current anti-revenge porn laws, and he explains why.
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With resistance to Canada150, Indigenous women calling out a reporter at a press conference, and the Proud Boys disrupting a Mi'kmaq ceremony in Halifax, the way people talk about our colonial history is changing. While Indigenous people demand respect, journalists like the National Post's John Robson think the insults are just too much.
NDP MP Romeo Saganash plagiarized co-host Erica Violet Lee's work in an op-ed for the Globe and Mail.
With Omar Khadr reportedly getting an apology and a settlement of $10.5 million from the Canadian government after nearly a decade in Guantanamo Bay, politicians are twisting the narrative, and a columnist wonders why Khadr can't just move on.
Erica's blog: Moontime Warrior
Erica's Twitter: @ericavioletlee
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Canada was once home to a small, but mighty collective of gay and lesbian newspapers and magazines that made up a radical alternative media. Over the last few decades now-defunct publications like The Body Politic, Siren and Fab brought LGBTQ+ issues, interests and voices, to the forefront. Daily Xtra, now the country’s only remaining national queer news source, ceased print in 2015 but continues publishing online.
Despite queer people having more rights than ever before, queer media is all but disappearing. Is this solely a result of Canadian media’s general decline, or is the shift indicative of something more?
It’s also been a year since Black Lives Matter Toronto (BLMTO) halted the country’s largest Pride parade in protest, with a list of demands in tow. The action sparked a harsh months-long backlash of editorials and hot takes by mostly white, straight columnists and pundits, ruthlessly condemning BLMTO. Has coverage of LGBTQ+ issues and news by legacy media changed or improved since BLMTO’s protest?
Joining Jesse to dissect the ever-shrinking queer media and the state of representation in legacy media is Erica Lenti, editor-in-chief of THIS Magazine, Arshy Mann, reporter at Daily Xtra, and investigative crime reporter and Body Politic writer, James Dubro.
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The Toronto Star put the final nail in the coffin of Star Touch, its $20-30-million app for a device that most people don't have or use. And after praising themselves for its bold innovation, quietly laid off 30 journalists.
Meanwhile, Canada gears up this weekend for a celebration of epic proportions: Peter Mansbridge is retiring. And confederation, something something.
Finally we dig into Jonathan Kay’s Twitter mobs and how they’re killing free speech for anybody who’s not a National Post columnist.
Vice Senior writer Manisha Krishnan joins us.
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After the release of the Public Policy Forum's Shattered Media report this past winter comes the latest beg for cash to prop up the newspaper industry. This one comes in the form of a request for a subsidy totaling hundred of millions of dollars per year from News Media Canada, the umbrella advocacy organization for Canadian newspapers.
While it claims to advocate for the maintenance of local journalism, the organization shies away from supporting small, digital startups, which are often the strongest source of civic journalism in many Canadian communities.
The Trudeau government swiftly knocked down the idea of taxing Netflix and other digital endeavours to fund this bailout, though it sounds like they're ultimately in favour of finding that funding.
Bob Cox, Chair of the Board of News Media Canada as well as the publisher of the Winnipeg Free Press joins us.
(Producers' note: owing to a technical glitch with our telephone recording process, this interview is an amalgam of two separate interviews conducted with Bob Cox on one day.)
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Governor General David Johnston issued a mea culpa over his radio interview in which he refers to Indigenous peoples as immigrants.
Postmedia did not issue mea culpas for poorly-researched racist screeds in its Vancouver and Toronto outlets. Instead, they continue to rattle the cup in front of the federal government for bailout money.
Finally, the National Post issued a mea culpa for years of Conrad Black columns by announcing they would stop publishing their Monday edition of the paper.
(Producers' note: Jesse Brown would like to issue a mea culpa after misstating the name of one of the lead characters of TV sitcom Three's Company, while Short Cuts guest David Berry's mea culpa comes over misstating that 'Sufferin' Succotash' was a catchphrase of Foghorn Leghorn. It was, in fact, Sylvester the Cat.)
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Iraqi photojournalist Ali Arkady thought he was documenting the "good guys" -- the non-sectarian forces fighting Daesh for the preservation of Iraq. Instead, Arkady witnessed abuse, torture, and murder committed by the Emergency Response Division.
After fleeing Iraq with his family, Arkady partnered with the Toronto Star and ABC News to have his work see the light. He joins Jesse Brown on the phone from an undisclosed location in Europe alongside Mitch Potter, one of the three Star reporters who helped write this essential exposé.
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Breitbart News has convinced concerned Christian families that Ontario’s new child protection laws will bring forth a queer totalitarian state, where parents opposing or denying their children’s gender identity will have them forcibly removed from their homes.
After tweeting about almost being published in Teen Vogue on June 2, Toronto-based freelance writer, Roslyn Talusan’s call-out of the magazine went viral and led to dozens of writers flooding her inbox with similar stories of being strung along after having successfully pitched personal stories and essays approved by editors of Conde Nast’s supposedly progressive, feminist magazine.
The Liberal government is moving forward with an amendment to the Criminal Code, as a result of the Jian Ghomeshi case. The change will, for the first time, ensure that a complainant’s text messages, e-mails and video recordings with sexual content or a sexual purpose can be kept out of trials.
Freelance writer and editor at Femsplain, Roslyn Talusan joins Jesse.
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Or did we play ourselves?
This most recent Conservative leadership race highlighted a number of deficiencies in Canadian media. Namely, why did the guy with virtually no chance of ever becoming Prime Minister, who skipped debates and ran much of his campaign from Boston, receive so much more press coverage than the guy who actually won the leadership? Did media just go for the low-hanging fruit, or did we allow ourselves to be manipulated by an expert huckster?
CBC.ca's Opinion Producer Robyn Urback has some opinions of her own and joins us for the episode.
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Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland stands up to the sole remaining global superpower like a newborn kitten taking on Galactus.
Somewhere between 10 and 5,000 freedom-loving citizens descend on Parliament Hill to rail against Trudeau, refugees, Islam, you name it. Of course, close to 10,000 attended the most recent pro-marijuana rally, proving that Canadians love pot far more than they fear Sharia law.
Finally, Scott Gilmore pens a tone-deaf piece for Macleans highlighting conditions on First Nations reservations and the solution is for the rest of us to ... care?
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McClelland & Stewart was the publishing house that, at one time, served as the home for the likes of Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Leonard Cohen and others. In 2000, under the direction of building magnate Avie Bennett, it was broken apart and sold to the University of Toronto and to Random House Canada. It's now entirely owned by a foreign company.
Elaine Dewar, author of the new book The Handover, joins us to explain the seeming sleight-of-hand that put this institution in foreign hands.
Avie Bennett died this past weekend at the age of 89.
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The Conservatives have a new, dimpled, leader, Nova Scotians have more of the same, and British Columbians have an unprecedented lefty hybrid. How effective was media coverage of these three electoral events?
Plus, Toronto Life's recent tone-deaf spurt of house porn has led to, if not riots in the streets, then at least a whole lot of snark on social media.
Journalist Katie Toth joins us.
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One cardinal rule of journalism is that reporters never accept incentives, be that meals, gifts, or - God forbid - money, from the subjects on whom they're reporting. This applies across the board except, we now know, in the travel section.
Travel writers used to diligently follow this standard but, as newspapers and magazines were increasingly unable or unwilling to foot expenses, these journalists were forced to find alternative sources to fund their trips. This meant cozying up to hotel chains, airlines, and tourism bureaus.
If travel writers are being subsidized by the tourism industry, can the readers trust the stories? Bert Archer is arguably Canada's most prolific travel writer and teaches the practice and ethics of travel writing at the University of Toronto. He believes journalists can maintain their editorial independence - but must walk a careful line.
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This week, The Guardian continued its exemplary coverage of Canadian university student unions.
Hamilton police arrest two journalists attempting to cover a traffic fatality.
And the Toronto Star wants you to trust it.
This week's Short Cuts comes to you from scenic Hamilton and the studios of CFMU. The Public Record's Joey Coleman joins Jesse and suggests new ways to report on traffic deaths, and how local newspapers need to up their game when it comes to investigative reporting.
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The Texas of the north. Racist rednecks, gun nuts, and pickup truck enthusiasts. That's the Alberta stereotype portrayed in much of the rest of Canada, but how much of that is accurate and how much is due to lazy media that falls back on clichéd tropes? After all, Alberta gave us the first big-city Muslim mayor, the first provincial cabinet with gender parity, and hell, led the charge for women's suffragism (okay, that was a century ago, but still...).
Despite the province's increasingly young and multicultural population, some still believe that the only real Albertan is a conservative Albertan. And that extends to the two men - Jason Kenney and Brian Jean - who inked a proposal to merge the Conservative and Wildrose parties last week. Are they, and their policies, reflective of a new, diverse Alberta?
Joining Omar to unpack Alberta's multifaceted conservative history is Calgary journalist and author Sydney Sharpe, whose 2016 book, Notley Nation: How Alberta's Political Upheaval Swept the Country, documented the historic 2015 provincial election which saw the NDP sweep aside the governing Tories after an unprecedented 40-plus-year run.
Also in studio is Duncan Kinney, former journalist and current Executive Director of Progress Alberta.
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Hal Niedzviecki and Jonathan Kay have left their jobs. Steve Ladurantaye's been shifted to a lesser role at CBC. And no, we're not finished talking about this yet.
Ryan McMahon joins Jesse in Winnipeg to talk appropriation.
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When it comes to rap, where does artistic licence end and confession begin? According to prosecutors in at least 30 cases from the last decade, it starts when the artist is charged with a crime and the lyrics are parsed for clues to a case or for proof of bad character.
Many of these defendants are convicted of their crimes, but should their music be a permissible tool? What is the threshold? And does the practice intentionally or unintentionally tap into the unconscious biases of jurors with the fate of young black and indigenous men in their hands?
This roundtable discussion on the inclusion of rap as criminal evidence brings together three experts: University of California, Irvine criminologist Adam Dunbar, University of Toronto sociologist Jooyoung Lee, and lawyer Hilary Dudding, whose case, R. v. Campbell, could effect future trials in Canada.
They join guest host Omar Mouallem for the episode.
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British Columbia had an election where everybody won - or at least got an 'I Participated' ribbon.
Also, Rebel Media wades into the French election like a skunk splashing around a backyard kiddie pool.
Finally, black activist and journalist Desmond Cole takes leave from the Toronto Star after the corporation suggests they'd appreciate it if he wouldn't mind being a little less active and a lot less black.
The National Observer's Sandy Garossino joins us.
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Since the late 1990s nearly 800 children in Alberta government care have Veteran Edmonton Journal columnist Paula Simons has been shining a light on this crisis since from the start.
In November 2016, Simons published a story that shocked the province. It was a story about a four-year-old girl named Serenity. Let down by a wide range of government and non-governmental services, Serenity was the victim of horrific abuse and neglect.
Simons' article, Her name was Serenity. Never forget it. spurred the Notley provincial government to convene an all-party committee to investigate the multiple failings of Alberta's child welfare system.
Her tireless coverage earned Simons honourable mentions from the National Newspaper Awards and the Canadian Committee for World Press Freedom.
She speaks with guest host Omar Mouallem for the episode.
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Is the media complicit in popping Harjit Sajjan's balloon?
Also, National Post columnist Christie Blatchford and her parent company, Postmedia are facing a substantial libel suit.
Finally, in the art world, what constitutes cultural appropriation and what's merely blatant plagiarism?
National Magazine Award multiple nominee and May's CANADALAND guest host Omar Mouallem joins us.
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On April 20, Toronto Star columnist and Newstalk 1010 host, Desmond Cole, gave a powerful deputation at a Toronto Police Services Board meeting. He then stood in protest, calling on the board to restrict police access to ‘carding’ data. The meeting eventually adjourned, and Cole was escorted out by police officers.
For almost five years now, Cole has been using his platform as a journalist to report on and push back against ‘carding’—which disproportionately affects Black people—by the Toronto Police.
Cole—former host of CANADALAND COMMONS—joins Jesse Brown to discuss recent criticism he’s received from fellow journalists and the public, how mainstream media has failed to highlight the damaging effects of carding, and his new CBC documentary The Skin We’re In, which explores anti-Black racism in Canada.
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The Prime Minister showed up at Vice to talk about the Liberal government's marijuana legalization plan, but is blindsided when members of the audience demanded he address the opioid overdose epidemic going on across the country.
Reporters Without Borders released their annual World Press Freedom Index this week. Canada placed 22nd. Two years ago we were in eighth place. What caused this dramatic decline?
Finally, the CBC is scoring some of that sweet Canada150 cash to commission programming it should probably already be making with the $1-billion it receives annually, and J.J. McCullough tries his hand at a nuanced comparison of Canadian and Turkish political systems, but most people just dismiss him as a crackpot.
Tom Henheffer, Executive Director of Canadian Journalists for Free Expression joins us.
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...The Chronicle Herald's Mark Lever, that's who.
After pleading poverty for nearly 16 months while his reporters, editors, and photographers are strike, he came up with the bucks to buy 28 Atlantic Canadian newspapers from the floundering Transcontinental chain. This gives his company an effective monopoly in Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Prince Edward Island.
We speak with long-time Nova Scotia journalists (and former Transcontinental reporters) Stephen Kimber and Parker Donham about the rationale behind the purchase and whether this benefits news consumers in Atlantic Canada.
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The scandals continue piling up on B.C. Premier Christy Clark's administration, yet it doesn't seem to be getting a ton of press. Maybe that's because so many of them are now working for her party.
Meanwhile, south of the border, President Trump no longer wants to 'tweak' NAFTA, but would rather stick it to our cows. Our precious, precious cows.
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The largest newspaper chain in Canada is in its death throes. As Postmedia staggers, bleeding, toward insolvency, we need to ask what its loss means for public discourse in Canada.
Former Postmedia stars Kady O'Malley and Stephen Maher join Jesse to try to envision a post-Postmedia future in Canadian journalism.
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Jian Ghomeshi is back and the nation breathes a collective "Ewww...really?"
Also, you know things are bad at Postmedia when even the founder of the company is awaiting his pink slip.
Plus, CBC finally gets the story of Canada right by just saying "sorry" over and over.
Freelance journalist David Berry joins us.
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Is Quebec’s media - like its culture - distinct from the rest of Canada’s? Does national media do a decent job of covering Quebec issues and news?
The Globe and Mail’s Montreal bureau chief, Les Perreaux and Laval University’s Centre for Media Studies' director, Colette Brin, set the record straight on prejudices and assumptions many ‘ugly anglos,’ like Jesse, have about the province’s media culture.
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CBC’s miniseries “The Story of Us,” is only two episodes in, but manages to upset literally everyone (except Joseph Boyden). Justin Trudeau endorses CBC’s Canada 150 fiasco--and his favourite microbrew, Labatt150.
Everyone forgets the Junos were on Sunday and Russell Peters makes a statutory rape joke.
The Globe and Mail issues Leah McLaren a gag order, following the coded memo sent out to staff. Following McGill’s brand-sensitive lead, Ryerson University issues an apology for a short documentary about poverty in Niagara Falls, made by its students.
An access-to-information request made by VICE reveals that CSIS has been secretly watching and reporting on events at the Standing Rock pipeline protests. How freaked out should journalists be about surveillance and border crossing?
VICE Canada’s Hilary Beaumont joins Jesse.
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Something special to announce today, new show on Thursday.
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A screed against Quebec's 'pathologically alienated and low-trust society' in Macleans has ignited howls of protest from Quebeckers, including from Premier Philippe Couillard and federal cabinet minister Mélanie Joly. But is it wrong?
And journalism awards season is upon us. Should we pay attention, or is this a 'Central Canadian Toronto Media Party Fucking Circle Jerk?'
The National Post's Jen Gerson joins us.
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Last month, the National Post broke a crazy story involving former staffers from Canada's deepest-pocketed media upstart, up-and-coming members of Toronto's music and modelling scenes, and an international drug cartel.
Adrian Humphreys, crime reporter for the Post, joins us to dig deep into this caper.
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Is Rebel Media's embrace of free speech leading to rampant anti-semitism and virulent racism?
Also, Atlantic Canadian journalists are coming under fire, and the refugee influx will likely ramp up in the next few months.
Macleans Alberta correspondent Jason Markusoff joins us.
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While the majority of Conservative candidates for the federal leadership gig are pushing against Motion 103, and denying climate change, Michael Chong is trying to change the dialogue.
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George Soros, the Koch Brothers, and the Reverse Vampires™ are out to overwhelm you with a barrage of news. Is there a way to discern kernels of truth in this "chaos machine?"
Russians are apparently implicating Canada's Foreign Affairs Minster Chrystia Freeland in regards to familial ties to the Nazi regime.
Finally, which pill is Maxime Bernier gonna take?
The Toronto Star's Alex Boutilier joins Jesse.
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The newspaper industry in Atlantic Canada is far less than healthy. The largest-circulation paper, the Halifax Chronicle Herald, is more than 400 days into a crippling strike which sees most of its senior reporters and editors on the picket line while its replacement workers are plugging out disturbingly sub-par journalism.
Elsewhere in the area, the rest of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador have almost almost all of their daily and weekly newspapers cinched up between two companies: Brunswick News (owned by the Irving family, who employs approximately one-in-five New Brunswickers), and TC Media.
Still, there are bright spots. Atlantic Canada is seeing a significant number of start-up journalism enterprises. Might there be a light at the end of the tunnel?
Jesse joins Halifax Examiner publisher and editor Tim Bousquet and University of King's College assistant professor Terra Tailleur to discuss.
This live taping was a benefit for CKDU radio in Halifax - who carries CANADALAND every Friday morning at 8:00 a.m. AST.
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Conservative leadership candidate Kellie Leitch released a video this week that was somewhere between political platform and performance play. Also, Kevin O'Leary continues to draw a paycheque from CNBC while running for the same role.
Finally, accusations of plagiarism are now dogging Joseph Boyden.
National Observer Associate Editor Sandy Garossino joins Jesse from Vancouver.
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In the months after Robyn Doolittle's groundbreaking series of exposés about the scandal-ridden Toronto mayor Rob Ford, she left the Toronto Star for a new investigative role at the Globe & Mail. Then, mostly, silence.
Her lack of bylines belied her hard work behind the scenes as she dug into what would become the story of the year: a 20-month investigation into police departments across Canada and their chronic underreporting of sexual assaults being filed.
Within days of the story's publication earlier this month, police departments, provincial governments, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau himself promised to start implementing changes into how sexual assaults were recorded.
Robyn joins us to talk about how the story got off the ground and how it will continue to be covered in the months and years to come.
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Refugees continue to stream across the Canada-U.S. border, presumably for photo-ops with smiling Canadian Mounties. Also, Milo Yiannopoulos finally finds the nail on which conservative Americans can hang him.
Finally, Rebel.Media supporters channel their inner Hunger Games' geekdom at an anti-Islam rally in Toronto.
Washington Post contributor and cartoonist J.J. McCullough joins us from Vancouver.
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Late last month the Public Policy Forum released its long-anticipated report on the state of Canadian newspapers. Somewhat unexpectedly, this was a bold and far-reaching document, exploring the changing face of media in this country.
The principal author of the paper, former Globe & Mail Editor-In-Chief Ed Greenspon, joins Jesse to dig deep into its findings.
Read the entire report (no, seriously, read it) here.
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PMJT flew all the way to Washington, DC, for a handshake. Not sure if anything else of consequence happened while he was there. Really, the handshake was the key.
Also, CBC reports on a Syrian refugee charged with multiple counts of sexual assault, then wonders about reporting on Syrian refugees charged with multiple counts of sexual assault.
And, embracing our post-racial 21st century, Rebel Media features a regular host in blackface, claiming that only white people are bothered by it, and minstrel shows existed because, "White America revered blacks back then." No, seriously, they fucking said that.
Finally, Fake News? Schmake Schmews.
Buzzfeed News Washington correspondent Paul McLeod is our guest.
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In 2008, political pundit Don Martin penned a negative screed against former NBC wartime correspondent and at the time Alberta provincial electoral candidate Arthur Kent, aka the Scud Stud.
Convinced that Martin had violated basic journalistic ethics, Kent took him and the CanWest news chain (later Postmedia) to court for defamation of character.
Eight years later, an Alberta court ruled in Kent's favour.
What issues drove Kent to undertake such an extensive - and likely expensive - lawsuit? And what does the ruling mean for journalists in Canada?
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Rebel Media's at it again, this time seizing on the initial narrative about the Quebec massacre's alleged 'second shooter' like a dog humping its favourite plush toy and refusing to let go.
Also, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's oft-repeated pledge to take in more refugees in light of President Trump's temporary ban on travelers from seven predominantly-Muslim countries? Great media spin, but the government's policies haven't changed.
Freelance writer Omar Mouallem joins us.
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On this episode, guest host Ashey Csanady and Vicky Mochama look at CBC's recently launched comedy portal and wonders if it's relevant and, you know, funny.
Also, a preliminary look into Shattered Mirror, the recently-released examination of the state of Canadian media from the Public Policy Forum.
Vicky Mochama is the national columnist for Metro News.
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How did Canadian media cover the mosque shooting in Quebec? With some glaring errors. Here are some handy tips the next time all hell breaks loose.
Also, how can the Liberal government critique the U.S. government's draconian and likely unconstitutional new immigration policies without, you know, calling them out on it?
And why are the alt-right up in arms about a proposed bill to examine systemic racism and Islamophobia?
Buzzfeed News Curator Elamin Abdelmahmoud guests with Ashley Csanady while Jesse gets some much-needed rays.
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Yellowknife crime reporter John McFadden has been getting into problems with the local police for a while now. But that won't stop him from doing his job.
Watch the surveillance video of John getting roughed up by the sheriff at the courthouse.
Read Canadaland's coverage of John's trial for obstructing police.
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What can Harper-era journalism teach us about covering Trump? CBC Marketplace sold a white power t-shirt. The Rebel really loves manhunts. O'Leary says all his old television appearances were reality TV, including the stuff he did for CBC News.
Rachel Browne's Twitter: @rp_browne
Justin Ling's Tweets about journalism access.
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In the wake of Colten Boushie's death, Jesse discusses racial tensions in Saskatoon with panelists Betty Ann Adam (Saskatoon StarPhoenix), Rob Innes (Assistant Professor, University of Saskatchewan), and Mylan Tootoosis (PhD candidate, University of Saskatchewan). Recorded live at Winterruption in Cosmo Seniors Centre on January 20th, 2017.
Betty Ann Adam's Twitter: @SPBAAdam
Rob Innes's Twitter: @innes_rob
Mylan Tootoosis's Twitter: @MylanMurdo
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Kevin O'Leary enters the Conservative leadership campaign. Christy Clark gets written up in the NYTimes for accepting $50,000 from the BC Liberals. Justin Trudeau enjoys identifying with immigrants on occasion. Dalhousie student activists pull the old bait-and-switch on JT and turn a selfie snap into a pointed policy question about Indigenous Rights.
Sandy Garossino's Twitter: @Garossino
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When reporters are more relevant as unwilling political props than as chroniclers of facts, what happens to the job of journalism? And does the US/Canada border protect us from this hall of mirrors? The New Republic's Jeet Heer on how to tell the truth in the age of Trump.
Jeet Heer's Twitter: @HeerJeet
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Misha Glouberman has been hosting Trampoline Hall, a barroom lecture series created by author Sheila Heti, for 15 years. He and Jesse are almost, but not quite, friends.
Misha's Twitter: @mishaglouberman
Trampoline Hall's Twitter: @trampolinehall
The Trampoline Hall website: http://www.trampolinehall.net/
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Joseph Boyden is a celebrated, award-winning indigenous novelist - who might not actually be native. Indigenous media broke the story while mainstream media was on Christmas vacation.
Ryan McMahon's Twitter: @RMComedy and his Indigenous podcast network, @indianandcowboy
Ryan's VICE piece, "What Colour Is Your Beadwork, Joseph Boyden?" (Dec 30th, 2016)
Robert Jago's Tweets for @IndigenousXca
Jorge Barrera's APTN piece, "Author Joseph Boyden’s shape-shifting Indigenous identity" (Dec 23rd, 2016)
Robert Jago's Canadaland piece, "Things Joseph Boyden Has Claimed To Be But Is Not" (Dec 29th 2016)
Konrad Yakabuski's Globe and Mail piece, "Attacks on Joseph Boyden's identity should set off alarm bells" (originally titled "Boyden's lynching should set off alarms.") (Dec 29th 2016)
Jon Kay's Walrus piece, "Why Is Joseph Boyden’s Indigenous Identity Being Questioned?" (Dec 28th, 2016)
Wab Kinew's Globe and Mail piece, "There is room in our circle for Joseph Boyden" (Jan 3rd, 2017)
Joseph Boyden's piece, "An Open Letter To UBC: Steven Galloway’s Right To Due Process" (Nov 14th, 2016)
Hayden King's Globe and Mail piece, "Joseph Boyden, where are you from?" (Dec 28th, 2016)
Nahka Bertrand and Nickita Longman's Ricochet piece, "How Joseph Boyden’s claims to Indigeneity affect us all" (Jan 1st, 2017)
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While Jesse is on vacation, here’s a compilation of The Imposter’s best bits to date. Listen to pt. 1 here.
Tanya Tagaq is an Inuk throat singer. Her new album, Retribution, came out October 21st on Six Shooter Records. @Tagaq
Lauren Strapagiel is the social news editor for Buzzfeed News Canada. She’s written for the National Post, Montreal Gazette, and the Edmonton Journal. @LaurenStrapa
Allan King’s 1967 documentary Warrendale is recognized as a groundbreaking documentary about a Toronto group home for “emotionally disturbed” kids. Andrew Moir looks into the lasting impact of the film on its subjects’ lives. You can watch the whole movie online.
Nicholas Godfrey the man behind Amazon reviewer Mister Quickly. The Observer called his character “One of the Great Wits of Our Time.” Read Mister Quickly’s reviews here.
Matt Johnson is an acclaimed filmmaker, actor, and enfant terrible behind the cult webseries-turned-Viceland show, nirvanna the band the show with co-conspirator @JayMcCarol. He has a real knack for sneaking around; his upcoming film Operation Avalanche was shot inside NASA without their permission, and most of his body of work deals with real people who aren’t acting. Operation Avalanche will be in theatres on September 16th.
Music on this episode:
"Sexe Machin / Sex Machine" by Jef Elise Barbara, a Montreal synth pop musician who first began performing as Jef and the Holograms. Jef recently released their 7″ on Montreal label, Fixture Records. Listen to Sexe Machin / Sex Machine.
"Paradise" by Daniel Caesar, a Toronto-based singer-songwriter. His EP Pilgrim’s Paradise was primarily recorded in family living room of producer Jordan Evans. Listen to Paradise by Daniel Caesar featuring BADBADNOTGOOD and Sean Leon.
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Jesse is on break, here's what The Imposter has been up to:
Lido Pimienta is a singer, songwriter, and visual artist from Baranquilla, Colombia. Her highly-anticipated follow up album, La Papessa has been artfully remixed, and can be listened to here. @LidoPimienta
Geoff Siskind is a documentary filmmaker and Storage Wars Canada showrunner. @GeoffSiskind
Rap Master Maurice will revenge rap Jonathan Goldstein or any of your other enemies for $17. If you want a friendly rap, it’ll cost you more.
Esie Mensah is a dancer and choreographer who has worked with a range of recording artists including Janelle Monae, Nelly Furtado, Jully Black and Shawn Desman. She’s the director of The Black Stars; a coalition of afro-influenced dancers that mixes traditional with contemporary movement, and she teaches classes at City Dance Corps. Here’s Esie on Season 4 of So You Think You Can Dance. @EsieMensah
Music on this episode:
"La Capacidad (Kaleema Remix)" from Lido Pimienta's LA PAPESSA Remixes Volume 1. Listen to the album on Soundcloud.
“Mary Poppins’ Pockets” from New Fries’ album More. Find their music on Bandcamp.
The Imposter is hosted by Aliya Pabani and produced by Kevin Sexton. Follow us on Twitter: @IMPSTR/@Aliyabani. Our website is canadalandshow.com Send pitches to: kevin@canadalandshow.com
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Should politicians be allowed to talk about fundraising in the House of Commons?
CBC's The Current is providing helpful tips for women to succeed in the workplace, including how not to cry.
A generic white man has been robbing banks in downtown Toronto and the police aren't quite sure how to describe a criminal they can't racially profile.
Jen Gerson's Twitter: @JenGerson
Read producer Katie's response to The Current here: @KatieJensen
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Do politicians and foreign dignitaries have better access to health care than everyone else? A look inside CANADALAND's ongoing investigation into Ontario's VIP health care system.
Robert Hiltz's story for Canadaland will go up Monday, December 19th (7am EST) and will become available here.
Dr. Nadia Alam's Tweets with Omar Yar Khan.
Robert Hiltz's Twitter: @robert_hiltz
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Journalist Haley Jarmain received death threats at a Rebel rally, and Ezra Levant doesn't believe her.
Should we rethink political journalism in the post-truth era? Read Colin's argument here.
Article Magazine founder & Macleans writer Colin Horgan co-hosts.
Colin's Twitter: @CFHorgan
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Suburbs frozen in the 1950s. Progressives in the middle of oil country. A city coming to grips with a diversifying population and the clashes that ensue. Jesse explores the eccentricities of Edmonton, past and present, with panelists Sheila Pratt (Edmonton Journal), Chris Chang-Yen Phillips (CJSR 88.5 FM, Edmonton's 4th historian laureate), and Tristin Hopper (National Post). Recorded live at Edmonton Lit Fest in the Metro Cinema on October 17th 2016.
Sheila Pratt's Twitter: @SheilaMPratt
Chris Chang-Yen Phillips's Twitter: @CJSR
Tristin Hopper's Twitter: @TristinHopper
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Protestors in Edmonton opposed to Rachel Notley's carbon tax borrow the Trump chant, "Lock Her Up."
The Liberals may be abandoning campaign promises, but they do have a fun quiz on electoral reform.
Toronto Life has a feature article on reporter Raveena Aulakh's suicide.
Metro Edmonton columnist Danielle Paradis co-hosts.
Danielle's Twitter: @DaniParadis
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Mainstream First Nations reporting usually falls into the four D's: drumming, dancing, drinking, and death. Aboriginal journalist Wawmeesh Hamilton is using everyday reporting to try and change that.
Wawmeesh Hamilton's Twitter: @Wawmeesh
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Does it matter that Trudeau said nice things about late dictator Fidel Castro?
The RCMP is trying to change the public image of digital surveillance. Meanwhile, reporters from CBC and the Toronto Star are defending their story about the RCMP's case for better digital data collection.
The CBC has now joined the calls for an ad-free CBC. Here's their proposal.
VICE News Canadian features editor Justin Ling co-hosts.
Justin's Twitter: @JustinLing
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The Government is about to change the CBC. The think-tank hired by Heritage Canada to research media solutions invited Jesse to debate the CBC about it, but only Jesse showed up, along with some former CBC brass. Jesse goes into a deep dive with panelists Sue Gardner (Wikimedia, former Senior Director of CBC.ca), Stephen Maher (iPolitics) and Rachel Nixon (Discourse Media, former Senior Director of Digital, CBC News). Moderated by Taylor Owen. Recorded live at SFU Harbour Centre on November 4th 2016.
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Co-host Sheila Heti removed her name from a letter that caused turmoil in the CanLit community. The letter, signed by 88 prominent authors, asked UBC to review the firing of author Steven Galloway. He has been accused of sexual assault, though it's not clear if that's what he was fired for.
Consultations on the future of the CBC are wrapping up. If you want an #AdfreeCBC or have any other input, you can visit this website to have your say until Friday, November 25th: http://www.canadiancontentconsultations.ca/
Sheila's website is sheilaheti.net
Since this podcast was recorded, Steven Galloway has released a statement, which you can read about here: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/steven-galloway-ubc-firing/article33004493/
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Fake news sites won the American election. Buzzfeed Canada's Craig Silverman discusses how bogus Facebook stories blew credible news out of the water.
Craig's Twitter: @CraigSilverman
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Conservative leadership candidate Kellie Leitch is leeching off Trump's brand.
An outbreak of news coverage on Canadian racism.
The RCMP offers super-secret docs to journalists.
New Yorker, Rolling Stone & Guardian contributor Omar Mouallem co-hosts.
Omar Mouallem's Twitter: @Omar_AOK
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La Presse journalist Patrick Lagacé tells all about why the Montreal police spied on him and other journalists, and why the free press is under attack.
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The US election results are in and oh my God no.
CSIS gets nailed for hoarding citizen metadata for years.
CBC gets into the hot take business.
VICE Canada features editor Justin Ling co-hosts.
Justin's Twitter: @Justin_Ling
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Every day at 12:36pm, Marc Weisblott sends out his "tabloid" newsletter. Is he a cultural critic? A media visionary? Or just a crank?
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Montreal police tracked the phone of La Presse reporter Patrick Lagacé, who has been critical of the force in the past.
The Heritage Ministry bumbles along in its inquiry into the future of media.
CBC defends their choice to run opinions, skirting the issue of online ads.
National Post reporter Ashley Csanady co-hosts.
Ashley's Twitter: @AshleyCsanady
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Justin Brake caught the nation's attention by broadcasting the peaceful protests of Muskrat Falls. And then he got served with a court injunction. What happens when journalists are treated as criminals just for doing their jobs?
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q has relaunched with a "tighter focus," hosted by CBC insider Tom Power, after Shad was recently ousted.
Jesse responds to critics of his polemic in The Guardian, "Think Canada is a progressive paradise? That's mooseshit."
Lawyer and freelance journalist Dee Roderique co-hosts.
Dee's Twitter: @deeroderique
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Is solutions-based journalism the future of Canadian news? Journalist Erin Millar is bringing back in-depth investigative journalism with her company Discourse Media as an antidote to clickbait journalism and fleeting headlines.
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Journalists from Ezra Levant's website The Rebel were denied accreditation for a United Nations climate conference. The UN says it's because they're an "advocacy media" outlet.
Guy Laurence, the CEO of one of Canada's biggest media outlets, gets the axe.
National Post reporter Tristin Hopper co-hosts.
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We lost almost half our staff this month. We need to pay better to retain our amazing team. Help us at http://patreon.com/CANADALAND and everybody but Jesse will get a raise.
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Talk radio host Ian Power of CKNW feels unwelcomed by visible minorities. In a recent interview, he demanded Globe and Mail's Denise Balkissoon tell him why.
A CBC story about the Liberal government's record on revoking citizenship has been getting flack.
Manisha Krishnan, senior writer at VICE Canada, co-hosts.
Manisha's Twitter: @ManishaKrishnan
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The BBC, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Bloomberg: all of them are putting more resources into Canada at the exact same time that the Canadian media is cutting back like never before.Jessica Murphy, head of the BBC's new Canadian bureau and the New York Times' Canada correspondent Ian Austen discuss the influx.
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Maclean's is going from weekly to monthly, as Rogers Media scales back its print magazines. Co-host Paul Wells of the Toronto Star spent a long time working for Maclean's. He joins Jesse to talk about whether this is just smart business or the beginning of a slow death--and why it matters.
A few high profile journalists (including Paul) are leaving Twitter. Where does the platform stand and is it necessary to a modern journalist?
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When Jean Charest was a paid agent of an energy company he had a secret meeting with the government pipeline regulator, who then lied about it. Mike De Souza reported it all for the National Observer. He and his publisher talk about their independent investigation.
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Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente offers a half-assed apology to Newfoundland and also still has a job for some reason. Minister Maryam Monsef is being questioned over her birthplace. Canadian streaming service Shomi is giving up the battle.
Vice columnist and CBC Newfoundland contributor Drew Brown (no relation to Jesse) co-hosts.
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If you share paywalled content, does that constitute copyright infringement? Do online publications have the right to sue individuals who share their articles? Michael Geist is a law professor and expert in internet and e-commerce law.
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Justin goes to New York, where the fawning coverage continues.
It's another rough week at The Walrus, with a controversy over owl sex and a story getting challenged by its sources.
BuzzFeed's Ishmael Daro co-hosts.
Ishmael's twitter: @iD4RO
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If we knew what was really happening in our First Nations communities, would we still be indifferent? Filmmaker Victoria Lean and Gchi'mnissing Anishinaabe writer and educator Hayden King discuss stereotypes, comment boards, and misrepresentation in mainstream media.
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Things are looking bad for Canada's biggest newspaper. The Toronto Star is letting people go, ads are creeping into stories and they're selling their own brand of coffee. Plus, they recently ran a dangerously misleading front page headline about immigration.
Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly admits the cultural system is broken, but claims Canadian content is great.
Freelance journalist and former Liberal speechwriter Colin Horgan co-hosts.
Colin's twitter: @cfhorgan
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There's no stopping the downward spiral of the news media. So what happens next, and how can we get there quicker? Writer, filmmaker, and social entrepreneur Ian Gill is the author of No News is Bad News: Canada’s Media Collapse―and What Comes Next.
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There's already speculation about who will replace Peter Mansbridge at The National, but the bigger question may be how relevant CBC's top anchor job is anymore.
The CRTC loosened the rules about how to define Canadian TV. Now they're reviewing skinny basic TV packages. Is Canada's traditional TV industry coming to an end?
Media writer Steve Faguy co-hosts.
Steve's Twitter: @fagstein
Read our piece on Mansbridge's salary.
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Last winter, Canadaland invited journalists to The Revue Cinema in Toronto to discuss the movies that made them want to become journalists. Deadline USA taught Michael Enright how to tie his infamous bowtie. Shattered Glass terrified Robyn Doolittle when she was still in J-school and warned her about the slippery slope of journalistic ethics.Special appearance by Jeet Heer, editor at The New Republic magazine.
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We delve into the discussion about Israel and the Canadian media after Postmedia pulled down an editorial about BDS and the Green Party.
Canadian Press published a bad story about extremist literature in Canadian Mosques, based solely on a flawed, self-published study. Read VICE's takedown of that piece here.
And is it okay for MP Michelle Rempel to shame comedian Mark Critch over a joke?
COMMONS hosts Vicky and Supriya join Jesse.
Supriya's Twitter: @supriyadwivedi
Vicky's Twitter: @vmochama
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Answers to some of the questions about reporter Raveena Aulakh's suicide. How much did the Toronto Star know about its "toxic" workplace and what did they do about it? Financial Post reporter Sean Craig shares the findings of his investigation.
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Was the Tragically Hip's final show the ultimate Canadian experience? And what was the value of finally seeing the Rob Ford crack video?
Freelance journalist and author Stephen Marche co-hosts.
Stephen Marche's Twitter: @StephenMarche
Read Stephen Marche's piece New Yorker piece on the Tragically Hip here: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/watching-canadas-biggest-rock-band-say-a-dramatic-goodbye
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Canada's tech sector is hemorrhaging talent. Between tax credits, targeted R&D programs, and Trudeau's cheerleading, can we stop the bleeding? Earlier this summer, thirty Canadian bankers, industry leaders, and entrepreneurs got together a cottage in the Muskokas to figure out how to "fix" the tech industry. Angel investor, entrepreneur, and lawyer Dan Debow was there.
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Justin Trudeau’s nipples are all over the place. The Toronto Star invests in a digital strategy by laying off journalists and IT workers.
The National Post’s Jen Gerson co-hosts.
Read Jen’s piece on the Prime Minister and his nipples here:
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Justin Trudeau's administration has asked a think tank to research this very question: should taxpayers provide a safety net for a news business in free-fall? The think tank is headed by former Globe and Mail Editor in Chief Edward Greenspon, who discusses (and defends?) the idea of a news biz bail-out.
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Canada is a generic, blank slate for American television production. Dozens of shows are filmed here and slapped with American license plates and street names. Media scholar Karen Burrows discusses the impact on our power as media consumers.
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How do we process the mass murders, terrorist attacks, police killing Black people, police being murdered, instability in the Middle East and Trump’s fascist rhetoric? Are we living through a major moment in history?
Quebec comedian Mike Ward is forced to pay for an illegal joke.
The Ottawa Citizen informs us that we need not worry about white privilege. Read that column here: http://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/columnists/denley-is-canada-really-dominated-by-white-privilege
Freelancer Omar Mouallem co-hosts.
Omar’s Twitter: @omar_aok
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John Furlong has been accused of abusing dozens of First Nations children when he was a teacher in Burns Lake in the 1960s. Journalist Laura Robinson told this story and ended up on the wrong side of a defamation lawsuit.
Last week, the Assembly of First Nations put forward a resolution to pressure the federal government and the RCMP for a full new investigation into the allegations. Meanwhile, Furlong is continuing to rehabilitate his image, recently tasked with helping Calgary bid for the 2026 Olympics.
John Furlong’s accusers are asking the federal government to listen to them. But why is Furlong's voice so much louder?
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SHORT CUTS is off today.
If you want something to listen to, check out our new arts & culture show, The Imposter: http://www.canadalandshow.com/imp
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Baroness Von Sketch, CBC's new sketch show, is funny. What happened? Jesse asks Baroness writer, author, and standup comedian Monica Heisey about what went right and what may be changing in Canadian comedy.
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News anchors around the country are dutifully explaining Pokemon Go to the Canadian public. Co-host Matt Braga gets frustrated at Access to Information requests. And a look at the state of investigative journalism in Canada.
Matt's Twitter: @MattBraga
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Kathryn Borel reveals new details about the Jian Ghomeshi case.
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The pundits been out in full force, opining over Black Lives Matter's sit-in that disrupted the Toronto Pride Parade.
With The Guardian's Canada Week, bromantic 3 Amigos coverage and viral videos about the Liberals, is the press being critical enough of our government?
Freelance journalist Septembre Anderson co-hosts.
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When disaster strikes, local television matters. But does anyone actually care about small-town daily news coverage anymore? CHEK in Victoria is the last independent, employee-owned television station in North America, and Rob Germain is their news director. He defends the merits of local television.
Recorded live in Victoria in partnership with CFUV 101.9 FM and Social Media Camp 2016.
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Meet Aliya Pabani, the (new) host of The Imposter. Then, Jen Gerson Co-Hosts.
Topics: Brexit, Jesse attends a semi-secret news-boss meeting, and Amanda Todd
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Is the Communist Party of China influencing the Canadian-Chinese press? Journalist and paralegal Jonathan Fon joins Jesse for a discussion on the influence of Beijing.
After penning a critical piece about Liberal Cabinet MPP Michael Chan, 51.ca columnist Xin Feng started receiving death threats. Helen Wang was fired from her editorial post for the Chinese Canadian Post after publishing a critical piece by Jonathan Fon. Gao Bingchen was fired from his ten-year column at Global Chinese Press after expressing his views.
In 2010, the Globe concluded a 10-month investigation that included details of former CSIS director Richard Fadden's public statement that two anonymous provincial Crown ministers were under the influence of foreign governments. Michael Chan is currently suing the Globe and Mail for libel. Chan was asked to comment for this podcast; his statements can be found on Canadaland's website.
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The National Post’s Ashley Csanady co-hosts.
With serial TV host George Stroumboulopoulos leaving Hockey Night in Canada, Jesse and Ashley discuss Canadian media’s obsession with keeping established stars on air. After the cancellation of her show DNTO, Sook-Yin Lee will be hosting a CBC summer series. And Evan Solomon is moving back to TV after being fired from CBC's Power and Politics around this time last year.
Plus, how objective should--and can--the CBC be?
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Global News anchor Chris Gailus is one of British Columbia's most reknowned television broadcasters. He's won an Emmy for his work. He's also been accused of sexually harassing his former makeup artist, Dawn Koke. Dawn Koke speaks to Jesse about sexual harassment in the news business.
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Response to the mass shooting in Orlando, John Ivison's terrible column and a split at the National Magazine Awards.
Erica Lenti, deputy editor of Torontoist, co-hosts.
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How did the Liberals win the election? Author Susan Delacourt knows.
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Hodan Nalayeh, founder of IntegrationTV, co-hosts.
A reporter at the Toronto Star has died by suicide, which caused the paper's union to call for an official, third-party investigation. Jesse and Hodan discuss how the Star and other media handled Raveena Aulakh's death.
VICE’s documentary This Is Dixon investigates whether gangs are a myth in a Toronto community. But Hodan and other members of the Somali community say they’re just perpetuating stereotypes.
The Chinese Foreign Minister berated a Canadian reporter for asking about human rights in China.
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Gawker has repeatedly smeared writer Stephen Marche. So why is he publicly defending Gawker in the wake of their legal battles with Hulk Hogan?
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The Toronto Star joins in the long media tradition of terrifying parents.
Reporters keep getting this one thing wrong in weed coverage.
The Conservatives kick back for the press to see, while a big question arises from the Liberal convention.
Chris Selley, columnist for the National Post, co-hosts.
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CBC Still has a bullying & harassment problem. Jesse and Jane discuss how they investigated it for their recent report, "Bullying & Harassment Claims Emerge at CBC's As It Happens, TV Sports, and HR."
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Was #elbowgate overblown by the press or is it their duty to focus so much on this unusual incident whether or not people want to hear it?
Do we have to take Kevin O'Leary seriously now that he's considering running for leadership of the Conservative Party?
What a big opera conspiracy theory reveals about arts coverage in Canada.
Author and pundit Paul Wells co-hosts.
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Live from the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, cartoonists Ted Rall, Chip Zdarsky, and sculptor Rokudenashiko talk censorship, the surprisingly subversive power of cartoons, and the dying art of comics journalism.
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RCMP officers spied on journalists without authorization.
Postmedia’s CEO Paul Godfrey wants the government to prop up newspapers.
Sophie Gregoire Trudeau said something surprising in an interview and people went bananas.
Plus, we introduce a new segment called (maybe) “Duly Noted.” If you have a better name, please tell us.
Freelance journalist Omar Mouallem co-hosts.
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When it came to Canadian arts administration, Jeff Melanson was the king. Until his messy annulment papers from frozen food heiress Eleanor McCain alleged that he left more than just administrative damage in his wake from the Canadian Ballet Company, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and Banff Centre for the Arts. Anne Kingston dives deep into the hushed world of Canadian arts institutions.
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The damage to Fort McMurray was devastating, but much of the city remains standing. National and international media outlets, including us, exaggerated and got stuff wrong.
Vincent McDermott and Cullen Bird from Fort McMurray Today were turned to for reliable local news. They talk about the national and international coverage of the wildfire, the role of social media in getting information out and balancing the needs of locals with the curiosity of the rest of the world.
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Canada is making military vehicles for Saudi Arabia, despite the country's flagrant history of human rights violations. So why are the Liberals pretending this deal was inherited from the Conservatives?
Steven Chase's Twitter: @StevenChase
Steven Chase's April 20th Globe & Mail piece, "The Saudi arms deal: What we’ve learned so far, and what could happen next"
Steven Chase's 2014 Globe & Mail piece, "Ottawa touts sale of military vehicles to Saudi Arabia"
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Fort McMurray has been devastated by fire. Jesse and BuzzFeed Canada's Paul McLeod look at the conversation that's followed.
VICE was given exlusive access to Justin Trudeau on his visit to Shoal Lake 40. Other media, including Aboriginal People's Television Network, were barred.
Paul's Twitter: @pdmcleod
Sponsors: ShipStation / FreshBooks
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For the past year, Desmond Cole has been the media's go-to guywhenever a story about black Canadians would come up. Now, hediscusses what's to come after hosting COMMONS.
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Margaret Wente is still employed bythe Globe and Mail, despite being a serialplagiarist.
The attention on Senator MikeDuffy’s trial distracted from the fact that we still don’t have agood idea of what happened. We're in a similar situation withJian Ghomeshi, whose accusers continue to step forward.
The National Post’s Jen Gersonco-hosts.
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In Newfoundland and Labrador, massive numbers of workers are getting laid off. Taxes are skyrocketing. The oil industry is collapsing. Meanwhile, journalist James McLeod has independently published a Sunshine List that exposes just how cosy the province really is.
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Co-host Lezlie Lowe quit her columnist job at the Chronicle Herald because of the paper's shoddy reporting alleging refugee violence in a schoolyard.
Trudeau goes viral with his quantum computing explanation.
With the Leap Manifesto, Canada's pundits have taken a sudden interest in giving advice to the NDP.
Lezlie's Twitter: @lezlielowe
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What happens when three lawyers try to argue with Jesse Brown?
Former trial lawyer Sandy Garossino, criminal defence counsel Michael Spratt, and federal prosecutor Emilie Taman talk about how the media should really report about the courts.
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The CBC messed up the Panama Papers.
The Liberals turn out to be behind the Saudi arms deal and Global Affairs goes on damage control.
The Chronicle Herald, with its staff on strike, publishes a shoddy story about menacing child refugees.
The media looks at the Attawapiskat suicide crisis.
BuzzFeed Canada's social news editor Ishmael Daro co-hosts.
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Freelance journalist Matt Braga joins Jesse to talk about spy stuff - the Panama Papers, CSIS, C-51, and Ben Makuch's ongoing battle with the RCMP.
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Guest host Scaachi Koul is joined by Islamic Monthly's Davide Mastracci.
The Financial Post thinks the release of the Panama Papers is overblown, but has advice if your offshore tax haven is outed.
The Walrus's Jonathan Kay makes the case that the Left is the enemy of the poor.
And Davide recounts how a piece he wrote led to Toronto Star's Heather Mallick calling herself "practically transgender" when it comes of race.
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The Ethnic Aisle is a crowdfunded digital magazine tackling issues of multiculturalism, diversity, and race in Toronto and the GTA. Chantal Braganza is the managing editor at The Ethnic Aisle and a digital media producer at TVO. Guest hosted by Scaachi Koul, senior writer at Buzzfeed Canada.
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Anne Kington, author and senior writer at Maclean's, co-hosts.
Anne and Jesse talk about the Ghomeshi verdict, the judge's ruling and the way the press handled it.
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Meet Chandler Levack, the host of The Imposter, CANADALAND's new arts & culture show, which debuts on Wednesday April 27th.
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Author and Esquire columnist Stephen Marche co-hosts.
CBC is getting rid of anonymous comments. The public broadcaster is also getting a bunch of money back, but they’re short on commitments to re-invest in news. Stephen and Jesse look at Rob Ford's media legacy and the response to his death.
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Jeff Melanson was the Canadian arts & culture institution's golden boy, dubbed a "rock star arts administrator," feted by the press, and offered prestigious positions at Canada's top art institutions. Until he made a royal mess during his truncated presidency at the Banff Centre. How was he allowed to get away with it for so long, and why was he rewarded for failing so hard?
David Silcox was the Globe & Mail's art critic, president of Sotheby's Canada, Arts Officer of the Canada Council, and author of several books about Canadian art.
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Postmedia is for sale. Toronto Star's publisher John Cruikshank is stepping down. The CBC is getting a bunch of money and no one knows how they'll spend it.
The National Post's Jen Gerson co-hosts.
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The media is fuelling our real estate obsession and Garth Turner, ex-Conservative MP turned real estate blogger, is pouring cold water on us.
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As Wab Kinew campaigns in Manitoba, the media has seized on his misogynistic rap lyrics from the past. A reporter for The Rebel claims she was doused in pee and the story only gets stupider the closer you look. And have we reached peak Justin Trudeau?
The National Post's Ashley Csanady co-hosts.
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Should journalists have control over what other journalists have access to? Allison Smith is the publisher of Queen's Park Today, a daily news website that reports on Ontario politics. For the last four years, the Queen's Park Press Gallery - a group of journalists - has denied her membership on the grounds that her online news service isn't real.
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Americans are threatening to come to Canada if Trump becomes president. And the Canadian media is reporting on the American media checking us out. Vice reporter Ben Makuch is in court, trying to keep his notes away from the RCMP. Vice is going to cable with VICELAND. The skinny basic packages offered by cable companies are awful.
Buzzfeed Canada's Ishmael Daro co-hosts.
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Dozens of women and girls have been murdered in the Halifax area over the past few decades. Tim Bousquet is capturing it all on his independent news site, the Halifax Examiner.
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BuzzFeed's Scaachi Koul solicited essays from women and people of colour, inciting internet rage that drove her off Twitter. A government arts agency refuses to tell the public where their money is going. And should CTV have reported on Patrick Brazeau's suicide attempt?
Jeet Heer, senior editor the New Republic, co-hosts.
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Is it ok for an anonymous sexual assault complaint to destroy the reputation a beloved cultural hero?
Trigger warning: this episode contains subject matter that deals with allegations of child abuse.
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Music critic Chandler Levack co-hosts.
Journalists from The Rebel were kicked out of the Alberta legislature.
The Grammys are over and everyone wants you to know which Canadians won.
Statistics say way less people are consuming news.
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Glen McGregor just left the Ottawa Citizen (along with 14 others) after breaking many major political stories of the last few years. So what's next for him, for the Citizen, and for print journalism in Canada's capital?
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Jen Gerson of the National Post co-hosts.
Jen and Jesse talk about why Canadian media has so many boots on the ground to report on U.S. politics. Why we can't leave American coverage to Americans?
As the Ghomeshi trial continues, reporters make mistakes in court and the Twitter eggs come out in full force.
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Most Canadians don't hear about the stories Indigenous peoples tell within their communities. Mainstream media only covers the most tragic events affecting Indigenous communities — if it chooses to cover them at all. Now, alternative digital platforms have created an opportunity for these stories to travel outside the communities they are about.
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NOT SORRY writer Vicky Mochama co-hosts.
Vicky and Jesse talk about the reporting in the first week of Jian Ghomeshi’s sexual assault trial. Journalists fail to understand Vicky's satire. Jesse recounts how he embarrassed himself in an exchange with Peter Mansbridge.
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When Ken Alexander co-founded the Walrus in 2003, he wanted it to be a left-leaning literary magazine that also functioned as an educational charity. Now he says The Walrus has lost its way, strayed from its editorial mandate, abused its staff and violated its charitable obligations.
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BuzzFeed’s Scaachi Koul returns to yell at Jesse.
Today's topics: Postmedia CEO Paul Godfrey and Torstar Chair John Honderich use their platforms to insult each other. Toronto police officer James Forcillo is found guilty of the attempted murder of Sammy Yatim. Gregory Alan Elliott is found not guilty of criminally harassing Stephanie Guthrie and Heather Reilly on Twitter.
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Last week, Postmedia laid off 90 journalists from newsrooms across Canada, months after absorbing the Sun newspaper chain. What if a slow, painful death was the plan all along? The National Observer's Bruce Livesey weighs in on the implosion of Postmedia.
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The New York Times declares Canada is hip, while the Prime Minister's wife breaks into song. Three men are cast into suspicion by the press for taking video at a mall. Job losses continue at Postmedia after President and CEO Paul Godfrey emails the wrong guy about a secret meeting. Omar Mouallem returns as co-host.
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Do media unions protect journalists at the expense of journalism? Do they make it impossible for struggling news orgs to survive? Do they protect older workers at the expense of the younger generation? Nora Loreto, author and union activist, talks about what place organized labour might have in today's media.
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Postmedia plans cuts as their advertising plummets. The CBC's James Cudmore joins the Department of National Defence after reporting on leaks from that same department. And are we having the right conversations about Canada's arms deal with Saudi Arabia?
National Post's Jen Gerson co-hosts.
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Do Canada's legacy news orgs have digital strategies? Do they make any sense? Is profitability online even possible?
Three of today's panelists held top digital jobs at Canadian news orgs. Chris Tindal was the director of Project Development at Postmedia (now he's at Buzzfeed.) Tessa Sproule was the CBC's Director of Digital (now she's at Vubble, her startup.) Craig Saila was the head of digital design at the Globe and Mail. Our fourth panelist is Joshua Benton, Director of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard.
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The Trudeau government failed to hit the refugee targets promised during the election campaign, but maybe Canadians would rather just feel nice about ourselves again. Elsewhere, reporters are using cringeworthy semi-nude photos and salacious language to accompany stories on sex abuse. Buzzfeed's Lauren Strapagiel schools Jesse with magical results.
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It's a brutal time for the Canadian television industry and it's about to get worse. After March 1st, the CRTC is forcing television cable providers to offer consumers a "skinny basic" package capped at $25 or less. By the end of 2016, all specialty channels will be offered on a "pick and pay" basis. This new structure threatens to eliminate niche channels that have been supported by the bundling system, and in turn, will impact the amount of money spent on CANCON. VMedia Executive George Burger discusses the shifting landscape of Canadian television - from the internet, to cable and beyond.
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What is CANADALAND doing wrong? What are we getting right? Where should we be headed? Listen in and find out: we recorded our annual staff meeting/staff mixer.
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Marineland denies the allegations made in this podcast by Phil Demers, their former animal trainer. They have launched pending legal action against The Toronto Star, Phil Demers and others.
Marineland has declined to appear on this program. They have told CANADALAND that if we air an episode repeating Phil Demers' allegations, "you and your news site and podcast network will be sued to judgment."
They referred us to court documents and reports which, they say, prove Demers' claims to be false. We have included their list of documents below, along with links to many of the documents and reports they cite.
We have researched and reviewed these materials carefully, we have consulted with our lawyer, and we are proceeding with today's show.
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The employees of Vice Canada are starting a union drive. Toronto Star closes down online commenting. An Ottawa children's choir sings a welcoming Arabic song that draws mistaken assumptions on social and mainstream media. Ishmael Daro, Buzzfeed's Social News Editor, co-hosts.
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It's taken 40 years for the media to pay attention to the crisis of missing and murdered aboriginal women. Karyn Pugliese, APTN's Director of News and Current Affairs, talks about what has finally changed and why it's taken so long.
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National Post's Jen Gerson on the ethics of reporting from the San Bernardino shooters' apartment, Bill 59, and Simon Houpt's critique of Shad.
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Comedian Sugar Sammy might be the most famous Canadian you haven't heard of. He plays to sell-out crowds in Paris, India, South Africa, and night after night in Montreal. He has sold hundreds of thousands of tickets. Yet he has yet to break through in english Canada or in the States. Jesse asks him why, and waxes nostalgic for the time he and Sammy were at the same university.
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The National Post's Ashley Csanady on the Prime Minister's childcare, the CBC closing comments on all stories about First Nations, the teenager at the center of a media firestorm and three puff-pieces in three papers about three powerful people.
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Is VICE a cult? Is it a sweatshop? Does their partnership with ROGERS influence their content? VICE Canada's head of content Patrick McGuire and executive vice president of TV Michael Kronish sit down for a tense chat with Jesse.
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Rosemary Barton states incorrect facts about Trudeau's refugee plan. Parliament Hill journos attempt to get into the ring with Cabinet Ministers but the Ministers are on another floor. CANADALAND gets NFLD's ATIP reform "spectacularly wrong." The National Post passes judgement on Furlong's accusers without actually speaking to the accusers. CANADALAND publishes their affidavits. Buzzfeed's Paul McLeod discusses.
Paul McLeod's Twitter: @PDMcLeod
Paul McLeod's Buzzfeed piece, "Someone Gave The Media A Bunch Of False Info About Canada’s Syrian Refugee Plan"
Power & Politics - Full Episode Nov 23rd 2015
Rosemary Barton's CBC News piece, "Canada's Syrian refugee plan limited to women, children and families"
Justin Ling's Vice piece, "Inside the First Standoff Between Media and the Trudeau Government"
Some Reactions to the standoff on Twitter
Jacob Boon's CANADALAND piece about Newfoundland ATIP reform
James McLeod's CANADALAND follow-up piece
Cam Cole's National Post piece, "John Furlong on his long, dark battle against false abuse accusations"
John Furlong's event description for a speaking engagement for the Vancouver Board of Trade
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Who keeps the media in check? The newly-formed National Newsmedia Council, according to John Fraser and Don McCurdy. Can a bunch of journalists and public members wrangle the entire Canadian journalism industry?
Recorded live at Ryerson University in October 2015.
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What was it like in a Paris newsroom when the attacks happened? Did the media really ignore the Beirut bombing? Plus the photoshopped "terrorist" and the backlash here in Canada. Omar Mouallem joins, and France 24's Charles Pellegrin talks to CANADALAND's Jane Lytvynenko.
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Joey Coleman was often the only reporter at Hamilton Ontario City Hall: a one-man digital newsroom, funded by his audience. His constant presence irritated a city councillor, who lost his temper and got physical. Joey didn't fight back, but he was the one punished: through a series of retaliations he was pushed out of the building and his news coverage became impossible. He joins Jesse to tell his story.
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Buzzfeed Canada's social news editor Lauren Strapagiel discusses the fabled Canadian News Hall of Fame, Peter Mansbridge's exclusive access to Trudeau, and Bell's pleas to eradicate fairness and restore oligopoly.
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What does it really mean to be represented, in the media or in government? Can one kind of minority stand-in for another? What is shadeism? Does the media demand that minorities conform to whiteness in order to get in front of a camera? Is Canada finally, truly ready to deal with race? Septembre Anderson takes it all on.
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Ben Makuch, Vice's national security reporter, discusses Trudeau's cabinet swearing in, CBC's The National's gender parity panel, why the Mounties are out for Ben, and J. Kelly Nestruck's brush with New Zealand sports reporting.
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Ben Makuch's Twitter - @bmakuch
Jane Lytvynenko's Twitter - @janelytv
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Journalist Carly Lewis on rape lists, the Globe & Mail's decision to withhold the publication of a Liberal government scandal on election day, The Star's botched response to a botched car sex story, and the truth about Sammy Yatim.
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Kady O'Malley might be the 1st Canadian journalist who gets paid, primarily, to report the news via Twitter. Ottawa Citizen calls her Canada’s first mobile-focused political journalist. Jesse and Kady discuss social media journalism and the relationship between journalists and politicians.
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In this dissection of election media coverage, Macleans's Laura Payton peers in while Jesse holds the knife.
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Steve Paikin just might be the best TV host in the country. But who needs TV hosts anymore?
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Mark Bourrie talks dirty campaign moves, Jeffrey Simpson's 10,000 word Globe and Mail piece, and the credibility of polls.
Dirty election tricks:
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University of Ottawa's Michael Geist breaks down the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership), a proposed trade agreement that Stephen Harper has been toiling over in secret for the last five years - an agreement that will have huge impacts on Canada's internet freedom and copyright issues.
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It's been a gross week in Canadian politics. CANADALAND editor Jane Lytvynenko discusses citizenship revocation, the "barbaric cultural practices" hotline, the ongoing Niqab controversy (the everlasting gobstopper of #exln42), and whether the media has the power to shape the election.
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Laura Robinson has lost her libel suit against John Furlong. The ruling, which could limit the media's willingness to report on abuse allegations, is based on erroneous information. Lawyer William McDowell discusses the possible impact.
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Robert Jago of Some Random Political Blog and Simren Sandhu of The True North Times tackle the Munk Debate and Jon Kay's profile of Justin Trudeau.
8:15 - The Munk Debate video feed
15:05 - Hubert Lacroix's response to Harper's assertation that the CBC's problems are a result of its low ratings rather than budget cuts.
16:44 - Jon Kay's Walrus piece, "The Justin Trudeau I Can't Forget"
19:40 - Ezra Levant's take on Kay's piece & Kay's response.
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In this candid conversation from Egypt, Fahmy discusses the Canadian government’s mishandling of his case in more detail than he has previously offered.
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How will we know how bad things have gotten when most of the records have been erased? Anne Kingston discusses how Canada has thrown its data in the dumpster and become an international cautionary tale.
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Freelance writer John Semley and food podcaster Jessica Walker discuss Mohamed Fahmy's long-awaited release from Egyptian prison, Chief of Defense Staff General Jon Vance's recent announcement of strategic DND leaks to journalists, and the Polaris Prize Gala.
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Further reading:
Mohamed Fahmy's release:http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/mohamed-fahmy-pardoned-egypt-1.3239822
Weaponization of Public Affairs:
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/chief-of-the-defence-staff-gen-jon-vance-and-the-weaponization-of-public-affairs
Viet Cong
CANADALAND piece by Johnnie Regalado on the Polaris jury - http://canadalandshow.com/article/i-was-polaris-juror-and-it-suckedhttp://exclaim.ca/Music/article/8203not_yours_to_play_with_why_viet_congs_name_offends-hooded_fangs_april_aliermo_on_community_racism_appropriation_of_neighbours_culturehttp://www.chartattack.com/features/2015/09/17/will-viet-cong-change-their-name-at-the-polaris-prize/http://exclaim.ca/music/article/viet_congs_old_band_name_continues_to_stir_controversy_at_polaris_galahttp://www.chartattack.com/features/2015/09/22/viet-cong-polaris-prize-2015/http://www.imposemagazine.com/bytes/chatter/dear-viet-conghttp://www.huffingtonpost.ca/david-psutka/viet-cong-dumb-art_b_8177698.html
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Prize-winning author, Twitter enthusiast, and censored columnist Margaret Atwood schools Jesse on technology, dictators, and CanLit.
7:06 - Margaret Atwood's censored National Post column - http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/hair-is-in-the-election-season-air-but-is-it-crucial-to-your-vote
18:44 - Fighting for libraries - http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2011/07/26/doug_ford_blasts_margaret_atwood_over_libraries_says_i_dont_even_know_her.html
18:48 - Speaking out against the muzzling of scientists - http://www.cbc.ca/books/2013/05/margaret-atwood-speaks-out-for-scientists.html
24:27 - Atwood's Globe piece, "Can Canadian Oil Green Clean Itself?" - http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/can-canadian-oil-green-clean-itself/article26230640/
40:24 - The robot pen - www.syngrafii.com
49:01 - Jeremy Bentham- http://www.friesian.com/bentham.htm
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Two guest co-hosts tackle a dozen topics. Freelancer Paul Watson and Buzzfeed Canada's Paul McLeod discuss Star Touch, the budget surplus, the refugee crisis, Cons buying Facebook Likes, and Paul Watson's much-anticipated Erebus piece.
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This week on Conservative Follies (with special guest Adrienne Batra of The Sun): An incumbent MP crashes out of the bushes to make a citizen's arrest, a candidate urinates in someone else's mug, and yet another candidate realizes that crank calling Pfizer is hard to come back from. Elsewhere, Peter Mansbridge wears an unseasonably warm polar fleece while interviewing three men about stuff we've heard before.
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Time to check in with CANADALAND's supporters. How are we doing? What are we getting right & wrong?
Patrons, put your input here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/3314346
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The media treated Maher Arar like shit. So why hasn't anyone apologized? Ottawa crank and iPolitics writer Andrew Mitrovica discusses this, plus John Baird's empty promises of Mohamed Fahmy's imminent release, and The Globe and Mail's groundbreaking upside down Mercedes Benz advertorials.
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Hart Pomerantz was Lorne Michaels's original partner, back when Michaels was still known as Lorne Lipowitz. Their top-rated CBC variety show, The Hart and Lorne Terrific Hour, was a precursor for Saturday Night Live before it was pulled from the airwaves after two short seasons.
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Author and journalist Mark Bourrie makes a triumphant return to make heads or tails of the public's Duffy trial apathy, alarmist Black Monday coverage, and Stephen Harper's traveling roadshow.
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The Ashley Madison hack was shitty and evil. But is reporting on it shitty and evil? Fortune Magazine's Mathew Ingram discusses where to draw the line.
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Jesse speaks with The National Post's Adrian Humphreys on working with Anonymous. Then, Jesse interviews Anonymous about their recent leaks on CSIS foreign stations, James McIntyre, and more.
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Vice's Hilary Beaumont on Nigel Wright's Duffy trial testimonial and the media's coverage of Chris Hyndman's passing.
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Veteran comedian Scott Thompson on why nothing happened after The Kids In The Hall, the biggest problems with the Canadian film & TV industry, and why gay men still have to be defanged to be accepted.
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Anthropologist and author Gabriella Coleman on Operation Anon Down and what it's like studying Anonymous from the inside.
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InfoNews Kelowna's managing editor Marshall Jones on Stephen Harper's pointless photo op and Ezra Levant's feud with Catherine Porter.
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Veteran journalist Vivian Smith on institutional sexism, metaphorical pink and blue aisles, why some women choose to leave the profession, and how to fix it.
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Paul Watson discusses his resignation from the Toronto Star, his upcoming article that the Star refused to publish, and his career spent reporting from hot zones.
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Macleans Magazine's Paul Wells on #CPCJesus and recent federal attack ads.
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VICE's parliamentary reporter Justin Ling is mad as hell at the PMO, and he's not gonna take it anymore.
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Scaachi Koul lambasts Jesse for errors made in reporting on sexism at The Globe and Mail.
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Crime writer James Dubro discusses the symbiotic relationship between criminals and the press, and the four decades he's spent covering the mob in Canada.
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The Guardian's John Barber on Cape Breton's Mother Canada statue, the RCMP Musical Ride, and Kory Teneycke's accidental proclaimation.
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Journalist and founder of the Halifax Examiner Tim Bousquet talks about corruption, investigative journalism, and conflicts of interest in Halifax media.
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Freelance writer John Semley on the Toronto Star's Charleston headline and Laura Robinson's ongoing defamation suit against John Furlong.
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Musician Paul Lawton discusses FACTOR, the Canadian music industry, and why the current system is broken.
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Freelance writer Denise Balkissoon on Laura Robinson's defamation suit against John Furlong and the CBC's flip-flopping headline following Glenn Greenwald's takedown of a Sunday Times report.
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South China Morning Post's Vancouver correspondent Ian Young speaks with Jesse about wealth migration, racism, and immigration schemes.
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VICE reporter Hilary Beaumont on the Evan Solomon flame-out and the RCMP's secret, sealed court document that may contain allegations of RCMP wrongdoing and personal information about Stephen Harper's family.
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Last week a Conservative strategist fooled the media into thinking there was a popular, grassroots movement to boycott Tim Hortons on behalf of the oil industry. There was not. BuzzFeed Canada's politics editor Paul McLeod revealed the scheme, and talks to Jesse about how reporters get played by people in politics all the time.
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Freelance journalist Adrian MacNair on the horny press, the RCMP's release of 18 missing seconds of the Michael Zehaf-Bibeau video, and the whitewashing of CBC's Omar Khadr documentary.
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Josh Dolgin is one of Canada's most idiosyncratic talents. He is a rapper, a producer, an accordian player, a magician, a cartoonist, a puppeteer, and a cook book author. He is also Jesse's former creative partner, and this conversation should probably have taken place in private, if at all.
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Jesse on White Pine Pictures's cancelled documentary about Kathleen Wynne, and La Presse journalist Isabelle Hachey on foreign correspondent François Bugingo.
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Jay Baruchel on the Canadian film & TV racket and how to smash it. Taped before a live audience at the Bloor HotDocs Theatre in Toronto.
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Evidence For Democracy's Executive Director Dr. Katie Gibbs on the muzzling of federal government scientists and Stephen Harper's withdrawal from the consortium's federal leaders debate.
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Aboriginal people make up over 4% of Canada's population, but less than .5% of Canadian news stories have anything to do with them. What little we do hear from the media about indigenous people is often negative. APTN is the first, and perhaps the only aboriginal TV network in the world. Jesse visits their Winnipeg HQ and speaks to Karyn Pugliese, APTN's Director of News and Current Affairs.
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Leah McLaren was telling the world about her private life before we all started doing it. She talks to Jesse about haters, journalism and acts of provocation.
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The National Post's Jen Gerson on the victory of the NDP, the victory of Bill C-51, and the failure (says she!) of Jesse's logic.
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It's possible that Chantal Hébert's journalism once held Canada together. She joins Jesse for a discussion about what's appropriate in political news coverage, and what (if anything) needs to change.
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Paul Jay runs the Real News Network from Baltimore, but he used to produce CounterSpin for CBC TV. He speaks with Jesse about riots and the media.
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The energy sector has flooded Canada's media with money, be it in ad dollars, speaking fees, charitable donations or "native content" partnerships. What this has bought, in effect, is a lack of critical mainstream discourse on oil and the environment. The National Observer has launched to counter this reality. Linda Solomon Wood is its founder, and she speaks to Jesse about her effort.
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Comedian/economist/"candidate" Scott Vrooman on the federal budget and CBC TV's "get 'er done" programming strategy.
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Journalist Mark Bourrie has vowed to sue CANADALAND for an article about his dealings with Senator Mike Duffy. Instead, Mark and Jesse talk it out.
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Jen Gerson of the National Post on the improbable defeat of the Conservatives in Alberta and the strategy behind anti sex-ed protests in Ontario.
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Veteran investigative reporter Bruce Livesey was fired by Global News after they spiked his report on the billionaire Koch Brothers and their influence in Canada.
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Desmond Cole and Andray Domise, the hosts of CANADALAND's upcoming weekly Politics podcast, talk about the Montreal student strike and VICE's daily newscast
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CANADALAND has obtained two eyewitness accounts, never heard by the public before, of the death of Darcy Allan Sheppard. They are followed by an interview with Sheppard's father, Allan Sheppard.
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Paul Wells on Canada's "expanded" mission against ISIS, the coming trial of Mike Duffy, and the media's shameful treatment of journalist Laura Robinson and her dozens of First Nations sources.
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Adrienne Batra and Alex Pierson were SUN News TV hosts until the network suddenly went dark last month. Now, they join Jesse to come clean about what it was like to work at the most hated TV station in Canada.
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A Bell executive gets caught meddling with the news and the debate on Bill C-51 gets distracted by boobs. Conservative cartoonist J.J. McCullough co-hosts.
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The new host of CBC's Q talks about what he'll change post-Ghomeshi, and what he won't.
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Novelist and Orphan Black writer Lynn Coady on the new CanCon rules and on the Conservative's barrage of extreme, divisive, distracting sound bites.
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The government funds video games with millions in public money. Albert Lai is CEO of Big Viking Games, a company whose payroll is subsidized by as much as 50% by the provincial and federal government. He talks to Jesse about whether this is how we build a tech industry or just the next CanCon scheme.
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Colby Cosh talks about the Zehaf Bibeau video, Trudeau's "vision" statement and CBC's coverage of CBC's report on CBC's scandal.
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And why is it so white? Editor Jon Kay answers.
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Scaachi Koul returns to discuss the panic over a hole in the ground in the woods, the trouble with opinion polls on policy issues, and the possibly phony debate around teaching kids what their junk is called.
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The Irving Family of New Brunswick own more land than anyone in the world except for royalty and the Pope. How do they use their media monopoly to further their interests? What happens to those who try to compete with them? Author Jacques Poitras, media activist Tracy Glynn, web videographer Charles Theriault and Green Party MLA David Coon discuss the Irvings, recorded live at St.Thomas University.
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Andray Domise on the Halifax murder plot, Zunera Ishaq's badassery and why Harper can't find a better enemy than Radio Canada lefties.
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The Toronto Star's HPV fail reveals a wider problem: the journalists who inform us about science are increasingly scientifically illiterate. Vox.com Health reporter Julia Belluz talks about why bad science journalism is perhaps the most dangerous kind of bad journalism.
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Joe Clark returns to defend Heather Mallick, decry Terence Corcoran and shatter Ottawa's glass closet
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Before he quit his job, Foreign Minister John Baird said Journalist Mohamed Fahmy's release was "imminent". Now Fahmy is set to be retried in Egypt after over a year in prison. John Baird engineered the release of Dr.Tarek Loubani after 50 days detained in the same jail. Bethany Horne asks Loubani about it, and asks the Fahmy family what comes next.
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Why is the media so incurious about John Baird's sudden resignation? Why is Baird being so vigorously lionized? Torontoist staff writer Desmond Cole talks with Jesse about this, and about what we're not allowed to discuss as we submit to new anti-terror laws.
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Scaachi Koul of Hazlitt talks about tolerated abusers and intolerable headlines.
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As few as 5000 people watch Ezra Levant's SUN News TV show, yet Levant himself is a major presence in the Canadian media. Why is that? Jesse asks Ezra to explain his own prominence.
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Simon Houpt, Senior Media Writer for The Globe and Mail, accepts Jesse's challenge to defend his profile of Jesse on CANADALAND.
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News Canada (NC) looks like a wire service, but distributes stories produced by the federal government. Tom Korski revealed the relationship on Blacklock's Reporter, the independent news site he edits.
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Sean Craig explains why his Amanda Lang expose is actually about how good CBC's journalism is, and Jeet Heer describes an unspeakable cartoon of Jesse's dad.
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A CANADALAND live taping from The Hamilton Public Library on the state of news coverage in medium to small markets. Panelists include crowdfunded local journalist Joey Coleman, media researcher Sonya MacDonald and CHCH's Donna Skelly.
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Jen Gerson of the National Post joins to talk about chickenshit editors and why Keystone XL is just like Kim Kardashian
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Andrew Coyne joins Jesse for a wide-ranging conversation before he begins his new job as editor of the National Post's Opinion and Editorial pages.
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CANADALAND is gearing up for a big year. Time to check in with those who listen to it and who pay for it: what should I be covering? How should I handle ads? Who should host the upcoming politics show? More questions, some answers, and an apology.
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The President of Ecuador spent a state TV broadcast decrying a 26 year-old Canadian journalist. His operatives then bullied her out of the country. Now, Bethany Horne tells her story.
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Cartoonist Kate Beaton is an exemplary weirdo. Her webcomic about Canadian historical figures and literary ephemera has gained a global following of one million monthly readers. She has published an acclaimed book and her work appeared in The New Yorker, but she still is largely a self-published online creator. Jesse tries to learn her secrets.
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Jan Wong returns to talk about Canada's war criminals, the CBC on the take, and the Globe and Mail fishing for awards
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45 First Nations people allege experiencing or witnessing abuse by former missionary school teacher John Furlong, who was President of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. Journalist Laura Robinson broke the story.
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Emma Teitel returns as Dave Bidini mansplains class to Joni Mitchell, Bell's news orgs "report" on Bell's new product, and SUN news illustrates the Liberal-lesbian-pedophile meetup that wasn't.
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Steven Kerzner may be the most famous TV performer you've never heard of. His hand has insulted some of the biggest pop stars in the world. Crouched just out of frame, he had a worm's eye view of the heyday of CityTV and Muchmusic, and he tells Jesse all.
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Denise Balkissoon joins to talk about how insecure employment impacts journalism, why we need to say her name, and why there's no "Canadian angle" on Ferguson.
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The Irvings are secretive billionaires who have a monopoly on New Brunswick's news media. Journalist Jacques Poitras, authour of Irving vs Irving, describes how the family subtly suppresses criticism and destroys competitors.
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Playwright Michael Healey on Harper's theatrical handshake diss and the problem with the Gillers
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Joe Clark has been aggressively challenging and sometimes attacking my work for years. He runs a blog dedicated to criticizing CANADALAND. This is our first conversation.
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John Semley, contributor to the Globe and Mail and Toronto Star talks with Jesse about the media pageantry around Remembrance Day, reporting on viral videos, Ezra Levant's supposed boner and Don Cherry's shrinking box.
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How on Earth did The Kids in the Hall even happen?
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Emma Rose Teitel of Macleans Magazine talks about the myth of superior Canadian breaking news coverage and the different rules the media has for crazy men and crazy women. Also, a folk song for cranky columnist Barbara Kay.
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Roberto Veri used to work for CBC's Q with Jian Ghomeshi. He witnessed harrassment that he never reported, until now. Also: the extraordinary circumstances that led to Ghomeshi's downfall.
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An on-stage interview with Pultizer-prize winning journalist Glenn Greenwald on his troubled relationship with the Canadian media and what he knows but has yet to report on CSEC spying.
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Cartoonist Kate Beaton is an exemplary weirdo. Her webcomic about Canadian historical figures and literary ephemera has gained a global following of one million monthly readers. She has published an acclaimed book and her work appeared in The New Yorker, but she still is largely a self-published online creator. Jesse tries to learn her secrets.
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CANADALAND is at a crossroads. The show won't continue without your support. If each listener kicks in $1 a month, CANADALAND becomes an independent news org, a podcast network, and a daily news site.
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Carl Wilson changed the way music is discussed. His "poptimist" manifesto, Let's Talk About Love, made it okay to talk seriously about bubbly pop, and went pop itself- that rare work of criticism that becomes a bestseller. He rose to a top job in his field, senior critic at SPIN. But he almost instantly lost that job. He explains why, and talks about the rapid decline of music criticism itself.
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Canada is an old man's country. Baby Boomers are the wealthiest generation ever while young Canadians are increasingly poor and in debt. Yet the federal government spends four times as much on the average senior citizen each year as it does on the average 24-year-old. Eric Swanson of Generation Squeeze is fighting an uphill battle to even the scales.
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The CBC, Ontario, Quebec, and a number of unions say that Netflix should be taxed in order to pay for more CanCon. The Harper government says there will be no Neflix tax as long as they remain in power.
They're all full of it. A Netflix tax is impossible. Journalist Steve Faguy explains why.
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Canadians can be funny, but can funny Canadians make a living? Comedian Rebecca Kohler on the state of stand-up.
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David Soknacki is the opposite of Rob Ford: he's skinny, sober and thoughtful. But is the political press too sensationalized for a candidate with substance to get noticed?
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How is the press supposed to cover science in a country where the government stifles research that conflicts with its policies?
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Actor/writer Matt Watts (The Newsroom, Michael Tuesdays and Thursdays) on "incest" and "hush money" at the CBC, among other problems plaguing our TV industry.
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The Score is a digital-first, globally popular Canadian media company that's growing each year. So why did its well-loved feature writing team just get the axe? Former features editor Dustin Parkes explains.
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MuchMusic and dozens of other specialty channels collect millions of dollars a year from subscribers who didn't ask for them and don't watch them. Meanwhile, channels are laying off their staffs and producing less meaningful content than ever. Is it time to cut the cord on the protected cable business?
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Veteran journalist John Barber has written a fire-breathing, bridge-burning polemic on the state of Canada's newspapers, including The Globe and Mail, where he spent most of his career. He explains why he had to say it.
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THE GRID may be remembered as the last newspaper ever launched in Canada. The people behind it share their thoughts on whether success was ever even possible.
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The veteran CBC broadcaster as you've never heard him before. A candid, combative, and lubricated conversation about the state of journalism, the CBC, Canada in general, and Jesse's life choices in particular.
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The CBC's new plan is to be a digital content company (that doesn't make content). Jeffrey Dvorkin used to run news at CBC and NPR. He tells Jesse what he would do if he were still in charge.
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The Tyee may be the oldest digital native news service in Canada. Who funds it and why has it stuck around for so long while so many others have faded away? Founder David Beers explains.
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A leaked document reveals that Globe management wants to force reporters and columnists to write ads that look like articles. Media watcher Mathew Ingram, formerly of the Globe, explains why it won't work.
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Globe and Mail video game critic Peter Nowak on the "fucking nonsense" of the gaming press.
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A people-powered journalism startup from Montreal has quickly earned the support of hundreds of backers. So what is Ricochet and who's paying for it? Editor Ethan Cox explains.
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Linden MacIntyre's premature exit from the CBC is a giant Fuck You. To who?
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Harper cabinet member Tony Clement describes how government outsources social media monitoring of the public. Is it legal? He's not sure yet.
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Weeks after 9/11, reporter Jan Wong smuggled a box cutter onto an Air Canada Flight to see if she could. Jan Wong had a celebrity gossip column but she interviewed a homeless woman instead. Jan Wong called Quebec out for racism years before the Values Charter. Jan Wong was punk rock. Then her editors threw her under the bus. She's still not okay with that.
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In 2011, Canadian government agencies asked Internet providers and cell phone companies for private subscriber data 1.2 million times. Warrants were rarely provided and the telecom companies had the right to refuse. They handed over your information anyway, and charged for it.
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The CBC is being systematically disassembled, but its employees can't or won't speak up for it and make the case for public broadcasting. Anshuman Iddamsetty is a former CBC producer. These days he hosts Hazlitt Magazine's podcast, The Arcade. He joins Jesse to discuss the things that they won't.
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Robyn Doolittle and Jonathan Goldsbie talk about unreported smells and Rob Ford's mastery of modern media.
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The Walrus and Toronto Life were investigated by the Labour Ministry and forced to send their unpaid interns home. A wider crackdown on magazine internships and unpaid internships in general is on the way.
Derek Finkle is the former editor of Toro Magazine. Before that, he was Toronto Life's first unpaid intern. Here's his story, and his thoughts on what's happening now.
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Top writers and editors have fled, Editor-in-Chief John Stackhouse was shockingly ousted. No-one at the paper is willing to talk about it on the record. Former Globe editor, journalism professor Ann Rauhala provides some insight.
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CSEC is shadier than the NSA. Nobody really knows what they are doing, including the Ministers who empower them and the judges who grant them warrants. They spy on Canadians and lie to the press and to the Courts. Globe and Mail reporter Colin Freeze talks about the frustrations of covering a secret institution.
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Pierre Karl Peladeau is an old-fashioned Media Baron, fully controlling much of the music, publishing, and news industries in Quebec. As journalist Martin Patriquin tells it, he is also a vindictive and powerful enemy of those who cross him or ask the wrong questions. Now, he is also a politician, with a sovereign Quebec as his goal.
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The Black Hoof made Toronto a hip restaurant town, and its imitators pop-up every week, all across Canada. Owner Jen Agg shares good wine and strong opinions about food culture, food trends and food media.
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How did Peter Mansbridge's Oils Sands conflict-of-interest break through to mainstream news?
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Rex Murphy won't answer questions about taking Oil Sands money, but his editor, The National Post's Jon Kay, will.
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The CBC's chief conservative commentator has a glaring conflict of interest, reports investigative journalist Andrew Mitrovica.
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Author Sheila Heti on her own hype, GIRLS, and why she doesn't care about CanLit.
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Conflict and controversy as Gavin McInnes and others remember Voice of Montreal, a government-subsidized community newspaper in the 90s that grew into a global brand.
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How did Harper dodge the Senate scandal? Why did the press let him? Toronto Star columnist Susan Delacourt speaks candidly about Canada's broken political press.
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More layoffs at the Globe and Mail and the National Post were announced last week. Editor Jeremy Barker was one of the Posties who lost his job. A few days later, he joined Jesse to talk about what the future may hold for him and for print media.
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Several Canadian alternative newsweeklies are gone and the rest are struggling. Rupert Bottenberg spent 13 years as the music editor of the Montreal Mirror, which ended its 27 year run in 2012. He remembers his tenure and reflects on what alt-weeklies meant and where they went wrong.
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There are almost 300,000 international students in Canada. Avanish Agarwal is one of them. He says the experience is not as advertised, and that many like him are being exploited by Canada's schools and companies.
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Year-end thoughts on how things are going so far, episodes to come, plus one that couldn't be made.
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TV news is reductive, repetitive and usually ridiculous. Was it always like this? Broadcast news veteran Howard Bernstein remembers something better.
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Graham Wagner wrote for The Office and Portlandia and studied philosophy because of Monty Python. In between, he spent ten years jobbing around Toronto's comedy scene, writing for a grab bag of Canadian TV shows and enduring development deals. His girlfriend made him talk to Jesse.
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Kathryn Borel Jr. is a whole other sort of animal. More descriptively, she's an expat Canadian screenwriter living in L.A. She used to be a radio producer at the CBC, then she wrote the memoir Corked. She's one of Jesse's dearest friends, and he bought her and her boyfriend Graham some wine.
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Professor Dwayne Winseck delivers a blistering indictment of Bell, Rogers, and Telus; it's an attack that may have gotten him briefly kicked off Twitter.
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Geoff Siskind is the showrunner of Storage Wars Canada and an accomplished documentary producer. He's also Jesse's old radio producer. A frank discussion about what's real, in life and in work.
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Apple has banned Sex Criminals, a comic book drawn by Chip Zdarsky (aka Steve Murray aka Todd Diamond) from iTunes. Yet Apple sells the same comic. Steve on Apple's hypocrisy, his multiple personas, and what it's like to be the National Post's in-house deranged pervert.
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Tucows CEO Elliot Noss on how Rogers, Telus and Bell are holding Canada back.
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Ford, Duffy, Harper- and no mockery? Playwright & actor Michael Healey on why Canada's powerful never get what they deserve.
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Actor/writer Matt Watts (The Newsroom, Michael Tuesdays and Thursdays) on "incest" and "hush money" at the CBC, among other problems plaguing our TV industry.
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Ariel Garten is the CEO of Toronto-based startup Interaxon, makers of the thought-controlled computing headband, Muse. She also used to date Jesse. Ariel comes by the CANADALAND studio to show Jesse his brain and talk about computers that know when you are sad.
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The CBC's Michael Enright joins Jesse for good whiskey and frank conversation about the media, the country, the CBC, and what Jesse should really be doing with his life.
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