CANADALAND
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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. We break stories today that determine tomorrow's news cycle. We hold the powerful to account, and we scrutinize institutions and individuals that others won't.
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(Short Cuts) The Canadaland Guide to Staring Directly at the Sun
April 04, 2024 04:00 - 34 minutes - 63.2 MBAs 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 Further read...
An Oral History Of Just For Laughs Gags
April 01, 2024 07:05 - 30 minutes - 56 MBQuestion: 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...
(Détours) Culbuter le malheur
March 30, 2024 07:05 - 44 minutes - 81.6 MBIl 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 ...
(Short Cuts) Organ-Transplant Radio Bingo
March 28, 2024 04:00 - 36 minutes - 67.5 MBWhy 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...
We Spied on the Spies who Spy on Activists
March 25, 2024 07:05 - 43 minutes - 80.5 MBWhen 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...
(Short Cuts) The Musk of Censorship
March 21, 2024 04:00 - 39 minutes - 71.9 MBAs 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 befo...
The Witch Trials Of Andy Mills
March 18, 2024 07:05 - 54 minutes - 100 MBAndy 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 Peab...
(Détours) Journalisme cathartique
March 16, 2024 07:05 - 49 minutes - 90.3 MBAlors 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 ...
(Short Cuts) Just for Death
March 14, 2024 04:00 - 38 minutes - 71.1 MBThe 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 Credits: ...
How Work Got So Sh*tty
March 11, 2024 07:05 - 27 minutes - 50.2 MBLabour 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. ...
(Short Cuts) Mulroney: One of Canada's Most Divisive Prime Ministers
March 07, 2024 06:14 - 41 minutes - 76.1 MBFrom 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...
The Conservative Decade Ahead
March 04, 2024 08:05 - 41 minutes - 76.4 MBLet’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, Pau...
(Détours) Bordel en tout genre
March 02, 2024 08:05 - 40 minutes - 73.3 MBDans 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 nouve...
(Short Cuts) The VICE Guide to Losing $5.7 Billion
February 29, 2024 05:00 - 40 minutes - 75 MBVice 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 (Produce...
State of Emergency in Pikwakanagan
February 26, 2024 08:05 - 25 minutes - 46.7 MBThe 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...
(Short Cuts) The Oliphant in the Room
February 22, 2024 06:21 - 36 minutes - 67.7 MBLiberal 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:...
A Long Shot For Gaza
February 19, 2024 08:05 - 35 minutes - 64.3 MBDr. 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 Ed...
(Détours) Yara El-Ghadban : le deuil, mais aussi les rêves
February 17, 2024 08:05 - 50 minutes - 92.6 MBSelon 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 epi...
(Short Cuts) For Whom Bell Trolls
February 15, 2024 05:00 - 46 minutes - 85.2 MBIs 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 Further reading: ‘Depressing’ to see ‘W5′ affected by Bell Media cuts, says...
Can Porn's Business Model Save The News Industry?
February 12, 2024 08:05 - 41 minutes - 75.8 MBAfter 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) Further reading: Contentious Counsel by Max...
(Short Cuts) No Sex Please, We’re Albertan
February 08, 2024 05:00 - 38 minutes - 70.7 MBThe 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 Legisl...
Tent Cities, Karaoke And Birthday Cake
February 05, 2024 08:05 - 36 minutes - 66.9 MBTwo 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 ...
(Détours) Nous, les autres et Toula
February 03, 2024 08:05 - 34 minutes - 64 MBEn 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...
(Short Cuts) Internet Censorship (Taylor's Version)
February 01, 2024 05:00 - 42 minutes - 77.4 MBHow 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) Guest: Mattea Roach Further reading: Video of suspected ...
An Elegy To Snark
January 29, 2024 08:05 - 34 minutes - 63.3 MBEvery 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 confront...
(Short Cuts) The Missing Piece for International Students
January 25, 2024 05:14 - 40 minutes - 74.6 MBFrom 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...
Why Government Is Addicted to Cigarettes
January 22, 2024 08:05 - 41 minutes - 76.3 MBFor 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, a...
(Détours) Foncer dans le mur
January 20, 2024 08:05 - 50 minutes - 92.2 MBAVERTISSEMENT : 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 p...
(Short Cuts) What Celebrity Chef Mary Berg Did
January 18, 2024 05:00 - 37 minutes - 67.8 MBI 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 Further reading: Department of National Defence wants to hire journalists for ‘role playing’ - National ...
The Dangers Of Dumb AI
January 15, 2024 08:05 - 32 minutes - 60.1 MBActivist 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 T...
(Short Cuts) Burning Down the Jewish Deli Is Not Kosher
January 11, 2024 05:00 - 34 minutes - 63.6 MBCanada’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 Further reading: Globe editorial: When protests become acts of intimidation - Globe and Mail When hate turns violent - Toronto Star NP View: Hate in the stre...
A War In Our Newsrooms
January 08, 2024 08:05 - 36 minutes - 66.8 MBFor 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 experienci...
(Short Cuts) Who’s Behind A Fake Trudeau Sex Scandal?
January 04, 2024 05:01 - 48 minutes - 89.2 MBThere’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 bigge...
Yukon's Path to Indigenous Self-Governance
January 01, 2024 05:00 - 47 minutes - 86.4 MBOften 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 ab...
(Short Cuts) MKUltra
December 28, 2023 05:00 - 41 minutes - 76.8 MBIn 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 Co...
Christmas In The Newsroom
December 25, 2023 05:00 - 37 minutes - 69.2 MBStories 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...
(Détours) Crise après crise
December 23, 2023 05:00 - 40 minutes - 74.7 MBDans 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 gou...
(Short Cuts) Rising Hate and Sweet Google Money
December 21, 2023 05:00 - 43 minutes - 80.5 MBIslamophobia 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 Ejiofo...
Drunk Uncle Holiday Argument Simulator
December 18, 2023 05:00 - 34 minutes - 64 MBWe 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…. Support Canadaland at canadaland.com/join Sponsors: Athletic Greens Squarespace Communauto Additional Music is by Audio Network. Hosted on Acast....
(Short Cuts) Blurred Faces and the 24-Hour Frenzy of Shohei Ohtani
December 14, 2023 06:04 - 36 minutes - 67.7 MBWith 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-pers...
The Journalists’ Psychiatrist
December 11, 2023 05:00 - 43 minutes - 78.9 MBUsually 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 comm...
(Détours) Catherine Dorion, celle qui dérange
December 09, 2023 08:05 - 43 minutes - 80 MBÀ 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 prov...
David Suzuki — The CANADALAND Interview
December 09, 2023 08:05 - 36 minutes - 67 MBDavid 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 Sp...
(Short Cuts) Newspocalypse Now
December 07, 2023 05:00 - 36 minutes - 66.6 MBCBC 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 Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief) Guest: Paul Wells Further reading: CBC/Radio-Canada to cut 10 per cent of workf...
How Canada Became An International Joke
December 04, 2023 08:05 - 39 minutes - 72.6 MBEditor’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. prosecu...
Margaret Atwood — The CANADALAND Interview
December 02, 2023 08:05 - 36 minutes - 67.3 MBMargaret 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 Sponsors: Communauto, Better Help, University of King’s College If you value this podcast, support us! You’ll get premium access to all our shows ad free, including early releases and bonus content. You’ll also get our exclusive newslette...
(Short Cuts) Danielle Smith’s Edge of Sovereignty
November 30, 2023 05:22 - 35 minutes - 65.5 MBDanielle 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 Golds...
Is Jesse a Zionist? (editorial)
November 29, 2023 08:00 - 24 minutes - 40.5 MBCanadaland 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
How Flacks Spin Hacks
November 27, 2023 08:05 - 43 minutes - 79.3 MBJournalists 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, insti...
(Détours) Militer en tant que personne alliée
November 25, 2023 08:10 - 33 minutes - 60.6 MBUne 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 lumièr...