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UNLOCKED: Why Canadaland Doesn’t Have Interns

29 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's the holidays and we are re-running a classic episode of Off The Record this week.Here at Canadaland it can often seem like just one shitty story ...

Introducing: The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall

26 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We're bringing you something different: an episode of the brand-new CBC series The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall.In the 1980s and 90s, Satan and ...

Yule-y Noted: Canada's Most-Overlooked Stories of the Year

24 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Canadaland fan-favourite guests give the gift of Duly Noteds for Jesse and Noor to unwrap and judge mercilessly. Topics include secret Chinese police ...

The Year of the Elbows

23 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Noor Azrieh and Sam Konnert look back on the moments that defined Canadian politics this year. We revisit viral clips, media meltdowns, Question Perio...

UNLOCKED: The Most Powerful Tool in Media

22 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Their stated goal is to manipulate your media and, by extension, you. We’re not flagging a secretive government agency here, not some media oligarch...

To Fight Off America We Need Swedish Jets

19 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The choice between the F-35 and Saab’s Gripen E is a litmus test for Canada’s commitment to decoupling from America. As Carney reinvests in t...

Pierre’s Downward Spiral

17 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Floor crossers, falling polling numbers, and grumblings in the Conservative orbit. Pierre Poilievre sure looks shaky right now, but will it really mak...

Trump’s Plan to Dominate the Americas (Canada included)

16 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

United States Attorney General Pam Bondi is flexing the US’s military seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker as the Trump administration deploys warship...

Who Drugged James Cameron? A Titanic Mystery

15 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The mystery of who drugged the cast and crew of the blockbuster Titanic is Hollywood lore. In 1996 James Cameron shot part of Titanic in Dartmouth, No...

Is Carney Really Making Christianity a Hate Crime?

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The politics of Canada’s proposed hate crime law, Bill C-9. In order to pass the Combatting Hate Act, the Liberals are teaming up with the Bloc...

Death by Kayak: a True Spy Story

10 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In 2022, artist Hua Yong died while kayaking off the Sunshine Coast in BC. A former Chinese agent alleges it was a murder. Radio-Canada tells the...

Tabernac to the Future: Referendum Likely Coming

09 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As Premier François Legault plunges in the polls, he’s panic-legislating: turbo-charging secularism laws, unveiling a “made-in-Quebec” constitu...

How the CBC Divides Canadians

08 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

 The CBC is broken: how should it be fixed? Defund the whole thing? Refund the whole thing? Double down on digital? Stop chasing digital relevance?T...

How to Break Into Journalism: an AI Scam Story

05 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A story in The Local reveals how AI writing is infiltrating newsrooms, flooding inboxes, and snagging bylines in major outlets. Is the rise of th...

BONUS: You Told Us How To Spend Our Money

04 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Every year for the past 11 or so years, Canadaland has run a crowdfunding campaign in the fall. We finished up this year’s campaign in late November...

Canada's in a Cold War with America, but America Hasn't Noticed

03 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been one year since Trump started threatening Canada’s economy and our sovereignty. But with all this story’s twists and turns, have Canadi...

When Carney Met Smith-y

02 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has been pressuring Prime Minister Mark Carney for months on a new pipeline to the BC coast, and after a new MOU, she’...

How Roblox Turns Kids Into Gamblers

01 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

One of the world’s biggest online gaming sites, Roblox, is in the courts. The cases involve the alleged sexual exploitation of a minor, online haras...

Carney Ditches Trudeau's Feminism

28 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Canada is pulling back from progressive policies, but were we ever really committed to them in the first place? Whether it’s the reversal on DE...

The Dirty Newz About Ryan Wedding

26 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A cocaine lawyer, a crime blog, and a $15 million reward. Eight more Canadians are arrested and a sensational new indictment from Operation Giant...

Every NDP Leadership Candidate on WTF They Would Do

25 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The federal NDP leadership race is officially on. Five candidates want the job, and each of them thinks they know how to rescue a party that's been dr...

Every OBGYN in this Canadian City has Resigned

24 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In October, seven OBGYNs at a Kamloops, B.C. hospital signed a letter of resignation. Those seven were the only OBGYNs in the city.We’re used to bad...

Support us right now, get $400+ in digital subscriptions

22 Nov 2025

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Crowdfunding is ending!Until we run out, anyone who signs up today will receive over $400 in premium, award-winning subscriptions, including: Canada’...

Cohere and Carney, an A.I. Meets Government Love Story

21 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Is Canada’s A.I. champion eating the news?Canada is betting big on Cohere, but a lawsuit alleges that the company’s flagship LLM is bypassing payw...

Introducing: What Is Happening Here

20 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s crowdfunding month here at Canadaland! Sign up today and receive a FREE Canadaland merch pack. Become a supporter at canadaland.com/join today....

Canada's Top Spy Exposes Himself

19 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

CSIS Director Daniel Rogers steps out of the shadows. For the first time in the history of CSIS, Canada’s top spy holds a press conference. His...

The Fu*kit Budget

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The budget Carney’s been trying to sell to Canadians finally went to a vote. Sam Konnert brings host Noor Azrieh into the room where it happened. Pl...

Our Own Jewish-Arab Peace Talk

17 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Noor Azrieh talks to Jesse Brown about his new Canadaland series, What Is Happening Here?It’s no secret that Jesse Brown and Canadaland have had mor...

How The Blue Jays Taught Me to Speak to Men About Feelings

14 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Grieving a World Series of feelings. The Blue Jays may have lost, but they inspired coverage that captured our national mood.Reflections on heart...

Concerning My Public Meltdown

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s crowdfunding month here at Canadaland! The next 30 people to sign up today will receive a one-year subscription to Tangle News! Become a suppor...

Ostrich Hostage Sausage

12 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

After months of legal battles, the ostriches are dead. RFK Jr, Dr Oz, Rebel Media, and a motley crew of protestors rallied to save a flock of B.C...

Elizabeth May on Holding the Balance of Power

11 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

There’s chaos in Ottawa! Green Party leader Elizabeth May doesn’t want to ruin Christmas with an election… but she says she will if Mark Carney ...

The Company Making Millions From Dying News

10 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Picture yourself driving north of Toronto into big-box suburban territory. You turn off into a little industrial parkade. There's a Keg, a Moxies, and...

Pierre's Collapsing Conservatives

07 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Poilievre’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week.With MP Chris d’Entremont crossing the floor and MP Matt Jeneroux puzzling resignation, the...

BONUS: What the Media Gets Wrong

06 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We all have things that we’re experts in. They could be our jobs, they could be hobbies, they could be random bits of information you’ve gleaned f...

Mark Carney Wants an Election (and Eurovision)

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Carney’s much-anticipated budget is finally here. Will it trigger an election? Rachael Segal joins Noor Azrieh to unpack the “Christmas elect...

Strike Wave! Workers vs Governments Across Canada

04 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Last week, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith used the notwithstanding clause to shut down the teachers’ strike and force them back to work.Why?Host Sam...

How to Unsh*ttify Canada, with Cory Doctorow

03 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Is Trump’s crazy train an existential threat to Canada or an existential opportunity?Cory Doctorow gave the world the concept of “ensh*ttification...

Something's Off With Carney

31 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Carney campaigned on building Canada from within, but now trade dominates the headlines and the talking points. Why aren’t we hearing more about how...

The Most Successful Ad in the History of North America

29 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Doug Ford has no regrets as his Reagan ad derails trade talks with Trump. He’s once again making the rounds on American media, but is this a win for...

Why We Should Let More People Out on Bail

28 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Justice Minister Sean Fraser just dropped Bill C-14, a new bail reform bill — the third one in seven years. After provinces, cops, the opposition, a...

Vagrant Fugitive Hacker Warlord

27 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The man known as Commander X helped orchestrate some of the most audacious cyber attacks in the world. Attacks against governments and corporations, e...

China Just Let Canadian Reporters Come Back

24 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Canada is renewing trade ties with China and India, but are willing to forget our complicated history with these two nations? Do we even have a choice...

Yes, the Press Does Hate Pierre

22 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

After Poilievre called the RCMP “despicable,” reports are circulating that there’s an uprising in the Conservative party. But is there really “...

Jamil Jivani does Charlie Kirk Lite on Canadian Campuses

21 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Conservative MP Jamil Jivani is on a cross-country campus tour (sounds familiar…), with stops at universities across Canada. Jivani told Canadians t...

We're in the Fight of Our Lives

20 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Canadaland covers Canada, period.If there was ever a time to support Canadian news, it’s now. Go to canadaland.com/join and become a supporter today...

What the Heck is a “Newsfluencer”?

17 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A new study suggests influencers had the “loudest voices” and “dominated” the election online. Are newsfluencers the future of news coverage o...

Carney So Nasty

15 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Carney and Trump share laughs in a hot mic moment and in the White House, but has the bromance narrative overshadowed the coverage of the trade war?&n...

Can Newfoundland Finally Stand up to Quebec?

14 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s election time in Newfoundland and Labrador — and beef with Quebec is back on the menu.This week, host Sam unpacks how a 1969 deal turned Newf...

Black Rights in Canada Took This Fight

13 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Civil Rights Movement of the ‘50s and ‘60s in the United States gave the world iconic, inspiring, and sometimes horrific moments, burned by re...

Chrystia Freeland’s Ukraine Doctrine

10 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Chrystia Freeland makes the business and military case for supporting Ukraine. As the Carney government recommits to supporting Ukraine, Freeland...

Greta Thunberg's Dubious Agony in Gaza

08 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

With new prospects for ceasefire in Gaza led by Trump, is Canada’s approach to the Middle East coherent? Plus, Greta Thunberg makes headlines a...

BC is Forcing Drug Users into Rehab. Can it Work?

07 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

British Columbia is rolling back safe supply and decriminalization, and moving toward something very different: forcibly detaining and treating people...

Rogers vs. Rogers

06 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Rogers family drama was epic. An imperious and secretive billionaire telecom overlord clan loathed across the nation, a ne’er do well heir to th...

Kneecapping Carney's Anti-Hate Law

03 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

There’s still confusion around MP Vince Gasparro’s announcement that Irish rap group Kneecap is banned from Canada, but, at the same time, Carney’...

BONUS: The Canadaland Call-In Show That Went Wrong

02 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Off The Record is back in its new call-in format. The question for this week was “What should Canadaland NOT have published?”Host Sam Konnert sat ...

Canada Post is More Screwed Than You Think

01 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Carney says Canada Post is “insolvent,” but is it possible to save it? Isaac Peltz joins to brainstorm ways to get Canada Post off life suppo...

Live from Calgary – WTF is up With Alberta?

30 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Are Albertans hicks? Is Danielle Smith secretly a genius? Do Albertans actually hate Ottawa? Tune in to a special LIVE Canadaland recording to find ou...

What It’s Like To Escape The Taliban

29 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What happens after the men with guns who run your country take aim at you? Last year reporter Molly Thomas traveled to Pakistan for Canadaland to...

In Defence of Carney

26 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Protestors “Draw The Line” as Mark Carney pulls the Liberals towards the center, adopting conservative policies and walking back several Trudeau-e...

Canada Takes Its Comedians For Granted

24 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The honorary mayor of Dildo, Newfoundland is back on the air, but the threat to free speech remains. The Jimmy Kimmel saga is a reminder of the c...

It's Do or Die Time for Mark Carney

23 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Canada recognized Palestine as a state, Pierre “take me home country roads” Poilievre is back in town, Freeland is on a mission to Ukraine, and th...

Interview With a Guy Who Died

22 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

One December night in 2014, Matthew Church died from sudden cardiac arrest. Now, back from the dead, Matthew Church joins us in studio to ta...

Ben Mulroney Says He's Biased and Not a Journalist. He's Global's New Politics Host.

19 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Global News hires a non-journalist to cover politics.Plus, parliament is back and it’s business as usual. With Canada in an existential crisis, is i...

Canada's Psychotic Codependency with Assassination America

17 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Canadians react to the assasination of Charlie Kirk. The killing of a prominent US conservative dominates Canadian headlines and online comments ...

Michelle Rempel Garner on What Conservatives Want to Do To Immigration

16 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Conservative immigration critic Michelle Rempel Garner sits down with host Noor Azrieh to unpack why she thinks we should scrap the temporary foreign ...

Canada's Wildest Prison Break

15 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Rabih (Robby) Alkhalil was in prison for one murder and on trial for another. Then on July 21st, 2022 Alkhalil slipped into a black jumpsuit and a hig...

Let's Flood Canada With Chinese EVs

12 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Carney hits pause on EVs but moves forward on “nation-building” projects.With Canola farmers being hit hard by Chinese tariffs, is the solution to...

Exploiting John Candy

10 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

TIFF turns 50 with celebs, controversy, and Carney suggesting that we’re the John Candy of global trade.  As the Toronto International Fil...

What If Trump Shuts Off Canada's Data Servers?

09 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

While Donald Trump is bent on achieving and maintaining “unquestioned and unchallenged global technological dominance”, we’re just starting to g...

Ukraine, Taiwan, Canada

08 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Carney recently made noises about the future possibility of Canadian boots on the ground as part of an international “coalition of the willing”...

Nobody Wants to Lead the NDP

05 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The race to succeed Jagmeet Singh has begun, but most of the NDP’s big names are steering clear. Post-election, vibes within the party have been ble...

The Bay has a Secret, Ancient Archive and it’s Being Sold off to Millionaires

03 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Hudson’s Bay Company is dead. While the Canadian media obsesses over the sale of The Bay’s retail properties, thousands of historical art...

The Massive Airplane Canada Seized from Russia

02 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Right now, a hulking Soviet-era Russian cargo plane is just parked at Toronto’s Pearson Airport. And Canada is trying to do something nobody has eve...

Paul Shaffer on the Toronto Play That Begat Comedy as We Know It

01 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Three years before the first episode of SNL. Four years before the first episode of SCTV. Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Gilda Radner. Andrea Martin and l...

Intruder! How Violently can we Defend Ourselves?

29 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Doug Ford, Danielle Smith, and Pierre Poilievre all seem to want to make sure we have the right to beat people up in our homes. Only if they aren’t ...

The Return of Pierre

27 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pierre Poilievre won his byelection and will be returning to Parliament in September. He’s raring to go, and probably drafting a whole bunch of new ...

Wait, We're Also in a Trade War with China?

26 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

China’s tariffs on canola seeds would cripple western Canadian farmers. But this tit for tat fight is about more than just canola. Host Noor Azrieh ...

Titanic Mystery! Who Spiked the Chowder?

25 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Something wild happened in Nova Scotia during filming of the James Cameron film Titanic. Parts of the blockbuster were filmed in Dartmouth, Nova ...

Are Carney’s Cuts “DOGE” Canada?

22 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In July, Mark Carney made it clear to public workers that there would be a tightening of the belt. Ministers were told to save 15% from their departme...

Why Does Labour Only Get Covered When There's a Strike?

20 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Air Canada strike this past weekend affected tens of thousands of Canadians and international travelers. The negotiations have been going on for e...

Young People Can't Find Work and It's Messing Them Up

19 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our kids are broke and seriously unemployed.  We're in the dog days of summer, and for generations, that marked the end of scooping ice cream at the...

Ottawa Guy Invents World's Best/Worst A.I. Attack Bot

18 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Singh built a bot. It’s a concoction of ChatGPT, Grok, and a handful of other advanced AI systems that might destroy truth-based civil discourse onc...

The Gutless Wonder of TIFF

15 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

TIFF’s whiff and the legacy of Trudeau’s media policies. Carney is reversing course on the Liberal’s approach to media, but can the Canadia...

BONUS: Why Canadaland Doesn’t Have Interns

14 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Last year Canadaland launched a new initiative called the Canadalabs Audio Journalism Fellowship programme, where we hired two young reporters to come...

Evan Almighty: Our A.I. Minister is Glitching

13 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Is Evan Solomon a chatbot? Deciphering the Minister of AI’s jargon-filled tech-speak. Canada is going all in on AI, but what is the plan, exact...

The Productivity Crisis: are Canadians Just Lazy?

12 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Apparently, the reason you’re broke isn’t just because of your questionable shopping addiction, it’s because Canada has a full-blown productivit...

How Carney Can Get You to Serve in the Military

11 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Carney is nation building. To do that, he needs to rebuild the Canadian Armed Forces. Between decades of neglect and the forces’ own goals by w...

I Was Wrong About The Freedom Convoy

08 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The sentencing of Convoy leaders Tamara Lich and Chris Barber gets political. Poilievre and other Conservative MPs are outraged about the Crown’...

BONUS: The Most Powerful Tool in Media

07 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s not a secret that music makes us feel things, but how does it do it? How do composers create music that makes us happy, sad, confused, emotiona...

Is Trump Winning Against Canada?

06 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Canada can’t cut a deal, but Carney’s political honeymoon continues. Should Carney take some blame for the ongoing trade war? Plus, why ...

Full Mental Jacket

05 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Canadian Armed Forces has an extremism problem, and that story has fallen out of the news cycle way too quickly. Just recently, four men have been...

Live and Let Die - The Battle Over MAID

04 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Canada is now the number one provider of medical assistance in dying in the world per capita. The latest stats, from 2023, show that MAID accounted fo...

No Penalty for Hockey Goons

01 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

An update on Canada’s approach to Palestine and an in-depth discussion of the Hockey Canada Trial and why the coverage isn’t reckoning with the de...

BONUS: The American Who Built Canada’s Car

31 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When working on one of our episodes of the Politics edition about tariffs, senior producer, Aviva Lessard wondered why there are no Canadian car compa...

Would We Interview Netanyahu?

30 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

More statements about Israel/Palestine from Carney’s government, but does Canada have the courage to take action? Arshy Mann joins Noor Azrieh to as...

BATTLE RIVER – Could Pierre Lose Again?

29 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Over 200 candidates, a riding bigger than Switzerland and an immense amount of pressure on the leader of the opposition. To find out who (and what) Pi...

Terror and Awe in Ed Burtynsky's Canada

28 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For over 40 years Burtynsky’s camera has captured mountain ranges scarred and scooped from mining operations, roiling tar sand tailing ponds, and fr...

Jordan Peterson’s Globalist Plot to Rule the World

25 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jordan Peterson sold his Toronto home, but what’s the next move for Canada’s biggest media export? Tracing the arc of Peterson’s ambitions ...

BONUS: Justin Ling and Canadaland — What Happened?

24 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Some of you had simple questions about our office space, and what Victoria's non-profit campus & community radio station does for Canadaland. And ...