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Episodes
Ep. 205 - Out Of My Depth With Adam Gopnik
30 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 ne...
SHORT CUTS #139 - Distorted Sermon, Coercive Mattress
26 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 im...
Daniel Dale
23 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 c...
SHORT CUTS #138 - Andrew Scheer Does Not Want His Name In Headlines With The Rebel
19 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 d...
My Awkward Date With Sarah Polley
16 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Polley talks about how she helped Jesse break a major story. And she discusses domestic abuse, sexual harassment and assault, and the culture ...
SHORT CUTS #137 - Sour Gas, Racist Soap
12 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
An "unprecedented national collaboration" between The National Observer, Global, The Toronto Star and more exposes the dangers of sour gas in Saskatc...
It's The End Of CanCon As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
09 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The way we make culture in Canada is finished. The CanCon system was built around radio frequency and cable subscriptions. That's done. Heritage Min...
SHORT CUTS #136 - Will You Denounce Terry Milewski's Moustache?
05 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 ve...
Ep.201 - Saudi Arabia Is Using Canadian Weapons Against Its Own Citizens And Nobody Seems To Care
02 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
When we found out the Trudeau Government was selling armoured vehicles to Saudi Arabia, despite their terrible human rights record, there was little ...
SHORT CUTS #135 - It's Important To Kick These People When They're Down
28 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 te...
Ep.200 - Blame Michael Enright
25 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 m...
The Wab Kinew Situation
21 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Indigenous writer and activist turned politician Wab Kinew scored a historic victory last weekend by decisively winning the leadership of the Manitob...
Ep.199 - TIFF Is A Monster That's Eating Itself
18 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
For one week every year, the Canadian press transforms into movie industry experts. Our newspapers run glossy red carpet photos of Hollywood stars and...
We Support You, Hostile Idiot!
14 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 prob...
Ep.198 - Punching Nazis... With The Law!
11 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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-...
Enough About Antifa, Let's Fight Fascists
07 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Post columnists pen truly offensive shit; another media outlet lays off workers; Donald Trump has us all scrambling. Another day, another 81¢ (...
I Don't Speak Sports
05 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Mommy, Where Do Feelings Come From?
31 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
Ezra's Very Bad Week
21 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
SHORT CUTS #130 - Rebel Meltdown
17 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
A growing list of contributors and politicians are cutting ties with far right website The Rebel after their coverage of the white nationalist prote...
Bleeding Edge Outrage Meme Generators
14 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The term 'fake news'has been popularized, bastardized, and now wholly appropriated. What was previously defined as 'A deliberate untruth published st...
Arctic DNA
10 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Live From New York, It's CANADALAND
31 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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. ...
MSM On FGM: WTF?
27 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Toronto Star built an entire exposé on female genital mutilation based predominantly around a mid-level civil servant's email from three years a...
Ep. 193 - Summer Dump
24 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 N...
SHORT CUTS #127 - Shopping Khadr to Fox News
20 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 s...
Ep.192 - 15 Years Covering Omar Khadr
17 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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...
COMMONS: The Rise of the Right
13 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Journalist Evan Balgord has been covering fringe right groups like the Proud Boys, Soldiers of Odin, and the Three Percenters for the better part...
Ep.191 - Revenge Porn
10 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 bon...
SHORT CUTS #126 - Child Soldiers, Proud Boys
06 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
With resistance to Canada150, Indigenous women calling out a reporter at a press conference, and the Proud Boys disrupting a Mi'kmaq ceremony in Halif...
Ep. 190 - Queer Media
03 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
SHORT CUTS #125 - #Mansbridge150
29 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Ep. 189 - The Great Newspaper Bailout
26 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 industr...
SHORT CUTS #124 - Quote Governor General Unquote
22 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Governor General David Johnston issued a mea culpa over his radio interview in which he refers to Indigenous peoples as immigrants. Postmedia did no...
Ep. 188 - The Images Are Merciless
19 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Iraqi photojournalist Ali Arkady thought he was documenting the "good guys" -- the non-sectarian forces fighting Daesh for the preservation of Iraq. I...
SHORT CUTS #123 - Out Of (Teen) Vogue
15 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Breitbart News has convinced concerned Christian families that Ontario’s new child protection laws will bring forth a queer totalitarian state, w...
Ep. 187 - We Got Played
12 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Or did we play ourselves? This most recent Conservative leadership race highlighted a number of deficiencies in Canadian media. Namely, why did the gu...
SHORT CUTS #122 - Imagine If Your Daughter Was Eaten By Otters
08 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland stands up to the sole remaining global superpower like a newborn kitten taking on Galactus. Somewhere b...
Ep. 186 - End Of The CanLit Hustle
05 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
McClelland & Stewart was the publishing house that, at one time, served as the home for the likes of Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Leonard Cohen ...
SHORT CUTS #121 - Parkdale Class War!!
01 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Conservatives have a new, dimpled, leader, Nova Scotians have more of the same, and British Columbians have an unprecedented lefty hybrid. How ...
Ep. 185 - Travel Journalism's Dirty Little Secret
29 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
One cardinal rule of journalism is that reporters never accept incentives, be that meals, gifts, or - God forbid - money, from the subjects on whom ...
SHORT CUTS #120 - The "Trust" Committee
25 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week, The Guardian continued its exemplary coverage of Canadian university student unions. Hamilton police arrest two journalists attempting to...
Ep. 184 - Jason Kenney Is A Charming Man: Inside Alberta's Weird Conservatism
22 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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...
SHORT CUTS #119 - Changing Of The Guard
18 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Ep. 183 - Why Your Rap Lyrics Could Land You In Prison
15 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 st...
SHORT CUTS #118 - The Hermit Kingdom Of British Columbia
11 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
British Columbia had an election where everybody won - or at least got an 'I Participated' ribbon. Also, Rebel Media wades into the French election l...
Ep. 182 - It Was Illegal To Print Their Names: Alberta's Lost Children
08 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Since the late 1990s nearly 800 children in Alberta government care have Veteran Edmonton Journal columnist Paula Simons has been shining a light on ...
SHORT CUTS #117 - Blatch Got Served
04 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Is the media complicit in popping Harjit Sajjan's balloon? Also, National Post columnist Christie Blatchford and her parent company, Postmedia are fa...
Ep.181 - Desmond Cole: Celebrated And Resented
01 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On April 20, Toronto Star columnist and Newstalk 1010 host, Desmond Cole, gave a powerful deputation at a Toronto Police Services Board meeting. He t...
SHORT CUTS #116 - To Hell With Weed, We Have A Fentanyl Crisis
27 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Prime Minister showed up at Vice to talk about the Liberal government's marijuana legalization plan, but is blindsided when members of the audie...
Ep.180 - Who Buys A Newspaper Chain In 2017?
24 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
...The Chronicle Herald's Mark Lever, that's who. After pleading poverty for nearly 16 months while his reporters, editors, and photographers are st...
SHORT CUTS #115 - Trump V. Milk
20 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 beca...
Ep.179 - Post-Postmedia
17 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 f...
SHORT CUTS #114 - PariahCast
13 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Ep.178 - The Ugly Anglo
10 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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?...
SHORT CUTS #113 - Canada150: Here’s Who’s Pissed Off So Far
06 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
CBC’s miniseries “The Story of Us,” is only two episodes in, but manages to upset literally everyone (except Joseph Boyden). Justin Trudeau end...
ANNOUNCEMENT: Space Vs. Canada
03 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Something special to announce today, new show on Thursday. Link discussed: https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/the-canadaland-guide-to-cana...
Ep.177 - Being Jewish In Public
27 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We're seeing a simultaneous backlash against both the media and the Jewish community. And there's a place where the two intersect. Is there an ove...
SHORT CUTS #112 - Quebec Is Butthurt Again
23 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
A screed against Quebec's 'pathologically alienated and low-trust society' in Macleans has ignited howls of protest from Quebeckers, including from ...
Ep.176 - The VICE Media Cocaine Caper
20 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Last month, the National Post broke a crazy story involving former staffers from Canada's deepest-pocketed media upstart, up-and-coming members of T...
SHORT CUTS #111 - Rebel Media's Nazi Problem
16 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Is Rebel Media's embrace of free speech leading to rampant anti-semitism and virulent racism? Also, Atlantic Canadian journalists are coming under...
Ep.175 - Michael Chong
13 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
While the majority of Conservative candidates for the federal leadership gig are pushing against Motion 103, and denying climate change, Michael Chon...
SHORT CUTS #110 - CPAC And Chill
09 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 tru...
Ep.174 - Is Atlantic Journalism F***ed?
06 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The newspaper industry in Atlantic Canada is far less than healthy. The largest-circulation paper, the Halifax Chronicle Herald, is more than 400 days...
SHORT CUTS #109 - Kellie Leitch: Tracking Bullshit In From The Barn
02 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Conservative leadership candidate Kellie Leitch released a video this week that was somewhere between political platform and performance play. Also, K...
Ep.173 - Robyn Doolittle On Breaking The Story Of The Year
27 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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...
SHORT CUTS #108 - I'm Done With You On This Topic
23 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Refugees continue to stream across the Canada-U.S. border, presumably for photo-ops with smiling Canadian Mounties. Also, Milo Yiannopoulos finally f...
Ep.172 - Satan Vampire Zombie Bloodbath: The State Of Canadian Newspapers
20 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Late last month the Public Policy Forum released its long-anticipated report on the state of Canadian newspapers. Somewhat unexpectedly, this was a b...
SHORT CUTS #107 - The Triumph Of Joe Trudeau
16 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Ep.171 - Don't Fling Mud At The Scud Stud
13 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In 2008, political pundit Don Martin penned a negative screed against former NBC wartime correspondent and at the time Alberta provincial electoral c...
SHORT CUTS #106 - How To Exploit A Massacre
09 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 f...
Ep.170 - Are We Too Mean to CBC Comedy?
06 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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,...
SHORT CUTS #105 - I Miss Polite Canadian Racism
02 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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. ...
Ep.169 - Down By Law in Yellowknife
30 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
SHORT CUTS #104 - Stunts and Manhunts
26 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Ep.168 - The Killing of Colten Boushie (Live in Saskatoon)
22 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of Colten Boushie's death, Jesse discusses racial tensions in Saskatoon with panelists Betty Ann Adam (Saskatoon StarPhoenix), Rob Innes ...
SHORT CUTS #103 - You Cannot Embarrass Us Into Voting Rationally
19 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin O'Leary enters the Conservative leadership campaign. Christy Clark gets written up in the NYTimes for accepting $50,000 from the BC Liberals. ...
Ep.167 - Post-Truth Fact Check
16 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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/Can...
SHORT CUTS #102 - Successful Pile of Garbage
11 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Buzzfeed released a dossier of compromising information about Trump, so he called Buzzfeed a "failing pile of garbage," and CNN "fake news." John Fur...
Ep.166 - Misha Glouberman
09 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
SHORT CUTS #101 - Joseph Boyden: Two Worlds, Two Debates
05 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Joseph Boyden is a celebrated, award-winning indigenous novelist - who might not actually be native. Indigenous media broke the story while mainstream...
SHORT CUTS #100 - The Best Of The Imposter (So Far) pt.2
28 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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 singe...
Ep.165 - The Best Of The Imposter (So Far) pt.1
23 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
SHORT CUTS #99 - How To Cry At Work
22 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Ep.164 - There's A Hidden VIP Program In The Health Care System
19 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Do politicians and foreign dignitaries have better access to health care than everyone else? A look inside CANADALAND's ongoing investigation into On...
SHORT CUTS #98 - Ezra Issues A Fatwa
15 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Journalist Haley Jarmain received death threats at a Rebel rally, and Ezra Levant doesn't believe her. Should we rethink political journalism in the...
Ep.163 - Edmonton Is Weird
12 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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 ens...
SHORT CUTS #97 - Cuddler of Democracy
08 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Protestors in Edmonton opposed to Rachel Notley's carbon tax borrow the Trump chant, "Lock Her Up." The Liberals may be abandoning campaign promises,...
Ep.162 - Do First Nations Have A Free Press?
04 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Mainstream First Nations reporting usually falls into the four D's: drumming, dancing, drinking, and death. Aboriginal journalist Wawmeesh Hamilton is...
SHORT CUTS #96 - #NotAllTyrants
01 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Does it matter that Trudeau said nice things about late dictator Fidel Castro? The RCMP is trying to change the public image of digital surveillanc...
Ep.161 - How To Save Our CBC
28 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
SHORT CUTS #95 - CanLit Clusterf*ck
24 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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 UB...
Ep.160 - People Like Fake News Better
20 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Fake news sites won the American election. Buzzfeed Canada's Craig Silverman discusses how bogus Facebook stories blew credible news out of the water....
SHORT CUTS #94 - Stop Trying To Make Canadian Trump Happen
17 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Conservative leadership candidate Kellie Leitch is leeching off Trump's brand. An outbreak of news coverage on Canadian racism. The RCMP offers sup...
Ep.159 - The Surveillance of Patrick Lagacé
14 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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 attac...
SHORT CUTS #93 - Hurt Me Right In The Democracy
10 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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. VI...
Ep.158 - Tabloid!
07 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Every day at 12:36pm, Marc Weisblott sends out his "tabloid" newsletter. Is he a cultural critic? A media visionary? Or just a crank?Support CANADALAN...
SHORT CUTS #92 - Cops Vs. Reporters
03 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Ep.157 - The Occupation of Muskrat Falls
31 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Justin Brake caught the nation's attention by broadcasting the peaceful protests of Muskrat Falls. And then he got served with a court injunction. Wha...
SHORT CUTS #91 - Was Shad Set Up to Fail?
27 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...