CANADALAND

Ep.79 - Our Oily Media

27 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

The energy sector has flooded Canada's media with money, be it in ad dollars, speaking fees, charitable donations or "native content" partnerships. Wh...

SHORT CUTS #21 - Senate Elections/Budget Boredom/RadioOnTheTV

23 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Comedian/economist/"candidate" Scott Vrooman on the federal budget and CBC TV's "get 'er done" programming strategy. Support CANADALAND: https://ca...

Ep.78 - Duffy Fallout

20 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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. ...

SHORT CUTS #20 - Alberta Upset/Sex-Ed Optics

16 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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.Suppo...

Ep.77 - When Global News Killed A Documentary About The Koch Brothers

13 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Veteran investigative reporter Bruce Livesey was fired by Global News after they spiked his report on the billionaire Koch Brothers and their influenc...

SHORT CUTS #19 - New Hosts/Montreal Protests/Daily VICE

08 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Desmond Cole and Andray Domise, the hosts of CANADALAND's upcoming weekly Politics podcast, talk about the Montreal student strike and VICE's daily ne...

Ep.76 - "Michael Bryant Killed My Son"

06 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

CANADALAND has obtained two eyewitness accounts, never heard by the public before, of the death of Darcy Allan Sheppard. They are followed by an inter...

SHORT CUTS #18 - Syria/Duffy/Furlong

02 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Paul Wells on Canada's "expanded" mission against ISIS, the coming trial of Mike Duffy, and the media's shameful treatment of journalist Laura Robins...

Ep.75 - What It Was Like At SUN News TV

30 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

SHORT CUTS #17 - News by Bell/Topless Discourse

26 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Ep.74 - Shad

23 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

The new host of CBC's Q talks about what he'll change post-Ghomeshi, and what he won't.  Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystud...

SHORT CUTS #16 - CRTC vs TV/is C-51 a Feint?

19 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Novelist and Orphan Black writer Lynn Coady on the new CanCon rules and on the Conservative's barrage of extreme, divisive, distracting sound bites.Su...

Ep.73 - Video Game Welfare

16 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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 a...

SHORT CUTS #15 - Terrorist's Selfie/Trudeau's Speech/Lang's Whitewash

12 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Colby Cosh talks about the Zehaf Bibeau video, Trudeau's "vision" statement and CBC's coverage of CBC's report on CBC's scandal.Support CANADALAND: ht...

Ep.72 - Why Is The Walrus So Boring?

09 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

And why is it so white? Editor Jon Kay answers. Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. ...

SHORT CUTS #14 - Mystery Tunnel/Opinion Polls/Sex Ed

26 Feb 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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 ph...

Ep. 71 - The Last Newspaper Barons (Live from New Brunswick)

23 Feb 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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 fur...

SHORT CUTS #13 - White Terrorists/Legal Niqab/Desperate Harper

19 Feb 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Andray Domise on the Halifax murder plot, Zunera Ishaq's badassery and why Harper can't find a better enemy than Radio Canada lefties. Support CANADA...

Ep.70 - Journalism vs. Science

16 Feb 2015

Contributed by Lukas

The Toronto Star's HPV fail reveals a wider problem: the journalists who inform us about science are increasingly scientifically illiterate. Vox.com H...

SHORT CUTS #12 - Blocked by Mallick/Defamed by the Post/Closeted by the Media

12 Feb 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Joe Clark returns to defend Heather Mallick, decry Terence Corcoran and shatter Ottawa's glass closetSupport CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join...

Ep.69 - Canada Is Failing Mohamed Fahmy

09 Feb 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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 a...

SHORT CUTS #11 - John Baird/Anti-Terror

05 Feb 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Why is the media so incurious about John Baird's sudden resignation? Why is Baird being so vigorously lionized? Torontoist staff writer Desmond Col...

SHORT CUTS #10 - Dean Blundell/Racist Winnipeg

29 Jan 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Scaachi Koul of Hazlitt talks about tolerated abusers and intolerable headlines. Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/li...

Ep.67 - Ezra Levant

26 Jan 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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...

SHORT CUTS #9 - Two Annoying Jerks

22 Jan 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Simon Houpt, Senior Media Writer for The Globe and Mail, accepts Jesse's challenge to defend his profile of Jesse on CANADALAND. Support CANADALAND: ...

Ep.66 - The Government's Secret Newswire

19 Jan 2015

Contributed by Lukas

News Canada (NC) looks like a wire service, but distributes stories produced by the federal government. Tom Korski revealed the relationship on Blac...

SHORT CUTS #8 - Amanda Lang/Charlie Hebdo

15 Jan 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Ep.65 - Live From Hamilton It's The Collapse Of Local News

12 Jan 2015

Contributed by Lukas

A CANADALAND live taping from The Hamilton Public Library on the state of news coverage in medium to small markets. Panelists include crowdfunded loc...

SHORT CUTS #7 - Charlie Hebdo/Ghomeshi/Keystone

08 Jan 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Jen Gerson of the National Post joins to talk about chickenshit editors and why Keystone XL is just like Kim KardashianSupport CANADALAND: https://can...

Ep.64 - Andrew Coyne

05 Jan 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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. ...

Ep.63 - Performance Review

29 Dec 2014

Contributed by Lukas

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 hand...

Ep.62 - President vs. Freelancer

22 Dec 2014

Contributed by Lukas

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. ...

Ep.52 - Hark! Kate Beaton (repeat)

15 Dec 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Cartoonist Kate Beaton is an exemplary weirdo. Her webcomic about Canadian historical figures and literary ephemera has gained a global following of ...

SHORT CUTS #6 - Torture/Payola/Oscar Clip Journalism

11 Dec 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Jan Wong returns to talk about Canada's war criminals, the CBC on the take, and the Globe and Mail fishing for awardsSupport CANADALAND: https://canad...

Ep.61 - Laura Robinson

08 Dec 2014

Contributed by Lukas

45 First Nations people allege experiencing or witnessing abuse by former missionary school teacher John Furlong, who was President of the 2010 Vancou...

SHORT CUTS #5 - Joni Mitchell/CraveTV/Ben Levin

04 Dec 2014

Contributed by Lukas

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 Li...

Ep.60 - The Secret Diary Of Ed The Sock

01 Dec 2014

Contributed by Lukas

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...

SHORT CUTS #4 - Ghomeshi/Rehtaeh/Ferguson

27 Nov 2014

Contributed by Lukas

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" ...

Ep.59 - The Family That Owns New Brunswick

24 Nov 2014

Contributed by Lukas

The Irvings are secretive billionaires who have a monopoly on New Brunswick's news media. Journalist Jacques Poitras, authour of Irving vs Irving, de...

SHORT CUTS #3 - Harper & Putin/Book Prizes

20 Nov 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Playwright Michael Healey on Harper's theatrical handshake diss and the problem with the GillersSupport CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee om...

Ep.58 - An Interview With My Harshest Critic

17 Nov 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Joe Clark has been aggressively challenging and sometimes attacking my work for years. He runs a blog dedicated to criticizing CANADALAND. This is o...

SHORT CUTS #2 - UnNews/Ezra Levant/Don Cherry

13 Nov 2014

Contributed by Lukas

John Semley, contributor to the Globe and Mail and Toronto Star talks with Jesse about the media pageantry around Remembrance Day, reporting on viral...

Ep.57 - Mark McKinney

10 Nov 2014

Contributed by Lukas

How on Earth did The Kids in the Hall even happen?Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

SHORT CUTS #1: Parliament Shooting/Amanda Bynes/Barbara Kay

06 Nov 2014

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Ep.56 - We All Knew About Jian

03 Nov 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Roberto Veri used to work for CBC's Q with Jian Ghomeshi. He witnessed harrassment that he never reported, until now. Also: the extraordinary circum...

Ep.55 - Glenn Greenwald Knows Things About Canada

28 Oct 2014

Contributed by Lukas

An on-stage interview with Pultizer-prize winning journalist Glenn Greenwald on his troubled relationship with the Canadian media and what he knows b...

Ep.54 - All I Can Say For Now About Jian

27 Oct 2014

Contributed by Lukas

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/10/26/cbc_fires_jian_ghomeshi_over_sex_allegations.htmlSupport CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omny...

Ep.53 - Why I Hate Talking About Israel

20 Oct 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Norman Spector is Canada's former ambassador to Israel. He was also the publisher of the Jerusalem Post. Conversations about Israel-Palestine are inv...

Ep.52 - Hark! Kate Beaton

13 Oct 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Cartoonist Kate Beaton is an exemplary weirdo. Her webcomic about Canadian historical figures and literary ephemera has gained a global following of ...

Ep.51 - patreon dot com slash CANADALAND

06 Oct 2014

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Ep.50 - The Last Music Critic

28 Sep 2014

Contributed by Lukas

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,...

Ep.49 - The Geritocracy

22 Sep 2014

Contributed by Lukas

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 fed...

Ep.48 - Free Money For Being Old: A Guide To The Netflix Tax

15 Sep 2014

Contributed by Lukas

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 wi...

Ep.47 - Comedy Is A Joke

08 Sep 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Canadians can be funny, but can funny Canadians make a living? Comedian Rebecca Kohler on the state of stand-up. Support CANADALAND: https://canadala...

Ep.46 - Soknacki

01 Sep 2014

Contributed by Lukas

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 s...

Ep.45 - Dan Riskin On Science In The Media

25 Aug 2014

Contributed by Lukas

How is the press supposed to cover science in a country where the government stifles research that conflicts with its policies?Support CANADALAND: ht...

Ep.4 - Fear And Loathing In Canadian Television

18 Aug 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Actor/writer Matt Watts (The Newsroom, Michael Tuesdays and Thursdays) on "incest" and "hush money" at the CBC, among other problems plaguing our TV i...

Ep.44 - Cartoon Sweatshop

11 Aug 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Canada produces top animation talent but lousy animation content. Animator Adam Hines, co-host of the Guys With Pencils podcast, on how to save Canad...

Ep.43 - The Score

04 Aug 2014

Contributed by Lukas

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 jus...

Ep.42 - MuchMusic Isn't Dead, But We Should Probably Kill It

28 Jul 2014

Contributed by Lukas

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. M...

Ep.41 - (A Fate Worse Than) Death of the Newspaper

21 Jul 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Veteran journalist John Barber has written a fire-breathing, bridge-burning polemic on the state of Canada's newspapers, including The Globe and Mail...

Ep.40 - THE GRID: No Path To Profitability

14 Jul 2014

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Ep.1 - Michael Enright

06 Jul 2014

Contributed by Lukas

The veteran CBC broadcaster as you've never heard him before.  A candid, combative, and lubricated conversation about the state of journalism, the CB...

Ep.39 - The CBC Covers Its Cutbacks In Futuresauce

30 Jun 2014

Contributed by Lukas

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 wh...

Ep. 38 - The Tyee

23 Jun 2014

Contributed by Lukas

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 fad...

Ep.37 - The Globe and Mail's Plan To Force Reporters To Write Ads

16 Jun 2014

Contributed by Lukas

A leaked document reveals that Globe management wants to force reporters and columnists to write ads that look like articles. Media watcher Mathew In...

Ep.36 - Is Video Game Journalism Corrupt?

09 Jun 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Globe and Mail video game critic Peter Nowak on the "fucking nonsense" of the gaming press. Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnys...

Ep.35 - Ricochet: Crowdfunding The Next Journalism

02 Jun 2014

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Ep.34 - The Linden MacIntyre Interview

26 May 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Linden MacIntyre's premature exit from the CBC is a giant Fuck You. To who?Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener ...

Ep.33 - A Federal Minister Explains Why The Government Creeps Your Facebook

19 May 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Harper cabinet member Tony Clement describes how government outsources social media monitoring of the public. Is it legal? He's not sure yet. Support...

Ep.32 - Jan Wong Isn't Over It

12 May 2014

Contributed by Lukas

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 sh...

Ep.31 - Your Telecom Provider Is Selling Your Information To The Government

05 May 2014

Contributed by Lukas

In 2011, Canadian government agencies asked Internet providers and cell phone companies for private subscriber data 1.2 million times. Warrants were r...

Ep.30 - Canadian Television Is Doomed

28 Apr 2014

Contributed by Lukas

The CRTC is unbundling cable channels, but in 5 years will anyone subscribe to cable TV anyhow? If we don't, who will fund Canadian TV and film? Insi...

Ep.29 - Why Won't The CBC Defend Itself?

21 Apr 2014

Contributed by Lukas

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 Idd...

Ep.28 - What Only The Press Knows About Rob Ford

14 Apr 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Robyn Doolittle and Jonathan Goldsbie talk about unreported smells and Rob Ford's mastery of modern media. Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.co...

Ep.27 - The End Of Internships

07 Apr 2014

Contributed by Lukas

The Walrus and Toronto Life were investigated by the Labour Ministry and forced to send their unpaid interns home. A wider crackdown on magazine inte...

Ep.26 - What Is Happening At The Globe And Mail?

31 Mar 2014

Contributed by Lukas

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 recor...

Ep.25 - How Canada's Spies Game The Media

24 Mar 2014

Contributed by Lukas

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 warrant...

Ep.24 - The Notorious P.K.P.

17 Mar 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Pierre Karl Peladeau is an old-fashioned Media Baron, fully controlling much of the music, publishing, and news industries in Quebec. As journalist M...

Ep.23 - Why Food Trends Are For Idiots

10 Mar 2014

Contributed by Lukas

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 o...

Ep.22 - CBCecrets: Mansbridge's Oil Pay Makes The News

03 Mar 2014

Contributed by Lukas

How did Peter Mansbridge's Oils Sands conflict-of-interest break through to mainstream news?Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnys...

Ep.21 - Jonathan Kay Defends Rex Murphy

24 Feb 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Rex Murphy won't answer questions about taking Oil Sands money, but his editor, The National Post's Jon Kay, will. Support CANADALAND: https://canad...

Ep.20 - Rex Murphy Is Paid By The Oil Sands And The CBC Won't Disclose Or Discuss It

17 Feb 2014

Contributed by Lukas

The CBC's chief conservative commentator has a glaring conflict of interest, reports investigative journalist Andrew Mitrovica.Support CANADALAND: ht...

Ep.19 - Sheila Heti

10 Feb 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Author Sheila Heti on her own hype, GIRLS, and why she doesn't care about CanLit.Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/lis...

Ep.18 - VICE: An Oral History

03 Feb 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Conflict and controversy as Gavin McInnes and others remember Voice of Montreal, a government-subsidized community newspaper in the 90s that grew into...

Ep.17 - Susan Delacourt

27 Jan 2014

Contributed by Lukas

How did Harper dodge the Senate scandal? Why did the press let him? Toronto Star columnist Susan Delacourt speaks candidly about Canada's broken pol...

Ep.16 - Exit Interview

20 Jan 2014

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Ep.15 - Death Of The Alt-Weekly

13 Jan 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Several Canadian alternative newsweeklies are gone and the rest are struggling. Rupert Bottenberg spent 13 years as the music editor of the Montreal M...

Ep.14 - The Truth About Foreign Students

06 Jan 2014

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Ep.13 - Show Notes

30 Dec 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Year-end thoughts on how things are going so far, episodes to come, plus one that couldn't be made. Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSe...

Ep.12 - The Dumbest Medium

23 Dec 2013

Contributed by Lukas

TV news is reductive, repetitive and usually ridiculous. Was it always like this? Broadcast news veteran Howard Bernstein remembers something better. ...

Ep.11 - The Taco Heir Of Northern Alberta

16 Dec 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Graham Wagner wrote for The Office and Portlandia and studied philosophy because of Monty Python. In between, he spent ten years jobbing around Toront...

Ep.10 - Rabid Unicorn

09 Dec 2013

Contributed by Lukas

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 prod...

Ep.9 - Wireless Wars

02 Dec 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Dwayne Winseck delivers a blistering indictment of Bell, Rogers, and Telus; it's an attack that may have gotten him briefly kicked off Twitt...

Ep.8 - Reality Show

25 Nov 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Geoff Siskind is the showrunner of Storage Wars Canada and an accomplished documentary producer. He's also Jesse's old radio producer. A frank discuss...

Ep.7 - Sex Criminal!

18 Nov 2013

Contributed by Lukas

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. St...

Ep.6 - The Big Three Win Again

11 Nov 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Tucows CEO Elliot Noss on how Rogers, Telus and Bell are holding Canada back. Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/liste...

Ep.5 - You Can't Do Political Satire Here

04 Nov 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Ford, Duffy, Harper- and no mockery? Playwright & actor Michael Healey on why Canada's powerful never get what they deserve. Support CANADALAND: http...

Ep.4 - Fear And Loathing In Canadian Television

28 Oct 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Actor/writer Matt Watts (The Newsroom, Michael Tuesdays and Thursdays) on "incest" and "hush money" at the CBC, among other problems plaguing our TV i...

Ep.3 - Intern Trouble

21 Oct 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Howard Bernstein helped create Ryerson's journalism internship program. Now he thinks it should be abolished. Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland....