CANADALAND
Episodes
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....
Ep.2 - Millionaire Ex-Girlfriend
13 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Ariel Garten is the CEO of Toronto-based startup Interaxon, makers of the thought-controlled computing headband, Muse. She also used to date Jesse. Ar...
Ep.1 - Michael Enright
05 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The CBC's Michael Enright joins Jesse for good whiskey and frank conversation about the media, the country, the CBC, and what Jesse should really be d...