CANADALAND
Episodes
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 ...
It’s Time to Break Up with American News
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why are we reporting on American news when we have more than enough to cover here in Canada?Canadian media has been breathlessly covering Trump, Epste...
Dairy and Trump: The Art of The Veal
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Canada is obsessed with dairy. It’s quite literally part of our culture…we’re talking soccer medals with the little blue milk logo on them. But ...
How Google’s A.I. Search May Kill News Dead
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s now common to get AI generated answers from Google when searching the web. The whole concept of searching Google to find actual websites is alm...
The Genius Plan to Fix the CBC Forever
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A closer look at Travis Dhanraj’s public breakup with the CBC. In a fiery open letter, former host of Canada Tonight, Travis Dhanraj, excoriate...
Conflict Con Carney
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Carney’s sprawling ethics screen covers over 100 companies and reveals the details of what went into his blind trust. Did he lie to Canadians about ...
‘Pave the Arctic,’ They Said. ‘It’ll be Fine,’ They Said
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A 230km all-season road and deep water port could be one of Carney’s first major “nation-building projects.” Is everyone on board?The Grays Bay ...
How a Canadian Teenager Stole a Record Company
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we unmask the mastermind behind one of the most unlikely mysteries in hip hop history.Digging through old FBI files to reveal the name of the ar...
Record Breaking Poor Climate Coverage
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Too often, climate issues like wildfires, droughts, and extreme weather are reported in a way that ignores the root cause of these issues. How can cli...
BONUS: Things You’ll Never Hear on Canadaland
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we’re bringing you all the trash that’s not fit for the feed. But one person’s trash is another person’s treasure.Look, we record a lot ...
Canada’s Big Beautiful Clean Energy Opportunity
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Carney’s clean energy disappearing act. Trump’s all out war on clean energy could be a huge economic opportunity for Canada’s energy future...
What Can Mark Carney Do to Get YOUR Support?
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been over 100 days since Mark Carney became Prime Minister. It’s time for a performance review! Last week, we held a call-in show where ...
After Depression Meds, She Lost Her Sexuality
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Emily Grey’s been living with a condition known as PSSD for six years now. PSSD can lead to the effective erasure of a person's sexual sensatio...
Pierre Poilievre is Lost in the Wilderness
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Poilievre has never been further from the spotlight. After years of headlines and media attention, even Poilievre’s staunchest supporters have ...
BONUS: You Hate A.I., So We Wrote Some Rules
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Does Canadaland use A.I. in the newsroom? Why do some of our old episode tile art images look so glossy? Are all of our shows written by ChatGPT? The ...
Are We Done Hating On Canada Day?
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Canada Day’s redemption arc.With patriotism surging in Canada, how do we balance reconciliation with a renewed sense of national pride? Arno Kopecky...
Shock & Awe
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we are bringing you a great episode from our friends at Canada’s National Observer. Canada’s National Observer teamed up with DeSmog, an onl...
Canada’s Greatest Game (No, Not That One)
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Do you know your hammer from your hanger?From the Netherlands to Japan competitors from around the world share one dream. To make it to the world cham...
Death of the Columnist
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why not all opinion pieces are created equally.A decade ago the National Post had an all-star roster of opinion columnists, but now they publish more ...
BONUS: Who Writes the Rules of News?
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“ When talking about immigration, you shouldn't use the word sweep because it implies that immigrants are something undesirable to be swept away. ...
King Carney: The PM's Naked Power Grab
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Carney gets a pass in the “No Kings” moment.A flurry of omnibus bills include significant government overreach, but the Canadian coverage is reluc...
Meet the Liberal MP Who Went Against Carney (and Who Might Take Out Doug Ford)
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Carney promised one Canadian economy. Now, his signature bill is one step closer to law as Bill C-5 rocketed through parliament with some amendme...
There Are Hundreds of Thousands of Iranian-Canadians. How Are They Doing?
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a secret club in Canada. And trust me, you don’t want to be a member. If you’re in this club, your first response when you hear new...
Alberta's Green Energy Plan to Dig up the Rockies for Coal
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rescinding an almost 50-year-old coal mining moratorium to get out of lawsuits, Greenbelt FOI code words, mayoral power-fuelled bike lane challenges…...
BONUS: Should Canadaland Hire a Child?
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From chatting about pancake toppings, to kissing boys, to fixing America’s public schools, kids are turning to podcasts to say what’s on their min...
Rating Carney at 100 Days in Office
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Remember when you were a little kid and the first 100 days of school was a huge landmark? Well, yesterday Carney celebrated that milestone in his Libe...
G7! The One Where Trump Bounces
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Canada is hosting the G-7 in Alberta, one of the most consequential meetings yet. Is this Carney’s moment to become a world leader, reorient our eco...
Men’s Elegant Cardigan, XL
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A couple silver foxes from the Mink Mile took Jesse Brown for a ride. They said their names were Walter and Beverly. The Mink Mile, for those of you w...
RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz Help B.C. Ostriches Go Viral
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A flock of BC ostriches becomes a far-right circus.Why do RFK, Dr Oz, and an American billionaire want to save our ostriches? A BC Ostrich farm garner...
Off The Record: Here's a Segment We Killed, and Why
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Not all interviews go according to plan. Even on a show that has over 500 episodes and the host has recorded over a thousand interviews. So what do yo...
Carney Catches Trump on the Rebound
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On the day of Trump’s spectacular public breakup with Elon Musk, news broke of phone calls and texts between Carney and Trump. Is a bromance blossom...
Is Carney’s Bill C-2 ‘Much Worse Than Trump’?
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Liberals’ first piece of legislation, Bill C-2 is a sweeping 139-page omnibus bill.It would allow police to open and inspect mail from Canada Po...
Brian Reed on Trump’s War on the Press
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You probably know Brian Reed from his award-winning podcast S-Town. Or from his other excellent podcast series, The Trojan Horse Affair. Finally, ther...
Is it Patriotic to Support our Terrible Grocers?
06 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Canada’s ongoing grocery redemption arc.The “Buy Canadian” moment has supplanted the grocery “Greedflation” narrative for now, but the $500 ...
Carney is “Horny” for Productivity, Can A.I. Minister Evan Solomon Bring It?
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve got a Minister of A.I. Now what?Former Journalist MP Evan Solomon leads Canada’s Ministry of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation,...
When Politics Ruins Friendships
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Political divides are growing, and it’s not just over basic issues anymore. Increasingly, people are feeling differences in basic conduct, morality,...
Scoop: Cabinet Minister “Harassed” and “Humiliated” Employee
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The election is done and dusted. Votes cast, tallied, and 343 newly minted MPs are on the job. But even though we, the media collectively, tried our b...
What Canada’s Left Must Learn from Bernie and AOC
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The American populist left has a roadmap for Canadian progressives. With the NDP wandering the political wilderness, the rise of Bernie Sanders a...
The Big Scary Canada-US Border
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Canadians and Americans alike are afraid of crossing the border, and for political commentators like Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks travel requires ext...
Endangered Species – an Interview with an NDP MP
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this year, Jagmeet Singh laughed off the idea of losing. Now, he’s out and the NDP is in free fall. They lost official party status. They lo...
Dave Thomas of SCTV on Why Canadians Rule Comedy
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Canadian comedy legend Dave Thomas is here. What else is there to say? If you want to understand the last half century of comedy from SCTV to SNL to T...
The Mystery of the Disappearing Mystery Disease in New Brunswick
23 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A new study suggests that New Brunswick’s mystery brain illness doesn’t exist, but it doesn’t tell the whole story. Recent headlines declar...
Inside the Lurid Hockey Canada Trial
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What the coverage isn’t capturing about the Hockey Canada Trial.Five former junior hockey players are on trial for sexual assault, and the reporting...
Can Carney Run Canada Like a CEO?
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After a couple of weeks of pats on the back and trying to find Pierre Poilievre a new home, we’re finally seeing how Mark Carney’s government plan...
Confessions of a Girls Gone Wild Merch Girl
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2005 Courtney Kocak was a “merch girl” on the Girls Gone Wild tour bus. She doled out the swag, T-shirts, thongs, drinks, to help get the GGW p...
Why is Canadian Corruption Being Exposed by U.S. News?
16 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's a new era for corruption in Canada, but the coverage isn’t keeping pace. Meanwhile, American outlets are breaking stories about Doug Ford and B...
For King and Carney
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stuck between a monarchy and a superpower.Carney calls on King Charles to deliver the Throne Speech–brilliant strategic move or colonial regression?...
Is Carney Actually Tough on Crime?
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Carney promised tougher bail and more police – a “get tough” agenda that the Liberals shoplifted right off the Conservative shelf. Host Noo...
To Catch a Creep Catcher
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
He was a man who was convinced he was fighting monsters. A video vigilante capturing alleged paedophiles with a camera and shaming them online. He was...