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Why Alberta Separatists are Whiny Losers

09 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What’s really behind Danielle Smith’s separatist flirtations. Is separatist sentiment rising in Alberta, or is it just a convenient distracti...

Introducing Our Newest Show

08 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Last month, Sam Googled your candidates. It was a hoot. Today, we’re excited to announce that we’re working on something new, exclusively for our ...

Carney Sits Quietly Like a Good Boy

07 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Carney dodges a “Zelenskyy Moment” in the Oval Office. In their first official meeting, Trump and Carney adopt a friendly tone amid 51st stat...

Bruce Fanjoy - The Liberal Who Took Pierre's Riding

06 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pierre Poilievre is packing his bags to rural Alberta, after losing his seat to Bruce Fanjoy. How the hell did Fanjoy do it? We asked him.Plus, pollst...

Is Canada Leading the Anti-Trump “Resistance”?

05 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Canada will not bend the knee to Orange Jesus. That’s one reading of our recent federal election. The ballots were barely tallied before headline wr...

Pierre and the Plotting Premiers

02 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The deck is being shuffled in the conservative movement. After Poilievre’s bad week, Tim Houston, Doug Ford, and Danielle Smith are making move...

How Does Pierre Like These Apples?

30 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Even the losers get lucky sometimes. Mark Carney was the big winner, but we dig into the narratives the rest of the field spun in the aftermath o...

It’s Poiliover

29 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Carney wins, Poilievre loses, Jagmeet steps down. What went down? Politico’s Mickey Djuric breaks it down for us, way past bedtime.Host: Noor Azrieh...

Canadaland’s Election Confessions

28 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jesse Brown is an ideological slut. Well, so he says. His past votes have jumped, in no particular order, from the Conservatives to the NDP “.....

What Rebel Media Really Did

25 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Autopsy of a News Media Meltdown.More details have emerged about Ezra Levant’s confrontation with the CBC on debate night, as well as new informatio...

BONUS: The Candidates Caught on Doorbell Cams

24 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s the final election stretch, and the vetting continues. This week we talk conversion therapy, million-dollar pyramid schemes, & the dangers ...

Mark Carney Has a Temper

23 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The “adult in the room” tends to be shouty. Mark Carney has been portrayed as a measured and methodical counterpoint to Trump throughout his ...

Will Canada Split if Carney Wins?

22 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

While most Canadians are gearing up to head to the polls, some are looking for an escape plan. This week, we’re examining the deep roots of Western ...

Larry of the North: 70 Years of Arctic Sovereignty

21 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The north is a hot topic. Trump, China, Russia, everyone suddenly has eyes on the Arctic. The Canadian government is promising everything from submari...

Ezra Levant's Debate Night Circus

18 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Complaints of Rebel Media hogging question period after Wednesday's French-language leaders debate led to chaos just minutes before the English-langua...

BONUS: The Loose Moose Candidate

17 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

There are 1959 people running to represent YOU in this federal election in the year of our lord 2025 - and we’re looking for dirt. This week - ...

What Carney and Poilievre Only Say in French

16 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Radio-Canada’s Tout le monde en Parle asked some tough questions. We decided to translate.  Hear what Poilievre and Carney had to say about Tru...

Political Animals in the Wild (a Field Report from Ottawa)

15 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

With two weeks out from election day, Ottawa is buzzing. Staffers are partying late into the night and reporting to work at 7 a.m., Chipotle’s are t...

Investigation: What Mark Carney Won’t Say About Brookfield

14 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We have been hearing a lot about Prime Minister Mark Carney and a company called Brookfield Asset Management. That's the company he left when he enter...

Pierre’s Pissy Press Protocol

11 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What would it look like to take the agenda back?With reports of unprecedented message control on the Conservative campaign trail, San Grewal and Dr Lo...

BONUS: The Garfield Porn Guy Running for Parliament

10 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s an election, we’re googling your candidate.There's a candidate for the Green Party who’s actively campaigning for the Conservative Party. T...

Dude, Where’s My Fact Check?

09 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

CTV faces backlash after hiring (then firing) Rachel Gilmore for an election fact checking segment. Is the role of the fact checker still viable ...

Is Pierre Actually a Girl's Girl?

08 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Last week, Pierre Poilievre said tick tock goes your biological clock. This was the first time that host Noor Azrieh noticed, during the campaign, tha...

Election Dysfunction and Bozo Eruptions

07 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the last 50 or so years the number of independent first-time political candidates elected to office in Canada could fit in a car. Five candidates h...

Carney Flubs His First Big Test

04 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A lapse in leadership and Canada’s China conundrum. Liberal MP Paul Chiang’s troubling comments gave Carney an opportunity to take a strong s...

BONUS: The Hams for Terrorism MP

03 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

There are hundreds of unvetted candidates vying for a seat in Parliament…Canada has 343 federal electoral districts stretching from coast to coast t...

The Conservative Plot Against Pierre Poilievre

02 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The call is coming from inside the party. With reports swirling about Poilievre’s campaign dysfunction at the end of week one, Sandy Garossino ...

Pardon His French? Quebec's Crush on Carney

01 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

With 78 of the 343 seats in the House of Commons, Quebec isn’t just a battleground…it could decide the entire election. And this time, the usual B...

When the Alt-Right "Infiltrated" a Small Town

31 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Internet trolls, doxing, conspiracy theories, harassment, criminal investigations, all the usual things that spring to mind when you think of small to...

How Trump United Canada

28 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Canada’s sudden political reorientation.As Trump continues to escalate the trade war, Paul Wells joins to consider the lasting impact on our relatio...

Is the Media Biased for Carney?

26 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

First on the list of Paul Wells’s 4 Rules of Canadian Politics: “For any given situation, Canadian politics will tend toward the least exciting po...

How Poilievre Went From Top Dog to Underdog

25 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

And we’re off to the races! It’s time for the matchup, and election, of a generation. Newly minted Prime Minister Mark Carney is taking on former ...

Election Snap! Here's Exactly Who You Should Vote For

24 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s possible that this will be the most consequential vote you’ll ever cast. With our sovereignty, our nation, our very future on the line Jesse ...

Pierre Poilievre Won’t Ride With Journalists

21 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Poilievre bans journalists from travelling with him on the campaign trail, but did he get a free  ride in the press so far? Dougald Lamont joins ...

Trade War Economics in Mark Carney's Canada

19 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Carney’s visit to Europe signals Canada’s new approach to the trade war with the US. Dougald Lamont joins The Pointer’s San Grewal to discu...

Why AI Isn't Going To Steal Our Election

18 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Is AI slop the ultimate weapon for foreign interference? Or are we spiraling into another internet-fueled moral panic?Last week several AI-generated p...

Who’s Banning Thousands of Books? The Left and the Right

17 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Take your pick: censoring, banning, removing, or “weeding.” However you want to describe it, Canadians are pulling books from library shelves.  ...

Did Trudeau Salvage His Legacy?

14 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Trudeau rides off into a ‘Sunny Ways’ sunset.As Mark Carney takes over as Prime Minister, Stuart Benson joins to consider Trudeau’s legacy and w...

Mark Carney Wins in a Blandslide

12 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Liberal’s Carneycopia is betting big on Dad Energy. Mark Carney wins the Liberal leadership in a landslide,  but is he a saviour or a ...

None of That 51st State Sh*t

11 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Canada is deep in the trenches of a trade war with the United States. After U.S. President Trump unpaused the 25% tariffs on all Canadian imports, all...

Trudeau Dumpster Dive

10 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Trudeau prorogued Parliament 26 bills were binned. Bills are the democratic process made concrete and the laws that they can turn into are the en...

Should We Be Worried About Canadian DOGE?

07 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Battle lines are being drawn in the Canadian tech industry around a policy initiative that is drawing comparison to Elon Musk’s DOGE. Plus, upd...

How to Win The Dumb Trade War

05 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Making Sense of Trump’s Tariffying Tuesday.Douglas Soltys joins to dissect Trump’s trade war chaos, Doug Ford’s tough talk, and Trudeau’s non-...

Mark Carney — the Less We Know, the Better

04 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For the first time since 2021, the Liberals are beating the Conservatives in a recent poll. We’ll find out on March 9th if Carney is officially stic...

How to UnF*ck the CBC

03 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's so normal to complain about the CBC that it's hard to imagine that one day, maybe one day soon, there may no longer be a CBC to complain about. T...

Screw You, Wayne Gretzky

28 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Why not being American is at the core of Canadian identity. With Canada’s big win at the 4 Nations and SNL’s 50th anniversary, Canada entered...

Cross Country F*ckUp

26 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Canadians are furious at CBC’s Cross Country Checkup trainwreck.  Plus, why did CBC’s new mandate sit on Trudeau’s desk for months? Na...

Is There Going to Be a War Over the Arctic?

25 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Arctic is quickly becoming the center of a geopolitical shitstorm. We’re talking power, resources, and territory at stake. And everyone wants a ...

Preston Manning goes BEAST MODE

24 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Has everybody lost their minds? Are we buying guns and deploying troops and making plans to fend off a U.S. invasion?  Are some of us pre-emptive...

Where’s Pierre?

21 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pierre Poilievre’s patriotic pivot. At his “Canada First” rally, Pierre Poilievre unveiled his new messaging, but will it be enough to coun...

Court Shuts Down Podcast That Helped Expose Alberta Scandal

19 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The $6 million lawsuit that killed an indie Alberta podcast. Nate Pike’s The Breakdown has been covering allegations of corruption in Danielle ...

Jagmeet Singh On Why He Won't Step Down

18 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jagmeet Singh has taken a lot of shit: his nice watch, his ambivalence on taking down the Liberals, and of course his polling. But he says he’s not ...

Did Canada Fund Putin's Propaganda? Or Censor Journalism?

17 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The documentary Russians at War shows the invasion of Ukraine from the point of view of Moscow's troops. The doc was supposed to screen during the Tor...

Did America Just Dump Us?

14 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Somebody That I U.S. to Know.Jan Wong joins for a special Valentine’s Day farewell to the Canada-US romance. Plus, is PornHub ethical? &nb...

The Master Plan of Mad King Donny

12 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Is there order to Trump’s tariff chaos?Jan Wong joins to discuss steel and aluminum tariffs, and whether Trump has a plan behind his bullying and bl...

Man of Steel, Nation of Bloat

11 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The government hired 110,000 workers over the past 10 years, did we get 110,000 times more efficient? It doesn’t look like it, but veteran public se...

Perverts, Punks, and Queers: a Tribute to the Zine Underground

10 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

McInnes and Goldstein both started in zines. The underground DIY magazine culture of the 80s and 90s. Zines were homemade photocopied pamphlets about ...

Has Poilievre Peaked?

07 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Poilievre’s slogans can’t compete with “Buy Canadian.” Trudeau’s speech inspires a groundswell of national unity, while Poilievre watch...

You Got a Fentanyl Czar, I Got a Plan to Get Us Out of Here

05 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A tariff reprieve and the trade war that wasn’t. Trump’s tariff threats caused a frenzy of breaking news coverage, but can we really fault Ca...

Three Businesses Jerked Around by Trump

04 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On Saturday, President Trump followed through with his promise of 25 percent tariffs on Canadian goods and 10 percent on energy. We clapped back with ...

A Weird Way to Win the Trade War with Trump

03 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s show is about a novel strategy for Canada to fight back against Trump’s Trade War.Trump is set to slap tariffs on Canada starting Tuesday ...

Why Poilievre is “Unaware” of Transgender People

31 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Emboldened by Trump, Poilievre denies the existence of trans people in an interview on CP24. Dale Smith joins to unpack why Poilievre is playing dumb ...

Big Doug Energy

29 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Doug Ford cashes in his “Captain Canada” chips. Following a US media blitz, Ford is asking for a new mandate from Ontarians to bolster his ability...

Did Jagmeet Singh Miss His Big Chance?

28 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Justin Trudeau stepped down earlier this month, it should have been the perfect opportunity for Jagmeet Singh and the NDP to swing the narrative....

Treason! Does Canada Have A Traitor Problem?

27 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week the government’s long-awaited report on foreign interference will drop. Will it tell us if Canada has a traitor problem?Over the last two ...

Zuckerberg and Musk are Just like Edison and Ford: A**holes

24 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Social media is a mess and the tech oligarchs are to blame. San Grewal of The Pointer joins to assess the damage caused when coders replace publishers...

The Real Reason Elon Musk Threw Up A Sieg Heil

22 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What Trump’s inauguration lacked in tariffs, it made up for in egregious salutes. The Pointer’s San Grewal joins to critique the Canadian coverage...

Trump Almost Forgot to Bully Us

21 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Donald Trump’s back, but Canada is STILL divided on how to respond. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has gone rogue, Doug Ford just wants everyone to ...

Terrorist or Scapegoat?

20 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In 1980 someone detonated a bomb outside a synagogue in Paris. Four people were killed. Suspicion immediately fell on French neo-nazi groups. But soon...

A Conservative on How Canada Is Already F’Ing up With Trump

17 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Why Canada needs to get its sh*t together NOW.Former Conservative MP James Moore joins to consider the response to Trump’s rhetoric, and the economi...

Should Jesse Run for Parliament?

15 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Amid an exodus in the Liberal Party, Mark Carney teases a leadership bid on the Daily Show, and Jesse ponders a future in politics. Former Conservativ...

Interview With a Young Lefty

14 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Join Noor Azrieh and Sam Konnert for a discussion to bid farewell to key legislation that is likely to be lost due to Parliament's prorogation. From t...

The Sweatshop Workers Who Power A.I.

13 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Siri has a body. AI’s most familiar voice is not just a disembodied all-knowing benefactor of trivia, recipes, and everything else you can’t recal...

Gaze Ye Upon the Viral Success of Jordan Peterson's Poilievre Interview, and Despair!

10 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Was Pierre Poilievre’s conversation with Jordan Peterson the most popular political interview in Canadian history? Frank Domenic joins to break down...

Lame Duck L'Orange

08 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How bad has Trudeau F’d Canada? (Pretty bad.) With Trump escalating his rhetoric, Trudeau has left Canada resigned to weakness. Poilievre will need ...

The Long Goodbye: Trudeau’s Not Gone Yet

07 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Yesterday Trudeau announced that he would prorogue parliament and resign as Prime Minister. Now, the Liberal Party is embarking on a journey to replac...

Waste Management: Sh*t is Complicated

06 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We don't like to think about sewage. And when it's all working fine, we don't have to. But if we don't get comfortable talking about shit, we cou...

Democracy Under Threat: Anne Applebaum and Timothy Snyder

03 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We’re bringing you a special episode of a show we love!From The Paul Wells Show, two acclaimed historians talk about the state of democracy and free...

“The Warriors,” Lin-Manuel Miranda Takes on Another New York Story

30 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Since the blockbuster success of his musical “Hamilton,” Lin-Manuel Miranda has been busy: acting, directing, and composing for Disney projects, i...

Payday Loans: the Cost of Being Poor

24 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Starting January 1st, the criminal interest rate on predatory lending will be lowered, meaning it should be safer to take out payday and installment l...

That Time We Bombed the Aurora Borealis

23 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Yes, Canada bombed the Aurora Borealis. But can you actually scatter that northernmost light with explosives? Why would you even try? And explosi...

Récap 2024

21 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Que retenir de 2024? Beaucoup de sujets lourds, et quelques moments plus légers, affirme Manal Drissi au micro d’Emilie Nicolas. Ensemble, Manal et...

Trudeau's Next Move, and the Truth About the Gig Economy

20 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What Toronto Star got wrong about UberEats, plus an update on the shaky Trudeau government. Also, why cellos and Air Canada don’t mix, and new ...

Overthrown for the Holidays

18 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Chrystia Freeland kneecaps Trudeau, but his shaky government still stands. Jan Wong joins to sift through the aftermath of a very eventful Monday in C...

The Undoing of Justin Trudeau

17 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It was a hell of a day for the Liberals yesterday, as Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland abruptly abandoned her post. Now, a...

The Great Darkness

16 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is part two of our mini series: Black Market Babies (part one, here).It’s a family story that lay hidden for decades. Then the tech was born, t...

Did Trudeau Just Hand Trump Canada's Arctic?

13 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What’s the deal with the “North American Arctic”?Ottawa’s new policy for the North swaps Arctic sovereignty for strategic diplomacy. Could thi...

A Canadian Politician Just Admitted to Taking Orders From India

11 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Testifying in Parliament last week, Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown revealed how India affected his 2022 bid to lead the Conservative Party of Canada. Bu...

Interview with a Conservative Bro

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The political gender divide isnt just a U.S. phenonmenon, its showing up globally, from the U.K. to South Korea. It’s only a matter of time before t...

Why Almost Everyone Hates Caryma Sa'd

09 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

People on the left call her a police informant, a self-hating Palestinian, a racist, a Zionist, a TERF, and a fascist. But she also has haters on the ...

La médecine: une science humaine

07 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Le Collège québécois des médecins de famille s’est récemment doté d’une nouvelle présidente, la docteure Geneviève Bois. La carrière fois...

The Real Reason Why Newspapers Are Suing ChatGPT

06 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Canada’s legacy media is suing OpenAI, alleging they’re “strip-mining journalism” by using news articles to train its popular ChatGPT software...

Trump's Big Meatloaf, Trudeau's Tiny Victory

04 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Was the positive tone of Trudeau’s Mar-a-Lago visit overstated by Canadian media? Is Canada going to be the 51st state like Trump said at dinner? Wa...

Does Trudeau Know How to Deal with Trump?

03 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Last Monday, U.S. president-elect Donald Trump posted to his beloved Truth Social with a hefty threat. If Canada and Mexico don't get the border in or...

Dental Plan (Lisa Needs Braces)

02 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

With the new national dental care plan, Canadian taxpayers are  now underwriting the dental industry. More than one million Canadians have dental...

Why Unions Get Bad Press

29 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Are Canada Post employees scabbing for Santa?With the no end in sight for the Canada Post strike, Noor and Cherise consider the media coverage so far,...

Was the Y2K Bug Really a Hoax?

28 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Millenium Bug was supposed to bring the world to a halt, but governments claimed they squashed the problem. Was it all a panic over nothing?On a s...

Montreal Riot (Taylor's Version)

27 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On Friday, Trudeau made international headlines when he attended a Taylor Swift concert in Toronto while protests erupted in Montreal. But Noor Azrieh...

The Government Deadlock Nobody Knows About

26 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Parliament froze in late September after the Conservatives launched a privilege motion, bogging down the government and demanding the Liberals hand ov...

Black Market Babies

25 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Listen to part two right now: go to https://canadaland.com/join and become a Canadaland Supporter today.A secret kept for a hundred years.A family sto...