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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...

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...