CANADALAND

Ratfucker

31 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meet David Wallace, political fixer and dirty tricks operative. After a career in the shadows, he’s turned whistleblower, leaking his files and...

(Short Cuts) Southern Exposure: Featuring Cenk Uygur

27 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Like the next-piece box in Tetris, the United States often offers a preview of political trends that will soon come to Canada. So with dozens of 2020-...

(CANADALANDBACK) Reclamation At Stoney Point - Part One

24 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What began as a peaceful land reclamation would turn into one of the most terrifying acts of violence and state force against unarmed people in Canada...

(Short Cuts) Low Blow, Loblaws!

20 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Loblaws takes the heat over a tone-deaf price freeze. And the unprecedented, unjustified, and perhaps unnecessary federal government power grab that n...

Hark! A Migrant (Worker)

17 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kate Beaton has written the best book about the oil sands, ever. It's a nonfiction comic book called Ducks, and it's about class in Canada as much as ...

(Short Cuts) A Star Is Torn

13 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A controversial comment about Burqas in a Toronto Star column crossed the editorial line. And business drama at this Toronto paper. Jonathan Goldsbie ...

Salvaging The Beachcombers

10 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Beachcombers was a wildly long-running series, by any measure. With 387 episodes, the CBC dramedy had more installments than CSI, and fi...

(Détours) Défaillance du système (selon quelques intellectuels)

08 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Élection après élection, la réforme du mode de scrutin devient le sujet chaud, malgré que le premier ministre du Québec considère que la questi...

(Short Cuts) Quebec Election Pop Quiz

06 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Emilie Nicolas and Toula Drimonis break down the Quebec election for those outside of the Quebec bubble. And is the CBC changing t...

Crimes Against Nature

03 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jesse sits down with Lyndsie Bourgon, author of “Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods” to discuss the dark world of tree poac...

(Short Cuts) Shocking Revelations On The Saskatchewan Stabbings

29 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

There have been major developments in the Saskatchewan stabbing story, but most journalists have moved on - except for Global reporter Ashleigh Stewar...

CTV Workers On Workplace Abuse

26 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Correction: A previous version of this story indicated former CTV News employee Erin Paul died due to an overdose after her dismissal. Though she did ...

(Short Cuts) Bots Have Feelings Too

22 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A recent encounter between Pierre Poilievre and David Akin of Global News demonstrates the tactics politicians have been using to avoid accountab...

The True Story Of Sasquatch

19 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Every pop culture reference to Sasquatch or Bigfoot can be traced to one Macleans Magazine article from 1929, written by Indian Agent J.W. Burns, who ...

(Détours) Royalement impolies

17 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Suite au décès de la reine Elizabeth II, de nombreux journalistes soulignent les qualités admirables de la reine, alors que d'autres mettent la pol...

(Short Cuts) Our Royals, Our Elves

15 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Canadians have greeted the death of Elizabeth II with a mix of sadness and ambivalence, hostility and indifference. Film writer Will Sloan j...

The McAfee Virus

12 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A new Netflix documentary documents the violent life and death of John McAfee, a silicon valley magnate who became a murder suspect and the targe...

(Short Cuts) A Manhunt in the Prairies

08 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

An on-the-ground account of what it has been like to cover the Saskatchewan stabbing spree. And the end of Kiwi Farms after a Canadian Twitch streamer...

Bruce McCulloch

05 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Squirrel toupee guy, Bobby from Bobby versus Satan, cabbage head, the little guy who picks fights at the bar and won’t stay down, or the flying pig....

(Short Cuts) LaFlamme Wars

01 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Lisa LaFlamme story continues to smolder in the headlines. And Canada turns into a denunciation nation when it comes to weighing in on Chrystia Fr...

Updates On Nuclear Waste, A Bond Villain, And Starbucks Unions

29 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

After we turn off our microphones, here at CANADALAND, it would be great to think we brought you the definitive version of the story. But what actuall...

(Short Cuts) The End Of NOW

25 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The remaining staff at Toronto’s NOW Magazine haven’t gotten a regular paycheque in months. But as the beloved alt-weekly disintegrated around t...

Is New Brunswick Covering Up A Deadly Brain Disease?

22 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dozens of people in New Brunswick have reported mysterious neurological symptoms over the past two years. People as young as 18 are experiencing full...

(Short Cuts) Keeping LaFlamme Alive

18 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What's really behind Lisa LaFlamme's abrupt departure from CTV National News? And John Derringer's years of alleged workplace abuse at Toronto's Q107...

Sh*tty Cities

15 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Cities and cars and a climate crisis, oh my! For the past 70 years, urban design in Canada has been centred around the car. Cities have started making...

(Détours) De pape en flic

13 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Avertissement : contenu lié aux pensionnats et à la colonisationLa visite du pape pour la présentation d’excuses aux peuples autochtones a provoq...

(Short Cuts) Healthcare In Crisis

11 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How many ways must healthcare break down before you can call it “collapsed”? And how can journalists be better supported when they receive threate...

The Interrogation Of Jesse Brown

08 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jesse Brown might think himself quite the question master, but today the tables have turned and our guest host, the Jonathan Torrens, investigates t...

(Short Cuts) Hockey Blight In Canada

04 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The dam has broken on hockey's toxic culture. And a new BC Supreme Court ruling threatens confidential sources. Laura Robinson co-hosts.Links:Globe a...

Jody Porter And A Complicated Legacy

01 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jody Porter worked for CBC in Thunder Bay for more than two decades. Her work on the injustices faced by Indigenous people in Northwestern Ontario fro...

(Short Cuts) Pope? Nope.

28 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The media actually did a pretty good job of covering the Pope's apology. And Wendy Mesley's re-branding as a woman of ill repute. Karyn Pugliese&...

Cindy Blackstock's Long Game

25 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

So many people encounter injustice and accept it as the way things are. Others refuse to accept the status quo and will not rest until those injustice...

(Short Cuts) Hot Off The Press

21 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Our changing perception of the Nova Scotia mass shooter's partner Lisa Banfield. And thwarting the apocalypse through journalism. Sarah Lawrynuik co...

Pardon My French

18 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When a CBC host used the N-word in pre-production meetings, she was taken off the air. When the French arm of the public broadcaster, Radio-Canada, ha...

(Short Cuts) Wet Hot Antitrust Summer

14 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Three telecoms in a trench coat and other Canadian oligopolies. And we need a new playbook when it comes to engaging with Pierre Poilievre. Vass Bedna...

CPC F*ckery

11 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Patrick Brown was disqualified from the Conservative Leadership race. He's denied allegations filed by a whistleblower that he was knowingly mismanagi...

(Détours) Le coût de l’expression

09 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Plus d’une cinquantaine de têtes d’affiches de Radio-Canada contestent la décision du CRTC concernant l’utilisation du ‘mot en n’ sur l’...

(Short Cuts) Lucy and Linda's Law

07 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A Supreme Court decision that hasn't gotten much attention in Canada. And the National Post is calling for an end to the bullying of reporters, meanwh...

Enormous Fires Everywhere

04 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Raging wildfires are now a normal part of summertime in Canada. Climate change comes at you fast, but the impact of these fires is far from equal acro...

(Short Cuts) You Don't "Both Sides" Human Rights

30 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In covering the end of widespread reproductive freedom in the United States, the CBC goes the both-sides route. At what point should something be cons...

Education: What Is It Good For?

27 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Universities across Alberta have experienced huge funding cuts over the last three years. Come fall, students will be paying for that with huge tuitio...

(Short Cuts) Imperfect Behaviour

23 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A scandal in Canada's sacred sport. And can journalists do more to unpack the crypto craze and crash? Emilie Nicolas fills in for Jesse and Julian Mc...

The Dubious Botanist

20 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A Canadian scientist wanted to demonstrate how he could use DNA barcoding to distinguish between different strains of cannabis; a pretty valuable thin...

(Short Cuts) Correction? Recession? Celebration!

16 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In the midst of a climate crisis, why do we continue to report business news as usual? And is Minister Mendicino being mendacious over the Emerge...

The Baristas Vs. Starbucks

13 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Of the more than 1,400 Starbucks stores in Canada, only a single location in Victoria, B.C. has a union. One former barista spoke to Canadaland about ...

(Détours) La chimère canadienne

11 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Devenir propriétaire d'une maison n'est désormais plus qu'une chimère pour toute une génération de Canadien‧ne‧...

(Short Cuts) The Youtuber Uprising

09 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Finding misinformation in the Quebec government's misinformation campaign on Bill 96. And why Tiktokers are speaking out against Bill C-11. Lela ...

Digging For Doubt

06 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ostensibly the idea was to do media criticism. That is what the article in the National Post, The Year Of The Graves, set out to do; to hold the press...

(Short Cuts) Reckoning With Reckoning

02 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Denials of the unmarked graves at residential school sites push through to the mainstream. And a new report shows that journalists' mental health is i...

Sea Wolves, Oil Snakes

30 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A field report from coast Salish territory on the irreconcilable conflict between the Tsleil-Waututh Nation and the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion ...

(Short Cuts) Doug Ford Because We Hate Ourselves

26 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A glowing opinion piece about Doug Ford has us wondering how he miraculously overturned his sinking approval ratings. And why Jesse can't report on th...

The Weird History Of Vancouver’s Italian Press

23 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sometimes investigative journalism begins with an anonymous tip. Sometimes it begins with an access to information request for secret government docum...

(Short Cuts) Pierre World Order

19 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The many, many opinion pieces on why Pierre Poilievre shouldn't fire the head of the Bank of Canada. And why some Canadians insist on b...

Medusa

16 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Operation Medusa has become the most celebrated battle in recent Canadian history. It was hailed as a stroke of military genius that may have vanquish...

(Détours) La plus belle langue (après le cri)

14 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Des chefs de plusieurs nations autochtones s'opposent à l'adoption de la loi 96 au Québec, une loi qui, parmi d'autres conséquenc...

(Short Cuts) The Last Hoser

12 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The canucksploitation is egregious in Mike Myer's new Netflix show the Pentaverate. And the chairman of Post Media absolutely had to write a...

Abortion Rights In Canada Didn’t Come Easy

09 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

With the seemingly imminent repeal of Roe v. Wade in the United States, it's time to refamiliarize ourselves with Canada's long fought history for abo...

(Short Cuts) Tragedy To Our South, Unfinished Business At Home

05 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

With the imminent upheaval of abortion rights to the south, Canada's media reflects on the state of things here at home. And going by headlines, you'd...

Prairie Poop Bots, Floods And Water Shortages

02 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Did you know during a recent storm the City of Winnipeg released 60 million litres of raw sewage into the Red River? Did you know the City of Morden, ...

(Short Cuts) The Tweets Hereafter

28 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

You can probably guess why this one is about Twitter, but why does Short Cuts talk about it so very often? Also, what is the Justice Centre for Consti...

The Ad Money Fuelling Fake News

25 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The digital advertising industry is worth billions, but many companies don't actually know where their ad dollars end up. Programmatic ad exchanges an...

(Short Cuts) Pierre Poilievre: The Anti-Trudeau

21 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How Pierre Poilievre cultivated his attack-dog charm. And should we care about what the new CEO of the Toronto Star tweets? Jen Gerson ...

(CANADALANDBACK) Landback, Then What?

18 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Is it Indigenous stewardship ownership or is it becoming just another holographic bumper sticker? What does Landback mean to you, and to your nations ...

(Short Cuts) Greasy Alberta

14 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to AlbertaLand, where it's cold and greasy. And how the media is bored with the sixth wave. Dani Paradis co-hosts. Links:Canadian Press a...

Google And Facebook To The Rescue: Canadian News Gets On Big Tech’s Payroll

11 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Canada is two years into a news media bailout that was lobbied hard for by the country's newspapers. As it turns out the money that's flowed has had u...

(Short Cuts) The Ukraine War Correspondent In Edmonton

07 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Fact-checking the war in Ukraine. And the ‘Pay Me for Clickbait Act' - sorry, the ‘Online News Act.' Olena Goncharova co-hosts. Links...

"We Are Not The Journalism Police" – An Interview With The Journalism Police

04 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Canada is two years into a news media bailout that Trudeau cabinet ministers promised would be conducted with the utmost transparency. Instead, t...

(Short Cuts) We Will Never Know The Truth About Portapique

31 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The public inquest into the Portapique massacre is far from revealing. Will we ever get the answers to the many, many questions still remaining? And j...

#MeToo On Trial

28 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In 2015, award-winning author and (former) UBC professor Steven Galloway became the target of a social media storm after an allegation was leveled tha...

(Short Cuts) The Best Politics Show In Canada

24 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Short Cuts is off this week, so instead we bring you our latest episode of the best politics show in Canada, The Backbench. As nations around the...

Nasty Dumps And The Success Of BlogTO

21 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

So many journalists would look down their noses and sneer at the likes of BlogTO, Narcity, MTL Blog or any of the similar media companies that ha...

(Short Cuts) I Would Do Anything For Ukraine (But I Won’t Do That)

17 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Canadian MPs wax poetic about how President Zelensky inspires them… but is that really going to change anything? And how defamation lawsuits he...

Sarah Polley's Secret Life

14 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sarah Polley has come forward with memories of a violent sexual encounter with Jian Ghomeshi when she was 16. But why is the press tongue-tied about d...

(Short Cuts) Patrick Brown Settles For Less

10 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Patrick Brown has had his name cleared - according to an anonymous source. And the media loves a good war story. Karen Geier co-hosts. Links...

Russia's Weapons Of Mass Deception

07 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Canadaland doesn't have a foreign bureau, so we can't bring you the latest on the ground conflict in Ukraine. What we can do is show you another side ...

(Short Cuts) In Our Feelings About Ukraine

03 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Why do stories coming out of Ukraine feel different from other wartime coverage? And we look at the uneven media treatment of those who are impacted b...

Ottawa Cops: Rapes, Lies, And A Lawsuit Against The Press

28 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Long before Ottawa Police Chief Peter Sloly stepped down amidst criticism that the force had failed to stop the convoy occupation, there was trouble b...

(Short Cuts) A Kinder Gentler Machine Gun Hand

24 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Overcorrecting an overstatement creates confusion; how nice were the police in Ottawa really? And the emergency is over! Though the media seemed to su...

"How I Ended Up Supporting The Convoy"

21 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

There's a lot of chaos and division in Canada right now. Beyond the people who got arrested in Ottawa over the past few days, there are thousands...

(Short Cuts) Freedom Is Un-Canadian

17 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The kinder, gentler Emergencies Act should not be underestimated. And framing the convoy as foreign-funded and US-inspired does more harm than good. W...

Will You Be My Ex? Canada's Broken Divorce System

14 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week's episode is bursting your love bubble by digging into the dark side of love. You'll hear four personal stories that show, with increasing i...

(Short Cuts) Wrong 2: Wrong Harder

10 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Angry, bias-confirming echo chambers seem evident this week when it comes to the Freedom Convoy. And "a Toronto star at the Toronto Star" dies this we...

Inside Thunder Bay's Police

07 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

CANADALAND has spent a lot of time in Thunder Bay exploring the deep-rooted racism in the city and the stories of Indigenous people who live there, no...

(Short Cuts) Honk If You're Horny (For Freedom)

03 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The media may have missed the Freedom Convoy plot yet again. And as several Canadian artists pull their music from the platform, Spotify wades into pu...

Dead Willies

31 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It's a story about deception, coverups, and some say, about murder. This is a story about Groundhog Day. The true story of Wiarton Willie.CANADALAND E...

(Short Cuts) Truck Nutz

27 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How many anti-vax trucker convoys were there?! And people are making the case to break up the CBC again.Canadaland contributing editor Danielle Paradi...

The Plan To Turn My Hometown Into A Nuclear Waste Dump

24 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Canada has a nuclear problem... a nuclear waste problem. Since the dawn of nuclear power technology, solutions to waste have all been remarkably ...

(Short Cuts) Fordman And The Tiny Shovel

20 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The hunger for stories about Toronto's snow backfires. And when a story is about a hostage situation at a synagogue, why is there reluctance to call i...

Is New Brunswick Covering Up A Deadly Brain Disease?

17 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

There's a mystery disease that's plaguing people in New Brunswick. It starts with some muscle pain or spasms, before basic tasks like reading bec...

(Short Cuts) Rebel Nurses

13 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Healthcare workers against pandemic restrictions tell on themselves by suing for libel. And two Haitian journalists die reporting for a Montreal onlin...

Is The CBC So Woke It's Broke?

10 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A CBC employee resigned from the public broadcaster because she says it's become too woke.The article she wrote about her departure has caused quite t...

(Short Cuts) Variant Positions

06 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Publishing record COVID case counts might not be that helpful anymore. And a woman quits the CBC to start her own thing and Jesse isn't sure how to fe...

Updates On Pretendians, Porn, And Being Priced Out Of Life

03 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

After we turn off our microphones, here at CANADALAND, it would be great to think we brought you the definitive version of the story. But what actuall...

(Short Cuts Presents) Life And Death In Asbestos, QC

30 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Short Cuts is off this week, so we are sharing an absolutely shocking story from Commons' current season on mining in Canada. For a century, Cana...

Christmas In The Newsroom

27 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

People might take holidays, but the news doesn't. The best, worst, and funniest stories from reporters working Christmas in the newsroom.This might be...

(Short Cuts) Bad News For People Who Hate Good News

23 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Justin Trudeau tells-all in his revealing year-end interview, oh wait, he just stuck to the same old talking points. And yes, we're still going on abo...

The Duty To Sh*t Disturb

20 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

He's the academic expert people love to hate. But he considers stirring the pot his moral duty. This week, CANADALAND brings you a profile of Amir Att...

(Short Cuts) Erring on the Side of Panic

16 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The media is scaring the bejesus out of us about the Omicron variant, but being on perpetual high alert can backfire. And the case against feeding the...

The Tyranny Of Convenience

13 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

March 16, the day the restaurants died. Or did they? Food industry writer, Corey Mintz, dissects what COVID-19 and the rise of third-party delivery ap...

(Short Cuts) Diversity In Indigenous Opinions

09 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Indigenous delegation headed to the Vatican was canceled and the media seems most focused on a papal apology. And is coverage of the Ring of Fire ...