CANADALAND
Episodes
(Short Cuts) Don't Call Quebec Racist, They're Sensitive About It
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Quebec’s overblown backlash to the appointment of Amira Elghawaby as special representative on combatting Islamophobia in response to her analysis o...
Big Trouble with Meddling China
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Chinese state has infiltrated Canadian democracy at all levels, according to a bombshell report from investigative reporter Sam Cooper of Global N...
(Short Cuts) The Indulgent Consultant
26 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
McKinsey is on everyone’s lips, but it’s just one of the many consulting firms the government is spending millions on. And as the provinces and fe...
Medical Lies From The Maritimes
23 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It was in the winter of 2021 that the world first became aware of a mounting number of patients being seen in New Brunswick with unusual neurological ...
(Détours) Attention : Contient de la sensibilité au trauma
21 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Le chemin Roxham, un passage frontalier irrégulier au Québec, a fait l'objet d'une attention médiatique considérable ce mois-ci suite au décès d...
(Short Cuts) Liars, Deniers and Bears, Oh My!
19 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
And the Financial Post’s polar bear “expert” has some questionable associations in her past and a tendency to downplay climate change. Matt Gurn...
WTF, Marc Maron Is Moving To Canada?
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Marc joins Jesse for a conversation about his plans to emigrate to Vancouver and the differences between Canada and the U.S. when it comes to fascism,...
(Short Cuts) G.I. Justin
12 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Is PM Trudeau a stealth warmonger? Co-host David Pugliese explains why it is so difficult to wrap one’s head around military spending. And Jordan Pe...
Black Celebs vs "Jewish Media"
09 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kanye West, Dave Chappelle and Kyrie Irving have breathed new life into the antisemitic trope that Jews control the media. Is Jew-hatred from Black cu...
(Short Cuts) We Need A Name For This Awards Show
05 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Shorties! Or Cutties! Or Shortcuttys! A special awards show highlighting variably consequential media weirdness from the year past. Dani Paradis c...
(CANADALANDBACK) Do You Hear The Children Sing?
02 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
canadaLANDBACK is a co-production by Canada’s National Observer and Canadaland.Land claims can take generations to settle. Sometimes communities los...
COMMONS: Against the WIND
29 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was originally aired on December 7, 2022WIND Mobile, now known as Freedom, was a small company that tried to break through Canada’s tel...
Sarah Polley’s Secret Life
26 Dec 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) God Save the Tweets
22 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Why Twitter should be run more like a newsroom and a look at the Twitter Files. And the latest in CTV’s Lisa LaFlamme story and who was left out of ...
Christmas In The Newsroom
19 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
People might take holidays, but the news doesn't. For your holiday listening needs, here are stories from reporters who have worked Christmas in their...
(Short Cuts) Trauma-informed Journalism: A Choice and a Voice
15 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Former crime reporter Tamara Cherry — who now works as a specialist-for-hire on trauma-informed practices — joins Jonathan Goldsbie to consider wh...
The Taking of Wood Buffalo
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The largest National Park in Canada is Wood Buffalo, currently celebrating its 100th anniversary. But the people who inhabited it for thousands o...
(Short Cuts) Happiness Is A Banned Gun
08 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hunters are mad about the new big list of guns to be banned by the Liberals - but why should we care if it helps reduce gun violence? And the not so c...
The Food Bank Industrial Complex
05 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the holidays, and on your TV or radio you’re inevitably hit with ads telling you that this is the season of giving - it’s time to dona...
(Détours) Tribunal médiatique
03 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
AVERTISSEMENT : Dans cet épisode, nous discutons de violence à caractère sexuelle et de violence basée sur le genre. Si vous êtes à la recherche...
(Short Cuts) Hoisted On Their Own Qatar
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The potential hypocrisies of condemning human rights abuses in Qatar during the FIFA World Cup. And the increasing difficulty of writing critically ab...
Cops, Lies, And Videotape
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
*A note to listeners: Today’s episode deals with sexual violence inflicted on Indigenous minors and won’t be suitable for all listeners.In 2006, R...
(Short Cuts) Poilievre's Toxic Lie About Safe Supply
24 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Poilievre's toxic lie about safe supply. And the confusing and contradictory CSIS intelligence on China and the Freedom Convoy. Garth Mullins co hosts...
(CANADALANDBACK) Reclamation At Stoney Point - Part Two
21 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In part two: After a peaceful reclamation of the army base built on their land in 1993, elders of Stoney Point lead a movement to take back Ipperwash ...
(Short Cuts) Trudeau's Dismissive Chinese Dad
17 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The tense relationship between Canada and China after allegations of interference in our federal election. And do we need a mask mandate to prevent ma...
Ratfucker Chapter Three: The Trojan Horse
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Thanks to David Wallace and Richard Marsh, the Klondike Papers blew up online - and nothing garnered more attention than Wallace’s claim that there ...
(Détours) Option nucléaire
12 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Le calcul politique de Doug Ford se retourne contre lui alors que les Ontarien.nes démontrent leur soutien aux travailleurs et travailleuses de l'éd...
(Short Cuts) Never Gonna Give (Twitter) Up
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Unpacking the changes at Twitter and how chaos is Elon Musk's product. And what would it take for Canadians to change their mind on the use of the Eme...
Ratfucker Chapter Two: The Brethren
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Marsh was born into the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church. He got out of the group he calls a cult and has made it his mission to expose the ...
(Short Cuts) Hate Crimes Against Nazis
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The curious case of a journalist charged with the vandalism of a Nazi statue. And the first order of business for 10 newly elected politicians in Hami...
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...