CANADALAND

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 ...

Jailed for Journalism: Amber & Michael Speak Out

06 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Amber Bracken and Michael Toledano are freelance journalists who were arrested by RCMP officers on the morning of Nov. 19, 2021 while they were coveri...

(Short Cuts) News You Can't Use

02 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The latest COVID variant offers mixed messaging about the severity of the virus. And an obituary to memorialize an alleged murderer does not sit right...

The Rise of 6ixBuzz and the Death of Debby Parkway

29 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Support our work at canadaland.com/joinDid an Instagram account kill a vulnerable teenager? 6ixBuzz has unparalleled clout in Toronto with young audie...

(Short Cuts) Stop Arresting Journalists

25 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The struggle against Coastal Gaslink was bigger news this week because journalists got arrested. And even CBC can't seem to avoid the wrath of coverin...

Deep Rot in the RCMP

22 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Support our work at canadaland.com/joinFailure to protect hundreds of missing and murdered Indigenous women. Violent arrests at Wet'suwet'en and Fairy...

(Short Cuts) Rain, Rain, Marie Henein

18 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Support our work at canadaland.com/join As British Columbia assesses the damage from the downpour, what is the media's role when disaster strikes...

The Most Monotonous Emergency, Ever

15 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Support Canadaland at canadaland.com/joinOn the heels of COP26, Jesse heads back to school as he and his new senior producer, Sarah Lawrynuik, du...

(Short Cuts) Can Desmond Cole Be Cancelled?

11 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Support Canadaland at www.canadaland.com/joinA veteran Black columnist at The Star calls out Desmond Cole's activism out of nowhere. And CBC offi...

Millennial Mobsters

08 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Support Canadaland at canadaland.com/joinA new breed of hyper-connected, steroid-abusing, gender-bending, "entitled" thugs are changing the landscape ...

(Short Cuts) The Right To Be Awful

04 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Support our work at www.canadaland.com/joinThe 'saying-stuff business' gets some clarity from different courts regarding what one can and cannot expre...

The Rogers Family Compact

01 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Support Canadaland hereWho are the Rogers family? How did they get so powerful? Why have they turned against one another? And what does it matter...

(Short Cuts) Transploitation

28 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Support us here: https://canadaland.com/joinAnti-trans narratives found its way into three different media organizations this past week. And ever...

The High Cost Of Living

25 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Support us here: https://canadaland.com/joinRight now there are people who are choosing medically assisted death, because they don't have enough money...

(Short Cuts) Vax Test Dummies

21 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Support us here: https://canadaland.com/joinAsking how much fuel in drinking water is safe is just not the right question. And mannequins in the ...

Enormous Fires Everywhere

18 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Support us here: https://canadaland.com/joinRaging wildfires are now a normal part of summertime in Canada. Climate change comes at you fast, but the ...

(Short Cuts) Fine Dining Struggles

14 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The woes of fancy restaurants across Canada have been percolating - Who are we supposed to relate to? And the saga of the New York Times hit podcast c...

Mommy, Where Does COVID Come From, Part Two

11 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Virologist Angela Rasmussen listened to a recent Canadaland about the origins of COVID-19 and says we had it all wrong. Today she walks Jesse through ...

(Short Cuts) Truth and Recreation Day

07 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jesse was not on board with #CdnMediaFailed when it came to the story on Trudeau in Tofino. And attacks on journalists might be more of a Canadian pro...

Is the PPC racist?

04 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It's a question that has dogged the PPC since its inception. A question that leader Maxime Bernier blasted journalists for even coming close to asking...

(Short Cuts) Michaelmania

30 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The release of Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig shows what China really thinks about Canada. And Maxime Bernier asks his followers to "play dirty" wi...

Mommy, Where Does COVID Come From?

27 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The lab-leak theory has more evidence supporting it than ever before. Journalist Elaine Dewar has written a new book documenting little-known scientif...

(Short Cuts) Norm Macdonald Called Me a Motherf*cker

23 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We look back on the coverage of an absolutely underwhelming, demoralizing election. And we contend with a troubling aspect of Norm Macdonald's legacy....

Violence At Fairy Creek

20 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

There's a video from the Fairy Creek anti-logging demonstrations on Vancouver Island that shows police unleashing pepper spray at close range onto a c...

(Short Cuts) We Get What We Deserve

16 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Trudeau is getting upset and it seems to be working for him. And the English leaders' debate was widely derided. Was it deserved?Vice senior editor Ma...

Gagged By Law

13 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Non-disclosure agreements are incredibly common. But they protect abusers, and block journalism. They are also, as it turns out, often unenforceable. ...

(Short Cuts) Semen Retention Soldiers

09 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

After protestors threw gravel at the Prime Minister during a campaign stop, we ask: has this gotten too much coverage, or not enough? And we scrutiniz...

Canadian Politics Don't Have To Suck

06 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

With the election coming in two weeks, Jesse sits down for an interview with Tiffany Lam, producer of The Backbench, to discuss what kind of politics ...

(Short Cuts) Angry Idiots, Explained

02 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Many journalists are condemning the unruly protestors following Trudeau on the campaign trail. But is that our role? And co-host Jen Agg talks about h...

Canada's International Cash Cows

30 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Last year there were 540,000 international students in Canada according to Immigrations Refugees and Citizenship Canada, IRCC. Many of these students ...

(Short Cuts) Chopped And O'Tooled

26 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Twitter became the centre of the election this week when they put a "manipulated media” tag on one of Chrystia Freeland's tweets, which containe...

The White Saviors Ep. 1 - The Children’s Crusade

23 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Craig Kielburger was the Greta Thunberg of the 90s – a 12 year-old kid from the suburbs who dreamed of freeing the world's children from slavery. Hi...

(Short Cuts) Abandoning Afghanistan

19 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Recent stories about Canada's role in the War in Afghanistan fall short. And if Justin Trudeau is Veruca Salt, who then is Erin O'Toole? Pho...

Shad’s Hip-Hop Evolution

16 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Shad's Hip-Hop Evolution is an incredible piece of journalism that nobody is talking about.Hip-Hop Evolution is a remarkable piece of journalism and a...

(Short Cuts) Election Fever, Please Intubate

12 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Co-host Pauls Wells may be the only person aside from Trudeau who wants an election right now. We look ahead to the campaign and debates to come. WE i...

Introducing The White Saviors

11 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Subscribe to The White Saviors now! Series launch: August 23Over 25 years, WE built a golden brand by inspiring children to rally around their ch...

Foreign Agents Are Active In Canada

09 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In late 2020, FBI agents showed up at the New York home of activist and journalist Masih Alinejad, and told her that agents of the Iranian regime were...

(Short Cuts) EN FRANÇAIS SVP!

05 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Une journaliste scientifique a porté plainte à Radio Canada et a reçu beaucoup de haine. Et est-ce que les journalistes ré...

I Remember John Furlong

02 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Teachers accused of abusing Indigenous children at Catholic schools are among us. John Furlong is quoted regularly in the press as the man leadin...

(Short Cuts) The Invisible Enemies of Alberta

29 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A draft of the anti-Alberta inquiry was leaked and didn't find what it thought it would. And Facebook is partnering up with The Globe and Mail an...

Journalism Schools Are Revolting

26 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ryerson University (aka X University) has a Journalism department in turmoil over student grievances. As similar reckonings sweep Canada's other ...

(Short Cuts) Church Burnings & Cultural War Bullshit

22 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The resignation of BC Civil Liberties Union's executive director sparks controversy on both mainstream and social media. And National Post might be su...

Are Taxis Finished?

19 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Travel Writer and Journalist, Marcello Di Cintio talks to Jesse about his one year journey around Canada, in search of the secret stories etched in th...

(Short Cuts) Election Meme Pregame

15 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The election hasn't even been called yet but our major parties' social media strategies already deserve some attention. And as more Canadians get vacc...

War On Porn

12 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Pornhub is a massive Canadian website that few talked about until the New York Times called it out for profiting from the exploitation of children and...

(Short Cuts) Hudson's Bay Identity Theft

08 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Twitter conversations seem more interesting than the media's coverage on Canada's first Indigenous Governor-General. The Bay tries to empower BIPOC wh...

Ep. 376 - What Is Black Press, And Did Victoria Police Re-Write Its News Story?

05 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

News stories are frequently updated, clarified or corrected online, after they've been published. But when there's no disclosure that a story has...

Short Cuts #316 - Happy Independence (From Moral Responsibility) Day!

01 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The media is fixated on whether to celebrate Canada Day as the Lower Kootenay First Nation announces the discovery of another 182 unmarked graves in B...

Ep. 375 - That Time China Bought A Vancouver Newspaper

28 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

As reports of Chinese government influence in Canadian media gain traction, South China Morning Post reporter Ian Young reveals an incredible tale fro...

Short Cuts #315 - But What Does The Statue Think Of His Beheading?

24 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Toronto Star published a "Saturday Debate" about Egerton Ryerson's legacy that contradicted the TRC - and they knew it. And it appears a police do...

Ep. 374 - "Pretendians" On Campus?

21 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Queen's University quickly rejected the findings of an anonymous report accusing six people associated with the school of misrepresenting their Indige...

Short Cuts #314 - End Times For Shock Jocks

17 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ed the Sock doesn't seem okay since Bell announced it would reboot MuchMusic. CBC won't let their audience comment on their articles on Facebook anymo...

Ep. 373 - Another NXIVM Podcast

14 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

"Coercive control" is how cults like NXIVM entrap followers and how abusive partners dominate their victims. A growing movement is calling for a law a...

Short Cuts #313 - White Terror And The Media

10 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Muslim-Canadians call out the media for harming their community. And the controversy around CBC cancelling Kim's Convenience goes international. Freel...