CANADALAND
Episodes
Ep. 330 - A CBC News Anchor On Systemic Racism At Work
22 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Support us here: canadalandshow.com/join Adrian Harewood is a news anchor at CBC Ottawa News and the host of weekly current affairs show, Our Ottawa....
Short Cuts #266 - The Reckoning
18 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Support us at canadalandshow.com/join Journalists across Canada are speaking out about their experiences with racism in the newsroom. And as Wendy Me...
Ep. 329 - The Tyrant's Spin Doctor
15 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Support us at canadalandshow.com/join Lord Tim Bell worked for a rogues' gallery of international clients, and co-founded one of the most powerful PR...
Ep. 279 - A Forgotten News Lab Predicted Journalism’s Online Future in 1991
11 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Support us here: canadalandshow.com/join InfoLab imagined newspapers' transition from print to digital, creating multimedia digital news in the basem...
Ep. 296 - Two Centuries of Blackface in Canada
08 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Support us here: canadalandshow.com/join Dr. Cheryl Thompson is an assistant professor at Ryerson University’s School of Creative Industries, and t...
Short Cuts #265 - Newsroom Mutiny
04 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland: https://canadalandshow.com/join Protests have erupted around the world in response to police violence against Black p...
Ep. 328 - Should Big Tech Bail Out The News?
01 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Support us at canadalandshow.com/join The pandemic could be an "extinction event" for American newspapers and so their publishers want their own gover...
Isolation Interview: The Right Honourable Kim Campbell
29 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“My biggest fear is that not enough will change, and not enough lessons will be learned.” Kim Campbell is a former Prime Minister of Canada, the f...
Short Cuts #264 - Smelly Rogue
28 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland: https://canadaland.supercast.tech/ Torstar was just sold for $52 million, droves of people were chastised for going t...
Isolation Interview: Kaie Kellough
27 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"I had a confrontation with someone in the line up for a grocery store... and that moment of slow honeyed ease was totally interrupted." Kaie Kellough...
Isolation Interview: Xanthe Vallentin
26 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“I’m going to be very careful about how much I leave my property until there’s a vaccine.” Xanthe Vallentin is a teacher in Hamilton, Ontario,...
Ep. 327 - A Crime Reporter Exposes The Child Welfare System
25 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Support us here: http://canadalandshow.com/join The child welfare system is failing Indigenous children, and APTN's Kenneth Jackson can't stop coveri...
Isolation Interview: Mumilaaq Qaqqaq
22 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"After this pandemic, we can create a new normal that's better for everyone." Mumilaaq Qaqqaq is the MP for Nunavut.Support CANADALAND: https://can...
Short Cuts #263 - A Case For Bad Art
21 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Support us here: canadalandshow.com/join The incredibly controversial painting of Justin Trudeau, François Legault’s problem with anglophone media,...
Isolation Interview: Omar El Akkad
20 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Support us here: canadalandshow.com/join “The job of fiction is to intrude on reality and instead we’re living in a situation where reality is ...
Isolation Interview: Martha Wainwright
19 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Support us here: canadalandshow.com/join “In the silence you start to wonder…how are we going to find each other again?” Martha Wainwright is a ...
Ep. 326 - While We Weren’t Looking
18 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Support us here: canadalandshow.com/join In the face of a global pandemic, it’s hard to focus on anything else. Three journalists tell us stories th...
Isolation Interview: Jesse Brown
15 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Support us here: canadalandshow.com/join "The wild oscillations of feeling are abnormal for me." Jesse Brown is the publisher of Canadaland.Support CA...
Short Cuts #262 - Racist Vegan
14 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. Bryan Adams pulls a Morrissey, an Indigenous ceremony is broken up by the RCMP, and Ghomeshi attemp...
Isolation Interview: Brooke Manning
13 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“I never believe in going down without a fight…I’m a triple fire sign.” Brooke Manning is the owner of Likely General, a store and gallery spa...
Isolation Interview: Weyni Mengesha
12 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Hugs feel like they’re going to be euphoric.” Weyni Mengesha is the artistic director of Soulpepper Theatre Company in Toronto.Support CANADALA...
Ep. 325 - Should We Stop Naming Killers?
11 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. Prime Minister Trudeau said naming the Nova Scotia mass shooter was giving him "the gift of infamy."...
Isolation Interview: John Semley
08 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"I fucking hate Zooming... and having to look at my own face." John Semley is a writer and author who splits his time between Toronto and Philadelphia...
Short Cuts #261 - Billionaire Welfare Slackers
07 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. When police searched journalists’ offices in the Alberta legislature, we wondered how government ...
Isolation Interview: Jaren Kerr
06 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"I guess like a positive abnormal and unusual thing I did was propose to my girlfriend, which was pretty cool." Jaren Kerr is an editor at Yahoo Fi...
Isolation Interview: Martin Lukacs
05 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"I think I may have had coronavirus." Martin Lukacs is a journalist and author based in Montreal.Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee om...
Ep. 324 - Kenny vs. Kenny
04 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. Kenny Hotz achieved fame as the co-star of Kenny vs. Spenny, one of Canada’s most successful TV s...
Isolation Interview: Kai Cheng Thom
01 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Pushing for a world where we accept the risks of having a body... That's where we need to go." Kai Cheng Thom is a writer and performer based in Toro...
Short Cuts #260 - Celebrity Malfunction
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. The more we learn about the shooting in Nova Scotia, the worse it becomes. And did the star-studded...
Isolation Interview: B.J. Snowden
29 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"I want my friends and family to be safe from this" BJ Snowden is an American musician who has written many songs about Canada. Support CANADALAND: h...
Isolation Interview: André Picard
28 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"I like to remind people the chances of getting infected by somebody walking or running by you outside— they're virtually nil" André Picard is a ...
Ep. 323 - Industry Pandemic
27 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. Journalists across Canada tell us how Covid-19 has changed how they bring us the news. This episode...
Isolation Interview: Chris Locke
24 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"It'll probably be like a mega-hedonistic orgy after this." Chris Locke is a comedian in Toronto. He has a new podcast called "Happy Good."Support CAN...
Short Cuts #259 - Our Press Can’t Handle The Nova Scotia Shooting
23 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. The confluence of the pandemic, reliance on police for information, and slashed newsroom budgets me...
Isolation Interview: Tanya Talaga
22 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“This virus is a bitch, for sure.” Tanya Talaga is the author of Seven Fallen Feathers and All Our Relations. She is also a former health reporter...
Isolation Interview: Surinder Mann
21 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"I’m helping other people to be safe." Surinder Mann is a cleaner who lives in North Delta, BC, and is also the mother of COMMONS' host, Arshy Mann....
Ep. 322 - Why Life Without Fear Is Miserable
20 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. When journalist Eva Holland lost her mom, she went on a quest to understand the science behind her ...
Isolation Interview: Severn Cullis-Suzuki
16 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"My ten-year old got his first octopus all by himself" Severn Cullis-Suzuki is a writer, television host, and a board member of the David Suzuki Found...
Short Cuts #258 - Snitch Nation
16 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. Do the same rules apply to Justin Trudeau and Andrew Scheer as to the rest of us? Do the rules matt...
Isolation Interview: Club Quarantine
15 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"If we are looking like we are one of the girls just dancing having fun, it's probably performative" Brad Allen and Andrés Sierra are two of the co-...
Isolation Interview: Kate Beaton
14 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"I do participate in society." Kate Beaton is an excellent cartoonist. Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener fo...
Ep. 321 - Did Covid-19 Kill The Alt-Right?
13 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. The Deplorables that surrounded the Trump presidential campaign have all but disappeared from the m...
Short Cuts #257 - Speaking Moistly
09 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. For weeks, we’ve all been trying to flatten the curve. But how do we measure our success if the n...
Isolation Interview: Matt Huether
08 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"I got scolded by the deputy mayor of Los Angeles for not including Funyuns in my tweet" Choose wisely: https://twitter.com/_Matty_H_/status/124659638...
Isolation Interview: Elizabeth May
07 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"This is the death of neoliberalism."Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Aca...
Ep. 320 - Coronavirus Is In Our Prisons And Trudeau Is Doing Nothing
06 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. Reporter Justin Ling speaks with prisoners across Canada terrified of COVID-19 sweeping through the ...
Isolation Interview: David Sax
03 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"When this is all over, I never want to Zoom again." David Sax's new book is coming out in the midst of a pandemic. Support CANADALAND: https://cana...
Short Cuts #256 - Good Faith, Bad Information
02 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. Has the messaging about whether to wear a face mask been contradictory? How do you report on sports...
Isolation Interview: Robert Jago
01 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“I have been obsessed with virtual reality” Robert Jago is a writer and head of an education firm. He lives in Montreal.Support CANADALAND: https...
Isolation Interview: Shad
31 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"I've been watching old NBA games and breaking them down on Instagram Live." Shad is an artist and host of Hip Hop Evolution, available on Netflix.Sup...
Ep. 319 - Cross Country COVID Checkup
30 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. Our first ever call-in show. From Quebec to British Columbia to Nunavut to Brooklyn, Coronavirus has...
Isolation Interview: Sarah Hagi
27 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Put on normal clothes, remember to stretch... That doesn't help. You're still in the prison of your own mind." Support CANADALAND: h...
Short Cuts #255 - This Op-Ed Could Kill People
26 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. COVID-19 coverage continues, for the most part, to be even-handed. But that’s not why you listen ...
Isolation Interview: Ryan McMahon
25 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"If it really goes down, I can always shoot a moose." We're doing a call-in show! If you want to vent to Jesse about your living situation, call 844-9...
Isolation Interview: Margaret Atwood
24 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"My life is never exactly normal. But it's normal for me." We're doing a call-in show! If you want to vent to Jesse about your living situation, call ...
Ep. 318 - The Last Picture Show
23 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. Independent movie theatres were in trouble before COVID-19 became a global pandemic, and now even th...
Isolation Interview: Socalled
20 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"So they told us music is free, so it's all about the shows now. You gotta make the shows, you gotta sell things at the shows. Now we don't have shows...
Short Cuts #254 - Wave Of Isolation
19 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. In a time like this, we’re so flooded with information that good, quality journalism matters more...
Isolation Interview: Jen Agg
18 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Restaurateur Jen Agg just wants to get home.Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted...
Isolation Interview: Robyn Doolittle
17 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What feels most weird right now? Doing normal things. Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informat...
Ep.317 - Meditations In An Emergency
16 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
$5/month for ad-free podcasts here. We are facing an unprecedented shutdown of services and businesses across the country. Health columnist Andre Pica...
Short Cuts #253 - Panic! At The Discoronavirus
12 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. As COVID-19 is declared a global pandemic, how are Canadian media handling the coverage? And what o...
Ep. 316 - One News Brand To Rule Them All
09 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. Is The New York Times a model for success in the news business, or a monolithic news brand that's c...
Short Cuts #252 - Canada Is Working Exactly As Intended
05 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. A front-page story tells us that Canada is broken. Is it, or is this exactly how the country was de...
Ep.315 - The Cocaine Smuggling Ring At VICE
02 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 2015, five young people were arrested for smuggling cocaine into Australia. They had a common connection: Slava P, a music editor at VICE Canada. A...
SHORT CUTS #251 - Heard It Through The Pipeline
27 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
$5/month for ad-free podcasts by clicking here. Do journalists need to be protestors to get better access to Wet'suwet'en solidarity actions? Plus, th...
BONUS: Jesse Gets Grilled
25 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
To hear the full episode right now and get ad-free podcasts, support us for $5/month by clicking here. Jesse answers tough questions from our suppor...
Ep.314 - Nardwuar: The Interview
24 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
$5/month for ad-free CANADALAND by clicking here. In a rare interview, Nardwuar talks about his career, his techniques, his reputation and what keeps ...
Short Cuts #250 - Wet’suwet’en Coverage Is Still Pretty Bad
20 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. Jason Kenney’s War Room sets its sights on that white whale of fake news: The New York Times. And ...
Ep.313 - Nardwuar: An Oral History
17 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. Nardwuar the Human Serviette is one of the biggest media personalities to come out of Canada. He’s...
Short Cuts #249 - Christie Blatchford’s Complicated Legacy
13 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. Jordan Peterson’s familial PR team, Christie Blatchford’s legacy, Ezra Levant’s civil disobed...
Ep.312 - Siege On Wet’suwet’en
10 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. Last week, the RCMP arrested six people for obstruction on Wet’suwet’en territory. They then thr...
Short Cuts #248 - Return Of The Conservative Rapper
06 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Heritage Minister doesn't seem to understand his own plan for regulating the internet (or not), so we break it down for you. And a group that does...
Ep.18 - VICE: An Oral History
03 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Conflict and controversy as Gavin McInnes and others remember Voice of Montreal, a government-subsidized community newspaper in the 90s that grew into...
SHORT CUTS #247 - Coronaviral
30 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Have we learned anything about reporting on viruses since SARS? And what can a new documentary about Idle No More teach us about our present state of ...
Ep.311 - Let's Talk About Bell's Harmful Prison Phone Contract
27 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Every year, Bell shines the spotlight on mental health for Let’s Talk Day. So we’re taking a look at their prison phone contract, which advocates ...
SHORT CUTS #246 - Come From Huawei
23 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What was up with those "protesters" outside Meng Wanzhou's extradition hearing? And could monarchical migration have an impact on privacy in Canadian ...
Ep.310 - Why Is The CBC So Schitty?
20 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The CBC wants to play by the same rules that govern digital platforms like Netflix and Amazon. No rules at all. Daniel Bernhard, the executive directo...
Short Cuts #245 - I Wanna Live Like Commonwealth People Do
16 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We examine the controversy around stating a plain fact about flight 752. Then, a Royal welcome. With co-host Nora Loreto. This episode is spo...
Ep.309 - A War Reporter’s Newsroom Battles
13 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Paul Watson resigned from the Toronto Star in 2015 when they banned him from reporting on a story. We spoke to him a...
SHORT CUTS #244 - Iran So Far
09 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve heard so much from south of the border about Iran, but how are Canadian media treating this conflict? And The Fifth Estate delivers some spuri...
Ep.308 - The Media War Over The Hong Kong Protests
06 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For more than half a year, protesters in Hong Kong have clashed with police. Legacy media organizations in Canada have covered the protests, but a big...
Ep.290 - What It's Like To Want To Die
02 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on August 12, 2019. Reporter Anna Mehler Paperny talks about her book, Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression ...
COMMONS: Dynasties - The Sahotas
30 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Sahotas are Vancouver’s most notorious slumlords. For decades they’ve let their buildings rot, leaving their tenants to live in filth and deso...
Ep.258 - Christmas in the Newsroom
26 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on December 23, 2018. We reached out to Canadian journalists to get their stories about spending the holidays at work. N...
Ep.307 - NOW and Then
23 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this month, Toronto’s alt-weekly NOW Magazine was sold to Media Central. Former co-owner and founder of NOW, Michael Hollett, joins to talk...
SHORT CUTS #243 - The Media Hit Jobs on Andrew Scheer and Jody Wilson-Raybould
19 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone knows that Andrew Scheer resigned because of his tuition scandal; what this podcast presupposes is: maybe he didn’t? And the manufactured o...
Ep.306 - The Globe And Mail's Hidden Campaign For Government Favours
16 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, Canadaland’s new team published a story about how The Globe and Mail’s management repeatedly campaigned the Prime Minister’s office ...
SHORT CUTS #242 - Inside Jordan Peterson's Antisocial Network
12 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A look inside Jordan Peterson’s new social media platform, which bans photos, memes, and emojis in the name of anti-censorship! Also, The Toronto St...
Ep.305 - Researchers Just Proved The Media Is Too White
09 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Canada’s media organizations are reluctant to release their diversity stats. But Asmaa Malik and Sonya Fatah from Ryerson’s School of Journalism ...
SHORT CUTS #241 - History Will Judge Us For Our China Takes
05 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Leaked audio from a NATO summit reveals Trudeau’s totally reasonable reaction to Trump. Did an Edmonton school board try to shut down a radio interv...
Ep.52 - Hark! Kate Beaton
02 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on October 12, 2014. Cartoonist Kate Beaton is an exemplary weirdo. Her webcomic about Canadian historical figures and ...
SHORT CUTS #240 - Purified By Hatred
28 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
More details have emerged about Warren Kinsella’s secret work to expose Maxime Bernier as a racist. And what’s at stake as the CBC renegotiates it...
Ep.304 - From Nanook To The New York Times: Misrepresentations Of The North
25 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Documentary filmmaker Alethea Arnaquq-Baril joins and talks about how the media continues to misrepresent Indigenous people. The episode is brought ...
SHORT CUTS #239 - StarMetro Hunger Games
21 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Torstar announced the closure of five papers across Canada, CBC tried to consolidate broadcasts across its radio stations in the North, and Don Cherry...
Ep.303 - Jon Ronson
18 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation about the similarities between journalism and porn becomes a tense disagreement about online shaming. Jon Ronson, journalist and author...
SHORT CUTS #238 - What Don Cherry Means To Me
14 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Don Cherry drafts his first Quillette essay: “The Day the Social Media Mob Came for Me.” Also, opinion writing in Canada post-Margaret Wente turns...
Ep.302 - Is The Extreme Right Finished In Canada?
11 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Covering the extreme right has become its own beat in Canada. But is there a thin, blurry line between coverage and giving a platform to those with ha...
SHORT CUTS #237 - Shitty Media Management
07 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A national news media start-up hires then fires its staff in a month. Also, Elizabeth May has harsh parting shots for the media. Freelancer Sarah Hagi...
Ep.301 - Interview With A Very Rich Person Who Wants To Abolish Wealth
04 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Meghan Bell wants Canada to tax the rich. Of course, that belief would be a lot easier to explain at the dinner table if her own family wasn’t massi...