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Short Cuts #304 - Pitchforks And Needles

08 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

An uprising of frontline workers forces change to COVID policies. And with a major merger in the works, a telecom giant makes the case that less compe...

Ep. 341 - Food Will Find A Way

05 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Restaurants have struggled badly during the pandemic.But food writer Suresh Doss takes us to a parking lot, a subway stop, and a home cook's...

Short Cuts #303 - That's A Wrap For Randy's Tap

01 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

CBC puts an end to Randy Bachman's Vinyl Tap after just 16 years of self-indulgent, uninspiring radio. What will take its place? And it turns out one ...

Ep. 364 - Fake News From Fish Farms

29 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A site called SeaWestNews describes Alexandra Morton as “BC's loudest anti-salmon farming activist,” and her writing as “rambling&rd...

Short Cuts #302 - Picky With The Sticky

25 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Are stories about vaccine efficacy doing more harm than good? And Canadian politicians are following a road paved by Trump, singling out critics for s...

Ep. 217 - The CANADALAND Guide To Jordan B. Peterson

22 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The culture war icon is back with a new bestseller. We revisit our examination of Jordan Peterson the media phenomenon, which asks how an obscure Cana...

Short Cuts #301 - Jason Kenney Vs. Bigfoot

18 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What's the best way to cover allegations of sexual misconduct in the Canadian Armed Forces - or just generally, really? And the Alberta government has...

Ep. 363 - Interview With A Real Life Bond Villain

15 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ari Ben-Menashe has been an Israeli spy, sold weapons to Iran, survived a firebombing, and been the target of at least one RCMP investigation. He cros...

Short Cuts #300 - Do You Like Pink Slips And Scram? HuffPost! BuzzFeed! Canned, I Am

11 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

HuffPost Canada is dead. The Ryerson School of Journalism faces a crisis. And a very serious, important conversation about Dr. Seuss.The Nation's nati...

Ep. 362 - The Millionaires Of Haiti

08 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A Haitian senator's wife paid $4.25 million—all money down—for a house in Laval, Quebec. Meanwhile in Haiti, people have been protesting a...

Short Cuts #299 - Hard News, Loose Slots

04 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Torstar gets into the gambling business. Americans get caught up on the WE scandal. And documents suggest Canada's two major newspaper chains traded n...

Ep. 361 - Will Government Media Rules Strangle Canadaland?

01 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In February, as the Australian government prepared to introduce a link tax, Facebook blocked all news from its Australian platform.  The new legi...

Short Cuts #298 - The Times, They Are a-Cronkin'

25 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Canada's vote to call China's treatment of Uyghurs a genocide exposes an online wave of China apologists on the far left. And the New York Times bring...

Ep. 360 - How An Extreme Catholic News Site Went Full QAnon

22 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

LifeSiteNews may be the biggest Canadian news outlet you've never heard of — a kind of Breitbart for traditionalist Catholics. A new investigati...

Short Cuts #297 - Vax Canadiana

18 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Canadian media have lost the plot around the vaccine rollout. And a Montreal-based website makes the list of COVID-19 conspiracy theory superspreaders...

Ep. 359 - The Convenient "Pretendian"

15 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Michelle Latimer was the buzziest Canadian director and showrunner of 2020. Her documentary Inconvenient Indian premiered at TIFF and reaped plaudits ...

Short Cuts #296 - The Great Flattening

11 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Our digital worlds are collapsing. Jon Kay is on Fox News complaining about Seth Rogen, while celebrities are sharing the stage with normal people on ...

Ep. 358 - How India Blames Canada (And Rihanna) For The Farmers Protest

08 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Indian government doesn't take criticism lightly, whether it's from Prime Minister Trudeau... or Rihanna. Baaz co-founder Jaskaran Sandh...

Short Cuts #295 - Dog Shampoo

04 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Reddit did not actually stand up to Wall Street and prove the power of the little guy. Jon Kay briefly sparks joy. The Canadian government is working ...

Ep. 357 - Califail

01 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The New York Times' wildly popular podcast Caliphate came into question after its central character, a Canadian man who claimed he'd joined ISIS and c...

Short Cuts #294 - You Can't Even Spare Jessica Mulroney?

28 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sponsored messaging from Alberta says climate journalists are helping to stage a covert revolution. And media empires strike back to protect their own...

Ep. 356 - Joe Sacco

25 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Comics journalist Joe Sacco tells Jesse about how he draws stories out of people— then draws them onto the page. Most famous for his journalisti...

Short Cuts #293 - A Fired CBC Employee Is Vindicated

21 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Reporter Ahmar Khan tried to blow the whistle on systemic racism at CBC... and they fired him. Maclean's publishes a big, powerful list. Ryan McMahon ...

Ep. 355 - The Open Source Hunt For The Capitol Rioters

18 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Many people who broke into the Capitol broadcast their crimes across social media. Twitter, Facebook and other platforms responded by deleting account...

Short Cuts #292 - The Putz Putsch

14 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Premiers activate shitty dad mode. And tech companies clamping down on Trumpism could have unintended consequences.CANADALAND's new French language me...

Ep. 354 - This Virus Is Rampant Because We Abandoned Workers

11 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

With COVID-19 cases in many parts of Canada on the rise, what about the people who can't stay home? The Toronto Star's labour reporter Sara Mojtehedza...

Short Cuts #291 - Holy Sh*t! (No Sh*t)

07 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A pro-Trump mob invades the U.S. Capitol building, the hunt continues for Canadian politicians who ignored COVID travel advisories and we reflect on w...

Ep. 353 - Dinosaur Internet

04 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In rural communities and in the North, people pay ridiculously high bills for ridiculously slow Internet.But decent Internet access isn't a luxury.&nb...

Crackdown: Cut Off

31 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Here's an episode of the podcast Crackdown, hosted by Garth Mullins. In 2015, Crackdown editorial board member, Jeff Louden, was on mor...

COMMONS: The Police - Dirty Tricks

28 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A teenage boy and his friends start robbing banks in Toronto. A future Prime Minister is deported from Montreal. A Black Panther in Baltimore goes to ...

Ep. 258 - Christmas In The Newsroom

24 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Stories of big news breaking when everyone else is on vacation.Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy ...

Ep. 352 - Drunk Uncle Holiday Argument Simulator

21 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The holidays, as we know them, are cancelled. So we asked people to call Jesse and argue about... whatever, in the true spirit of this festive season....

Short Cuts #290 - Justice Is Served, Portions Are Small

17 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

They're lobster criminals, not lobster vigilantes. Does the CBC's President live in Brooklyn or just sleep there in a house she owns? And Brayden Bush...

Ep. 351 - A Uyghur Family Separated By China-Canada Politics

14 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A Uyghur man imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay for years was released over a decade ago, after the U.S. decided he wasn't an “enemy combatant” ...

Short Cuts #289 - Canada's Secret Porn Stash

10 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The New York Times says Canada needs to stand up against child exploitation on PornHub — but their columnist's suggestions could create new prob...

Ep. 350 - Loblaws Will Eat Us All

07 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Westons might be Canada's Jeff Bezos, argues Vass Bednar, and not just because they're very rich.They own Loblaw, which is much more than a grocer...

Short Cuts #288 - A Working Class Hero Is Something To BBQ

03 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A petulant sandwich slinger gets attention as restaurants struggle across the country. A Global News Radio host quits over threatening messages about ...

Ep. 349 - #MeToo And The Iranian Diaspora

30 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Last summer, allegations of sexual misconduct were levelled against prominent Iranian-Canadian artist Aydin Aghdashloo during Iran's #MeToo moment. Mo...

Short Cuts #287 - Welcome To The Worst

26 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A couple of Manitobans make a show of the media lying. Keean Bexte uncovers a socialist incubator. And copaganda tries out podcasting. Winnipeg-based ...

Ep. 99 - Christie Blatchford

23 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jesse speaks with the late Christie Blatchford, the notorious National Post columnist and court reporter who once called his work "another low-water m...

Short Cuts #286 - Off The Reconciliation Train Again

19 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Addressing the drinking water crisis in First Nations communities is not rebuilding post-war Europe. And mandating Indigenous content on Canadian broa...

Ep. 348 - Is Canada Ready To Give Land Back?

16 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It's crowdfunding month! Support us: canadaland.com/join.Since we last spoke to Karl Dockstader and Sean Vanderklis about the occupation of a developm...

Short Cuts #285 - Facebook Fangoria

12 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It's crowdfunding month! Support us here: canadaland.com/join.Beware of the FANG! And how to cover Chinese infiltration — or anti-Chinese infilt...

Ep. 347 - The Brayden Bushby Trial And Pity Porn

09 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It's crowdfunding month! Support us: canadaland.com/join.The Brayden Bushby trial has once again raised some uncomfortable questions about how stories...

Short Cuts #284 - There Is No Going Back To Normal

05 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It's crowdfunding month! Support us: canadaland.com/join.We may not know yet who won the U.S. election, but the results aren't reassuring.  ...

Ep. 346 - We're Getting Sued

02 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It's crowdfunding month! Support us here: canadaland.com/joinRebel News personality Keean Bexte is suing Canadaland for defamation.In this special &ld...

Short Cuts #283 - Newspaper Seeks Wealthy Idiot

29 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It's crowdfunding month! Support us here: canadaland.com/join.National Post doubles down on their right to publish status quo opinions. And Bell Media...

Ep. 345 - Ali Velshi Says The U.S. Election Will Be Closer Than You Think

26 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

MSNBC host and journalist Ali Velshi has been traveling to U.S. swing states talking to voters in the lead-up to the presidential election. He tells J...

Short Cuts #282 - Reconciliation In Flames

22 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It's crowdfunding month! Support us at canadaland.com/join.Hulk smash colonialism! And public health messaging crosses a line when trick or treating d...

Ep. 344 - WE Charity: In Desperation There Is Opportunity

19 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It's crowdfunding month! Support us at canadaland.com/joinSantai Kimakeke blew the whistle on WE. Then he recanted his allegations and disappeared. Be...

Short Cuts #281 - Anti-Maskers: How To Cover The Uncovered

15 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Media's anti-masker intrigue has Canadaland staff divided. And almost 300 CBC journalists raise concerns about leveraging the broadcaster's credibilit...

Ep. 281 - Trolling Jonathan Torrens

12 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jonathan Torrens talks about the CBC, what really happened on Trailer Park Boys, and about that one song you love to hate.From hosting his own show on...

Short Cuts #280 - The Socialist Coup You Can Trust

08 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A trifecta of powerful (potentially socialist) forces rally behind #NationalNewspaperWeek—or not. And the bias of coherence muddles COVID-19 mes...

Ep. 343 - The New Solitudes

05 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Quebec's distinct culture reacts differently to global movements like #MeToo and Black Lives Matter. Jesse is joined by Emilie Nicolas, a columnist, j...

Short Cuts #279 - Did The New York Times Get Catfished?

01 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

RCMP charges a podcast star with not being a terrorist. And Edmonton radio host chooses the wrong put-down. Al Jazeera English journalist and filmmake...

Ep. 342 - Corporate Psychopaths Still Run The World

28 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel calls corporate social responsibility's bluff.Co-directors Joel Bakan and Jennifer Abbott on h...

Short Cuts #278 - Lobster Politics

24 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Mi'kmaw fishermen earning a ‘moderate livelihood' seems to be too much for Nova Scotia's settler lobster harvesters. And CBC leverages its credi...

Ep. 341 - Food Will Find A Way

21 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Restaurants have suffered huge losses during the pandemic. But food journalist Suresh Doss takes us to a parking lot, a subway stop, and a home cook's...

Short Cuts #277 - Conservative Cuties

17 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Erin O'Toole wants to protect children from a movie he has never seen. And former CBC journalist Terry Milewski resurfaces from retirement to insult a...

Ep. 340 - Dethroning The Arts-Grant Elite

14 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

There's a broad undertaking to shake up who gets arts funding, and who governs it. Jesse speaks with Jesse Wente, the new President of the Canada Coun...

Short Cuts #276 - Scandalized Philanthropists and A Criminalized Journalist

10 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Breaking news on WE. An Indigenous journalist is criminalized for doing his job. And mass panic appears to be on the newly minted curriculum. One Dish...

Bonus AMA: Canadaland's Money

07 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

You asked about our money, Jesse answers. To hear the rest of this special episode right now, go to canadalandshow.com/joinSupport CANADALAND: ht...

Short Cuts #275 - Bring Me The Head Of John A. Macdonald!

03 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Does anyone really care about indignities to the legacy of John A.Macdonald? And the inside story of co-host Manisha Krishnan's scoop about the "...

Ep. 339 - Shree Paradkar

31 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Toronto Star's new internal ombud tells us what the job is, discusses power and race in the newsroom, and responds to that reply all email.This ep...

Short Cuts #274 - Reply-All Rosie

27 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Support us at canadalandshow.com/joinWhat might Jesse and Erin O'Toole have in common? And newsrooms continue to struggle with what it means to respon...

Ep.338- What The Hell Is The Epoch Times?

24 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Support us here: canadalandshow.com/joinThe Epoch Times' COVID-19 special edition raised controversy when it landed in mailboxes across Canada in Apri...

Short Cuts #273 - Anti-Rebel, Prorogue

20 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Support us here: canadalandshow.com/joinPrime Minister Trudeau just needs a quick reset. And Postmedia stands in solidarity with Rebel News. Former CA...

Ep. 337 - 1492 Land Back Lane

17 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Support us here: canadalandshow.com/joinThis week marks a month since the start of a land occupation to block a residential development at the ed...

Short Cuts #272 - Anonymously Awesome!

13 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Support us here: canadalandshow.com/join The Prime Minister’s Office leaks secret intel on how amazing it is. And Quebec’s French print papers som...

Ep. 272 - The Best New(ish) Podcast In Canada Is About The Opioid Crisis

10 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Support us here: canadalandshow.com/join.  Crackdown covers the war on drugs from the trenches, and these war correspondents are drug users.  Host G...

Ep. 313 - Nardwuar: An Oral History

06 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Support us at canadalandshow.com/join Nardwuar the Human Serviette is one of the biggest media personalities to come out of Canada. He’s a prolific...

Ep. 336 - Let No Good Deed

03 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Support us at canadalandshow.com/join Last week’s House Finance Committee hearings into the WE Charity scandal yielded few new insights into why the...

Short Cuts #271 - Bottom Of The Barrel

30 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Support us at canadalandshow.com/join The Kielburgers testified before the House of Commons finance committee, updates on the Nova Scotia shooting, a...

Ep. 335 - Why It's Illegal to Protest In Alberta

27 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Support us here: canadalandshow.com/join A new law in Alberta is Jason Kenney’s latest front in the oil war. Freelance journalist Grace Lisa Scott s...

Short Cuts #270 - Mr. Brown Goes To Ottawa

23 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Support us at canadalandshow.com/join Jesse testified before the House of Commons Finance Committee about Canadaland's reporting on the WE organizati...

Ep. 334 - A Dodgy Paternity Test And The War On The Reporter Who Exposed It

20 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Support us here: canadalandshow.com/join Peter Aldhous reported that a Canadian lab’s prenatal paternity test was “unreliable." During the 18-mont...

Short Cuts #269 - We Do Some Accounting

16 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Support us at canadalandshow.com/join We have some questions about WE’s government contract and their internal accounting. And the story of how a C...

Ep. 333 - Could The WE Scandal Take Down Justin Trudeau?

13 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Support us here: canadalandshow.com/join It’s a scandal that could—but probably won’t—take down Justin Trudeau. After swearing otherwise, WE ...

Short Cuts #268 - Harper's Is Still Lurking

09 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Support us at canadalandshow.com/join The press seems to have given the Rideau Hall intruder the white glove treatment, and why on Earth did so many ...

Ep. 332 - WE Charity: Lawyers, Guns And Money

06 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Support us at canadalandshow.com/join At Canadaland, we really didn’t expect to find ourselves reporting on the WE organization again. But then it ...

Ep. 267 - Propaganda, Fascism And Murder: An Alternative History Of The Globe And Mail

02 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Support us at canadalandshow.com/join The Globe and Mail is now 176 years old. You can read all about its accomplishments elsewhere. Writer Jamie Bra...

Ep. 331 - The RCMP Exists to Control Indigenous People

29 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Support us here: canadalandshow.com/join Karl Dockstader and Sean Vanderklis, co-hosts of the radio show and podcast One Dish, One Mic, join Jesse t...

Short Cuts #267 - Consequence Culture

25 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Support us at canadalandshow.com/join Can you really be “cancelled” if you still have a platform? A look at Margaret Wente, Wendy Mesley, and the...

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

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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

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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

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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...