The Hatchet
Episodes
The Toronto Police Has Been a Rogue Agency for Too Long. Rein Them In.
14 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Toronto Police Service is one of the oldest institutions in this country. In fact it’s 33 years older than the country itself. And in all of tho...
Separation Anxiety (w/ Paul Wells)
06 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit hatchetmedia.substack.comJust over a year ago, when we were launching The Hatchet, there...
The Green Party is a Natural Disaster
20 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit hatchetmedia.substack.comThis episode is for paid subscribers. If you would like to hear...
The Dark Prince of Bay Street | Brookfield
09 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Support us at hatchetmedia.substack.comIn 1978, a South African accountant orchestrated one of the most audacious and ruthless hostile takeovers in th...
The House of Bronfman | Brookfield
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Support us at hatchetmedia.substack.comThis is the second episode in our series about Brookfield, the Canadian financial giant. In our first episode, ...
The Canadian Octopus | Brookfield
06 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was first published on April 12th, 2025. Happy New Year, Hatchet listeners!The chance to put out good journalism is its own reward, but t...
What the mainstream media won't tell you about Jeffrey Epstein
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I’ve had a hard time knowing what to make of the still-unfolding saga around Jeffrey Epstein.Like basically everyone else in the world, I’ve been ...
Guns and Splutter: Breaking Down the Budget
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit hatchetmedia.substack.comThe much anticipated budget is finally here and it promises to ...
Wild, Wild (Rose) Country
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
So last week, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith used the notwithstanding clause to force Alberta teachers back to work.It’s the first time the notwiths...
Killing Canada Post
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1965, Canada’s postal workers did something so radical, so unprecedented, that it shook our country’s political establishment to the core.They ...
Election Shock on the Rock
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I think it’s kind of funny how we talk about election campaigns while they’re in progress. Between the polling and the poll aggregators, there’s...
The Decline and Fall of the Canadian State (w/ Nora Loreto)
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why can’t the government do stuff?I’m not being facetious here. I think most Canadians — in fact, most people who live in western democracies —...
Monopoly Man (w/ Peter Nowak)
04 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Back a few years ago, there was this moment where it felt like there was a movement building against monopolies.It started in the United States with a...
Visions of Vancouver (w/ Justin McElroy)
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit hatchetmedia.substack.comVancouver is a funny place.It’s without a doubt the most beau...
Northern Apocalypse | The Canadian Pacific
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit hatchetmedia.substack.comThis episode is available immediately to paid supporters. For u...
Blood on the Tracks | The Canadian Pacific
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit hatchetmedia.substack.comThis episode is available immediately to paid supporters. For u...
Empire of Steel | The Canadian Pacific
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Most countries have a founding myth of some kind, a moment in time that serves as an anchor for the grand national story.For the United States, it’s...
A Lament for Nationalism
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
During my lifetime, there have only been a handful of times that quote unquote Canadian nationalism has been a potent force of any kind.The first, act...
Hockey's Recurring Nightmare
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Hockey Canada trial has been going on for two months now. And during that time, the Canadian media has meticulously covered every twist and turn t...
What Isn’t Being Said About Iran
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s so hard to know where to start a story. Choosing a starting point shapes the entire message and moral of whatever story you’re trying to tell...
What's Coming Up Next for The Hatchet
21 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Arshy and Jordan sit down to give a quick update about how things have been going, a sneak peak at some upcoming projects, and the future of The Hatch...
Carney's AI policy is artificial and not very intelligent
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We’re now a month-and-a-half removed from the last federal election. And it feels like we’re finally starting to get a sense of how this governmen...
Why Did the Duck Cross the Border?
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Point Roberts is one of the most unique places in North America. It’s a tiny spit of land right across the American border from the Vancouver suburb...
Danielle Smith's Hermit Kingdom
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does Danielle Smith want? The American threat has led to some strange bedfellows between the premiers and the feds. Leaders as different as Wab K...
It’s Carney’s Canada – What Comes Next?
10 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The last time we spoke with John Rapley, economic columnist for the Globe and Mail, it was right after Chrystia Freeland resigned as finance minister,...
And One Last Thing....
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit hatchetmedia.substack.comFinal thoughts on one of the strangest elections in Canadian hi...
Debate Night in (English) Canada
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit hatchetmedia.substack.comFor the first and only time this election, the major federal pa...
The Canadian Octopus | Brookfield
12 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Brookfield has been in the news constantly over the last few weeks. The Conservatives attacked the company for moving the headquarters of one of their...
Pierre’s Polycrisis
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit hatchetmedia.substack.comSupport us at hatchetmedia.substack.comIt’s week two of the f...
"They're Ready to Defend This Country": Canada's Military in the Age of Trump
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With the American government regularly threatening annexation on a weekly basis, there’s one question that I’ve had on the top of my mind — what...
Mark, Pierre & the Great Campaign of 2025
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit hatchetmedia.substack.comSupport us at hatchetmedia.substack.comThe federal election is ...
Canada’s Corporate Welfare Catastrophe
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit hatchetmedia.substack.comThere’s a line about Canada that gets tossed around a lot. It...
Hair of the Doug
15 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This was the week where Doug Ford finally became Prime Minister.Okay, so technically it’s Mark Carney who was actually sworn in as PM. But for a few...
Let the Southern B******s Freeze in the Dark
08 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is starting to get ridiculous. One day we’re being tariffed to all hell, and the next day, the Trump administration says that they’re putting...
Will Reconciliation Survive the Trade War?
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There’s been a surge of Canadian nationalism over the last month, and understandably so. I’ve been feeling it too, I think it’d be hard not to. ...
The Man Behind Trump's War on Canada
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit hatchetmedia.substack.comWe all knew that if Donald Trump got reelected, things would ge...
The 51st State of Emergency
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been a weird month.When we first launched The Hatchet, we spent a lot of time talking about the kinds of stories that we wanted to cover and th...
The Hundred Years' War between Newfoundland and Quebec
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1969, Quebec and Newfoundland worked together to build a hydroelectric generating station in Labrador at a place called Churchill Falls. It would g...
The Last of the Pirates
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Paul Watson was arrested in July of last year, it made headlines around the world. The presidents of France and Brazil called for his immediate r...
How Pretendians and Grifters Infiltrated a Billion Dollar Federal Strategy
17 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You’ve probably heard some of the controversy swirling around ArriveCan; how one of the contracts to help build it went to a company owned by a fede...
The Only Certainties in Canada are Death and Tax Havens
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
So everyone seems pretty worried about a potential trade war with the United States. And for good reason — the US is our biggest trading partner by ...
Canada’s Economy Is Even More Screwed Up Than You Think
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Support us at hatchetmedia.substack.comI think we all know that the Canadian economy isn’t doing great. In the years after the pandemic, inflation s...
How the Indian Government Extorts Canadians Into Becoming Spies
13 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An open secret among Canadian Sikhs is only now being spoken about publicly.For years, Indian officials have used visa approvals to extort and blackma...
First Came Bread. Are They Fixing the Price of Meat and Potatoes Too?
06 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The price of food keeps rising. And for the last few years, we’ve had a national debate about whether or not that’s the fault of the mega grocery ...
Canada's Criminal Bank: A Triptych on TD
28 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
TD Bank has over a hundred thousand employees, almost two trillion dollars in assets and it’s a foundational part of the Canadian economy.It’s als...