If it weren’t for the Globe and Mail, would Prime Minister Trudeau have publicly accused India of being involved in the killing of Hardeep Nijjar? And Canada loses 70 newspapers as Metroland ends their print circulation. 

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)

Guest: Shree Paradkar

Further reading: 

• Trudeau accuses India in killing of Sikh leader on Canadian soil - The Globe and Mail
• Trudeau accuses India of involvement in Canadian’s murder -The Globe and Mail - The Decibel
• Here's why Justin Trudeau went public with an explosive allegation against India - Toronto Star
• Russell Brand sex assault allegations bear similarities to Ghomeshi case. But here's what's changed - Toronto Star
• Metroland ends print editions of community papers, keeps regional dailies - CP24
• Metroland ends print editions of community papers, flyers - Global

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André Proulx is a wine writer who has worked for Newstalk 1010, CTV News, Quench Magazine, and Toronto Life. As dollars in traditional media disappear for journalists, it’s getting harder and harder to make money writing lifestyle content — including wine writing. In today’s landscape, is one of Canada’s most influential wine writers double-dipping, taking money from both The Toronto Star - and the people who represent the wines she’s reviewing?

To discuss the current landscape of wine writing André spoke with Chris Waters, wine writer for the Globe and Mail, and Rick VanSickle of Wines in Niagara. To explain how wine sales with the LCBO works he spoke with Ben Hardy of Vintage Selector wines, tech experts Carmi Levy and Dan Spearin, and media lawyer Miro Oballa. 

Host: Jesse Brown 

Credits: André Proulx (Reporter), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)

Further Reading: 

• Toronto Star wine column leaves bad taste — Columbia Journalism Review
• This red wine under $8 is so good it will clear off LCBO shelves — The Toronto Star

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Le 10 septembre 2001, Rima Elkouri devient chroniqueuse au journal La Presse. Le 11 septembre 2001, elle devient chroniqueuse arabe. Rima se joint à Emilie pour réfléchir aux histoires nécessaires et nuancées qu'elle écrit depuis les 25 dernières années. Puis, dix ans après la présentation de la Charte des valeurs québécoises à l’Assemblée nationale, est-ce qu’il y a eu une évolution dans les médias québécois sur le sujet de la laïcité ? 

On September 10, 2001, Rima Elkouri became a columnist for La Presse. On September 11, 2001, she became an Arab columnist. Rima joins Emilie to reflect on the necessary and nuanced stories she has written over the course of the past 25 years. And ten years after the Parti québécois presented the Quebec Charter of Values to the National Assembly, has the subject of secularism evolved in Quebec media?

Animation: Emilie Nicolas

Générique: Nancy Pettinicchio (Production), Tristan Capacchione (Production technique), Karyn Pugliese (Rédactrice en chef)

Coanimation: Rima Elkouri

Pour en savoir plus :

• Pas envie d'être arabe – Les éditions Somme toute
• Manam – Les Éditions du Boréal
• Comment je suis devenue chroniqueuse arabe – La Presse
• Kevin Lambert et la « lecture sensible » au cœur d’une polémique en France – La Presse
• Tweet de François Legault au peuple marocain – X (Twitter)

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Oh what a circus, oh what a show, as a newly reenergized Conservative Party of Canada holds its first convention with Pierre Poilievre as leader. Under this tent, everyone from anti-trans activists to British aristocrats are apparently welcome, because nothing says “populism” like telling people you know what’s best for them.

And as the strike at TVOntario creeps toward month two, we anxiously await Polkaroo’s show of solidarity.

Jacobin’s Luke Savage joins Jonathan on Short Cuts.

Host: Jonathan Goldsbie

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)

Guest: Luke Savage

Further reading: 

• Tory convention seeks to dazzle supporters, but Poilievre the real draw - The Globe and Mail
• The working class inevitably becomes conservative: Full Comment podcast - National Post
• Opinion: The horrific food poisoning of Calgary children underscores the unravelling of public health in Canada - The Globe and Mail
• Biden books are still bombing - Politico

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Rob Goodman was a congressional staffer in the US and as a rising authoritarian movement brought America to the brink of a coup, he did what all Americans threaten to do when they are fed up with their country: he moved to Canada. Now an Assistant Professor in the department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University, he has an urgent warning for his adopted country.

Jesse sits down with Rob to talk about his new book, “Not Here: Why American Democracy Is Eroding and How Canada Can Protect Itself.”

Host: Jesse Brown 

Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)

Further Reading: 

• Not Here: Why American Democracy Is Eroding and How Canada Can Protect Itself, by Rob Goodman — Simon & Schuster

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We’re beginning to see the consequences of the Greenbelt scandal. Why does Premier Ford refuse to take accountability?  As the trial for the convoy organizers begins, Tamara Lich’s cult of personality is ramping up in the press. 

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)

Guest: Alan S. Hale

Further reading: 

• Who is Mr. X? After scathing ethics probe raises questionable conduct of unnamed Greenbelt consultant, a picture emerges - Toronto Star
• https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/economy/they-dont-let-us-dollarama-stores-sell-bread-unless-theres-a-sobeys-nearby/
• How Tamara Lich transformed from spokeswoman to symbol of 'Freedom Convoy' movement - Canadian Press
• Carson Jerema: Tamara Lich exposed the incompetence of the Canadian state - National Post
• Canada’s Far-Right is Planning a Convoy to Toronto to ‘Save the Children’. It’s Already Spinning Out of Control. - Press Progress

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This episode originally aired on May 3, 2015

It’s possible that Chantal Hébert’s journalism once held Canada together. She joins Jesse for a discussion about what’s appropriate in political news coverage, and what (if anything) needs to change.

Host: Jesse Brown 

Credits: Cassidy Villebrun-Buracas (Associate Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)

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Le modèle familial traditionnel est en pleine évolution. Comment l'adoption internationale s’inscrit-elle dans les conversations actuelles autour de la parentalité ? Emilie invite Amandine Gay pour discuter de son travail en tant que cinéaste, autrice et militante qui lutte pour les personnes adoptées et, plus précisément, pour leur prise de parole. Emilie et Amandine réfléchissent à la manière dont le racisme est abordé (ou effacé!) en France. Peut-on mieux comprendre la société québécoise en déchiffrant la politique française ?

The traditional family model is in the midst of evolution. How does international adoption fit into current conversations surrounding parenthood? Emilie invites Amandine Gay to discuss her work as a filmmaker, author, and activist fighting for adoptees and, more specifically, for their voices. Emilie and Amandine reflect on how racism is addressed (or how it is erased!) in France. Can we better understand Quebec society by examining French politics?

Animation: Emilie Nicolas

Générique: Nancy Pettinicchio (Production), Tristan Capacchione (Production technique), Karyn Pugliese (Rédactrice en chef)

Coanimation: Amandine Gay

Pour en savoir plus :

• Une poupée en chocolat par Amandine Gay – Les éditions du Remue-ménage
• Polémique après un hommage à Martin Luther King – Le Parisien
• L’Ontario veut respecter le « droit des parents » – Radio-Canada
• Le consentement des parents sera obligatoire en Saskatchewan – Radio-Canada

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With more provinces jumping aboard the prejudiced pronoun panic, Jesse and Karyn pick apart the misleading narratives that are helping fuel it.

They also shine light on a legal battle the Toronto Star has quietly been waging to protect a confidential source.

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)

Guest: Karyn Pugliese

Further reading: 

• Gender identity, pronouns and schools: Poilievre and others say leave it to parents. Parents say they want to know. Here's what experts say - Toronto Star
• Sask. Opposition says pronoun and naming policy motivated by politics, transphobia - CBC News
• The US Is Exporting Anti-LGBTQ Hate Online - WIRED UK 
• Canada’s Far-Right is Planning a Convoy to Toronto to ‘Save the Children’. It’s Already Spinning Out of Control. - Press Progress
• Oversight misfiring - Winnipeg Free Press
• He was a celebrity pastor at one of Canada's biggest megachurches. Inside the sexual abuse allegations that brought down Bruxy Cavey - Toronto Star
• Her allegations brought down megachurch pastor Bruxy Cavey. Then the anonymous trolls came for her - Toronto Star

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In the past several years, Loblaws, Metro and Empire have spent billions on their own stock - And at a time of food price inflation and grocery workers on strike. 

Why are they doing it? And why do some economists say stock buybacks should be abolished? 

Featured in this episode: 

William Lazonick, professor emeritus of economics at University of Massachusetts

Jim Stanford, director of the Centre for Future Work

Further reading:

• Profits Without Prosperity, William Lazonick, Harvard Business Review
• “The American disease': Canadian companies pouring cash into stock buybacks as backlash grows abroad, Geoff Zochodne, Financial Post
• Striking Metro workers say they face challenges affording the very food they sell, Canadian Press

Host: Jesse Brown 

Credits: Cherise Seucharan (Reporter), Jonathan Goldsbie (News Editor), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)

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With Canadians in the North and West fleeing their homes to escape the encroaching infernos, wouldn’t it be great if there were places online they could congregate to share news? 

Ollie Williams of Yellowknife’s Cabin Radio joins Jonathan to examine how the wildfire evacuations in the Northwest Territories have offered a (surprisingly encouraging!) glimpse into our post-social-media future.

Also: How many CRTC commissioners does it take to reject an application for a broadcast license? They won’t say!

Host: Jonathan Goldsbie

Credits: Kattie Laur (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)

Guest: Ollie Williams

Further reading: 

• Joe Oliver: Here’s a truth few dare to utter: Canada will benefit from climate change – Financial Post (2019)
• morgan dawn (@porterfieldlol) – TikTok
• TVO employees walk off the job Monday after negotiations stall – The Canadian Press
• Lois Lane’s daughter rescues Yellowknife pets in vodka-assisted flight – Cabin Radio
• Findings regarding market capacity in the Yellowknife radio market – CRTC
• N.W.T.'s Cabin Radio asks Federal Court of Appeal to hear its case against CRTC – CBC News

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After months of national coverage, we still don't really know.

Today we're going to hear from a senior journalist, about his skepticism regarding Foreign Interference. We're going to hear an editorial, an opinion - but a reported opinion and an informed one. Bruce Livesey knows about which he speaks - he knows about the specific newsrooms of which he speaks, because he used to work for both of them. He was an investigative reporter for both of the news organizations that have been reporting leaked CSIS documents - The Globe and Mail and Global News.

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Bruce Livesey (Additional Reporting), Jonathan Goldsbie (News Editor), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)

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AVERTISSEMENT : Dans cet épisode, nous discutons de violence à caractère sexuelle et de violence basée sur le genre, y compris la violence impliquant des mineurs. Si vous êtes à la recherche de soutien, le lien suivant vous dirigera vers des ressources à travers le Canada : https://canadianwomen.org/fr/vous-cherchez-un-soutien/

Alors que le mouvement #MoiAussi battait son plein en 2017, le gouvernement du Québec adoptait une loi-cadre qui vise à prévenir et combattre les violences sexuelles dans les cégeps et les universités. Emilie invite Léa Clermont-Dion pour discuter de l’impact de cette loi-cadre, ainsi que des efforts militants et politiques pour mettre en place une telle loi dans les institutions préscolaire, primaire et secondaire. Auteure et chercheure universitaire, Léa explore également les questions féministes par le biais du cinéma. Emilie et Léa abordent le sujet difficile de la cyberviolence en discutant du film documentaire co-réalisé par Léa, Je vous salue salope : La misogynie au temps du numérique. 

CONTENT WARNING: In this episode, the co-hosts discuss sexual violence and gender-based violence, including violence involving minors. If you are seeking support, the following link will direct you to resources across Canada: https://canadianwomen.org/support-services/ 

While the #MeToo movement was in full swing in 2017, the Quebec government adopted a framework law aimed at preventing and combating sexual violence in CEGEPs and universities. Emilie invites Léa Clermont-Dion to discuss the impact of this framework law, as well as the activist and political efforts to implement such a law in preschools, elementary schools, and high schools. An author and academic researcher, Léa also explores feminist issues through filmmaking. Emilie and Léa tackle the difficult subject of cyber-violence by discussing the documentary film co-directed by Léa, Backlash: Misogyny in the Digital Age.

Animation: Emilie Nicolas

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Does Pierre Poilievre touting conspiracy theories count as news? And will the revelations about Doug Ford’s development of the Greenbelt amount to anything?

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)

Guest: Nora Loreto

Further reading: 

• Poilievre's Conservative Party embracing language of mainstream conspiracy theories | CBC News
• The Origins of the 'Globalist' Slur | The Atlantic
• PHAC to deploy to New Brunswick over reports of mystery brain symptoms | CBC
• How developers influenced the Ford government to open up their Greenbelt land for housing | CBC News
• Developers influenced Greenbelt opening: auditor general report | The Narwhal
• #57 Greenbelt: The Movie | Wag the Doug Podcast

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In Cuba wide public access to the internet is only a few years old. The press is still severely restricted by the government. But there is something of a small podcast boom taking shape in the country.

So in a country where the press is under constant threat of intimidation, interrogation, and being jailed, how do you make a podcast that can challenge the government? 

Today we talk to Cuban podcaster Camilo Condis.

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Jonathan Goldsbie (News Editor), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)

Further information:

• El Enjambre — Apple Podcasts

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With Meta making good on its threat to expunge news from Facebook and Instagram, Canada’s publishers and broadcasters pin their hopes on the Competition Bureau to set things right. (We’re doomed?)

And when the Liberals promised to plant 2 billion trees, they probably weren’t betting that anyone would actually try to keep count.

The Narwhal’s Mike De Souza joins Jonathan on Short Cuts.

Host: Jonathan Goldsbie

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)

Guest: Mike De Souza

Further reading: 

• CBC, media groups ask Competition Bureau to investigate Meta's move to block news in Canada - CBC
• Do It, F*ckers! - How Things Work
• Was Elon Musk’s banning of rival social-media links on Twitter illegal? - The Globe and Mail (2022)
• Opinion: What's B.C.'s next move on Fairy Creek logging? - The Narwhal
• Oilsands giants lobbied to weaken emissions cap - The Narwhal
• Ottawa modifie discrètement son calcul des deux milliards d’arbres - Le Devoir
• Turns out that wasn't the tweet - Paul Wells

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Jesse Brown might think himself quite the question master, but today the tables have turned and our guest host, the Jonathan Torrens, investigates the inner workings of this show's host. Is it possible to be too cynical?  

Featured in this episode: Jonathan Torrens, actor, performer and writer best known for his beef with Jesse Brown and hosting shows like Street Cents, Jonovision and his role in Trailer Park Boys; Jesse Brown, early guest on Jonovision (and, I guess, the publisher of the Canadaland podcast network). 

Credits: Jonathan Goldsbie (News Editor), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Sarah Lawryniuk (Former Senior Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)

Past relevant episodes:

• Canadaland episode 281: Trolling Jonathan Torrens
• Canadaland episode 2: Millionaire Ex-girlfriend
• Canadaland episode 58: An Interview With My Harshest Critic

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Xavier Watso, militant et créateur de contenu abénaki, se joint à Emilie pour discuter de l’évolution de la participation des personnes autochtones dans les médias québécois. Ayant récemment démissionné à la suite à 16 ans d’enseignement en art dramatique dans une école secondaire, Xavier nous partage également ses réflexions sur l’état actuel du système scolaire. Est-ce qu’il y a un écart entre la manière dont les médias couvrent le système éducatif au Québec et la réalité ou est-ce que les écoles s’écroulent pour de vrai ?

Xavier Watso, Abenaki activist and content creator, joins Emilie to discuss the evolution of the participation of Indigenous people in Quebec media. Having recently left his job as a high school drama teacher after 16 years, Xavier also shares his thoughts on the current state of the school system. Is there a gap between the media portrayal of the education system in Quebec and reality, or are schools really falling apart?

Animation: Emilie Nicolas

Générique: Nancy Pettinicchio (Production), Tristan Capacchione (Production technique), Karyn Pugliese (Rédactrice en chef)

Coanimation: Xavier Watso

Pour en savoir plus :

• Xavier Watso sur TikTok
• Vétusté des écoles : Québec et ses contradictions – La Presse

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Grocers sure are making it easy for us to be mad at them. And a serial killer, a landfill, and an all-too real metaphor playing out in Winnipeg. Plus Justin Trudeau and Sophie Grégoire Trudeau are calling it splits - and it’s probably all we’re going to hear about for the next while. 

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)

Guest: Karyn Pugliese

Further reading: 

• Metro grocery strike part of larger labour trend, experts say - Toronto Star
• Analysis: Inflation is down overall, so why are my grocery bills still going up? - National Post
• It’s time for the government to step in to freeze grocery prices​​ - The Globe and Mail
• Foam football fills hole after Lasqueti ferry’s hard landing - Times Colonist
• Meta permanently ending news availability on its platforms in Canada - CBC

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What does Toronto’s response to the refugee crisis actually look like on the ground? 

Just across the street from the Canadaland office, a crisis unfolded: dozens of asylum seekers camping out as they were unable to get space in city shelters. Some had been there for weeks. 

After the federal government and the city both pledged that more support would be given to the asylum seekers, many were still there -  being helped by a tenuous system of volunteers, donated goods, religious outreach and good samaritans.

Join reporter Cherise Seucharan and Editor in Chief Karyn Pugliese as they follow asylum seekers at 129 Peter Street as they search for a place to spend the night. 

Credits: Jesse Brown, Host & Publisher, Cherise Seucharan, Reporter, Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)

Further reading:

• On Peter Street, a community steps up for asylum seekers abandoned to sleep on the sidewalk, Toronto Star
• Crossing the Darien Gap, CFR
• Mayor Olivia Chow outlines next steps for housing asylum seekers in Toronto, CBC

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When anti-racism training goes wrong. Really, really wrong. How should the media talk about diversity, equity and inclusion responsibly? 

And, Canada has its very own James Bond and its retired RCMP Officer, Bill Majcher. Only, Majcher was arrested this week and Canadian media has barely scratched the surface when it comes to answering, “who is this guy?”.

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Kattie Laur (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Guest: Jan Wong

Further reading: 

• What we know about the retired RCMP officer charged with conducting foreign interference for China
• Convict alleges judge had affair with RCMP officer
• Sexual affair between Miami judge, witness alleged amid tainted U.S. court proceedings
• Retired RCMP officer charged in foreign interference case
• Ontario launches review of school board’s handling of allegations from principal who later died by suicide
• LILLEY: Ontario orders review of school training after principal dies
• Police accused of verbal assault during training session on missing, murdered Indigenous women

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Our news editor, Jonathan Goldsbie, ventured out to find his inner Polkaroo by way of an exhibit on the history of Canadian children’s television programming at Toronto’s Myseum. As he’d heard rumours that our publisher Jesse Brown and intrepid reporter Cherise Seucharan were actually children themselves, once upon a time, he invited them along.

Skinnamarinky dinky dink,

Skinnamarinky doo,

Now you can listen too! 

Host: Jonathan Goldsbie

Credits: Jonathan Goldsbie (News Editor), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)

Featured in this episode: Ed Conroy Toronto-based cultural historian, archivist and online video producer. He is the Founder of Retrontario.com

Further information:

• Myseum of Toronto

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Originaire de Shediac au Nouveau-Brunswick, Xavier Gould nous partage des extraits de son tout premier livre des fleurs comme moi, un recueil de poésie témoignant de son vécu en tant que jeune personne queer en Acadie. Au courant de cette discussion avec Emilie, Xavier partage ses réflexions autour de la transidentité, l’humour et la langue. Ensemble, elles se demandent : quel impact a eu la montée des conservatismes transphobes sur les communautés queer rurales au Canada ?

Originally from Shediac, New Brunswick, Xavier Gould shares excerpts from their first book, des fleurs comme moi, a collection of poems about their experiences as a young queer person in Acadia. In this discussion with Emilie, Xavier shares her thoughts on trans identity, humour and language. Together, they ask: how has the recent rise of transphobic conservatisms impacted queer rural communities in Canada?

Animation: Emilie Nicolas

Générique: Nancy Pettinicchio (Production), Tristan Capacchione (Production technique), Karyn Pugliese (Rédactrice en chef)

Coanimation: Xavier Gould

Pour en savoir plus :

• La politique 713 clarifiée à la suite de consultations – Gouv. du Nouveau-Brunswick 
• des fleurs comme moi par Xavier Gould – Prise de parole
• Instagram de Xavier Gould
• François Legault, un critique de livres comme les autres? – Le Devoir 
• Renversons la tendance : Campagne publicitaire du Ministère de la Langue française 

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Canada created a new pathway to permanent residency for a large number of Ukrainian refugees, as a group of asylum claimants from other countries were sleeping in the streets of Toronto. We discuss the political calculations involved in supporting displaced people. We also try to make sense of the ups and downs of the Bank of Canada.

Host: Erica Ifill

Credits: Kevin Sexton (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Guest: Nicholas Keung

Further reading: 

• ‘It’s about time’: Ottawa offers millions more in housing support to shelter refugees in Toronto - Toronto Star
• Ottawa unveils pathway to permanent residency for Ukrainians who have fled to Canada - Canadian Press
• The Bank of Canada is still pushing for 2% inflation: But why? And must so many suffer to get there? - Toronto Star.

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“When you can’t afford to lose” is not just Navigator’s trademarked slogan; it’s also its core business proposition. Although it offers a range of services, from market research to communications, Navigator is best known as the firm to which Canada’s rich and powerful turn when facing a crisis that could cost them that wealth and power.

Its highest-profile clients have included Michael Bryant and Jian Ghomeshi. More recently, it’s been a player in the controversies around Hockey Canada, the Special Rapporteur on Foreign Interference, and the Ottawa Police response to the convoy occupation. Bit by bit, we’ve gotten more insight into the work they do behind the scenes to — as one observer once put it to the Toronto Star — change your perceptions without you even knowing it.

On today’s episode, host Jesse Brown and news editor Jonathan Goldsbie offer a primer on the company that’s been a common thread running through many of the biggest Canadian news stories of the past 15 years.

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Jonathan Goldsbie (News Editor), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)

Further information:

• Why Should I Choose You? Answering the Most Important Business Questions in Seven Words or Less – HarperCollins Canada (2015)
• Spinning the first week of Michael Bryant's new life – Toronto Star (2009)
• Jian Ghomeshi dumped by PR firm over ‘lies,’ sources say – Toronto Star (2014)
• Secret Life: The Jian Ghomeshi Investigation – Goose Lane Editions (2016)
• Report of the Public Inquiry into the 2022 Public Order Emergency (Volumes 2 and 3) – Public Order Emergency Commission (2023)
• What we believe – Navigator Ltd.
• More links on our website post

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The Trudeau government won’t back down on Bill C-18 – except now they are. We also talk about the crypto crime that never happened, a threatening cop, Danielle Smith’s ‘vindication’ and updates to the Burns Lake Tribunal Hearing.

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)

Guest: Dani Paradis

Further reading: 

• Caving on Bill C-18: Government Outlines Planned Regulations that Signal Willingness to Cast Aside Core Principles of the Online News Act
• Postmedia and Toronto Star owner Nordstar talks broke down over debt swap, sources say - The Globe and Mail
• The crypto scam that wasn’t: 2 teens reportedly stole $4.2 million in Bitcoin and Ethereum. Police say it never happened - Fortune
• Someone pretended to be Hamilton police — it led to a fake story about cryptocurrency theft - CBC News
• Hamilton police probing spoofed email that led to false story on teenage crypto thieves - Hamilton Spectator
• Alberta Premier Smith says she feels 'vindicated' after CBC posts editor's note on Coutts stories - CBC News
• Inside the RCMP’s Investigation into a ‘Well-Known Canadian’ - The Tyee

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Last month the Globe and Mail reported that Anton Skyba, their photojournalist in Ukraine, applied to the Ukrainian government to have his press credentials renewed - and was denied. Ukrainian security services accused him of holding a Russian passport, demanded that he take a lie-detector test, and questioned whether his work as a journalist was aligned with Ukraine’s “national interests.”

It was not an isolated incident. 

Last year, Ukrainian Security - the SBU - sent a list of names to their friends in the FBI. The SBU explained that it was a list of people who they suspected of spreading “fear and disinformation” about Ukraine through their Twitter accounts.  They asked the FBI to get Twitter to remove these peoples’ accounts - to censor them. One of the names on that list was Aaron Mate, a Canadian journalist who works for the website GrayZone.

Skyba and Mate talk to Canadaland about the state of press freedom in war-torn Ukraine.

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Sarah Lawrynuik (Reporter), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor in Chief)

Further reading:

• Ukraine fails to renew media credentials for photographer working for The Globe - The Globe and Mail
• IPI Tracker: media freedom alerts linked to Russia-Ukraine war - International Press Institute

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Le 9 juin dernier, la ministre responsable de l’habitation au Québec propose le projet de loi 31 qui, entre autres amendements, vise à permettre aux propriétaires de refuser une cession de bail sans motif sérieux. La cession de bail étant un outil important au Québec pour prévenir les augmentations de loyers déraisonnables, cette proposition du gouvernement caquiste a suscité un débat sur le droit au logement et la réalité des locataires. Emilie et Nora Loreto, co-animatrices de l’épisode, discutent également du meutre d’un adolescent franco-algérien par un policier à Nanterre, France lors d’un contrôle routier. Est-ce que les conversations politiques et médiatiques autour de la violence policière en France résonnent au Canada ?

On June 9, Quebec's housing minister proposed Bill 31, which, among other amendments, would allow landlords to refuse a lease transfer without serious grounds. As lease transfers are an important tool in Quebec to prevent unreasonable rent increases, this proposal by the CAQ government has sparked a debate on housing rights and the reality of tenants. Emilie and episode co-host Nora Loreto also discuss the killing of a Franco-Algerian teenager by a police officer in Nanterre, France. Are there parallels between the political and media conversations around police violence in France and in Canada?

Animation: Emilie Nicolas

Générique: Nancy Pettinicchio (Productrice), Tristan Capacchione (Producteur technique)

Coanimation: Nora Loreto

Pour en savoir plus :

• Find Out If Your MP Is A Landlord Or Invested In Real Estate – The Maple
• Crise du logement: les ministres du gouvernement Legault possèdent en moyenne 1,6 M$ en immobilier – Journal de Montréal  
• Émeutes : la mort de Nahel justifie-t-elle ces violences ? – RTL France 

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Google and Meta respond to Bill C-18 by threatening to block Canadian news. And the first woman to head up the Assembly of First Nations is out after just two years, due to some combination of any or all of her own alleged misconduct, a conspiracy to depose her, and/or run-of-the-mill misogyny. 

Host: Jonathan Goldsbie

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Guest: Karyn Pugliese

Further reading: 

• Canadian news is starting to vanish from Instagram. Google is next. Here's how to find CBC as that happens - CBC News Editor’s Blog
• U.S. senator urges Canada to resist pressure from Meta, Google over Bill C-18 - The Globe and Mail
• ​​Asylum seekers on street amid tug of war between city, feds - Toronto Star
• Indigenous women leaders are having a #MeToo moment - Canada’s National Observer (2020)
• OP-ED: RoseAnne Archibald takes up the gauntlet against the Assembly of First Nations establishment - True North

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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, comedy, and Jews.

Further reading:

• Marc interviews Lorne Michaels: http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episodes/episode_653_-_lorne_michaels
• Jesse interviews Hart Pomerantz: https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/hart-pomerantz/
• The late, great Mike MacDonald, Canadian comedian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xpl9ClEpcY
• Gavin McInnes’ failed standup career https://censored.tv/watch/shows/free-shit/episode/brotherhood-of-the-traveling-rants
• No-one ever wrote a good rock song about Vancouver, including Nazareth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-k-qAtZPWg

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Toronto Star owner Nordstar and Postmedia are in talks to merge - a death knell to Canadian print media. Jesse and co-host Jaskaran Sandhu unpack the killing of Sikh community leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey - possibly at the hands of the Indian government. AND an expose of alleged misbehaviour at a middle school in Brampton.

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Guest: Jaskaran Sandhu

Further reading: 

• Toronto Star owner in talks to merge with Postmedia - Toronto Star
• Top Bell Media executive urged CTV to avoid ‘negative spin’ on coverage of parent company - The Globe and Mail
• What's behind the murder of a Sikh leader in B.C.? - CBC Radio
• Who killed Hardeep Singh Nijjar? Those close to Sikh leader accuse Indian government of involvement - Toronto Star
• Online Abuse in Local Elections: The SAMbot Municipal Report - Samara Centre for Democracy
• Peel school board investigating after anonymous letter alleges 'violence, fear' at Mississauga middle school - Toronto Star
• A Toronto-area middle school is in crisis. Teachers are being blamed - National Post

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Vancouver’s SROs are home to some of the most vulnerable people in the province, and some of the most challenging housing to run. So when Atira Women’s Resource Society stepped up to run several buildings, concerns that the CEO was in a relationship with the CEO of BC Housing, the provincial corporation in charge of that housing, were dismissed. 

In the years that followed, there was growing concern about the conditions of the SROs, and why Atira’s portfolio kept growing.

Recently an explosive report released by third party investigators Ernst and Young revealed the truth. 

This week’s episode by Cherise Seucharan looks at how a problem ignored for over a decade, came to light.

Featured in this episode: Jen St Denis, reporter at The Tyee; Frances Bula, reporter, The Globe and Mail.

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Cherise Seucharan (Reporter), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Further reading:

• Public housing in Vancouver called ‘crack shacks and brothels’, CBC, 2012
• The Housing Is Owned by the Province. The Working Conditions Are Terrible, Jen St. Denis, The Tyee
• BC Housing has ‘no formal criteria’ for contracts, review finds, Frances Bula, The Globe and Mail
• Devastating Report Cites BC Housing Mismanagement, Jen St. Denis, The Tyee
• Atira statement responding to Tyee reporting, 2022

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Avec May Chiu (coordinatrice de la Table ronde du Quartier chinois de Montréal et membre de l’Association des Chinois progressistes du Québec), Emilie se penche sur l’impact de l’actualité des derniers mois sur la communauté chinoise du Canada. Quels sont les impacts sur le terrain des enquêtes journalistiques du printemps sur l’ingérence de Beijing au pays ? La diversité des points de vue chez les Canadiens d’origine chinoise a-t-elle sa place dans les médias ? Comment protéger la démocratie canadienne contre l’ingérence étrangère sans stigmatiser toute une diaspora ?

With May Chiu (coordinator of the Montreal Chinatown Roundtable and member of the Association of Progressive Chinese Quebeckers), Emilie examines the impact of the news of recent months on the Chinese community in Canada. What are the impacts on the ground of last spring's journalistic investigations into Beijing's interference in the country? Does the diversity of views among Chinese Canadians have a place in the media? How can we protect Canadian democracy against foreign interference without stigmatizing an entire diaspora?

Animation: Emilie Nicolas

Générique: Tristan Capacchione (Producteur)

Coanimation: Mei Chiu

Pour en savoir plus :

• Création d’un registre des agents étrangers Le gouvernement Trudeau ira de l’avant — La Presse
• Événement historique national de l’exclusion des immigrants chinois de 1923 à 1947

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Do the billionaires on the missing Titan submarine deserve sympathy or scorn? While Canada and the US pull out all the stops to find it, days before, a boat off the coast of Greece capsized, killing 300, with minimal international attention. And we get into the behind-the-scenes of the CTV layoffs at Bell Media.  

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Guest: Ethan Cox

Further reading: 

• Canadian aircraft detects undersea sounds during search for missing submersible - CBC News 
• Former Global News journalist defends reporting on Chinese political interference: 'The story stands' - Toronto Star
• Are we in the Anthropocene? Why Canada's Crawford Lake may hold answers - Washington Post
• EXCLUSIVE: Quebec housing minister lobbied by real-estate business partner - Ricochet 
• Bell cutting 1,300 positions, closing or selling 9 radio stations - Financial Post
• Montreal Gazette Faces a New String of Departures - The Rover

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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 symptoms. A year later, the Government of New Brunswick released a report dismissing the entire issue, claiming there was never a cluster of patients to begin with.

CANADALAND has obtained thousands and thousands of pages of internal documents that take us behind the scenes of that investigation that once caught the attention of the nation, before being dropped like a hot potato. 

In this update to the story Dr. Marrero reveals new theories on the disease’s origins and the fact that his caseload has quadrupled to over 200 since our last report on the story.

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Sarah Lawrynuik (Reporter), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Further reading:

• Canadian government urged to test sick patients for herbicide – The Guardian, Mar. 1, 2023
• Whistleblower warns baffling illness affects growing number of young adults in Canadian province — The Guardian, Jan. 2, 2022
• Official investigation into New Brunswick’s mysterious brain disorder finds no new condition — The Washington Post, Feb. 24, 2022

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After weeks of navigating accusations of conflict, special rapporteur David Johnston finally ran aground. If you’re trying to persuade people of your unimpeachable independence, maybe don’t hire a communications firm that’s connected to everyone?

And, ah crap, the far right is fixated on queer people again.

The Rev. Dr. Cheri DiNovo co-hosts.

Host: Jonathan Goldsbie

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Guest: Cheri DiNovo

Further reading: 

• David Johnston ends relationship with crisis communications firm Navigator in foreign interference probe - The Globe and Mail
• David Johnston resigning as special rapporteur on foreign interference - CBC News
• Supreme Court Justice Russell Brown resigns before start of inquiry into alleged harassment - The Globe and Mail
• The Hater - Netflix
• Poland was headed to the far right. Then Russia invaded Ukraine - CBC The National
• WARMINGTON: MPP punched in face at transgender protest? Or was cut from megaphone? - Toronto Sun
• Girl, 9, accused of being trans at Kelowna track meet - Kelowna News

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In the mid-2010s, BuzzFeed News seemed like the most exciting place in media: an almost cloyingly whimsical carnival of abundance where journalists were actually happy. At a time when everything else appeared to be crumbling, it burst with hope and possibility.

Last month, after just a few years of layoffs and withering, it shut down for good.

And if the quick life and death of BuzzFeed News represented the whole past, present, and future of media collapsed into a single decade, then BuzzFeed Canada was a micocosm of that, living fast and dying young in just a fraction of the time.

Today, BuzzFeed Canada founding editor Craig Silverman (now with ProPublica) and longtime writer Elamin Abdelmahmoud (now with CBC Radio) sit down with Canadaland news editor Jonathan Goldsbie to look at how this strange thing got built up so fast, and what it was like on the inside as it rapidly slipped away

Host: Jonathan Goldsbie

Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Noor Azrieh (Associate Producer)

Further information:

• Definitive Oral History Of BuzzFeed News 2012–2023
• This Is The Definitive Oral History Of The Dead Toronto Raccoon That Went Viral
• 2019 Canadian Association of Journalists McGillivray Award-winning article
• The Drone And The Damage Done
• The Wreck Of HMS Erebus
• 16 Canadian Politicians Who Are Basically Pokémon
• I Hate Myself Because I Don't Work For BuzzFeed

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Avec France-Isabelle Langlois (directrice générale d’Amnistie internationale Canada francophone) et Maïka Sondarjee (professeure adjointe à l’Université d’Ottawa, cofondatrice de Femmes expertes et auteure), Emilie se penche sur la haine (en ligne) à laquelle les femmes s’exposent de plus en plus lorsqu’elles prennent la parole publiquement sur les enjeux qui leur tiennent à cœur. Pourquoi est-ce que l’arène publique devient de plus en plus violente ? Comment les femmes se sont-elles adaptées et comment résistent-elles ? Et qu’est-ce qui peut être fait pour venir à bout de cette violence ?

Cette conversation a été enregistrée au Centre PHI à Montréal, le 8 juin 2023. Merci à l’équipe du Centre PHI.

Emilie is joined by France-Isabelle Langlois (Executive Director of Amnesty International Canada Francophone) and Maïka Sondarjee (assistant professor at the University of Ottawa, co-founder of Femmes Expertes and author) to discuss (online) hatred women are increasingly exposed to when they speak out publicly on the issues that matter to them. Why is the public arena becoming increasingly violent? How have women been coping, and resisting? And what can be done to put an end to this violence?

This conversation was recorded live at the PHI Centre in Montreal on June 8, 2023. Thank you to the team at the PHI Centre for their help with this event.

Animation: Emilie Nicolas

Générique: Tristan Capacchione (Producteur)

Coanimation: France-Isabelle Langlois, Maïka Sondarjee

Pour en savoir plus :

• Étude, Amnesty International - Résumé, en français
• Étude, Amnesty International - Au complet, en anglais
• Femmes expertes

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Wildfires are coming at us from all sides. How can local reporters get at the root issues? And the implementation of Quebec's language law municipalities making fun of the new rules. Tim Bousquet co-hosts. 

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Guest: Tim Bousquet

Further reading: 

• Officials have known for years about the wildfire risks in Tantallon - Halifax Examiner
• Letter from the editor: Why we won’t be covering Collision this year - The Logic
• Collision nears a one-year Toronto extension, efforts mount for a West Coast alternative - BetaKit 
• Côte-St-Luc, 20 other municipalities to launch lawsuit against Bill 96 - Montreal Gazette
• Access to English medical services threatened in Bill 15, anglo rights group warns - Montreal Gazette
• Chronique – Vinegar Sammy - Le Devoir

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There's no beat more likely to get you an audience and a paycheck. It's trend-proof and recession-proof. Yes, true crime is freakishly popular right now, but it was never unpopular. Audiences have been showing up for gangster stories and murder stories and heist stories and scam stories steadily, for at least a hundred years, and probably a lot longer. It's big business.

But it’s a business that can come with a personal cost for its practitioners. How can you dig into the darkest parts of the human psyche, the most notorious crimes, and not feel guilty?

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Further information:

• The Human Scale: Murder, Mischief and Other Selected Mayhems
• Michael Lista’s website

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Despite Danielle Smith’s involvement in numerous scandals, she won a majority in Alberta’s election. Albertan Dani Paradis helps us understand why. And senior citizen sex shows, sex toy exhibits and art by Bryan Adams - you may not like it, but you’ve been paying for them, taxpayer! Well, no more. 

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Guest: Dani Paradis

Further reading: 

• Alberta’s Vote Will Test American-Style Far-Right Politics - The New York Times
• Opinion: With Danielle Smith’s win, the Wildrose Party has firm control of Alberta - Globe and Mail
• FIRST READING: Danielle Smith isn't an 'American-style' fringe conservative - National Post
• The Mounties: 150 years of conflict with Indigenous Peoples - APTN
• Taxpayers group celebrates cancellation of wasteful Mission Cultural Fund - Western Standard
• Feds spent thousands funding on sex shows featuring seniors - Toronto Sun

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Big tech critic Cory Doctorow lays out a four-part plan to save the news media from big tech’s stranglehold.

The plan: create a comprehensive new privacy law, open up the app stores to true competition, return to the internet’s founding principle of true end to end delivery, and finally, splinter Meta and Google into smaller independent competing companies.

Would it work? How close are we to any of this?

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Further information:

• Cory Doctorow - https://craphound.com/

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Hockey is a hell of a lot of fun. But right now, the sport is going through a reckoning. Allegations of racism, corruption, sexual misconduct and so much more are rocking the game to its core.

But the truth is that in Canada, hockey is more than just a sport. It’s a civic religion, with a billion dollar business attached to it.

Over the next seven episodes, COMMONS will be digging into the cult of hockey, scrutinizing its doctrines and exposing its secrets.

Featured in this episode: Ian Kennedy (The Hockey News)

Editor’s Note: a different version of this episode was published on the subscriber-only feed of Commons. No inaccuracies were found in the original version, changes were made by the Editor in Chief for storytelling purposes.

To learn more:

“How a Toronto hockey league turns kids’ joy into an $8.8m cash cow” by Ian Kennedy and Nathan Kalman-Lamb in The Guardian

“Aliu says GTHL rejected organization that would have assured spots for BIPOC players” by Rick Westhead in TSN

“Prospective buyer says he was coached to skirt GTHL’s rules on organization sales” by Rick Westhead in TSN

“Rinks of dreams: The Little One had style” by Bruce Lowitt in The Tampa Bay Times

Credits: Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

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The Special Rapporteur is back with a hotly anticipated release - No Public Inquiry! David Johnston made his decision – rage and frustration ensued. And the Toronto Mayoral race heats up with Olivia Chow leading the polls. 

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Guest: Jan Wong

Further reading: 

• Matt Gurney: The Johnston report is one of the most depressing things I've ever read - The Line
• Canadians who say they were targeted by Beijing slam David Johnston: ‘Another day of being unheard’ - Toronto Star
• Trudeau Foundation spent less than required on charities through most of its existence, tax records suggest - Investigative Journalism Foundation
• Maid for a month: Goodbye to all that - The Globe and Mail
• Olivia Chow has ‘untouchable’ lead in final weeks of Toronto’s mayoral campaign, new poll finds - Toronto Star
• LILLEY: Polls show Chow set to win and that's not good for Toronto - Toronto Sun
• Inside the Toronto election campaign: #FreePaul, Presto on the Ferry and everything else you missed - Toronto Star

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The odds were stacked against us, but here we are. This year Canadaland turns ten. To mark the occasion, Canadaland Founder and Publisher, Jesse Brown, shares why he started a podcast and how that morphed into a thriving media company. Jesse reflects on the impact our journalism has and continues to have, why the work the team does is more important than ever, and how our supporters have enabled it all.

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While the press of today might not be reporting on aliens with the same fervour, many of the tropes from those days are still alive and well in modern-day journalism. 

Stories about how no one wants to work anymore, or how technology is killing the art of conversation, have been told for over 130 years… and counting. 

What are the tropes that keep coming back again and again? And are we really so different from the hysterical, partisan press of yesteryear? 

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Cherise Seucharan (Reporter), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Further information:

• Paul Fairie on Twitter 
• Think Like a Historian, Historica Canada
• Making National News: A History of the Canadian Press, Gene Allen
• Library of Congress: Chronicling America Archives
• Sharp Wits and Busy Pens: The role of the Parliamentary Press Gallery over the years, Video Series, Carleton University

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Des feux de forêt font rage en Alberta alors qu’une élection provinciale est en cours. Emilie discute de l’état du conservatisme en Alberta, mais aussi la nouvelle génération d’intellectuels conservateurs au Québec avec Frédéric Boily, auteur et professeur de sciences politiques au Campus Saint-Jean de l’Université de l’Alberta.

While forest fires rage in Alberta, a provincial election campaign is underway. Emilie discusses the state of conservatism in Alberta, as well as the new generation of conservative intellectuals in Quebec with Frederic Boily, author and Professor of Political Science at the Saint-Jean Campus at the University of Alberta.

Animation: Emilie Nicolas

Générique: Tristan Capacchione (Producteur)

Coanimation: Frédéric Boily

Pour en savoir plus :

• ‘We are a skeleton crew out here’: UCP cuts led to disastrous Alberta wildfire situation — Trina Moyles, The Narwhal
• Take Back Alberta Leaders are Training ‘Scrutineers’ to Infiltrate Campaigns and Act as ‘Security’ on Voting Day — Stephen Magusiak, Press Progress
• Et pourtant, ils ne comptent pas — Paul Journet, La Presse
• La Chambre des communes adopte le projet de loi C-13 à la quasi-unanimité — Joël-Denis Bellevance, La Presse
• Génération MBC: Mathieu Bock-Côté et les nouveaux intellectuels conservateurs — Frédéric Boily, Presses de l'Université Laval
• Détours au Centre PHI

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Jesse Brown and co-host Manisha Krishnan dismantle a 10,000 word piece in the National Post claiming safe supply programs are killing people and fuelling a new opioid crisis. And three cheers for the new Canadian passport! 

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Guest: Manisha Krishnan

Further reading: 

• Drug fail: The Liberal government's 'safer supply' is fuelling a new opioid crisis - National Post
• Conrad Black: Free hard drugs for addicts a catastrophic Liberal failure - National Post
• Poilievre accuses government of contributing to addiction crisis with drug strategy - National Post
• Yes, Canada’s new passport really is that bad - Globe and Mail

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canadaLANDBACK is a co-production by Canada’s National Observer and Canadaland.

Host Karyn Pugliese, producer Kim Wheeler, contributors Trina Roache and Cara McKenna reflect on the season, and — wait for it — Karyn and Jesse argue about whether or not journalism can change the hearts and minds of people. 

Contributors: Trina Roache, Cara McKenna, Jesse Brown 

Host: Karyn Pugliese, editor-in-chief, Canada’s National Observer

Credits: Kim Wheeler (Producer)

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Amidst escalating tensions between Canada and China, an independent MP thinks he’s found the shadowy hand manipulating his fate. If a person asserts there’s been a plot against them but can’t offer any proof, does that count as a literal conspiracy theory?

And has this government ever met a poorly-conceived policy for media regulation it didn’t like? Well, it has now!

PressProgress editor Luke LeBrun joins Jonathan on Short Cuts.

Host: Jonathan Goldsbie

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Guest: Luke LeBrun

Further reading: 

• As the spectre of China's meddling spreads, another MP claims he is a victim – National Post
• Independent MP Kevin Vuong explains to Moore In The Morning whether he was targeted by Chinese election interference. – Newstalk 1010
• The Liberal Party of Canada Wants to Regulate Truth Online. Even Justin Trudeau Thinks It’s a Bad Idea. – PressProgress
• This Must Stop: Government and Liberal Party Go All-In On Speech Regulation With Political Truth Oversight Bodies, Mandated Press Source Tracing, and Disclosure of Critics’ Communications – Michael Geist
• This Liberal resolution targets my work – Paul Wells (Substack)

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For nearly a decade, Research in Motion was the global leader in smartphones with its iconic QWERTY-keyboard-having Blackberry. Through a mix of guerilla marketing and an unexpected boost in sales after 9/11, the rather simplistic email device was transferring some of the world’s most closely guarded secrets, from government officials, business leaders, and celebrities through some servers in Waterloo, Ontario. 

What was the cause of its demise? The iPhone? Google? Hubris? 

Jesse chats with Cherise and Jonathan about his interview with Sean Silcoff, co-author of Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry, also written by Jacquie McNish. The book is also the source material for the new film by Matt Johnson, Blackberry, starring Glenn Howerton and Jay Baruchel, which releases on May 12, 2023.

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Cherise Seucharan (Reporter), Jonathan Goldsbie (News Editor), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Further information:

• Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry
• Blackberry Film Trailer

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BuzzFeed is going bust and Vice is headed for bankruptcy - is it the end of viral news sites? And the press has been reporting for years the name of a prominent and powerful man accused of abusing Indigenous children - but now it’s illegal for us to do so. 

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Guest: Karyn Pugliese

Further reading: 

• How Mark Zuckerberg broke Meta's workforce - Washington Post
• Vice Media reportedly headed for bankruptcy - The Guardian
• Algonquin power lifter bulks up for first provincial competition - APTN News
• Human Rights Tribunal Hearings Start Today in Burns Lake - The Tyee
• Human rights tribunal into complaint against RCMP underway in Burns Lake, B.C. - APTN News

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Ads are everywhere in our life and they seem to keep creeping into more and more places. Movies, games, sponsored “news” content, and of course, the digital tracking that follows your every online move to sell you something you’ve already bought. (You know, you can never have enough washing machines.)

For eighteen years, Terry O’Reilly has been studying and explaining human nature through the lens of advertising. His first show, called O'Reilly on Advertising, started on CBC in 2005 followed by The Age of Persuasion in 2006, and since 2011 it continues as both radio show and podcast, by the name Under the Influence, on his own network, Apostrophe.

Jesse sits down to talk with Terry about all things advertising, podcasting, and why some people want to touch their favourite radio show hosts.

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Further information:

• Apostrophe Podcasts

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From his perch at the top of the far-right ecosystem, Tucker Carlson regularly soaked up stories from Canada and half-jokingly called for forcible regime change here. But when it comes to demagogues who suddenly find themselves with time on their hands, even the half-jokes might merit another look.

And speaking of people who managed to maintain a mainstream platform long after their views took dark, paranoid turns, Toronto Sun columnist Tarek Fatah passed away.

APTN’s Dani Paradis joins Jonathan to talk about both.

Host: Jonathan Goldsbie

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Guest: Dani Paradis

Further reading: 

• Tucker Carlson’s Prayer Talk May Have Led to Fox News Ouster: “That Stuff Freaks Rupert Out” - Vanity Fair
• A first look at 'Tucker Carlson Originals: O, Canada!' - Fox News
• Toronto twins’ claim of being Inuit nets thousands in scholarship money from various organizations - APTN
• 'A real force of nature': Pakistani-Canadian journalist Tarek Fatah dead from cancer at 73 - National Post

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The recent expansion of the Safe Third Country Agreement — which started as a 9/11 era deal that Canada negotiated in order to exert more control over immigration levels — prohibits asylum seekers from entering at unofficial ports of entry. 

The agreement allows Canada to share responsibility for asylum seekers with the US, because the US is “safe” for refugees. 

But there are years of documented evidence suggesting the US is not actually safe, including two Supreme Court rulings, reports from international human rights organizations, and data on the detainment and deportation of asylum seekers. 

So why have we ignored it? 

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Cherise Seucharan (Reporter), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Further reading:

• The new Canada-U.S. border deal will cost Canadian taxpayers at least this much, Toronto Star, April 14, 2023
• What the new US-Canada border deal means for asylum seekers, Al-Jazeera, 24 Mar 2023
• Why we are challenging the USA as a “safe third country” in the Federal Court of Canada, Canadian Council for Refugees 
• US: Detention Hazardous to Immigrants’ Health, Human Rights Watch
• Canada could save lives, but closes Roxham Road instead, Law360 Canada

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Deux lettres ouvertes ont été publiées récemment. Une appelle à la prudence avec la recherche en intelligence artificielle, l’autre à une accélération de sa législation par le gouvernement fédéral, via le projet de loi C-27. Montréal rassemble certains des meilleurs chercheurs mondiaux en IA. Aujourd'hui, Emilie s'entretient avec Benjamin Prud'homme, directeur exécutif de IA pour l'Humanité - Mila, l'Institut québécois d'intelligence artificielle. Ensemble, ils démystifie les enjeux éthiques et les dangers qui nous guettent, et réfléchissent au rôle des journalistes scientifiques dans le contexte. 

Two open letters have been published recently. One calls for caution with AI research, the other for an acceleration of the federal government’s legislation around AI, C-27. Montreal is home to some of the world’s leading researchers in AI. Today, Emilie speaks with Benjamin Prud’homme, Executive Director for AI for Humanity at Mila, the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute. Together, they break down the ethical issues and the dangers that could arise, and discuss the role of scientific journalists in this context.

Animation: Emilie Nicolas

Générique: Tristan Capacchione (Producteur)

Coanimation: Benjamin Prud'homme

Pour en savoir plus :

• Il y a urgence à adopter la Loi sur l’intelligence artificielle et les données - La Presse
• Angles morts de la gouvernance de l’IA - UNESCO
• BARBADA : VIVE LE CONTE LIBRE! - Tout le monde en parle

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We’re talking the CBC leaving Twitter after being labeled “government-funded media”, while Pierre Poilievre thanks Elon Musk for what he was already going to do. The real losers here are the Canadian public. 

And Barry Hertz’s Globe and Mail takedown of the 11th Canadian Screen Awards - a cringe-y, dull, and insulting showcase of what not to do when highlighting Canadian productions. 

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Ren Bangert (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Guest: Nora Loreto

Further reading: 

• CBC says it’s ‘pausing’ its use of Twitter after ‘government-funded media’ label applied - Globe and Mail
• Embarrassing and condescending, 2023 Canadian Screen Awards failed our film and television artists - Globe and Mail
• The 11th Canadian Screen Awards - CBC livestream 

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canadaLANDBACK is a co-production by Canada’s National Observer and Canadaland.

The landback movement isn’t just about getting land back. It’s more than that. It’s a reclamation of culture too. 

We take a deeper dive into Indigenous versus Canadian law, examine how Canada is hoarding land.

Our guests are Métis artist, activist and thinker Christi Belcourt and Anishinaabe artist and knowledge keeper Issac Murdoch, who took land back and established the culture camp Nimkii Aazhibikong.

Onaman Collective is formed by artists Christi Belcourt and Isaac Murdoch https://onamancollective.com/who-we-are/

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From Minecraft to statecraft, Jacobin’s Luke Savage joins Jonathan to chart the bizarre course of a U.S. intelligence leak with potentially explosive implications for Canada. And seemingly inspired by the Musk-fragrant “Twitter Files,” a Conservative MP went on a fishing expedition for examples of the Canadian government over-policing social media. Does turning up a single really solid instance count as a success?

Host: Jonathan Goldsbie

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Guest: Luke Savage

Further reading: 

• From Discord to 4chan: The Improbable Journey of a US Intelligence Leak - Bellingcat 
• Cash Cows: Foreign student recruitment crisis at Canadian universities - W5
• Pro-Russian hackers claim to have targeted Canada’s gas pipeline infrastructure: leaked documents - The Globe and Mail
• CNN, Sunday Morning Shows Completely Ignore Up To 15 Million Americans Being Thrown Off Medicaid - The Column
• Request to remove newspaper article among Ottawa's queries to social-media giants - The Canadian Press 
• GUNTER: Feds' attempts to have story pulled from social media shows dangers of Bill C-11 - Toronto Sun
• Why the Twitter Files Are in Fact a Big Deal - Jacobin

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The University of Victoria campus used to be overrun with rabbits. It now has few, if any, rabbits.

So what happened to them? Where did they go?

Whatever you’re thinking, you’re probably correct.

Andrew Hynes and Amanda Watland take us down one of Canada’s strangest rabbit holes. Happy Easter!

Produced by Andrew Hynes and Mary Decker, a version of this episode was originally presented on CFUV’s U in the Ring podcast on August 1 and 8, 2019.

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Jonathan Goldsbie (News Editor), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Featured guests: Judith Lavoie, Laura Lee Shaw, Sorelle Saidman, Barbara Smith, Georgeanne Lenham

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A story about criminal charges, a potential lawsuit against the press, leaked tape suggesting a huge overreach of power — could a certain populist politician have finally gone too far?  We’re talking about Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.

And enough is enough in Quebec — a defiant open letter in Le Devoir demanding an end to the toxicity in political discourse, signed by hundreds of scholars and writers. 

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Guest: Emilie Nicolas

Further reading: 

• Danielle Smith discussed COVID charges 'almost weekly' with justice officials, according to leaked call - CBC News
• Why a Secret Recording of Danielle Smith is Blowing Up Alberta Politics Right Now - Press Progress
• QUEBKANDA - Le film  
• Ce ne sont pas que des mots - Le Devoir

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Jody Vance has dealt with harassment for most of her career as a broadcast journalist, but starting in 2015 one of her harassers was different, constantly sending hateful, vile emails. When COVID hit, the problem only got worse as the harasser started targeting more of her guests and B.C.’s Provincial Health Officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry. Who was this person and how do you bring an anonymous online tormentor to justice? 

On March 10, 2023, after seven years of vitriolic emails, Jody finally had her day in court and faced her harasser. 

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Reporter, Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Jonathan Goldsbie (News Editor), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Featured guests: Jody Vance, Jesse Miller, Erica Ifill

Special thanks to Sandy Garossino, columnist at the National Observer

Further reading: 

• Steele & Vance — Chek TV
• The three words a court wouldn’t allow Jody Vance to say to her online abuser — The Globe & Mail
• Women and Racialized Journalists In Canada Facing New Wave Of Harassment And Threats — AntiHate.ca
• Rachel Gilmore’s tweets sharing her phone call with the police
• Saba Eitizaz’s tweets sharing her experience with the police

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Either Beijing has corrupted our democracy at the highest level or agents in the Canadian security apparatus are subverting the PMO by illegally leaking information that's either mistaken, exaggerated or both. Both scenarios are troubling. And the national crime spree that we can’t legally talk much about - youth crime & reporting bans.

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor & Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Guest: Joanna Chiu

Further reading: 

• Liberal MP Han Dong secretly advised Chinese diplomat in 2021 to delay freeing Two Michaels: sources - Global News
• Think you understand ‘foreign influence’? Here’s a guide to the scandal shaking Canadian politics - Toronto Star
• Chinese interference in Canada? Chinese Canadians say they reported it for years — and were ignored - Toronto Star
• China’s Vancouver consulate interfered in 2022 municipal election, according to CSIS - Globe and Mail
• China Unbound: A New World Disorder - Joanna Chiu
• New Brunswick patients call on government to reopen investigation into cluster of neurological conditions - Globe and Mail 
• Two months in youth court: An inside look at the Toronto teen swarming murder case - Toronto Star
• Mother decries 'senseless' fatal stabbing of son outside Vancouver coffee shop - CBC

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If news can’t be searched for on Google or shared on Facebook, is it even really online? Bill C-18, the Online News Act, is currently before the senate. Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez says that this Bill will help save small newsrooms and local journalism outlets by giving them the power to negotiate with tech giants, deals for payment of news content that is shared on their platforms.

But Meta and Google’s response has been simple: they just won’t allow Canadian news on their platforms. In March, Google ran a test where one million Canadians could no longer see results for Canadian news searches. At the Canada Strong & Free conference in Ottawa last week, Meta said they would also disallow sharing of anything that looks like news on their sites, like Facebook and Instagram. 

Last year, Canadaland and a group of other independent news publishers formed a consortium to lobby the government on this Bill. Today, Jesse sits down again with Senator Paula Simons, as Publisher of Canadaland, to discuss the Bill and not just his own issues with it, but hers too.

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Featured guests: Paula Simons

Further reading: 

• Canada’s Online News Act must be transparent, fair, and include news innovators — Canadaland, Publisher’s Note
• Bill C-18 - Parliament

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The Toronto Star’s Allan Woods joins Jonathan to look at the prospect of Trump fundraising off a mugshot, and how a Montreal fire might finally accomplish what years of journalism and advocacy have not, pushing authorities there to take action against illegal Airbnbs.

Host: Jonathan Goldsbie

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Guest: Allan Woods

Further reading: 

• Conrad Black: Donald Trump should pass the torch to Ron DeSantis - National Post
• 20 Years Ago, Canadian Media Lined Up To Call For War In Iraq - Passage
• Potemkin: Catherine the Great's Imperial Partner
• Montreal blaze: man who ran illegal Airbnb business identified - Ricochet
• Owner of Old Montreal building that caught fire is a lawyer who pleaded guilty to tax evasion - Montreal Gazette

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The best newspaper in Canada is a podcast.

Every Monday, we bring you original reporting on the most interesting story in the country. Every Thursday, we bring you analysis of the Canadian media.

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Last month, the Senate proposed twenty six amendments to Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, and the Heritage Minister rejected eight. One of those rejected amendments was proposed by Senators Paula Simons and Julie Miville-Dechêne. Its rejection may have a huge impact on many digital-first creators. Jesse sits down with Senator Simons to talk about the bill, this amendment in particular, and what the Senate can do in situations like this.

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Featured guests: Paula Simons

Further reading: 

• Heritage Minister rejects key C-11 amendment, puts himself on potential collision course with Senators — The Globe & Mail
• Alberta Unbound — Senator Simons’ Podcast

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Co-host Sean Silcoff walks us through the Silicon Valley Bank collapse and what it might mean for Canadians. And the Supreme Court Judge who mysteriously went missing from the bench for weeks and the alleged misconduct unearthed by journalists. 

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Guest: Sean Silcoff

Further reading: 

• Silicon Valley Bank collapse shows our financial system is just a collective delusion - The Globe and Mail
• If you’re renewing a mortgage or buying a house, the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank is the best news in ages - The Globe and Mail
• Blackberry Trailer
• High court justice Russell Brown under investigation after altercation at Arizona resort - Vancouver Sun
• Witness to altercation involving Justice Russell Brown says he followed her to hotel room - Sean Fine
• Canada’s cult of confidentiality - The Globe and Mail
• DND claimed a July 7, 2021 document involving Canada's top soldier couldn't be found. Then we told them we had it. - Ottawa Citizen

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canadaLANDBACK is a co-production by Canada’s National Observer and Canadaland.

Landback is not just about returning real estate.

It is about Indigenous people reclaiming who we are and making ourselves whole again.

An elder once told me that he believed residential schools were designed to hurt women, because "They knew that when you break the hearts of our women, you break the strength of our nations."

That story and other teachings tell us that women are central and even sacred to our communities. This episode looks at how women are reclaiming their role as mothers, teachers, leaders, and sacred beings, despite everything colonialism has thrown at them. 

This is not a story of hope, so much as it is a story of resilience and courage. 

In this episode of landback we interview three women, whose stories intersect; Terri Brown, a former chief of the Tahltan First Nation in British Columbia, and former president of the Native Women’s Association (NWAC); Dr. Beverly Jacobs, Mohawk, Six Nations, is the Senior Advisor to the President on Indigenous Relations and Outreach at the University of Windsor and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, who is also a former President of NWAC; Tori Cress Ojibway and Pottawattami, G’Chimnissing is a land and water defender. 

Music “Dare to Dream” by Brandi Morin

Please be warned this episode contains stories of violence, sexual assault and mentions the name and decribes some actions of a serial killer in B.C. 

Host/Producer: Karyn Pugliese 

Producer: Kim Wheeler

This episode contained research by Beverly Andrews.

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À l'automne dernier, le journaliste politique Paul Wells a assisté à l'enquête publique sur l'utilisation de la loi sur les mesures d'urgence lors du convoi de la liberté de 2022. Avec comme point de référence un chapitre du prochain livre de Paul sur le sujet, Paul et Emilie discutent de la réaction policière aux manifestations, et plus précisément du rôle des équipes de liaison. Puis quel serait l’impact du projet de loi C-18 sur les nouvelles en ligne sur le journalisme canadien ?

Last fall, political journalist Paul Wells attended the public inquiry into the use of the Emergencies Act during the 2022 Freedom Convoy. With a chapter from Paul's upcoming book on the subject as a reference point, Paul and Emilie discuss the police response to the protests, specifically the role of police liaison teams. And what impact would online news legislation Bill C-18 really have on Canadian journalism?

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Générique : Nancy Pettinicchio (Production), Tristan Capacchione (Production technique)

Co-animation : Paul Wells

Pour en savoir plus :

• An Emergency in Ottawa, prochain livre de Paul Wells
• Rapport de l’Enquête publique sur l’état d’urgence déclaré en 2022
• Ricochet Media sur C-18: Online News Act threatens Canadian press freedoms, warns senator

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The story about Chinese interference in our elections continues to evolve and the opposition leader has seized on it. Prime Minister Trudeau has now called for two probes despite specific calls for a public inquest - could this be the scandal that breaks him? And a conspiracy theory facilitated by Chat GPT. Arshy Mann co-hosts. 

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Guest: Arshy Mann

Further reading: 

• Beijing may have tried to discourage Canadians from voting Conservative: federal unit - Canadian Press
• Hear No Evil, Write No Lies - The Walrus
• Two high-level memos allege Beijing covertly funded Canadian election candidates - Global News
• African students over five times more likely to be denied visas than Europeans - Investigative Journalism Foundation
• Suspected money launderer won't be charged, special prosecutor rules - Vancouver Sun
• How Wired Will Use Generative AI Tools - Wired

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Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, has been a long-time coming. After initially being proposed in 2021 as Bill C-10, it is in the final stage of becoming law. The bill would regulate online video streamers, forcing them to contribute towards the Canadian Content system and promote “CanCon” on their platforms, like traditional Canadian broadcasters do. Online-only creators have fears it would impact their livelihood.

Most Canadians aren’t even watching CanCon, will this Bill change that? Will it make CanCon better? Can a system that was built for traditional film and TV, be made to work for an increasingly online, global market?

Audio Editor and Technical Producer Tristan Capacchione sits down with Canadian filmmakers to talk all about the “CanCon” system and the problems they’ve experienced with it.

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Reporter, Audio Editor, and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Featured guests: Matt Johnson, Andrew Chung, Marc Almon, Valerie Creighton, Miki “Xwater” Ljuljdurovic

Further reading: 

• CMF Annual Report, 2021-2022
• A new streaming bill is close to becoming law in Canada. Here's how it works — CBC
• Bill C-11 — Parliament

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As we cross the one-year anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, former Canadaland producer Sarah Lawrynuik returns to Short Cuts to talk with Jonathan about why she became a freelance war correspondent, taking night trains to the front lines.

They also look at China’s reported interference in Canada’s elections & why our institutions tend to throw up their hands the moment they encounter even slightly sophisticated malfeasance.

Host: Jonathan Goldsbie

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor & Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Guest: Sarah Lawrynuik

Further reading: 

• Still standing: A year post-invasion, defiant Ukrainians have truly come together to build something, even in the face of Russian atrocities and destruction - Winnipeg Free Press
• Bell Media wouldn’t nominate Lisa LaFlamme for an award — so she did it herself - Toronto Star
• CSIS documents reveal Chinese strategy to influence Canada’s 2021 election - Globe and Mail
• Liberals ignored CSIS warning on 2019 candidate accused in Chinese interference probe: sources - Global News
• CSIS uncovered Chinese plan to donate to Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation - Globe and Mail
• Ottawa must sharpen its monitoring of foreign interference in elections, report says - Toronto Star
• CSIS documents reveal a web of Chinese influence in Canada - The Decibel, Globe and Mail

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There aren’t a lot of dedicated spaces for Black, Indigenous and People of Colour in Nova Scotia. One community group wanted to change that.

They decided to create a cottage retreat for BIPOC in Birchtown, Nova Scotia, a site of significant Black history. It would be owned and run by the community, a place where they could rest, relax and have access to nature. They raised money through donations and memberships. 

But now some of the organizers of Buy Black Birchtown are speaking out, saying they were promised a safe space for the community - but instead were betrayed. 

Clarification: Shekara Grant became involved with Buy Black Birchtown via the Change is Brewing Collective in early 2021, not in 2020 as some listeners may have concluded.

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Cherise Seucharan (Reporter), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor & Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Further reading:

• Black professional women are exhausted. They’re finally claiming the time to rest. The Washington Post, August 2021
• Who were the Black Loyalists?, Black Loyalist Heritage Centre
• Reported hate crimes jumped across Nova Scotia in 2020, most involving race, CBC News, March 2022

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Rouleau has rolled out his verdict and Prime Minister Trudeau is vindicated. What precedent does this set? And a look at how anti-trans rhetoric manifests in the Canadian media landscape - we’re looking at you National Post. Ziya Jones co-hosts

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Guest: Ziya Jones

Further reading: 

• 9 things you might have missed in the Emergencies Act inquiry report - CTV  News
• Quebec housing groups say CAQ government hasn't kept promise to increase funding - CBC News
• NYT Open Letter
• Canadian conservatives can’t cherry-pick the ‘culture war’ they want to fight - Xtra
• Scotland scandalized by trans sex offenders in women's prisons as Canada ignores it - National Post

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Ian Runkle, firearms lawyer, makes the pro-gun case to Jesse, following a political victory for gun rights advocates. 

Further reading:

• Ian Runkle's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/runkleofthebailey
• Gun crime rates from StatsCan https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-005-x/2022001/article/00002-eng.htm
• "Ghost Guns" are on the rise? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/3d-printed-guns-canada-increase-1.6708049

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La notion du Québec bashing a provoqué un déferlement de réactions dans les médias en français et en anglais suite à la nomination d'Amira Elghawaby comme représentante spéciale dans la lutte contre l'islamophobie. Puis quel est le lien entre les anglophones du Québec et les francophones dans le reste du pays face à la réforme de la Loi sur les langues officielles ? Émilie Nicolas anime cet épisode de Détours avec Frédéric Bérard.

The notion of Quebec bashing provoked an outpouring of reactions in both French and English media following the appointment of Amira Elghawaby as special representative in the fight against Islamophobia. And what is the link between anglophones in Quebec and francophones in the rest of the country regarding the reform of the Official Languages Act? Émilie Nicolas hosts this episode of Détours with Frédéric Bérard.

Liens : 

Tweet de Philippe Mercure

Martin Leclerc : La torture, le viol et l’humiliation dans un aréna près de chez vous

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A tasting menu of scandals from Ontario’s municipal and provincial governments, with a newsroom scandal thrown in for kicks. And Fuck the Police - legally! The Narwhal sues the RCMP. Lisa Taylor co-hosts. 

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Guest: Lisa Taylor

Further reading: 

• Integrity commissioner clears Doug Ford after developers attend daughter’s stag and doe - Global News
• How John Tory decided to resign: the inside story of an agonizing week - Toronto Star
• Queen’s Park (QP) Briefing’s editor-in-chief, reporter quit in protest after Ford story fight - Toronto Star
• John Tory should not have resigned as mayor - Toronto Star
• How the Star broke the story on John Tory and what’s next for Toronto? - This Matters Podcast
• Charlottetown council spends more time in closed debate than in open sessions, records reveal - CBC
• Toronto police spending $337K on a podcast to avoid perception they're making 'copaganda' - CBC
• Why The Narwhal and Amber Bracken are suing the RCMP - The Narwhal

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CORRECTION: Corrections have been made about the City of Hamilton’s media accreditation proposal and the mention of Chrystia Freeland lending support to John Tory. Details can be found on our website: https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/john-tory-and-his-sin-city/

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Andrew Wilkinson and former media editor-in-chief Farhan Mohamed founded Overstoy Media Group (OMG) on the promise of revitalizing local news. But after the firing of four star journalists on January 30th, Mohamed admits the company was losing money on hard journalism - and that moving to a ”community” focus would save them.

Current and former staff have expressed concern at the direction of the company - and some allege that OMG executives tried to interfere in editorial content. They paint a picture of a workplace where failed expectations of growth often lead to layoffs.

Cherise Seucharan and Jonathan Goldsbie examine the fallout at OMG, and what it means for journalism, hopeful tech millionaires, and the state of democracy overall.    

Credits: Cherise Seucharan, Jonathan Goldsbie, Tristan Capacchione, Annette Ejiofor

Further reading:

• A Bold Experiment in Local Journalism Hits the Rocks, The Tyee, Feb. 3, 2023
• Capital Daily staff refused to promote the boss’ company. Then they got fired, Ricochet, Feb. 10, 2023
• Fifty new outlets, 250 journalists: Canadian startup unveils plan to revive local news, The Guardian, May 3, 2021

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Canadaland’s first TV series premieres next Friday, February 17, 2023 on CRAVE. Based on our work for the hit podcast series Thunder Bay, Ryan McMahon returns to the eponymous city to tell the ongoing story in north Ontario.

• Trailer for the new docuseries Thunder Bay
• Listen to the rest of our podcast series here
• More information about the TV series

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Locals call it Murder Bay. It might be the most dangerous city for Indigenous youth in the world. But to others, it’s their white nirvana.

Host Ryan McMahon wants to know – not who killed all those kids, but what killed them. This is Thunder Bay.

Host: Ryan McMahon

Credits: Jesse Brown (Writer & Producer), Ryan McMahon (Writer), Brigitte Noel (Additional Research), David Crosbie (Reporting Assistance), Jolene Banning (Reporting Assistance), Cris Derkson (Music), Chaundra Bulucon (Sound Design & Mixing), Kevin Sexton (Managing Editor)

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Following the melting of the No Name price freeze, Loblaw had a bit of its own public meltdown. Meanwhile, the country’s largest newspaper chain continues its own perpetual self-dissolution, leaving damp puddles where once stood proud big-city dailies.

Host: Jonathan Goldsbie

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Guest: Vass Bednar

Further reading: 

• Loblaws fights back on Twitter as social media storm erupts over soaring Canadian food prices - Toronto Star
• Supermarkets are hiking prices faster than necessary — and profiting from inflation, Star investigation suggests - Toronto Star
• Canadian Media Spreads Police PR After Killing Of Tyre Nichols - Passage
• Richard Warnica’s Twitter Thread
• Consultation Paper on Modernizing the Consumer Protection Act
• Getting Royally Screwed - Regs 2 Riches

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Since 2019 five journalists have been arrested at land defenses, several others have been detained or threatened with arrest - why?

Host Karyn Pugliese believes the answer is to be found in two land defenses that unfolded in the 1990s. 

Kanesatake

Gustafsen Lake

Of all the things journalists have to cover in Indigenous communities, land actions are the most complicated, involving a tangle of history and relationships journalists trip into unprepared. 

Landback movements question Canada’s legitimacy as a nation, and its character as a champion of human rights. 

How the media understood and told these stories mattered.  

State violence as a response to a human rights issue is indefensible, but it is a justified response to a criminal matter.

So what are land defenses? 

Is the state enforcing the rule of law against armed terrorists?

Or is Canada using violence to crush human rights defenders? 

This episode is not about the land defenses themselves - but about the emergence of a public relations war to control the story the media tells.

Host/Producer: Karyn Pugliese, editor-in-chief, Canada’s National Observer

Producer: Kim Wheeler

Additional research and support for this episode Beverly Andrews and Cara McKenna. 

See the RCMP's full statement here.

For information on sources and sounds used in this episode, visit the CANADALAND website

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Quebec’s overblown backlash to the appointment of Amira Elghawaby as special representative on combatting Islamophobia in response to her analysis of a poll from back in 2019. And is the government telling us to only drink two alcoholic beverages a week? Sarah Hagi co-hosts. 

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Guest: Sarah Hagi

Further reading: 

• Uproar over Amira Elghawaby appointment proof of need for someone like her in the job - Toronto Star
• Tom Mulcair: Amira Elghawaby is the wrong person for the job - The Montreal Gazette
• Elghawaby and Farber: Quebec's Bill 21 shows why we fear the tyranny of the majority - Ottawa Citizen
• A new measure of unhealthy drinking - The Decibel The Globe and Mail
• How much booze is too much booze? - Front Burner CBC

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The Chinese state has infiltrated Canadian democracy at all levels, according to a bombshell report from investigative reporter Sam Cooper of Global News. But Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has issued a stern denial, throwing cold water on the story. Who's telling the truth? And exactly what is Beijing up to in Canada? Sam Cooper explains his work. 

Further reading:

• Cooper's feature scoop on Chinese Interference
• Trudeau denies he was briefed
• Willfull Blindness, Cooper's book on Chinese money laundering in Canada, and more

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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 federal government battle it out when it comes to healthcare, whose side are we supposed to be on? Nora Loreto co-hosts.

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Guest: Nora Loreto

Further reading: 

• L’influence de McKinsey explose sous Trudeau, surtout à l’immigration - Radio-Canada
• Contracts for McKinsey a drop in the bucket of billions spent on government outsourcing: data - National Post
• Dans l’ombre, la firme McKinsey était au cœur de la gestion de la pandémie au Québec - Radio-Canada
• Crown corporation faces staff backlash over McKinsey contract, spending decisions - CBC
• Small Ottawa firm subcontracted ArriveCan app to multinationals, documents reveal - The Globe and Mail
• Tainted milk led to deaths of Alberta residential school children, group says - CBC
• Insiders share just how close Justin Trudeau and premiers are to deals that will tackle the health-care crisis - Toronto Star

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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 symptoms. A year later, the Government of New Brunswick released a report dismissing the entire issue, claiming there was never a cluster of patients to begin with.

CANADALAND has obtained thousands and thousands of pages of internal documents that take us behind the scenes of that investigation that once caught the attention of the nation, before being dropped like a hot potato. 

Read more about CANADALAND’s investigation here.

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Sarah Lawrynuik (Freelance Reporter), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Further reading:

• Whistleblower warns baffling illness affects growing number of young adults in Canadian province, The Guardian, Jan. 2, 2022
• Official investigation into New Brunswick’s mysterious brain disorder finds no new condition, Washington Post, Feb. 24, 2022

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Le chemin Roxham, un passage frontalier irrégulier au Québec, a fait l'objet d'une attention médiatique considérable ce mois-ci suite au décès de Fritznel Richard. Puis lors de la couverture de sujets sensibles comme la migration, que doivent garder en tête les journalistes en matière de traumavertissements ? Émilie Nicolas anime cet épisode de Détours avec Lela Savić. 

Roxham Road, an irregular border crossing in Quebec, received considerable media attention this month following the death of Fritznel Richard. And when covering sensitive issues such as migration, what should journalists keep in mind in regards to trigger warnings? Emilie Nicolas hosts this episode of Détours with Lela Savić. 

Liens : 

La Presse : Une traversée en pleine tempête

Radio-Canada : À l’ombre de Roxham, des migrants font le chemin inverse

Le Devoir : Avertissement: ce traumavertissement ne fonctionne pas

Le Devoir : Petite histoire des traumavertissements

Le Devoir : Attention: ce musée contient des traces d'histoire

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And the Financial Post’s polar bear “expert” has some questionable associations in her past and a tendency to downplay climate change. Matt Gurney co-hosts. 

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), André Proulx (Production Coordinator), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Guest: Matt Gurney

Further reading: 

• A Skeptical Take on the A.I. Revolution - The Ezra Klein Show
• Guards cleared in hospital death of Stephanie Warriner. Here's the footage no jury will ever see - CBC News
• New Bill Morneau book offers insider’s account of first five years of Trudeau government - The Globe and Mail
• Opinion: What climate alarmism about polar bears gets wrong - The Financial Post
• Canadian polar bears near ‘bear capital’ dying at fast rate - AP News

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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, comedy, and Jews. 

Further reading:

Marc interviews Lorne Michaels: http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episodes/episode_653_-_lorne_michaels

Jesse interviews Hart Pomerantz: https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/hart-pomerantz/

The late, great Mike MacDonald, Canadian comedian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xpl9ClEpcY

Gavin McInnes' failed standup career https://censored.tv/watch/shows/free-shit/episode/brotherhood-of-the-traveling-rants

No-one ever wrote a good rock song about Vancouver, including Nazareth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-k-qAtZPWg

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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 Peterson’s latest drama over a banal request from the College of Psychologists of Ontario’s request for social media training after complaints over inappropriate tweets.

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), André Proulx (Production Coordinator)

Guest: David Pugliese

Further reading: 

• Government to announce F-35 deal — Trudeau had said stealth fighter didn’t work and wasn’t needed - National Post
• Justin Trudeau selling record number of  weapons to authoritarian countries - Investigative Journalism Foundation
• Canada violating int’l law by selling arms to Saudis: Report - Amnesty International
• Canada, U.S. reach workaround deal on Nexus application backlog, agree to missile deal for Ukraine - The Globe & Mail
• B.C.'s highest court dismisses Postmedia appeal for information about secret trial - Canada.com
• Jordan Peterson’s doxing - Canadaland Tweet

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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 cultural icons more dangerous than the usual bigotry? And why is it so difficult for Jewish and Black communities to hear each other when it comes to racism? Emilie Nicolas joins Jesse to lay out a framework for better conversations. 

Further reading:

Blacks and Jews, Again. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/20/opinion/kyrie-irving-kanye-west-antisemitism.html

Kanye says 'Jewish Zionists' control the media, Jews own the Black voice. https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-719843

What to Know About Irving’s Antisemitic Movie Post and the Fallout. https://www.nytimes.com/article/kyrie-irving-antisemitic.html

Jon Stewart Defends Dave Chappelle’s Controversial SNL Monologue. https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/11/jon-stewart-defends-dave-chappelle-controversial-snl-monologue

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The Shorties! Or Cutties! Or Shortcuttys! A special awards show highlighting variably consequential media weirdness from the year past. Dani Paradis co-hosts.

Further reading:

• Final Jeopardy!: World Capitals – Jeopardy! on YouTube
• Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she has Cherokee roots, but the records don’t back that up – APTN News
• ZoomerMedia Acquires blogTO – ZNews on YouTube
• I moved to Alberta and hated everything about it. After three months, I came back to Toronto – Toronto Life

Host: Jonathan Goldsbie

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), André Proulx (Production Coordinator)

Guest: Dani Paradis

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canadaLANDBACK is a co-production by Canada’s National Observer and Canadaland.

Land claims can take generations to settle. Sometimes communities lose patience, sometimes development forces them to take a stand or risk losing their land forever. Barricades have become a familiar scene in Canada. 

The land issue is rarely settled when barricades come down. Instead the community is left with court cases,  post traumatic stress, and unresolved human rights issues.

Some of those people are children.. 

There is a saying I told you about last time: we get the grandchildren we deserve.

We raised this generation together Canada, your people and mine. 

Who did these children become?

This is their episode.  

In the first half of this episode, we’ll introduce you to three people who survived land conflicts.

In the second half, they share their experiences with each other as they meet for the first time. 

Please be warned: This episode contains two descriptions of violence against children. 

Host/Producer: Karyn Pugliese 

Producer: Kim Wheeler

This episode contained reporting by Trina Roache

Check out other CNO podcasts, including Hot Politics available on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your favourite podcasts.

In this podcast: interviews with  Tracey Deer,  Alabama Bressette, Curtis Bartibogue.

Tracy Deer’s film Beans is available on Prime Video. 

Alabama Bressette is a co-author of Our Long Struggle for Home: The Ipperwash by Aazhoodenaang Enjibaajig

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This episode was originally aired on December 7, 2022

WIND Mobile, now known as Freedom, was a small company that tried to break through Canada’s telecom oligopoly. It did not have an easy ride. 

WIND faced numerous hurdles from regulators, it was subjected to dirty tricks from the telecom oligopoly, and was eventually sold to Shaw. But it also helped lower cell phone rates and brought in unlimited data and U.S. roaming, changing the wireless market permanently.

This is the inside story of WIND Mobile, from the people who were there.

Featured in this episode: Simon Lockie, Brice Scheschuk, Tony Clement

To learn more

“Why can’t TTC riders use their cellphones on the subway? Ask Bell, Rogers or Telus” in The Toronto Star by Lex Harvey

“Wind Mobile backer regrets Canadian launch” in CBC News 

“Globalive offers $3.75-billion to buy Freedom Mobile” in The Globe and Mail by Alexandra Posadzki

Credits: Arshy Mann (Host and Producer), Jordan Cornish (Producer), Noor Azrieh (Associate Producer), André Proulx (Production Coordinator)

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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 describing the alleged violence? Sarah sits down with Jesse to discuss how to safely run towards danger, and whether it’s even possible to ethically use child labour in the production of TV and film.

This episode was originally aired on March 14, 2022

Host:  Jesse Brown

Credits: Sarah Lawrynuik (Former Senior Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Kieran Oudshoorn (Former Managing Editor)

Guest: Sarah Polley

Further reading:

• Run Towards the Danger, Sarah Polley
• Sarah Polley Is OK With Oversharing, New York Times
• Sarah Polley breaks silence about traumatic encounter with Jian Ghomeshi, CBC Radio
• For Reference: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

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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 the narrative. Jan Wong co-hosts. 

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), André Proulx (Production Coordinator)

Guest: Jan Wong

Further reading: 

• The Great Internet Grievance War the Right Has Wanted Is Here. It Ain’t Going Well. -  Slate
• Our Reporting at Twitter - Free Press
• The Twitter Files thread Hunter Biden Laptop
• 2 schools lose fight to keep names secret following censored tours at Canadian Museum for Human Rights - CBC
• After independent review in wake of Lisa LaFlamme’s ouster, CTV’s Michael Melling is out of news operations - Toronto Star
• Bell Media employees: ‘Let’s Talk’ about CTV’s toxic, abusive workplace - Canadaland

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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 newsrooms. It's the good, the bad and the funny. 

A Canadaland tradition, now updated with a new story. 

Host:  Jesse Brown

Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer)

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Former crime reporter Tamara Cherry — who now works as a specialist-for-hire on trauma-informed practices — joins Jonathan Goldsbie to consider what allegations swirling around Leah McLaren’s memoir have taught us about what could be called “trauma-indifferent” writing. They also look at how publication bans on the identities of victims can sometimes serve to re-victimize them, and how Canada seems to be on the verge of finally addressing that.This episode contains discussions of sexual assault.

Links:

• I was sexually assaulted when I was 16. Penguin Random House Canada published a memoir by one of my assailants claiming it was consensual – Zoe Charlotte Greenberg on Medium
• my response – Leah McLaren on Substack
• A Statement from Penguin Random House Canada – PenguinRandomHouseCA on Twitter
• Trauma survivors and the media: A qualitative analysis – Journal of Community Safety and Well-Being
• She wanted to tell you about her sex assault. The court has finally let her – Toronto Star
• Victim Identity and Privacy – Justice Committee report on Improving Support for Victims of Crime

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The largest National Park in Canada is Wood Buffalo, currently celebrating its 100th anniversary. But the people who inhabited it for thousands of years before that want it back. Brandi Morin travels to Wood Buffalo (and to Fort MacMurray and to Fort Chipewyan) to tell the real story of the Dene, the Cree, and the land they were expelled from to make way for Wood Buffalo National Park. 

Further reading:

Wood Buffalo National Park: an Untold Story. An account from Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation.

http://acfn.woodbuffaloexpulsion.ca/

Wood Buffalo and the American Bison: Get to Know This Place and an Amazing Animal. (Doc Planet documentary referenced in this episode.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsxQKVfIxzE

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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 credible Blacklock’s reporter’s story about being evicted from the Press Gallery. Grant LaFleche co-hosts. 

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Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), André Proulx (Production Coordinator)

Guest: Grant LaFleche

Further reading: 

• How Bill C-21 turned from banning handguns to hunting guns - CBC
• Daughters of Morgan Harris call on Ottawa for help to find mother - APTN
• Blacklock’s Eviction By Police - Blacklock’s Reporter
• How an Ugly Feud Between Two Reporters Might Change Parliament’s Press Gallery Forever - Canadaland

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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 donate to a food drive. Conservative politicians, Liberal politicians, banks, broadcasters, grocery stores: they all are united in this message.

With the promotion of food banks from virtually every institution and elected official in the country, you might conclude that they are the best solution to food insecurity.

Except - they’re not. Food bank use in Canada is at an all-time high, and experts, community organizers, even staff at food banks say that the growing need just shows how our government has failed to address poverty and hold corporations to account. 

In this episode: 

Kitty Raman Costa, Executive Director, Parkdale Community Food Bank

Dr. Valerie Tarasuk, Principal Investigator at PROOF, University of Toronto.

Jade Guthrie, Community Learning and Engagement Manager, FoodShare

Professor Dennis Raphael of York’s School of Health Policy and Management

Further reading: 

• HungerCount 2022, Food Banks Canada
• Supermarkets are hiking prices faster than necessary — and profiting from inflation, Star investigation suggests, by Marco Chown Oved, Toronto Star
• Why are Canadians in need still forced to rely on food banks? By Jade Guthrie, rabble.ca
• Take the money and run: how food banks became complicit with Walmart Canada’s hunger producing employment practices, by Zsofia Mendly-Zambo, Dennis Raphael and Alan Taman

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AVERTISSEMENT : Dans cet épisode, nous discutons de violence à caractère sexuelle et de violence basée sur le genre. Si vous êtes à la recherche de soutien, le lien suivant vous dirigera vers des ressources à travers le Canada : https://canadianwomen.org/fr/vous-cherchez-un-soutien/

Dans le cadre des 12 jours d'action contre la violence faite aux femmes, cet épisode revient sur la couverture médiatique actuelle au Québec autour de la dénonciation de violence à caractère sexuelle. Quel rôle jouent les journalistes dans l'accompagnement d'une personne victime ou survivante qui choisit de dénoncer ? Emilie Nicolas anime cet épisode de Détours avec Sophie Gagnon.

CONTENT WARNING: In this episode, the co-hosts discuss sexual violence and gender-based violence. If you are seeking support, the following link will direct you to resources across Canada: https://canadianwomen.org/support-services/

As part of the 12 Days of Action Against Gendered Violence, this episode looks at the current media coverage in Quebec around the reporting of sexual violence. What role do journalists play in supporting a victim or survivor who chooses to speak out? Emilie Nicolas hosts this episode of Détours with Sophie Gagnon.

Liens : 

Isabelle Hachey dans La Presse : Des cicatrices et des regrets

Lettre de Sophie Gagnon et Léa Clermont-Dion dans La Presse

The Walrus sur Tamara Thermitus

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The potential hypocrisies of condemning human rights abuses in Qatar during the FIFA World Cup. And the increasing difficulty of writing critically about Israel. Shree Paradkar co-hosts.

Host: Jonathan Goldsbie

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), André Proulx (Production Coordinator), Cassidy Villebrun-Buracas(Associate Producer)

Guest: Shree Paradkar

Further reading: 

• How media criticisms of Qatar during the World Cup are both accurate and unfair - Toronto Star
• LILLEY: World Cup's beauty marred by Qatar's human rights record - Toronto Sun
• Opinion: We built the railway in five years. So why are so many megaprojects now stalled? - The Globe and Mail
• Regier v National Post - National NewsMedia Council
• Why the definition of antisemitism has become such a polarizing issue - Toronto Star
• CBC’s Palestine Exception - Review of Journalism

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*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, RCMP Const. Joseph Kohut kicked down the door to his ex’s home in Prince George, B.C., and left with certain belongings. His ex said that one of the things Kohut took was a videotape showing him sexually harassing an underage Indigenous girl. Kohut had already been investigated for sexual misconduct after a local judge pled guilty to sexually assaulting several Indigenous minors. Kohut’s ex, also a Mountie, reported the alleged theft of evidence. So what happened next? Reporter Jessica McDiarmid tells the story of 16-years of entropy and indifference within the RCMP. 

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer)

Guest: Jessica McDiarmid

Further reading: 

• Toronto Star investigation, by Jessica McDiarmid

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Poilievre's toxic lie about safe supply. And the confusing and contradictory CSIS intelligence on China and the Freedom Convoy. Garth Mullins co hosts.

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), André Proulx (Production Coordinator)

Guest: Garth Mullins

Further reading: 

• Everything feels broken.But we can fix it. - Pierre Poilievre video
• Opinion: Pierre Poilievre couldn’t be more wrong on drug policy - The Globe and Mail
• Former Harper adviser denounces Pierre Poilievre drug policy unveiled in video - The Globe and Mail
• Chris Selley: Poilievre's anti-drug pitch is a failure of imagination - The National Post
• ‘Like a zombie’: Ontario group home chain accused of overmedicating kids in care - Global News
• Police Across Canada Are Hiring a Tech Company to Justify Bigger Budgets and Belittle Social Services - Press Progress
• CSIS head told Justin Trudeau to use Emergencies Act, inquiry told - The Toronto Star

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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 Provincial Park, which was also part of their original land and contained a burial ground. Racism and political interference turned a peaceful movement into a violent act of state aggression on September 6, 1995. This episode recalls the events of that night, and examines the fallout in the 28 years since, asking if reconciliation will ever be possible for the people of Stoney Point.

In this podcast: interviews include Bonnie Bressette, Caroline “Cully” George, Pierre George, Kevin Simon, Claudette Bressette, Alabama Bressette, and Donald Worme. 

The episode is in memory of Anthony “Dudley” George.

Deep thanks to Heather Menzies editor, and Kerry Kilmartin publisher of “Our Long Struggle for Home: The Ipperwash” by Aazhoodenaang Enjibaajig 

Host: Karyn Pugliese

Credits: Karyn Pugliese (Producer), Kim Wheeler (Producer) 

Research for this episode included:

• Our Long Struggle for Home: The Ipperwash by Aazhoodenaang Enjibaajig  
• The Ipperwash Inquiry Report: A road map to better relationships between Aboriginal people and the Ontario government
• One Dead Indian: The Premier, the Police, and the Ipperwash Crisis, a book by Canadian investigative journalist Peter Edwards

Sound in this podcast included:

• “Late Night news (Problems) by Farewell Davidson 
• G20 Protests in Toronto Turn Ugly recorded by George Kourounis
• A look back at Ipperwash and Dudley George's death, APTN by Mark Blackburn June 06, 2013
• "Act Naturally" by Buck Owens
• Theme music from “Dudley Do-Right” cartoon
• Dudley Do-Right "Marigolds" episode

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The tense relationship between Canada and China after allegations of interference in our federal election. And do we need a mask mandate to prevent mask laziness and save our kids? Steven Zhou co-hosts.  

Host:  Jesse Brown

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), André Proulx (Production Coordinator)

Guest: Steven Zhou

Further reading: 

• Canadian intelligence warned PM Trudeau that China covertly funded 2019 election candidates: Sources - CTV
• Chinese President Xi berates Trudeau on sidelines of G20 for leaking conversation - Globe and Mail
• MPs agree to probe allegations of Chinese interference in federal elections - CBC
• Hydro-Québec employee accused of spying for China is a flight risk, Crown says - CBC
• Woman risking homelessness because tenant won't leave gets eviction hearing date - CBC
• To slow the spread of childhood respiratory viruses, do we need a few weeks of mandatory masking? - Globe and Mail

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Thanks to David Wallace and Richard Marsh, the Klondike Papers blew up online - and nothing garnered more attention than Wallace’s claim that there was a plot to get rid of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. 

Could it be true? Cherise and Jesse try to get to the bottom of what actually happened, and in doing so discover a complex network of Brethren business with extensive political connections around the globe. 

Written and reported by Jesse Brown and Cherise Seucharan

Audio editing and sound design by Tristan Capacchione

Original music by Nathan Burley

Additional music by Audio Network

Editorial Assistance by Sarah Lawrynuik

Executive Producer, Jesse Brown

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Le calcul politique de Doug Ford se retourne contre lui alors que les Ontarien.nes démontrent leur soutien aux travailleurs et travailleuses de l'éducation suite à la tentative du gouvernement provincial d'empêcher une grève historique. Puis quelle est la conversation entourant le bilinguisme au Nouveau-Brunswick suite à la nomination controversée de Kris Austin au Comité de révision de la Loi sur les langues officielles ? Emilie Nicolas anime cet épisode de Détours avec Stéphanie Chouinard.

English: Doug Ford's political maneuvering backfires as Ontarians show their support for education workers after the provincial government tried to prevent a historic strike. And what is the conversation surrounding bilingualism in New Brunswick following the controversial appointment of Kris Austin to the Official Languages Act review committee? Emilie Nicolas hosts this épisode of Détours with Stéphanie Chouinard.

Liens : 

Poll: 6 of 10 Ontarians blame Ford government for labour disruptions

Chantal Hébert sur la loi 28 en Ontario

Andrew Coyne sur la loi 28 en Ontario

François Gravel : Démissionnez, M. Higgs

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Correction : L'épisode a été modifiée pour corriger une erreur factuelle. Les travailleurs et travailleuses de l'éducation en Ontario revendiquent une augmentation de salaire de 3,25 $ l’heure et non pas une augmentation de 11% par année sur trois ans.

Correction: This episode has been edited to correct a factual error. Education workers in Ontario are demanding a wage increase of $3.25 per hour, not an 11% increase per year over three years. 

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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 Emergencies Act? Douglas Soltys co-hosts.  

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio and Technical Producer), André Proulx (Production Coordinator)

Guest: Douglas Soltys

Further reading: 

Protected Duffins Creek wetland in Ontario has been damaged The Narwhal

Editorial: Conservatives cozy up to biased Facebook National Post

Millions Following Emergencies Act Commission. Most are Concluding Ottawa Had No Better Choice Abacus Poll

Was the Emergencies Act necessary? Globe and Mail

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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 Brethren for their alleged abuses. Now he’s on the run from Brethren members who’ve been searching for him for years. The man hired to hunt Marsh down? David Wallace. 

Written and reported by Jesse Brown and Cherise Seucharan

Audio editing and sound design by Tristan Capacchione

Original music by Nathan Burley

Additional music by Audio Network

Editorial Assistance by Sarah Lawrynuik

Executive Producer, Jesse Brown 

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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 Hamilton is to boycott the local newspaper. Jeremy Appel co-hosts. 

Host:  Jesse Brown

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio and Technical Producer), André Proulx (Production Coordinator)

Guest: Jeremy Appel

Further reading: 

• A journalist broke a story about vandalism. Now police claim he did it - Toronto Star
• 10 incoming councillors, trustees say recent coverage in Hamilton newspaper 'perpetuated anti-Black racism' - CBC
• Nazi collaborator monuments in Edmonton defaced with red paint and words “Actual Nazi” and “Nazi Monument” - Progress Report
• Here’s what I can tell you and here’s how you can help - Progress Report
• Hamilton community organizer alleged to have helped kidnappers escape in fatal Glanbrook home invasion - The Hamilton Spectator
• Instagram Post Statement of the Hamilton Spectator boycott

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Meet David Wallace, political fixer and dirty tricks operative. 

After a career in the shadows, he’s turned whistleblower, leaking his files and sparking a conspiracy theory. 

But why? And can he be trusted?

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Audio editing and sound design by Tristan Capacchione

Original music by Nathan Burley

Additional music by Audio Network

Editorial Assistance by Sarah Lawrynuik

Executive Producer, Jesse Brown

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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-election deniers set to be elected to Congress next month, what does that bode for our own near future?

The Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur joins Jonathan Goldsbie to chew over that and also why the right seems to have a structural advantage in the media.

Host: Jonathan Goldsbie

Credits: Kattie Laur (Producer) Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor & Technical Producer) André Proulx (Production Coordinator) SoCalled (Music)

Guest: Cenk Uygur

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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.

In part one: Bonnie Bressette was only 5 years old when a truck came to Stoney Point, and she watched as her house was loaded up onto the truck to be taken away. Her father explained the government was taking their land to build an army base, but promised to return it after the war. Legally, the government had to. They didn’t.

In episode one we hear from three generations of Stoney Pointers of how every system failed them. They explain their longing to rebuild their community and what led them to take over a military base in 1993. 

The story of Stoney Point is, in many ways unique, but in many ways it is the story of every land action: unresolved, intergenerational, highly politicized by Canada, that leads to confrontations between protestors and heavily armed police. The story sets up to ask, why have these scenes become so acceptable in Canada, and is there a way out?

In this podcast: interviews include Bonnie Bressette, Caroline “Cully” George, Pierre George, Kevin Simon. 

The episode is in memory of Anthony “Dudley” George.

Host: Karyn Pugliese

Credits: Karyn Pugliese (Producer), Kim Wheeler (Producer) 

Stoney Pointers full story in their own words:

• Our Long Struggle for Home: The Ipperwash by Aazhoodenaang Enjibaajig 

Research for this episode included:

• The Ipperwash Inquiry Report: A road map to better relationships between Aboriginal people and the Ontario government
• One Dead Indian: The Premier, the Police, and the Ipperwash Crisis, a book by Canadian investigative journalist Peter Edwards

Sound in this podcast included:

• “Fifty ways to trick a treaty” by Davd A Moses with many meegwetch-es for writing that for us, reach him on Twitter
• This episode included sound from Ipperwash Land Expropriation : Hell of a Deal (1989) - The Fifth Estate and Royal Canadian Army Cadet recruiting film pt 1 - 1977

Podcast artwork by Jessie Boulard

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Loblaws takes the heat over a tone-deaf price freeze. And the unprecedented, unjustified, and perhaps unnecessary federal government power grab that nobody cares about. Our very own Arshy Mann co-hosts. 

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer) Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor & Technical Producer) André Proulx (Production Coordinator) SoCalled (Music)

Guest: Arshy Mann

Background reading:

• Canadians must give thanks to our Loblaw overlords for their generous new marketing campaign
• Supermarkets are hiking prices faster than necessary — and profiting from inflation, Star investigation suggests
• Controversial political fixer re-emerges in Toronto election campaign
• Commons: Papa Pump and the Small Town Shakedown
• Use of Emergencies Act OK by me, whatever the hearings find
• Justin Trudeau accused Doug Ford of ‘hiding’ during convoy protest, documents show
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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 it's about anything. She talks with Jesse about what it's like to be a migrant worker in your own country. 

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A controversial comment about Burqas in a Toronto Star column crossed the editorial line. And business drama at this Toronto paper. Jonathan Goldsbie hosts with co-host Sarah Hagi.

Host: Jonathan Goldsbie

Credits: Aviva Lessard - Producer, Tristan Capacchione - Audio Editor & Technical Producer, André Proulx - Production Coordinator

Guest: Sarah Hagi

Background reading:

• Toronto Star: With the death of Mahsa Amini, it’s time for Hollywood to fight for Iranian women
• Toronto Star: Burqa comments crossed the line
• Toronto Star: Advice column fell below Star’s editorial standards
• Vice: Jonathan Kay Is Going to Be Just Fine

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The Beachcombers was a wildly long-running series, by any measure. With 387 episodes, the CBC dramedy had more installments than CSI, and five times as many as Schitt’s Creek. For nearly two decades, it was just always there — until one day it wasn’t. Since the last episode aired in 1990, The Beachcombers has largely been forgotten, its title reduced to a punchline.

But there’s one place that can’t forget. Producer Sophie Woodrooffe pays a visit to Gibsons, BC, the town that takes The Beachcombers more than a little seriously.

Link: Coasters, Sophie Woodrooffe’s upcoming podcast miniseries about BC’s Sunshine Coast, for which this episode was originally created.

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Élection après élection, la réforme du mode de scrutin devient le sujet chaud, malgré que le premier ministre du Québec considère que la question n'intéresse personne, à part quelques intellectuels. Et pourquoi la pénurie d'enseignants reste-t-elle un enjeu grave dans tout le pays ? Emilie Nicolas anime cet épisode de Détours avec Nicolas Rouleau.

English: Election after election, electoral reform becomes the hot topic, despite the fact that the Premier of Quebec considers the issue to be of interest to nobody except for a few intellectuals. And why does the teacher shortage remain a serious problem across the country? Emilie Nicolas hosts this episode of Détours with Nicolas Rouleau.

Liens : 

Shari Graydon sur la parité de genre en politique

Une caricature jugée islamophobe publiée dans l’Acadie Nouvelle dérange 

La goutte qui a fait démissionner Anne-Marie par Patrick Lagacé

Katherine Brulotte sur la pénurie d'enseignants

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Emilie Nicolas and Toula Drimonis break down the Quebec election for those outside of the Quebec bubble. And is the CBC changing their Journalistic Standards and Practices or is this just part of the rumour mill?

Links:

• Seema Reza on the Joy of Being (Completely) Alone
• The Guardian article re: Car culture
• La Presse article re: Objectivity at the CBC
• National Post piece re: Objectivity at the CBC
• Le Devoir article re: Malaise at Radio Canada

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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 poaching in British Columbia. Hidden infrared cameras, park law enforcement, and… forest courts? 

Links: 

Tree Thieves – Greystone books

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There have been major developments in the Saskatchewan stabbing story, but most journalists have moved on - except for Global reporter Ashleigh Stewart. And why do reporters try to elicit emotional responses from victims of natural disasters? Ashleigh Stewart co-hosts. 

Links:

• Global News Exclusive re: Saskatchewan stabbing
• Global News piece re: Ukraine's liberated eastern villages
• Interview on CBC's The Current re: Hurricane Fiona

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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 die in Nov. 2020 at the age of 49, her sister stated that was not her cause of death.

Lisa LaFlamme was but one CTV News employee. Dozens more speak to us about a toxic workplace where abuse, bullying, and burnout have allegedly been normal. This culture comes from a deliberate corporate plan. In one case, the consequences may have been fatal. 

Links

(Toronto Star) Inside the massive Bell Media downsizing that pushed out Lisa LaFlamme 

https://www.thestar.com/business/2022/09/09/a-cut-too-far-lisa-laflammes-ouster-was-just-the-latest-in-a-long-string-of-departures-from-bell-media-the-cost-cutting-worked-well-until-it-didnt.html

Bell Executive Who Fired Lisa LaFlamme Interfered With CTV News Coverage, Says Colleague

https://www.canadaland.com/bell-executive-who-fired-lisa-laflamme-interfered-with-ctv-news-coverage-says-colleague/

“It was very well-sequenced” – Bell Executives Face Angry Staff Over LaFlamme Ousting

https://www.canadaland.com/it-was-very-well-sequenced-bell-executives-face-angry-staff-over-laflamme-ousting/

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A recent encounter between Pierre Poilievre and David Akin of Global News demonstrates the tactics politicians have been using to avoid accountability. And how the popular #TrudeauMustGo campaign is being dismissed as bots and treated as if it doesn't exist. Nora Loreto co-hosts. 

Links:

• Video of David Akin and Pierre Poilievre
• CBC Manitoba piece re: Homelessness
• Dean Blundell piece re: #TrudeauMustGo
• National Post piece re: Trudeau's divisivenese

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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 stole the story of Sas’qets, a core part of Sto:lo cultural identity for thousands of years. Robert Jago is a Sto:lo writer and Sasquatch enthusiast who set out to take Sasquatch back. But the process of cultural appropriation turns out to be more complicated than passing a physical object back and forth, and Jago tells a unique story of how the Sts’ailes people kept their culture alive in the face of genocide, by appropriating appropriation.

Links:

Macleans, 1929: Introducing B. C.’s Hairy Giants 

https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1929/4/1/introducing-b-cs-hairy-giants

Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre, by Max Brooks

https://www.amazon.ca/Devolution-Firsthand-Account-Sasquatch-Massacre/dp/1984826786

The Sasquatch, the Fire and the Cedar Baskets by Joseph (Tony) Dandurand

https://www.amazon.ca/Sasquatch-Fire-Cedar-Baskets/dp/0889713766

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Suite au décès de la reine Elizabeth II, de nombreux journalistes soulignent les qualités admirables de la reine, alors que d'autres mettent la politesse de côté pour appeler à une réflexion plus critique autour de la monarchie. Puis comment les médias francophones couvrent-ils les sujets de l'immigration et de la langue française dans le premier débat de la campagne électorale au Québec ? Emilie Nicolas anime cet épisode de Détours avec Maïka Sondarjee.

Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, many journalists spotlighted her admirable qualities, while others put politeness aside to call for a more critical reflection on the monarchy. And how is francophone media covering immigration and the French language following the first debate of the Quebec election campaign? Emilie Nicolas hosts this episode of Détours with Maïka Sondarjee.

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La reine du Canada, vue du Québec par Jean-François Nadeau

La reine était nue par Patrick Lagacé

No, I do not mourn the Queen par Shree Paradkar

Quel «dérapage»? par Christian Rioux

L’avenir du français au Québec par Jean-Benoît Nadeau

Le choix de François Legault par Paul Wells

Pour en finir avec le déclin de la langue française par Jean-Benoît Nadeau

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Canadians have greeted the death of Elizabeth II with a mix of sadness and ambivalence, hostility and indifference. Film writer Will Sloan joins Jonathan Goldsbie to look at how media has grappled with evolving attitudes toward the monarchy, and how it’s covered the rare sort of development that’s both wholly inevitable and the biggest breaking news in the world.

They also go deep on a cartoon elf.

Links:

• CBC interview with author Lawrence Hill
• Toronto Sun piece re: Woke haters
• Courrier Laval piece re: PQ candidate and porn video
• The Soulmates in the Gift of the Light (1991) video
• Will Sloan's viral tweet

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A new Netflix documentary documents the violent life and death of John McAfee, a silicon valley magnate who became a murder suspect and the target of an international manhunt. But ten years after it all went down, do we actually know what happened? Rocco Castoro was the young editor in chief of VICE News who embedded with McAfee during his wild run from the law. He tries to set the record straight, and clear his own reputation. 

Links: 

Running With The Devil (Netflix) https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/who-is-john-mcafee-running-with-the-devil

‘This is really shady and low’: Netflix’s John McAfee documentary attacked by people who appeared in it https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-is-really-shady-and-low-netflixs-john-mcafee-documentary-attacked-by-those-who-appeared-in-it-11661943486

The Knows - Rocco Castoro's news site  https://www.theknows.net/

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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 was swatted in London, Ontario. Zak Vescera co-hosts. 

Links:

• National Post Opinion piece re: RCMP response to stabbing
• Toronto Sun Opinion piece re: Progressive theories driving criminal justice
• Globe and Mail piece re: RCMP reform
• Global News piece re: RCMP Alert system
• CBC piece re: Saskatchewan social service

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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. These are just some of the memorable characters that Bruce McCulloch portrayed on Kids in the Hall. 

This week we chat with Bruce about the beginning of Kids in the Hall from the gritty streets of Edmonton to the state of Canadian comedy, the CBC, TallBoyz, working with Lorne Michael.

Some of our favourite Bruce McCulloch Sketches:

• Painting a chair
• Drunk dad advice
• Cabbage head
• Bobby versus Satan
• Bar Fight
• Thirty Helen’s Agree

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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 Freeland's verbal attack. Priya Sam co-hosts. 

Links:

• Globe and Mail piece re: Open letter in support of LaFlamme
• Globe and Mail piece re: Bell Media Formal Review Process
• National Observer piece re: NAJA barring the New York Times from its conference
• Pitchfork piece re: Allegations against Arcade Fire's Win Butler

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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 actually happens is that life keeps on rolling and stories continue to add new chapters. Three stories CANADALAND originally brought you in 2021 and 2022 demanded that we publish an update.

First, the latest from the two communities that might soon be home to all of Canada's high-grade nuclear waste. Second, we check in on Ari Ben-Menashe and what the international lobbyist-for-hire has been up to since he began repping Myanmar's military junta in 2021. And lastly, we bring you an update on Starbucks' unionization that is more of a mea culpa than a new development but adds to the story we originally told you all the same. 

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The remaining staff at Toronto’s NOW Magazine haven’t gotten a regular paycheque in months. But as the beloved alt-weekly disintegrated around them, they kept on putting out issues. Norm Wilner, who spent 14 years as NOW’s film writer, joins former colleague Jonathan Goldsbie on Short Cuts to consider the slow decay of a publication that served as the city’s internet, before the internet was a thing. They also look at the Toronto Star’s successful battle to overturn a strange publication ban masking the identity of an upper-crust private school.

Links:

• Radheyan Simonpillai’s thread about the final NOW masthead
• The (likely) final print issue of NOW
• Toronto Star story from earlier this year about NOW’s demise
• Toronto Star story about lawsuit against Upper Canada CollegeOntario Court of Appeal decision in P1 v. XYZ School

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Dozens of people in New Brunswick have reported mysterious neurological symptoms over the past two years. People as young as 18 are experiencing full-blown dementia. Is there a single cause for these reported illnesses? The government has previously said they believed there was. Now, they have said there is no single cause. This week, we revisit a mystery we originally told you in January 2022. 

Featured in this episode: Leyland Cecco, the Guardian's Canadian correspondent; Stacie Quigley Cormier, step mother of Gabrielle Cormier who began experiencing dementia-type symptoms at the age of 20.

Further reading:

• Whistleblower warns baffling illness affects growing number of young adults in Canadian province, Leyland Cecco, The Guardian
• No longer a sure thing: Records show how N.B. investigation into mystery illness changed over time, CBC News

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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 and the straw that broke the camel's back for ending his show. Teri Hart co-hosts. 

Links:

• Lisa LaFlamme's video on Twitter
• The Hill Times piece re: journalists receiving online hate
• The Toronto Star's piece re: allegations against Derringer
• Jennifer Valentyne's video
• Jacqui Delaney's interview on Toronto Mike'd

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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 changes, but are they doing enough to meet Canada’s climate goals?

Featured in this episode: Dr. Edda Bild, postdoctoral fellow at McGill University and lead soundscape researcher for Sounds in the City. Jason Slaughter, creator of the YouTube channel Not Just Bikes. Brent Toderian, city planner and urbanist at TODERIAN UrbanWORKS.

Links:

• Sounds in the City website
• Not Just Bikes YouTube Channel
• “The Power of Parking” paper

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Correction: A previous edition said that British Columbia was the only province to offer rebates on electric bikes. In fact, BC, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and the Yukon offer rebates on the purchase of electric bikes.

We regret the error.

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La visite du pape pour la présentation d’excuses aux peuples autochtones a provoqué diverses réflexions autour de l’histoire du catholicisme au Québec. Puis quelle est la conversation autour de la violence armée au Canada ? Emilie Nicolas anime cet épisode de Détours avec Christopher Curtis.

Content warning : residential schools and colonization

English: The Pope's visit to apologize to Indigenous peoples provoked various reflections on the history of Catholicism in Quebec. And how is the media talking about gun violence in Canada? Emilie Nicolas hosts this episode of Détours with Christopher Curtis. 

Liens : 

Archive Radio-Canada : Visite du pape en 1984

La démesure langagière du pape François par Joseph Facal

Tweet Guy A. Lepage

Tweet Jean-François Lisée

La fille sur la photo par Rima Elkouri

Tuerie en N.-É. : impression d’ingérence politique

Valérie Plante réagit aux incidents de violence armée

La police : plus une solution qu'un problème par Joseph Facal

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How many ways must healthcare break down before you can call it “collapsed”? And how can journalists be better supported when they receive threatening hate mail? Moira Wyton co-hosts with Jonathan Goldsbie.

Links:

• CBC piece re: 'unprecedented' strain on health care
• Global news piece re: not unprecedented health care system
• Toronto Sun Opinion piece Brian Lilley
• Globe and Mail piece re: BC researchers excluded from drug decriminalization review
• CAJ's Poisoned Well report
• The musical Tell Tale Harbour

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Jesse Brown might think himself quite the question master, but today the tables have turned and our guest host, the Jonathan Torrens, investigates the inner workings of this show's host. Is it possible to be too cynical?  

Featured in this episode: Jonathan Torrens, actor, performer and writer best known for his beef with Jesse Brown and hosting shows like Street Cents, Jonovision and his role in Trailer Park Boys; Jesse Brown, early guest on Jonovision (and, I guess, the publisher of the Canadaland podcast network).

Past relevant episodes:

• Canadaland episode 281: Trolling Jonathan Torrens
• Canadaland episode 2: Millionaire Ex-girlfriend
• Canadaland episode 58: An Interview With My Harshest Critic

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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 and Mail piece re: victim coming forward
• CBC piece re: Alleged sexual assault in St. John's
• Biv piece re: BC Supreme Court ruling on confidentiality

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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 from Grassy Narrows to Thunder Bay was cited in many hearings and reports including the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. And yet, she viewed her work with a very critical lens toward the end of her life after she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer.

In July, Jody succumbed to cancer and died at the age of 50. We are re-airing a conversation Jesse had with Jody in November 2020 during the Brayden Bushby trial.

Featured in this episode: Jody Porter, senior reporter at CBC News

Further reading:

• CBC journalist Jody Porter remembered for her compassionate storytelling, commitment to truth, CBC News
• Pathfinding, Jody Porter, Maisonneuve
• Racism killed Barbara Kentner, says Thunder Bay group rallying outside trial of man accused of killing her, Jody Porter, CBC News

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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 co-hosts.

Links:

• Canada's National Observer piece by Thaiorénióhté Dan David re: Papal apology
• Canada's National Observer piece by Matteo Cimellaro re: Papal apology
• Globe and Mail Opinion piece by Tanya Talaga re: Papal apology
• The Tyee piece by Cindy Blackstock re: sexual abuse
• APTN investigation re: French priest
• National Post piece re: Wendy Mesley

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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 injustices are done away with. Cindy Blackstock is one of the latter. This is the story of how her work resulted in the largest financial compensation settlement the Canadian government has ever made because of the systemic neglect of First Nations' children in the child welfare system over the course of decades. A report from Danielle Paradis.

Featured in this episode: Cindy Blackstock, executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada; Alanis Obomsawin, documentarian.

Further reading:

• Canada signs $20B compensation agreement on First Nations child welfare, Canadian Press
• Alanis Obomsawin documents Cindy Blackstock's fight for equality for Aboriginal children, CBC Radio

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Our changing perception of the Nova Scotia mass shooter's partner Lisa Banfield. And thwarting the apocalypse through journalism. Sarah Lawrynuik co-hosts. 

Links:

• Halifax Examiner piece re: The witchification of Lisa Banfield
• Globe and Mail Opinion piece re: Lisa Banfield
• CBC piece re: European heat wave
• J Source article by Sarah on reporting on extreme weather

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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, had a program just months later where the N-word was used four times in both languages, the broadcaster dismissed charges that there was anything wrong with the program. That is, until the CRTC stepped in and said an apology was in order. 

Why two different responses at the same company in two languages? And why does the 1968 book by Pierre Vallières always seem to be at the heart of the controversy?

Featured in this episode: Emilie Nicolas, host of Canadaland's French-language show Détours and columnist at Le Devoir

Further reading:

• Diversity and inclusion: malaise within CBC/Radio-Canada, Le Devoir
• Radio-Canada to appeal CRTC N-word decision and apologize to complainant, Canadian Press
• Radio-Canada personalities urge broadcaster to fight CRTC N-word decision, Radio Canada

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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 Bednar co-hosts

Links:

• CBC piece re: Rogers outage and the need for greater oversight
• Toronto Star piece re: Supermarket price hikes
• National Observer piece re: Trudeau greeted by throngs of admirers
• Tyee piece re: The Forever Plague and the response
• Slate article re: The Forever Plague
• Global piece re: Pierre Poilievre

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Patrick Brown was disqualified from the Conservative Leadership race. He's denied allegations filed by a whistleblower that he was knowingly mismanaging how campaign staff were being paid. He's vowed to appeal the disqualification decision. But in the meantime, what would this move mean for Canadian politics? Does it mean a Pierre Poilievre coronation?

Canadians are known for voting parties out of office, not into office. Which means after the Liberals have been in power for seven years and we're looking to be on the cusp of a recession, the person who leads the Conservative party next could easily be Canada's next prime minister.

Featured in this episode: Jen Gerson, co-founder of The Line.

Further reading:

• Conservative Party tried to bring Brown into compliance with election laws and failed: leadership chair, CBC News
• Patrick Brown says he will appeal disqualification from Conservative leadership race, CP24
• Brown booted from CPC leadership as drama takes centre stage, Brian Lilley, Toronto Sun
• Patrick Brown, disqualified from CPC race, facing Brampton mayoral troubles as well, Canadian Press

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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’émission radiophonique Le 15-18 en août 2020. Puis dans le climat politique actuel, quelle est la conversation autour des fêtes nationales dans les médias ? Emilie Nicolas anime cet épisode de Détours avec Vanessa Destiné.

English: More than 50 well-established Radio-Canada employees disagree with the CRTC's decision regarding the use of the 'n-word' on the radio show Le 15-18 in August 2020. And considering the current political climate, what does the media conversation surrounding national holidays look like? Emilie Nicolas hosts this episode of Détours with Vanessa Destiné. 

Liens : 

Alain Gravel sur Puisqu'il faut se lever

Chronique d'Isabelle Hachey sur Verushka Lieutenant-Duval

Vanessa Destiné dans Le Devoir

Lettre des têtes d'affiches de Radio-Canada

Dossier du New York Times sur l'Haïti

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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, meanwhile its own columnists are attacking their own. Jan Wong co-hosts.

Links:

• Globe and Mail Opinion piece by Elizabeth Sheehy
• Globe and Mail Opinion piece by Frank Addario and Matthew Gourlay
• Globe and Mail obituary of Irving Abella
• National Post piece from the Editor in Chief

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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 across different regions. Those most likely to have to flee their homes are Indigenous people, and this disproportionate risk is only growing. The number of evacuees from First Nation reserves doubled over the last decade. Producer Sarah Lawrynuik travels to a remote Manitoba community to look at what fire has done to one community, and examines the implications for tens of thousands of other people in the years to come.

Further Reading:

Social science research on Indigenous wildfire management in the 21st century and future research needs (Amy Cardinal Christianson) – https://www.publish.csiro.au/WF/pdf/WF13048

Indigenous fire teams in Sask. aim for bigger role after B.C. blazes – https://thestarphoenix.com/news/local-news/indigenous-fire-teams-in-sask-aim-for-bigger-role-after-b-c-blazes

U of S prof studies impact of fire evacuations on First Nations (2015) – https://www.ckom.com/2015/07/17/u-of-s-prof-studies-impact-of-fire-evacuations-on-first-nations/

From the Ashes: Reimagining Fire Safety and Emergency Management in Indigenous Communities: https://www.ourcommons.ca/Content/Committee/421/INAN/Reports/RP9990811/inanrp15/inanrp15-e.pdf

The art of fire: reviving the Indigenous craft of cultural burning: https://thenarwhal.ca/indigenous-cultural-burning/

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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 considered a human-rights issue and no longer subject to debate?

And the Convoy — or at least something similar — is set to rematerialize in Ottawa. What has the media learned since last time, and are we any closer to putting our finger on a diffuse movement that’s very different to different people? Jonathan Goldsbie fills in for Jesse and Rachel Cairns co-hosts. 

Links:

• CBC's the Current segment re: Roe v. Wade
• Dr. Jennifer Gunter Tweet re: appearance on CBC
• Stephanie Gray Google Talk
• MPP Bhutila Karpoche Tweet re: Evictions
• Jonathan Goldsbie's Tweet re: Toronto Councilor
• The Conversation piece re: Roe v. Wade
• National Post piece re: Freedom Convoy
• Vice piece re: Freedom Convoy
• The Tyee piece re: Freedom Convoy

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Universities across Alberta have experienced huge funding cuts over the last three years. Come fall, students will be paying for that with huge tuition increases (some as high as 104%). But these changes are bigger than just dollars and cents, they beg the question: What is the point of getting a post-secondary education?

Freelance journalist Oumar Salifou reports on the impacts seen in Alberta and host Jesse Brown interviews Alberta's minister of higher education. 

Featured in this episode: Anita Cardinal, law student at the University of Alberta; Reginald Wiebe, assistant professor of English at Concordia University of Edmonton; Dave Lamont, a caretaker at the University of Calgary; Brenda Austin-Smith, president of the Canadian Association of University Teachers; Demetrios Nicolaides, Alberta's minister of higher education 

Further reading:

• Some Alberta post-secondary institutions left relatively unscathed while U of A funds slashed, new data shows, CBC News
• Post-secondary students grapple with increased tuitions as a result of provincial funding cuts to education, The Globe and Mail
• Budget 2021: Post-secondary sees further cuts, 750 job losses, The Calgary Herald
• 'A turning point:' After years of cuts, Alberta budget signals growth for U of A, The Edmonton Journal
• Alberta universities voice mixed feelings about budget 2022, Global News

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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 McKenzie co-hosts. 

Links:

• TSN piece re: Hockey Canada 
• CBC story re: freezing Hockey Canada Assets
• Rick Westhead interview with Kyle Beach
• LA Time piece re: Amy Kaufman
• Globe and Mail piece re: bitcoin

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A Canadian scientist wanted to demonstrate how he could use DNA barcoding to distinguish between different strains of cannabis; a pretty valuable thing to be able to do during the weed marketing gold rush.

To prove it, he just took a graph of U.S. arrest data, changed the title, and said 'here, here's my evidence.'

He did a lot more than that. And it might have all gone unnoticed, if not for some meddlesome researchers. Senior producer Sarah Lawrynuik gets into it.

Featured in this episode: Charles Piller, investigative journalist for Science Magazine; Ken Thompson, post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University; Paul Hebert, director of the University of Guelph's Centre for Biodiversity Genomics

Further reading:

• Failing the test, Charles Piller, Science
• Controversial supplements researcher not guilty of misconduct, Canadian university concludes, Charles Piller, Science

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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 Emergencies Act when he says police advised the government to invoke it? John Woodside, climate reporter for Canada's National Observer co-hosts. 

Links:

• Globe and Mail piece re: Ambitious oil emissions
• National Post piece re: anti-oil agenda and affordable food
• CP24 piece re: Toronto Police Service

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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 the working conditions that led baristas to organize for better protections - and how the flurry of anti-union messaging from Starbucks HQ was still not enough to deter the workers. 

But companies across Canada and the U.S. have been employing these types of tactics for decades to prevent their workers from unionizing: including persistent messaging, hiring third-party crisis management firms, and even shuttering stores completely. 

Do these new unionized workers stand a chance? Cherise Seucharan reports. 

Featured in this episode: Izzy Adachi, former Starbucks worker; Pablo Guerra, organizer with United Steelworkers; Mitch Thompson, journalist; David J. Doorey, professor of labour law at York University

Correction: An earlier version of this episode incorrectly identified the Victoria Starbucks location as the first location in Canada to unionize. While it is currently the only location that is unionized there were a number of stores that unionized in the ‘90s and 2000s. These locations are no longer unionized for a number of different reasons.

Further reading:

• Only one Starbucks in Canada is currently unionized, and it's in B.C. Why is Starbucks so afraid of unions?, Toronto Star
• A ‘Gen U' of young Starbucks baristas is powering a growing push to unionize, CNBC
• LEAKED AUDIO: Amazon Union Buster Warns Workers ‘Things Could Become Worse', Vice News
• Walmart has everything - except unions, The Walrus 
• Union-Bashing Is on the Menu at Tim Hortons, Mitchell Thompson, Jacobin

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Devenir propriétaire d'une maison n'est désormais plus qu'une chimère pour toute une génération de Canadien‧ne‧s. Et qu'est-ce qui s'est passé avec la couverture médiatique de l'élection ontarienne ? Emilie Nicolas anime cet épisode de Détours avec Émilie Gougeon Pelletier.

English: Owning a home is now no more than a pipe dream for a whole generation of Canadians. And what happened with the Ontario election media coverage? Emilie Nicolas hosts this episode of Détours with Émilie Gougeon Pelletier. 

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Global News sur les dépenses du parti Libéral en Ontario

Sondage Radio-Canada sur les priorités des Franco-Ontarien‧ne‧s

Le Devoir sur l'absence de chef bilingue en Ontario

Le Devoir sur le désintérêt des Ontarien‧ne‧s pour la politique provinciale

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Finding misinformation in the Quebec government's misinformation campaign on Bill 96. And why Tiktokers are speaking out against Bill C-11. Lela Savić co-hosts. 

Links:

• CBC article re: Bill 96
• Globe and Mail Opinion piece re: Bill 96
• Washington post Opinion piece re: Bill 96
• New York Times piece re: Bill 96
• CBC piece re: Jacob Hoggard

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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 to account and to correct errors that occurred in the reporting of the discoveries of unmarked graves at former Indigenous residential schools.

But that was not its impact.

Featured in this episode: Terry Glavin, author of Year Of The Graves and National Post columnist; Karyn Pugliese, executive editor at National Observer; Robert Jago, freelance writer and entrepreneur.

Further reading:

• The year of the graves: How the world's media got it wrong on residential school graves, Terry Glavin, National Post
• Pushing through residential school denial no easy task, Niigaan Sinclair, Winnipeg Free Press
• Truth before reconciliation: 8 ways to identify and confront Residential School denialism, The Conversation
• Fighting 'denialists' for the truth about unmarked graves and residential schooling, Kisha Supernant and Sean Carleton, CBC News

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Denials of the unmarked graves at residential school sites push through to the mainstream. And a new report shows that journalists' mental health is in jeopardy. Dani Paradis co-hosts. 

Links:

• New York Post article re: graves
• National Post article re: graves
• Toronto Star article re: Genocide deniers
• Taking Care report
• Toronto Star article re: CBC reporter with PTSD

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A field report from coast Salish territory on the irreconcilable conflict between the Tsleil-Waututh Nation and the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion project. There are 73 remaining Southern Resident Killer Whales in existence. The Tsleil-Waututh Nation consider the survival of these orcas and the survival of their people to be the same thing. The government insists a compromise can be met. The Tsleil-Waututh reject this notion, and many are prepared to die in defense of their "wolves of the sea". Brandi Morin reports.

Further reading:

• Losing language, children, culture: Parallels drawn between endangered orcas and Indigenous experiences, CBC News
• Ottawa approves new $10B loan guarantee for the Trans Mountain pipeline project, Canadian Press
• Indigenous land defender sentenced to jail time over Trans Mountain pipeline protest, CTV News
• Trans Mountain pipeline insurers dropping like flies, National Observer
• UN committee criticizes Canada over handling of Indigenous pipeline opposition, Canadian Press
• Trans Mountain pipeline expansion cost climbs 70%, now $21.4B, Canadian Press

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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 the Online News Act anymore. Stephen Maher co-hosts. 

Links:

• Toronto Star Opinion piece re: Doug Ford
• Globe and Mail piece re: Gas prices and Doug Ford
• IndigiNews Open Letter
• Globe and Mail Opinion piece re: RCMP

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Sometimes investigative journalism begins with an anonymous tip. Sometimes it begins with an access to information request for secret government documents. In this case, Marcello Di Cintio started his investigation because he had an article reprinted without permission. But the story he walked away with in the end was so much better than he could have imagined. 

Featured in this episode: Marcello Di Cintio, Calgary-based journalist and author.

• Vancouver Public Library's Story City project: Interview with Pia Tofini-Johnson

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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 bragging about how we're better than America while ignoring the hate being brewed here. Ryan Thorpe co-hosts.

Links:

• Campbell Clark Globe and Mail Opinion piece re: WEF conspiracy
• Andrew Coyne Globe and Mail Opinion piece re: Pierre Poilievre 
• Halifax Examiner piece re: Portapique mass shooting
• Fox News piece re: Jordan Peterson departing Twitter
• Blog TO piece re: Simu Liu's Juno speech
• Bashir Mohamed Tweet re: Vancouver Sun replacement theory

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Operation Medusa has become the most celebrated battle in recent Canadian history. It was hailed as a stroke of military genius that may have vanquished the Taliban once and for all.

But the soldiers and commanders who were on the ground in 2006 have a different story to tell. A rushed battle. Flawed intelligence. And generals putting political considerations ahead of Canadian lives.

And even though Canada had defeated the Taliban on the battlefield, that didn't mean they were winning the war.

Featured in this episode: Cpl. Sean Teal, Canadian Armed Forces; Bruce Moncur, veterans advocate and former reservist; Lt.-Gen. Omer Lavoie, Canadian Armed Forces; Adnan R. Khan, journalist and contributing editor at Maclean's; Eugene Lang, fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute

Further reading:

• Operation Medusa: The Battle For Panjwai, Adam Day, Legion Magazine
• Afghanistan veteran recounts brutal battle, Stephen J. Thorne, Legion Magazine
• It's time for a hard look at Operation Medusa, Adnan R. Khan, Maclean's
• The Unexpected War: Canada In Kandahar, Janice Gross Stein and Eugene Lang

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Des chefs de plusieurs nations autochtones s'opposent à l'adoption de la loi 96 au Québec, une loi qui, parmi d'autres conséquences, aura un impact sur les personnes nécessitant des services publics dans une langue autre que le français. Et est-ce qu'il y a une différence entre la façon dont les médias francophones et anglophones couvrent la course à la chefferie du Parti conservateur ? Emilie Nicolas anime le tout premier épisode de Détours avec Romeo Saganash.

English: Leaders from several Indigenous nations oppose the adoption of Bill 96 in Quebec, a law that, among other consequences, will have an impact on people requiring public services in a language other than French. And is there a difference between the way the French and English media are covering the Conservative leadership race? Emilie Nicolas hosts the very first episode of Détours with Romeo Saganash.

Liens : 

TVA Nouvelles sur la loi 96

Montreal Gazette sur la position de Nakuset contre la loi 96

Patrick Lagacé dans La Presse en réponse à Nakuset sur la loi 96

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The canucksploitation is egregious in Mike Myer's new Netflix show the Pentaverate. And the chairman of Post Media absolutely had to write an opinion piece in the National Post defending Patrick Brown. Jesse's back in the saddle and Mel Woods co-hosts.  

Links:

• Trailer for the Pentaverate
• Xtra piece re: Gerald Hannon tribute
• Canadaland statement re: Canadalandback
• National post opinion piece re: Paul Godfrey
• National post piece re: Patrick Brown

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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 abortion access. And explore how that story is anything but ancient history, with one provincial ban being overturned as recently as four years ago.  Today's episode features just a few of the people who have been on the frontlines of that fight as well as a historian who studies nothing but reproductive justice.  

Featured in this episode: Christabelle Sethna, professor in the Feminist and Gender Studies Faculty of Social Sciences University of Ottawa; Deb Miller, retired family lawyer and abortion access advocate; Colleen MacQuarrie, professor of psychology at the University of Prince Edward Island and abortion access advocate; Autumn Reinhardt-Simpson, PhD candidate at the University of Alberta and abortion doula.

Further reading:

• Why Canada's Roe v. Wade didn't enshrine abortion as a right, CBC News
• Roe v. Wade is on the brink — and Canada could be pulled into U.S. brawls over abortion law, CBC News
  
• Trudeau renews pledge to protect abortion rights in Canada, but unable to offer timeline, The Globe and Mail
  
• Why Canada's conservatives are keeping quiet on abortion, Politico

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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 think Canada's ban on gay men giving blood was repealed - but you'd be only somewhat correct. Jeopardy! champ Mattea Roach joins Canadaland news editor Jonathan Goldsbie to look at rights, laws, and how the media mediates our understanding of both. 

Links:

• Toronto Star piece re: Abortion access in Canada
• Toronto Sun piece re: Kinsella on overturning Roe v. Wade
• Xtra piece re: New blood donation policy
• Vice piece re: Gay blood donation ban

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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, Manitoba almost ran out of potable water during the extreme drought last summer?

Climate change has already started wreaking havoc on the water systems of the Prairies and that is having substantial impacts on cities across Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, and adapting is going to cost Canadians billions. This week, senior producer Sarah Lawrynuik will explain why.

Featured in this episode: Brandon Burley, mayor of Morden; Santokh Randhawa, deputy city manager of Morden; Bill Buhay, associate professor at the University of Winnipeg; Frank Frigo, City of Calgary water resources engineer; Dave Sauchyn, the director of the Prairie Adaptation Research Collaborative (PARC); Raven Sharma, manager of utilities for the City of Selkirk; Duane Nicol, chief administrative officer for the City of Selkirk; Saman Razavi, associate professor at the University of Saskatchewan.

Further reading:

• Weekend deluge could produce worst conditions since Flood of the Century, provincial officials warn, Winnipeg Free Press
• ‘It was hard enough before': Manitoba's drought, worsened by climate crisis, is upending Prairie life, The Narwhal
• Alberta wrestles with its most critical resource: water, The Narwhal
• 60 million litres of raw sewage released into Red River during storm, Winnipeg Free Press
• Construction on long-awaited Springbank reservoir to protect Calgary area from floods is officially a go, CBC News
• Sask. gov't announces $4B project to double irrigable land in province, CBC News
• Selkirk opening state-of-the-art wastewater treatment plant in 2021, CTV News

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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 Constitutional Freedoms, and why do we not talk about it more?

Gawker's Sarah Hagi joins Canadaland news editor Jonathan Goldsbie to see how much fun they can have in Jesse's absence.

Links:

• New Yorker article re: New York Times memo 
• Toronto Sun article re: Tamara Lich's award
• CTV investigation re: JCCF

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The digital advertising industry is worth billions, but many companies don't actually know where their ad dollars end up. Programmatic ad exchanges and other third-party platforms have enabled companies to buy ads without the hassle of going to each seller. But in doing so, these ad exchanges have opened the door for fake news and disinformation sites to profit. As reporter Cherise Seucharan finds out, it has become easier and easier for these sites to proliferate, while real news websites lose out. 

Featured in this episode:

Nandini Jammi and Claire Atkin, co-founders of Check My Ads; Augustine Fou, anti-ad fraud consultant; Danny Rogers, co-founder and executive director at The Global Disinformation Index

Further reading:

• How an Activist Group Turned to the Dark Side to Hit Breitbart Where It Hurts, GQ
• Coronavirus Ad Blocking Is Starving Some News Sites Of Revenue, Craig Silverman, Buzzfeed News
• These Hugely Popular Local News Sites In The US And Canada Are Fake, Craig Silverman, Buzzfeed News
• Vice urges advertisers to stop blocking 'Black Lives Matter' and related keywords, Variety
• Big Advertisers Still Fund Hate And Disinformation Outside Of Facebook, Augustine Foh, Forbes
• Ad Funded Disinformation on Conflict in Ukraine: Ad tech Companies, Brands and Policy, Global Disinformation Index
• Tens of thousands of news articles are labeled as unsafe for advertisers, Adalytics Blog

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How Pierre Poilievre cultivated his attack-dog charm. And should we care about what the new CEO of the Toronto Star tweets? Jen Gerson co-hosts. 

Links:

• Pierre Poilievre's promo video
• Toronto Star CEO tweets
• CANADALAND piece re: Toronto Star owners

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Is it Indigenous stewardship ownership or is it becoming just another holographic bumper sticker? What does Landback mean to you, and to your nations and homelands? And is there room for settlers in this movement? This is the first episode of a new 6-episode podcast called CANADALANDBACK! 

In it, we talk about what Landback means, we host our first round table discussion and take you inside a land-based education program. 

Featured in this episode is: Kahsenniyo Williams, Jada-Gabrielle Pape, Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, Philip Brass, Sol Mamakwa, Piyeshiw Crane, Zacchary Fontaine, Kyla Lesage, Molly Swain, Chelsea Vowel, Maureen Googoo, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Inti Nemoga Stout, Riley Yesno, Autumn LaRose-Smith, Sam Achineepineskum, Jessica Johns, Willie Ermine and Gordie Liske and Randy Baillargeon. 

We would also like to thank: Rachael Michael, Rick Harp, Jordan Koe, Patricia Johnson-Castle, Dani Paradis, and Dani Lanoutte. 

Further reading: 

Kahsenniyo Williams https://www.kahsenniyowilliams.com/

Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning https://www.dechinta.ca/ 

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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 article re: Jonathan Denis
• CBC article re: Jason Kenney
• CANADALAND article re: Diana Davison
• Robson Fletcher tweet re: National Post NFTs - see the NFTs for yourself!
• CANADALANDBACK
• Toronto Star article re: Paxlovid rollout

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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 uneven impacts on the industry. And last week the Online News Act was tabled that will mandate tech companies - like Google and Facebook - to pay news companies compensation for posting their content on their sites.

Will this expansion of government news aid inflame disparities? Will it help an industry in crisis? Are we destined for a media landscape where government approvals are the only way to survive?

Featured in this episode: Colette Brin, journalism professor at Université Laval; Tim Bousquet, editor-in-chief of the Halifax Examiner; Emma Gilchrist, editor-in-chief of the Narwhal

Further reading:

• Feds to force tech giants like Facebook, Google to pay for news with new bill, Global News
• Just How Extreme is Bill C-18?: It Mandates Payments For Merely Facilitating Access to News, Michael Geist

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Fact-checking the war in Ukraine. And the ‘Pay Me for Clickbait Act' - sorry, the ‘Online News Act.' Olena Goncharova co-hosts. 

Links:

• Front Burner episode re: war crimes in Bucha
• Radio-Canada piece re: long-term care homes in Quebec
• CBC Power and Politics interview with Pablo Rodriguez
• CTV Power Play interview with Pablo Rodriguez

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Canada is two years into a news media bailout that Trudeau cabinet ministers promised would be conducted with the utmost transparency. Instead, the process and which outlets are getting funding (and how much) is information that has been veiled in secrecy. 

What's more is that in order to apply for these government bailout programs, one must first pass the (also secretive) litmus test for whether or not it is worthy of being deemed a Qualified Canadian Journalism Organization (QCJO).

This week, we speak to the chair of the board who helps make these decisions. 

Featured in this episode: Colette Brin, journalism professor at Université Laval

Further reading:

• Minister vows transparency over $600M media fund, defends inclusion of Unifor, CTV News
• Journalists question Liberal government's $600M media bailout plan, CBC News
• FILDEBRANDT: Trudeau's media approval board agree, the Western Standard are ‘qualified journalists', Western Standard

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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 journalists are being blocked from covering events at the Indigenous delegations' visit to the Vatican.  Paul Palango co-hosts. 

Links:

• Paul Palango's book: 22 Murders Investigating the Massacres, Cover-Up and Obstacles to Justice in Nova Scotia
• Brandi Morin's video on Twitter
• Vatican News story re: Indigenous delegation

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In 2015, award-winning author and (former) UBC professor Steven Galloway became the target of a social media storm after an allegation was leveled that he had sexually assaulted a student. An allegation, Galloway has denied ever since.

But at the time, a number of both staff and students at UBC came out publicly in support of the accuser. In turn, Galloway sued them for defamation. Defendants include 20 people who tweeted, commented, or spoke about the allegations. In one case, the individual being sued simply reviewed an art show, and never even printed Galloway's name.

Many of these defendants said this defamation suit is meant to silence sexual assault survivors, so they filed a SLAPP suit in response. Some were dismissed by a judge, others weren't. And which were and which weren't leads to all kinds of questions about how the legal process deals with sexual assault allegations. Meanwhile, Galloway says the SLAPP suit has delayed his ability to clear his name by years.

Is this case a path to justice for a CanLit star who was ruined by an online mob? Or does this represent the silencing of survivors and the #metoo movement? 

Featured in this episode: David Wotherspoon, partner at Dentons; Hilary Young, law professor, University of New Brunswick; Glynnis Kirchmeier, defendant.

Further reading:

• She accused a university prof of sexual assault. Now he's suing for defamation. Some fear the ‘landmark' case could have a chilling effect, Douglas Quan, Toronto Star
• Under a cloud: How UBC's Steven Galloway affair has haunted a campus and changed lives, Marsha Lederman, Globe and Mail
• Details of UBC actions revealed through defamation suit brought by Steven Galloway, Marsha Lederman, Globe and Mail
• L'Affaire Galloway, Kerry Gold, The Warlus

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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 world cut off business with Russia, can Canada help fill the international demand for oil and gas? More importantly, should we? And the pandemic caused unprecedented government spending, as well as shifting priorities on everything from work to healthcare. How will that all play out in the upcoming budget?

This week's contributors: Jason Markusoff, Caroline Elliott, Murad Hemmadi 

Further reading:

• Shannon Proudfoot's Maclean's profile of Pierre Pollievre
• And the accompanying Q&A

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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 have populated the Canadian landscape over the last decade. But while companies that pride themselves on hard news are struggling to find a funding model that works, BlogTO just sold for $15 million.  

Featured in this episode: Tim Shore, Founder of BlogTO

Further reading:

• ZoomerMedia announces acquisition of blogTO, Yahoo Finance
• Freshdaily Lays Off Entire Editorial Staff Two Weeks After Launching, CANADALAND

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Canadian MPs wax poetic about how President Zelensky inspires them… but is that really going to change anything? And how defamation lawsuits help cover up the truth and keep journalists silent. Jan Wong co-hosts. 

Links:

• CBC Reporter Travis Dhanraj's video asking a question to Chrystia Freeland and Melanie Joly
• President Zelensky's address to Canadian Parliament
• Prime Minister Trudeau's promo video
• CBC piece re: Manifesting a house
• Globe & Mail opinion piece by Doug Saunders

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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 describing the alleged violence? Sarah sits down with Jesse to discuss how to safely run towards danger, and whether it's even possible to ethically use child labour in the production of TV and film.

Further reading:

• Run Towards the Danger, Sarah Polley
• Sarah Polley Is OK With Oversharing, New York Times
• Sarah Polley breaks silence about traumatic encounter with Jian Ghomeshi, CBC Radio
• For Reference: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
  

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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:

• CTV News piece re: Patrick Brown with update
• National Post piece re: Patrick Brown
• National Post piece re: GiveSendGo and Freedom Convoy fundraising
• Haaretz piece re: Stephen Bandera
• CBC piece re: Chrystia Freeland holding black-and-red scarf
• Le Devoir piece re: Serhii Filimonov

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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 of the conflict that has deeply influenced this ground invasion: the information war.  This week, we take a deep-dive into the inner workings of Russia's information chaos machine and how its use in Ukraine laid the groundwork for what was to come in other countries, including - you guessed it: Canada. We also get a first-hand look at how the information war has led to the rise of cyber sleuths, like our friend James. (Not his real name.) 

Featured in this episode: Alya Shandra, editor-in-chief of Euromaidan Press, Douglas Selvage, a senior research fellow at the Institute for History, Humboldt University (Berlin); Aaron Erlich, assistant professor at McGill University.

Further reading:

• Top Russian news host takes aim at Ukrainian Canadians, CBC News
• False Claims of U.S. Biowarfare Labs in Ukraine Grip QAnon, Justin Ling, Foreign Policy
• The Kremlin's Shifting, Self-Contradicting Narratives on MH17, Bellingcat
• Operation InfeKtion: Russian disinformation from Cold War to Kanye, The New York Times
• Russian disinformation kicks into high gear as Ukraine crisis drags on, LA Times
• TikTok war: How Russia's invasion of Ukraine played to social media's youngest audience, Reuters

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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 by war. Our French-language correspondent Emilie Nicolas and senior producer Sarah Lawrynuik co-host in Jesse's absence.

Links: 

• Sarah's recent piece in the Winnipeg Free Press
• Emilie's recent piece in Le Devoir
• Davide Mastracci writes in Passage about a glaring omission by the media

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Long before Ottawa Police Chief Peter Sloly stepped down amidst criticism that the force had failed to stop the convoy occupation, there was trouble brewing within the Ottawa Police Service.

Officer misconduct, sexual harassment, abuse, and violent behaviour, has been a pattern within the OPS for years. 

Dan Donovan, publisher of Ottawa Life magazine, knows these cases well, and he's currently being sued by Sloly himself, for publishing an article titled 'Rapes and lies—the cancerous misconduct at the Ottawa Police Service'.

Donovan sat down with reporter Cherise Seucharan to discuss the case, as well as recently a leaked video of Sloly being questioned about his conduct when he was a staff inspector with the Toronto Police Service.

Featured in this episode: Dan Donovan, Publisher & Managing Editor of Ottawa Life magazine

Further reading:

• Ottawa Life Magazine stands by its scathing portrait of Ottawa police: court filings, Gary Dimmock, Ottawa Citizen
• Ottawa police officer convicted of assault, then charged with sexual harassment, has resigned, Shaamini Yogaretnam, CBC News
• Ottawa man left destitute after faulty police investigation, Hilary Thomson, Ottawa Life
• Exposed: Culture of sexism entrenched in Ottawa Police Service, Judy Trinh and Nazim Baksh, CBC News
• Ontario police chiefs call for more power to fire or suspend officers without pay, Wendy Gillis, Toronto Star

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Overcorrecting an overstatement creates confusion; how nice were the police in Ottawa really? And the emergency is over! Though the media seemed to suggest there wasn't really one anyways. Managing Editor at Ottawa Lookout Robert Hiltz co-hosts.

Links:

• NYT's generalizations about Canada can be found here 
• Robert duly noted this piece in Passage 

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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 more Canadians who have financially supported the Freedom Convoy or been rooting for them from afar.

In this episode, the CANADALAND team reaches out to regular everyday people who support the Convoy to ask about who they are, how they ended up supporting the Convoy and what they think about the racist and dangerous aspects of the movement. 

This is not a scientific survey, we did not do a poll. These three people are not necessarily representative of everybody else who supports this movement, but we've got to start somewhere.

Further reading:

• Ottawa police arrest 170 amid push to clear convoy blockade, Global News(Feb. 19)
• Who is who? A guide to the major players in the trucker convoy protest, CTV News
• 'So many angry people': Experts say online conversation around trucker convoy veering into dangerous territory, CTV News
• Making sense of the flags and symbols at the Ottawa protest, The Jurist

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The kinder, gentler Emergencies Act should not be underestimated. And framing the convoy as foreign-funded and US-inspired does more harm than good. Writer Nora Loreto co-hosts.

UPDATE: An earlier version of this episode included a partial comment without proper context. The comment has been removed.

Links:

• Nora's piece in Passage that she took heat for
• Jimmy Thomson's tweets

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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 intensity, just how broken Canada's divorce system is. People who were held hostage for years by a slow-moving process that sent them hurdling into debt. 

And beyond that, we rarely talk about divorce as a life or death situation, but it certainly can be. 

Senior producer Sarah Lawrynuik brings you this one.

For people who are living with family violence, don't struggle alone. Here is a list of resources available to you in your area. Or the Assaulted Women's Helpline is 1-866-863-0511.

Further reading:

• What a 4-year-old's death says about Ontario's strained family courts, Toronto Star
• Divorce in the rich world is getting less nasty, The Economist
• Broken marriages becoming pandemic's other toll, CBC News
• Calls for a unified family court system and further changes to Canada's Divorce Act, CTV News
• The Family Law System in Canada is "Broken" says veteran Family Lawyer, News Wire

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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 week and Jesse dares to speak ill—or at least some truth—of the dead. Maclean's senior writer Paul Wells co-hosts. 
Links:

• Richard Martineau's piece in Le Journal de Montréal
• News editor Jonathan Goldsbie's tweet re: Faith Goldy's face during the land acknowledgement

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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, not to mention the stories of the Indigenous people who have died there. 

In 2018, the Office of the Independent Police Review Director released the Broken Trust report, concluding that Thunder Bay's police service was a home for systemic racism. The civilian oversight board and the police force executive leadership was cleared and new people were brought in. But the outcome of the staffing changes and all the reports - at least to this point - is not a success story. The cycle of denial has continued.

This story is reported by Thunder Bay-based journalist and producer on the Thunder Bay series, Jon Thompson.

Further reading:

• Thunder Bay police board member details Ontario human rights complaint, calls for new leadership, CBC News
• Thunder Bay Police Service on the ‘brink of collapse' says board member, APTN
• Thunder Bay deputy police chief suspended pending investigation, Globe and Mail
• Local police officer files human rights complaint against TBPS, Chief, TB News Watch

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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 publisher territory as they work towards content advisories for select podcasts. National Observer columnist Sandy Garossino co-hosts.

UPDATE: This episode says there's been a vacuum of information on Canadian truckers stuck at the Alberta-Montana border at Coutts, AB. Since recording this episode, journalists have reported that one lane has opened in each direction.

UPDATE 2 (Feb 9, 2022): In this episode, Jesse referenced a clip where a protester asked another attendee whether they were a white supremacist to which they responded yes. Jesse says that this was the moment the first protester was made aware that they were among extremists and he hoped they would up and leave. Since publishing, it has been brought to our attention that the person who said they were a white supremacist was likely a person of colour and they may have been joking. 

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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 Editor Jonathan Goldsbie digs into the shell game of dead groundhogs that spans decades. 

Featured in this episode: Liam Casey, a reporter/editor in the Ontario bureau for the Canadian Press; Frank Gunn, a national photographer for the Canadian Press

Further reading:

• Yet another Wiarton Willie is dead. Here's a look at the strange history behind the beloved groundhog, Liam Casey, Canadian Press/CBC
  

• The legend of Wiarton Willie lives on (2011), Toronto Star
  

• Frank Gunn's photo of 1999 Wiarton Willie funeral, Canadian Press/Toronto Star

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How many anti-vax trucker convoys were there?! And people are making the case to break up the CBC again.
Canadaland contributing editor Danielle Paradis cohosts. 
Further reading & links:

• GoFundMe actually froze money for the convoy's campaign
• Tom Hooper's investigation into Pride Toronto and the misuse of money from the federal government
• The Narwhal's story on the maple syrup meltdown

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Canada has a nuclear problem... a nuclear waste problem. Since the dawn of nuclear power technology, solutions to waste have all been remarkably temporary given the longevity of the danger the material presents. 

For decades, the hunt for a solution has spanned across provinces — even across countries. But the hope is that by 2023 Canada will have found a home - and permanent solution - for all of the country's nuclear waste.

This endeavor is pitting neighbour against neighbour — community against community. And the stakes are high for the future of the nuclear industry.

CANADALAND senior producer Sarah Lawrynuik ventures to Northwestern Ontario to bring you this story.

Further reading:

• Small northwestern Ontario town considers if it's willing to house nuclear waste from across Canada, CBC News
• Holding in the deep: What Canada wants to do with its decades-old pileup of nuclear waste, The Narwhal
• Nuclear's Role in Canada's Low-Carbon Future?, Energy vs Climate podcast
• 30,000 shipments of nuclear waste would move through Ontario cities, farmland under draft plan, CBC News
• How to build a nuclear warning for 10,000 years' time, BBC News

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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 it antisemitism?

Canadaland contributing editor Danielle Paradis co-hosts.

Links: 

• A tribute to CBC Edmonton's radio host Adrienne Pan
• CBC's piece on Texas Synagogue Hostages

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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 become impossible. For many, the disease progresses to full-blown dementia. For patients and families, government response has proven to be lackluster and desperation and frustration is taking hold as the search for answers drags on.

Further reading:

• Whistleblower warns baffling illness affects growing number of young adults in Canadian province, Leyland Cecco, The Guardian
  

• New Brunswick monitoring more than 40 cases of unknown neurological disease, CBC News
  

• N.B. health minister questions validity of mysterious neurological disease after report, Global News
  

• New Brunswick's Mystery Disease: Why Did the Province Shut Out Federal Experts?, The Walrus

• No longer a sure thing: Records show how N.B. investigation into mystery illness changed over time, CBC News

• Help Gabrielle battle unknown neurological disease, GoFundMe
  

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Healthcare workers against pandemic restrictions tell on themselves by suing for libel. And two Haitian journalists die reporting for a Montreal online radio station. 

Columnist Emilie Nicolas co-hosts. 

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• Gofundme page for the Haitian journalists' families

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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 the buzz since it dropped. The National Post put it on the front page of the paper. Fox News, America reporter Glenn Greenwald, the British Daily Mail, and Canada's Leader of the Opposition Erin O'Toole have all wanted a piece of this story.

But who the heck is the author, Tara Henley? And is any of this criticism warranted? Or is it a feeding frenzy for conservatives who are eager to jump on the "defund the CBC" bandwagon?

Further reading:

• Speaking Freely: Why I resigned from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Tara Henley, Substack
• 'CBC produces clickbait that's a parody of the student press': Senior journalist quits broadcaster over its 'radical political agenda', 'woke worldview' and belief 'that some races are more relevant to the public conversation than others', Daily Mail
• WOKE NIGHTMARE: In her first chat, Tara Henley sounds off on CBC's radical editorial agenda, Toronto Sun
• Canadian journalist quit CBC over woke ‘radical political agenda', New York Post

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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 feel about it. 
Writer Nora Loreto co-hosts.

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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 actually happens is that life keeps on rolling and stories continue to add new chapters.

Three stories CANADALAND originally aired in 2021 demanded that we add another chapter to the story we told.

First, the case of pretendians and how Indigenous identity has been co-opted by people who are not, in fact, Indigenous.

Second, the story of MindGeek, Canada's largest tech company, that is known the world over for its porn platforms, like Porn Hub. When last we left the company, they were under a fair amount of scrutiny...

And lastly, in October, we brought you the story of Madeline who was considering medically-assisted death once she ran out of money for the expensive treatments she needed to manage her life-long disease. What ever happened to her?

Further Reading:

• How disgraced health expert Carrie Bourassa passed as Indigenous for years, New York Post
• Universities across Canada addressing Indigenous identity fraud in wake of Carrie Bourassa investigation, CBC News
• Quebec Ink: Inside ‘Project Narsil,' a Canadian cannabis entrepreneur's bid for porn giant MindGeek, Martin Patriquin, The Logic
• MindGeek payouts to owners grew amid scrutiny over illegal content, new filings show, The Logic
• Madeline's GoFundMe page

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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, Canada was one of the world's leading exporters of asbestos, most of it mined from the small town of Asbestos, Quebec. But during that time, governments and corporations in Canada did everything they could to hide the fact that asbestos is deadly.

They went to extraordinary lengths — secret organ smuggling, corporate-supervised police torture — to keep the ugly truth from the world.

Today, there's no longer a town called Asbestos, QC. But more people than ever are dying from what was mined out of the ground there. 

Featured in this episode: Heidi von Palleske, Jessica van Horssen, Tavia Grant (The Globe and Mail)


To learn more:

A Town Called Asbestos: Environmental Contamination, Health, and Resilience in a Resource Community by Jessica van Horssen

“No Safe Use: The Canadian Asbestos Epidemic” by Tavia Grant in The Globe and Mail

“Asbestos: Canada's Dirty Secret” by CBC's Fifth Estate

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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 an earth-shattering concept... but the CANADALAND team is taking a week off for the holidays. The office is closed. No one is here. However, in newsrooms across the country, that is not the case. For your holidays listening needs, here are stories from reporters who have worked Christmas in their newsrooms. It's the good, the bad and the funny. 

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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 about Omicron. Data journalist David Weisz co-hosts. 

Links:

• CBC Year-End Interview with PM
• CTV Year-End Interview with PM
• City News Year-End Interview with PM
• Globe & Mail piece re: Niagara police constable

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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 Attaran.

Amir Attaran might not be a name you know off the top of your head, but if you listen or read Canadian media, you've definitely come across him before.

He is a professor at both the University of Ottawa law school and also its School of Epidemiology and Public Health. He's got a PhD in immunology from Oxford, along with a law degree from UBC.

Attaran has been a real sh*t disturber throughout the pandemic, criticizing all levels of government for their public health responses, but he liked stirring the pot long before COVID-19 reared its head. He makes the case that it is his duty.

The Prime Minister scolded him. Twitter deplatformed him. Journalists have largely stopped calling him… Well, that is, except for us. 

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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 hungry. Writer, activist and podcaster Nora Loreto co-hosts. 

Links:

• Toronto Star piece re: Omicron
• Blacklocks Reporter piece re: Minister Anita Anand's husband
• National Post: Capitalist Manifesto
• Toronto Star piece re: Food Banks
• Nora Loreto's book, Spin Doctors: How Media and Politicians Misdiagnosed the COVID-19 Pandemic.

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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 apps have meant for the industry and our culture surrounding food.

Further reading:

• The Next Supper, Corey Mintz, PublicAffairs Books
• The truth about Uber Eats, DoorDash and Skip the Dishes, Corey Mintz, Maclean's

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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 simply echoing the Conservative party lines? Ryan McMahon sits in for Jesse this week with co-host Pam Palmater.

Links:

• CAJ Diversity study 
• CBC Indigenous piece re: Vatican visit  
• Toronto Star Local Journalism Initiative piece re: Vatican visit  
• CBC piece re: Ring of Fire 

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Amber Bracken and Michael Toledano are freelance journalists who were arrested by RCMP officers on the morning of Nov. 19, 2021 while they were covering the demonstrations of Wet'suwet'en people and hereditary chiefs against the construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline. 

The standoff on unceded territory was the top news story of 2020, until the pandemic hit. But since then, coverage has waned and in-depth looks have largely been left to freelancers and smaller independent news outlets that have fewer resources to fight charges in court.

If the state police lock up members of the press for doing their jobs, can we really call Canada's media a free press?

Amber Bracken and Michael Toledano join Jesse to dig into it.

Further reading: 

RCMP arrest journalists, matriarchs and land defenders following Gidimt'en eviction of Coastal GasLink, The Narwhal

Video footage shows RCMP Wet'suwet'en raid, Michael Toledano for CBC News

RCMP tracked photojournalist Amber Bracken in active investigations database, The Narwhal

Amber Bracken honoured by Canadian Association of Journalists for Wet'suwet'en coverage, (June 2020) The Narwhal

Canada's Supreme Court recognizes Wet'suwet'en law. So how is Coastal GasLink moving ahead?, National Observer

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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 with Jesse and at least one of our listeners. Veteran journalist and freelance obituary writer Fred Langan co-hosts. 
Links:

• Daniel Schlafman's death notice can be found here
• Radio-Canada's piece re: their deaths (French)
• Global News' report re: their deaths

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Did an Instagram account kill a vulnerable teenager? 6ixBuzz has unparalleled clout in Toronto with young audiences and it used that influence to make "Debby Gang" or "Debby Parkway" (real name Alexis Matos) a certain brand of local celebrity — the kind that is repeatedly filmed when spotted on the street, and is then is the subject of mockery and scorn.

When Alexis Matos died of an apparent fentanyl overdose, hundreds immediately blamed 6ixBuzz and called for its cancellation. But is what 6ixBuzz does any different than how traditional media exposes and exploits people?

Further Reading:

• The Secret Life of 6ixBuzz, in Toronto Life by Nichole Jankowski
• Bullying, exploitation accusations follow death of homeless teen 'internet star', in the Toronto Sun

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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 covering WE Charity. Canadaland contributing editor Danielle Paradis co-hosts. 

Links:

• A rare Editor's Note from the CBC on covering WE Charity
• Since the time of recording, the CBC posted on Facebook saying Michael Toledano had been commissioned by CBC's The Passionate Eye to film a documentary at the time of his arrest.
  
  

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Failure to protect hundreds of missing and murdered Indigenous women. Violent arrests at Wet'suwet'en and Fairy Creek. And now, Portapique. In recent years, controversy has hounded Canada's storied national police force. Reporter Jane Gerster has made it her mission to understand why these problems are happening, and she says that the Mounties  -  which originated as a paramilitary force to defend Canada's interests in the West -  must grapple with the nature of the institution if they can ever hope to be reformed. 

Further reading:

Jane Gerster's latest piece in the Walrus, “The Dark Side of the RCMP,”

Jane Gerster's story in Vice about Kystle Knott

CBC's Mounties on Duty: A History of the RCMP

The RCMP is Broken by Stephen Maher

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As British Columbia assesses the damage from the downpour, what is the media's role when disaster strikes? And Jian Ghomeshi's lawyer is back in the news over a controversy but is Jesse too close to the story to critique it? National Observer columnist Sandy Garossino co-hosts. 

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On the heels of COP26, Jesse heads back to school as he and his new senior producer, Sarah Lawrynuik, duke it out over whether climate change is either a) boring or b) the most exciting story ever told. Sarah takes Jesse through the psychological factors at play, the history, the politics and the morality of the climate crisis, while making her case for the latter. Will Canadaland move forward with stories about climate change? Listen to find out.

Further reading:

• Washington Post: At COP26, nations speed climate action but leave world still headed for dangerous warming
• Per Espen Stoknes's book What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming
• Katharine Hayhoe's book Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World
• Daniel Kahneman's book Thinking Fast and Slow
• Naomi Oreskes' book Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Climate Change
• Kelly Levin, Benjamin Cashore et al. peer reviewed paper Overcoming the tragedy of super wicked problems: constraining our future selves to ameliorate global climate change
• Carbon Brief breaks down the Nine key moments that changed China's mind about climate change
• Stephen Gardiner's book A Perfect Moral Storm: The Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change

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A veteran Black columnist at The Star calls out Desmond Cole's activism out of nowhere. And CBC officially closes the comment section on Facebook. Writer Ish Aderonmu co-hosts.
Links:

• Ish's award-winning piece in Toronto Life
• The Toronto Star column from Royson James discussed in segment 1 (paywalled) 
• Kate Dubinski's piece on the call for more investment into legal aid
• David Pugliese's piece in The Ottawa Citizen on Canadian officials who met with neo-Nazis in Ukraine
• CBC's announcement on closing Facebook comments

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A new breed of hyper-connected, steroid-abusing, gender-bending, "entitled" thugs are changing the landscape of organized crime in Canada, according to veteran crime reporters Peter Edwards and Luis Najera. Also, the Mexican Cartels are here with them. 

Further Reading: 

The Wolfpack, by Peter Edwards and Luis Najera

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The 'saying-stuff business' gets some clarity from different courts regarding what one can and cannot express online; the results may surprise you. And former prime minister Jean Chrétien gets the media to let him off the hook for his involvement with residential schools for a brief moment. 

Columnist and Canadaland's French-language correspondent Emilie Nicolas co-hosts. 

Links:

• Full Tout le monde en parle Jean Chrétien segment here (14~ min mark for the discussion re: residential schools);
• Full Tout le monde en parle author Michel Jean segment here (where Jean challenges some of Chrétien's comments at 3:30~);

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

We've spent a week immersed in Rogers history to bring you this unofficial narrative of Canada's telecom overlords. 

Further reading:
Kelly Pullen's 2014 story in Toronto Life on the "ruthless" power struggle at Rogers: https://torontolife.com/from-the-archives/edward-rogers-the-man-who-would-be-king/

Ted Rogers' last interview, with Alan Gregg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B-hlNXKYZ0

Ted Rogers' Anniversary novelty song: https://vimeo.com/95189390

The Globe and Mail's best (and perhaps only) headline about a significant butt-dial: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-rogers-ceo-joe-natale-learned-of-edward-rogerss-plan-to-oust-him/

Ted Rogers' Autobiography, "Relentless" - https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00E7S2P9A

High Wire Act: Ted Rogers and the Empire that Debt Built, by Caroline Van Hasselt : https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B003E8AJRE

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Anti-trans narratives found its way into three different media organizations this past week. And everybody appears to hate Rogers - even the Rogers. Staff Writer at Xtra Magazine Mel Woods co-hosts.

Links:

• Mel's piece on concerning anti-trans narratives
• Trans Journalists Association's Style Guide
• Jezebel's piece on that groupchat
• The Guardian piece on the Twitter algorithm
• The Washington Post piece on Facebook's 'angry reaction'
• We weren't kidding about that Bloomberg headline

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Right now there are people who are choosing medically assisted death, because they don't have enough money to get the care they need to live with dignity.

Changes to Canada's medical assistance in dying (MAiD), combined with lack of supports and poverty-level benefits for disabled and chronically ill people have resulted in people seeking assisted death because they can't afford to live.

Madeline, a BC woman who describes herself as being on a “death clock”, is one of many Canadians facing that choice. And legislators are now pushing for a further expansion of MAiD - while disability supports remain unchanged.

Further reading: 

• Madeline's Go Fund Me
• The next national apology: Future Canadians might regret expansion of medically assisted dying laws by Dr. Sonu Gaind
• Dying for the right to live by Gabrielle Peters
• myelasticheart on TikTok 
• I AM MADELINE podcast 

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Asking how much fuel in drinking water is safe is just not the right question. And mannequins in the ICU beds of a CBC story sparks a fact check from Reuters. Ryan McMahon cohosts.

Links:

• CBC Edmonton's mannequin story
• Reuters Fact Check of CBC's story and the reaction the story sparked

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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 across different regions. Those most likely to have to flee their homes are Indigenous people, and this disproportionate risk is only growing. The number of evacuees from First Nation reserves doubled over the last decade. Producer Sarah Lawrynuik travels to a remote Manitoba community to look at what fire has done to one community, and examines the implications for tens of thousands of other people in the years to come. 

Further Reading:

Social science research on Indigenous wildfire management in the 21st century and future research needs (Amy Cardinal Christianson) - https://www.publish.csiro.au/WF/pdf/WF13048

Indigenous fire teams in Sask. aim for bigger role after B.C. blazes - https://thestarphoenix.com/news/local-news/indigenous-fire-teams-in-sask-aim-for-bigger-role-after-b-c-blazes

U of S prof studies impact of fire evacuations on First Nations (2015) - https://www.ckom.com/2015/07/17/u-of-s-prof-studies-impact-of-fire-evacuations-on-first-nations/

From the Ashes: Reimagining Fire Safety and Emergency Management in Indigenous Communities: https://www.ourcommons.ca/Content/Committee/421/INAN/Reports/RP9990811/inanrp15/inanrp15-e.pdf 

The art of fire: reviving the Indigenous craft of cultural burning: https://thenarwhal.ca/indigenous-cultural-burning/

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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 comes to a close. Writer and restaurant-owner Jen Agg co-hosts. 
Links:

• Globe and Mail's piece on Canadian fine dining struggling
• Financial Post's piece about Mark McEwan 
• Chris Nuttall-Smith's Toronto Life piece on the fall of the Buca Empire
• New York Times' Ian Austen on Shehroze Chaudhry's dropped charges

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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 the science and explains why the lab-leak theory remains highly improbable, what she feels previous guest Elaine Dewar got wrong, and how journalists should cover science during a pandemic and otherwise. 

Further Reading: The origins of SARS-CoV-2: A critical review, by Dr. Angela Rasmussen, et al. 

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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 problem than we care to admit. CBC Managing Editor of Investigative Karyn Pugliese cohosts.
Links:

• Karyn duly noted The Current's segment feat. Natasha Reimer-Okemow
• Karyn references this 2020 report on Canadian activity on far-right forums (CBC piece on it here)
• Shree Paradkar's Star column on attacks on journalists as a workplace issue

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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.

One People's Party supporter spoke to our Backbench host Fatima Syed on why he believed the party was not racist, just like he wasn't. He is one of over 800,000 Canadians who just voted for the PPC in the last election. Surely, they can't all be racist either?

In our attempt to answer that question, we found a startling string of connections between the PPC and white supremacist groups - and evidence that suggests the party is being used by these groups to accomplish their own goals.

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The release of Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig shows what China really thinks about Canada. And Maxime Bernier asks his followers to "play dirty" with reporters. Jan Wong co-hosts.

Watch the Waipa District Council finance and corporate committee Zoom meeting here

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The lab-leak theory has more evidence supporting it than ever before. Journalist Elaine Dewar has written a new book documenting little-known scientific evidence and acts of deception and obfuscation from Chinese, American, and Canadian officials. So what exactly were they all trying to hide?

Further reading:

On the Origin of the Deadliest Pandemic in 100 Years

Globe and Mail: Chinese Major-General worked with fired scientist at Canada's top infectious disease lab

Vanity Fair: The Lab-Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover COVID-19's Origins

The Intercept: Leaked Grant Proposal Details High-Risk Coronavirus Research

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

CANADALAND contributing editor Danielle Paradis co-hosts.

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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 crowd of activists. At one point, an RCMP officer rips the masks off of two women, shown clearly on the tape. Other witnesses from the scene allege even worse - that officers were kicking and dragging activists, and aiming pepper spray into their mouth, eyes and private areas. 

As reporter Cherise Seucharan finds out, the avenues available to the public to hold RCMP accountable don't seem to be working when it comes to these reports of escalating police violence at Fairy Creek. The courts, the police complaints system, and even the media have not been able to stop RCMP from acting in ways that have been condemned by experts, civil rights lawyers and by the RCMP's own watchdog. 

Is it possible to police the police at Fairy Creek? 

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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 Manisha Krishnan co-hosts.

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Non-disclosure agreements are incredibly common. But they protect abusers, and block journalism. They are also, as it turns out, often unenforceable. Zelda Perkins, who blew the whistle on Harvey Weinstein, has joined forces with law professor Julie Macfarlane to launch a global campaign against NDAs, called Can't Buy My Silence. 

Further Reading:

• cantbuymysilence.com
• Zelda Perkins on the BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/entertainment-arts-42420389
• Prof. Julie Macfarlane's book, Going Public: https://www.amazon.ca/Going-Public-Survivors-Journey-Action/dp/1771134755

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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 scrutinize a budding conspiracy about Michael Spavor, the Canadian entrepreneur detained in China. 

Writer and National Observer columnist Sandy Garossino co-hosts.

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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 show her and Fatima are making and how a politics show can be fun, accessible and nutritious. 

The interview is followed by the most recent episode of The Backbench. Subscribe to The Backbench to be informed about the important issues of this election.

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The Liberals promised to inject 6-billion more dollars into our healthcare system last week, but will more money mean more healthcare? Meanwhile, regional federal parties have dropped their platforms with distinct climate plans, posing a possible threat to major parties.

This week's contributors: Leena Minifie, Emilie Nicolas, Stuart Thomson

Links:

• Jen Gerson's Maclean's piece on the Maverick Party
• Fatima & Emma MacIntosh's National Observer 2019 piece on whether politicians should be blocking voters
• Mark McKinnon's Globe and Mail piece on Ukraine rescuing Canada-bound Afghans

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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 how she became the centre of a major story after dealing with her own unruly protestors at her restaurants.

Jen Agg is a restaurateur and author of I Hear She's a Real Bitch.

Here's her Twitter thread that got the attention of the media.

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Last year there were 540,000 international students in Canada according to Immigrations Refugees and Citizenship Canada, IRCC. Many of these students came to Canada with one goal - permanent residency. Our producer, Damilola Onime, herself a former international student, shares the story of how the international education industry is run in Canada. The story of how these students, because of their ambition for greener pastures are exploited by the government, the schools the attend, recruitments agents and every other party involved in their temporary resident to permanent resident journey. 

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Twitter became the centre of the election this week when they put a "manipulated media” tag on one of Chrystia Freeland's tweets, which contained an edited video of Conservative leader Erin O'Toole. And is science journalism at a crisis point in Canada? An analysis finds Canada's biggest newspapers gave about half as much coverage to the IPCC's major recent climate report as US ones did.

Fatima Syed hosts with Sean Holman as co-host

Further Reading:

The Tyee: When Dire Climate News Came, Canada's Front Pages Crumpled
Politico on the political connections at Twitter
Chrystia Freeland's edited video of Erin O'Toole and the full video