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CANADALAND
The best newspaper in Canada is a podcast.
Original reporting, sharp political analysis, and media criticism you won’t get anywhere else. Keeping you informed about what’s happening now in your country.
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Episodes
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) It’s BBQ Season in Canada!
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…
CANADALANDCrime Pays, If You're A Journalist
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…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) Little Reich On The Prairie
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…
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How To Save News Media From Our Tech Overlords
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…
CANADALANDHOCKEY 1 - The Best Game You Can Name
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…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) What, Me Inquiry?
The Special Rapporteur is back with a hotly anticipated release - No Public Inquiry! David Johnston made his decision – rage and frustration ensued. And the…
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How Canadaland Works
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…
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News Tropes And Moral Panic
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…
CANADALAND(Détours) Les deux conservatismes
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…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) Poilievre on Drugs
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…
CANADALAND(canadaLANDBACK) Hearts And Minds
canadaLANDBACK is a co-production by Canada’s National Observer and Canadaland. Host Karyn Pugliese, producer Kim Wheeler, contributors Trina Roache and Cara…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) We Need to Talk About Kevin Vuong
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…
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Blackberry The Phone The Podcast
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…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) Death of the Viral News Site
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…
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Terry O'Reilly's Had It With Ads
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…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) Fox News Gets Tucker’d Out
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…
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Escaping America
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…
CANADALAND(Détours) Robots vs Humanité
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…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) CBC Is in a Fight for Its Life
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…
CANADALAND(canadaLANDBACK) Canada Is Hoarding The Land
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…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) How to (Remotely) Blow Up a Pipeline
From Minecraft to statecraft, Jacobin’s Luke Savage joins Jonathan to chart the bizarre course of a U.S. intelligence leak with potentially explosive…
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Cursed Rabbits
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…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) Danielle Smith’s ‘Perfect’ Phone Call
A story about criminal charges, a potential lawsuit against the press, leaked tape suggesting a huge overreach of power — could a certain populist politician…
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How To Catch Your Online Tormentor
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…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) The Han Dong Situation is Bad Either Way
Either Beijing has corrupted our democracy at the highest level or agents in the Canadian security apparatus are subverting the PMO by illegally leaking…
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The Plan To Block All Canadian News
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…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) Stormy Days For Donald Trump
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…
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This is CANADALAND
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…
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The Senator Fighting Bill C-11
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…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) The Fall Of Silicon Valley Bank, For Dummies
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…
CANADALAND(canadaLANDBACK) They Did Not Break Us
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…
CANADALAND(Détours) Bon Cop, Bad Cop : Paul Wells sur le convoi de la liberté
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…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) Is China Trudeau's Last Scandal?
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…
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Scams And Slime: C-11 And The Future Of CanCon
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…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) Ukraine’s Night Train to the Front Lines
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…
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Donors To BIPOC Retreat Feel It Was A "Scam"
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…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) Pierre, Take The L
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…
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Why We Need Guns
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…
CANADALAND(Détours) Mauvais Québécois
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…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) John Tory and His Sin City
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…
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One Rich Man Won't Save Journalism
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…
CANADALAND(Thunder Bay) Chapter 1: There Is A Town In North Ontario
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…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) How The Westons Won
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…
CANADALAND(canadaLANDBACK) Hacks, Flacks and #Landback
canadaLANDBACK is a co-production of Canada’s National Observer and Canadaland. Since 2019 five journalists have been arrested at land defenses, several others…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) Don't Call Quebec Racist, They're Sensitive About It
Quebec’s overblown backlash to the appointment of Amira Elghawaby as special representative on combatting Islamophobia in response to her analysis of a poll…
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Big Trouble with Meddling China
The Chinese state has infiltrated Canadian democracy at all levels, according to a bombshell report from investigative reporter Sam Cooper of Global News. But…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) The Indulgent Consultant
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…
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Medical Lies From The Maritimes
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…
CANADALAND(Détours) Attention : Contient de la sensibilité au trauma
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…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) Liars, Deniers and Bears, Oh My!
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…
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WTF, Marc Maron Is Moving To Canada?
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…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) G.I. Justin
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…
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Black Celebs vs "Jewish Media"
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…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) We Need A Name For This Awards Show
The Shorties! Or Cutties! Or Shortcuttys! A special awards show highlighting variably consequential media weirdness from the year past. Dani Paradis co-hosts…
CANADALAND(CANADALANDBACK) Do You Hear The Children Sing?
canadaLANDBACK is a co-production by Canada’s National Observer and Canadaland. Land claims can take generations to settle. Sometimes communities lose…
CANADALANDCOMMONS: Against the WIND
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…
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Sarah Polley’s Secret Life
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…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) God Save the Tweets
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…
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Christmas In The Newsroom
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…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) Trauma-informed Journalism: A Choice and a Voice
Former crime reporter Tamara Cherry — who now works as a specialist-for-hire on trauma-informed practices — joins Jonathan Goldsbie to consider what…