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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
CANADALANDThe Taking of Wood Buffalo
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…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) Happiness Is A Banned Gun
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…
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The Food Bank Industrial Complex
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…
CANADALAND(Détours) Tribunal médiatique
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…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) Hoisted On Their Own Qatar
The potential hypocrisies of condemning human rights abuses in Qatar during the FIFA World Cup. And the increasing difficulty of writing critically about…
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Cops, Lies, And Videotape
*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…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) Poilievre's Toxic Lie About Safe Supply
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…
CANADALAND(CANADALANDBACK) Reclamation At Stoney Point - Part Two
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…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) Trudeau's Dismissive Chinese Dad
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…
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Ratfucker Chapter Three: The Trojan Horse
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…
CANADALAND(Détours) Option nucléaire
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…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) Never Gonna Give (Twitter) Up
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…
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Ratfucker Chapter Two: The Brethren
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…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) Hate Crimes Against Nazis
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…
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Ratfucker
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…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) Southern Exposure: Featuring Cenk Uygur
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…
CANADALAND(CANADALANDBACK) Reclamation At Stoney Point - Part One
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…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) Low Blow, Loblaws!
Loblaws takes the heat over a tone-deaf price freeze. And the unprecedented, unjustified, and perhaps unnecessary federal government power grab that nobody…
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Hark! A Migrant (Worker)
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…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) A Star Is Torn
A controversial comment about Burqas in a Toronto Star column crossed the editorial line. And business drama at this Toronto paper. Jonathan Goldsbie hosts…
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Salvaging The Beachcombers
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…
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(Détours) Défaillance du système (selon quelques intellectuels)
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…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) Quebec Election Pop Quiz
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…
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Crimes Against Nature
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…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) Shocking Revelations On The Saskatchewan Stabbings
There have been major developments in the Saskatchewan stabbing story, but most journalists have moved on - except for Global reporter Ashleigh Stewart. And…
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CTV Workers On Workplace Abuse
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…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) Bots Have Feelings Too
A recent encounter between Pierre Poilievre and David Akin of Global News demonstrates the tactics politicians have been using to avoid accountability. And how…
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The True Story Of Sasquatch
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…
CANADALAND(Détours) Royalement impolies
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…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) Our Royals, Our Elves
Canadians have greeted the death of Elizabeth II with a mix of sadness and ambivalence, hostility and indifference. Film writer Will Sloan joins Jonathan…
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The McAfee Virus
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…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) A Manhunt in the Prairies
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…
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Bruce McCulloch
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…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) LaFlamme Wars
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…
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Updates On Nuclear Waste, A Bond Villain, And Starbucks Unions
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…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) The End Of NOW
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…
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Is New Brunswick Covering Up A Deadly Brain Disease?
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…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) Keeping LaFlamme Alive
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…
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Sh*tty Cities
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…
CANADALAND(Détours) De pape en flic
Avertissement : contenu lié aux pensionnats et à la colonisation La visite du pape pour la présentation d’excuses aux peuples autochtones a provoqué diverses…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) Healthcare In Crisis
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…
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The Interrogation Of Jesse Brown
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…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) Hockey Blight In Canada
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…
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Jody Porter And A Complicated Legacy
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…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) Pope? Nope.
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…
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Cindy Blackstock's Long Game
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…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) Hot Off The Press
Our changing perception of the Nova Scotia mass shooter's partner Lisa Banfield. And thwarting the apocalypse through journalism. Sarah Lawrynuik co-hosts…
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Pardon My French
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…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) Wet Hot Antitrust Summer
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…
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CPC F*ckery
Patrick Brown was disqualified from the Conservative Leadership race. He's denied allegations filed by a whistleblower that he was knowingly mismanaging how…
CANADALAND(Détours) Le coût de l’expression
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…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) Lucy and Linda's Law
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…
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Enormous Fires Everywhere
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…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) You Don't "Both Sides" Human Rights
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…
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Education: What Is It Good For?
Universities across Alberta have experienced huge funding cuts over the last three years. Come fall, students will be paying for that with huge tuition…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) Imperfect Behaviour
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…
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The Dubious Botanist
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…
CANADALAND(Short Cuts) Correction? Recession? Celebration!
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…
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The Baristas Vs. Starbucks
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…
CANADALAND(Détours) La chimère canadienne
Devenir propriétaire d'une maison n'est désormais plus qu'une chimère pour toute une génération de Canadien‧ne‧s. Et…