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CANADALAND
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Episodes
CANADALANDShort Cuts #278 - Lobster Politics
Mi'kmaw fishermen earning a ‘moderate livelihood' seems to be too much for Nova Scotia's settler lobster harvesters. And CBC leverages its credibility…
CANADALANDEp. 341 - Food Will Find A Way
Restaurants have suffered huge losses during the pandemic. But food journalist Suresh Doss takes us to a parking lot, a subway stop, and a home cook's kitchen…
CANADALANDShort Cuts #277 - Conservative Cuties
Erin O'Toole wants to protect children from a movie he has never seen. And former CBC journalist Terry Milewski resurfaces from retirement to insult an entire…
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Ep. 340 - Dethroning The Arts-Grant Elite
There's a broad undertaking to shake up who gets arts funding, and who governs it. Jesse speaks with Jesse Wente, the new President of the Canada Council for…
CANADALANDShort Cuts #276 - Scandalized Philanthropists and A Criminalized Journalist
Breaking news on WE. An Indigenous journalist is criminalized for doing his job. And mass panic appears to be on the newly minted curriculum. One Dish One…
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Bonus AMA: Canadaland's Money
You asked about our money, Jesse answers. To hear the rest of this special episode right now, go to canadalandshow.com/join Support CANADALAND…
CANADALANDShort Cuts #275 - Bring Me The Head Of John A. Macdonald!
Does anyone really care about indignities to the legacy of John A.Macdonald? And the inside story of co-host Manisha Krishnan's scoop about the "culture of…
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Ep. 339 - Shree Paradkar
The Toronto Star's new internal ombud tells us what the job is, discusses power and race in the newsroom, and responds to that reply all email. This episode…
CANADALANDShort Cuts #274 - Reply-All Rosie
Support us at canadalandshow.com/join What might Jesse and Erin O'Toole have in common? And newsrooms continue to struggle with what it means to respond to…
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Ep.338- What The Hell Is The Epoch Times?
Support us here: canadalandshow.com/join The Epoch Times' COVID-19 special edition raised controversy when it landed in mailboxes across Canada in April. The…
CANADALANDShort Cuts #273 - Anti-Rebel, Prorogue
Support us here: canadalandshow.com/join Prime Minister Trudeau just needs a quick reset. And Postmedia stands in solidarity with Rebel News. Former CAJ…
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Ep. 337 - 1492 Land Back Lane
Support us here: canadalandshow.com/join This week marks a month since the start of a land occupation to block a residential development at the edge of…
CANADALANDShort Cuts #272 - Anonymously Awesome!
Support us here: canadalandshow.com/join The Prime Minister’s Office leaks secret intel on how amazing it is. And Quebec’s French print papers somehow continue…
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Ep. 272 - The Best New(ish) Podcast In Canada Is About The Opioid Crisis
Support us here: canadalandshow.com/join. Crackdown covers the war on drugs from the trenches, and these war correspondents are drug users. Host Garth Mullins…
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Ep. 313 - Nardwuar: An Oral History
Support us at canadalandshow.com/join Nardwuar the Human Serviette is one of the biggest media personalities to come out of Canada. He’s a prolific interviewer…
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Ep. 336 - Let No Good Deed
Support us at canadalandshow.com/join Last week’s House Finance Committee hearings into the WE Charity scandal yielded few new insights into why the government…
CANADALANDShort Cuts #271 - Bottom Of The Barrel
Support us at canadalandshow.com/join The Kielburgers testified before the House of Commons finance committee, updates on the Nova Scotia shooting, and the…
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Ep. 335 - Why It's Illegal to Protest In Alberta
Support us here: canadalandshow.com/join A new law in Alberta is Jason Kenney’s latest front in the oil war. Freelance journalist Grace Lisa Scott spoke to the…
CANADALANDShort Cuts #270 - Mr. Brown Goes To Ottawa
Support us at canadalandshow.com/join Jesse testified before the House of Commons Finance Committee about Canadaland's reporting on the WE organization, and…
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Ep. 334 - A Dodgy Paternity Test And The War On The Reporter Who Exposed It
Support us here: canadalandshow.com/join Peter Aldhous reported that a Canadian lab’s prenatal paternity test was “unreliable." During the 18-month…
CANADALANDShort Cuts #269 - We Do Some Accounting
Support us at canadalandshow.com/join We have some questions about WE’s government contract and their internal accounting. And the story of how a Canadian…
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Ep. 333 - Could The WE Scandal Take Down Justin Trudeau?
Support us here: canadalandshow.com/join It’s a scandal that could—but probably won’t—take down Justin Trudeau. After swearing otherwise, WE was forced to…
CANADALANDShort Cuts #268 - Harper's Is Still Lurking
Support us at canadalandshow.com/join The press seems to have given the Rideau Hall intruder the white glove treatment, and why on Earth did so many people…
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Ep. 332 - WE Charity: Lawyers, Guns And Money
Support us at canadalandshow.com/join At Canadaland, we really didn’t expect to find ourselves reporting on the WE organization again. But then it was the…
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Ep. 267 - Propaganda, Fascism And Murder: An Alternative History Of The Globe And Mail
Support us at canadalandshow.com/join The Globe and Mail is now 176 years old. You can read all about its accomplishments elsewhere. Writer Jamie Bradburn…
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Ep. 331 - The RCMP Exists to Control Indigenous People
Support us here: canadalandshow.com/join Karl Dockstader and Sean Vanderklis, co-hosts of the radio show and podcast One Dish, One Mic, join Jesse to talk…
CANADALANDShort Cuts #267 - Consequence Culture
Support us at canadalandshow.com/join Can you really be “cancelled” if you still have a platform? A look at Margaret Wente, Wendy Mesley, and the Mulroneys…
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Ep. 330 - A CBC News Anchor On Systemic Racism At Work
Support us here: canadalandshow.com/join Adrian Harewood is a news anchor at CBC Ottawa News and the host of weekly current affairs show, Our Ottawa. This…
CANADALANDShort Cuts #266 - The Reckoning
Support us at canadalandshow.com/join Journalists across Canada are speaking out about their experiences with racism in the newsroom. And as Wendy Mesley is…
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Ep. 329 - The Tyrant's Spin Doctor
Support us at canadalandshow.com/join Lord Tim Bell worked for a rogues' gallery of international clients, and co-founded one of the most powerful PR companies…
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Ep. 279 - A Forgotten News Lab Predicted Journalism’s Online Future in 1991
Support us here: canadalandshow.com/join InfoLab imagined newspapers' transition from print to digital, creating multimedia digital news in the basement of The…
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Ep. 296 - Two Centuries of Blackface in Canada
Support us here: canadalandshow.com/join Dr. Cheryl Thompson is an assistant professor at Ryerson University’s School of Creative Industries, and the author of…
CANADALANDShort Cuts #265 - Newsroom Mutiny
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland: https://canadalandshow.com/join Protests have erupted around the world in response to police violence against Black people…
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Ep. 328 - Should Big Tech Bail Out The News?
Support us at canadalandshow.com/join The pandemic could be an "extinction event" for American newspapers and so their publishers want their own government…
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Isolation Interview: The Right Honourable Kim Campbell
“My biggest fear is that not enough will change, and not enough lessons will be learned.” Kim Campbell is a former Prime Minister of Canada, the first and only…
CANADALANDShort Cuts #264 - Smelly Rogue
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland: https://canadaland.supercast.tech/ Torstar was just sold for $52 million, droves of people were chastised for going to the…
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Isolation Interview: Kaie Kellough
"I had a confrontation with someone in the line up for a grocery store... and that moment of slow honeyed ease was totally interrupted." Kaie Kellough is a…
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Isolation Interview: Xanthe Vallentin
“I’m going to be very careful about how much I leave my property until there’s a vaccine.” Xanthe Vallentin is a teacher in Hamilton, Ontario, and the sister…
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Ep. 327 - A Crime Reporter Exposes The Child Welfare System
Support us here: http://canadalandshow.com/join The child welfare system is failing Indigenous children, and APTN's Kenneth Jackson can't stop covering it. His…
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Isolation Interview: Mumilaaq Qaqqaq
"After this pandemic, we can create a new normal that's better for everyone." Mumilaaq Qaqqaq is the MP for Nunavut. Support CANADALAND…
CANADALANDShort Cuts #263 - A Case For Bad Art
Support us here: canadalandshow.com/join The incredibly controversial painting of Justin Trudeau, François Legault’s problem with anglophone media, and the…
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Isolation Interview: Omar El Akkad
Support us here: canadalandshow.com/join “The job of fiction is to intrude on reality and instead we’re living in a situation where reality is intruding on the…
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Isolation Interview: Martha Wainwright
Support us here: canadalandshow.com/join “In the silence you start to wonder…how are we going to find each other again?” Martha Wainwright is a…
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Ep. 326 - While We Weren’t Looking
Support us here: canadalandshow.com/join In the face of a global pandemic, it’s hard to focus on anything else. Three journalists tell us stories that have…
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Isolation Interview: Jesse Brown
Support us here: canadalandshow.com/join "The wild oscillations of feeling are abnormal for me." Jesse Brown is the publisher of Canadaland. Support…
CANADALANDShort Cuts #262 - Racist Vegan
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. Bryan Adams pulls a Morrissey, an Indigenous ceremony is broken up by the RCMP, and Ghomeshi attempts another…
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Isolation Interview: Brooke Manning
“I never believe in going down without a fight…I’m a triple fire sign.” Brooke Manning is the owner of Likely General, a store and gallery space in Toronto…
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Isolation Interview: Weyni Mengesha
“Hugs feel like they’re going to be euphoric.” Weyni Mengesha is the artistic director of Soulpepper Theatre Company in Toronto. Support CANADALAND…
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Ep. 325 - Should We Stop Naming Killers?
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. Prime Minister Trudeau said naming the Nova Scotia mass shooter was giving him "the gift of infamy." Romayne…
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Isolation Interview: John Semley
"I fucking hate Zooming... and having to look at my own face." John Semley is a writer and author who splits his time between Toronto and Philadelphia. But…
CANADALANDShort Cuts #261 - Billionaire Welfare Slackers
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. When police searched journalists’ offices in the Alberta legislature, we wondered how government reporters…
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Isolation Interview: Jaren Kerr
"I guess like a positive abnormal and unusual thing I did was propose to my girlfriend, which was pretty cool." Jaren Kerr is an editor at Yahoo Finance…
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Isolation Interview: Martin Lukacs
"I think I may have had coronavirus." Martin Lukacs is a journalist and author based in Montreal. Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join See…
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Ep. 324 - Kenny vs. Kenny
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. Kenny Hotz achieved fame as the co-star of Kenny vs. Spenny, one of Canada’s most successful TV shows. The…
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Isolation Interview: Kai Cheng Thom
"Pushing for a world where we accept the risks of having a body... That's where we need to go." Kai Cheng Thom is a writer and performer based in Toronto…
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Short Cuts #260 - Celebrity Malfunction
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. The more we learn about the shooting in Nova Scotia, the worse it becomes. And did the star-studded Stronger…
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Isolation Interview: B.J. Snowden
"I want my friends and family to be safe from this" BJ Snowden is an American musician who has written many songs about Canada. Support CANADALAND…
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Isolation Interview: André Picard
"I like to remind people the chances of getting infected by somebody walking or running by you outside— they're virtually nil" André Picard is a health…
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Ep. 323 - Industry Pandemic
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. Journalists across Canada tell us how Covid-19 has changed how they bring us the news. This episode is…
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Isolation Interview: Chris Locke
"It'll probably be like a mega-hedonistic orgy after this." Chris Locke is a comedian in Toronto. He has a new podcast called "Happy Good." Support CANADALAND…