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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
CANADALANDShort Cuts #259 - Our Press Can’t Handle The Nova Scotia Shooting
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. The confluence of the pandemic, reliance on police for information, and slashed newsroom budgets means that…
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Isolation Interview: Tanya Talaga
“This virus is a bitch, for sure.” Tanya Talaga is the author of Seven Fallen Feathers and All Our Relations. She is also a former health reporter at the…
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Isolation Interview: Surinder Mann
"I’m helping other people to be safe." Surinder Mann is a cleaner who lives in North Delta, BC, and is also the mother of COMMONS' host, Arshy Mann. Support…
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Ep. 322 - Why Life Without Fear Is Miserable
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. When journalist Eva Holland lost her mom, she went on a quest to understand the science behind her phobias…
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Isolation Interview: Severn Cullis-Suzuki
"My ten-year old got his first octopus all by himself" Severn Cullis-Suzuki is a writer, television host, and a board member of the David Suzuki Foundation…
CANADALANDShort Cuts #258 - Snitch Nation
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. Do the same rules apply to Justin Trudeau and Andrew Scheer as to the rest of us? Do the rules matter any…
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Isolation Interview: Club Quarantine
"If we are looking like we are one of the girls just dancing having fun, it's probably performative" Brad Allen and Andrés Sierra are two of the co-founders of…
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Isolation Interview: Kate Beaton
"I do participate in society." Kate Beaton is an excellent cartoonist. Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy…
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Ep. 321 - Did Covid-19 Kill The Alt-Right?
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. The Deplorables that surrounded the Trump presidential campaign have all but disappeared from the mainstream…
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Short Cuts #257 - Speaking Moistly
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. For weeks, we’ve all been trying to flatten the curve. But how do we measure our success if the numbers…
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Isolation Interview: Matt Huether
"I got scolded by the deputy mayor of Los Angeles for not including Funyuns in my tweet" Choose wisely…
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Isolation Interview: Elizabeth May
"This is the death of neoliberalism." Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See…
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Ep. 320 - Coronavirus Is In Our Prisons And Trudeau Is Doing Nothing
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. Reporter Justin Ling speaks with prisoners across Canada terrified of COVID-19 sweeping through the prison…
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Isolation Interview: David Sax
"When this is all over, I never want to Zoom again." David Sax's new book is coming out in the midst of a pandemic. Support CANADALAND…
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Short Cuts #256 - Good Faith, Bad Information
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. Has the messaging about whether to wear a face mask been contradictory? How do you report on sports in a…
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Isolation Interview: Robert Jago
“I have been obsessed with virtual reality” Robert Jago is a writer and head of an education firm. He lives in Montreal. Support CANADALAND…
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Isolation Interview: Shad
"I've been watching old NBA games and breaking them down on Instagram Live." Shad is an artist and host of Hip Hop Evolution, available on Netflix. Support…
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Ep. 319 - Cross Country COVID Checkup
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. Our first ever call-in show. From Quebec to British Columbia to Nunavut to Brooklyn, Coronavirus has…
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Isolation Interview: Sarah Hagi
"Put on normal clothes, remember to stretch... That doesn't help. You're still in the prison of your own mind." Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join…
CANADALANDShort Cuts #255 - This Op-Ed Could Kill People
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. COVID-19 coverage continues, for the most part, to be even-handed. But that’s not why you listen to this…
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Isolation Interview: Ryan McMahon
"If it really goes down, I can always shoot a moose." We're doing a call-in show! If you want to vent to Jesse about your living situation, call 844-929-1331…
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Isolation Interview: Margaret Atwood
"My life is never exactly normal. But it's normal for me." We're doing a call-in show! If you want to vent to Jesse about your living situation, call…
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Ep. 318 - The Last Picture Show
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. Independent movie theatres were in trouble before COVID-19 became a global pandemic, and now even the…
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Isolation Interview: Socalled
"So they told us music is free, so it's all about the shows now. You gotta make the shows, you gotta sell things at the shows. Now we don't have shows." ***…
CANADALANDShort Cuts #254 - Wave Of Isolation
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. In a time like this, we’re so flooded with information that good, quality journalism matters more than ever…
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Isolation Interview: Jen Agg
Restaurateur Jen Agg just wants to get home. Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on…
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Isolation Interview: Robyn Doolittle
What feels most weird right now? Doing normal things. Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information…
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Ep.317 - Meditations In An Emergency
$5/month for ad-free podcasts here. We are facing an unprecedented shutdown of services and businesses across the country. Health columnist Andre Picard was an…
CANADALANDShort Cuts #253 - Panic! At The Discoronavirus
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. As COVID-19 is declared a global pandemic, how are Canadian media handling the coverage? And what…
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Ep. 316 - One News Brand To Rule Them All
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. Is The New York Times a model for success in the news business, or a monolithic news brand that's crushing…
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Short Cuts #252 - Canada Is Working Exactly As Intended
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. A front-page story tells us that Canada is broken. Is it, or is this exactly how the country was designed to…
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Ep.315 - The Cocaine Smuggling Ring At VICE
In 2015, five young people were arrested for smuggling cocaine into Australia. They had a common connection: Slava P, a music editor at VICE Canada. At the…
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SHORT CUTS #251 - Heard It Through The Pipeline
$5/month for ad-free podcasts by clicking here. Do journalists need to be protestors to get better access to Wet'suwet'en solidarity actions? Plus, the Teck…
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BONUS: Jesse Gets Grilled
To hear the full episode right now and get ad-free podcasts, support us for $5/month by clicking here. Jesse answers tough questions from our supporters…
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Ep.314 - Nardwuar: The Interview
$5/month for ad-free CANADALAND by clicking here. In a rare interview, Nardwuar talks about his career, his techniques, his reputation and what keeps him going…
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Short Cuts #250 - Wet’suwet’en Coverage Is Still Pretty Bad
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. Jason Kenney’s War Room sets its sights on that white whale of fake news: The New York Times. And as protests…
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Ep.313 - Nardwuar: An Oral History
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. Nardwuar the Human Serviette is one of the biggest media personalities to come out of Canada. He’s a prolific…
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Short Cuts #249 - Christie Blatchford’s Complicated Legacy
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. Jordan Peterson’s familial PR team, Christie Blatchford’s legacy, Ezra Levant’s civil disobedience, and the…
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Ep.312 - Siege On Wet’suwet’en
$5/month for ad-free Canadaland by clicking here. Last week, the RCMP arrested six people for obstruction on Wet’suwet’en territory. They then threatened to…
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Short Cuts #248 - Return Of The Conservative Rapper
The Heritage Minister doesn't seem to understand his own plan for regulating the internet (or not), so we break it down for you. And a group that doesn't exist…
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Ep.18 - VICE: An Oral History
Conflict and controversy as Gavin McInnes and others remember Voice of Montreal, a government-subsidized community newspaper in the 90s that grew into a global…
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SHORT CUTS #247 - Coronaviral
Have we learned anything about reporting on viruses since SARS? And what can a new documentary about Idle No More teach us about our present state of…
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Ep.311 - Let's Talk About Bell's Harmful Prison Phone Contract
Every year, Bell shines the spotlight on mental health for Let’s Talk Day. So we’re taking a look at their prison phone contract, which advocates say…
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SHORT CUTS #246 - Come From Huawei
What was up with those "protesters" outside Meng Wanzhou's extradition hearing? And could monarchical migration have an impact on privacy in Canadian media?…
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Ep.310 - Why Is The CBC So Schitty?
The CBC wants to play by the same rules that govern digital platforms like Netflix and Amazon. No rules at all. Daniel Bernhard, the executive director of the…
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Short Cuts #245 - I Wanna Live Like Commonwealth People Do
We examine the controversy around stating a plain fact about flight 752. Then, a Royal welcome. With co-host Nora Loreto. This episode is sponsored by…
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Ep.309 - A War Reporter’s Newsroom Battles
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Paul Watson resigned from the Toronto Star in 2015 when they banned him from reporting on a story. We spoke to him at the…
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SHORT CUTS #244 - Iran So Far
We’ve heard so much from south of the border about Iran, but how are Canadian media treating this conflict? And The Fifth Estate delivers some spurious…
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Ep.308 - The Media War Over The Hong Kong Protests
For more than half a year, protesters in Hong Kong have clashed with police. Legacy media organizations in Canada have covered the protests, but a big part of…
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Ep.290 - What It's Like To Want To Die
This episode originally aired on August 12, 2019. Reporter Anna Mehler Paperny talks about her book, Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First…
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COMMONS: Dynasties - The Sahotas
The Sahotas are Vancouver’s most notorious slumlords. For decades they’ve let their buildings rot, leaving their tenants to live in filth and desolation. But…
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Ep.258 - Christmas in the Newsroom
This episode originally aired on December 23, 2018. We reached out to Canadian journalists to get their stories about spending the holidays at work. Newsrooms…
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Ep.307 - NOW and Then
Earlier this month, Toronto’s alt-weekly NOW Magazine was sold to Media Central. Former co-owner and founder of NOW, Michael Hollett, joins to talk about the…
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SHORT CUTS #243 - The Media Hit Jobs on Andrew Scheer and Jody Wilson-Raybould
Everyone knows that Andrew Scheer resigned because of his tuition scandal; what this podcast presupposes is: maybe he didn’t? And the manufactured outrage…
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Ep.306 - The Globe And Mail's Hidden Campaign For Government Favours
Last week, Canadaland’s new team published a story about how The Globe and Mail’s management repeatedly campaigned the Prime Minister’s office for…
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SHORT CUTS #242 - Inside Jordan Peterson's Antisocial Network
A look inside Jordan Peterson’s new social media platform, which bans photos, memes, and emojis in the name of anti-censorship! Also, The Toronto Star turns to…
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Ep.305 - Researchers Just Proved The Media Is Too White
Canada’s media organizations are reluctant to release their diversity stats. But Asmaa Malik and Sonya Fatah from Ryerson’s School of Journalism found a way to…
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SHORT CUTS #241 - History Will Judge Us For Our China Takes
Leaked audio from a NATO summit reveals Trudeau’s totally reasonable reaction to Trump. Did an Edmonton school board try to shut down a radio interview…
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Ep.52 - Hark! Kate Beaton
This episode originally aired on October 12, 2014. Cartoonist Kate Beaton is an exemplary weirdo. Her webcomic about Canadian historical figures and literary…
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SHORT CUTS #240 - Purified By Hatred
More details have emerged about Warren Kinsella’s secret work to expose Maxime Bernier as a racist. And what’s at stake as the CBC renegotiates its licence to…