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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 #152 - Slow News Week
Ontario's political scene lately - why so boring?! Jordan Peterson was a guest on CBC. The media's angle on the ongoing coverage of Toronto's accused serial…
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Ep. 216 - As If It Never Even Happened
One year ago today, a 27-year-old white man, named Alexandre Bissonnette, walked into the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City and opened fire on over 40…
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SHORT CUTS #151 - You'd Think A Serial Killer Would Be A Bigger Deal
In which we discuss the media's bizarre long-term silence on the disappearances from Toronto's gay village, the Rogers-Vice Canada fallout, and Toronto Star's…
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Ep. 215 - They Asked Me To Join The Militia
Conspiracies! They're out there... and Vice Canada's Mack Lamoureux is getting to the bottom of them. You name it, he's covered it: The Berenst(a)ein Bears…
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SHORT CUTS #150 - Creeping Sharia, Bitches!
On coverage of the hijab cutting hate crime that never was and the job of journalists in reporting stories of sexual harassment. Naheed Mustafa joins guest…
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Ep. 214 - Black Mirror Canada
If you thought Bill C-51 was concerning, boy do we have an update for you! Bill C-59 is the Liberal government’s national security reform bill, and it covers a…
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SHORT CUTS #149 - CanLit is Crawling With Creeps
Novelist and poet Zoe Whittall joins Jesse to talk creepy professors, racist letters, and predatory men. @zoewhittall Support CANADALAND…
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Ep. 213 - How Facebook Bought-Off Canada For Peanuts
Governments around the world are cracking down on Facebook. But not Canada's. Forget taxes and regulations — Trudeau's Ministers are getting photo-ops and a…
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SHORT CUTS #148 - We March On Loblaws At Dawn
Canadian grocery store billionaires duped us for 14 years— Vive la gift card!! Joshua Boyle, former Taliban hostage, faces 15 charges including sexual assault…
CANADALANDThe Imposter - Aliya Tries Comedy
At the end of this season of The Imposter, Aliya will do a live comedy set onstage at Second City. But first—she needs to learn how to tell a joke. On the…
CANADALANDThe Imposter - I Pity The Country Part 1
The Imposter's "I Pity The Country" sits alongside Radiolab and The Heart on Constant Listener's 8 best podcast episodes of 2017. You can read that list here…
CANADALANDCOMMONS - Invisible Victims: How Police Botched The Robert Pickton Case
Over the holidays, we're presenting some of the best episodes from across CANADALAND Media. "If the police don't want you to see a file, you're never gonna…
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SHORT CUTS #147 - Officially Suspicious: The Sherman Deaths
Last week, billionaires Barry and Honey Sherman were found dead in their Toronto home. As we parse through language in the press like "suspicious" and "police…
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Ep. 212 - Meet the New Partisan Press
PressProgress calls itself "Canada’s most shared source for progressive news and information." They get real scoops, using the traditional tools of journalism…
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SHORTCUTS #146 - Terrible Documentary Silenced by Basic Decency
A terrible BBC documentary about transgender kids was pulled from CBC scheduling. A journalists' materials were seized from a Niagara Regional Council meeting…
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Ep. 211 - Inside A Right-Wing Meme Machine
After working in media, PR and politics, Jeff Ballingall understands the political power of Facebook. His top Facebook page gets more engagement than the Globe…
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SHORT CUTS #145 - News From The Upside Down
The Globe and Mail recently launched their re-designed newspaper much to the dismay of old people everywhere. Editor-in-Chief David Walmsley claims they're…
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Ep. 210 - Why Newspapers Don't Have To Die
After 34 newspapers were abruptly killed by Postmedia and Torstar last week, Postmedia CEO Paul Godfrey made the case that it was just part of an inevitable…
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SHORT CUTS #144 - I'll Kill Your Newspapers If You Kill Mine
A lot of Canadians lost their community news this week, after two news giants traded 41 newspapers and shut nearly all of them down. Postmedia CEO Paul Godfrey…
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Ep. 209 - The Man Behind The Paradise Papers
Gerard Ryle is the director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, who are behind the Paradise Papers, the Panama Papers and other…
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SHORT CUTS #143 - Goddamnit, Fine, Let's Talk About Jordan Peterson
A Master's student was reprimanded for showing her students a public TV clip of psychology professor/YouTuber Jordan Peterson explaining why he refuses to use…
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Ep. 208 - Ahead Of The Times: Jezebel Reporters On Louis CK
Reporters Anna Merlan and Madeleine Davies were investigating and writing about Louis CK well before the New York Times story came out. And they faced a lot of…
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SHORT CUTS #142 - The Erotic Adventures Of Bill Morneau
Bill Morneau tries to turn down the heat through tales of his spicy past, CBC takes a stand for landlord rights and Jagmeet Singh tries out some slam poetry…
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Ep. 207 - Village Of The Sprawling Phoenix: New Models For Local News
Is local media doomed? We speak to three entrepreneurs who are making a go of it with three very different models. Dave Bidini publishes the West End Phoenix…
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SHORT CUTS #141 - Team Kill Rich People
CBC's flagship TV newscast The National is revamped with a four-host format and released into the world. The Paradise Papers reveal what the Toronto Star calls…
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Ep. 206 - Jeremy Scahill: Mistrust First, Then Verify
“Objectivity for the sake of objectivity often means make sure that the powerful always get their say. And sometimes Caesar shouldn’t have his say. Sometimes…
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SHORT CUTS #140 - Weekend With Bernie
A series of media scoops have shown that some politicians are actually rich people who want to keep their money. Bernie Sanders comes to Canada to tell us…
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Ep. 205 - Out Of My Depth With Adam Gopnik
Adam Gopnik lived out a certain Canadian fantasy. He left the country and became a prominent New York intellectual. He writes about the move in his new book…
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SHORT CUTS #139 - Distorted Sermon, Coercive Mattress
Quebec passes a racist law. A bunch of media outlets ran a story that used video manipulation and questionable translation to make it look like an imam was…
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Daniel Dale
The Toronto Star's Daniel Dale has become one of the most-watched journalists in Washington in part by simply enumerating Donald Trump's lies (Dale counted 720…
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SHORT CUTS #138 - Andrew Scheer Does Not Want His Name In Headlines With The Rebel
The Conservative Party leader walked away from a scrum when pressed about his campaign manager working in far right media company The Rebel's office during his…
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My Awkward Date With Sarah Polley
Sarah Polley talks about how she helped Jesse break a major story. And she discusses domestic abuse, sexual harassment and assault, and the culture that fuels…
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SHORT CUTS #137 - Sour Gas, Racist Soap
An "unprecedented national collaboration" between The National Observer, Global, The Toronto Star and more exposes the dangers of sour gas in Saskatchewan. But…
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It's The End Of CanCon As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
The way we make culture in Canada is finished. The CanCon system was built around radio frequency and cable subscriptions. That's done. Heritage Minister…
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SHORT CUTS #136 - Will You Denounce Terry Milewski's Moustache?
Co-host Omar Mouallem lives in the Edmonton neighbourhood where the terror attack took place over the weekend. He discusses what he saw in the news versus what…
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Ep.201 - Saudi Arabia Is Using Canadian Weapons Against Its Own Citizens And Nobody Seems To Care
When we found out the Trudeau Government was selling armoured vehicles to Saudi Arabia, despite their terrible human rights record, there was little public…
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SHORT CUTS #135 - It's Important To Kick These People When They're Down
This American Life ponders the question:Is Gavin McInnes actually racist? We help them find the answer. The Globe and Mail launches a project to teach kids…
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Ep.200 - Blame Michael Enright
Michael Enright got Jesse his first job in radio. He was also CANADALAND’s first ever guest, drinking bourbon and talking sh*t about the Canadian media. For…
CANADALANDThe Wab Kinew Situation
Indigenous writer and activist turned politician Wab Kinew scored a historic victory last weekend by decisively winning the leadership of the Manitoba NDP…
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Ep.199 - TIFF Is A Monster That's Eating Itself
For one week every year, the Canadian press transforms into movie industry experts. Our newspapers run glossy red carpet photos of Hollywood stars and stories…
CANADALANDWe Support You, Hostile Idiot!
Jagmeet Singh gracefully responded to a racist idiot, which proves he can lead a major political party, we guess. Also, racism is totally not a problem…
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Ep.198 - Punching Nazis... With The Law!
Who thought we'd have a Nazi problem in 2017? Richard Warman did. Years before the current "Should I punch a Nazi" debate took off, he was taking neo-Nazis to…
CANADALANDEnough About Antifa, Let's Fight Fascists
Post columnists pen truly offensive shit; another media outlet lays off workers; Donald Trump has us all scrambling. Another day, another 81¢ (rounded for…
CANADALANDI Don't Speak Sports
It's clear that sports journalism is facing many of the same issues as other facets of the industry: declining ad revenues, job insecurities, and too much…
CANADALANDMommy, Where Do Feelings Come From?
Americans are debating the removal of monuments to problematic historical figures, so I guess we are too. Old folks don't want to hear sad stories about…
CANADALANDEzra's Very Bad Week
It's been, to put it mildly, a shit week for Rebel Media's self-styled 'Rebel Commander' Ezra Levant: - Following the tragedy in Charlottesville last weekend…
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SHORT CUTS #130 - Rebel Meltdown
A growing list of contributors and politicians are cutting ties with far right website The Rebel after their coverage of the white nationalist protest in…
CANADALANDBleeding Edge Outrage Meme Generators
The term 'fake news'has been popularized, bastardized, and now wholly appropriated. What was previously defined as 'A deliberate untruth published strictly for…
CANADALANDArctic DNA
Joseph Boyden has emerged from his winter burrow like a collared lemming (it's an arctic mammal -- look it up!) to plug his forthcoming book weigh in again on…
CANADALANDLive From New York, It's CANADALAND
This week we present a podcast based on our stage show which was based on our book which was based on this podcast. Talk about coming full circle. In it…
CANADALANDMSM On FGM: WTF?
The Toronto Star built an entire exposé on female genital mutilation based predominantly around a mid-level civil servant's email from three years ago. Also…
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Ep. 193 - Summer Dump
We revisit a couple of stories that we haven't been able to follow up on to the level to which we'd hoped. At least not on the website, where our News Editor…
CANADALANDSHORT CUTS #127 - Shopping Khadr to Fox News
The Conservative Party takes their latest wedge issue to the US media, a Quebec town won't let Muslims bury their dead and Trudeau lays out some hot summer…
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Ep.192 - 15 Years Covering Omar Khadr
When the vitriol started to fly over Omar Khadr's $10.5 million settlement and apology from the government, Michelle Shephard got frustrated with just how much…
CANADALANDCOMMONS: The Rise of the Right
Journalist Evan Balgord has been covering fringe right groups like the Proud Boys, Soldiers of Odin, and the Three Percenters for the better part of the past…
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Ep.191 - Revenge Porn
Ren Bostelaar posted nude pictures of women he knew to 4chan without their consent. He avoided a criminal record by apologizing and taking a peace bond. Was…
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SHORT CUTS #126 - Child Soldiers, Proud Boys
With resistance to Canada150, Indigenous women calling out a reporter at a press conference, and the Proud Boys disrupting a Mi'kmaq ceremony in Halifax, the…
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Ep. 190 - Queer Media
Canada was once home to a small, but mighty collective of gay and lesbian newspapers and magazines that made up a radical alternative media. Over the last few…
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SHORT CUTS #125 - #Mansbridge150
The Toronto Star put the final nail in the coffin of Star Touch, its $20-30-million app for a device that most people don't have or use. And after praising…
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Ep. 189 - The Great Newspaper Bailout
After the release of the Public Policy Forum's Shattered Media report this past winter comes the latest beg for cash to prop up the newspaper industry. This…