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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
CANADALANDRogers vs. Rogers
The Rogers family drama was epic. An imperious and secretive billionaire telecom overlord clan loathed across the nation, a ne’er do well heir to the throne…
CANADALANDKneecapping Carney's Anti-Hate Law
There’s still confusion around MP Vince Gasparro’s announcement that Irish rap group Kneecap is banned from Canada, but, at the same time, Carney’s government…
CANADALANDBONUS: The Canadaland Call-In Show That Went Wrong
Off The Record is back in its new call-in format. The question for this week was “What should Canadaland NOT have published?” Host Sam Konnert sat down with…
CANADALANDCanada Post is More Screwed Than You Think
Carney says Canada Post is “insolvent,” but is it possible to save it? Isaac Peltz joins to brainstorm ways to get Canada Post off life support and to explain…
CANADALANDLive from Calgary – WTF is up With Alberta?
Are Albertans hicks? Is Danielle Smith secretly a genius? Do Albertans actually hate Ottawa? Tune in to a special LIVE Canadaland recording to find out!…
CANADALANDWhat It’s Like To Escape The Taliban
What happens after the men with guns who run your country take aim at you? Last year reporter Molly Thomas traveled to Pakistan for Canadaland to file a series…
CANADALANDIn Defence of Carney
Protestors “Draw The Line” as Mark Carney pulls the Liberals towards the center, adopting conservative policies and walking back several Trudeau-era policies…
CANADALANDCanada Takes Its Comedians For Granted
The honorary mayor of Dildo, Newfoundland is back on the air, but the threat to free speech remains. The Jimmy Kimmel saga is a reminder of the crucial role…
CANADALANDIt's Do or Die Time for Mark Carney
Canada recognized Palestine as a state, Pierre “take me home country roads” Poilievre is back in town, Freeland is on a mission to Ukraine, and the pressure is…
CANADALANDInterview With a Guy Who Died
One December night in 2014, Matthew Church died from sudden cardiac arrest. Now, back from the dead, Matthew Church joins us in studio to talk about dying…
CANADALANDBen Mulroney Says He's Biased and Not a Journalist. He's Global's New Politics Host.
Global News hires a non-journalist to cover politics. Plus, parliament is back and it’s business as usual. With Canada in an existential crisis, is it time to…
CANADALANDCanada's Psychotic Codependency with Assassination America
Canadians react to the assasination of Charlie Kirk. The killing of a prominent US conservative dominates Canadian headlines and online comments trigger…
CANADALANDMichelle Rempel Garner on What Conservatives Want to Do To Immigration
Conservative immigration critic Michelle Rempel Garner sits down with host Noor Azrieh to unpack why she thinks we should scrap the temporary foreign worker…
CANADALANDCanada's Wildest Prison Break
Rabih (Robby) Alkhalil was in prison for one murder and on trial for another. Then on July 21st, 2022 Alkhalil slipped into a black jumpsuit and a high…
CANADALANDLet's Flood Canada With Chinese EVs
Carney hits pause on EVs but moves forward on “nation-building” projects. With Canola farmers being hit hard by Chinese tariffs, is the solution to drop the…
CANADALANDExploiting John Candy
TIFF turns 50 with celebs, controversy, and Carney suggesting that we’re the John Candy of global trade. As the Toronto International Film Festival struggles…
CANADALANDWhat If Trump Shuts Off Canada's Data Servers?
While Donald Trump is bent on achieving and maintaining “unquestioned and unchallenged global technological dominance”, we’re just starting to gear up for the…
CANADALANDUkraine, Taiwan, Canada
Mark Carney recently made noises about the future possibility of Canadian boots on the ground as part of an international “coalition of the willing” to help…
CANADALANDNobody Wants to Lead the NDP
The race to succeed Jagmeet Singh has begun, but most of the NDP’s big names are steering clear. Post-election, vibes within the party have been bleak, mired…
CANADALANDThe Bay has a Secret, Ancient Archive and it’s Being Sold off to Millionaires
The Hudson’s Bay Company is dead. While the Canadian media obsesses over the sale of The Bay’s retail properties, thousands of historical artefacts and…
CANADALANDThe Massive Airplane Canada Seized from Russia
Right now, a hulking Soviet-era Russian cargo plane is just parked at Toronto’s Pearson Airport. And Canada is trying to do something nobody has ever done…
CANADALANDPaul Shaffer on the Toronto Play That Begat Comedy as We Know It
Three years before the first episode of SNL. Four years before the first episode of SCTV. Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Gilda Radner. Andrea Martin and later Dave…
CANADALANDIntruder! How Violently can we Defend Ourselves?
Doug Ford, Danielle Smith, and Pierre Poilievre all seem to want to make sure we have the right to beat people up in our homes. Only if they aren’t invited, of…
CANADALANDThe Return of Pierre
Pierre Poilievre won his byelection and will be returning to Parliament in September. He’s raring to go, and probably drafting a whole bunch of new…
CANADALANDWait, We're Also in a Trade War with China?
China’s tariffs on canola seeds would cripple western Canadian farmers. But this tit for tat fight is about more than just canola. Host Noor Azrieh sits down…
CANADALANDTitanic Mystery! Who Spiked the Chowder?
Something wild happened in Nova Scotia during filming of the James Cameron film Titanic. Parts of the blockbuster were filmed in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, and on…
CANADALANDAre Carney’s Cuts “DOGE” Canada?
In July, Mark Carney made it clear to public workers that there would be a tightening of the belt. Ministers were told to save 15% from their departmental…
CANADALANDWhy Does Labour Only Get Covered When There's a Strike?
The Air Canada strike this past weekend affected tens of thousands of Canadians and international travelers. The negotiations have been going on for eight…
CANADALANDYoung People Can't Find Work and It's Messing Them Up
Our kids are broke and seriously unemployed. We're in the dog days of summer, and for generations, that marked the end of scooping ice cream at the corner…
CANADALANDOttawa Guy Invents World's Best/Worst A.I. Attack Bot
Singh built a bot. It’s a concoction of ChatGPT, Grok, and a handful of other advanced AI systems that might destroy truth-based civil discourse once and for…
CANADALANDThe Gutless Wonder of TIFF
TIFF’s whiff and the legacy of Trudeau’s media policies. Carney is reversing course on the Liberal’s approach to media, but can the Canadian media ecosystem…
CANADALANDBONUS: Why Canadaland Doesn’t Have Interns
Last year Canadaland launched a new initiative called the Canadalabs Audio Journalism Fellowship programme, where we hired two young reporters to come and…
CANADALANDEvan Almighty: Our A.I. Minister is Glitching
Is Evan Solomon a chatbot? Deciphering the Minister of AI’s jargon-filled tech-speak. Canada is going all in on AI, but what is the plan, exactly? Plus, new…
CANADALANDThe Productivity Crisis: are Canadians Just Lazy?
Apparently, the reason you’re broke isn’t just because of your questionable shopping addiction, it’s because Canada has a full-blown productivity crisis… To…
CANADALANDHow Carney Can Get You to Serve in the Military
Mark Carney is nation building. To do that, he needs to rebuild the Canadian Armed Forces. Between decades of neglect and the forces’ own goals by way of bad…
CANADALANDI Was Wrong About The Freedom Convoy
The sentencing of Convoy leaders Tamara Lich and Chris Barber gets political. Poilievre and other Conservative MPs are outraged about the Crown’s requested…
CANADALANDBONUS: The Most Powerful Tool in Media
It’s not a secret that music makes us feel things, but how does it do it? How do composers create music that makes us happy, sad, confused, emotional, hopeful…
CANADALANDIs Trump Winning Against Canada?
Canada can’t cut a deal, but Carney’s political honeymoon continues. Should Carney take some blame for the ongoing trade war? Plus, why real estate developers…
CANADALANDFull Mental Jacket
The Canadian Armed Forces has an extremism problem, and that story has fallen out of the news cycle way too quickly. Just recently, four men have been arrested…
CANADALANDLive and Let Die - The Battle Over MAID
Canada is now the number one provider of medical assistance in dying in the world per capita. The latest stats, from 2023, show that MAID accounted for almost…
CANADALANDNo Penalty for Hockey Goons
An update on Canada’s approach to Palestine and an in-depth discussion of the Hockey Canada Trial and why the coverage isn’t reckoning with the deeper issues…
CANADALANDBONUS: The American Who Built Canada’s Car
When working on one of our episodes of the Politics edition about tariffs, senior producer, Aviva Lessard wondered why there are no Canadian car companies…
CANADALANDWould We Interview Netanyahu?
More statements about Israel/Palestine from Carney’s government, but does Canada have the courage to take action? Arshy Mann joins Noor Azrieh to assess…
CANADALANDBATTLE RIVER – Could Pierre Lose Again?
Over 200 candidates, a riding bigger than Switzerland and an immense amount of pressure on the leader of the opposition. To find out who (and what) Pierre is…
CANADALANDTerror and Awe in Ed Burtynsky's Canada
For over 40 years Burtynsky’s camera has captured mountain ranges scarred and scooped from mining operations, roiling tar sand tailing ponds, and fractal river…
CANADALANDJordan Peterson’s Globalist Plot to Rule the World
Jordan Peterson sold his Toronto home, but what’s the next move for Canada’s biggest media export? Tracing the arc of Peterson’s ambitions from media-hungry U…
CANADALANDBONUS: Justin Ling and Canadaland — What Happened?
Some of you had simple questions about our office space, and what Victoria's non-profit campus & community radio station does for Canadaland. And some of you…
CANADALANDIt’s Time to Break Up with American News
Why are we reporting on American news when we have more than enough to cover here in Canada? Canadian media has been breathlessly covering Trump, Epstein…
CANADALANDDairy and Trump: The Art of The Veal
Canada is obsessed with dairy. It’s quite literally part of our culture…we’re talking soccer medals with the little blue milk logo on them. But someone else is…
CANADALANDHow Google’s A.I. Search May Kill News Dead
It’s now common to get AI generated answers from Google when searching the web. The whole concept of searching Google to find actual websites is almost over…
CANADALANDThe Genius Plan to Fix the CBC Forever
A closer look at Travis Dhanraj’s public breakup with the CBC. In a fiery open letter, former host of Canada Tonight, Travis Dhanraj, excoriated the CBC for…
CANADALANDConflict Con Carney
Carney’s sprawling ethics screen covers over 100 companies and reveals the details of what went into his blind trust. Did he lie to Canadians about his…
CANADALAND‘Pave the Arctic,’ They Said. ‘It’ll be Fine,’ They Said
A 230km all-season road and deep water port could be one of Carney’s first major “nation-building projects.” Is everyone on board? The Grays Bay Port and Road…
CANADALANDHow a Canadian Teenager Stole a Record Company
Today we unmask the mastermind behind one of the most unlikely mysteries in hip hop history. Digging through old FBI files to reveal the name of the arch…
CANADALANDRecord Breaking Poor Climate Coverage
Too often, climate issues like wildfires, droughts, and extreme weather are reported in a way that ignores the root cause of these issues. How can climate and…
CANADALANDBONUS: Things You’ll Never Hear on Canadaland
Today we’re bringing you all the trash that’s not fit for the feed. But one person’s trash is another person’s treasure. Look, we record a lot of stuff… and we…
CANADALANDCanada’s Big Beautiful Clean Energy Opportunity
Carney’s clean energy disappearing act. Trump’s all out war on clean energy could be a huge economic opportunity for Canada’s energy future, but Carney’s focus…
CANADALANDWhat Can Mark Carney Do to Get YOUR Support?
It’s been over 100 days since Mark Carney became Prime Minister. It’s time for a performance review! Last week, we held a call-in show where host Noor heard…
CANADALANDAfter Depression Meds, She Lost Her Sexuality
Emily Grey’s been living with a condition known as PSSD for six years now. PSSD can lead to the effective erasure of a person's sexual sensation and…
CANADALANDPierre Poilievre is Lost in the Wilderness
Poilievre has never been further from the spotlight. After years of headlines and media attention, even Poilievre’s staunchest supporters have stopped talking…