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The Hatchet
The Hatchet is a podcast and newsletter dedicated to exposing power and money in Canada. Hosted by Arshy Mann, The Hatchet delivers important, original and fascinating journalism about how this country actually works, in a way that no one else can.
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The HatchetToronto Chose a Mayor, Montreal Chose the Muzzle | The Chopping Block
We are very excited to announce a new, weekly show from us at The Hatchet. For a while now, Jordan and I have been thinking about ways that we can bring you…
The HatchetDanielle Smith’s Hottest Takes
So today is the day of the Alberta referendum. And we just wanted to share with you some more of my conversation with Jeremy Appel. Here we dig into Danielle…
The HatchetCan Danielle Smith Control Alberta Separatism?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit hatchetmedia.ca Monday is the big day. The modern Alberta separatist movement has existed in one…
The HatchetWhat The Hell Just Happened In Quebec? (w/ Nora Loreto)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit hatchetmedia.ca Remember 2014? Pauline Marois, the Parti Québécois Premier of Quebec, had just…
The HatchetDoes Mark Carney even care about competition?
There’s something that I’ve noticed lately when it comes to how we talk about whatever is happening in Canada these days. Every announcement from the…
The HatchetActually, privatizing Canada’s airports is a bad thing
Allowing big, private money to buy up chunks of our airports has been a long-held neo-liberal dream in Canada. Kim Campbell proposed it during her short-lived…
The HatchetWhat Happened in Barcelona | A Few Bad Apples
The Toronto police have had a rough few months. Back in May, while the police service was still reeling from the fallout of the worst corruption scandal in…
The HatchetHow to Organize in a Plague
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit hatchetmedia.ca If you were an openly gay man in Toronto in 1980, chances are that you would’ve…
The HatchetQuebec cops killed a teenage boy. Now they’re targeting his friends.
The Montreal police have arrested and charged the friends of an unarmed teenage boy who was shot and killed by the Longueuil police last year. Meanwhile, the…
The HatchetChaos in the Saint John Police Force | A Few Bad Apples
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit hatchetmedia.ca There’s an unfortunate tendency to talk about the cops as some kind of a…
The HatchetInside Canada’s Billionaire Sexual Assault Trial
For the last few years, it’s become almost a cliché to talk about how we’re in the middle of a new era of accountability when it comes to sexual violence…
The HatchetThe RCMP’s War on Dissent | A Few Bad Apples
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit hatchetmedia.ca There’s this idea out there that often gets bandied about; that the RCMP, from…
The HatchetThe Killing of Nooran Rezayi | A Few Bad Apples
This is the first installment of "A Few Bad Apples," a new, ongoing series about police misconduct from The Hatchet. Across Canada, police continue to act with…
The HatchetInside Canada's Shadow Financial System
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit hatchetmedia.ca There’s something about the way we talk about crime that I’ve always found…
The HatchetBritish Columbia Can’t Outrun the Past
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit hatchetmedia.ca There is a spectre haunting British Columbia. If you’ve been paying any attention…
The HatchetCanada's Monopolies Are Marching On (w/ Peter Nowak & Vass Bednar)
As I’m sure you all know, the media is not doing well. Layoffs and closures have left the industry in a state of absolute disrepair. Even the so-called new…
The HatchetFishy Business on the Island (w/ Stu Neatby)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit hatchetmedia.ca It’s not surprising that Prince Edward Island gets ignored by most of the press…
The HatchetThe Promise and Peril of Avi Lewis (w/ Nora Loreto)
Nora Loreto comes on The Hatchet to discuss whether Avi Lewis, the NDP's new leader, is set to be the socialist saviour or doomed to be another Dipper dud. We…
The HatchetThe Toronto Police Has Been a Rogue Agency for Too Long. Rein Them In.
The Toronto Police Service is one of the oldest institutions in this country. In fact it’s 33 years older than the country itself. And in all of those nearly…
The HatchetSeparation Anxiety (w/ Paul Wells)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit hatchetmedia.ca Just over a year ago, when we were launching The Hatchet, there was one thing in…
The HatchetThe Green Party is a Natural Disaster
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit hatchetmedia.ca This episode is for paid subscribers. If you would like to hear the whole thing…
The HatchetThe Dark Prince of Bay Street | Brookfield
Support us at hatchetmedia.substack.com In 1978, a South African accountant orchestrated one of the most audacious and ruthless hostile takeovers in the…
The HatchetThe House of Bronfman | Brookfield
Support us at hatchetmedia.substack.com This is the second episode in our series about Brookfield, the Canadian financial giant. In our first episode, we told…
The HatchetThe Canadian Octopus | Brookfield
This episode was first published on April 12th, 2025. Happy New Year, Hatchet listeners! The chance to put out good journalism is its own reward, but to…
The HatchetWhat the mainstream media won't tell you about Jeffrey Epstein
I’ve had a hard time knowing what to make of the still-unfolding saga around Jeffrey Epstein. Like basically everyone else in the world, I’ve been following…
The HatchetGuns and Splutter: Breaking Down the Budget
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit hatchetmedia.ca The much anticipated budget is finally here and it promises to make "Canada…
The HatchetWild, Wild (Rose) Country
So last week, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith used the notwithstanding clause to force Alberta teachers back to work. It’s the first time the notwithstanding…
The HatchetKilling Canada Post
In 1965, Canada’s postal workers did something so radical, so unprecedented, that it shook our country’s political establishment to the core. They went on…
The HatchetElection Shock on the Rock
I think it’s kind of funny how we talk about election campaigns while they’re in progress. Between the polling and the poll aggregators, there’s often a…
The HatchetThe Decline and Fall of the Canadian State (w/ Nora Loreto)
Why can’t the government do stuff? I’m not being facetious here. I think most Canadians — in fact, most people who live in western democracies — have a feeling…
The HatchetMonopoly Man (w/ Peter Nowak)
Back a few years ago, there was this moment where it felt like there was a movement building against monopolies. It started in the United States with academics…
The HatchetVisions of Vancouver (w/ Justin McElroy)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit hatchetmedia.ca Vancouver is a funny place. It’s without a doubt the most beautiful city in the…
The HatchetNorthern Apocalypse | The Canadian Pacific
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit hatchetmedia.ca This episode is available immediately to paid supporters. For unpaid supporters…
The HatchetBlood on the Tracks | The Canadian Pacific
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit hatchetmedia.ca This episode is available immediately to paid supporters. For unpaid supporters…
The HatchetEmpire of Steel | The Canadian Pacific
Most countries have a founding myth of some kind, a moment in time that serves as an anchor for the grand national story. For the United States, it’s the…
The HatchetA Lament for Nationalism
During my lifetime, there have only been a handful of times that quote unquote Canadian nationalism has been a potent force of any kind. The first, actual wave…
The HatchetHockey's Recurring Nightmare
The Hockey Canada trial has been going on for two months now. And during that time, the Canadian media has meticulously covered every twist and turn that’s…
The HatchetWhat Isn’t Being Said About Iran
It’s so hard to know where to start a story. Choosing a starting point shapes the entire message and moral of whatever story you’re trying to tell. And that’s…
The HatchetWhat's Coming Up Next for The Hatchet
Arshy and Jordan sit down to give a quick update about how things have been going, a sneak peak at some upcoming projects, and the future of The Hatchet. This…
The HatchetCarney's AI policy is artificial and not very intelligent
We’re now a month-and-a-half removed from the last federal election. And it feels like we’re finally starting to get a sense of how this government is going…
The HatchetWhy Did the Duck Cross the Border?
Point Roberts is one of the most unique places in North America. It’s a tiny spit of land right across the American border from the Vancouver suburb of Delta…
The HatchetDanielle Smith's Hermit Kingdom
What does Danielle Smith want? The American threat has led to some strange bedfellows between the premiers and the feds. Leaders as different as Wab Kinew…
The HatchetIt’s Carney’s Canada – What Comes Next?
The last time we spoke with John Rapley, economic columnist for the Globe and Mail, it was right after Chrystia Freeland resigned as finance minister, creating…
The HatchetAnd One Last Thing....
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit hatchetmedia.ca Final thoughts on one of the strangest elections in Canadian history from the…
The HatchetDebate Night in (English) Canada
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit hatchetmedia.ca For the first and only time this election, the major federal party leaders (and…
The HatchetThe Canadian Octopus | Brookfield
Brookfield has been in the news constantly over the last few weeks. The Conservatives attacked the company for moving the headquarters of one of their…
The HatchetPierre’s Polycrisis
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit hatchetmedia.ca Support us at hatchetmedia.substack.com It’s week two of the federal election and…
The Hatchet"They're Ready to Defend This Country": Canada's Military in the Age of Trump
With the American government regularly threatening annexation on a weekly basis, there’s one question that I’ve had on the top of my mind — what does the…
The HatchetMark, Pierre & the Great Campaign of 2025
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit hatchetmedia.ca Support us at hatchetmedia.substack.com The federal election is here! And I think…
The HatchetCanada’s Corporate Welfare Catastrophe
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit hatchetmedia.ca There’s a line about Canada that gets tossed around a lot. It comes from Harold…
The HatchetHair of the Doug
This was the week where Doug Ford finally became Prime Minister. Okay, so technically it’s Mark Carney who was actually sworn in as PM. But for a few weeks…
The HatchetLet the Southern B******s Freeze in the Dark
This is starting to get ridiculous. One day we’re being tariffed to all hell, and the next day, the Trump administration says that they’re putting the trade…
The HatchetWill Reconciliation Survive the Trade War?
There’s been a surge of Canadian nationalism over the last month, and understandably so. I’ve been feeling it too, I think it’d be hard not to. You really…
The HatchetThe Man Behind Trump's War on Canada
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit hatchetmedia.ca We all knew that if Donald Trump got reelected, things would get chaotic pretty…
The HatchetThe 51st State of Emergency
It’s been a weird month. When we first launched The Hatchet, we spent a lot of time talking about the kinds of stories that we wanted to cover and the kind of…
The HatchetThe Hundred Years' War between Newfoundland and Quebec
In 1969, Quebec and Newfoundland worked together to build a hydroelectric generating station in Labrador at a place called Churchill Falls. It would go on to…
The HatchetThe Last of the Pirates
When Paul Watson was arrested in July of last year, it made headlines around the world. The presidents of France and Brazil called for his immediate release…
The HatchetHow Pretendians and Grifters Infiltrated a Billion Dollar Federal Strategy
You’ve probably heard some of the controversy swirling around ArriveCan; how one of the contracts to help build it went to a company owned by a federal…
The HatchetThe Only Certainties in Canada are Death and Tax Havens
So everyone seems pretty worried about a potential trade war with the United States. And for good reason — the US is our biggest trading partner by far. And I…
The HatchetCanada’s Economy Is Even More Screwed Up Than You Think
Support us at hatchetmedia.substack.com I think we all know that the Canadian economy isn’t doing great. In the years after the pandemic, inflation surged and…