Covering BC's anti-logging protests raise issues about journalists' decorum, access, and how stories about land protectors are framed. And Native Twitter gets a CNN pundit fired for spewing racist views about Indigenous people. Thunder Bay host Ryan McMahon and photojournalist Amber Bracken take over in Jesse's absence. Further reading: CAJ's first statement about how RCMP injunctions were a concern for journalists CAJ's subsequent statement on their legal application to challenge RCMP's injunct...
May 27, 2021•35 min
A repost of one of the most popular Canadaland episodes ever, from way back in 2014. The Irvings are secretive billionaires who have a monopoly on New Brunswick's news media. Journalist Jacques Poitras , author of Irving vs Irving, describes how the family subtly suppresses criticism and destroys competitors. This episode is supported by Dispatch Coffee and Squarespace Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast....
May 24, 2021•39 min
CIJA has called-out Canadaland for not adequately denouncing last week's guest. Meanwhile, controversy over coverage of pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Canada. And filmmaker Michelle Latimer launches her inevitable comeback campaign, damn the consequences. Thunder Bay host Ryan McMahon and Independent Jewish Voices' communications lead Aaron Lakoff take over in Jesse's absence. Further reading: The winner of JHR's Award for Outstanding Work By An Indigenous Youth Reporter is here Michelle Lati...
May 20, 2021•35 min
The Canadian Armed Forces has known that they have a problem with sexual misconduct for over two decades. Why can't they figure out how to stop it? In 1998, several women came forward to Maclean's magazine about their experiences being raped or sexually harassed in the military. Many years and many victims later, there was finally an investigation which lead to the creation of Operation Honour, which was supposed to address problem.But it didnt.Now many members of the Canadian military have come...
May 17, 2021•40 min
Reporting on the occupation of Palestine is "all stick, no carrot." And Canada's National Newspaper Awards is more like the Golden Globes than we thought. Writer and researcher Dalya al-Masri co-hosts. Further reading: A bit more background on why Duncan McCue's apologized for saying "Palestine" on air Michelle Latimer "breaks her silence" here This episode is supported by Dispatch Coffee and Kilne . Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informat...
May 13, 2021•45 min
Migrant farm workers aren't the only temporary foreign workers who have been largely forgotten and failed during the pandemic. Producer Sula Greene brings us the voices of workers some of us see every day but who nevertheless often remain invisible. What do these women endure to become Permanent Residents of Canada, and is that goal even possible given our current system? This episode is supported by Kilne , Freshbooks , and Squarespace Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join See omnystu...
May 10, 2021•37 min
Torstar publishes pro-gambling content now. And the Rogers family vacation at Mar-a-Lago. Data journalist David Weisz co-hosts. Further reading: See Steve McAllister's Torstar contributions about sports betting here ; David duly noted CBC's The Big Spend , which takes a look at COVID spending; David also duly noted Humber's Storylab Surviving Hate project; See the first piece of Canadaland's new column The Secret Public Servant here . This episode is supported by Dispatch , Kilne and Manscaped ....
May 06, 2021•32 min
In 1972, the government funded an absurd study to measure the impact of cannabis on productivity. Show Notes: Young women were sequestered in a hospital ward for 98 days and administered daily doses of super-potent, government-grown marijuana. They smoked 2 joints a day while weaving macrame belts for money. Their story is the subject of a new indie film, The Marijuana Conspiracy Trailer But it was first told to reporter Diana Zlomislic by Doreen Brown, who now bring it to us. This episode broug...
May 03, 2021•29 min
Media reacts to a perplexing Court decision on Bill 21, Quebec's law banning some public servants from wearing religious symbols. And Rebel News is facing new scrutiny. CANADALAND's French language media correspondent Emilie Nicolas co-hosts. Further reading: See The New York Times piece on Caolan Robertson speaking about Rebel News here See The Canadian Anti-Hate Network's statement about Rebel News' suit here See Rebel News' statement about the Canadian Anti-Hate Network here This episode is s...
Apr 29, 2021•37 min
Ever since the Canadian government announced recommendations that adults from Indigenous and racialized communities should be given priority for a COVID-19 vaccination, accusations of reverse racism have filled comment sections and social media posts. Now, racial minorities with vaccine priority are facing racism and other structural barriers to getting the jab. Our new reporter, Cherise Seucharan, has been trying to find out exactly why these policies are needed, how they're working out — and w...
Apr 26, 2021•35 min
As provinces fail spectacularly to control the third wave of the pandemic, is the press adequately holding them to account, or making things worse? And what are the ethics of publishing a a picture of a nude MP accidentally caught on Zoom? Freelance journalist Justin Ling co-hosts. This episode is supported by Our Darkest Day, Squarespace , and Freshbooks . Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy ...
Apr 22, 2021•36 min
Filmmaker Daniel Lombroso spent four years following Lauren Southern, Richard Spencer, and Mike Cernovich with a camera, as their stars rose and the bigotry and xenophobia they championed went mainstream. The result is White Noise , a feature-length documentary produced by The Atlantic. And though they're less prominent these days, and we might be eager to forget about Southern, Spencer, Cernovich and their alt-right acolytes, Lombroso warns us that we do so at our peril. This episode is brought...
Apr 19, 2021•47 min
GraceLife Church and Montreal riots against public health directives had us wondering why mainstream narratives about vaccine hesitancy focus so much on racialized communities. And journalists are officially hella tired. Freelance journalist Fatima Syed and Torstar Editor Evy Kwong co-host. Further reading: Evy's piece to combat vaccine hesitancy here StatCan's report on Canadian populations' vaccine willingness here Torstar's Investigation on more mining contracts in Grassy Narrows here More on...
Apr 15, 2021•33 min
The Landlord Credit Bureau lets landlords review their tenants and report their payment habits. The information is shared with other landlords, and it can damage a tenant's credit rating. But is that legal? In the midst of the pandemic, Hamilton resident Joey Nicol and her partner found they'd been signed up for the Landlord Credit Bureau by their landlord. Fearing eviction, they started to investigate. Jesse speaks with Nicol about her family's experience. Then he talks to MPP Jessica Bell , ho...
Apr 12, 2021•38 min
An uprising of frontline workers forces change to COVID policies. And with a major merger in the works, a telecom giant makes the case that less competition is good for Canada. Freelance journalist Nora Loreto co-hosts. This episode is brought to you by Dispatch Coffee , Kilne , and Squarespace . Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Apr 08, 2021•36 min
Restaurants have struggled badly during the pandemic. But food writer Suresh Doss takes us to a parking lot, a subway stop, and a home cook's kitchen to show us a thriving underground food scene. This episode first aired on September 20, 2020. It is brought to you by Our Darkest Day, Pandemic University and Article . Additional music by Audio Network. Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mo...
Apr 05, 2021•35 min
CBC puts an end to Randy Bachman's Vinyl Tap after just 16 years of self-indulgent, uninspiring radio. What will take its place? And it turns out one of the reporters who's most friendly to Doug Ford is in a relationship with the Premier's director of media relations. Fucked Up singer and Turned Out A Punk host Damian Abraham co-hosts. Read Jonathan Goldsbie's piece about Brian Lilley and Ivana Yelich here . CORRECTION: In the episode, we refer to Ivana Yelich as Premier Doug Ford's press secret...
Apr 01, 2021•34 min
A site called SeaWestNews describes Alexandra Morton as “BC's loudest anti-salmon farming activist,” and her writing as “rambling” and “conspiracy-laden.” Originally a whale biologist from California, Morton was shocked into activism when her research revealed the devastating results of industrialized salmon farming. Since then, she's been subject to attack campaigns meant to discredit her, intimidated by sea Mounties, and surveilled by armed operatives in boats with tinted windows. And she's ex...
Mar 29, 2021•42 min
Are stories about vaccine efficacy doing more harm than good? And Canadian politicians are following a road paved by Trump, singling out critics for scorn. Montreal Gazette health reporter Aaron Derfel co-hosts. This episode was brought to you by Dispatch Coffee , Pandemic University , Squarespace , and HelloFresh . Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 25, 2021•34 min
The culture war icon is back with a new bestseller. We revisit our examination of Jordan Peterson the media phenomenon, which asks how an obscure Canadian psychology professor rose to international stardom. This episode is brought to you by Pandemic University , Cullen's Foods , and FreshBooks . It first aired on February 5, 2018. Additional music by Audio Network. Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/...
Mar 22, 2021•37 min
What's the best way to cover allegations of sexual misconduct in the Canadian Armed Forces - or just generally, really? And the Alberta government has some harsh words for an animated Bigfoot movie. Freelance journalists Fatima Syed and Maggie Rahr co-host. This episode is brought to you by the Rotman School of Management , Squarespace , Athletic Brewing , and Kilne . Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.c...
Mar 18, 2021•37 min
Ari Ben-Menashe has been an Israeli spy, sold weapons to Iran, survived a firebombing, and been the target of at least one RCMP investigation. He crossed paths with Jeffrey Epstein. And he's worked for Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, Libya's Khalifa Haftar, and Sudan's Transitional Military Council. Ben-Menashe runs the lobbying firm Dickens & Madson (Canada), based Montreal. And on March 5th, it was reported that he'd been awarded a US$2 million contract to lobby the U.S. and other governments on...
Mar 15, 2021•31 min
HuffPost Canada is dead. The Ryerson School of Journalism faces a crisis. And a very serious, important conversation about Dr. Seuss. The Nation's national affairs correspondent Jeet Heer co-hosts. This episode is brought to you by the Rotman School of Management , CFUV , Squarespace , Theatre Passe Muraille and HelloFresh . Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 11, 2021•35 min
A Haitian senator's wife paid $4.25 million—all money down—for a house in Laval , Quebec. Meanwhile in Haiti, people have been protesting against corruption, kidnapping, and a president who they say is over-staying his term in office. How do we talk about Haiti without reproducing unhelpful tropes and stereotypes? Vélina Elysée Charlier , an activist with Nou Pap Dòmi , joins us from Port-au-Prince to explain why Haitians are taking to the streets. Canadaland's French-language media corresponden...
Mar 08, 2021•34 min
Torstar gets into the gambling business. Americans get caught up on the WE scandal. And documents suggest Canada's two major newspaper chains traded notes on shutting down each others' papers before they swapped them. The Tyee's tech and privacy reporter Bryan Carney co-hosts. Further reading: Read Bryan's full story here on the Torstar Postmedia correspondence here . This episode is brought to you by Rotman School of Management , Squarespace , Athletic Brewing , and Manscaped . Support CANADALA...
Mar 04, 2021•36 min
In February, as the Australian government prepared to introduce a link tax, Facebook blocked all news from its Australian platform. The new legislation, lobbied for by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp and other big media organizations, would have forced Facebook and Google to pay them each time their content is shared online. Facebook's strong-arm tactic forced the government to amend the legislation, potentially exempting Facebook altogether if it cuts its own deals with news organizations. In return...
Mar 01, 2021•50 min
Canada's vote to call China's treatment of Uyghurs a genocide exposes an online wave of China apologists on the far left. And the New York Times brings back Cortland Cronk in an attempt to prove that Canadians are actually not very nice. Author and retired journalist Jan Wong co-hosts. This episode is brought to you by The Rotman School of Management , Athletic Brewing , HelloFresh and SquareSpace . Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informati...
Feb 25, 2021•33 min
LifeSiteNews may be the biggest Canadian news outlet you've never heard of — a kind of Breitbart for traditionalist Catholics. A new investigation published by the Canadian Anti-Hate Network shows how LifeSite, which has its roots in an anti-abortion lobby group, has grown. It's become a megaphone for an anti-LGBTQ+ movement. And as it has collided with the far-right infosphere, it has platformed anti-Muslim, anti-Semitic and white nationalist voices, and embraced Trumpism and QAnon. CAHN invest...
Feb 22, 2021•37 min
Canadian media have lost the plot around the vaccine rollout. And a Montreal-based website makes the list of COVID-19 conspiracy theory superspreaders. Globe and Mail health columnist André Picard co-hosts. This episode is brought to you by Dispatch Coffee , Squarespace , Kilne and Manscaped . Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Feb 18, 2021•30 min
Michelle Latimer was the buzziest Canadian director and showrunner of 2020. Her documentary Inconvenient Indian premiered at TIFF and reaped plaudits and awards. Her series Trickster , based on a novel by Eden Robinson, debuted on the CBC and was slated for a second season. But it all came crashing down in December when a CBC investigation called into question Latimer's Indigenous identity claims. Why does the Canadian cultural establishment make darlings of figures like Latimer? Ryan McMahon jo...
Feb 15, 2021•1 hr
