Dr. Ayman Oweida he’s doing everything he can to help his family survive. But he hears the bombs getting closer when speaking to them on the phone. The eyewitness of Aunt Fatimah, who says she is the sole survivor of an attack by the IDF, has lead Oweida to sign onto a coalition asking the Canadian government to cease arms exports to Israel. It might not save his family - but it might do something. Host: Jesse Brown Credits: Cherise Seucharan (Reporter), Tristan Capacchio...
Feb 19, 2024•35 min•Ep. 964
Selon Yara El-Ghadban, romancière et éditrice montréalaise d’origine palestinienne, le rêve est un acte révolutionnaire. Dans cet épisode, Emilie invite Yara à partager des extraits de son ouvrage Les racistes n'ont jamais vu la mer, coécrit avec Rodney Saint-Éloi. Au cours de cette discussion franche, l’expression artistique, le deuil, et l’espoir s'entremêlent. According to Yara El-Ghadban, a Montreal novelist and editor of Palestinian origin, dreaming is a revolutionary act. In this epi...
Feb 17, 2024•51 min•Ep. 32
Is radio not a viable business anymore? Bell Media said this in a release in the wake of massive layoffs. And Pierre Poilievre is waging a bizarre battle with the media … including the (controversial) Canadian Press. Host: Jesse Brown Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), André Proulx (Production Coordinator), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief) Guest: Jon Pole Further reading: ‘Depressing’ to see ‘W5′ affected by Bell Media cuts, says...
Feb 15, 2024•47 min•Ep. 963
After Max Krangle left Big Tobacco he went to work for the porn business. Jesse and Max explore whether the business lessons learned in porn, one of the world’s most successful enterprises, can apply to journalism, one of the world’s most vulnerable industries. Host: Jesse Brown Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Jonathan Goldsbie (News Editor), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief) Further reading: Contentious Counsel by M...
Feb 12, 2024•41 min•Ep. 962
The Alberta Premier has a UCP leadership election this year, and apparently she needs transphobic voter support more than she cares about keeping the government out of classrooms and kids’ pronouns. And invitations for Nazis, cancellations for Jews - we analyze the shameful takedown of NDP MLA Selina Robinson and try to figure out where exactly the line for cancellable offence is. Correction (Feb. 8, 2024): This episode originally described Susan Kim as a member of British Columbia’s Legislative...
Feb 08, 2024•39 min•Ep. 961
Two journalists, Kathleen Martens and Brandi Morin, have been closely following the ongoing crises faced by unhoused people, largely Indigenous, in so-called “tent cities”. They have been documenting the political and police action to remove the encampments. In Brandi’s case, she was arrested for doing her work as a journalist, which brought the eyes of the world on her. But the story isn’t about Brandi, it’s about the people she has been speaking with. Editor-in-chief Karyn Pugliese sits ...
Feb 05, 2024•37 min•Ep. 960
En début de semaine, la chroniqueuse Toula Drimonis a vu la publication en français de son livre "Nous, les autres", suite au succès de la version originale anglaise en 2022. Fille d'immigrants grecs, l'auteure partage son vécu ainsi que celui des immigrants d'autres horizons au sein de la société québécoise. Dans un contexte où les débats sur l'immigration retournent à l'avant-scène de l'actualité, Toula se joint à Emilie pour évoquer les risques liés à l'attribution de la crise du logement à l...
Feb 03, 2024•35 min•Ep. 31
How much information should the public get when it comes to the motivations of a suspected shooter attacking a government building? And the new global order of internet governance that applies only to Taylor Swift - unpacking AI-generated deep fake porn. Host: Jesse Brown Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief) Guest: Mattea Roach Further reading: Video of suspe...
Feb 01, 2024•42 min•Ep. 959
Every social media platform prizes something different. With Instagram, it’s aesthetics. On TikTok, it’s theatre-kid energy. And with Twitter, it was information and wit, conveyed via the written word. Jonathan Goldsbie is very good at Twitter. But Twitter is no longer Twitter. Every platform gradually withers — but since Elon Musk purchased it, the site’s ongoing transformation into the very worst version of itself has been by design. So what’s a person like Goldsbie to do, when confronted with...
Jan 29, 2024•35 min•Ep. 958
From cash cows to scapegoats, has there been a change in how we talk about international students? And how Canada’s provincial governments have, one by one, told the Canada Border Services Agency that they no longer want a role in a system decried as inhumane. Clarification: Canadaland would like to clarify there are other requirements to maintain a permanent residency in Canada. One such example is a residency requirement. While there are some exceptions, individuals generally need to have spen...
Jan 25, 2024•41 min•Ep. 957
For years Canadian media has been saying that Canada is a world leader in regulating big tobacco and is a global success story when it comes to weaning the public off of cigarettes. Last week there were headlines about the decline of tobacco use in Canada — according to the World Health Organization stats that say we are beating just about every country when it comes to convincing people to kick the habit. Given the tone and the content of news coverage on Canada's anti-smoking effor...
Jan 22, 2024•42 min•Ep. 956
AVERTISSEMENT : Dans la deuxième partie de cet épisode, nous discutons de violence à caractère sexuelle et de violence basée sur le genre. Si vous êtes à la recherche de soutien, le lien suivant vous dirigera vers des ressources à travers le Canada : https://canadianwomen.org/fr/vous-cherchez-un-soutien/ Dans cet épisode spécial de début d'année, Vanessa Destiné, chroniqueuse et animatrice, se joint à Emilie pour discuter des sujets marquants de janvier. Elles abordent les conséquences de prendr...
Jan 20, 2024•50 min•Ep. 30
I know you want to read about what celebrity chef Mary Berg did, but DON’T click on the link - it’s clickbait! And Trump is back in a big way. Did we learn anything from the last time? Host: Jesse Brown Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief) Guest: Sandy Garossino Further reading: Department of National Defence wants to hire journalists for ‘role playing’ - National ...
Jan 18, 2024•37 min•Ep. 955
Activist Esra’a Al-Shafei has gone to extreme lengths to keep her image offline. But one day that privacy was breached — or so she thought. Her story is just one of many of the real life impacts of our development and use of artificial intelligence. Can Canada create a guardrail good enough to protect us — and our data — from these kinds of harms? Or have we passed the point of no return? Host: Jesse Brown Credits: Cherise Seucharan (Reporter), Tristan Capacchione (Audio ...
Jan 15, 2024•33 min•Ep. 954
Canada’s major newspapers take a stance on antisemitic attacks happening in Toronto. And PM Justin Trudeau heads to the beach. Host: Jesse Brown Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief) Guest: Phoebe Maltz Bovy Further reading: Globe editorial: When protests become acts of intimidation - Globe and Mail When hate turns violent - Toronto Star NP View: Hate in the s...
Jan 11, 2024•35 min•Ep. 953
For newsrooms across the country, covering the war with Israel and Palestine has been tremendously difficult. Tensions are high, emotions are very fragile, and resources are at record lows. Today, we're going to try to give you some idea of just what it has been like for journalists to work under these conditions. Canadaland Editor-in-Chief, Karyn Pugliese, sits down with Dave Seglins, a CBC journalist who spent 25 years as a frontline reporter and investigative journalist. After experiencing wo...
Jan 08, 2024•36 min•Ep. 952
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Jan 06, 2024•42 min•Ep. 29
There’s a really popular Canadian politics YouTube channel with hundreds of anti-Trudeau videos. Something seemed a little fishy though. Jesse, Jonathan, and Karyn start pulling at a thread that ultimately takes their search to the other side of the world. There’s a video on YouTube titled “Trudeau’s Alleged AFFAIR with Minister of AFFAIRS” that baselessly suggests the prime minister’s marriage fell apart due to a dalliance with a member of his cabinet. It has 473,903 views. It’s the biggest hit...
Jan 04, 2024•49 min•Ep. 951
Often underreported or ignored by national media, the unique and complex issues facing the people who call Yukon home rarely get the attention they deserve. In this LIVE TAPING Mattea Roach, Michelle Friesen, Tosh Southwick, and Carissa Waugh take part in a smart, nuanced, and engaging conversation centering the opportunities, and political and social challenges up north. But most importantly, this episode speaks to the absolute need to have tough and sometimes uncomfortable conversations about ...
Jan 01, 2024•47 min•Ep. 950
In the 1960s and 70s, there was a fear that cult leaders were brainwashing young people into joining their new, strange movements. But is it even possible to “brainwash” anyone? At a psychiatric hospital in Montreal, one mad scientist, with the help of the CIA, tried to find out. Featured in this episode: Alison Steel, Lisa Ellenwood To learn more: Brainwashed by Michelle Shephard, Lisa Ellenwood & Chris Oke on CBC Podcasts The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Con...
Dec 28, 2023•42 min•Ep. 949
Stories of big news breaking when everyone else is on vacation People might take holidays, but the news doesn’t. For your holiday listening needs, here are stories from reporters who have worked Christmas in their newsrooms. It’s the good, the bad and the funny. A Canadaland tradition, now updated with a new story. Host: Jesse Brown Credits: Bruce Thomson (Producer) Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor) Jonathan Goldsbie (News Editor), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Ch...
Dec 25, 2023•38 min•Ep. 948
Dans ce dernier épisode de l'année, Emilie Nicolas co-anime avec Aurélie Lanctôt, chroniqueuse au Devoir et doctorante à l'Université McGill. Revenant sur un été marqué par des feux de forêt records, les co-animatrices s'interrogent sur le paradoxe entre les effets de plus en plus tangibles des changements climatiques et l'absence inquiétante d'action politique de la part de nos gouvernements fédéral et provinciaux. Alors que les grèves se poursuivent dans le secteur public québécois, le gouvern...
Dec 23, 2023•41 min•Ep. 28
Islamophobia and antisemitism are on the rise in Canada - but if there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s that teenagers becoming radicalized and making homemade bombs is not okay. Plus, the latest on how Bill C-18 the Online News Act continues to screw over independent media…this time with Google’s $100 million exemption pie for Canadian broadcasters to scrap over. Host: Jesse Brown Credits: Jess Schmidt (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor ...
Dec 21, 2023•44 min•Ep. 947
We asked people to call Jesse and argue about… whatever, in the true spirit of this festive season. A return for a second listen to this evergreen Holiday Season special from 2020. Featuring CBC Radiohost Piya Chattopadhyay, newsletter maker Marc Weisblott, journalist Kareem Shaheen, Maureen from Calgary, Simon from Toronto and so many more…. Support Canadaland at canadaland.com/join Sponsors: Athletic Greens Squarespace Communauto Additional Music is by Audio Network. Hosted on Acast. See...
Dec 18, 2023•35 min•Ep. 946
With so much going on in the world, how could we possibly cover it all on one Short Cuts? By breaking it up into digestible chunks of varying levels of importance, that’s how! Jonathan and Karyn reteam for an all–Duly Noted edition of Short Cuts, spanning everything from the National Post ’s somehow-even-more-conservative-than-before coverage of Israel to that one baseball man who people thought was on his way to Toronto but wasn’t. And did a whistleblower actually deliver anonymous, in-person t...
Dec 14, 2023•37 min•Ep. 945
Usually when Canadaland does a story on reporters in conflict we’re talking to a reporter who has had boots on the ground, someone who’s dodged bullets in hot zones and has the scars and the PTSD to prove it. But not this time. This time we’re speaking with Anthony Feinstein a professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He specializes in the psychological distress of journalists. He treats journalists as patients, and he does research into the kind of psychological trauma tha...
Dec 11, 2023•43 min•Ep. 944
À la suite de son mandat de députée de Québec solidaire à l'Assemblée nationale de 2018 à 2022, Catherine Dorion s'est lancée dans l'écriture d'un livre. Paru le 13 novembre dernier, Les têtes brûlées : Carnets d'espoir punk raconte l'attention médiatique qui a entouré Catherine durant son mandat. L’ex-députée se joint à Émilie, qui a elle aussi grandi dans la région de Québec, pour réfléchir à l'influence des médias – en particulier de la radio-poubelle – non seulement sur la politique provinci...
Dec 09, 2023•44 min•Ep. 27
David Suzuki spent decades of his life sounding the alarm about environmental destruction, as host of the CBC TV show The Nature of Things and other radio programs. When he looks at the world today, he’s frustrated. “We haven’t done a goddamn thing about the issues being raised,” he tells Jesse. He also talks about the failures of Capitalism, the people who have tried to take him down, and his concerns with the state of discourse today. This conversation was recorded in September, 2023 Sponsors:...
Dec 09, 2023•37 min•Ep. 3
CBC makes huge cuts - with plans to eliminate 600 positions. Is it time for a good hard look in the mirror to figure out what its future could look like? And Pierre Poilievre turns to documentary film to explain the housing crisis. Host: Jesse Brown Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief) Guest: Paul Wells Further reading: CBC/Radio-Canada to cut 10 per cent of ...
Dec 07, 2023•36 min•Ep. 943
Editor’s note: An earlier version of this episode contained characterizations of slain Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar that Canadaland has been unable to independently verify, and as such have been removed. To put it lightly, Canada’s relations with India and China have lately been a mess, with allegations of assassination, retaliation, interference, and spying. And that was before a recent Globe report raised new questions about why China detained the “Michaels,” and before U.S. prosec...
Dec 04, 2023•40 min•Ep. 942
