After two years of reports and stuffy consultations, the slow-moving train-wreck that's been the "news bailout" has made its way into the proposed 2018-19 federal budget. The budget dedicates $50 million dollars over five years to "supporting local journalism," but who's eligible for funding? Though crucial details are pending, PostMedia Network's CEO Paul Godfrey and former Globe and Mail EIC Ed Greenspon are not happy —so maybe this isn't such a bad thing after all! Jesse speaks with entrepren...
Mar 05, 2018•42 min
Why did CBC News let Justin Trudeau use them like a cheap tool? Why did Patrick Brown quit (this time)? And what's up with the newspaper bailout plan? Stephen Maher co-hosts. Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 01, 2018•40 min
After years of dodging emails about the internal politics of the country's largest subreddit, r/Canada , Jesse finally jumps down the weirdo-message-board rabbit hole. Nearly 340k people are subscribed to r/Canada, with many using it as a primary source of national news. This past week, private messages were leaked between two of the subreddit's moderators, in which one moderator named u/Perma wrote that they were "slowly becoming" a white nationalist . Freelance journalist and CANADALAND contri...
Feb 26, 2018•42 min
Did CTV actually f**k up its Patrick Brown exposé? Can we reverse engineer his crisis communications PR strategy? When can we talk about anything else? Graeme Gordon co-hosts. Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 22, 2018•38 min
On February 9, Gerald Stanley — the farmer accused of killing 22-year-old Cree man, Colten Boushie, in Battleford, Saskatchewan — was acquitted of second-degree murder. In the wake of the verdict, Jesse revisits a conversation he had in Saskatoon with Betty Ann Adam (Saskatoon StarPhoenix), Rob Innes (Assistant Professor, University of Saskatchewan), and Mylan Tootoosis (PhD candidate, University of Saskatchewan). This show was recorded live at Winterruption in Cosmo Seniors Centre on January 20...
Feb 19, 2018•43 min
The Gerald Stanley verdict was a crucial moment - was the media equal to it? Was Patrick Brown set-up by CTV? And why is the newspaper bailout a thing again? Danielle Paradis co-hosts from Edmonton Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Feb 15, 2018•32 min
After ending the campaigns of several Tory candidates with his muckraking during the 2015 federal election, Macleans dubbed Robert Jago, "the most dangerous blogger in Canada". The next year, Jago broke the Joseph Boyden scandal , and this past January he exposed Senator Lynn Beyak for publishing racist letters on her website, which resulted in her being ousted from the conservative caucus. Jago has quickly risen as an incisive, evocative voice in Canadian media. He's now a regular contributor t...
Feb 12, 2018•42 min
Denise Balkissoon co-hosts. Topics: Tina Fontaine and Colten Boushie: why must the news media disrespect and blame dead Indigenous kids? And the allegation against Steve Paikin: hmmm... Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Feb 08, 2018•34 min
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Feb 06, 2018•2 min
Why did an obscure Canadian psychology prof suddenly become an international media star? It's a much better question than "is he right or wrong?" — This episode of CANADALAND is brought to you by our newest sponsor Endy . Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Feb 05, 2018•41 min
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 killer story. With Allison Smith. Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Feb 01, 2018•38 min
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 worshippers. Azzeddine Soufiane, Mamadou Tanou Barry, Khaled Belkacemi, Aboubaker Thabti, Ibrahima Barry, and Abdelkrim Hassane were murdered. Five others were badly injured, including Aymen Derbali . A year later, what — if anything — has changed? Many, like activist Syed Hussan , feel it has slipped from our collective conscious. Hussan rec...
Jan 29, 2018•31 min
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 problematic reporting on the Sherman deaths. With Justin Ling. Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 25, 2018•46 min
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 . Hollow Earth Theory. Iraq Stargate ... But what happens when these twisted narratives stop being just kooky, and start getting scary? As extremist right-wing groups grow their presence in Canada, and around the world, there's a personal cost to covering conspiracists. Mack's 8-month-long investigation into Canada's armed, anti-Islamic "pat...
Jan 22, 2018•53 min
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 host Elamin Abdelmahmoud. Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 18, 2018•36 min
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 lot of ground. According to the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab ’s report, the potential activities allowed by Bill C-59 are “limited only by imagination” : Mass dissemination of false information, leaking foreign documents in order to influence political and legal outcomes, large-scale denial of service attacks, interference with the...
Jan 15, 2018•33 min
Novelist and poet Zoe Whittall joins Jesse to talk creepy professors, racist letters, and predatory men. @zoewhittall Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 11, 2018•35 min
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 $500,000 investment in Canada's journalism industry from Facebook. Here's Facebook's head of Canadian public policy, Kevin Chan hosting Minister of Democratic Institutions, Karina Gould, at FB's Oct 19 launch of the Canadian Election Integrity Initiative . So. Why scrutinize Facebook when you can partner with them? Leaders from dozens of cou...
Jan 08, 2018•38 min
Canadian grocery store billionaires duped us for 14 years— Vive la gift card !! Joshua Boyle, former Taliban hostage , faces 15 charges including sexual assault and administering a noxious drug. What did media miss in its initial welcome-home coverage? Mayor John Tory and Toronto city staffers cite ' miscommunication ' as the reason homeless people were turned away from shelters across the city (which were definitely not at capacity, alright?). The Quebec mosque shooting took place nearly a year...
Jan 04, 2018•48 min
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 first episode of this harrowing journey, Aliya recalls the 1968 comedy that ruined laughter for her, phones her dad up to talk about brownface, and goes to standup school. As part of our holiday programming, we're playing you the best stuff from across our network. Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join See omnystudio.com/listener for...
Jan 01, 2018•31 min
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: http://constantlistener.com/best-podcasts-2017/ So this holiday, we present it to you in full. It's a story featuring incredible music by Indigenous artists from the 60s, 70s and 80s that was nearly lost. And it asks the question: how do we distinguish between art and artifact? Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join See omnystudio...
Dec 28, 2017•44 min
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 know it exists." Lorimer Shenher, author of That Lonely Section of Hell: The Botched Investigation of a Serial Killer Who Almost Got Away, talks to COMMONS about his time with the Vancouver police, where he investigated serial killer Robert Pickton. This is part one of a two-part series on police accountability. Support CANADALAND: https://ca...
Dec 25, 2017•38 min
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 sources," what do we know and which interests are at play? Metro columnist and former CANADALAND employee Vicky Mochama called Lindsay Shepherd a crying white girl on CBC's Sunday politics show, infuriating an army of people who have probably never seen the show before. True crime writer and veteran crime reporter James Dubro guest hosts. ...
Dec 21, 2017•32 min
PressProgress calls itself "Canada’s most shared source for progressive news and information." They get real scoops , using the traditional tools of journalism, like access to information requests, fact-checking and seeking comment from politicians. But they're not a traditional news source. They're backed by the Broadbent Institute, a progressive think tank founded by a former leader of the NDP. So how does that affect their coverage and what should we do with that information? PressProgress ed...
Dec 18, 2017•32 min
A terrible BBC documentary about transgender kids was pulled from CBC scheduling. A journalists' materials were seized from a Niagara Regional Council meeting by staff who were exercising "enthusiastic caution." A mill pressurized a bookstore to suppress a book-signing for a book written about that mill. Questionable CBC workplace policies. Independent crowdfunded journalist Joey Coleman co-hosts. Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information...
Dec 14, 2017•37 min
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 and Mail and the Toronto Star combined. Spanning vicious attacks in rap form to sentimental content about landmarks, Ontario Proud is in a meme war against Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne. And they're really effective. Ballingall joins us to talk about what he's doing, why he's doing it and who's paying for it. Support CANADALAND: https://...
Dec 11, 2017•29 min
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 " actually expanding " a print edition that has cut both content and distribution. Alt-right women are upset that alt-right men are treating them badly. They're tired of being harassed and facing backlash for not being married and having babies . If only there were a movement that could help them... CP24's Stephen LeDrew is suspended for his ...
Dec 07, 2017•38 min
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 decline in the industry. Chris Powell vehemently disagrees. After cutting his teeth at a community newspaper, Powell spent a career covering the news business in trade publications like Strategy and Marketing Magazine. He's spoken to the publishers and executives, he's studied the business models and he says there is a path forward. Support ...
Dec 04, 2017•42 min
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 says he didn't know Torstar was planning to kill the newspapers he was giving them. Torstar says pretty much nothing at all. Rogers reportedly won't pay for VICE's fanciful foray into cable TV any longer. The Financial Post will publish your incoherent rant about climate change if you happen to be an ex-Cabinet minister. BuzzFeed social n...
Nov 30, 2017•40 min
Gerard Ryle is the director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, who are behind the Paradise Papers, the Panama Papers and other similar investigations. Major revelations are continuing to come out of the Paradise Papers in Canada and around the world. One prominent columnist dismissed the whole thing as " another cheap shot at the wealthy ," while other people are asking why this story isn't causing riots in the streets. Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join S...
Nov 27, 2017•30 min
