Fact-checking the war in Ukraine. And the ‘Pay Me for Clickbait Act' - sorry, the ‘Online News Act.' Olena Goncharova co-hosts. Links: Front Burner episode re: war crimes in Bucha Radio-Canada piece re: long-term care homes in Quebec CBC Power and Politics interview with Pablo Rodriguez CTV Power Play interview with Pablo Rodriguez Sponsors: Rotman , Squarespace , Freshbooks , Skipper Otto Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join See omnystudio.com/listener for pr...
Apr 07, 2022•45 min•Ep. 769
Canada is two years into a news media bailout that Trudeau cabinet ministers promised would be conducted with the utmost transparency. Instead, the process and which outlets are getting funding (and how much) is information that has been veiled in secrecy. What's more is that in order to apply for these government bailout programs, one must first pass the (also secretive) litmus test for whether or not it is worthy of being deemed a Qualified Canadian Journalism Organization (QCJ...
Apr 04, 2022•43 min•Ep. 768
The public inquest into the Portapique massacre is far from revealing. Will we ever get the answers to the many, many questions still remaining? And journalists are being blocked from covering events at the Indigenous delegations' visit to the Vatican. Paul Palango co-hosts. Links: Paul Palango's book : 22 Murders Investigating the Massacres, Cover-Up and Obstacles to Justice in Nova Scotia Brandi Morin's video on Twitter Vatican News story re: Indigenous delegation Sponsors: Rotman ...
Mar 31, 2022•33 min•Ep. 767
In 2015, award-winning author and (former) UBC professor Steven Galloway became the target of a social media storm after an allegation was leveled that he had sexually assaulted a student. An allegation, Galloway has denied ever since. But at the time, a number of both staff and students at UBC came out publicly in support of the accuser. In turn, Galloway sued them for defamation. Defendants include 20 people who tweeted, commented, or spoke about the allegations. In one case, the individu...
Mar 28, 2022•38 min•Ep. 766
Short Cuts is off this week, so instead we bring you our latest episode of the best politics show in Canada, The Backbench. As nations around the world cut off business with Russia, can Canada help fill the international demand for oil and gas? More importantly, should we? And the pandemic caused unprecedented government spending, as well as shifting priorities on everything from work to healthcare. How will that all play out in the upcoming budget? This week's contributors: Jason Markusoff...
Mar 24, 2022•42 min•Ep. 765
So many journalists would look down their noses and sneer at the likes of BlogTO, Narcity, MTL Blog or any of the similar media companies that have populated the Canadian landscape over the last decade. But while companies that pride themselves on hard news are struggling to find a funding model that works, BlogTO just sold for $15 million. Featured in this episode: Tim Shore, Founder of BlogTO Further reading: ZoomerMedia announces acquisition of blogTO , Yahoo Finance Fre...
Mar 21, 2022•38 min•Ep. 764
Canadian MPs wax poetic about how President Zelensky inspires them… but is that really going to change anything? And how defamation lawsuits help cover up the truth and keep journalists silent. Jan Wong co-hosts. Links: CBC Reporter Travis Dhanraj's video asking a question to Chrystia Freeland and Melanie Joly President Zelensky's address to Canadian Parliament Prime Minister Trudeau's promo video CBC piece re: Manifesting a house Globe & Mail opinion piece by Doug Saunde...
Mar 17, 2022•45 min•Ep. 763
Sarah Polley has come forward with memories of a violent sexual encounter with Jian Ghomeshi when she was 16. But why is the press tongue-tied about describing the alleged violence? Sarah sits down with Jesse to discuss how to safely run towards danger, and whether it's even possible to ethically use child labour in the production of TV and film. Further reading: Run Towards the Danger , Sarah Polley Sarah Polley Is OK With Oversharing , New York Times Sarah Polley breaks silence about traumatic...
Mar 14, 2022•35 min•Ep. 762
Patrick Brown has had his name cleared - according to an anonymous source. And the media loves a good war story. Karen Geier co-hosts. Links: CTV News piece re: Patrick Brown with update National Post piec e re: Patrick Brown National Post piece re: GiveSendGo and Freedom Convoy fundraising Haaretz piece re: Stephen Bandera CBC piece re: Chrystia Freeland holding black-and-red scarf Le Devoir piece re: Serhii Filimonov Sponsors: CFUV , Squarespace , Freshbooks , Skipper Otto , Mansca...
Mar 10, 2022•39 min•Ep. 761
Canadaland doesn't have a foreign bureau, so we can't bring you the latest on the ground conflict in Ukraine. What we can do is show you another side of the conflict that has deeply influenced this ground invasion: the information war. This week, we take a deep-dive into the inner workings of Russia's information chaos machine and how its use in Ukraine laid the groundwork for what was to come in other countries, including - you guessed it: Canada. We also get a first-h...
Mar 07, 2022•49 min•Ep. 760
Why do stories coming out of Ukraine feel different from other wartime coverage? And we look at the uneven media treatment of those who are impacted by war. Our French-language correspondent Emilie Nicolas and senior producer Sarah Lawrynuik co-host in Jesse's absence. Links: Sarah's recent piece in the Winnipeg Free Press Emilie's recent piece in Le Devoir Davide Mastracci writes in Passage about a glaring omission by the media Sponsors: OXIO , Ro...
Mar 03, 2022•40 min•Ep. 759
Long before Ottawa Police Chief Peter Sloly stepped down amidst criticism that the force had failed to stop the convoy occupation, there was trouble brewing within the Ottawa Police Service. Officer misconduct, sexual harassment, abuse, and violent behaviour, has been a pattern within the OPS for years. Dan Donovan, publisher of Ottawa Life magazine, knows these cases well, and he's currently being sued by Sloly himself, for publishing an article titled 'Rapes and lies—the cancerous miscon...
Feb 28, 2022•41 min•Ep. 758
Overcorrecting an overstatement creates confusion; how nice were the police in Ottawa really? And the emergency is over! Though the media seemed to suggest there wasn't really one anyways. Managing Editor at Ottawa Lookout Robert Hiltz co-hosts. Links: NYT's generalizations about Canada can be found here Robert duly noted this piece in Passage Sponsors: PolicyMe , Squarespace , Dispatch Coffee Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy in...
Feb 24, 2022•39 min•Ep. 757
There's a lot of chaos and division in Canada right now. Beyond the people who got arrested in Ottawa over the past few days, there are thousands more Canadians who have financially supported the Freedom Convoy or been rooting for them from afar. In this episode, the CANADALAND team reaches out to regular everyday people who support the Convoy to ask about who they are, how they ended up supporting the Convoy and what they think about the racist and dangerous aspects of the movement. ...
Feb 21, 2022•49 min•Ep. 756
The kinder, gentler Emergencies Act should not be underestimated. And framing the convoy as foreign-funded and US-inspired does more harm than good. Writer Nora Loreto co-hosts. UPDATE: An earlier version of this episode included a partial comment without proper context. The comment has been removed. Links: Nora's piece in Passage that she took heat for Jimmy Thomson's tweets Sponsors: PolicyMe , Article , Squarespace Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join See omnystudio.com/listener fo...
Feb 17, 2022•40 min•Ep. 755
This week's episode is bursting your love bubble by digging into the dark side of love. You'll hear four personal stories that show, with increasing intensity, just how broken Canada's divorce system is. People who were held hostage for years by a slow-moving process that sent them hurdling into debt. And beyond that, we rarely talk about divorce as a life or death situation, but it certainly can be. Senior producer Sarah Lawrynuik brings you this one. For people who are living ...
Feb 14, 2022•47 min•Ep. 754
Angry, bias-confirming echo chambers seem evident this week when it comes to the Freedom Convoy. And "a Toronto star at the Toronto Star" dies this week and Jesse dares to speak ill—or at least some truth—of the dead. Maclean's senior writer Paul Wells co-hosts. Links: Richard Martineau's piece in Le Journal de Montréal News editor Jonathan Goldsbie's tweet re: Faith Goldy's face during the land acknowledgement Sponsors: Squarespace , Policy Me Support ...
Feb 10, 2022•29 min•Ep. 753
CANADALAND has spent a lot of time in Thunder Bay exploring the deep-rooted racism in the city and the stories of Indigenous people who live there, not to mention the stories of the Indigenous people who have died there. In 2018, the Office of the Independent Police Review Director released the Broken Trust report, concluding that Thunder Bay's police service was a home for systemic racism. The civilian oversight board and the police force executive leadership was cleared and ne...
Feb 07, 2022•38 min•Ep. 752
The media may have missed the Freedom Convoy plot yet again. And as several Canadian artists pull their music from the platform, Spotify wades into publisher territory as they work towards content advisories for select podcasts. National Observer columnist Sandy Garossino co-hosts. UPDATE: This episode says there's been a vacuum of information on Canadian truckers stuck at the Alberta-Montana border at Coutts, AB. Since recording this episode, journalists have reported that one lane has op...
Feb 03, 2022•37 min•Ep. 751
It's a story about deception, coverups, and some say, about murder. This is a story about Groundhog Day. The true story of Wiarton Willie. CANADALAND Editor Jonathan Goldsbie digs into the shell game of dead groundhogs that spans decades. Featured in this episode: Liam Casey, a reporter/editor in the Ontario bureau for the Canadian Press; Frank Gunn, a national photographer for the Canadian Press Further reading: Yet another Wiarton Willie is dead. Here's a look at the strange history behi...
Jan 31, 2022•30 min•Ep. 750
How many anti-vax trucker convoys were there?! And people are making the case to break up the CBC again. Canadaland contributing editor Danielle Paradis cohosts. Further reading & links: GoFundMe actually froze money for the convoy's campaign Tom Hooper's investigation into Pride Toronto and the misuse of money from the federal government The Narwhal's story on the maple syrup meltdown Sponsors: Zensurance , Squarespace , Freshbooks , Rotman Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland...
Jan 27, 2022•38 min•Ep. 749
Canada has a nuclear problem... a nuclear waste problem. Since the dawn of nuclear power technology, solutions to waste have all been remarkably temporary given the longevity of the danger the material presents. For decades, the hunt for a solution has spanned across provinces — even across countries. But the hope is that by 2023 Canada will have found a home - and permanent solution - for all of the country's nuclear waste. This endeavor is pitting neighbour again...
Jan 24, 2022•44 min•Ep. 748
The hunger for stories about Toronto's snow backfires. And when a story is about a hostage situation at a synagogue, why is there reluctance to call it antisemitism? Canadaland contributing editor Danielle Paradis co-hosts. Links: A tribute to CBC Edmonton's radio host Adrienne Pan CBC's piece on Texas Synagogue Hostages Sponsors: Zensurance , Hot Docs Podcast Festival , Freshbooks , Squarespace Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informa...
Jan 20, 2022•30 min•Ep. 747
There's a mystery disease that's plaguing people in New Brunswick. It starts with some muscle pain or spasms, before basic tasks like reading become impossible. For many, the disease progresses to full-blown dementia. For patients and families, government response has proven to be lackluster and desperation and frustration is taking hold as the search for answers drags on. Further reading: Whistleblower warns baffling illness affects growing number of young adults in Canadian province , Ley...
Jan 17, 2022•32 min•Ep. 746
Healthcare workers against pandemic restrictions tell on themselves by suing for libel. And two Haitian journalists die reporting for a Montreal online radio station. Columnist Emilie Nicolas co-hosts. Links: Gofundme page for the Haitian journalists' families Sponsors: Policy Me , Dispatch Coffee , Squarespace Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 13, 2022•39 min•Ep. 745
A CBC employee resigned from the public broadcaster because she says it's become too woke. The article she wrote about her departure has caused quite the buzz since it dropped. The National Post put it on the front page of the paper. Fox News, America reporter Glenn Greenwald, the British Daily Mail, and Canada's Leader of the Opposition Erin O'Toole have all wanted a piece of this story. But who the heck is the author, Tara Henley? And is any of this criticism warranted? Or is it a feeding fren...
Jan 10, 2022•41 min•Ep. 744
Publishing record COVID case counts might not be that helpful anymore. And a woman quits the CBC to start her own thing and Jesse isn't sure how to feel about it. Writer Nora Loreto co-hosts. Sponsors: Freshbooks , PolicyMe , Squarespace Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 06, 2022•43 min•Ep. 743
After we turn off our microphones, here at CANADALAND, it would be great to think we brought you the definitive version of the story. But what actually happens is that life keeps on rolling and stories continue to add new chapters. Three stories CANADALAND originally aired in 2021 demanded that we add another chapter to the story we told. First, the case of pretendians and how Indigenous identity has been co-opted by people who are not, in fact, Indigenous. Second, the story of MindGeek , Canada...
Jan 03, 2022•53 min•Ep. 742
Short Cuts is off this week, so we are sharing an absolutely shocking story from Commons' current season on mining in Canada. For a century, Canada was one of the world's leading exporters of asbestos, most of it mined from the small town of Asbestos, Quebec. But during that time, governments and corporations in Canada did everything they could to hide the fact that asbestos is deadly. They went to extraordinary lengths — secret organ smuggling, corporate-supervised police torture &m...
Dec 30, 2021•41 min•Ep. 741
People might take holidays, but the news doesn't. The best, worst, and funniest stories from reporters working Christmas in the newsroom. This might be an earth-shattering concept... but the CANADALAND team is taking a week off for the holidays. The office is closed. No one is here. However, in newsrooms across the country, that is not the case. For your holidays listening needs, here are stories from reporters who have worked Christmas in their newsrooms. It's the good, the bad and the funny.&n...
Dec 27, 2021•25 min•Ep. 258
