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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 joi...

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 re...

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 retu...

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...

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 journ...

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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 fe...

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, thi...

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 Ell...

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 Edit...

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 fédé...

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 Cred...

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:&nbs...

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 w...

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 journalist...

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'...

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 con...

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 (Edit...

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 rece...

Margaret Atwood returns to talk about getting in trouble, being treated in the media as some sort of prophet, and whether there are times when authoritarianism could in fact help us solve major problems.  This conversation was recorded in September, 2023 Sponsors: Communauto , Better Help , University of King’s College If you value this podcast, support us ! You’ll get premium access to all o...

Danielle Smith’s Sovereignty Act is like trying to get away with amending the Constitution via a hastily-scrawled Post-it note, flimsily affixed while no one’s looking. Spare a thought for the poor Alberta reporters who have to explain that, on top of their normal work of attempting to make energy policy engaging.   And if 10 years is a long time in the life of a digital media company, how do...

Canadaland publisher Jesse Brown has been asked to stop talking about antisemitism.  He's also been asked whether he will denounce Israel, or if he is in fact a Zionist.  In this opinion piece, Jesse tries to clear things up once and for all.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Journalists report the news. They hear about a story, write it up, verify the facts, and then hit “publish”.  But, occasionally a story comes in from someone else and then they, more or less, just hit “publish”. Public relations professionals are master spin doctors. They know how to get the story they want to tell, which may or may not be true (or at least not the full truth), published in m...

Une mobilisation citoyenne à grande échelle a lieu au Canada pour inciter le gouvernement Trudeau à demander un cessez-le-feu entre Israël et la Palestine. Jonathan McPhedran Waitzer se joint à Emilie pour discuter de la place des personnes alliées au sein des mouvements sociaux, soulignant particulièrement le rôle des personnes juives solidaires avec le peuple palestinien. Dans un deuxième temps,...

Rick Mercer started his career as a media critic of sorts. He broke into the national consciousness with a one man show taking on an establishment journalist, called Show Me the Button: I'll Push It (or Charles Lynch Must Die) . He talks to Jesse about his path from angry young outsider to palling around with politicians on TV. He also talks about developing his pioneering blend of news and comedy...