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Support us here: canadalandshow.com/join Prime Minister Trudeau just needs a quick reset. And Postmedia stands in solidarity with Rebel News. Former CAJ President and Ryerson journalism professor Karyn Pugliese co-hosts. This episode is sponsored by Audible and Squarespace . Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See ac...

Support us here:  canadalandshow.com/join This week marks a month since the start of a land occupation to block a residential development at the edge of Caledonia, Ontario — and the Six Nations of the Grand River Reserve. Contributors  Sean Vanderklis  and  Karl Dockstader , hosts of  One Dish, One Mic , tell Jesse what they saw on a recent trip to the encampment. Th...

Support us here: canadalandshow.com/join The Prime Minister’s Office leaks secret intel on how amazing it is. And Quebec’s French print papers somehow continue to thrive. The Logic’s Martin Patriquin co-hosts and explains Quebecor’s secret. This episode is sponsored by CFUV, Eventide and HelloFresh .  Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informati...

Support us here: canadalandshow.com/join .  Crackdown covers the war on drugs from the trenches, and these war correspondents are drug users.  Host Garth Mullins joins Jesse to talk about how after watching the media get so much wrong about the opioid crisis—if they covered it at all—he and other drug user activists got together to start  a monthly podcast  based on their stories, their reporting,...

Support us at  canadalandshow.com/join Nardwuar the Human Serviette is one of the biggest media personalities to come out of Canada. He’s a prolific interviewer with a knack for shocking his guests by bringing up little-known personal details about their lives during interviews. He’s an absurd figure beloved by hip hop stars. He’s a punk from Vancouver who has 100s of millions of views on YouTube...

Support us at canadalandshow.com/join Last week’s House Finance Committee hearings into the WE Charity scandal yielded few new insights into why the government awarded it a massive sole-source contract or how the organization itself operates. Thankfully, the press has continued to turn up information that MPs have not. Craig Silverman , media editor at BuzzFeed News, joins us to unpack the latest...

Support us at  canadalandshow.com/join The Kielburgers testified before the House of Commons finance committee, updates on the Nova Scotia shooting, and the plan for a Nazi colony in Cape Breton. 2020, am I right? Tim Bousquet co-hosts. This episode is sponsored by Willful and Rotman School of Management . Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy info...

Support us here: canadalandshow.com/join A new law in Alberta is Jason Kenney’s latest front in the oil war. Freelance journalist Grace Lisa Scott spoke to the people fighting back against Bill 1. CORRECTION: A previous version of this episode incorrectly identified Marlene Poitras. She is Assembly of First Nations Regional Chief for Alberta, not Grand Chief. We regret the error. This episode was...

Support us at  canadalandshow.com/join Jesse testified before the House of Commons Finance Committee about Canadaland's reporting on the WE organization, and, while accusing a Black person of anti-Blackness, The Globe and Mail itself has been accused of anti-Blackness. Andray Domise co-hosts. This episode is sponsored by Rotman School of Management and HelloFresh . Support CANADALAND: https://cana...

Support us here: canadalandshow.com/join Peter Aldhous reported that a Canadian lab’s prenatal paternity test was “ unreliable ." During the 18-month investigation, Aldhous found couples who'd been given results that turned out to be wrong. The lawsuit the lab launched against him lasted nearly ten years . This episode is brought to you by SquareSpace . Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/j...

Support us at  canadalandshow.com/join We have some questions about WE’s government contract and their internal accounting. And the story of how a Canadian media outlet suppressed assault allegations against Peter Nygard. Paul Wells co-hosts. This episode is sponsored by Dispatch , Willful , and HelloFresh . Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy in...

Support us here: canadalandshow.com/join It’s a scandal that could—but probably won’t—take down Justin Trudeau. After swearing otherwise, WE was forced to admit that it paid Justin's mom and brother more than $350,000 in speaking fees. It's triggered an ethics inquiry and a call for a criminal investigation. And all because Canadaland produced the receipts.  Jaren Kerr , Canadaland’s former deputy...

Support us at  canadalandshow.com/join The press seems to have given the Rideau Hall intruder the white glove treatment, and why on Earth did so many people sign that letter from Harper’s Magazine? Nora Loreto co-hosts. This episode is sponsored by FreshBooks . Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privac...

Support us at  canadalandshow.com/join At Canadaland, we really didn’t expect to find ourselves reporting on the WE organization again. But then it was the focus of the biggest politics story in the country, and we obtained a recording of a strange conversation between one of its founders and a person who was then a senior employee in the group’s Kenyan operations. Jesse sits down with our managin...

Support us at  canadalandshow.com/join The Globe and Mail is now 176 years old. You can read all about its accomplishments elsewhere. Writer Jamie Bradburn takes us through the paper's darker moments. You can read Jamie Bradburn’s full article for CANADALAND  here . This episode originally aired on March 4, 2019. Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join See omnystudio.com/listener for priva...

Support us here: canadalandshow.com/join Karl Dockstader and Sean Vanderklis , co-hosts of the radio show and podcast One Dish, One Mic , join Jesse to talk about the history of policing back to John A. Macdonald, the killing of Dudley George at Ipperwash in 1995, and how it has impacted their lives as Indigenous men. Plus, Karl and Sean spoke with Senator Lillian Dyck about her call for RCMP Comm...

Support us at  canadalandshow.com/join Can you really be “cancelled” if you still have a platform? A look at Margaret Wente, Wendy Mesley, and the Mulroneys. And was the Nova Scotia shooter an RCMP informant? Desmond Cole co-hosts. This episode is sponsored by WealthBar and The New Yorker . Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted...

Support us here: canadalandshow.com/join Adrian Harewood is a news anchor at CBC Ottawa News and the host of weekly current affairs show, Our Ottawa . This episode is brought to you by WealthBar 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.

Support us at  canadalandshow.com/join Journalists across Canada are speaking out about their experiences with racism in the newsroom. And as Wendy Mesley is suspended from hosting duties, it’s time to reevaluate the language used in news meetings. Jan Wong co-hosts. This episode is sponsored by FreshBooks and HelloFresh . Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join See omnystudio.com/listener...

Support us at  canadalandshow.com/join Lord Tim Bell worked for a rogues' gallery of international clients, and co-founded one of the most powerful PR companies in history. But it all came crashing down when leaked emails exposed Bell Pottinger’s role in fomenting unrest in South Africa to distract from the Zuma government’s corruption. Richard Poplak and Diana Neille were on the team of journalis...

Support us here:  canadalandshow.com/join InfoLab imagined newspapers' transition from print to digital, creating multimedia digital news in the basement of The Hamilton Spectator back in the early '90s. Jesse talks to its former director, journalist  Wayne MacPhail , about what the InfoLab did, and why it shut down shortly after Conrad Black’s company bought the newspaper chain. This episode orig...

Support us here: canadalandshow.com/join Dr. Cheryl Thompson  is an assistant professor at Ryerson University’s School of Creative Industries, and the author of  Beauty in a Box: Detangling the Roots of Canada’s Black Beauty Culture .  She’s currently working on a new project about the history of blackface in Canada, and joins Jesse to tell us about her research.    This episode originally aired o...

$5/month for ad-free Canadaland: https://canadalandshow.com/join Protests have erupted around the world in response to police violence against Black people. Trump is violating the rights of his own people. Police are openly targeting and arresting journalists. Something has changed and Canadian media has failed in covering this historic moment. Sandy Hudson, co-founder of Black Lives Matter Canada...

Support us at canadalandshow.com/join The pandemic could be an "extinction event" for American newspapers and so their publishers want their own government bailout. Meanwhile Canadian papers want money from Google and Facebook, too. Jeff Jarvis lays out the problems with all that, and Cory Doctorow and Emily Bell suggest a better way: breaking up the tech giants. This episode is brought to you by...

“My biggest fear is that not enough will change, and not enough lessons will be learned.” Kim Campbell is a former Prime Minister of Canada, the first and only woman to hold the post to date. She lives in Vancouver. Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.