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As provinces fail spectacularly to control the third wave of the pandemic, is the press adequately holding them to account, or making things worse? And what are the ethics of publishing a a picture of a nude MP accidentally caught on Zoom?Freelance journalist Justin Ling co-hosts. This episode is supported by Our Darkest Day, Squarespace, and Freshbooks.Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Filmmaker Daniel Lombroso spent four years following Lauren Southern, Richard Spencer, and Mike Cernovich with a camera, as their stars rose and the bigotry and xenophobia they championed went mainstream.The result is White Noise, a feature-length documentary produced by The Atlantic.And though they're less prominent these days, and we might be eager to forget about Southern, Spencer, Cernovich and their alt-right acolytes, Lombroso warns us that we do so at our peril.This episode is brought to you by Dispatch, Our Darkest Day, and Article. Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

GraceLife Church and Montreal riots against public health directives had us wondering why mainstream narratives about vaccine hesitancy focus so much on racialized communities. And journalists are officially hella tired. Freelance journalist Fatima Syed and Torstar Editor Evy Kwong co-host.Further reading:Evy's piece to combat vaccine hesitancy hereStatCan's report on Canadian populations' vaccine willingness hereTorstar's Investigation on more mining contracts in Grassy Narrows hereMore on the Canadian government tracking UFOs hereErica Lenti's Maclean's piece on pandemic burnout here (The Reuters Institute study is here)Darren Calabrese's full Instagram Live here This episode is supported by Kilne, Squarespace, Dispatch Coffee and HelloFresh.Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Landlord Credit Bureau lets landlords review their tenants and report their payment habits. The information is shared with other landlords, and it can damage a tenant's credit rating.But is that legal?In the midst of the pandemic, Hamilton resident Joey Nicol and her partner found they'd been signed up for the Landlord Credit Bureau by their landlord. Fearing eviction, they started to investigate.Jesse speaks with Nicol about her family's experience. Then he talks to MPP Jessica Bell, housing critic for the Ontario NDP, and to privacy lawyer David Fraser.This episode is brought to you by the Rotman School of Management, Dispatch, and Magic Spoon.Additional music by Audio Network.Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

An uprising of frontline workers forces change to COVID policies. And with a major merger in the works, a telecom giant makes the case that less competition is good for Canada. Freelance journalist Nora Loreto co-hosts.This episode is brought to you by Dispatch Coffee, Kilne, and Squarespace.Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Restaurants have struggled badly during the pandemic.But food writer Suresh Doss takes us to a parking lot, a subway stop, and a home cook's kitchen to show us a thriving underground food scene.This episode first aired on September 20,  2020.It is brought to you by Our Darkest Day, Pandemic University and Article.Additional music by Audio Network.Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

CBC puts an end to Randy Bachman's Vinyl Tap after just 16 years of self-indulgent, uninspiring radio. What will take its place? And it turns out one of the reporters who's most friendly to Doug Ford is in a relationship with the Premier's director of media relations.Fucked Up singer and Turned Out A Punk host Damian Abraham co-hosts.Read Jonathan Goldsbie's piece about Brian Lilley and Ivana Yelich here.CORRECTION: In the episode, we refer to Ivana Yelich as Premier Doug Ford's press secretary. That was her former title. She is currently Ford's director of media relations.This episode is brought to you by the Rotman School of Management, Squarespace, Kilne and Magic Spoon.Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A site called SeaWestNews describes Alexandra Morton as “BC's loudest anti-salmon farming activist,” and her writing as “rambling” and “conspiracy-laden.”Originally a whale biologist from California, Morton was shocked into activism when her research revealed the devastating results of industrialized salmon farming.Since then, she's been subject to attack campaigns meant to discredit her, intimidated by sea Mounties, and surveilled by armed operatives in boats with tinted windows. And she's exposed the salmon industry's influence on the government department meant to protect the oceans.It's all documented in her book, Not on My Watch: How a renegade whale biologist took on governments and industry to save wild salmon.This episode is brought to you by the Rotman School of Management, Kilne and FreshBooks.Additional music by Audio Network.Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Are stories about vaccine efficacy doing more harm than good? And Canadian politicians are following a road paved by Trump, singling out critics for scorn. Montreal Gazette health reporter Aaron Derfel co-hosts.This episode was brought to you by Dispatch Coffee, Pandemic University, Squarespace, and HelloFresh.Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The culture war icon is back with a new bestseller. We revisit our examination of Jordan Peterson the media phenomenon, which asks how an obscure Canadian psychology professor rose to international stardom.This episode is brought to you by Pandemic University, Cullen's Foods, and FreshBooks.It first aired on February 5, 2018.Additional music by Audio Network.Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What's the best way to cover allegations of sexual misconduct in the Canadian Armed Forces - or just generally, really? And the Alberta government has some harsh words for an animated Bigfoot movie.  Freelance journalists Fatima Syed and Maggie Rahr co-host.This episode is brought to you by the Rotman School of Management, Squarespace, Athletic Brewing, and Kilne.Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ari Ben-Menashe has been an Israeli spy, sold weapons to Iran, survived a firebombing, and been the target of at least one RCMP investigation. He crossed paths with Jeffrey Epstein. And he's worked for Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, Libya's Khalifa Haftar, and Sudan's Transitional Military Council.Ben-Menashe runs the lobbying firm Dickens & Madson (Canada), based Montreal.And on March 5th, it was reported that he'd been awarded a US$2 million contract to lobby the U.S. and other governments on behalf of the military generals in Myanmar who seized power in a coup on February 1st.Julian Pecquet broke that story for his site ForeignLobby.com, and he tells Jesse what he knows about Ben-Menashe, his source.Then Jesse talks to Ari Ben-Menashe himself.This episode is brought to you by Hover, CFUV 101.9, and Article.Additional music by Audio Network.Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

HuffPost Canada is dead. The Ryerson School of Journalism faces a crisis. And a very serious, important conversation about Dr. Seuss.The Nation's national affairs correspondent Jeet Heer co-hosts.This episode is brought to you by the Rotman School of Management, CFUV, Squarespace, Theatre Passe Muraille and HelloFresh.Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A Haitian senator's wife paid $4.25 million—all money down—for a house in Laval, Quebec. Meanwhile in Haiti, people have been protesting against corruption, kidnapping, and a president who they say is over-staying his term in office. How do we talk about Haiti without reproducing unhelpful tropes and stereotypes?Vélina Elysée Charlier, an activist with Nou Pap Dòmi, joins us from Port-au-Prince to explain why Haitians are taking to the streets.Canadaland's French-language media correspondent Emilie Nicolas breaks down how these events are resonating in Montreal's Haitian community, and discusses how Canadian media should report on Haiti to avoid facile and racist clichés.Then Ottawa-based activist Jean Jafrikayiti Saint-Vil makes the case for why doing that work is so vital.This episode was brought to you by Dispatch and Kilne.Additional music by Audio Network.Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Torstar gets into the gambling business. Americans get caught up on the WE scandal. And documents suggest Canada's two major newspaper chains traded notes on shutting down each others' papers before they swapped them. The Tyee's tech and privacy reporter Bryan Carney co-hosts.Further reading:Read Bryan's full story here on the Torstar Postmedia correspondence here.This episode is brought to you by Rotman School of Management, Squarespace, Athletic Brewing, and Manscaped.Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In February, as the Australian government prepared to introduce a link tax, Facebook blocked all news from its Australian platform.  The new legislation, lobbied for by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp and other big media organizations, would have forced Facebook and Google to pay them each time their content is shared online. Facebook's strong-arm tactic forced the government to amend the legislation, potentially exempting Facebook altogether if it cuts its own deals with news organizations.  In return, Facebook reversed the news ban. Everyone seems happy now…except for smaller independent publishers who are still not sure exactly how they fit into this picture.The Canadian government is also talking about imposing a link tax, as well as other plans to regulate online media that go well beyond Australia's contentious legislation.Worried about what the future has in store, Jesse talks to Susannah George. She's the founder and CEO of Urban List, a lifestyle site and Australia's biggest independent digital media company.And he speaks with Michael Geist, Internet law professor at the University of Ottawa, about the Canadian policy measures up for discussion and what they might mean for us.This episode was brought to you by Kilne, Freshbooks and Article. Additional music by Audio Network.  Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Canada's vote to call China's treatment of Uyghurs a genocide exposes an online wave of China apologists on the far left. And the New York Times brings back Cortland Cronk in an attempt to prove that Canadians are actually not very nice.Author and retired journalist Jan Wong co-hosts.This episode is brought to you by The Rotman School of Management , Athletic Brewing, HelloFresh and SquareSpace.Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

LifeSiteNews may be the biggest Canadian news outlet you've never heard of — a kind of Breitbart for traditionalist Catholics. A new investigation published by the Canadian Anti-Hate Network shows how LifeSite, which has its roots in an anti-abortion lobby group, has grown. It's become a megaphone for an anti-LGBTQ+ movement. And as it has collided with the far-right infosphere, it has platformed anti-Muslim, anti-Semitic and white nationalist voices, and embraced Trumpism and QAnon.CAHN investigator Hazel Woodrow joins Jesse to talk about her report.This episode was brought to you by Hover, Kilne and Freshbooks.Additional music by Audio Network.Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Canadian media have lost the plot around the vaccine rollout. And a Montreal-based website makes the list of COVID-19 conspiracy theory superspreaders.Globe and Mail health columnist André Picard co-hosts.This episode is brought to you by Dispatch Coffee, Squarespace, Kilne and Manscaped.Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michelle Latimer was the buzziest Canadian director and showrunner of 2020. Her documentary Inconvenient Indian premiered at TIFF and reaped plaudits and awards. Her series Trickster, based on a novel by Eden Robinson, debuted on the CBC and was slated for a second season. But it all came crashing down in December when a CBC investigation called into question Latimer's Indigenous identity claims.Why does the Canadian cultural establishment make darlings of figures like Latimer? Ryan McMahon joins Jesse to discuss. Then documentary filmmaker Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, who is featured in Inconvenient Indian, considers the ethics and responsibility of storytelling, and why this controversy has been hurtful to so many Indigenous people.And Steven Lonsdale, whose seal hunt Latimer filmed for Inconvenient Indian, explains what he'd like to see done with that footage now that the documentary has been pulled from distribution. Correction: In this episode, Jesse says that author Eden Robinson has promised to donate all future author royalties from the Trickster books to the Haisla Language Authority. In fact, Robinson has promised to donate future income from the Trickster TV series to the Haisla people.Clarification: In an earlier version of this episode, Jesse said, “The CBC dug in to census records that say Latimer's grandfather was not Indigenous or Métis, as [Latimer] had claimed, but French-Canadian,” a formulation that erroneously and unintentionally implied that the Métis are not Indigenous. We have amended the episode to remove this implication.This episode is brought to you by the Rotman School of Management, Kilne, Athletic Brewing and Article.Additional music by Audio Network.Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our digital worlds are collapsing. Jon Kay is on Fox News complaining about Seth Rogen, while celebrities are sharing the stage with normal people on Clubhouse to talk about ramen. What is Clubhouse anyway? And why did China ban it? Plus, a student journalist files a human rights complaint against his school paper, claiming they fired him over his Catholic beliefs. Freelance writer Roger Huang co-hosts.This episode is brought to you by Rotman, Kilne, Manscaped and HelloFresh.Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Indian government doesn't take criticism lightly, whether it's from Prime Minister Trudeau... or Rihanna. Baaz co-founder Jaskaran Sandhu breaks down why thousands of Indian farmers are camped out around Delhi, their connection to the Sikh and Punjabi diaspora here in Canada, and how his three-week-old newsletter plans to cover it.This episode is brought to you by the Rotman School of Management, Kilne, Athletic Brewing, and SquareSpace. Additional music by Audio Network. Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Reddit did not actually stand up to Wall Street and prove the power of the little guy. Jon Kay briefly sparks joy. The Canadian government is working to radically transform the internet and Facebook wants in. Maclean's contributing editor and partner at the Rezistans Nwa podcast network Andray Domise co-hosts.This episode was brought to you by McMaster University, Cullen's Beans, Athletic Brewing and Freshbooks.Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The New York Times' wildly popular podcast Caliphate came into question after its central character, a Canadian man who claimed he'd joined ISIS and committed executions, was charged with perpetrating a terrorist hoax. A re-investigation of the podcast by The Times concluded that, according to an editor's note attached to the podcast, “episodes of Caliphate that presented Mr. Chaudhry's claims did not meet our standards for accuracy.” The debacle caused Rukmini Callimachi, the reporter and voice of Caliphate, to be reassigned to a new beat. And it has resurfaced allegations of workplace misconduct by Caliphate producer Andy Mills, provoked concerns about The Daily host Michael Barbaro's efforts to shape coverage of the fallout, and set off a wider conversation about who gets to tell stories in podcasting.In this episode, Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple discusses where Caliphate went wrong. Laila Al-Arian, executive producer of Al Jazeera's Fault Lines, critiques the reporting biases she believes contributed to the error.  Then, podcast host Jolenta Greenberg weighs in on what this episode tells us about the rise of the podcast industry.When asked for comment by Canadaland, The New York Times pointed us to this letter from assistant managing editor Sam Dolnick, written in response to a letter of complaint by members of the Public Radio Program Directors Association. In it, Dolnick writes: “We believe we've handled what was a significant journalistic lapse with accountability.”This episode is brought to you by Dispatch Coffee, SquareSpace, and Article. Additional music by Audio Network. Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sponsored messaging from Alberta says climate journalists are helping to stage a covert revolution. And media empires strike back to protect their own. CANADALAND contributing editor Danielle Paradis co-hosts.References:Statement from the Canadian Association of Journalists condemning Alberta for discrediting climate journalistsThe full 133-page Nemeth Report: A New Global Paradigm: Understanding the Transnational Progressive Movement, the Energy Transition and the Great Transformation Strangling Alberta's Petroleum IndustryAdditional music:John Dischler's The UnknownSad trombone via Benboncan on Freesound This episode is brought to you by Hover, 18.8 Gin & Vodka and HelloFresh.Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Comics journalist Joe Sacco tells Jesse about how he draws stories out of people— then draws them onto the page. Most famous for his journalistic comics about people living in war zones from Gaza to the Balkans, Sacco's newest book Paying the Land took him to the Northwest Territories. He visited Dene communities to ask for their views on resource extraction on their land, and found that he had to portray it in the context of the complicated history of colonialism, its effects on these Indigenous people, their culture, and how they see their future.This episode is brought to you by McMaster University, 18.8 Gin & Vodka, and Dispatch Coffee.Additional music by Audio Network.Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Reporter Ahmar Khan tried to blow the whistle on systemic racism at CBC... and they fired him. Maclean's publishes a big, powerful list. Ryan McMahon guest co-hosts with Ryerson journalism professor and former APTN news boss Karyn Pugliese.References:More details about Ahmar Khan's caseCanadian Journalists Anti-Racism Coalition statement in support of Ahmar KhanMore information on Indigenous journalist Kyle Edwards being selected to be a Nieman fellow for his reporting on Indigenous resilience during COVID-19The Maclean's Power List itselfThis episode is brought to you by 18.8, McMaster University, Freshbooks, and Squarespace.Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Many people who broke into the Capitol broadcast their crimes across social media. Twitter, Facebook and other platforms responded by deleting accounts, but other people rushed to preserve and organize all their posts from the assault on the Capitol, as well as photos and videos from journalists present. The collective Bellingcat uses open-source intelligence to investigate events around the world. Their training director Aric Toler tells Jesse how they work. Then, Kurt Phillips used what he found on social media and internet forums to unmask racist Canadian groups for more than a decade on his blog Anti-Racist Canada. He tells Jesse about the trends he's seen in the Canadian hate movement and how his own identity was made public last year. This episode is brought to you by Dispatch Coffee, Cullen's Foods, and Article. Additional music from Audio NetworkSupport CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Premiers activate shitty dad mode. And tech companies clamping down on Trumpism could have unintended consequences.CANADALAND's new French language media correspondent Emilie Nicolas co-hosts.This episode is brought to you by Dispatch Coffee, Squarespace, Manscaped and HelloFresh Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With COVID-19 cases in many parts of Canada on the rise, what about the people who can't stay home? The Toronto Star's labour reporter Sara Mojtehedzadeh has found that workplaces are a “major source” of transmission, and precarious work is helping the spread.This episode is brought to you by 18.8 and FreshbooksAdditional music by Audio Network.Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A pro-Trump mob invades the U.S. Capitol building, the hunt continues for Canadian politicians who ignored COVID travel advisories and we reflect on whether Julian Assange has gotten a raw deal from the press.Jen Gerson joins us with a special announcement.This episode is brought to you by Dispatch Coffee and SquarespaceSupport CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In rural communities and in the North, people pay ridiculously high bills for ridiculously slow Internet.But decent Internet access isn't a luxury.  Lower Internet speed equals lower access, lower opportunity and lower status in just about every aspect of modern life. And while the digital divide isn't new, the pandemic has widened it, leaving people from Iqaluit to rural Alberta and Ontario frustrated and fuming at ISPs like Xplornet.Sula Greene reports.Music by Thomas Lambe, aka 666God.Additional music by Audio Network.This episode was brought to you by 18.8, Squarespace and Article.Correction (1/4/2021 at 9:55am EDT): Throughout this episode, the unit of measurement Megabits Per Second (Mbps) is incorrectly pronounced “megabytes” per second, which carries a different meaning.Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Here's an episode of the podcast Crackdown, hosted by Garth Mullins. In 2015, Crackdown editorial board member, Jeff Louden, was on morphine pills for his chronic pain. The medication allowed Jeff to find some stability and avoid Vancouver's increasingly dangerous drug market. But, when Jeff's doctor unexpectedly cut down his medication, he turned to the street to outrun dopesickness. Five years later, Garth Mullins investigates what happened to Jeff.  What can it tell us about North America's so-called “overprescribing crisis?” A free transcript of this episode is available here. Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A teenage boy and his friends start robbing banks in Toronto. A future Prime Minister is deported from Montreal. A Black Panther in Baltimore goes to prison for four decades. And the RCMP is split apart by the biggest scandal in the force's history.  At the heart of it all is one man. He calls himself the General. Featured in this episode: Ricky Atkinson, David Austin, Robin Philpot, Lennox Farrell, Gary Cristall To learn more: The Life, Crimes and Hard Times of Ricky Atkinson, Leader of the Dirty Tricks Gang by Richard Atkinson with Joe Fiorito Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex & Security in Sixties Montreal by David Austin  Ninth Floor by Mina Shum  Marshall Law: The Life & Times of a Baltimore Black Panther by Marshall “Eddie” Conway   Additional music from Audio NetworkSupport CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Stories of big news breaking when everyone else is on vacation.Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The holidays, as we know them, are cancelled. So we asked people to call Jesse and argue about... whatever, in the true spirit of this festive season.Featuring CBC Radio host Piya Chattopadhyay, 12:36 newsletter maker Marc Weisblott, journalist Kareem Shaheen, Maureen from Calgary, Simon from Toronto, and more.This episode is brought to you by Audible and Squarespace.Additional music by Audio Network.Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

They're lobster criminals, not lobster vigilantes. Does the CBC's President live in Brooklyn or just sleep there in a house she owns? And Brayden Bushby's verdict offers a moment to reflect on who deserves humanity. Former CAJ President Karyn Pugliese co-hosts.References:Here's MIT Technology Review's story on biased algorithms and Timnit Gebru getting fired: https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/16/1014634/google-ai-ethics-lead-timnit-gebru-tells-story/Here's our story on the President of the CBC living in Brooklyn: https://www.canadaland.com/the-president-of-the-cbc-lives-in-brooklyn/This episode is sponsored by 18.8 , the Urban Alliance on Race Relations, Wizard Pins, and HelloFresh. Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A Uyghur man imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay for years was released over a decade ago, after the U.S. decided he wasn't an “enemy combatant” after all. But Ayoob Mohammed can't reunite with his wife and two kids who live in Canada. According to our immigration authorities, he was a member of an elusive terror organization. Our producer Tiffany Lam reports.This episode is brought to you by Dispatch Coffee and Audible.Additional music by Audio NetworkSupport CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The New York Times says Canada needs to stand up against child exploitation on PornHub — but their columnist's suggestions could create new problems. And aliens are reportedly among us. This is no joke! NSFW reporter for The Daily Dot Ana Valens co-hosts.References: Read the aliens story in the Jerusalem Post and see the video of UFOs in the New York Times. This episode is brought to you by The Urban Alliance on Race Relations, Audible and 18.8.Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Westons might be Canada's Jeff Bezos, argues Vass Bednar, and not just because they're very rich.They own Loblaw, which is much more than a grocer. It's an insurance company, a bank, a medical cannabis company and a media company. When you put it all together, that amounts to the largest private ownership of data in Canada.Loblaw knows a lot about you. Isn't it time to learn more about them? Bednar is executive director of the Master in Public Policy at McMaster University, and writes the newsletter “regs to riches.”This episode was brought to you by the Urban Alliance on Race Relations, Squarespace, and Article.Additional music by Audio Network.Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A petulant sandwich slinger gets attention as restaurants struggle across the country. A Global News Radio host quits over threatening messages about herself and her baby, while the company says dealing with trolls is part of the job. Vice President of the Canadian Association of Journalists Fatima Syed co-hosts.Further reading:Turns out the Adamson BBQ's original location was never licensed to operate.This episode is brought to you by Dispatch, Audible and Hover.Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Last summer, allegations of sexual misconduct were levelled against prominent Iranian-Canadian artist Aydin Aghdashloo during Iran's #MeToo moment. More than a hundred powerful and influential Iranian men were called out for allegedly committing sexual harassment and rape. Journalist Farnaz Fassihi broke the Aghdashloo story for the New York Times, and she joins Jesse to talk about the allegations, as well as the context in which Iran's #MeToo movement is playing out. Then Soudeh Ghasemi, president of the board of the Iranian Canadian Congress, discusses why the Aghdashloo allegations have been slow to provoke a reaction in some sections of the Iranian-Canadian community.This episode is brought to you by Beer Canada, Audible and HelloFreshAdditional Music by AudioNetworkSupport CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A couple of Manitobans make a show of the media lying. Keean Bexte uncovers a socialist incubator. And copaganda tries out podcasting. Winnipeg-based freelance multimedia journalist Shannon VanRaes cohosts.This episode is brought to you by Dispatch, Audible, Beer Canada, and HelloFresh.References:Shannon duly noted this Narwhal article about double production at a Nunavut mine: https://thenarwhal.ca/nunavut-baffinland-mine-clyde-river-mayor/For the full video of Jordan Peterson crying over individualism, please visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvBm0ZUfe7I Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jesse speaks with the late Christie Blatchford, the notorious National Post columnist and court reporter who once called his work "another low-water mark in journalism."This episode was brought to you by Audible and Friday Sock Co.This episode originally aired on September 13, 2015.Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Addressing the drinking water crisis in First Nations communities is not rebuilding post-war Europe. And mandating Indigenous content on Canadian broadcasters could get baked into the Broadcasting Act.Return to Thunder Bay host Ryan McMahon and co-writer/reporter Jon Thompson take over in Jesse's absence. References:Chris Hannay's Globe and Mail piece on the updates to the Broadcasting Act can be found here.This episode is brought to you by Squarespace. Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's crowdfunding month! Support us: canadaland.com/join.Since we last spoke to Karl Dockstader and Sean Vanderklis about the occupation of a development site in Caledonia, Ontario known as 1492 Land Back Lane, tensions between land defenders and local authorities have flared. At the end of October, an Ontario Superior Court judge granted the developers a permanent injunction against the encampment. A violent confrontation between protesters and the OPP erupted. The One Dish, One Mic co-hosts return with an update from the site, and to explore why federal government inaction just makes things worse.After this episode was recorded, on Friday Nov. 13, 1492 Landback Lane issued a press release: “The Federal Government reached out to Land Defenders during the summer, as well as to the Six Nations Elected Council (SNEC) and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chiefs Council (HCCC) to begin discussions on a negotiations table, but have not updated their position for more than 50 days. Six Nations people continue to demand a real response to the situation from the Federal Government.” Later the same day, the office of Carolyn Bennett, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations, also released a statement. “Our government is committed to continuing to work collaboratively addressing Six Nations historical claims and land rights issues. (…) Federal government officials have been in regular communication with representatives of Six Nations Elected Chief and Council, Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chiefs Council and Ontario throughout this process with regard to our offer to meet. We look forward to meeting with the community at the earliest opportunity.”At the time of publication, no meeting or negotiation has been announced.Additional production support from Trevor TwiningThis episode was brought to you by Dispatch Coffee and Article.Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's crowdfunding month! Support us here: canadaland.com/join.Beware of the FANG! And how to cover Chinese infiltration — or anti-Chinese infiltration? Recovering journalist and media consultant Anita Li co-hosts.  This episode is brought to you by Audible and Manscaped.References:The Star article Anita is quoted in is here. The Star article Jesse is quoted in is here. If you're interested in listening to the parliamentary committee with Victor Ho, this is the session. (Victor Ho starts at 12:19:02.) Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's crowdfunding month! Support us: canadaland.com/join.The Brayden Bushby trial has once again raised some uncomfortable questions about how stories involving Indigenous people get reported by settler journalists. Jesse sits down with CBC's Jody Porter, whose recent essay for Maisonneuve touches upon her experiences reporting on "Indigenous issues" and how writing about other people's pain can be a way of hiding from your own.Additional music by Audio Network.This episode is brought to you by Dispatch Coffee and Hover. Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's crowdfunding month! Support us: canadaland.com/join.We may not know yet who won the U.S. election, but the results aren't reassuring.  At least some of the Canadian coverage was soothing. And Prime Minister Trudeau takes a stance on free speech — but only in French.Le Devoir columnist Emilie Nicolas co-hosts.This episode is brought to you by Audible and Hover.  Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's crowdfunding month! Support us here: canadaland.com/joinRebel News personality Keean Bexte is suing Canadaland for defamation.In this special “Publisher's Note” edition of the podcast, Jesse breaks down who's suing us, how we got here and what we're going to do about it.This episode was brought to you by Squarespace and Article.Additional music from Audio Network. Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.