
COMMONS: The Rise of the Right
Journalist Evan Balgord has been covering fringe right groups like the Proud Boys, Soldiers of Odin, and the Three Percenters for the better part of the past year. He joins the COMMONS team to disc...
13 Heinä 201736min

Ep.191 - Revenge Porn
Ren Bostelaar posted nude pictures of women he knew to 4chan without their consent. He avoided a criminal record by apologizing and taking a peace bond. Was justice served? Is revenge porn legal in Ca...
10 Heinä 201740min

SHORT CUTS #126 - Child Soldiers, Proud Boys
With resistance to Canada150, Indigenous women calling out a reporter at a press conference, and the Proud Boys disrupting a Mi'kmaq ceremony in Halifax, the way people talk about our colonial history...
6 Heinä 201733min

Ep. 190 - Queer Media
Canada was once home to a small, but mighty collective of gay and lesbian newspapers and magazines that made up a radical alternative media. Over the last few decades now-defunct publications like Th...
3 Heinä 201734min

SHORT CUTS #125 - #Mansbridge150
The Toronto Star put the final nail in the coffin of Star Touch, its $20-30-million app for a device that most people don't have or use. And after praising themselves for its bold innovation, quietly...
29 Kesä 201746min

Ep. 189 - The Great Newspaper Bailout
After the release of the Public Policy Forum's Shattered Media report this past winter comes the latest beg for cash to prop up the newspaper industry. This one comes in the form of a request for a su...
26 Kesä 201743min

SHORT CUTS #124 - Quote Governor General Unquote
Governor General David Johnston issued a mea culpa over his radio interview in which he refers to Indigenous peoples as immigrants. Postmedia did not issue mea culpas for poorly-researched racist s...
22 Kesä 201741min

Ep. 188 - The Images Are Merciless
Iraqi photojournalist Ali Arkady thought he was documenting the "good guys" -- the non-sectarian forces fighting Daesh for the preservation of Iraq. Instead, Arkady witnessed abuse, torture, and murd...
19 Kesä 201733min



















