(Short Cuts) Pierre Poilievre: The Anti-Trudeau
How Pierre Poilievre cultivated his attack-dog charm. And should we care about what the new CEO of the Toronto Star tweets? Jen Gerson co-hosts. Links:Pierre Poilievre's promo videoToronto Star CEO tw...
21 Huhti 202232min
(CANADALANDBACK) Landback, Then What?
Is it Indigenous stewardship ownership or is it becoming just another holographic bumper sticker? What does Landback mean to you, and to your nations and homelands? And is there room for settlers in t...
18 Huhti 202246min
(Short Cuts) Greasy Alberta
Welcome to AlbertaLand, where it's cold and greasy. And how the media is bored with the sixth wave. Dani Paradis co-hosts. Links:Canadian Press article re: Jonathan DenisCBC article re: Jason KenneyCA...
14 Huhti 202235min
Google And Facebook To The Rescue: Canadian News Gets On Big Tech’s Payroll
Canada is two years into a news media bailout that was lobbied hard for by the country's newspapers. As it turns out the money that's flowed has had uneven impacts on the industry. And last week the O...
11 Huhti 202242min
(Short Cuts) The Ukraine War Correspondent In Edmonton
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 BuchaRadio-Canada piece re:...
7 Huhti 202244min
"We Are Not The Journalism Police" – An Interview With The Journalism Police
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 h...
4 Huhti 202243min
(Short Cuts) We Will Never Know The Truth About Portapique
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 ...
31 Maalis 202232min
#MeToo On Trial
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 allegati...
28 Maalis 202237min
