CANADALAND

A lot of Canadians lost their community news this week, after two news giants traded 41 newspapers and shut nearly all of them down. Postmedia CEO Paul Godfrey says he didn't know Torstar was plannin...

30 Nov 201739min

Gerard Ryle is the director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, who are behind the Paradise Papers, the Panama Papers and other similar investigations. Major revelations are...

27 Nov 201729min

A Master's student was reprimanded for showing her students a public TV clip of psychology professor/YouTuber Jordan Peterson explaining why he refuses to use people's preferred pronouns. Now the who...

23 Nov 201742min

Reporters Anna Merlan and Madeleine Davies were investigating and writing about Louis CK well before the New York Times story came out. And they faced a lot of criticism for it.  They join Jesse to ta...

20 Nov 201738min

Bill Morneau tries to turn down the heat through tales of his spicy past, CBC takes a stand for landlord rights and Jagmeet Singh tries out some slam poetry.   COMMONS co-host Hadiya Roderique joins J...

16 Nov 201737min

Is local media doomed? We speak to three entrepreneurs who are making a go of it with three very different models.   Dave Bidini publishes the West End Phoenix, a recently-launched, print-only monthly...

13 Nov 201747min

CBC's flagship TV newscast The National is revamped with a four-host format and released into the world. The Paradise Papers reveal what the Toronto Star calls a "worldwide shadow economy worth trill...

9 Nov 201745min

“Objectivity for the sake of objectivity often means make sure that the powerful always get their say. And sometimes Caesar shouldn’t have his say. Sometimes the truth is just true.”   As a foreign wa...

6 Nov 201736min