I Don't Speak Sports
It's clear that sports journalism is facing many of the same issues as other facets of the industry: declining ad revenues, job insecurities, and too much content vying for too few eyeballs. It also h...
5 Sep 201747min
Mommy, Where Do Feelings Come From?
Americans are debating the removal of monuments to problematic historical figures, so I guess we are too. Old folks don't want to hear sad stories about feelings on their CBC. Young folks do, apparen...
31 Aug 201736min
Ezra's Very Bad Week
It's been, to put it mildly, a shit week for Rebel Media's self-styled 'Rebel Commander' Ezra Levant: - Following the tragedy in Charlottesville last weekend, Rebel Media co-founder Brian Lilley, and ...
21 Aug 201755min
SHORT CUTS #130 - Rebel Meltdown
A growing list of contributors and politicians are cutting ties with far right website The Rebel after their coverage of the white nationalist protest in Charlottesville. Meanwhile, "Rebel commander"...
17 Aug 201738min
Bleeding Edge Outrage Meme Generators
The term 'fake news'has been popularized, bastardized, and now wholly appropriated. What was previously defined as 'A deliberate untruth published strictly for monetary or political gain,' has now com...
14 Aug 201755min
Arctic DNA
Joseph Boyden has emerged from his winter burrow like a collared lemming (it's an arctic mammal -- look it up!) to plug his forthcoming book weigh in again on questions of his Indigenous ancestry. Des...
10 Aug 201746min
Live From New York, It's CANADALAND
This week we present a podcast based on our stage show which was based on our book which was based on this podcast. Talk about coming full circle. In it: should you fuck your Prime Minister?; Why Ca...
31 Jul 201740min
MSM On FGM: WTF?
The Toronto Star built an entire exposé on female genital mutilation based predominantly around a mid-level civil servant's email from three years ago. Also, CBC Comedy is so unfunny it's funny. Or ...
27 Jul 201739min
