
Ep. 193 - Summer Dump
We revisit a couple of stories that we haven't been able to follow up on to the level to which we'd hoped. At least not on the website, where our News Editor Jonathan Goldsbie makes the ultimate call ...
24 Jul 201743min

SHORT CUTS #127 - Shopping Khadr to Fox News
The Conservative Party takes their latest wedge issue to the US media, a Quebec town won't let Muslims bury their dead and Trudeau lays out some hot summer jams. BuzzFeed's Elamin Abdelmahmoud co-ho...
20 Jul 201735min

Ep.192 - 15 Years Covering Omar Khadr
When the vitriol started to fly over Omar Khadr's $10.5 million settlement and apology from the government, Michelle Shephard got frustrated with just how much people were getting the basic facts wron...
17 Jul 201742min

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 Jul 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 Jul 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 Jul 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 Jul 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 Jun 201746min



















