SHORT CUTS #94 - Stop Trying To Make Canadian Trump Happen
Conservative leadership candidate Kellie Leitch is leeching off Trump's brand. An outbreak of news coverage on Canadian racism. The RCMP offers super-secret docs to journalists. New Yorker, Rolling S...
17 Nov 201630min
Ep.159 - The Surveillance of Patrick Lagacé
La Presse journalist Patrick Lagacé tells all about why the Montreal police spied on him and other journalists, and why the free press is under attack.Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSe...
14 Nov 201630min
SHORT CUTS #93 - Hurt Me Right In The Democracy
The US election results are in and oh my God no. CSIS gets nailed for hoarding citizen metadata for years. CBC gets into the hot take business. VICE Canada features editor Justin Ling co-hosts. Justi...
10 Nov 201635min
Ep.158 - Tabloid!
Every day at 12:36pm, Marc Weisblott sends out his "tabloid" newsletter. Is he a cultural critic? A media visionary? Or just a crank?Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/l...
7 Nov 201633min
SHORT CUTS #92 - Cops Vs. Reporters
Montreal police tracked the phone of La Presse reporter Patrick Lagacé, who has been critical of the force in the past. The Heritage Ministry bumbles along in its inquiry into the future of media. CBC...
3 Nov 201642min
Ep.157 - The Occupation of Muskrat Falls
Justin Brake caught the nation's attention by broadcasting the peaceful protests of Muskrat Falls. And then he got served with a court injunction. What happens when journalists are treated as criminal...
31 Okt 201643min
SHORT CUTS #91 - Was Shad Set Up to Fail?
q has relaunched with a "tighter focus," hosted by CBC insider Tom Power, after Shad was recently ousted. Jesse responds to critics of his polemic in The Guardian, "Think Canada is a progressive para...
27 Okt 201635min
Ep.156 - The Media Disruptors
Is solutions-based journalism the future of Canadian news? Journalist Erin Millar is bringing back in-depth investigative journalism with her company Discourse Media as an antidote to clickbait journa...
24 Okt 201638min
