Ep.30 - Canadian Television Is Doomed
The CRTC is unbundling cable channels, but in 5 years will anyone subscribe to cable TV anyhow? If we don't, who will fund Canadian TV and film? Insights from George Burger, a veteran of the Canadian ...
28 Apr 201444min
Ep.29 - Why Won't The CBC Defend Itself?
The CBC is being systematically disassembled, but its employees can't or won't speak up for it and make the case for public broadcasting. Anshuman Iddamsetty is a former CBC producer. These days he ho...
21 Apr 201437min
Ep.28 - What Only The Press Knows About Rob Ford
Robyn Doolittle and Jonathan Goldsbie talk about unreported smells and Rob Ford's mastery of modern media. Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inform...
14 Apr 201445min
Ep.27 - The End Of Internships
The Walrus and Toronto Life were investigated by the Labour Ministry and forced to send their unpaid interns home. A wider crackdown on magazine internships and unpaid internships in general is on the...
7 Apr 201435min
Ep.26 - What Is Happening At The Globe And Mail?
Top writers and editors have fled, Editor-in-Chief John Stackhouse was shockingly ousted. No-one at the paper is willing to talk about it on the record. Former Globe editor, journalism professor Ann R...
31 Mars 201437min
Ep.25 - How Canada's Spies Game The Media
CSEC is shadier than the NSA. Nobody really knows what they are doing, including the Ministers who empower them and the judges who grant them warrants. They spy on Canadians and lie to the press and t...
24 Mars 201436min
Ep.24 - The Notorious P.K.P.
Pierre Karl Peladeau is an old-fashioned Media Baron, fully controlling much of the music, publishing, and news industries in Quebec. As journalist Martin Patriquin tells it, he is also a vindictive a...
17 Mars 201429min
Ep.23 - Why Food Trends Are For Idiots
The Black Hoof made Toronto a hip restaurant town, and its imitators pop-up every week, all across Canada. Owner Jen Agg shares good wine and strong opinions about food culture, food trends and food m...
10 Mars 201432min
