Short Cuts is a weekly media criticism show where our hosts talk shit about the news.

Short Cuts

Hosted by Jesse Brown and Jonathan Goldsbie

Each week we take you behind the headlines – bringing you expert analysis, heated opinion and thoughtful debate on the stories everybody is talking about and the ones they aren’t but should be.

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#889 Little Reich On The Prairie

Despite Danielle Smith’s involvement in numerous scandals, she won a majority in Alberta’s election. Albertan Dani Paradis helps us understand why.
June 1, 2023

#887 What, Me Inquiry?

The Special Rapporteur is back with a hotly anticipated release - No Public Inquiry!
May 25, 2023

#885 Poilievre on Drugs

Jesse Brown and co-host Manisha Krishnan dismantle a 10,000 word piece in the National Post claiming safe supply programs are killing people and fuelling a new opioid crisis.
May 18, 2023

#883 We Need to Talk About Kevin Vuong

Amidst escalating tensions between Canada and China, an independent MP thinks he’s found the shadowy hand manipulating his fate.
May 11, 2023

#881 Death of the Viral News Site

BuzzFeed is going bust and Vice is headed for bankruptcy - is it the end of viral news sites?
May 4, 2023

#879 Fox News Gets Tucker’d Out

From his perch at the top of the far-right ecosystem, Tucker Carlson regularly soaked up stories from Canada and half-jokingly called for forcible regime change here. But when it comes to demagogues who suddenly find themselves with time on their hands, even the half-jokes might merit another look
April 27, 2023

#877 CBC Is in a Fight for Its Life

We’re talking the CBC leaving Twitter after being labeled “government-funded media”, while Pierre Poilievre thanks Elon Musk for what he was already going to do. The real losers here are the Canadian public. 
April 20, 2023

#875 How to (Remotely) Blow Up a Pipeline

From Minecraft to statecraft, Jacobin’s Luke Savage joins Jonathan to chart the bizarre course of a U.S. intelligence leak with potentially explosive implications for Canada. And seemingly inspired by the Musk-fragrant “Twitter Files,” a Conservative MP went on a fishing expedition for examples of the Canadian government over-policing social media. Does turning up a single really solid instance count as a success?
April 13, 2023
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