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The Backbench
#62 Who Benefits From Public Safety?
This week Mattea Roach, is joined by Ziya Jones, Riley Yesno, and Frances Bula, to talk about public safety. A few weeks ago unhoused folks in Vancouver were met with displacement and decampment by police and bylaw officers. Who is this supposed solution meant for?
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#7 Canada Is Hoarding The Land
The landback movement isn’t just about getting land back. It’s more than that. It’s a reclamation of culture too.
Short Cuts
#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?
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BONUS: Cory Doctorow knows why monopolies are killing art
We’re bringing you Arshy’s full interview with Cory Doctorow, complete with all the nitty gritty details around how and why musicians continue to get screwed by Spotify, music labels, ticketmaster and more.
CANADALAND
#874 Cursed Rabbits
Today’s episode is about dead bunnies.
Short Cuts
#873 Danielle Smith’s ‘Perfect’ Phone Call
A story about criminal charges, a potential lawsuit against the press, leaked tape suggesting a huge overreach of power — could a certain populist politician have finally gone too far? We’re talking about Alberta Premier Danielle Smith. And enough is enough in Quebec — a defiant open letter in Le Devoir demanding an end to the toxicity in political discourse, signed by hundreds of scholars and writers.
The Backbench
#61 The Federal Budget: Betting on Clean Tech
It’s that time of the year again! Budget season… AND, the story about Chinese government influence just keeps getting even more complicated. This week Mattea Roach is joined by Murad Hemmadi, Nick Taylor-Vaisey and Stuart Thomson to unpack how the complex issue of government interference is being seized on by various parties, and how feasible Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland’s proposed budget is for this country’s future.
CANADALAND
#872 How To Catch Your Online Tormentor
We have laws against criminal harassment, but police rarely enforce them against Internet abusers. This is the story of one journalist who refused to let her harasser go…
Short Cuts
#871 The Han Dong Situation is Bad Either Way
Either Beijing has corrupted our democracy at the highest level or agents in the Canadian security apparatus are subverting the PMO by illegally leaking information that's either mistaken, exaggerated or both.
CANADALAND
#870 The Plan To Block All Canadian News
How Bill C-18, the Online News Act, will make news less available.