Wildfires are coming at us from all sides. How can local reporters get at the root issues?
June 8, 2023
CANADALAND
#890 Crime Pays, If You’re A Journalist
This week Jesse cross-examines poet turned investigative journalist, Michael Lista, on the business, craft, and morality of the true crime beat.
June 5, 2023
Short Cuts
#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
CANADALAND
#888 How To Save News Media From Our Tech Overlords
The ad tech giants, Meta, Google, and their ilk, are, well, giants. Is Cory Doctorow the David to this Goliath? Will his plan to take down the giants work?
May 29, 2023
Short Cuts
#887 What, Me Inquiry?
The Special Rapporteur is back with a hotly anticipated release - No Public Inquiry!
May 25, 2023
CANADALAND
#886 News Tropes And Moral Panic
The newspapers of the past looked very different than they do today: openly partisan stories were published alongside reports about Martians and the diseases caused by jazz music. It was a different time - or was it?
May 22, 2023
Détours
#13 Les deux conservatismes
Des feux de forêt font rage en Alberta alors qu’une élection provinciale est en cours. Emilie discute de l’état du conservatisme en Alberta, mais aussi la nouvelle génération d’intellectuels conservateurs au Québec avec Frédéric Boily, auteur et professeur de sciences politiques au Campus Saint-Jean de l’Université de l’Alberta.
May 20, 2023
Short Cuts
#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
Wag the Doug
#54 A Deep Dive Into Doug Ford’s Obsession with Smile Cookies
This month, Allison and Jonathan peer into Ford’s parallel fixations on law enforcement and cookies. To him, there isn’t a problem that one or the other (or both) can’t solve.
May 17, 2023
The Backbench
#64 Alberta’s Wildfires Meet an Even Wilder Election
A fiery election in Alberta. No, literally Alberta’s on fire this provincial election.