Archives: Episodes

#79 The Food Bank Industrial Complex

December 12, 2023

We’re bringing you a special episode from the Canadaland feed.  

#944 The Journalists’ Psychiatrist

December 11, 2023

What was the mystery illness that sent a young woman into Dr. Anthony Feinstein’s treatment room? How did her stroke-like symptoms lead to a whole new field of psychiatric study? What does it have to do with journalists working in conflict zones?

#27 Catherine Dorion, celle qui dérange

December 9, 2023

L’artiste et ancienne députée de Québec solidaire Catherine Dorion publie son livre Les têtes brûlées le mois dernier. Elle se joint à Emilie pour discuter de l’état des médias et de la politique dans la belle province. Un échange sincère entre deux femmes de Québec qui dérangent.

#943 Newspocalypse Now

December 7, 2023

CBC makes huge cuts – with plans to eliminate 600 positions. Is it time for a good hard look in the mirror to figure out what its future could look like?

CULTS 8 – The Eye of the Pyramid

December 6, 2023

MLMs have become such a ubiquitous part of North American life that their tenets are rarely ever questioned.

#942 How Canada Became An International Joke

December 4, 2023

What is going on with Canada’s international relations? With all the recent stories about India and the Two Michaels time in China coming to the front again, reporter Sam Cooper helps break it all down.

#941 Danielle Smith’s Edge of Sovereignty

November 30, 2023

Danielle Smith’s Sovereignty Act is like trying to get away with amending the Constitution via a hastily-scrawled Post-it note, flimsily affixed while no one’s looking.

Is Jesse a Zionist? (editorial)

November 29, 2023

Canadaland publisher Jesse Brown has been asked to stop talking about antisemitism.

CULTS #7 – Hey #Bossbabe!

November 29, 2023

Nearly 1.4 million Canadians and almost 50 million Americans are involved in multi-level marketing.

#78 Roots of Tension in Canada’s Israel-Palestine Discourse

November 28, 2023

In Canada, the political discourse on the news coming out of Israel and Palestine has given Backbench host, Mattea Roach, some “serious whiplash.”