#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.
May 16, 2023
canadaLANDBACK
#8 Hearts And Minds
Host Karyn Pugliese, producer Kim Wheeler, contributors Trina Roache and Cara McKenna reflect on the season, and - wait for it - Karyn and Jesse argue about whether or not journalism can change the hearts and minds of people.
May 15, 2023
Short Cuts
#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
CANADALAND
#882 Blackberry The Phone The Podcast
For nearly a decade, Research in Motion was the global leader in smartphones with its iconic QWERTY-keyboard-having Blackberry. Through a mix of guerilla marketing and an unexpected boost in sales after 9/11, the rather simplistic email device was transferring some of the world’s most closely guarded secrets, from government officials, business leaders, and celebrities through some servers in Waterloo, Ontario. What was the cause of its demise? The iPhone? Google? Hubris?