Canada’s Media Was Always Going To Dismiss Genocide Against Indigenous Women
The response to the MMIWG report shows Canada behaving exactly like the systemically racist, settler-colonial state it describes
June 13, 2019
By Danielle Paradis
Short Cuts
#216 The Word For This Is Genocide
The majority of our media is bending backward to avoid acknowledging Canadian genocide. Why? And Lindsay Shepherd travelled to Ottawa to complain about her weeklong Twitter ban: a look at the online hate hearings and the right's war on free speech.
June 6, 2019
Ginning Up Native Outrage
There are Indigenous people out there trying to get real issues covered, but the media just wants hear us rant about statues, mascots, and gin
March 1, 2019
By Robert Jago
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#199 The Sun Never Sets On The Netflix Empire
Is Netflix threatening Canadian culture through neo-imperialism? Never mind the copyright infringement, was the Conservative Party's Heritage Minute any good? And did the new Indigenous Languages Act accomplish anything?
February 7, 2019
Thunder Bay
Chapter 1: There Is A Town In North Ontario
Locals call it Murder Bay. It might be the most dangerous city for Indigenous youth in the world. But to others, it's their white nirvana. Host Ryan McMahon wants to know - not who killed all those kids, but what killed them. This is Thunder Bay.
October 22, 2018
OPPO
#2 Patrick Brown Goes Full Shitstorm
Patrick Brown’s apeshit strategy, Justin Trudeau promises Indigenous people a New Deal, and could Trump happen here?
February 19, 2018
Gerald Stanley And The Fear Of The “Indian”
In newspapers, films, TV, and books, white Canadians are taught to see Indigenous people as animals.
February 10, 2018
By Robert Jago
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#153 Paikin Care Of Business
Tina Fontaine and Colten Boushie: why must the news media disrespect and blame dead Indigenous kids? And the allegation against Steve Paikin: hmmm...
February 7, 2018
CANADALAND
The Imposter – I Pity The Country Part 1
This episode of The Imposter was featured alongside shows like The Heart and Radiolab as Constant Listener's best podcasts of the year.
December 27, 2017
THE IMPOSTER
Alanis Obomsawin: 85 Years of Resistance
Alanis Obomsawin is an Abenaki filmmaker who's been challenging Canada's image of itself for the last 50 years. And she got funding from the National Film Board to do it.