Pierre Poilievre’s patriotic pivot. 

At his “Canada First” rally, Pierre Poilievre unveiled his new messaging, but will it be enough to counter his sudden decline in the polls? 

Dani Paradis joins to assess the Pierre 3.0 rebrand. 

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Sam Konnert (Fact Checking), max collins (Director of Audio), Jesse Brown (Editor)

Guest: Dani Paradis

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The $6 million lawsuit that killed an indie Alberta podcast. 

Nate Pike’s The Breakdown has been covering allegations of corruption in Danielle Smith’s government until a court order forced him to shut down. 

Plus, how Donald Trump Jr. hooked Canada’s premiers up with an $85 000 a month lobbying contract.

Host: Jesse Brown

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Jagmeet Singh has taken a lot of shit: his nice watch, his ambivalence on taking down the Liberals, and of course his polling. But he says he’s not giving up. He says he’s here to win.

Sit down with Noor as she goes past the “corporate interest” talking points and grills the leader on all things NDP. Why doesn’t he have a successor? Why won’t he step down? Why is he so fancy for a lefty?

Host: Noor Azrieh

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Senior Producer), Sam Konnert (Producer), Noor Azrieh (Host/Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Max Collins (Director of Audio) Jesse Brown (Editor), Tony Wang (Artwork)

Guests: Jagmeet Singh

Background reading:

• #115 Did Jagmeet Singh Miss His Big Chance? - CANADALAND
• Get ready for an early federal election, NDP tells candidates in an internal memo – CBC News
• Jagmeet Singh's NDP is in deep trouble – National Observer
• Singh says he will bring down government in March but wants to pass Trump tariff relief first – CBC News

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The documentary Russians at War shows the invasion of Ukraine from the point of view of Moscow's troops. The doc was supposed to screen during the Toronto International Film Festival, but organisers cancelled a screening amid protests and over threats to festival operations and public safety.

A large part of the film’s funding came through TVO, Ontario's public broadcaster. The filmmaker is a Russian-Canadian, Anastasia Trofimova, who once worked for Russian state-funded broadcaster RT. Trofimova made the film while living with front-line Russian troops for seven months.

How exactly did she do that? Not without the consent of the Russian army, one would assume.  We are told again and again that Russia controls one of the most sophisticated misinformation, disinformation, propaganda machines the world has ever known. 

Russia is in our algorithms, spreading fake news and skewing our elections. So, clearly, this Anastasia Trofimova is not somebody who we should be handing large sums of Canadian public money to so that she can tell us a story of sympathy for Russian troops.

But what actually happened here? Is this a story about Russian propaganda or is it really a tale of Canadian censorship? Those questions are tackled when Jesse sits down with the producers of Russians at War and its director, filmmaker and journalist, Anastasia Trofimova.

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), max collins (Director of Audio), Jesse Brown (Editor and Publisher)

Guests: Cornelia Principe, Sean Farnel, Anastasia Trofimova

Fact checking by Sam Konnert

Further reading:

• Statement regarding TIFF’s decision to screen Russian propaganda — Ukrainian Canadian Congress
• TIFF suspends screening of film on Russian soldiers after threats — CBC
• TIFF turfs controversial documentary — CBC, Metro Morning

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Somebody That I U.S. to Know.

Jan Wong joins for a special Valentine’s Day farewell to the Canada-US romance. 

Plus, is PornHub ethical? 

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor), Sam Konnert (Fact Checking), max collins (Director of Audio), Jesse Brown (Editor)

Guest: Jan Wong

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Is there order to Trump’s tariff chaos?

Jan Wong joins to discuss steel and aluminum tariffs, and whether Trump has a plan behind his bullying and bluster. 

Plus, whatever happened with the inquiry into foreign interference in our elections? 

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Sam Konnert (Fact Checking), max collins (Director of Audio), Jesse Brown (Editor)

Guest: Jan Wong

Further reading: 

• Carson Jerema: Donald Trump's America is a superpower without a purpose | National Post
• Anil Wasif: The real reason for Donald Trump’s tariffs - The Hub
• Don't Believe Him | The Ezra Klein Show [YouTube] 
• Diaspora groups criticize Justice Hogue report on foreign interference - The Globe and Mail 
• Sewer fatberg of ‘grease and rags’ forces Bryan Adams to cancel Perth concert | Western Australia | The Guardian 

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The government hired 110,000 workers over the past 10 years, did we get 110,000 times more efficient? It doesn’t look like it, but veteran public servant Michael Wernick breaks it all down for Noor. 

And, yes folks, we’re talking about tariffs again, because Donald Trump enacted a 25 percent tariff on all steel and aluminum imports, with NO exceptions. Plus, our nominations for Fentanyl Czar, and the defamation case against Conservative Deputy Leader Melissa Lantsman, CIJA, and Ezra Levant.

Host: Noor Azrieh

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Senior Producer), Sam Konnert (Producer), Noor Azrieh (Host/Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Max Collins (Director of Audio) Jesse Brown (Editor), Tony Wang (Artwork)

Guests: Michael Wernick

Background reading:

• How a ballooning public sector is reshaping Canada’s economy - The Globe and Mail
• Attrition is the 'worst way' to shrink federal public service, says former clerk - Yahoo News
• Opinion: Canada can learn from Trump and cut its bloated bureaucracy - The Globe and Mail
• Poilievre says he wants to cut the federal public service, doesn't mind remote work - CBC News
• What does Justin Trudeau's departure mean for federal public servants? - CBC News

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McInnes and Goldstein both started in zines. The underground DIY magazine culture of the 80s and 90s. Zines were homemade photocopied pamphlets about anything and everything. As long as you had paper, glue, staples, maybe a few shitty drawings, and you could sneak access to a photocopier, you could publish your own zine.

Nobody went viral, nobody made money, no one was an influencer, but thousands of people devoted heart and soul to making their own zines. And when they did, well, who even cared? Who even noticed when some teenager shouted into the void? Broken Pencil noticed. Broken Pencil cared. For 30 years Broken Pencil was the magazine about zines and BP reviewed over 10,000 zines. 

And then last year Broken Pencil founder and publisher Hal Niedzviecki, shuttered BP. Hal joined us at Canadaland to tell us the story of Broken Pencil, the zine of zines.

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), max collins (Director of Audio), Jesse Brown (Editor and Publisher)

Guests: Hal Niedzviecki

Fact checking by Sam Konnert

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Poilievre’s slogans can’t compete with “Buy Canadian.” 

Trudeau’s speech inspires a groundswell of national unity, while Poilievre watches from the sidelines. The Tyee’s Jen St Denis joins Noor Azrieh for a vibe check on federal politics.

Host: Noor Azrieh

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Guest: Jen St Denis

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A tariff reprieve and the trade war that wasn’t. 

Trump’s tariff threats caused a frenzy of breaking news coverage, but can we really fault Canadian news outlets for reporting Trump’s every move? 

Jen St. Denis of the Tyee joins Noor Azrieh to assess the breathless tariff coverage and what we’ve learned so far about covering Trump 2.0. 

Host: Noor Azrieh

Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor), Sam Konnert (Fact Check), max collins (Director of Audio), Jesse Brown (Editor)

Guest: Jen St Denis

Further reading: 

• Trump and Trudeau make a deal: Canada-U.S. trade war delayed by ‘at least 30 days’ 
• What is Trump's tariff endgame? | Front Burner | CBC Podcasts | CBC Listen 
• The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover | WIRED 
• Tariff reprieve a result of 'depraved' Trump tactics: Former U.S. treasury secretary | CBC.ca [VIDEO]
• The Walrus Launches Six Regional Bureaus to Tell Canada’s Local Stories - The Walrus 
• Journalist Who Uncovered Karla Sofía Gascón’s Racist Tweets Explains Why She Looked for Them: ‘I’m Not a Studio Plant’ - Variety 

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