Picture yourself driving north of Toronto into big-box suburban territory. You turn off into a little industrial parkade. There's a Keg, a Moxies, and then a stubby beige office building, six storeys high. In a fifth floor suite you will find Canso Investment Counsel Limited. Canso might be the most powerful media company that we have never talked about here at Canadaland.

And they may be one of the few companies in Canada that is still making serious money off of Canadian news companies. Who are they? Why do they keep bailing out dying Canadian legacy news companies? What do they expect in return? And what does it all mean for the news?

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Gemma Boothroyd (Reporter), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Jesse Brown (Editor and Publisher)

Fact checking by Julian Abraham

Additional music by Audio Network

More information:

• This might be the only company able to make money off Postmedia — The Globe & Mail
• Meet the Canadian Whose Claim to Postmedia Trumps GoldenTree's — Bloomberg
• Corus Entertainment Bondholders to Take Control in Debt-for-Equity Swap — Bloomberg
• Corus lenders revisit a well-worn restructuring path — The Globe & Mail
• Black Press emerges from creditor protection — CBC

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Poilievre’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week.

With MP Chris d’Entremont crossing the floor and MP Matt Jeneroux puzzling resignation, the Conservative caucus is scrambling. 

Plus, can the Liberals and NDP actually resonate with young Canadians? 

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Host: Noor Azrieh

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

Guest: Rachael Segal

Additional music by Audio Network

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We all have things that we’re experts in. They could be our jobs, they could be hobbies, they could be random bits of information you’ve gleaned from podcasts over the years. So then you find yourself sitting in your car, listening to somebody on the radio yap on about a topic and get it ALL WRONG.

Frustrating, for sure.

So today, we wanted to hear from you, what does the media get wrong about your area of expertise. And the lines were filled for the whole two hours. Here’s the best of it.

Host: Sam Konnert

Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Producer), Tony Wang (Executive Producer), max collins (Director of Audio), Jesse Brown (Publisher)

Photo: Unknown

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More information:

• Angry Inuk — National Film Board of Canada
• Almost three-quarters of Canadian troops are overweight or obese — Ottawa Citizen

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Carney’s much-anticipated budget is finally here. Will it trigger an election? 

Rachael Segal joins Noor Azrieh to unpack the “Christmas election” hysteria around the budget. Then, Sam Konnert reports on where the media, the CBC, and Eurovision fit into Carney’s plans.  

Host: Noor Azrieh

Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Jules Bugiel (Associate producer and Fact Checking) Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor), max collins (Director of Audio), Jesse Brown (Editor)

Guest: Rachael Segal, Sam Konnert

Additional music by Audio Network

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Last week, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith used the notwithstanding clause to shut down the teachers’ strike and force them back to work.

Why?

Host Sam Konnert talks with labour expert Jason Foster about how politicians are quietly learning from each other and testing limits. And he sits down with a teacher to talk about what it’s really like inside Alberta classrooms.

Plus:

• A Liberal Budget that might send us to the polls
• The Supreme Court controversially strikes down mandatory minimums for child porn offences
• And Pierre Poilievre is still Gen Z’s guy

Host: Sam Konnert

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: Jason Foster

Background reading:

• Striking Alberta teachers forced back to work by fast-tracked legislation, notwithstanding clause – CBC News
• Alberta premier responds to threat of broader labour action in call-in radio show – CTV News
• 'We're packed like sardines': Students walk out of their classes in support of Alberta teachers – Edmonton Journal 
• Ottawa urges Supreme Court to set limits on how provinces can override Charter – CBC News

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Is Trump’s crazy train an existential threat to Canada or an existential opportunity?

Cory Doctorow gave the world the concept of “ensh*ttification”. Doctorow’s doctrine says there is a gradual but inevitable process by which tech platforms go from marvelous and novel and exciting to, well, they go to sh*t. They get less useful and more spammy. Your Netflix library gets smaller while your monthly fee gets bigger. It gets harder to find the Google link you were looking for underneath all the sponsored links. Uber rates seem to always be set to surge pricing. 

The idea can be applied to Canada itself. For a long time we enjoyed bundled access to the U.S. cable package. We got access to their markets. We got military protection. We were along for the ride of globalization. All we had to do was play by their trade rules, their foreign policy expectations. We had to subscribe to their vision of the world.

But the beta test is over. Now that we are locked into their platform, introductory rates are no longer available. If we want to trade with them, it'll cost us. If we want a golden dome protecting us, it'll cost us. Even if we just want off the crazy train, it’ll cost us.

Can we unsh*ttify Canada?

Host: Jesse Brown

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

Featured guest: Cory Doctorow

Fact checking by Julian Abraham

More information:

• https://craphound.com/

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