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As Elon Musk rails against content moderation in a disastrous interview with Don Lemon, Jesse and Ivor Shapiro reconsider Canada’s new approach to online speech. 

Is the Online Harms Act as Orwellian as Margaret Atwood thinks it is? 

Also, immigration is coming up a lot in the news these days. Is the recent media discourse actually….mature?

Clarification: When Jesse reads from Bill C-63 Online Harms Act 17 he says "A person may, with the Attorney General's consent, lay an information before a provincial court judge if the person fears on reasonable grounds that another person will commit hate speech." He meant to say Section 17 "refers to existing parts of the criminal code that govern hate speech."

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor), André Proulx (Production Coordinator), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)

Guest: Ivor Shapiro  

Further reading: 

• Trudeau’s Orwellian online harms bill - The Spectator (UK)
• Margaret Atwood, Elon Musk call out Trudeau's 'Orwellian' hate speech legislation - National Post
• Finding a Way Forward for Jews and Palestinians in This Terrible Time [VIDEO] - Centre For Free Expression
• Infectious-disease scientist fired from Winnipeg laboratory surfaces in China - Globe and Mail
• We’re Falling Into Trump’s Trap… Again - Persuasion
• Immigration is making Canada's housing more expensive. The government was warned 2 years ago - CBC News
• International student charged after alleged voyeurism involving cellphone at U of T residence - CBC News

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Andy Mill’s is the co-creator of The New York Times ground-breaking podcast, The Daily, and before that worked on the equally inventive and critically acknowledged podcast Radiolab. He’s also one of the very few journalists to gain the trust of J.K. Rowling for his series The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling. Finally, he’s been the subject of critical reporting from Canadaland for his work on the Peabody Award winning series for The New York Times, Caliphate. That series was stripped of the Peabody and Mills himself was “cancelled” for a combination of the Caliphate controversy and a series of attacks on twitter for his past work-place behaviour.

It’s a rare opportunity to speak with someone with a CV like Mills’ and even rarer for Jesse to have the opportunity to come face to face with someone who has been the subject of intense scrutiny from Canadaland’s reporting.

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To learn more:

• Califail — CANADALAND
• Andy Mills’ Professional Website — Andy Mills
• Caliphate — The New York Times
• The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling — The Free Press
• New York Times Says ‘Caliphate’ Podcast Fell Short of Standards — The New York Times
• An Arrest in Canada Casts a Shadow on a New York Times Star, and The Times — The New York Times

Host: Jesse Brown 

Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Jonathan Goldsbie (News Editor), André Proulx (Production Coordinator), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)

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Alors que la guerre à Gaza fait rage, Emilie Nicolas et Raed Hammoud font le point sur la couverture de cette guerre dans le cadre de leur travail au sein de l'écosystème médiatique québécois. Raed évoque également le travail documentaire de longue haleine qu'il a réalisé afin de créer des liens entre des personnes de différentes parties du monde, notamment ses séries documentaires T'es où, Youssef ? Immigrants de souche et Demain l'Afrique. 

As the war in Gaza wages on, Emilie Nicolas and Raed Hammoud take stock of what it’s been like to cover this war in their work in the Quebec media ecosystem. Raed also discusses the long form documentary work he has done in order to create connections between people in different parts of the world, including his docu-series T’es où Youssef, Immigrants de Souche and Demain L’Afrique. 

Animation : Emilie Nicolas

Générique : Aviva Lessard (Production), Tristan Capacchione (Production technique), André Proulx (Coordonnateur à la production), Karyn Pugliese (Rédactrice en chef) 

Coanimation : Raed Hammoud

Pour en savoir plus :

• T’es où, Youssef ? - Télé Québec
• Immigrants de souche - TV5
• Demain l’Afrique - TV5

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The laughter has stopped at the Just For Laughs festival, as ownership applies for creditor protection and cancels the Montreal and Toronto 2024 festivals. Toronto Comedian Sam Sferrazza explains how the Just For Laughs systems worked (and didn’t work) for Canadian comedy.

Is there anything behind the Katespiracy? As a manipulated photo of Princess Catherine and her kids goes viral worldwide, Jesse wonders if any photograph… ever should have ever been trusted. 

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)

Guest: Sam Sferrazza

Further reading: 

• Comedians reflect on Just For Laughs’ cancellation and the future of comedy - Globe and Mail
• 2024 Just for Laughs comedy festival cancelled, company seeks creditor protection - CBC News
• The end of SaltWire: What happened and what happens next? - Halifax Examiner
• Canada’s foreign correspondents are almost extinct - The Hub
• Hot Docs president warns this year's festival could be its last without more financial support - CBC News
• QAnon for Wine Moms - The Atlantic
• What's wrong with this picture? Plenty, say experts - CBC News
• So Where’s Kate Middleton? - The Big Story - Frequency [podcast]
• Royal mystery: What’s going on with Kate Middleton? - Front Burner - CBC [podcast]

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Labour used to be a beat. A major beat for any newspaper. Which, you know, makes sense. Because what happens with work, with the world of work, that matters to so many more people than any other section in the newspaper, more than politics or foreign affairs or even business. But the age of the working person's newspaper is just about dead, and along with it, the labour beat.

But maybe not to news audiences. We get constant emails from you asking us to take a closer look at work in Canada. The entire new season of our sister show Commons is called Work, and this week we hand the show over to the Commons team. Arshy Mann, Jordan Cornish, and Noor Azrieh are going to tell you about what they have found, about what it means to work and be a worker in Canada.

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Host: Jesse Brown 

Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Arshy Mann (Host and Producer), Jordan Cornish (Producer), Noor Azrieh (Producer), André Proulx (Production Coordinator), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)

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From Winnipeg to Wuhan, Canada is embroiled in an international spy situation, but why does no one seem to care anymore? Recent documents released from the investigation of scientist Dr. Xiangguo Qiu contain bombshells that may point back to the COVID lab leak theory. 

As the obituaries and puff pieces roll in, the Canadian media seems to have forgotten that Brian Mulroney was - in fact - divisive. Correcting the record on “Conservative Titan” Brian Mulroney. 

Clarification (March 18, 2024): While the Investigative Journalism Foundation’s Open By Default database includes roughly 20,000 records released by federal departments and agencies in response to access-to-information requests, The Globe and Mail’s Secret Canada project is broader in scope, encompassing summaries of more than 300,000 requests made to over 600 federal, provincial, territorial, and municipal institutions across the country.

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: James Nicholson(Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), André Proulx (Production Coordinator), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)

Guest: Jan Wong

Further reading: 

• Lies and scandal: How two rogue scientists at a high-security lab triggered a national security calamity - CBC News 
• The big problem with the Winnipeg lab affair was obvious from the start: too much secrecy - CBC News
• Documents reveal fired scientists shared information with China - The Decibel Podcast
• Brian Mulroney, 18th prime minister and Progressive Conservative titan, dead at 84 | Politics - Canadian Press
• Globe editorial: Brian Mulroney, the last great prime minister - Globe and Mail
• The IJF launches ‘Open By Default,’ - Investigative Journalism Foundation
• China ends 30-year tradition: premier's annual press conference - Reuters

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Let’s skip two years of horse race punditry and commentary. It's over already. Barring some unforeseeable act of God, Pierre Poilievre is not just going to win, he is going to stomp to victory. The Liberals will likely be rebuilding from close to scratch and this country might be looking at a good long period of right wing rule. What does that look like? What does it mean for housing, crime, and the media landscape?

Today on the show, Jesse speaks with prominent journalists, Jen Gerson, Paul Wells, and Stephen Marche to find out more.

Host: Jesse Brown 

Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), André Proulx (Production Coordinator), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)

Further reading: 

• Conservatives open up a 19-point lead over the Liberals — Abacus Data
• Jen Gerson’s Substack — The Line
• Paul Well’s Substack
• Stephen Marche’s website

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Dans sa nouvelle autobiograhie, la professeure en droit transféminine Florence Ashley, théorise l’academic smut ou smut therapy comme la thérapie par l'écriture érotique. Gender/Fucking: the Pleasures and Politics of Living in a Gendered Body met en lumière le bordel de l'existence humaine à travers le récit de Florence - ses expériences romantiques, sexuelles, sa transition et des vérités qui sont beaucoup plus grandes qu’ille qui s'étendent à la jeune communauté trans actuelle. 

Les nouvelles politiques d'identité de genre annoncées en Alberta mélangent le droit des enfants avec le droit des parents dans un contexte où les corps et esprits des personnes trans sont déjà sous contrôle social, familial, politique, médical et juridique, et leur sentiment le plus profond par rapport à leur identité, constamment délégitimisé.

Animation : Emilie Nicolas

Générique : Laetitia Dogbe (Production), Tristan Capacchione (Production technique), André Proulx (Coordonnateur à la production), Karyn Pugliese (Rédactrice en chef) 

Coanimation : Florence Ashley

Pour en savoir plus :

• Centre Canadien De La Diversité Des Genres Et De La Sexualité
• Florence Ashley (2022) Banning Transgender Conversion Practices: A Legal and Policy Analysis 
• Ashley, F., 2018. Genderfucking non-disclosure: Sexual fraud, transgender bodies, and messy identities. Dalhousie LJ, 41, p.339.

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Vice Media was once valued at 5.7 billion dollars - This week it closed its doors. One final episode of the podcast Cyber was released to give listeners a peek into what was going on at Vice. The staff knew something was amiss when the quality of the snacks began to deteriorate. 

The Liberals tabled Bill C-63 to take aim at online hate. If this new bill comes into force it could make some online hate speech punishable by life in prison. 

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)

Guest: Justin Ling

Further reading: 

• Vice Media Is Basically Dead
• Vice’s cunning, irreverent journalism is dead – and executives with bloated pay cheques helped kill it | Sirin Kale | The Guardian 
• VICE Management Kills Vice.Com, Set to Lay Off Hundreds of Employees - Hell Gate 
• I Was a Heretic at The New York Times - The Atlantic
• C-63 (44-1) - LEGISinfo - Parliament of Canada 
• My First Take on the Online Harms Act: Worst of 2021 Plan Now Gone But Digital Safety Commission Regulatory Power a Huge Concern - Michael Geist
• Opinion: Pierre Poilievre wants big government to protect kids from porn - The Globe and Mail
• Online harms bill puts onus on tech platforms to remove child pornography - The Globe and Mail

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The Pikwakanagan First Nation seemed to be doing well - it has a good economy, high graduation rate, it has been revitalizing its culture, the books are tight. But things have gotten bad in the last five years. Pikwakanagan is not immune to the troubles infiltrating the towns surrounding it. 

Late last year, Chief Greg Sarazin declared a State of Emergency over Opioids in the small rural community, just 150 kilometers from Ottawa. When a crisis hits a city like Belleville it makes headlines, but First Nations are not getting attention, or all the help they need to fight addiction. They are relying, in many ways, on their own devices. 

There were at least five overdoses last year in a community with only 250 adults; that’s 1 in 50 people. Even more people must be using. But it's not just about those on reserve. When you count the cousins, the kids and the other family members living away, there have been dozens.  What happened, and what is the community doing to try and stem the crisis. 

Host: Karyn Pugliese 

Credits: Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer)

Further reading: 

• Pikwakanagan teen wins $50,000 prize for her community — Eganville Leader
• OPP investigating death at Pikwakanagan — Eganville Leader
• Saskatchewan First Nations sue Government of Canada over opioid epidemic — CTV News
• Treaty 6 Chiefs declare state of emergency over opioid deaths — APTN

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