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Jesse Brown might think himself quite the question master, but today the tables have turned and our guest host, the Jonathan Torrens, investigates the inner workings of this show's host. Is it possible to be too cynical?  

Featured in this episode: Jonathan Torrens, actor, performer and writer best known for his beef with Jesse Brown and hosting shows like Street Cents, Jonovision and his role in Trailer Park Boys; Jesse Brown, early guest on Jonovision (and, I guess, the publisher of the Canadaland podcast network). 

Credits: Jonathan Goldsbie (News Editor), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Sarah Lawryniuk (Former Senior Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)

Past relevant episodes:

• Canadaland episode 281: Trolling Jonathan Torrens
• Canadaland episode 2: Millionaire Ex-girlfriend
• Canadaland episode 58: An Interview With My Harshest Critic

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Xavier Watso, militant et créateur de contenu abénaki, se joint à Emilie pour discuter de l’évolution de la participation des personnes autochtones dans les médias québécois. Ayant récemment démissionné à la suite à 16 ans d’enseignement en art dramatique dans une école secondaire, Xavier nous partage également ses réflexions sur l’état actuel du système scolaire. Est-ce qu’il y a un écart entre la manière dont les médias couvrent le système éducatif au Québec et la réalité ou est-ce que les écoles s’écroulent pour de vrai ?

Xavier Watso, Abenaki activist and content creator, joins Emilie to discuss the evolution of the participation of Indigenous people in Quebec media. Having recently left his job as a high school drama teacher after 16 years, Xavier also shares his thoughts on the current state of the school system. Is there a gap between the media portrayal of the education system in Quebec and reality, or are schools really falling apart?

Animation: Emilie Nicolas

Générique: Nancy Pettinicchio (Production), Tristan Capacchione (Production technique), Karyn Pugliese (Rédactrice en chef)

Coanimation: Xavier Watso

Pour en savoir plus :

• Xavier Watso sur TikTok
• Vétusté des écoles : Québec et ses contradictions – La Presse

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Grocers sure are making it easy for us to be mad at them. And a serial killer, a landfill, and an all-too real metaphor playing out in Winnipeg. Plus Justin Trudeau and Sophie Grégoire Trudeau are calling it splits - and it’s probably all we’re going to hear about for the next while. 

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)

Guest: Karyn Pugliese

Further reading: 

• Metro grocery strike part of larger labour trend, experts say - Toronto Star
• Analysis: Inflation is down overall, so why are my grocery bills still going up? - National Post
• It’s time for the government to step in to freeze grocery prices​​ - The Globe and Mail
• Foam football fills hole after Lasqueti ferry’s hard landing - Times Colonist
• Meta permanently ending news availability on its platforms in Canada - CBC

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What does Toronto’s response to the refugee crisis actually look like on the ground? 

Just across the street from the Canadaland office, a crisis unfolded: dozens of asylum seekers camping out as they were unable to get space in city shelters. Some had been there for weeks. 

After the federal government and the city both pledged that more support would be given to the asylum seekers, many were still there -  being helped by a tenuous system of volunteers, donated goods, religious outreach and good samaritans.

Join reporter Cherise Seucharan and Editor in Chief Karyn Pugliese as they follow asylum seekers at 129 Peter Street as they search for a place to spend the night. 

Credits: Jesse Brown, Host & Publisher, Cherise Seucharan, Reporter, Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)

Further reading:

• On Peter Street, a community steps up for asylum seekers abandoned to sleep on the sidewalk, Toronto Star
• Crossing the Darien Gap, CFR
• Mayor Olivia Chow outlines next steps for housing asylum seekers in Toronto, CBC

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When anti-racism training goes wrong. Really, really wrong. How should the media talk about diversity, equity and inclusion responsibly? 

And, Canada has its very own James Bond and its retired RCMP Officer, Bill Majcher. Only, Majcher was arrested this week and Canadian media has barely scratched the surface when it comes to answering, “who is this guy?”.

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Kattie Laur (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Guest: Jan Wong

Further reading: 

• What we know about the retired RCMP officer charged with conducting foreign interference for China
• Convict alleges judge had affair with RCMP officer
• Sexual affair between Miami judge, witness alleged amid tainted U.S. court proceedings
• Retired RCMP officer charged in foreign interference case
• Ontario launches review of school board’s handling of allegations from principal who later died by suicide
• LILLEY: Ontario orders review of school training after principal dies
• Police accused of verbal assault during training session on missing, murdered Indigenous women

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Our news editor, Jonathan Goldsbie, ventured out to find his inner Polkaroo by way of an exhibit on the history of Canadian children’s television programming at Toronto’s Myseum. As he’d heard rumours that our publisher Jesse Brown and intrepid reporter Cherise Seucharan were actually children themselves, once upon a time, he invited them along.

Skinnamarinky dinky dink,

Skinnamarinky doo,

Now you can listen too! 

Host: Jonathan Goldsbie

Credits: Jonathan Goldsbie (News Editor), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)

Featured in this episode: Ed Conroy Toronto-based cultural historian, archivist and online video producer. He is the Founder of Retrontario.com

Further information:

• Myseum of Toronto

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Originaire de Shediac au Nouveau-Brunswick, Xavier Gould nous partage des extraits de son tout premier livre des fleurs comme moi, un recueil de poésie témoignant de son vécu en tant que jeune personne queer en Acadie. Au courant de cette discussion avec Emilie, Xavier partage ses réflexions autour de la transidentité, l’humour et la langue. Ensemble, elles se demandent : quel impact a eu la montée des conservatismes transphobes sur les communautés queer rurales au Canada ?

Originally from Shediac, New Brunswick, Xavier Gould shares excerpts from their first book, des fleurs comme moi, a collection of poems about their experiences as a young queer person in Acadia. In this discussion with Emilie, Xavier shares her thoughts on trans identity, humour and language. Together, they ask: how has the recent rise of transphobic conservatisms impacted queer rural communities in Canada?

Animation: Emilie Nicolas

Générique: Nancy Pettinicchio (Production), Tristan Capacchione (Production technique), Karyn Pugliese (Rédactrice en chef)

Coanimation: Xavier Gould

Pour en savoir plus :

• La politique 713 clarifiée à la suite de consultations – Gouv. du Nouveau-Brunswick 
• des fleurs comme moi par Xavier Gould – Prise de parole
• Instagram de Xavier Gould
• François Legault, un critique de livres comme les autres? – Le Devoir 
• Renversons la tendance : Campagne publicitaire du Ministère de la Langue française 

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Canada created a new pathway to permanent residency for a large number of Ukrainian refugees, as a group of asylum claimants from other countries were sleeping in the streets of Toronto. We discuss the political calculations involved in supporting displaced people. We also try to make sense of the ups and downs of the Bank of Canada.

Host: Erica Ifill

Credits: Kevin Sexton (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Guest: Nicholas Keung

Further reading: 

• ‘It’s about time’: Ottawa offers millions more in housing support to shelter refugees in Toronto - Toronto Star
• Ottawa unveils pathway to permanent residency for Ukrainians who have fled to Canada - Canadian Press
• The Bank of Canada is still pushing for 2% inflation: But why? And must so many suffer to get there? - Toronto Star.

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“When you can’t afford to lose” is not just Navigator’s trademarked slogan; it’s also its core business proposition. Although it offers a range of services, from market research to communications, Navigator is best known as the firm to which Canada’s rich and powerful turn when facing a crisis that could cost them that wealth and power.

Its highest-profile clients have included Michael Bryant and Jian Ghomeshi. More recently, it’s been a player in the controversies around Hockey Canada, the Special Rapporteur on Foreign Interference, and the Ottawa Police response to the convoy occupation. Bit by bit, we’ve gotten more insight into the work they do behind the scenes to — as one observer once put it to the Toronto Star — change your perceptions without you even knowing it.

On today’s episode, host Jesse Brown and news editor Jonathan Goldsbie offer a primer on the company that’s been a common thread running through many of the biggest Canadian news stories of the past 15 years.

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Jonathan Goldsbie (News Editor), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)

Further information:

• Why Should I Choose You? Answering the Most Important Business Questions in Seven Words or Less – HarperCollins Canada (2015)
• Spinning the first week of Michael Bryant's new life – Toronto Star (2009)
• Jian Ghomeshi dumped by PR firm over ‘lies,’ sources say – Toronto Star (2014)
• Secret Life: The Jian Ghomeshi Investigation – Goose Lane Editions (2016)
• Report of the Public Inquiry into the 2022 Public Order Emergency (Volumes 2 and 3) – Public Order Emergency Commission (2023)
• What we believe – Navigator Ltd.
• More links on our website post

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The Trudeau government won’t back down on Bill C-18 – except now they are. We also talk about the crypto crime that never happened, a threatening cop, Danielle Smith’s ‘vindication’ and updates to the Burns Lake Tribunal Hearing.

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)

Guest: Dani Paradis

Further reading: 

• Caving on Bill C-18: Government Outlines Planned Regulations that Signal Willingness to Cast Aside Core Principles of the Online News Act
• Postmedia and Toronto Star owner Nordstar talks broke down over debt swap, sources say - The Globe and Mail
• The crypto scam that wasn’t: 2 teens reportedly stole $4.2 million in Bitcoin and Ethereum. Police say it never happened - Fortune
• Someone pretended to be Hamilton police — it led to a fake story about cryptocurrency theft - CBC News
• Hamilton police probing spoofed email that led to false story on teenage crypto thieves - Hamilton Spectator
• Alberta Premier Smith says she feels 'vindicated' after CBC posts editor's note on Coutts stories - CBC News
• Inside the RCMP’s Investigation into a ‘Well-Known Canadian’ - The Tyee

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