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Last month the Globe and Mail reported that Anton Skyba, their photojournalist in Ukraine, applied to the Ukrainian government to have his press credentials renewed - and was denied. Ukrainian security services accused him of holding a Russian passport, demanded that he take a lie-detector test, and questioned whether his work as a journalist was aligned with Ukraine’s “national interests.”

It was not an isolated incident. 

Last year, Ukrainian Security - the SBU - sent a list of names to their friends in the FBI. The SBU explained that it was a list of people who they suspected of spreading “fear and disinformation” about Ukraine through their Twitter accounts.  They asked the FBI to get Twitter to remove these peoples’ accounts - to censor them. One of the names on that list was Aaron Mate, a Canadian journalist who works for the website GrayZone.

Skyba and Mate talk to Canadaland about the state of press freedom in war-torn Ukraine.

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Sarah Lawrynuik (Reporter), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor in Chief)

Further reading:

• Ukraine fails to renew media credentials for photographer working for The Globe - The Globe and Mail
• IPI Tracker: media freedom alerts linked to Russia-Ukraine war - International Press Institute

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Le 9 juin dernier, la ministre responsable de l’habitation au Québec propose le projet de loi 31 qui, entre autres amendements, vise à permettre aux propriétaires de refuser une cession de bail sans motif sérieux. La cession de bail étant un outil important au Québec pour prévenir les augmentations de loyers déraisonnables, cette proposition du gouvernement caquiste a suscité un débat sur le droit au logement et la réalité des locataires. Emilie et Nora Loreto, co-animatrices de l’épisode, discutent également du meutre d’un adolescent franco-algérien par un policier à Nanterre, France lors d’un contrôle routier. Est-ce que les conversations politiques et médiatiques autour de la violence policière en France résonnent au Canada ?

On June 9, Quebec's housing minister proposed Bill 31, which, among other amendments, would allow landlords to refuse a lease transfer without serious grounds. As lease transfers are an important tool in Quebec to prevent unreasonable rent increases, this proposal by the CAQ government has sparked a debate on housing rights and the reality of tenants. Emilie and episode co-host Nora Loreto also discuss the killing of a Franco-Algerian teenager by a police officer in Nanterre, France. Are there parallels between the political and media conversations around police violence in France and in Canada?

Animation: Emilie Nicolas

Générique: Nancy Pettinicchio (Productrice), Tristan Capacchione (Producteur technique)

Coanimation: Nora Loreto

Pour en savoir plus :

• Find Out If Your MP Is A Landlord Or Invested In Real Estate – The Maple
• Crise du logement: les ministres du gouvernement Legault possèdent en moyenne 1,6 M$ en immobilier – Journal de Montréal  
• Émeutes : la mort de Nahel justifie-t-elle ces violences ? – RTL France 

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Google and Meta respond to Bill C-18 by threatening to block Canadian news. And the first woman to head up the Assembly of First Nations is out after just two years, due to some combination of any or all of her own alleged misconduct, a conspiracy to depose her, and/or run-of-the-mill misogyny. 

Host: Jonathan Goldsbie

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Guest: Karyn Pugliese

Further reading: 

• Canadian news is starting to vanish from Instagram. Google is next. Here's how to find CBC as that happens - CBC News Editor’s Blog
• U.S. senator urges Canada to resist pressure from Meta, Google over Bill C-18 - The Globe and Mail
• ​​Asylum seekers on street amid tug of war between city, feds - Toronto Star
• Indigenous women leaders are having a #MeToo moment - Canada’s National Observer (2020)
• OP-ED: RoseAnne Archibald takes up the gauntlet against the Assembly of First Nations establishment - True North

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Marc joins Jesse for a conversation about his plans to emigrate to Vancouver and the differences between Canada and the U.S. when it comes to fascism, comedy, and Jews.

Further reading:

• Marc interviews Lorne Michaels: http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episodes/episode_653_-_lorne_michaels
• Jesse interviews Hart Pomerantz: https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/hart-pomerantz/
• The late, great Mike MacDonald, Canadian comedian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xpl9ClEpcY
• Gavin McInnes’ failed standup career https://censored.tv/watch/shows/free-shit/episode/brotherhood-of-the-traveling-rants
• No-one ever wrote a good rock song about Vancouver, including Nazareth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-k-qAtZPWg

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Toronto Star owner Nordstar and Postmedia are in talks to merge - a death knell to Canadian print media. Jesse and co-host Jaskaran Sandhu unpack the killing of Sikh community leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey - possibly at the hands of the Indian government. AND an expose of alleged misbehaviour at a middle school in Brampton.

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Guest: Jaskaran Sandhu

Further reading: 

• Toronto Star owner in talks to merge with Postmedia - Toronto Star
• Top Bell Media executive urged CTV to avoid ‘negative spin’ on coverage of parent company - The Globe and Mail
• What's behind the murder of a Sikh leader in B.C.? - CBC Radio
• Who killed Hardeep Singh Nijjar? Those close to Sikh leader accuse Indian government of involvement - Toronto Star
• Online Abuse in Local Elections: The SAMbot Municipal Report - Samara Centre for Democracy
• Peel school board investigating after anonymous letter alleges 'violence, fear' at Mississauga middle school - Toronto Star
• A Toronto-area middle school is in crisis. Teachers are being blamed - National Post

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Vancouver’s SROs are home to some of the most vulnerable people in the province, and some of the most challenging housing to run. So when Atira Women’s Resource Society stepped up to run several buildings, concerns that the CEO was in a relationship with the CEO of BC Housing, the provincial corporation in charge of that housing, were dismissed. 

In the years that followed, there was growing concern about the conditions of the SROs, and why Atira’s portfolio kept growing.

Recently an explosive report released by third party investigators Ernst and Young revealed the truth. 

This week’s episode by Cherise Seucharan looks at how a problem ignored for over a decade, came to light.

Featured in this episode: Jen St Denis, reporter at The Tyee; Frances Bula, reporter, The Globe and Mail.

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Cherise Seucharan (Reporter), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Further reading:

• Public housing in Vancouver called ‘crack shacks and brothels’, CBC, 2012
• The Housing Is Owned by the Province. The Working Conditions Are Terrible, Jen St. Denis, The Tyee
• BC Housing has ‘no formal criteria’ for contracts, review finds, Frances Bula, The Globe and Mail
• Devastating Report Cites BC Housing Mismanagement, Jen St. Denis, The Tyee
• Atira statement responding to Tyee reporting, 2022

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Avec May Chiu (coordinatrice de la Table ronde du Quartier chinois de Montréal et membre de l’Association des Chinois progressistes du Québec), Emilie se penche sur l’impact de l’actualité des derniers mois sur la communauté chinoise du Canada. Quels sont les impacts sur le terrain des enquêtes journalistiques du printemps sur l’ingérence de Beijing au pays ? La diversité des points de vue chez les Canadiens d’origine chinoise a-t-elle sa place dans les médias ? Comment protéger la démocratie canadienne contre l’ingérence étrangère sans stigmatiser toute une diaspora ?

With May Chiu (coordinator of the Montreal Chinatown Roundtable and member of the Association of Progressive Chinese Quebeckers), Emilie examines the impact of the news of recent months on the Chinese community in Canada. What are the impacts on the ground of last spring's journalistic investigations into Beijing's interference in the country? Does the diversity of views among Chinese Canadians have a place in the media? How can we protect Canadian democracy against foreign interference without stigmatizing an entire diaspora?

Animation: Emilie Nicolas

Générique: Tristan Capacchione (Producteur)

Coanimation: Mei Chiu

Pour en savoir plus :

• Création d’un registre des agents étrangers Le gouvernement Trudeau ira de l’avant — La Presse
• Événement historique national de l’exclusion des immigrants chinois de 1923 à 1947

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Do the billionaires on the missing Titan submarine deserve sympathy or scorn? While Canada and the US pull out all the stops to find it, days before, a boat off the coast of Greece capsized, killing 300, with minimal international attention. And we get into the behind-the-scenes of the CTV layoffs at Bell Media.  

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Guest: Ethan Cox

Further reading: 

• Canadian aircraft detects undersea sounds during search for missing submersible - CBC News 
• Former Global News journalist defends reporting on Chinese political interference: 'The story stands' - Toronto Star
• Are we in the Anthropocene? Why Canada's Crawford Lake may hold answers - Washington Post
• EXCLUSIVE: Quebec housing minister lobbied by real-estate business partner - Ricochet 
• Bell cutting 1,300 positions, closing or selling 9 radio stations - Financial Post
• Montreal Gazette Faces a New String of Departures - The Rover

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It was in the winter of 2021 that the world first became aware of a mounting number of patients being seen in New Brunswick with unusual neurological symptoms. A year later, the Government of New Brunswick released a report dismissing the entire issue, claiming there was never a cluster of patients to begin with.

CANADALAND has obtained thousands and thousands of pages of internal documents that take us behind the scenes of that investigation that once caught the attention of the nation, before being dropped like a hot potato. 

In this update to the story Dr. Marrero reveals new theories on the disease’s origins and the fact that his caseload has quadrupled to over 200 since our last report on the story.

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Sarah Lawrynuik (Reporter), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Further reading:

• Canadian government urged to test sick patients for herbicide – The Guardian, Mar. 1, 2023
• Whistleblower warns baffling illness affects growing number of young adults in Canadian province — The Guardian, Jan. 2, 2022
• Official investigation into New Brunswick’s mysterious brain disorder finds no new condition — The Washington Post, Feb. 24, 2022

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After weeks of navigating accusations of conflict, special rapporteur David Johnston finally ran aground. If you’re trying to persuade people of your unimpeachable independence, maybe don’t hire a communications firm that’s connected to everyone?

And, ah crap, the far right is fixated on queer people again.

The Rev. Dr. Cheri DiNovo co-hosts.

Host: Jonathan Goldsbie

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Guest: Cheri DiNovo

Further reading: 

• David Johnston ends relationship with crisis communications firm Navigator in foreign interference probe - The Globe and Mail
• David Johnston resigning as special rapporteur on foreign interference - CBC News
• Supreme Court Justice Russell Brown resigns before start of inquiry into alleged harassment - The Globe and Mail
• The Hater - Netflix
• Poland was headed to the far right. Then Russia invaded Ukraine - CBC The National
• WARMINGTON: MPP punched in face at transgender protest? Or was cut from megaphone? - Toronto Sun
• Girl, 9, accused of being trans at Kelowna track meet - Kelowna News

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