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La notion du Québec bashing a provoqué un déferlement de réactions dans les médias en français et en anglais suite à la nomination d'Amira Elghawaby comme représentante spéciale dans la lutte contre l'islamophobie. Puis quel est le lien entre les anglophones du Québec et les francophones dans le reste du pays face à la réforme de la Loi sur les langues officielles ? Émilie Nicolas anime cet épisode de Détours avec Frédéric Bérard.

The notion of Quebec bashing provoked an outpouring of reactions in both French and English media following the appointment of Amira Elghawaby as special representative in the fight against Islamophobia. And what is the link between anglophones in Quebec and francophones in the rest of the country regarding the reform of the Official Languages Act? Émilie Nicolas hosts this episode of Détours with Frédéric Bérard.

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Tweet de Philippe Mercure

Martin Leclerc : La torture, le viol et l’humiliation dans un aréna près de chez vous

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A tasting menu of scandals from Ontario’s municipal and provincial governments, with a newsroom scandal thrown in for kicks. And Fuck the Police - legally! The Narwhal sues the RCMP. Lisa Taylor co-hosts. 

Host: Jesse Brown

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

Guest: Lisa Taylor

Further reading: 

• Integrity commissioner clears Doug Ford after developers attend daughter’s stag and doe - Global News
• How John Tory decided to resign: the inside story of an agonizing week - Toronto Star
• Queen’s Park (QP) Briefing’s editor-in-chief, reporter quit in protest after Ford story fight - Toronto Star
• John Tory should not have resigned as mayor - Toronto Star
• How the Star broke the story on John Tory and what’s next for Toronto? - This Matters Podcast
• Charlottetown council spends more time in closed debate than in open sessions, records reveal - CBC
• Toronto police spending $337K on a podcast to avoid perception they're making 'copaganda' - CBC
• Why The Narwhal and Amber Bracken are suing the RCMP - The Narwhal

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CORRECTION: Corrections have been made about the City of Hamilton’s media accreditation proposal and the mention of Chrystia Freeland lending support to John Tory. Details can be found on our website: https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/john-tory-and-his-sin-city/

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Andrew Wilkinson and former media editor-in-chief Farhan Mohamed founded Overstoy Media Group (OMG) on the promise of revitalizing local news. But after the firing of four star journalists on January 30th, Mohamed admits the company was losing money on hard journalism - and that moving to a ”community” focus would save them.

Current and former staff have expressed concern at the direction of the company - and some allege that OMG executives tried to interfere in editorial content. They paint a picture of a workplace where failed expectations of growth often lead to layoffs.

Cherise Seucharan and Jonathan Goldsbie examine the fallout at OMG, and what it means for journalism, hopeful tech millionaires, and the state of democracy overall.    

Credits: Cherise Seucharan, Jonathan Goldsbie, Tristan Capacchione, Annette Ejiofor

Further reading:

• A Bold Experiment in Local Journalism Hits the Rocks, The Tyee, Feb. 3, 2023
• Capital Daily staff refused to promote the boss’ company. Then they got fired, Ricochet, Feb. 10, 2023
• Fifty new outlets, 250 journalists: Canadian startup unveils plan to revive local news, The Guardian, May 3, 2021

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Canadaland’s first TV series premieres next Friday, February 17, 2023 on CRAVE. Based on our work for the hit podcast series Thunder Bay, Ryan McMahon returns to the eponymous city to tell the ongoing story in north Ontario.

• Trailer for the new docuseries Thunder Bay
• Listen to the rest of our podcast series here
• More information about the TV series

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Locals call it Murder Bay. It might be the most dangerous city for Indigenous youth in the world. But to others, it’s their white nirvana.

Host Ryan McMahon wants to know – not who killed all those kids, but what killed them. This is Thunder Bay.

Host: Ryan McMahon

Credits: Jesse Brown (Writer & Producer), Ryan McMahon (Writer), Brigitte Noel (Additional Research), David Crosbie (Reporting Assistance), Jolene Banning (Reporting Assistance), Cris Derkson (Music), Chaundra Bulucon (Sound Design & Mixing), Kevin Sexton (Managing Editor)

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Following the melting of the No Name price freeze, Loblaw had a bit of its own public meltdown. Meanwhile, the country’s largest newspaper chain continues its own perpetual self-dissolution, leaving damp puddles where once stood proud big-city dailies.

Host: Jonathan Goldsbie

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Guest: Vass Bednar

Further reading: 

• Loblaws fights back on Twitter as social media storm erupts over soaring Canadian food prices - Toronto Star
• Supermarkets are hiking prices faster than necessary — and profiting from inflation, Star investigation suggests - Toronto Star
• Canadian Media Spreads Police PR After Killing Of Tyre Nichols - Passage
• Richard Warnica’s Twitter Thread
• Consultation Paper on Modernizing the Consumer Protection Act
• Getting Royally Screwed - Regs 2 Riches

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canadaLANDBACK is a co-production of Canada’s National Observer and Canadaland.

Since 2019 five journalists have been arrested at land defenses, several others have been detained or threatened with arrest - why?

Host Karyn Pugliese believes the answer is to be found in two land defenses that unfolded in the 1990s. 

Kanesatake

Gustafsen Lake

Of all the things journalists have to cover in Indigenous communities, land actions are the most complicated, involving a tangle of history and relationships journalists trip into unprepared. 

Landback movements question Canada’s legitimacy as a nation, and its character as a champion of human rights. 

How the media understood and told these stories mattered.  

State violence as a response to a human rights issue is indefensible, but it is a justified response to a criminal matter.

So what are land defenses? 

Is the state enforcing the rule of law against armed terrorists?

Or is Canada using violence to crush human rights defenders? 

This episode is not about the land defenses themselves - but about the emergence of a public relations war to control the story the media tells.

Host/Producer: Karyn Pugliese, editor-in-chief, Canada’s National Observer

Producer: Kim Wheeler

Additional research and support for this episode Beverly Andrews and Cara McKenna. 

See the RCMP's full statement here.

For information on sources and sounds used in this episode, visit the CANADALAND website

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Quebec’s overblown backlash to the appointment of Amira Elghawaby as special representative on combatting Islamophobia in response to her analysis of a poll from back in 2019. And is the government telling us to only drink two alcoholic beverages a week? Sarah Hagi co-hosts. 

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Guest: Sarah Hagi

Further reading: 

• Uproar over Amira Elghawaby appointment proof of need for someone like her in the job - Toronto Star
• Tom Mulcair: Amira Elghawaby is the wrong person for the job - The Montreal Gazette
• Elghawaby and Farber: Quebec's Bill 21 shows why we fear the tyranny of the majority - Ottawa Citizen
• A new measure of unhealthy drinking - The Decibel The Globe and Mail
• How much booze is too much booze? - Front Burner CBC

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The Chinese state has infiltrated Canadian democracy at all levels, according to a bombshell report from investigative reporter Sam Cooper of Global News. But Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has issued a stern denial, throwing cold water on the story. Who's telling the truth? And exactly what is Beijing up to in Canada? Sam Cooper explains his work. 

Further reading:

• Cooper's feature scoop on Chinese Interference
• Trudeau denies he was briefed
• Willfull Blindness, Cooper's book on Chinese money laundering in Canada, and more

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McKinsey is on everyone’s lips, but it’s just one of the many consulting firms the government is spending millions on. And as the provinces and federal government battle it out when it comes to healthcare, whose side are we supposed to be on? Nora Loreto co-hosts.

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Guest: Nora Loreto

Further reading: 

• L’influence de McKinsey explose sous Trudeau, surtout à l’immigration - Radio-Canada
• Contracts for McKinsey a drop in the bucket of billions spent on government outsourcing: data - National Post
• Dans l’ombre, la firme McKinsey était au cœur de la gestion de la pandémie au Québec - Radio-Canada
• Crown corporation faces staff backlash over McKinsey contract, spending decisions - CBC
• Small Ottawa firm subcontracted ArriveCan app to multinationals, documents reveal - The Globe and Mail
• Tainted milk led to deaths of Alberta residential school children, group says - CBC
• Insiders share just how close Justin Trudeau and premiers are to deals that will tackle the health-care crisis - Toronto Star

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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. 

Read more about CANADALAND’s investigation here.

Host: Jesse Brown

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

Further reading:

• 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, Washington Post, Feb. 24, 2022

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Additional Music is by Audio Network

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