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People might take holidays, but the news doesn't. For your holiday listening needs, here are stories from reporters who have worked Christmas in their newsrooms. It's the good, the bad and the funny. 

A Canadaland tradition, now updated with a new story. 

Host:  Jesse Brown

Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer)

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Links:

• I was sexually assaulted when I was 16. Penguin Random House Canada published a memoir by one of my assailants claiming it was consensual – Zoe Charlotte Greenberg on Medium
• my response – Leah McLaren on Substack
• A Statement from Penguin Random House Canada – PenguinRandomHouseCA on Twitter
• Trauma survivors and the media: A qualitative analysis – Journal of Community Safety and Well-Being
• She wanted to tell you about her sex assault. The court has finally let her – Toronto Star
• Victim Identity and Privacy – Justice Committee report on Improving Support for Victims of Crime

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The largest National Park in Canada is Wood Buffalo, currently celebrating its 100th anniversary. But the people who inhabited it for thousands of years before that want it back. Brandi Morin travels to Wood Buffalo (and to Fort MacMurray and to Fort Chipewyan) to tell the real story of the Dene, the Cree, and the land they were expelled from to make way for Wood Buffalo National Park. 

Further reading:

Wood Buffalo National Park: an Untold Story. An account from Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation.

http://acfn.woodbuffaloexpulsion.ca/

Wood Buffalo and the American Bison: Get to Know This Place and an Amazing Animal. (Doc Planet documentary referenced in this episode.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsxQKVfIxzE

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Rakuten, Oxio, Freshbooks, Pig Iron

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Hunters are mad about the new big list of guns to be banned by the Liberals - but why should we care if it helps reduce gun violence? And the not so credible Blacklock’s reporter’s story about being evicted from the Press Gallery. Grant LaFleche co-hosts. 

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Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), André Proulx (Production Coordinator)

Guest: Grant LaFleche

Further reading: 

• How Bill C-21 turned from banning handguns to hunting guns - CBC
• Daughters of Morgan Harris call on Ottawa for help to find mother - APTN
• Blacklock’s Eviction By Police - Blacklock’s Reporter
• How an Ugly Feud Between Two Reporters Might Change Parliament’s Press Gallery Forever - Canadaland

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It’s the holidays, and on your TV or radio you’re inevitably hit with ads telling you that this is the season of giving - it’s time to donate to a food drive. Conservative politicians, Liberal politicians, banks, broadcasters, grocery stores: they all are united in this message.

With the promotion of food banks from virtually every institution and elected official in the country, you might conclude that they are the best solution to food insecurity.

Except - they’re not. Food bank use in Canada is at an all-time high, and experts, community organizers, even staff at food banks say that the growing need just shows how our government has failed to address poverty and hold corporations to account. 

In this episode: 

Kitty Raman Costa, Executive Director, Parkdale Community Food Bank

Dr. Valerie Tarasuk, Principal Investigator at PROOF, University of Toronto.

Jade Guthrie, Community Learning and Engagement Manager, FoodShare

Professor Dennis Raphael of York’s School of Health Policy and Management

Further reading: 

• HungerCount 2022, Food Banks Canada
• Supermarkets are hiking prices faster than necessary — and profiting from inflation, Star investigation suggests, by Marco Chown Oved, Toronto Star
• Why are Canadians in need still forced to rely on food banks? By Jade Guthrie, rabble.ca
• Take the money and run: how food banks became complicit with Walmart Canada’s hunger producing employment practices, by Zsofia Mendly-Zambo, Dennis Raphael and Alan Taman

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AVERTISSEMENT : Dans cet épisode, nous discutons de violence à caractère sexuelle et de violence basée sur le genre. Si vous êtes à la recherche de soutien, le lien suivant vous dirigera vers des ressources à travers le Canada : https://canadianwomen.org/fr/vous-cherchez-un-soutien/

Dans le cadre des 12 jours d'action contre la violence faite aux femmes, cet épisode revient sur la couverture médiatique actuelle au Québec autour de la dénonciation de violence à caractère sexuelle. Quel rôle jouent les journalistes dans l'accompagnement d'une personne victime ou survivante qui choisit de dénoncer ? Emilie Nicolas anime cet épisode de Détours avec Sophie Gagnon.

CONTENT WARNING: In this episode, the co-hosts discuss sexual violence and gender-based violence. If you are seeking support, the following link will direct you to resources across Canada: https://canadianwomen.org/support-services/

As part of the 12 Days of Action Against Gendered Violence, this episode looks at the current media coverage in Quebec around the reporting of sexual violence. What role do journalists play in supporting a victim or survivor who chooses to speak out? Emilie Nicolas hosts this episode of Détours with Sophie Gagnon.

Liens : 

Isabelle Hachey dans La Presse : Des cicatrices et des regrets

Lettre de Sophie Gagnon et Léa Clermont-Dion dans La Presse

The Walrus sur Tamara Thermitus

Commanditaire : Oxio

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The potential hypocrisies of condemning human rights abuses in Qatar during the FIFA World Cup. And the increasing difficulty of writing critically about Israel. Shree Paradkar co-hosts.

Host: Jonathan Goldsbie

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), André Proulx (Production Coordinator), Cassidy Villebrun-Buracas(Associate Producer)

Guest: Shree Paradkar

Further reading: 

• How media criticisms of Qatar during the World Cup are both accurate and unfair - Toronto Star
• LILLEY: World Cup's beauty marred by Qatar's human rights record - Toronto Sun
• Opinion: We built the railway in five years. So why are so many megaprojects now stalled? - The Globe and Mail
• Regier v National Post - National NewsMedia Council
• Why the definition of antisemitism has become such a polarizing issue - Toronto Star
• CBC’s Palestine Exception - Review of Journalism

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*A note to listeners: Today’s episode deals with sexual violence inflicted on Indigenous minors and won’t be suitable for all listeners.

In 2006, RCMP Const. Joseph Kohut kicked down the door to his ex’s home in Prince George, B.C., and left with certain belongings. His ex said that one of the things Kohut took was a videotape showing him sexually harassing an underage Indigenous girl. Kohut had already been investigated for sexual misconduct after a local judge pled guilty to sexually assaulting several Indigenous minors. Kohut’s ex, also a Mountie, reported the alleged theft of evidence. So what happened next? Reporter Jessica McDiarmid tells the story of 16-years of entropy and indifference within the RCMP. 

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer)

Guest: Jessica McDiarmid

Further reading: 

• Toronto Star investigation, by Jessica McDiarmid

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Poilievre's toxic lie about safe supply. And the confusing and contradictory CSIS intelligence on China and the Freedom Convoy. Garth Mullins co hosts.

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), André Proulx (Production Coordinator)

Guest: Garth Mullins

Further reading: 

• Everything feels broken.But we can fix it. - Pierre Poilievre video
• Opinion: Pierre Poilievre couldn’t be more wrong on drug policy - The Globe and Mail
• Former Harper adviser denounces Pierre Poilievre drug policy unveiled in video - The Globe and Mail
• Chris Selley: Poilievre's anti-drug pitch is a failure of imagination - The National Post
• ‘Like a zombie’: Ontario group home chain accused of overmedicating kids in care - Global News
• Police Across Canada Are Hiring a Tech Company to Justify Bigger Budgets and Belittle Social Services - Press Progress
• CSIS head told Justin Trudeau to use Emergencies Act, inquiry told - The Toronto Star

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In part two: After a peaceful reclamation of the army base built on their land in 1993, elders of Stoney Point lead a movement to take back Ipperwash Provincial Park, which was also part of their original land and contained a burial ground. Racism and political interference turned a peaceful movement into a violent act of state aggression on September 6, 1995. This episode recalls the events of that night, and examines the fallout in the 28 years since, asking if reconciliation will ever be possible for the people of Stoney Point.

In this podcast: interviews include Bonnie Bressette, Caroline “Cully” George, Pierre George, Kevin Simon, Claudette Bressette, Alabama Bressette, and Donald Worme. 

The episode is in memory of Anthony “Dudley” George.

Deep thanks to Heather Menzies editor, and Kerry Kilmartin publisher of “Our Long Struggle for Home: The Ipperwash” by Aazhoodenaang Enjibaajig 

Host: Karyn Pugliese

Credits: Karyn Pugliese (Producer), Kim Wheeler (Producer) 

Research for this episode included:

• Our Long Struggle for Home: The Ipperwash by Aazhoodenaang Enjibaajig  
• The Ipperwash Inquiry Report: A road map to better relationships between Aboriginal people and the Ontario government
• One Dead Indian: The Premier, the Police, and the Ipperwash Crisis, a book by Canadian investigative journalist Peter Edwards

Sound in this podcast included:

• “Late Night news (Problems) by Farewell Davidson 
• G20 Protests in Toronto Turn Ugly recorded by George Kourounis
• A look back at Ipperwash and Dudley George's death, APTN by Mark Blackburn June 06, 2013
• "Act Naturally" by Buck Owens
• Theme music from “Dudley Do-Right” cartoon
• Dudley Do-Right "Marigolds" episode

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