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Suite au décès de la reine Elizabeth II, de nombreux journalistes soulignent les qualités admirables de la reine, alors que d'autres mettent la politesse de côté pour appeler à une réflexion plus critique autour de la monarchie. Puis comment les médias francophones couvrent-ils les sujets de l'immigration et de la langue française dans le premier débat de la campagne électorale au Québec ? Emilie Nicolas anime cet épisode de Détours avec Maïka Sondarjee.

Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, many journalists spotlighted her admirable qualities, while others put politeness aside to call for a more critical reflection on the monarchy. And how is francophone media covering immigration and the French language following the first debate of the Quebec election campaign? Emilie Nicolas hosts this episode of Détours with Maïka Sondarjee.

Liens :

La reine du Canada, vue du Québec par Jean-François Nadeau

La reine était nue par Patrick Lagacé

No, I do not mourn the Queen par Shree Paradkar

Quel «dérapage»? par Christian Rioux

L’avenir du français au Québec par Jean-Benoît Nadeau

Le choix de François Legault par Paul Wells

Pour en finir avec le déclin de la langue française par Jean-Benoît Nadeau

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Canadians have greeted the death of Elizabeth II with a mix of sadness and ambivalence, hostility and indifference. Film writer Will Sloan joins Jonathan Goldsbie to look at how media has grappled with evolving attitudes toward the monarchy, and how it’s covered the rare sort of development that’s both wholly inevitable and the biggest breaking news in the world.

They also go deep on a cartoon elf.

Links:

• CBC interview with author Lawrence Hill
• Toronto Sun piece re: Woke haters
• Courrier Laval piece re: PQ candidate and porn video
• The Soulmates in the Gift of the Light (1991) video
• Will Sloan's viral tweet

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A new Netflix documentary documents the violent life and death of John McAfee, a silicon valley magnate who became a murder suspect and the target of an international manhunt. But ten years after it all went down, do we actually know what happened? Rocco Castoro was the young editor in chief of VICE News who embedded with McAfee during his wild run from the law. He tries to set the record straight, and clear his own reputation. 

Links: 

Running With The Devil (Netflix) https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/who-is-john-mcafee-running-with-the-devil

‘This is really shady and low’: Netflix’s John McAfee documentary attacked by people who appeared in it https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-is-really-shady-and-low-netflixs-john-mcafee-documentary-attacked-by-those-who-appeared-in-it-11661943486

The Knows - Rocco Castoro's news site  https://www.theknows.net/

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An on-the-ground account of what it has been like to cover the Saskatchewan stabbing spree. And the end of Kiwi Farms after a Canadian Twitch streamer was swatted in London, Ontario. Zak Vescera co-hosts. 

Links:

• National Post Opinion piece re: RCMP response to stabbing
• Toronto Sun Opinion piece re: Progressive theories driving criminal justice
• Globe and Mail piece re: RCMP reform
• Global News piece re: RCMP Alert system
• CBC piece re: Saskatchewan social service

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Squirrel toupee guy, Bobby from Bobby versus Satan, cabbage head, the little guy who picks fights at the bar and won’t stay down, or the flying pig. These are just some of the memorable characters that Bruce McCulloch portrayed on Kids in the Hall. 

This week we chat with Bruce about the beginning of Kids in the Hall from the gritty streets of Edmonton to the state of Canadian comedy, the CBC, TallBoyz, working with Lorne Michael.

Some of our favourite Bruce McCulloch Sketches:

• Painting a chair
• Drunk dad advice
• Cabbage head
• Bobby versus Satan
• Bar Fight
• Thirty Helen’s Agree

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The Lisa LaFlamme story continues to smolder in the headlines. And Canada turns into a denunciation nation when it comes to weighing in on Chrystia Freeland's verbal attack. Priya Sam co-hosts. 

Links:

• Globe and Mail piece re: Open letter in support of LaFlamme
• Globe and Mail piece re: Bell Media Formal Review Process
• National Observer piece re: NAJA barring the New York Times from its conference
• Pitchfork piece re: Allegations against Arcade Fire's Win Butler

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After we turn off our microphones, here at CANADALAND, it would be great to think we brought you the definitive version of the story. But what actually happens is that life keeps on rolling and stories continue to add new chapters. Three stories CANADALAND originally brought you in 2021 and 2022 demanded that we publish an update.

First, the latest from the two communities that might soon be home to all of Canada's high-grade nuclear waste. Second, we check in on Ari Ben-Menashe and what the international lobbyist-for-hire has been up to since he began repping Myanmar's military junta in 2021. And lastly, we bring you an update on Starbucks' unionization that is more of a mea culpa than a new development but adds to the story we originally told you all the same. 

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The remaining staff at Toronto’s NOW Magazine haven’t gotten a regular paycheque in months. But as the beloved alt-weekly disintegrated around them, they kept on putting out issues. Norm Wilner, who spent 14 years as NOW’s film writer, joins former colleague Jonathan Goldsbie on Short Cuts to consider the slow decay of a publication that served as the city’s internet, before the internet was a thing. They also look at the Toronto Star’s successful battle to overturn a strange publication ban masking the identity of an upper-crust private school.

Links:

• Radheyan Simonpillai’s thread about the final NOW masthead
• The (likely) final print issue of NOW
• Toronto Star story from earlier this year about NOW’s demise
• Toronto Star story about lawsuit against Upper Canada CollegeOntario Court of Appeal decision in P1 v. XYZ School

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Dozens of people in New Brunswick have reported mysterious neurological symptoms over the past two years. People as young as 18 are experiencing full-blown dementia. Is there a single cause for these reported illnesses? The government has previously said they believed there was. Now, they have said there is no single cause. This week, we revisit a mystery we originally told you in January 2022. 

Featured in this episode: Leyland Cecco, the Guardian's Canadian correspondent; Stacie Quigley Cormier, step mother of Gabrielle Cormier who began experiencing dementia-type symptoms at the age of 20.

Further reading:

• Whistleblower warns baffling illness affects growing number of young adults in Canadian province, Leyland Cecco, The Guardian
• No longer a sure thing: Records show how N.B. investigation into mystery illness changed over time, CBC News

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What's really behind Lisa LaFlamme's abrupt departure from CTV National News? And John Derringer's years of alleged workplace abuse at Toronto's Q107 and the straw that broke the camel's back for ending his show. Teri Hart co-hosts. 

Links:

• Lisa LaFlamme's video on Twitter
• The Hill Times piece re: journalists receiving online hate
• The Toronto Star's piece re: allegations against Derringer
• Jennifer Valentyne's video
• Jacqui Delaney's interview on Toronto Mike'd

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