Why are we reporting on American news when we have more than enough to cover here in Canada?

Canadian media has been breathlessly covering Trump, Epstein, Stephen Colbert, and The Wall Street Journal, but all this reporting doesn’t add much to the conversation. 

Is it time to decouple Canadian news from the US news cycle?

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Lucie Laumonier (Associate producer and Fact Checking) Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), max collins (Director of Audio), Jesse Brown (Editor)

Guest: J.J. McCullough 

Photo: Gage Skidmore

Further reading: 

• With Colbert exit, Canada will lose the talk show host most attuned to our whims and politics | CBC News
• Chaotic Era – Substack by Kyle Tharp
• Ratfucker - CANADALAND [Podcast] 
• Globe and Mail reporter targeted by online campaign, photographed surreptitiously in public settings - Globe and Mail  

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