Falen Johnson, cohost of the beloved CBC podcast The Secret Life of Canada, joins Canardian to discuss Brantford, Ontario and it's strange allure, life as a goth teen from Six Nations in the 90s, the permanent stamp of Wayne Gretzy, and way more!

Season two of Canardian is out on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, and all other podcast platforms begi…

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One of the latest projects to hit the scene in Canadian podcasting is Queerial, the new podcast from comedian and podcaster, Trevor Campbell. The “neo-noir” detective story has one mission: to find the root source of queerness.

Queerial is a satire and clever critique of queer conspiracy rhetoric and the “gay agenda”. It’s also part of an exciting swell …

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Ivan Rivers came to me with a ton of fascinating insights as a Canadian indie musician, a former music journalist, and a big-time podcast listener.

He told me that simply having his name next to July Talk on a roster of YWS… episodes was a breakthrough enough—especially since the traditional ways of getting music publicity are practically obsolete.

“We'r…

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Sleep Tight Media is reading bedtime stories over and over and over again — so you don’t have to!

When I met Clark and Sheryl MacLeod, the Prince Edward Island-based husband and wife team behind the kids bedtime story podcast, Sleep Tight Stories, I had SO many questions for them.

Especially when they told me that the show was getting over a million downl…

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Vass Bednar says podcasts are part of a well-balanced Canadian News diet.

If you’ve ever wondered about Canadian media regulations, or why Canada generally seems to be run by three corporations in a trench coat, why you’ve probably heard of Vass Bednar.

Vass is the executive director of McMaster University’s Master of Public Policy (MPP) in Digital Society

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Dan Misener is seeking the truth of podcast audiences.

Now that podcasters have all these amazing analytics to work with, they’re bound to make incredible shows and foster massive audiences, right?

Well, it turns out it’s not the case. Instead, podcasters are finding themselves toggling between browser tabs, half-hazzardly calculating averages in Google S…

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The North Bay Echo Community Podcast Network is bringing local narratives back home.

Are hyperlocal podcast networks replacing traditional local media?It feels like every month there’s an announcement about yet another local radio or television station getting shut down by one of Canada’s handful of media giants. Today, the majority of Canada is finding …

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How are podcast advertisers gonna deal with YouTube?

I talked to Pary Bell and Jeff Ulster to get some insights into the minds behind The Podcast Exchange - TPX; how they're thinking about the current opportunities in podcast advertising - especially with the shift to YouTube, whether or not charts really matter, and how Canadian podcasters should be thi…

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Two years ago, Laura Mayer’s Shameless Acquisition Target, a podcast created solely in the hopes of getting acquired so that Laura could buy her dream Grey House, exploded into the podcasting scene. It was an especially hot topic amongst fellow podcast producers.

In just under a year Laura ended up selling the shows RSS feed to Gilded Audio, an independe…

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I love getting to talk to radio-people-turned-podcasters because they have such fascinating insights into how the two industries share similarities, how they differ, and how ultimately impact each other. Sarah Burke is one of those people, and now she’s got an even better view with the launch of her new podcast network.

Along with teaching podcasting to …