Podcast Episodes

Wait, We're Also in a Trade War with China?

Episode 1217

China’s tariffs on canola seeds would cripple western Canadian farmers. But this tit for tat fight is about more than just canola. Host Noor Azrieh sits down with Vina Nadjibulla who thinks China’s p…

Published on 1 month ago

Titanic Mystery! Who Spiked the Chowder?

Episode 1216

Something wild happened in Nova Scotia during filming of the James Cameron film Titanic. 

Parts of the blockbuster were filmed in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, and on the last night of filming there, someon…

Published on 1 month ago

Are Carney’s Cuts “DOGE” Canada?

Episode 1215

In July, Mark Carney made it clear to public workers that there would be a tightening of the belt. Ministers were told to save 15% from their departmental budgets over the next three years. The deadl…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Why Does Labour Only Get Covered When There's a Strike?

Episode 1214

The Air Canada strike this past weekend affected tens of thousands of Canadians and international travelers. The negotiations have been going on for eight months, the contract renewal was known about…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Young People Can't Find Work and It's Messing Them Up

Episode 1213

Our kids are broke and seriously unemployed.  We're in the dog days of summer, and for generations, that marked the end of scooping ice cream at the corner shop, pulling espresso shots at the café, o…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Ottawa Guy Invents World's Best/Worst A.I. Attack Bot

Episode 1212

Singh built a bot. It’s a concoction of ChatGPT, Grok, and a handful of other advanced AI systems that might destroy truth-based civil discourse once and for all.

Or.

What if that same technology could…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

The Gutless Wonder of TIFF

Episode 1211

TIFF’s whiff and the legacy of Trudeau’s media policies. 

Carney is reversing course on the Liberal’s approach to media, but can the Canadian media ecosystem exorcise the ghost of Trudeau? 

Host: Jesse…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

BONUS: Why Canadaland Doesn’t Have Interns

Episode 10

Last year Canadaland launched a new initiative called the Canadalabs Audio Journalism Fellowship programme, where we hired two young reporters to come and produce a story with us and learn from our t…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Evan Almighty: Our A.I. Minister is Glitching

Episode 1210

Is Evan Solomon a chatbot? Deciphering the Minister of AI’s jargon-filled tech-speak. Canada is going all in on AI, but what is the plan, exactly?

Plus, new Trudeau tea and a controversial National Po…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

The Productivity Crisis: are Canadians Just Lazy?

Episode 1209

Apparently, the reason you’re broke isn’t just because of your questionable shopping addiction, it’s because Canada has a full-blown productivity crisis… To host Noor Azrieh, that seems dramatic. She…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago