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Short Cuts #301 - Jason Kenney Vs. Bigfoot
What's the best way to cover allegations of sexual misconduct in the Canadian Armed Forces - or just generally, really? And the Alberta government ha…
5 years, 1 month ago
Ep. 363 - Interview With A Real Life Bond Villain
Ari Ben-Menashe has been an Israeli spy, sold weapons to Iran, survived a firebombing, and been the target of at least one RCMP investigation. He cro…
5 years, 1 month ago
Short Cuts #300 - Do You Like Pink Slips And Scram? HuffPost! BuzzFeed! Canned, I Am
HuffPost Canada is dead. The Ryerson School of Journalism faces a crisis. And a very serious, important conversation about Dr. Seuss.
The Nation's nat…
5 years, 1 month ago
Ep. 362 - The Millionaires Of Haiti
A Haitian senator's wife paid $4.25 million—all money down—for a house in Laval, Quebec. Meanwhile in Haiti, people have been protesting against corr…
5 years, 2 months ago
Short Cuts #299 - Hard News, Loose Slots
Torstar gets into the gambling business. Americans get caught up on the WE scandal. And documents suggest Canada's two major newspaper chains traded …
5 years, 2 months ago
Ep. 361 - Will Government Media Rules Strangle Canadaland?
In February, as the Australian government prepared to introduce a link tax, Facebook blocked all news from its Australian platform. The new legislat…
5 years, 2 months ago
Short Cuts #298 - The Times, They Are a-Cronkin'
Canada's vote to call China's treatment of Uyghurs a genocide exposes an online wave of China apologists on the far left. And the New York Times brin…
5 years, 2 months ago
Ep. 360 - How An Extreme Catholic News Site Went Full QAnon
LifeSiteNews may be the biggest Canadian news outlet you've never heard of — a kind of Breitbart for traditionalist Catholics. A new investigation pu…
5 years, 2 months ago
Short Cuts #297 - Vax Canadiana
Canadian media have lost the plot around the vaccine rollout. And a Montreal-based website makes the list of COVID-19 conspiracy theory superspreader…
5 years, 2 months ago
Ep. 359 - The Convenient "Pretendian"
Michelle Latimer was the buzziest Canadian director and showrunner of 2020. Her documentary Inconvenient Indian premiered at TIFF and reaped plaudits…
5 years, 2 months ago