Podcast Episodes

Ep.310 - Why Is The CBC So Schitty?

The CBC wants to play by the same rules that govern digital platforms like Netflix and Amazon. No rules at all. Daniel Bernhard, the executive direct…

6 years, 1 month ago

Short Cuts #245 - I Wanna Live Like Commonwealth People Do

We examine the controversy around stating a plain fact about flight 752. Then, a Royal welcome.   With co-host Nora Loreto.

This episode is spo…

6 years, 1 month ago

Ep.309 - A War Reporter’s Newsroom Battles

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Paul Watson resigned from the Toronto Star in 2015 when they banned him from reporting on a story. We spoke to him …

6 years, 1 month ago

SHORT CUTS #244 - Iran So Far

We’ve heard so much from south of the border about Iran, but how are Canadian media treating this conflict? And The Fifth Estate delivers some spurio…

6 years, 1 month ago

Ep.308 - The Media War Over The Hong Kong Protests

For more than half a year, protesters in Hong Kong have clashed with police. Legacy media organizations in Canada have covered the protests, but a bi…

6 years, 1 month ago

Ep.290 - What It's Like To Want To Die

This episode originally aired on August 12, 2019.

Reporter Anna Mehler Paperny talks about her book, Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in…

6 years, 1 month ago

COMMONS: Dynasties - The Sahotas

The Sahotas are Vancouver’s most notorious slumlords. For decades they’ve let their buildings rot, leaving their tenants to live in filth and desolat…

6 years, 2 months ago

Ep.258 - Christmas in the Newsroom

This episode originally aired on December 23, 2018.

We reached out to Canadian journalists to get their stories about spending the holidays at work. …

6 years, 2 months ago

Ep.307 - NOW and Then

Earlier this month, Toronto’s alt-weekly NOW Magazine was sold to Media Central. Former co-owner and founder of NOW, Michael Hollett, joins to talk …

6 years, 2 months ago

SHORT CUTS #243 - The Media Hit Jobs on Andrew Scheer and Jody Wilson-Raybould

Everyone knows that Andrew Scheer resigned because of his tuition scandal; what this podcast presupposes is: maybe he didn’t? And the manufactured ou…

6 years, 2 months ago