Podcast Episodes

Ep. 276 - Twenty Years After Napster: Cory Doctorow On What Went Wrong

Digital media has been gentrified into a mall, says the digital rights activist and author. Cory Doctorow tells Jesse how consolidation and platform silos keep the biggest tech and media companies on…

Published on 6 years, 7 months ago

SHORT CUTS #211 - Your Body Is A Newfoundland

Was the recent Simpsons episode about Canada offensive? Was it even funny? And, finally, the mainstream media seems to be paying attention to the rising threat of white terrorism in Canada.

Alheli Pi…

Published on 6 years, 8 months ago

Ep. 275 - Sneaking Chinese Propaganda Into The Canadian Media

A popular pundit has a curious connection: her company worked for China. South China Morning Post's Vancouver correspondent Ian Young tells Jesse that the Canadian media has "blind spots" when it com…

Published on 6 years, 8 months ago

SHORT CUTS #210 - Raccoon Thirst Trap

Who among us hasn't stabbed a lecherous raccoon with a dessert fork? And Omar Khadr gave his first big interview on Québec television; where was English media on this one?

Nora Loreto co-hosts.

Suppor…

Published on 6 years, 8 months ago

Ep. 274 - Is Facebook Worth Fixing?

And if so, can government regulation crack down on hate speech and election interference on social media without crushing free speech? Jesse asks Natasha Tusikov, a criminology professor who research…

Published on 6 years, 8 months ago

SHORT CUTS #209 - Don't Call Me Jason

Journalism that exposes racism, homophobia, and election fraud: does any of it matter? All of this and more in a look at the Alberta election. And then a check-in with the Globe and Mail's Thunder Ba…

Published on 6 years, 8 months ago

Ep. 273 - The Media Baron Dinner Party Where The News Bailout Was Born

Former CBC exec Richard Stursberg tells Jesse all about it, and about his new book, The Tangled Garden: A Canadian Cultural Manifesto for the Digital Age.

CORRECTION: In this episode, Jesse says Fox …

Published on 6 years, 8 months ago

SHORT CUTS #208 - Oh My God, They Killed Kenney

Jason Kenney's United Conservative Party is imploding before our very eyes — but the Albertan electorate doesn't seem to mind much. And who does Justin Trudeau think he's fooling with a libel threat?…

Published on 6 years, 8 months ago

Ep. 272 - The Best New Podcast In Canada Is About The Opioid Crisis

Crackdown covers the war on drugs from the trenches, and these war correspondents are drug users. Host Garth Mullins joins Jesse to talk about how after watching the media get so much wrong about the…

Published on 6 years, 8 months ago

SHORT CUTS #207 - Tape Your Calls!

If there's one lesson we can take away from what's happened with Jody Wilson-Raybould, it's to tape all of your calls. And what's more important to the Trudeau Liberals: reconciliation or cold hard d…

Published on 6 years, 8 months ago