CANADALAND

This week we present a podcast based on our stage show which was based on our book which was based on this podcast. Talk about coming full circle.   In it: should you fuck your Prime Minister?; Why Ca...

31 Jul 201740min

The Toronto Star built an entire exposé on female genital mutilation based predominantly around a mid-level civil servant's email from three years ago.  Also, CBC Comedy is so unfunny it's funny. Or ...

27 Jul 201739min

We revisit a couple of stories that we haven't been able to follow up on to the level to which we'd hoped. At least not on the website, where our News Editor Jonathan Goldsbie makes the ultimate call ...

24 Jul 201743min

The Conservative Party takes their latest wedge issue to the US media, a Quebec town won't let Muslims bury their dead and Trudeau lays out some hot summer jams.   BuzzFeed's Elamin Abdelmahmoud co-ho...

20 Jul 201735min

When the vitriol started to fly over Omar Khadr's $10.5 million settlement and apology from the government, Michelle Shephard got frustrated with just how much people were getting the basic facts wron...

17 Jul 201742min

Journalist Evan Balgord has been covering fringe right groups like the Proud Boys, Soldiers of Odin, and the Three Percenters for the better part of the past year. He joins the COMMONS team to disc...

13 Jul 201736min

Ren Bostelaar posted nude pictures of women he knew to 4chan without their consent. He avoided a criminal record by apologizing and taking a peace bond. Was justice served? Is revenge porn legal in Ca...

10 Jul 201740min

With resistance to Canada150, Indigenous women calling out a reporter at a press conference, and the Proud Boys disrupting a Mi'kmaq ceremony in Halifax, the way people talk about our colonial history...

6 Jul 201733min