- Short Cuts #297 - Vax Canadiana
Thursday, February 18th 2021
Canadian media have lost the plot around the vaccine rollout. And a Montreal-based website makes the list of COVID-19 conspiracy theory superspreaders.
Globe and Mail health columnist André Picard co-hosts.
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- Ep. 359 - The Convenient "Pretendian"
Monday, February 15th 2021
Michelle Latimer was the buzziest Canadian director and showrunner of 2020. Her documentary Inconvenient Indian premiered at TIFF and reaped plaudits and awards. Her series Trickster, based on a novel by Eden Robinson, debuted on the CBC and was slated for a second season. But it all came crashing down in December when a CBC investigation called into question Latimer's Indigenous identity claims.
Why does the Canadian cultural establishment make darlings of figures like Latimer? Ryan McMahon joins Jesse to discuss.
Then documentary filmmaker Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, who is featured in Inconvenient Indian, considers the ethics and responsibility of storytelling, and why this controversy has been hurtful to so many Indigenous people.
And Steven Lonsdale, whose seal hunt Latimer filmed for Inconvenient Indian, explains what he'd like to see done with that footage now that the documentary has been pulled from distribution.
Correction: In this episode, Jesse says that author Eden Robinson has promised to donate all future author royalties from the Trickster books to the Haisla Language Authority. In fact, Robinson has promised to donate future income from the Trickster TV series to the Haisla people.
Clarification: In an earlier version of this episode, Jesse said, “The CBC dug in to census records that say Latimer's grandfather was not Indigenous or Métis, as [Latimer] had claimed, but French-Canadian,” a formulation that erroneously and unintentionally implied that the Métis are not Indigenous. We have amended the episode to remove this implication.
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- Short Cuts #296 - The Great Flattening
Thursday, February 11th 2021
Our digital worlds are collapsing. Jon Kay is on Fox News complaining about Seth Rogen, while celebrities are sharing the stage with normal people on Clubhouse to talk about ramen. What is Clubhouse anyway? And why did China ban it? Plus, a student journalist files a human rights complaint against his school paper, claiming they fired him over his Catholic beliefs. Freelance writer Roger Huang co-hosts.
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- Ep. 358 - How India Blames Canada (And Rihanna) For The Farmers Protest
Monday, February 8th 2021
The Indian government doesn't take criticism lightly, whether it's from Prime Minister Trudeau... or Rihanna. Baaz co-founder Jaskaran Sandhu breaks down why thousands of Indian farmers are camped out around Delhi, their connection to the Sikh and Punjabi diaspora here in Canada, and how his three-week-old newsletter plans to cover it.
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- Short Cuts #295 - Dog Shampoo
Thursday, February 4th 2021
Reddit did not actually stand up to Wall Street and prove the power of the little guy. Jon Kay briefly sparks joy. The Canadian government is working to radically transform the internet and Facebook wants in.
Maclean's contributing editor and partner at the Rezistans Nwa podcast network Andray Domise co-hosts.
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