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- Ep. 182 - It Was Illegal To Print Their Names: Alberta's Lost Children
Monday, May 8th 2017
Since the late 1990s nearly 800 children in Alberta government care have Veteran Edmonton Journal columnist Paula Simons has been shining a light on this crisis since from the start.
In November 2016, Simons published a story that shocked the province. It was a story about a four-year-old girl named Serenity. Let down by a wide range of government and non-governmental services, Serenity was the victim of horrific abuse and neglect.
Simons' article, Her name was Serenity. Never forget it. spurred the Notley provincial government to convene an all-party committee to investigate the multiple failings of Alberta's child welfare system.
Her tireless coverage earned Simons honourable mentions from the National Newspaper Awards and the Canadian Committee for World Press Freedom.
She speaks with guest host Omar Mouallem for the episode.
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- SHORT CUTS #117 - Blatch Got Served
Thursday, May 4th 2017
Is the media complicit in popping Harjit Sajjan's balloon?
Also, National Post columnist Christie Blatchford and her parent company, Postmedia are facing a substantial libel suit.
Finally, in the art world, what constitutes cultural appropriation and what's merely blatant plagiarism?
National Magazine Award multiple nominee and May's CANADALAND guest host Omar Mouallem joins us.
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- Ep.181 - Desmond Cole: Celebrated And Resented
Monday, May 1st 2017
On April 20, Toronto Star columnist and Newstalk 1010 host, Desmond Cole, gave a powerful deputation at a Toronto Police Services Board meeting. He then stood in protest, calling on the board to restrict police access to ‘carding’ data. The meeting eventually adjourned, and Cole was escorted out by police officers.
For almost five years now, Cole has been using his platform as a journalist to report on and push back against ‘carding’—which disproportionately affects Black people—by the Toronto Police.
Cole—former host of CANADALAND COMMONS—joins Jesse Brown to discuss recent criticism he’s received from fellow journalists and the public, how mainstream media has failed to highlight the damaging effects of carding, and his new CBC documentary The Skin We’re In, which explores anti-Black racism in Canada.
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- SHORT CUTS #116 - To Hell With Weed, We Have A Fentanyl Crisis
Thursday, April 27th 2017
The Prime Minister showed up at Vice to talk about the Liberal government's marijuana legalization plan, but is blindsided when members of the audience demanded he address the opioid overdose epidemic going on across the country.
Reporters Without Borders released their annual World Press Freedom Index this week. Canada placed 22nd. Two years ago we were in eighth place. What caused this dramatic decline?
Finally, the CBC is scoring some of that sweet Canada150 cash to commission programming it should probably already be making with the $1-billion it receives annually, and J.J. McCullough tries his hand at a nuanced comparison of Canadian and Turkish political systems, but most people just dismiss him as a crackpot.
Tom Henheffer, Executive Director of Canadian Journalists for Free Expression joins us.
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- Ep.180 - Who Buys A Newspaper Chain In 2017?
Monday, April 24th 2017
...The Chronicle Herald's Mark Lever, that's who.
After pleading poverty for nearly 16 months while his reporters, editors, and photographers are strike, he came up with the bucks to buy 28 Atlantic Canadian newspapers from the floundering Transcontinental chain. This gives his company an effective monopoly in Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Prince Edward Island.
We speak with long-time Nova Scotia journalists (and former Transcontinental reporters) Stephen Kimber and Parker Donham about the rationale behind the purchase and whether this benefits news consumers in Atlantic Canada.
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