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Canadaland
Canadaland is a Canadian company that operates a news site and a network of podcasts. It was founded by Jesse Brown in 2013. Canadaland has produced podcasts on Canadian media, art and culture, cooking, medicine, and politics. Podcasts include the original ''Canadaland'' podcast, ''Commons,'' ''Cool Mules, The White Saviors,'' and ''Thunder Bay''. Podcast production has been funded partly through advertisements, and since 2014, through the crowdfunding site, Patreon. A year after the podcast was launched, it was attracting about 10,000 listeners every week. By late 2018, Canadaland's five podcasts reached 100,000 weekly listeners. In 2020, the podcasts were downloaded over 9 million times in 2020, making it one of the most popular podcasts in Canada. Podcasts Canadaland podcast was launched by Jesse Brown in the autumn of 2013. By 2015, it had become a "podcast network and a news organization with staff". The original Canadaland podcast covered predominantly Canadian media a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The White Saviours
Canadaland is a Canadian company that operates a news site and a network of podcasts. It was founded by Jesse Brown (journalist), Jesse Brown in 2013. Canadaland has produced podcasts on Canadian media, art and culture, cooking, medicine, and politics. Podcasts include the original ''Canadaland'' podcast, ''Commons,'' ''Cool Mules, The White Saviors,'' and Thunder Bay (podcast), ''Thunder Bay''. Podcast production has been funded partly through advertisements, and since 2014, through the crowdfunding site, Patreon. A year after the podcast was launched, it was attracting about 10,000 listeners every week. By late 2018, Canadaland's five podcasts reached 100,000 weekly listeners. In 2020, the podcasts were downloaded over 9 million times in 2020, making it one of the most popular podcasts in Canada. Podcasts Canadaland podcast was launched by Jesse Brown in the autumn of 2013. By 2015, it had become a "podcast network and a news organization with staff". The original Canadaland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesse Brown (journalist)
Jesse Benjamin Brown is a Canadian journalist, media personality, and businessperson. In 2013, he founded the ''Canadaland'' podcast that grew into a podcasting company. Brown's 2014 investigative reports with Kevin Donovan, published by the ''Toronto Star'', focussed on various women who claimed to have endured non-consensual violent conduct and workplace sexual harassment from Canadian radio and television personality Jian Ghomeshi. Ghomeshi was later acquitted of all charges at his trial. Early life Born to a Canadian Jewish family and raised in Toronto, Brown attended Northern Secondary School. He got his first experience with the media at the age of sixteen, interning at local radio station Q107's promotions department through his high school's co-op program. At seventeen, inspired by punk zines and "too many" viewings of '' Pump Up the Volume'', Brown started ''Punch'', an underground student newspaper that raised a commotion by running a piece evaluating the school's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cool Mules
''Cool Mules'' is a podcast by Canadaland about a cocaine-smuggling ring led by Slava Pastuk that operated within Vice Media. It won a National Magazine Awards Gold Award for best podcast in 2021. Production Cool Mules was produced and co-written by Jesse Brown; Kasia Mychajlowycz was the host, reporter and producer, Jonathan Goldsbie did research, Nathan Burley did the music, and Chandra Bulucon did the sound design and mixing. It was released in six parts, the first of which was released on March 2, 2020. Synopsis The podcast tells the story of Toronto-based Yaroslav Pastukhov/Slava Pastuk, a Vice Media music editor who goes by the pseudonym of Slava P. The story takes placed between 2014 and 2016, in which Slava P recruits younger Vice employees into an international cocaine-smuggling ring. Themes in the podcast include the gig-economy, worker exploitation, and the line between journalists reporting news and creating news. Critical reception In 2021, Cool Mules wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thunder Bay (podcast)
''Thunder Bay'' is 2018 podcast hosted by Ryan McMahon on the Canadaland network. The podcast critiques the government and police responses to systemic racism and violence directed toward Indigenous peoples in the northern Ontario town of Thunder Bay, in Canada. Production The podcast builds on information contained in the 2017 book ''Seven Fallen Feathers'' by investigative journalist Tanya Talaga of ''The Toronto Star''. ''Seven Fallen Feathers'' documents the unexplained deaths of seven Indigenous youth, all found in rivers close to Thunder Bay. The podcast is presented in five parts, produced by Canadaland, and hosted McMahon, who grew up near Thunder Bay. The production costs of the show were crowd-funded via Patreon. Synopsis The podcast documents systemic racism and corruption in Thunder Bay and the unexplained deaths of young Indigenous people, whose bodies were found in the Kaministiquia and McIntyre Rivers. It documents Thunder Bay Mayor Keith Hobbs' rejection of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arshy Mann
Arshy Mann is a Canadian journalist who presents the Commons podcast for Canadaland. Career In 2013, Mann was the national bureau chief and unofficial historian for the Canadian University Press. He has written for Macleans, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Law Times, MoneySense, The Ubyssey, and Canadian Lawyer InHouse. While working as an intern at The Toronto Star, in 2013 Mann helped identify the house where Rob Ford was photographed smoking crack cocaine. In 2017, Mann reported on the disappearances of gay men from Toronto's gay enclave. Mann was critical of Toronto police's approach to the case and their focus on dating apps. While working at Daily Xtra Mann researched and reported on incel culture and has warned of the increasing extremism and anti-feminism in the culture. Mann has warned of online communities of incels are radicalizing each other and drawn comparisons with how terrorists organize. While at Daily Xtra, Mann criticized the Canadian government f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Goldsbie
Jonathan Goldsbie is a Canadian journalist, and currently the news editor for Canadaland. He has previously worked as a performance artist and as columnist at ''The National Post'', '' NOW Newspaper'' and ''Torontoist.'' He won a National Magazine Award in 2021. Career Goldsbie was previously a member of Toronto’s Public Space Committee, and has worked as a columnist for ''The National Post'', '' NOW Newspaper'' and ''Torontoist''. At ''Now Newspaper'', Goldsbie was the chair of Unifor union-led employee bargaining committee. He is well known for his Twitter account @goldsbie, where he Tweets about Toronto politics. In 2012, Goldsbie organized the performance art piece ''Route 501 Revisited'' as part the Free Fall theatre festival, in which he rented a street car and invited anyone to take Toronto's 501 Streetcar Route, in silence, but with Twitter conversation. In 2022, Goldsbie discovered and Tweeted about 2015 to 2021 homophobic social media posts by newly appointed T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Walrus
''The Walrus'' is an independent, non-profit Canadian media organization. It is multi-platform and produces an 8-issue-per-year magazine and online editorial content that includes current affairs, fiction, poetry, and podcasts, a national speaker series called The Walrus Talks, and branded content for clients through The Walrus Lab. History Creation In 2002, David Berlin, a former editor and owner of the ''Literary Review of Canada'', began promoting his vision of a world-class Canadian magazine. This led him to meet with then-''Harper's'' editor Lewis H. Lapham to discuss creating a "''Harper's'' North," which would combine the American magazine with 40 pages of Canadian content. As Berlin searched for funding to create that content, a mutual friend put him in touch with Ken Alexander, a former high school English and history teacher and then senior producer of CBC Newsworld's ''CounterSpin''. Like Berlin, Alexander was hoping to found an intelligent Canadian magazin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto Star
The ''Toronto Star'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper. The newspaper is the country's largest daily newspaper by circulation. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation and part of Torstar's Daily News Brands (Torstar), Daily News Brands division. The newspaper's offices are located at One Yonge Street in the Harbourfront, Toronto, Harbourfront neighbourhood of Toronto. The newspaper was established in 1892 as the ''Evening Star'' and was later renamed the ''Toronto Daily Star'' in 1900, under Joseph E. Atkinson. Atkinson was a major influence in shaping the editorial stance of the paper, with the paper having reflected his values until his death in 1948. The paper was renamed the ''Toronto Star'' in 1971. The newspaper introduced a Sunday edition in 1973. History The ''Star'' was created in 1892 by striking ''Toronto News'' printers and writers, led by future mayor of Toronto and social reformer Horatio Clarenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
As It Happens
''As It Happens'' is a Canadian interview show that airs on CBC Radio One in Canada and various public radio stations in the United States through Public Radio Exchange. Its 50th anniversary was celebrated on-air on November 16, 2018. It has been one of the most popular and acclaimed shows on CBC Radio. The bulk of the program consists of a CBC journalist, currently Nil Köksal,"Nil Köksal is the new host of CBC's As It Happens — and she's ready to make radio 'magic'" , July 11, 2022. conducting |
Now (newspaper)
''Now'' (styled as ''NOW''), also known as ''NOW Magazine'' is an online publication based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Throughout most of its existence, ''Now'' was a free alternative weekly newspaper. Physical publication of ''Now'' was suspended in August 2022, and there are no current plans to resume printed publication. Publication history ''Now'' was first published on September 10, 1981, by Michael Hollett and Alice Klein."Publisher of Toronto's iconic NOW Magazine files for bankruptcy." ''blogTO'', April 1, 2022. ''NOW'' is an alternative weekly that covers news, culture, arts, and entertainment. In its printed incarnation, ''NOW'' was published 52 times a year and could be picked up in Toronto subway stations, cafes, variety st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBC Ombudsman
CBC News is a division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the news gathering and production of news programs on the corporation's English-language operations, namely CBC Television, CBC Radio, CBC News Network, and CBC.ca. Founded in 1941, CBC News is the largest news broadcaster in Canada and has local, regional, and national broadcasts and stations. It frequently collaborates with its organizationally separate French-language counterpart, Radio-Canada Info. History The first CBC newscast was a bilingual radio report on November 2, 1936. The CBC News Service was inaugurated during World War II on January 1, 1941, when Dan McArthur, chief news editor, had Wells Ritchie prepare for the announcer Charles Jennings a national report at 8:00 pm. Readers who followed Jennings were Lorne Greene, Frank Herbert and Earl Cameron. ''CBC News Roundup'' (French counterpart: ''La revue de l'actualité'') started on August 16, 1943, at 7:45 pm, being replaced by ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto Sun
The ''Toronto Sun'' is an English-language tabloid newspaper published daily in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The newspaper is one of several ''Sun'' tabloids published by Postmedia Network. The newspaper's offices is located at Postmedia Place in downtown Toronto. The newspaper published its first edition in November 1971, after it had acquired the assets of the defunct ''Toronto Telegram'', and hired portions of the ''Telegram''s staff. In 1978, Toronto Sun Holdings and Toronto Sun Publishing were consolidated to form Sun Publishing (later renamed Sun Media Corporation). Sun Publishing went on to form similar tabloids to the ''Toronto Sun'' in other Canadian cities during the late 1970s and 1980s. The ''Sun'' was acquired by Postmedia Network in 2015, as a part of the sale of the ''Sun''s parent company, Sun Media. History In 1971, the Toronto Sun Publishing was created and purchased the syndication operations and newspaper vending boxes from the ''Toronto Telegram'', which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
