Consider this your 2025 political yearbook.
Honorable mentions include: pop stars, masked singers, Question Period fever dreams, elbow-themed merch, biological clocks (obviously), Ruby Dhalla, the taboule or fattoush debate, and much (much) more.
Honorable mentions include: pop stars, masked singers, Question Period fever dreams, elbow-themed merch, biological clocks (obviously), Ruby Dhalla, the taboule or fattoush debate, and much (much) more.
The Year of the Elbows
Consider this your 2025 political yearbook.
Honorable mentions include: pop stars, masked singers, Question Period fever dreams, elbow-themed merch, biological clocks (obviously), Ruby Dhalla, the taboule or fattoush debate, and much (much) more.
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December 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Consider this your 2025 political yearbook.
Honorable mentions include: pop stars, masked singers, Question Period fever dreams, elbow-themed merch, biological clocks (obviously), Ruby Dhalla, the taboule or fattoush debate, and much (much) more.
Honorable mentions include: pop stars, masked singers, Question Period fever dreams, elbow-themed merch, biological clocks (obviously), Ruby Dhalla, the taboule or fattoush debate, and much (much) more.
This week, we speak to the people who manipulate and control your emotions.
“Manipulate. It sounds like we’re doing something evil…” -Darren Fung
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“Manipulate. It sounds like we’re doing something evil…” -Darren Fung
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The Most Powerful Tool in Media
It’s not a secret that music makes us feel things, but how does it do it? How do composers create music that makes us happy, sad, confused, emotional, hopeful, scared, and perhaps even make us laugh from time to time?
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December 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
This week, we speak to the people who manipulate and control your emotions.
“Manipulate. It sounds like we’re doing something evil…” -Darren Fung
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“Manipulate. It sounds like we’re doing something evil…” -Darren Fung
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Pierre’s Downward Spiral
Floor crossers, falling polling numbers, and grumblings in the Conservative orbit.
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December 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
What is a middle power like Canada supposed to do when its closest ally goes rogue?
With @noorazrieh.bsky.social & @benrowswell.bsky.social
With @noorazrieh.bsky.social & @benrowswell.bsky.social
Trump’s Plan to Dominate the Americas (Canada included)
United States Attorney General Pam Bondi is flexing the US’s military seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker as the Trump administration deploys warships — and even nuclear submarines — off Venezuela’s coast.
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December 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
What is a middle power like Canada supposed to do when its closest ally goes rogue?
With @noorazrieh.bsky.social & @benrowswell.bsky.social
With @noorazrieh.bsky.social & @benrowswell.bsky.social
Somebody had taken a pound of PCP and dumped it into the chowder. We have a pretty strong suspicion who it was, although it was never proven.
-James Cameron
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-James Cameron
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Who Drugged James Cameron? A Titanic Mystery
The mystery of who drugged the cast and crew of the blockbuster Titanic is Hollywood lore. In 1996 James Cameron shot part of Titanic in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, when someone dumped PCP into the clam chowder the team was sharing on the last night of shooting. Over 50 people ended up in hospital.
www.canadaland.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Somebody had taken a pound of PCP and dumped it into the chowder. We have a pretty strong suspicion who it was, although it was never proven.
-James Cameron
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-James Cameron
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Liberals are teaming up with the Bloc Quebecois to pass Bill C-9 by amending existing hate speech laws that exempt religious texts.
But do we even need to update our hate crime laws in the first place?
Jan Wong co-hosts
But do we even need to update our hate crime laws in the first place?
Jan Wong co-hosts
Is Carney Really Making Christianity a Hate Crime?
The politics of Canada’s proposed hate crime law, Bill C-9.
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December 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Liberals are teaming up with the Bloc Quebecois to pass Bill C-9 by amending existing hate speech laws that exempt religious texts.
But do we even need to update our hate crime laws in the first place?
Jan Wong co-hosts
But do we even need to update our hate crime laws in the first place?
Jan Wong co-hosts
Chinese dissident in Canada? That’s a paddlin’
Jan Wong co-hosts
Jan Wong co-hosts
Death by Kayak: a True Spy Story
In 2022, artist Hua Yong died while kayaking off the Sunshine Coast in BC. A former Chinese agent alleges it was a murder.
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December 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Chinese dissident in Canada? That’s a paddlin’
Jan Wong co-hosts
Jan Wong co-hosts
Legault’s government is sinking, the PQ is surging, and Secularism 2.0 just dropped. @samkonnert asks: is Quebec actually heading toward a referendum? Plus: John Rustad on being pushed out by his own MLAs.
Tabernac to the Future: Referendum Likely Coming
As Premier François Legault plunges in the polls, he’s panic-legislating: turbo-charging secularism laws, unveiling a “made-in-Quebec” constitution, and reigniting old identity battles that haven’t burned this hot in decades.
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December 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Legault’s government is sinking, the PQ is surging, and Secularism 2.0 just dropped. @samkonnert asks: is Quebec actually heading toward a referendum? Plus: John Rustad on being pushed out by his own MLAs.
“ It's not the time to turn your back and say, these are the wrong kind, these are not Canadians, or these are not our kind of people, or these are misinformed people.” -David Cayley
How the CBC Divides Canadians
The CBC is broken: how should it be fixed? Former CBC-er David Cayley has some ideas.
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December 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
“ It's not the time to turn your back and say, these are the wrong kind, these are not Canadians, or these are not our kind of people, or these are misinformed people.” -David Cayley
The rise of the AI journalist. Is it inevitable or already here?
@jamesnicholson.bsky.social hosts with Jay Caspian Kang
@jamesnicholson.bsky.social hosts with Jay Caspian Kang
How to Break Into Journalism: an AI Scam Story
A story in The Local reveals how AI writing is infiltrating newsrooms, flooding inboxes, and snagging bylines in major outlets.
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December 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The rise of the AI journalist. Is it inevitable or already here?
@jamesnicholson.bsky.social hosts with Jay Caspian Kang
@jamesnicholson.bsky.social hosts with Jay Caspian Kang
Someone thinks we should buy time on AM radio. Also, Alberta is Calling, quite literally, and they want a show.
BONUS: You Told Us How To Spend Our Money
Every year for the past 11 or so years, Canadaland has run a crowdfunding campaign in the fall. We finished up this year’s campaign in late November, and so we wanted to hear from you, about what we should do with all of your hard earned money. After all, Jesse Brown has said that “We work for you.”
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December 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Someone thinks we should buy time on AM radio. Also, Alberta is Calling, quite literally, and they want a show.
What if Canada isn’t in a tariff war? What if we’re in a cold war?
@jamesnicholson.bsky.social hosts with Jay Caspian Kang
@jamesnicholson.bsky.social hosts with Jay Caspian Kang
Canada's in a Cold War with America, but America Hasn't Noticed
It’s been one year since Trump started threatening Canada’s economy and our sovereignty. But with all this story’s twists and turns, have Canadians grown complacent about what’s at stake?
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December 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
What if Canada isn’t in a tariff war? What if we’re in a cold war?
@jamesnicholson.bsky.social hosts with Jay Caspian Kang
@jamesnicholson.bsky.social hosts with Jay Caspian Kang
Carney replaces one Trudeau-era Minister with another Trudeau-era Minister. Plus, we go behind the velvet rope of the Hill’s most “exclusive” celebrity party. Oh, and Carney makes Smith’s pipeline dream come true.
When Carney Met Smith-y
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has been pressuring Prime Minister Mark Carney for months on a new pipeline to the BC coast, and after a new MOU, she’s closer than ever. Host Noor Azrieh unpacks this deal with The Hub’s Falice Chin.
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December 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Carney replaces one Trudeau-era Minister with another Trudeau-era Minister. Plus, we go behind the velvet rope of the Hill’s most “exclusive” celebrity party. Oh, and Carney makes Smith’s pipeline dream come true.
“This idea of ‘gamblification,’ they're actually tracing features found in casino games that are being reproduced in games for little children.”
- Sarah Grimes, professor in communication studies and the Wolf Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill
- Sarah Grimes, professor in communication studies and the Wolf Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill
How Roblox Turns Kids Into Gamblers
One of the world’s biggest online gaming sites, Roblox, is in the courts. The cases involve the alleged sexual exploitation of a minor, online harassment, and business practices that lead to addiction.
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December 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
“This idea of ‘gamblification,’ they're actually tracing features found in casino games that are being reproduced in games for little children.”
- Sarah Grimes, professor in communication studies and the Wolf Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill
- Sarah Grimes, professor in communication studies and the Wolf Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill
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The NDP is in the fight of its life: 7 seats, debt, infighting, and vibes of a group project gone wrong.
Tonight, 5 people who want to inherit this chaos hit the debate stage.
Here’s who they are and why they think they can fix things:
www.canadaland.com/ndp-leadersh...
Tonight, 5 people who want to inherit this chaos hit the debate stage.
Here’s who they are and why they think they can fix things:
www.canadaland.com/ndp-leadersh...
Five (Delusional? Brave?) NDP Leadership Candidates on WTF They Plan to Do
We spoke to all five NDP leadership candidates ahead of their debate. Here's what they each had to say.
www.canadaland.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The NDP is in the fight of its life: 7 seats, debt, infighting, and vibes of a group project gone wrong.
Tonight, 5 people who want to inherit this chaos hit the debate stage.
Here’s who they are and why they think they can fix things:
www.canadaland.com/ndp-leadersh...
Tonight, 5 people who want to inherit this chaos hit the debate stage.
Here’s who they are and why they think they can fix things:
www.canadaland.com/ndp-leadersh...
☎️ We’re doing a call-in show TOMORROW!!!
It’s time for another Off The Record call-in show, and with our 2025 crowdfunding season all wrapped up, we have a question for you:
How would you like to see Canadaland spend its money in 2026?
It’s time for another Off The Record call-in show, and with our 2025 crowdfunding season all wrapped up, we have a question for you:
How would you like to see Canadaland spend its money in 2026?
November 26, 2025 at 6:26 PM
☎️ We’re doing a call-in show TOMORROW!!!
It’s time for another Off The Record call-in show, and with our 2025 crowdfunding season all wrapped up, we have a question for you:
How would you like to see Canadaland spend its money in 2026?
It’s time for another Off The Record call-in show, and with our 2025 crowdfunding season all wrapped up, we have a question for you:
How would you like to see Canadaland spend its money in 2026?
We sat all five NDP leadership candidates and asked them how they plan to bring their party back from the dead.
Every NDP Leadership Candidate on WTF They Would Do
The federal NDP leadership race is officially on. Five candidates want the job, and each of them thinks they know how to rescue a party that's been drifting into irrelevance
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November 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
We sat all five NDP leadership candidates and asked them how they plan to bring their party back from the dead.
“ Our concern is that we will see maternal or fetal death as a result of a lack of access to care in Kamloops.” -Alix Dolson
Every OBGYN in this Canadian City has Resigned
In October, seven OBGYNs at a Kamloops, B.C. hospital signed a letter of resignation. Those seven were the only OBGYNs in the city.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
“ Our concern is that we will see maternal or fetal death as a result of a lack of access to care in Kamloops.” -Alix Dolson
The Liberals say they’re “taking back control” of Canada’s immigration system by cutting study permits and temporary residents by half.
But what happens to the 3 million people already here?
But what happens to the 3 million people already here?
The Fu*kit Budget
Noor talks to immigration expert Rupa Banerjee about whether this is a fix… or the start of Canada’s next crisis.
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November 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The Liberals say they’re “taking back control” of Canada’s immigration system by cutting study permits and temporary residents by half.
But what happens to the 3 million people already here?
But what happens to the 3 million people already here?
A Jew in Canada is now 9 times more likely to be a victim of a hate crime than a Jew in the United States. How did a country known for politeness, diversity, and social democracy become seized by a wave of anti-Jew hatred?
November 17, 2025 at 6:33 PM
A Jew in Canada is now 9 times more likely to be a victim of a hate crime than a Jew in the United States. How did a country known for politeness, diversity, and social democracy become seized by a wave of anti-Jew hatred?