When the group chat’s spiraling and your For You Page is a trainwreck, it’s hard to know what’s real — or what matters. Canadaland Politics (formerly The Backbench) cuts through the noise with bold ...

Two acclaimed historians talk about the state of democracy and freedom in the world today. From The Paul Wells Show, two acclaimed historians talk about the state of democracy and freedom in the world ...

Lessons from Winnipeg, Canada’s most Indigenous city. Emilie Nicolas talks to Niigaan Sinclair about what reconciliation looks like in practice and why Winnipeg is ground zero for Indigenous relations ...

At the age of 13, Craig Kielburger confronted Prime Minister Jean Chrétien on an issue that had become his crusade: abolishing the use of child labour in developing and third-world countries. The ...

Each week we take you behind the headlines – bringing you expert analysis, heated opinion and thoughtful debate on the stories everybody is talking about and the ones they aren’t but should be.

When Vice editor “Slava P” reached out to young journalists with job offers, they thought it was about freelance writing. Instead, he asked them to smuggle nearly $20 million worth of cocaine into ...

The Irvings are secretive billionaires who have a monopoly on New Brunswick's news media. Journalist Jacques Poitras, author of Irving vs Irving, describes how the family subtly suppresses criticism ...

If you’re having trouble keeping track of the many ways the federal government is subsidizing selected news organizations, you can be forgiven. There are plenty of them, and the number keeps growing.

Guest Host Sheila Heti (Motherhood, How Should a Person Be?) speaks with fellow “ autofiction ” author Rachel Cusk (A Life’s Work, Aftermath, et al). The Giller-nominated writers discuss receiving ...

In 2020, Tara Henley published Lean Out: A Meditation on the Madness of Modern Life, a nonfiction look at burnout that drew heavily on her 2016 experience of leaving a contract job at the CBC in ...

Late in the evening of Friday, June 11, a tweet was posted on the account for the federal ministry of women and gender equality. It featured a woman in only a long white t-shirt looking out a window.

Canada, 1974. A safe and sexy sports car is made entirely in New Brunswick… by an American. Some allege he’s a conman. When working on one of our episodes of the Politics edition about tariffs, senior ...