The recent expansion of the Safe Third Country Agreement — which started as a 9/11 era deal that Canada negotiated in order to exert more control over immigration levels — prohibits asylum seekers from entering at unofficial ports of entry. 

The agreement allows Canada to share responsibility for asylum seekers with the US, because the US is “safe” for refugees. 

But there are years of documented evidence suggesting the US is not actually safe, including two Supreme Court rulings, reports from international human rights organizations, and data on the detainment and deportation of asylum seekers. 

So why have we ignored it? 

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Cherise Seucharan (Reporter), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Further reading:

• new-canada-us-border-deal-will-cost-canadian-taxpayers-at-least-this-much.html">The new Canada-U.S. border deal will cost Canadian taxpayers at least this much, Toronto Star, April 14, 2023
• What the new US-Canada border deal means for asylum seekers, Al-Jazeera, 24 Mar 2023
• Why we are challenging the USA as a “safe third country” in the Federal Court of Canada, Canadian Council for Refugees 
• US: Detention Hazardous to Immigrants’ Health, Human Rights Watch
• Canada could save lives, but closes Roxham Road instead, Law360 Canada

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Deux lettres ouvertes ont été publiées récemment. Une appelle à la prudence avec la recherche en intelligence artificielle, l’autre à une accélération de sa législation par le gouvernement fédéral, via le projet de loi C-27. Montréal rassemble certains des meilleurs chercheurs mondiaux en IA. Aujourd'hui, Emilie s'entretient avec Benjamin Prud'homme, directeur exécutif de IA pour l'Humanité - Mila, l'Institut québécois d'intelligence artificielle. Ensemble, ils démystifie les enjeux éthiques et les dangers qui nous guettent, et réfléchissent au rôle des journalistes scientifiques dans le contexte. 

Two open letters have been published recently. One calls for caution with AI research, the other for an acceleration of the federal government’s legislation around AI, C-27. Montreal is home to some of the world’s leading researchers in AI. Today, Emilie speaks with Benjamin Prud’homme, Executive Director for AI for Humanity at Mila, the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute. Together, they break down the ethical issues and the dangers that could arise, and discuss the role of scientific journalists in this context.

Animation: Emilie Nicolas

Générique: Tristan Capacchione (Producteur)

Coanimation: Benjamin Prud'homme

Pour en savoir plus :

• y-a-urgence-a-adopter-la-loi-sur-l-intelligence-artificielle-et-les-donnees.php">Il y a urgence à adopter la Loi sur l’intelligence artificielle et les données - La Presse
• Angles morts de la gouvernance de l’IA - UNESCO
• canada.ca/tele/tout-le-monde-en-parle/site/segments/entrevue/439404/drag-queen-contes-bibliotheques">BARBADA : VIVE LE CONTE LIBRE! - Tout le monde en parle

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We’re talking the CBC leaving Twitter after being labeled “government-funded media”, while Pierre Poilievre thanks Elon Musk for what he was already going to do. The real losers here are the Canadian public. 

And Barry Hertz’s Globe and Mail takedown of the 11th Canadian Screen Awards - a cringe-y, dull, and insulting showcase of what not to do when highlighting Canadian productions. 

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Ren Bangert (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Guest: Nora Loreto

Further reading: 

• CBC says it’s ‘pausing’ its use of Twitter after ‘government-funded media’ label applied - Globe and Mail
• Embarrassing and condescending, 2023 Canadian Screen Awards failed our film and television artists - Globe and Mail
• The 11th Canadian Screen Awards - CBC livestream 

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canadaLANDBACK is a co-production by Canada’s National Observer and Canadaland.

The landback movement isn’t just about getting land back. It’s more than that. It’s a reclamation of culture too. 

We take a deeper dive into Indigenous versus Canadian law, examine how Canada is hoarding land.

Our guests are Métis artist, activist and thinker Christi Belcourt and Anishinaabe artist and knowledge keeper Issac Murdoch, who took land back and established the culture camp Nimkii Aazhibikong.

Onaman Collective is formed by artists Christi Belcourt and Isaac Murdoch https://onamancollective.com/who-we-are/

Check out other CNO podcasts, including Hot Politics available on Apple Podcasts and wherever you listen to your favourite podcasts.

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Credits: Karyn Pugliese (Producer), Kim Wheeler (Producer), Beverly Andrews (Additional Research)

Featured guests: Christi Belcourt, Issac Murdoch

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From Minecraft to statecraft, Jacobin’s Luke Savage joins Jonathan to chart the bizarre course of a U.S. intelligence leak with potentially explosive implications for Canada. And seemingly inspired by the Musk-fragrant “Twitter Files,” a Conservative MP went on a fishing expedition for examples of the Canadian government over-policing social media. Does turning up a single really solid instance count as a success?

Host: Jonathan Goldsbie

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Guest: Luke Savage

Further reading: 

• From Discord to 4chan: The Improbable Journey of a US Intelligence Leak - Bellingcat 
• Cash Cows: Foreign student recruitment crisis at Canadian universities - W5
• Pro-Russian hackers claim to have targeted Canada’s gas pipeline infrastructure: leaked documents - The Globe and Mail
• CNN, Sunday Morning Shows Completely Ignore Up To 15 Million Americans Being Thrown Off Medicaid - The Column
• 9485-5327-a270-14d8ec3bca61.html">Request to remove newspaper article among Ottawa's queries to social-media giants - The Canadian Press 
• GUNTER: Feds' attempts to have story pulled from social media shows dangers of Bill C-11 - Toronto Sun
• Why the Twitter Files Are in Fact a Big Deal - Jacobin

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The University of Victoria campus used to be overrun with rabbits. It now has few, if any, rabbits.

So what happened to them? Where did they go?

Whatever you’re thinking, you’re probably correct.

Andrew Hynes and Amanda Watland take us down one of Canada’s strangest rabbit holes. Happy Easter!

Produced by Andrew Hynes and Mary Decker, a version of this episode was originally presented on CFUV’s U in the Ring podcast on August 1 and 8, 2019.

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Jonathan Goldsbie (News Editor), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Featured guests: Judith Lavoie, Laura Lee Shaw, Sorelle Saidman, Barbara Smith, Georgeanne Lenham

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A story about criminal charges, a potential lawsuit against the press, leaked tape suggesting a huge overreach of power — could a certain populist politician have finally gone too far?  We’re talking about Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.

And enough is enough in Quebec — a defiant open letter in Le Devoir demanding an end to the toxicity in political discourse, signed by hundreds of scholars and writers. 

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Guest: Emilie Nicolas

Further reading: 

• Danielle Smith discussed COVID charges 'almost weekly' with justice officials, according to leaked call - CBC News
• Why a Secret Recording of Danielle Smith is Blowing Up Alberta Politics Right Now - Press Progress
• QUEBKANDA - Le film  
• Ce ne sont pas que des mots - Le Devoir

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Jody Vance has dealt with harassment for most of her career as a broadcast journalist, but starting in 2015 one of her harassers was different, constantly sending hateful, vile emails. When COVID hit, the problem only got worse as the harasser started targeting more of her guests and B.C.’s Provincial Health Officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry. Who was this person and how do you bring an anonymous online tormentor to justice? 

On March 10, 2023, after seven years of vitriolic emails, Jody finally had her day in court and faced her harasser. 

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Reporter, Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Jonathan Goldsbie (News Editor), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Featured guests: Jody Vance, Jesse Miller, Erica Ifill

Special thanks to Sandy Garossino, columnist at the National Observer

Further reading: 

• Steele & Vance — Chek TV
• The three words a court wouldn’t allow Jody Vance to say to her online abuser — The Globe & Mail
• Women and Racialized Journalists In Canada Facing New Wave Of Harassment And Threats — AntiHate.ca
• Rachel Gilmore’s tweets sharing her phone call with the police
• Saba Eitizaz’s tweets sharing her experience with the police

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Either Beijing has corrupted our democracy at the highest level or agents in the Canadian security apparatus are subverting the PMO by illegally leaking information that's either mistaken, exaggerated or both. Both scenarios are troubling. And the national crime spree that we can’t legally talk much about - youth crime & reporting bans.

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor & Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Guest: Joanna Chiu

Further reading: 

• Liberal MP Han Dong secretly advised Chinese diplomat in 2021 to delay freeing Two Michaels: sources - Global News
• you-understand-foreign-influence-heres-a-guide-to-the-scandal-shaking-canadian-politics.html">Think you understand ‘foreign influence’? Here’s a guide to the scandal shaking Canadian politics - Toronto Star
• interference-in-canada-chinese-canadians-say-they-reported-it-for-years-and-were-ignored.html">Chinese interference in Canada? Chinese Canadians say they reported it for years — and were ignored - Toronto Star
• China’s Vancouver consulate interfered in 2022 municipal election, according to CSIS - Globe and Mail
• China Unbound: A New World Disorder - Joanna Chiu
• New Brunswick patients call on government to reopen investigation into cluster of neurological conditions - Globe and Mail 
• months-in-youth-court-an-inside-look-at-the-toronto-teen-swarming-murder-case.html">Two months in youth court: An inside look at the Toronto teen swarming murder case - Toronto Star
• Mother decries 'senseless' fatal stabbing of son outside Vancouver coffee shop - CBC

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If news can’t be searched for on Google or shared on Facebook, is it even really online? Bill C-18, the Online News Act, is currently before the senate. Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez says that this Bill will help save small newsrooms and local journalism outlets by giving them the power to negotiate with tech giants, deals for payment of news content that is shared on their platforms.

But Meta and Google’s response has been simple: they just won’t allow Canadian news on their platforms. In March, Google ran a test where one million Canadians could no longer see results for Canadian news searches. At the Canada Strong & Free conference in Ottawa last week, Meta said they would also disallow sharing of anything that looks like news on their sites, like Facebook and Instagram. 

Last year, Canadaland and a group of other independent news publishers formed a consortium to lobby the government on this Bill. Today, Jesse sits down again with Senator Paula Simons, as Publisher of Canadaland, to discuss the Bill and not just his own issues with it, but hers too.

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Featured guests: Paula Simons

Further reading: 

• Canada’s Online News Act must be transparent, fair, and include news innovators — Canadaland, Publisher’s Note
• Bill C-18 - Parliament

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