The Drake/Kendrick rap beef has overtaken the internet. A flurry of diss tracks has captured the attention of millions, but now a shooting outside of Drake’s Toronto mansion reveals the violent potential of this rhetorical battle. Jan Wong reports from the Drake’s Mansion and Jesse offers his analysis of the journalistic underpinnings of the modern rap beef.
Plus, there was foreign interference after all, but was it everything the media reported? What Justice Hogue’s initial report tells us (and doesn’t tell us) about the state of Canadian democracy.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Guest: Jan Wong
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How Canada Became An International Joke
Margaret Atwood — The CANADALAND Interview
(Short Cuts) Danielle Smith’s Edge of Sovereignty
Is Jesse a Zionist? (editorial)
How Flacks Spin Hacks
(Détours) Militer en tant que personne alliée
Rick Mercer — The CANADALAND Interview
(Short Cuts) Secondhand News From Gaza
Thunder Bay: Post-Mortem, Part 2
(Short Cuts) The Jeffrey Epsteins of Canada
The Newfoundlander: Chapter 3
Thunder Bay: Post-Mortem, Part 1
(Détours) Les jeunes et les symptômes de la violence
Who really runs the Canadaland newsroom?
(Short Cuts) A Liberal Plot Against Trudeau?
The Newfoundlander: Chapter 2
The Aquanaut
(Short Cuts) Buffy Sainte-Marie: Coincidence or Likely Stories?
The Newfoundlander: Chapter 1
The news cycle doesn’t care about our plans
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