Dr. Chandu Claver came to Canada not by choice. In this episode, we talk about the difficulty cost of being granted refugee status in Canada, Dr. Claver's personal story of being forced to leave home, and the need for being open to other's expe

Season Finale

Mar 11th, 2017 58m 38s

In the season finale of Deprogrammed, we talk about the broader concepts of public conversation, how different media influence that conversation, where truth fits in and what happens when that conversation breaks down. Blackspace founder and Ra

Independent Media

Mar 3rd, 2017 1h 1m

This week we sat down with local independent media people Anastasia Chipelski, Kevin Settee and Anna Sigrithur to talk about the responsibilities in producing media, the freedoms independent media has, and what independent media does for foster

Seeking asylum in Manitoba

Feb 24th, 2017 50m 16s

This week we take a close look at coverage of the recent influx of people seeking asylum over the southern Manitoba border with Lisa Stepnuk of No One Is Illegal and Diwa Marcelino of Migrante. We talk about how coverage shapes public opinion o

The Power of Language

Feb 17th, 2017 1h 6m

This week's episode is a throwback and a deeper look at the broad theme of this podcast. This episode was the first one recorded back in October, with Peter Ives of the University of Winnipeg's Political Science faculty, and Jen Glenwright, who

Fake News

Feb 10th, 2017 1h

This week we sat down with Inayat Singh, Social Editor at CBC Manitoba, to talk about the recent obsession with fake news in the US, and how it's impacting information flow in many places. We touch on where it comes from, how it's existed for a

Trump's Flight Ban

Feb 3rd, 2017 1h 2m

This week I sat down with local cartoonist and feminist Autumn Crossman to talk about the flight ban affecting people worldwide. We look at the coverage of the ban, how quickly it gained attention, how much of the coverage overlapped with the s

Women's March on Washington

Jan 27th, 2017 1h

This week we sat down with Jez Morales, LGBT* Centre Coordinator at the UWSA to talk about how the Women's march was covered and what it's brought to the public conversation. We touched on a few really important parts: This is the first time ne

News Satire

Jan 20th, 2017 51m 8s

This week we sit down with Chad Anderson, a local comedian in Winnipeg, about the role of satire news sites like The Onion, how humor works over Twitter, and the role of humor in life. We figure it functions in news pretty similarly to humor in

Premier Pallister's work in Costa Rica

Jan 14th, 2017 1h 1m

On this week's episode, I sat down with Kristin Annable, journalist at the Winnipeg Free Press and soon at the CBC, to talk about how she broke the story that Premier Pallister doesn't check his email when in Costa Rica for 2 months of the year

Boyden Identity Crisis

Jan 4th, 2017 1h 3m

This week I sat down with Sadie-Pheonix Lavoie and Jacqueline Pelland, who both have mixed Indigenous identity and have positions on the University of Winnipeg Students' Association, to talk about the recent controversy around Joseph Boyden's c

Syrian Refugee Crisis

Dec 16th, 2016 59m 54s

This week we sat down with Matthew Lawrence and Madilyn Jantz, two of a private sponsor group for Syrian families in Winnipeg, to talk about how the crisis has been covered in the West, and specifically why there's so little coverage until too

Context

Dec 9th, 2016 1h 1m

I sat down with Sheila North Wilson, Grand Cheif of MKO, and Matthew Tenbruggencate, Director of Communications for Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce to talk the importance of context in news media. Both are Creative Communications grads and have pr

Steven Galloway and Sexual Assault

Dec 2nd, 2016 1h

We sat down with Jade DeFehr, the Status of Women Director for the University of Winnipeg Students' Association to talk about recent coverage of an older issue. In 2015, Steven Galloway was suspended from his position at UBC for "miscounduct".

University of Manitoba Faculty strike

Nov 25th, 2016 1h 1m

UMFA VP Janet Morrill, U of M student Taylor Crawley, and CUPW President Basia Sokal join me to talk coverage of the recent strike at the University of Winnipeg. The strike took place for a number of reasons, some of which the news media didn't

Media's Role in the US Election

Nov 18th, 2016 59m 10s

Jason Hannan and Matthew Flisfeder, professors from University of Winnipeg's Rhetoric and Communications department, join me to talk about how different media influenced the American election. They determine that yes, news media and social medi

Manitoba's Correctional System

Nov 11th, 2016 1h

I spoke with Tracy Booth, former executive director of the Elizabeth Fry Society, and Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land, a Criminal Justice faculty member at University of Winnipeg and organizer with Bar None Winnipeg about coverage of deaths in the Winnipe

CETA and Free Trade Agreements

Nov 4th, 2016 57m 58s

This week, former CKUW News Director Michael Welch joins us to talk impacts of free trade agreements and why mainstream news doesn't deliver the full story. Most articles talk about the economic impacts, but they don't mention the daily impacts

Dakota Access Pipeline coverage

Oct 28th, 2016 1h

I sat down with Lenard Monkman, a founder at Red Rising Magazine and an associate producer at CBC Indigenous, to talk about why Dakota Access Pipeline protests are not being covered by mainstream media. We touched on how news treats indigenous

Shoal Lake Coverage

Oct 21st, 2016 1h 2m

Austin Grabish, a journalist at CBC, and Angelina McLeod, an Indigenous activist, talk about recent stories covering Shoal Lake's barge breakdown and recent "Freedom Road" developments. We discuss why coverage comes in crisis times and how othe

Carbon Pricing in the News

Oct 14th, 2016 59m 33s

I sat down with Hazim Ismail, a local migrant justice and LGBTTQ* activist, and Mandalyn Unger, a queer eco-feminist who practices off-grid sustainability, to talk coverage of environment politics. We touched on why Trudeau's announcement got c

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