Hi, I'm Tony Wong. I'm part of the team here at Canada Land, and I am not a journalist.

I am, however, someone who has watched in quiet horror over the past few years as Canadian journalism

has continued its painful, metaphorical tumble down a comically long flight of stairs.

Case in point, within a few short months of me starting this job, I witnessed Canadian news literally

get banned from two of the world's most popular social media platforms.

Now, if I was at any other media company, one that was stuck in its ways or relied on clicks

to pay the bills, that might have made me nervous. Not here though. At Canada Land, everything we do is

made possible by our supporters. They're the reason I'm able to experiment with

new ways of growing our audience from YouTube to Tik-Tok to whatever comes next because look

Canada Land is a lot of things it's independent it's entertaining it's

informative it's human but it's not stagnant it's passive, and it certainly doesn't sit around twiddling its thumbs

when things get ugly, and neither do our supporters.

So if that sounds like you please go to Canada Land.com slash join to become a supporter.

A warning to indigenous people listening.

This podcast series includes stories of physical and sexual violence, suicide, and death.

Listen with caution and care. The sacred fire for Barbara Kentner and her family burned in the parking lot behind a funeral home for four days and nights during the trial of the man who struck her down for no reason.

Visitors dipped in and out all week, dropping off armloads of hot pizza from the bakery across the street,

and truckloads of brush to spread on the pavement around the fire.

Parents brought their young kids to lay tobacco down and honor Barbara's life,

some of them learning the process from the firekeepers for the very first time.

It was a ceremony, not a protest.

Early in the sunrise and late into the night, there was ceremony and conversation, conversations about what

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