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What Is Happening Here | Canadaland Investigates

The End of Canadaland

What Is Happening Here | Canadaland Investigates

Canadaland

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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The first episode of Canadaland was published ten years ago today. If we were to announce this is the last episode of Canadaland, no one would be surprised.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

If I were to tell you right now, that's it.

0:02.6

We're done.

0:04.0

This is the last Canada land.

0:07.3

Nobody would be surprised.

0:09.4

Some people would be upset, some people would be happy,

0:12.0

but nobody would be surprised

0:13.7

because that's just what media companies do.

0:16.9

Especially in Canada, they die.

0:19.7

We saw 72 newspapers disappear just a few weeks ago.

0:25.0

I was born into this.

0:26.4

My first media job was as a columnist

0:29.1

for Saturday Night Magazine.

0:30.5

Saturday Night Magazine, it had been around for over 100 years

0:34.1

and I was there to see it die.

0:35.6

I was part of the last incarnation.

0:38.5

I've seen Shift, Toro, the grid,

0:41.3

Haffington Post Canada, Buzzfeed Canada, Vice Canada,

0:44.5

Grand Opening, Grand Closing.

0:46.9

I've seen things that were institutions,

0:50.1

things that I thought had always been here

0:53.7

and always would be.

0:55.2

And I could be talking here about Now Magazine

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