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  • Danielle Smith’s Hottest Takes

    October 19, 2026 · 22 min

    So today is the day of the Alberta referendum. And we just wanted to share with you some more of my conversation with Jeremy Appel. Here we dig into Danielle Smith’s origins as a media personality, and what that can teach us about her as a…

  • Can Danielle Smith Control Alberta Separatism?

    October 16, 2026 · 7 min

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit hatchetmedia.ca Monday is the big day. The modern Alberta separatist movement has existed in one form or another since the 1980s. And Monday's referendum represents the closest…

  • What The Hell Just Happened In Quebec? (w/ Nora Loreto)

    October 13, 2026 · 10 min

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit hatchetmedia.ca Remember 2014? Pauline Marois, the Parti Québécois Premier of Quebec, had just called an election, trying to turn her minority into a majority. She was running…

  • Does Mark Carney even care about competition?

    October 7, 2026 · 40 min

    There’s something that I’ve noticed lately when it comes to how we talk about whatever is happening in Canada these days. Every announcement from the government, every hot take from the newspaper columnists and the talking heads on the…

  • Actually, privatizing Canada’s airports is a bad thing

    September 16, 2026 · 12 min

    Allowing big, private money to buy up chunks of our airports has been a long-held neo-liberal dream in Canada. Kim Campbell proposed it during her short-lived government, as did Justin Trudeau in 2017. They were both hoping to follow in…

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  • What Happened in Barcelona | A Few Bad Apples

    August 24, 2026 · 26 min

    The Toronto police have had a rough few months. Back in May, while the police service was still reeling from the fallout of the worst corruption scandal in recent history, three off-duty TPS officers were arrested in Barcelona, Spain. In…

  • How to Organize in a Plague

    July 23, 2026 · 11 min

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit hatchetmedia.ca If you were an openly gay man in Toronto in 1980, chances are that you would’ve thought that life was getting better. After all, the last decade had seen so…

  • Quebec cops killed a teenage boy. Now they’re targeting his friends.

    July 10, 2026 · 19 min

    The Montreal police have arrested and charged the friends of an unarmed teenage boy who was shot and killed by the Longueuil police last year. Meanwhile, the police officer who killed Nooran Rezayi is a free man. The whole thing stinks of…

  • Chaos in the Saint John Police Force | A Few Bad Apples

    June 25, 2026 · 15 min

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit hatchetmedia.ca There’s an unfortunate tendency to talk about the cops as some kind of a monolith. And don’t worry, I’m not about to go on some lecture about how not all police…

  • Inside Canada’s Billionaire Sexual Assault Trial

    June 17, 2026 · 1 hr 14 min

    For the last few years, it’s become almost a cliché to talk about how we’re in the middle of a new era of accountability when it comes to sexual violence. Whether it’s the prosecution of Harvey Weinstein or the ongoing revelations from…

  • The RCMP’s War on Dissent | A Few Bad Apples

    June 11, 2026 · 12 min

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit hatchetmedia.ca There’s this idea out there that often gets bandied about; that the RCMP, from its very inception, has been a tool of political repression. People claim that…

  • The Killing of Nooran Rezayi | A Few Bad Apples

    June 5, 2026 · 47 min

    This is the first installment of "A Few Bad Apples," a new, ongoing series about police misconduct from The Hatchet. Across Canada, police continue to act with impunity. Toronto is amidst the worst policing crisis in its history. And while…

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The Hatchet is a podcast and newsletter dedicated to exposing power and money in Canada. Hosted by Arshy Mann, The Hatchet delivers important, original and fascinating journalism about how this country actually works, in a way that no one else can. hatchetmedia.ca