Shortly after the US midterms, the federal Liberal Party released their budget for 2026. Nearly every headline summarizing the document focused on the budget's talking points on affordability, sovereignty and business. But once the details are examined, the hollow proposals couch language, bypass real problems and omit the material reality of where this year's unexpected revenue comes from. Scott sits down to walk through how the budget has been covered, what's misleading or omitted and what Canadians should look out for when reading coverage on the federal government's financial situation.

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After three years of Israel's ethnic cleansing campaign in Gaza and the West Bank, Canadian news media remains committed to a Zionist bias, painting Israel in a humanizing light and downplaying or outright ignoring Palestinians and their humanity. On the Line Media's Samira Mohyedddin, senior journalist at The Breach Desmond Cole and Toronto Metropolitan University Journalism professor and founder of stitched! live journalism join Scott to discuss how to approach ingrained bias in a time of genocide.

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In August of 2021, an Edmonton statue dedicated to Roman Shukhevych, a Ukrainian fascist and Nazi collaborate, was spraypainted with the words "ACTUAL NAZI." In October of 2022, Edmonton journalist and founder of The Progress Report Duncan Kinney was arrested for the act. Over the next four years, the Edmonton Police Service treated the statue as a war memorial, defacement of which carries a maximum of 10 years prison sentence. Edmonton police also surveilled Kinney and his family. On October 19, 2026, Kinney pleaded guilty to the charges and a still from surveillance footage shows him taking a photo of the graffiti. Shama Rangwala, associate professor at York University, joins Scott to discuss this issue, police overreach and what aspects in this story should be prioritized the most.

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