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Jake Landau (He/Him) 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇺🇦

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🏳️‍🌈 Bi DemSoc Jew 🇨🇦 | Columnist, Podcaster | Threw first pitch at a Jays game one time | Subscribe to my stuff and give me money jakelandau.ca/subscribe

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Jake Landau (He/Him) 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇺🇦 @jakelandau.ca · 3d

NEW PODCAST: @normsworld.bsky.social is back for the fourth time! Listen to Norm talk about the Federal NDP Leadership, Doug Ford’s war on school board trustees, and Marineland’s threat to murder the whales if we don’t pay them money! Tune in! www.jakelandau.ca/p/episode-33...

Episode 33 - Oct 5, 2025 - Norm Di Pasquale

Tories criticize Bill C-2, Kneecap goes after Vince Gasparro, and Marineland threatens to murder some whales

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Norm Di Pasquale🇨🇦 @normsworld.bsky.social · 3d

Always a pleasure Jake! We talked about how the Ford crony school board supervisors maxed out class sizes, actively making public education worse. Even the National Post is mystified at Ford’s school board takeover! Tune in. #topoli #onpoli #onted

Jake Landau (He/Him) 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇺🇦 @jakelandau.ca · 3d

NEW PODCAST: @normsworld.bsky.social is back for the fourth time! Listen to Norm talk about the Federal NDP Leadership, Doug Ford’s war on school board trustees, and Marineland’s threat to murder the whales if we don’t pay them money! Tune in! www.jakelandau.ca/p/episode-33...

Episode 33 - Oct 5, 2025 - Norm Di Pasquale

Tories criticize Bill C-2, Kneecap goes after Vince Gasparro, and Marineland threatens to murder some whales

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Jake Landau (He/Him) 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇺🇦 @jakelandau.ca · 3d

NEW PODCAST: @normsworld.bsky.social is back for the fourth time! Listen to Norm talk about the Federal NDP Leadership, Doug Ford’s war on school board trustees, and Marineland’s threat to murder the whales if we don’t pay them money! Tune in! www.jakelandau.ca/p/episode-33...

Episode 33 - Oct 5, 2025 - Norm Di Pasquale

Tories criticize Bill C-2, Kneecap goes after Vince Gasparro, and Marineland threatens to murder some whales

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Jake Landau (He/Him) 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇺🇦 @jakelandau.ca · 8d

NEW COLUMN: Canadians use slaves to farm our food. But don’t say it out loud, because the truth is apparently rude. www.jakelandau.ca/p/canadians-...

Canadians use slaves to farm our food

But don't say it out loud, because apparently the truth is rude.

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Jake Landau (He/Him) 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇺🇦 @jakelandau.ca · 8d

Okay Satan!

Jake Landau (He/Him) 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇺🇦 @jakelandau.ca · 10d

NEW PODCAST: @noahmcparker.bsky.social returns to the program to discuss the New Leaf Liberals’ success, and his new role as a regional vice-president on the Ontario Liberal Party executive. Tune in! www.jakelandau.ca/p/episode-32...

Episode 32 - Sep 28, 2025 - Noah Parker

Is Canada Post going to die? Is Doug Ford a real conservative? Will speed cameras survive in Toronto?

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Jake Landau (He/Him) 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇺🇦 @jakelandau.ca · 10d

Finally, we can add a real pennant again

Jake Landau (He/Him) 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇺🇦 @jakelandau.ca · 13d

NEW COLUMN: Doug Ford has decided to reward political violence. And if you destroy enough public property, maybe he’ll also change the law for you as well! www.jakelandau.ca/p/doug-ford-...

Doug Ford decides to reward political violence

Destroy enough public property, and you too can change the law!

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Jake Landau (He/Him) 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇺🇦 @jakelandau.ca · 17d

NEW PODCAST: Alyssa Turner joins the program to discuss her professional work in sports media, our personal relationships with sports, and our thoughts on PWHL and WNBA expansion. Tune in! www.jakelandau.ca/p/episode-31...

Episode 31 - Sep 21, 2025 - Alyssa Turner

Anti-American sentiment, Ontario NDP leadership, and more speed camera woes.

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Jake Landau (He/Him) 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇺🇦 @jakelandau.ca · 20d

NEW COLUMN: Civil rights are not up for debate. We must break any and every law passed with the Notwithstanding Clause. www.jakelandau.ca/p/we-must-br...

We must break any and every law passed with the Notwithstanding Clause

Minorities are not bound by laws that oppress them.

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Jake Landau (He/Him) 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇺🇦 @jakelandau.ca · 22d

NEW COLUMN: Nobody seems to recognize it yet, but the New Leaf Liberals have fundamentally changed how political organizing works. The Age of Factions has begun in Canadian Politics. www.jakelandau.ca/p/the-age-of...

The Age of Factions has begun in Canadian Politics

Nobody's grasped it yet, but the New Leaf Liberals have changed everything.

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Jake Landau (He/Him) 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇺🇦 @jakelandau.ca · 24d

like they literally do a joke at the golden globes every year that they make the tv people sit in the back

Jake Landau (He/Him) 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇺🇦 @jakelandau.ca · 24d

NEW COLUMN: Bonnie Crombie wins the vote, but loses the war www.jakelandau.ca/p/bonnie-cro...

Bonnie Crombie wins the vote, but loses the war

Technically enough votes...but in truth nowhere close.

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Jake Landau (He/Him) 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇺🇦 @jakelandau.ca · 27d

NEW PODCAST: The Ontario Liberal AGM begins today! For our front half, we have two short interviews from last night’s New Leaf Liberal pub night, with a pair of candidates for the Ontario Liberal executive, @noahmcparker.bsky.social and Jennifer Alexander! Tune in! www.jakelandau.ca/p/episode-30...

Episode 30 - Sep 12, 2025 - Ontario Liberal AGM Preshow

Live interviews at the New Leaf Liberal pub night

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Jake Landau (He/Him) 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇺🇦 @jakelandau.ca · 28d

NEW COLUMN: Before the Ontario Liberal AGM, delegates receive suspicious mail. Who sent it, who paid for it, and how did they get the home addresses of delegates? www.jakelandau.ca/p/before-the...

Before the Ontario Liberal AGM, delegates receive suspicious mail

Who paid for this, and how did they get a list of delegates' home addresses?

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Jake Landau (He/Him) 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇺🇦 @jakelandau.ca · Sep 7

NEW PODCAST: This week's guest is Mo Amir (@vancolour.bsky.social) from This Is VANCOLOUR, discussing his show on CHEK News and our three Headline Topics of the week! Listen in! www.jakelandau.ca/p/episode-29...

Episode 29 - Sep 7, 2025 - Mo Amir

"Queen of Canada" arrested, EV Mandate cancelled, and BC public servants on strike

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Jake Landau (He/Him) 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇺🇦 @jakelandau.ca · Sep 6

Well, in eight days we'll know who wins

Jake Landau (He/Him) 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇺🇦 @jakelandau.ca · Sep 5

NEW COLUMN: Carney's Canada will fuck over all electric cars. If it doesn't guzzle gas, he doesn't want it. www.jakelandau.ca/p/carneys-ca...

Carney's Canada will fuck over all electric cars

If it doesn't guzzle gas, he doesn't want it.

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Jake Landau (He/Him) 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇺🇦 @jakelandau.ca · Sep 2

NEW COLUMN: The Ontario Liberal AGM begins in ten days. Will it be a fair contest? www.jakelandau.ca/p/will-the-o...

Will the Ontario Liberal AGM in ten days be a fair contest?

I have some concerns.

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Jake Landau (He/Him) 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇺🇦 @jakelandau.ca · Aug 30

NEW PODCAST: Chair of the Toronto Catholic District School Board and Trustee for Ward 2 Markus de Domenico joins the program to discuss Ontario’s Catholic school system, and the Ford government takeover of school boards from elected trustees. Tune in! www.jakelandau.ca/p/episode-28...

Episode 28 - Aug 30, 2025 - Markus de Domenico

Trade War Woes, Public Prayer Bans in Québec, and Book Bans in Alberta

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Jake Landau (He/Him) 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇺🇦 @jakelandau.ca · Aug 29

NEW COLUMN: UNRWA is doing important work for Palestinian refugees, and they need our help. If you aren’t doing so already, here’s why you should consider giving UNRWA what you can: www.jakelandau.ca/p/why-you-sh...

Why you should donate money to UNRWA

Their mission is now more important than ever.

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Jake Landau (He/Him) 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇺🇦 @jakelandau.ca · Aug 27

NEW COLUMN: Israel is now the leading cause of death for journalists worldwide. Western journalists still won’t even pretend to care. www.jakelandau.ca/p/israel-is-...

Israel is now the leading cause of death for journalists.

And their Western colleagues won't even pretend to care.

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Jake Landau (He/Him) 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇺🇦 @jakelandau.ca · Aug 23

NEW PODCAST: Political columnist and author @davidmoscrop.com joins the program to discuss his previous book, his upcoming book, and whether freelance writers can make a living in Canada. Tune in! www.jakelandau.ca/p/episode-27...

Episode 27 - Aug 23, 2025 - David Moscrop

Air Canada goes on strike, Carney puts the elbows down, and illegal swim lessons in Vancouver pools

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Jake Landau (He/Him) 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇺🇦 @jakelandau.ca · Aug 19

NEW COLUMN: Why I had to leave the Liberal Party of Canada…and why I should have left far sooner. www.jakelandau.ca/p/why-i-had-...

Why I had to leave the Liberal Party of Canada...

...and why I should have left far sooner.

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Jake Landau (He/Him) 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇺🇦 @jakelandau.ca · Aug 18

NEW PODCAST: This week’s episode of It’s Getting Pretty Late is special coverage, with a live interview at the Ontario Young Liberal Summer Fling! Listen to the unique perspective of a young liberal on this annual event, and the upcoming leadership review! www.jakelandau.ca/p/episode-26...

Episode 26 - Aug 17, 2025 - Special Coverage

Live interview at the Ontario Young Liberal Summer Fling

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Jake Landau (He/Him) 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇺🇦 @jakelandau.ca · Aug 14

French variant of the "sickos" meme, with the man instead labeled "pervers" and saying "Oui...hon hon hon...OUI!"