Subsequently, new shows were added to the network covering a range of topics from current affairs, art and culture, cooking, medicine, and Canadian politics.

[1][2] The original intention of the podcast was to spill "secrets about newsroom misdeeds, broken stories about TV journalists taking money from groups they cover, and challenged reporting that [Jesse Brown] he believe[d] has fallen short.

[3] In February 2014, Canadaland published the results of an investigation that The National anchor Peter Mansbridge had accepted money from the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) to speak at a December 2012 event.

The story got picked up on by The Huffington Post,[5] Vice,[6] and reporter Andrew Mitrovica,[7] forcing Mansbridge to address the issue,[8] sparking a lively debate in the Canadian mainstream media outlets.

[18][19] In October 2023, after the Hamas-led attack on Israel, Brown intensified his social media activity, focusing on pro-Palestine protests and anti-semitism in Canada.

[23] In October 2024, Brown edited an interview without the host's consent, including the removal of a statement linking Canada' s arms sales to Israel to Palestinian deaths, and cutting the word genocide.

[28] In an article in the Times Colonist, Mike Devlin described Brown as the "controversial host of the popular Canadaland podcast and crowdfunded news site.

In his 2014 article in The Walrus, Brown described how guest journalists were originally reluctant to appear on the program until it gained credibility following the February 2014 Mansbridge exposé.

In October 2024 Pugliese left amid disputes about Brown's editing of a podcast that contained a section on Canada's role selling arms to Israel during about the Israel-Gaza conflict.

The company's 2017–2018 annual fundraising campaign included an appeal by Ryan McMahon to launch a new investigative podcast calledThunder Bay.

Each podcast episode typically features Jesse Brown and a guest who discuss news and current events relevant to the media industry in Canada.

Hosted by Ryan McMahon, the series built upon the investigation by Toronto Star reporter Tanya Talaga—published her 2017 book Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death and Hard Truths in a Northern City.

[38][40][41] Cool Mules was a six-part true crime podcast hosted by Kasia Mychajlowycz that documents the cocaine smuggling of Slava Pastuk, while he was employed at Vice Media.

Justice Morgan said Brown had written proof that the allegations he made about Mrs. Kielburger were false, and the judge ordered the case to move forward to trial.

[50] Ratfucker was a three-part limited run series exploring David Wallace, a conservative political operative, the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church, and the so-called #KlondikePapers conspiracy theory.

He describes how what he found drove a wedge between him and his family and put him in opposition to a new story of shared Indigenous ancestry that is being embraced by tens of thousands of people across Newfoundland and beyond.

The feed use to include Détours, a twice-monthly series discussing media (cancelled in 2024) a current affairs in French hosted by Emilie Nicolas.

Launched in 2015, Commons was originally described as a "politics show for people who have been neglected by legacy media" with "activist and journalist" Desmond Cole and Andray Domise as hosts.

Celina Caesar-Chavannes, Jason Markusoff, Emilie Nicolas, Murad Hemmadi, Drew Brown, Stuart Thomson, Jaskaran Sandhu and Leena Minifie.

[59][60][61] The author of the Saturday Night piece, Isabel Vincent, had claimed that in 1995 Theresa Kielburger deposited $150,000 in donations from the Ontario Federation of Labour into her family bank account.

[59][60] Brown accused WE Charity of mounting a public relations campaign against it, telling podcast listeners that “#JesseBrownLies was briefly the number one trending topic in Kenya" and complained that several American media organizations had called Canadaland "fake news".

"[59] In May 2024, Ontario Superior Court Justice Edward Morgan denied Brown and Canadaland's bid to dismiss the lawsuit on the basis of Anti-SLAPP legislation, finding instead that Ms. Kielburger's claims had "substantial merit"and setting the case on track to go to trial.

[60][61] Morgan found no evidence that Brown or Canadaland had any valid defence for the willful omission of relevant information or for what he called a "callous disregard" for Ms. Kielburger's reputation.

The Globe and Mail's Simon Houpt compared Brown to an "action star in a Hollywood blow-'em-up: throwing fireballs and kicking asses" but added "he has a track record of playing fast and loose with facts".

Gairola compared Canadaland to "earnest whistle-blowing of TVO's The Agenda With Steve Paikin or HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher.