The Hatchet

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The Hatchet is a weekly 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.

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Pierre’s Polycrisis

Apr 01 2025 6 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit hatchetmedia.substack.comSupport us at hatchetmedia.substack.comIt’s week two of the federal election and Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives are off to a rocky start.There’s been reporting in most major news outlets about turmoil behind-the-scenes. And high ranking staffers have been openly criticizing his campaign a

"They're Ready to Defend This Country": Canada's Military in the Age of Trump

Mar 28 2025 24 mins

With the American government regularly threatening annexation on a weekly basis, there’s one question that I’ve had on the top of my mind — what does the Canadian military think about all of this?We’re well past the point where anyone can argue that this is a joke or that Trump isn’t being serious. I don’t think it’s a surprise for anyone that the Canadian Armed Force

Mark, Pierre & the Great Campaign of 2025

Mar 26 2025 4 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit hatchetmedia.substack.comSupport us at hatchetmedia.substack.comThe federal election is here! And I think we all know this is going to be a wild one. The last few months have already been some of the strangest in modern Canadian history. But worry not, The Hatchet is here to help understand everything you need to know ab

Canada’s Corporate Welfare Catastrophe

Mar 21 2025 51 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit hatchetmedia.substack.comThere’s a line about Canada that gets tossed around a lot. It comes from Harold Innis, the father of Canadian economic history, who said that Canadians have been relegated to “hewers of wood and drawers of water.”An…

Hair of the Doug

Mar 15 2025 33 mins

This was the week where Doug Ford finally became Prime Minister.Okay, so technically it’s Mark Carney who was actually sworn in as PM. But for a few weeks, Doug Ford appeared to be leading the nation. After all, it was Ford that was invited down to the Washington for a meeting with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. The feds just sort of tagged….along.And there were two people

Let the Southern B******s Freeze in the Dark

Mar 08 2025 37 mins

This is starting to get ridiculous. One day we’re being tariffed to all hell, and the next day, the Trump administration says that they’re putting the trade war on pause for another month.But what we have to understand is that, from the American perspective, this is an effective strategy. Tarrifs are a tax that consumers end up paying for. So by continually pushing off the date

Will Reconciliation Survive the Trade War?

Mar 05 2025 44 mins

There’s been a surge of Canadian nationalism over the last month, and understandably so. I’ve been feeling it too, I think it’d be hard not to. You really couldn’t grow a better villain in a lab than Donald Trump to actually rally Canadians in this way.And with that has come a good amount of talk of both Canadian history and the need for modern-day nation-building. That’s

The Man Behind Trump's War on Canada

Feb 25 2025 30 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit hatchetmedia.substack.comWe all knew that if Donald Trump got reelected, things would get chaotic pretty fast. But what I don’t think anyone anticipated was just how much Canada would be in the new administration’s cross-hairs.And there’s been one question no one really seems to be able to give a definitive answer

The 51st State of Emergency

Feb 18 2025 32 mins

It’s been a weird month.When we first launched The Hatchet, we spent a lot of time talking about the kinds of stories that we wanted to cover and the kind of work that we wanted to do here. Something we did not anticipate was having to seriously entertain the notion of American annexation. But here we are. And so on today’s episode of The Hatchet, we’re going to talk about th

The Hundred Years' War between Newfoundland and Quebec

Feb 10 2025 39 mins

In 1969, Quebec and Newfoundland worked together to build a hydroelectric generating station in Labrador at a place called Churchill Falls. It would go on to produce an enormous amount of energy.But the deal they struck has haunted Newfoundland ever since.Because Quebec gets to buy electricity at an absolutely rock bottom price, which hasn’t changed in more than fifty years. And