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CBC
4 days ago
- CBC
Why watch a true crime documentary when you can watch Murder, Mystery & Makeup on YouTube?
Beauty influencers are now incorporating true crime into their make-up video content. Every Monday on her channel, YouTuber Bailey Sarian posts videos of her doing her full make-up routine in a "get ready with me" style, while she recounts the details of a real, notorious murder mystery case. Last week, she made a video about Robert Pickton, the Canadian man who died in prison while serving a life sentence for six counts of second-degree murder. He was charged with murdering 26 women in B.C., and remains or DNA of 33 women — many who were Indigenous — were found on Pickton's Port Coquitlam, B.C., pig farm. Today on Commotion, culture critics Amil Niazi and Riley Yesno join guest host Ali Hassan to discuss the trend and what it says about our relationship with true crime today. WARNING: This conversation deals with difficult subject matter, including violence against Indigenous women. We've included some highlights below, edited for length and clarity. For the full discussion, listen and follow Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud on your favourite podcast player. WATCH | Today's episode on YouTube: Ali: Last week, [Bailey Sarian] talked about the case of Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton…. Riley, how gruesome is this case and, given that, what was it like to watch her video? Riley: It was rough at times. I know that there are obviously the very immediately impacted families of the victims in this case, but Robert Pickton in particular is, I think, a case that, for Indigenous people in Canada, has become synonymous with the larger crisis of murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls. And so it's something that is brought up … in very serious contexts, in times of immense grief. And so, it is weird to see, like, ads for her sponsor kind of in the mix of that. And it gets to the point where I think that, we can talk about crime, but are we doing it in a trauma-informed way? Are we doing it with integrity? Are we doing it for a purpose that is about information, and education and honesty, as opposed to just entertainment and commercialization? I think that's a very important line to have established. Ali: Yeah, and I think it's very interesting … hearing that, and the way we've been talking about this story, it does seem like it would feel very insensitive to many people. The very surprising thing is when you scroll through the comments, it's incredible how much of it is overwhelmingly positive. You have people weighing in about the connections they had to the case. People saying, "I lived down the street from him. I knew a victim. Thank you for covering this. I've been waiting years for you to cover this and share this story." What do you make of that positivity, Amil? Amil: I was just getting my start as a young journalism intern when Robert Pickton was arrested, and I actually went down to the farm and was working for CityTV. So I remember being very steeped in the details of this case, and they still sit with me. It's a very horrific case, but I'm not surprised at all that someone like this, telling this case and really digging into the details in a way that not that many people have done is relatable and is refreshing to commenters. I read a lot of the comments. It was people who had known the family, had known Robert Pickton, had been on the farm. And they have felt, up until now, that no one has really talked about the many more details that they are familiar with in this way. And I think it's refreshing. To me, it's a lot like Jeffrey Epstein. It's a case that you have heard about for many years. You are familiar with some of the more horrific details. And yet, you still feel like it's being blazed over, or that there are people involved who are being blazed over, who are getting off scot-free. So I understand why her speaking so bluntly and so casually about it is actually kind of refreshing — because she's saying things that people have been waiting a long time to hear. And so I think this is, in many ways, the perfect medium for cases like this to be spoken about. Ali: Riley, what are your thoughts on this? Riley: I guess this points to, maybe, this half-baked idea I have here, which is that the justice system, I think in general, does a really poor job of creating space for collective healing, right? We're told a good outcome is a guilty verdict on a charge, which he got, and that's that, and we've done our job when it comes to crime. When in fact, we know that the ripple effects of crimes like this are profound, and they affect not just the immediate victims, but wider communities like the comments are really alluding to. And so do I think true crime podcast makeup and murder is the way to do it? Maybe not, but do people need a space to be able to talk about it, to be heard, to feel like they can share these details? Absolutely. And it's something that as a society at large, we really fail to do. And I think true crime and mediums like this are just filling in that gap that is actually really important, I think, to a sense of collective healing amongst people — which I didn't think I would associate with this video necessarily, but is the idea, the thread. You can listen to the full discussion from today's show on CBC Listen or on our podcast, Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud, available wherever you get your podcasts. Panel produced by Nikky Manfredi.
CBC
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- CBC
Why watch a true crime documentary when you can watch a makeup tutorial?
Social Sharing Beauty influencers are now incorporating true crime into their make-up video content. Every Monday on her channel, YouTuber Bailey Sarian posts videos of her doing her full make-up routine in a "get ready with me" style, while she recounts the details of a real, notorious murder mystery case. Last week, she made a video about Robert Pickton, the Canadian man who died in prison while serving a life sentence for six counts of second-degree murder. He was charged with murdering 26 women in B.C., and remains or DNA of 33 women — many who were Indigenous — were found on Pickton's Port Coquitlam, B.C., pig farm. Today on Commotion, culture critics Amil Niazi and Riley Yesno join guest host Ali Hassan to discuss the trend and what it says about our relationship with true crime today. We've included some highlights below, edited for length and clarity. For the full discussion, listen and follow Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud on your favourite podcast player. WATCH | Today's episode on YouTube: Ali: Last week, [Bailey Sarian] talked about the case of Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton…. Riley, how gruesome is this case and, given that, what was it like to watch her video? Riley: It was rough at times. I know that there are obviously the very immediately impacted families of the victims in this case, but Robert Pickton in particular is, I think, a case that, for Indigenous people in Canada, has become synonymous with the larger crisis of murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls. And so it's something that is brought up … in very serious contexts, in times of immense grief. And so, it is weird to see, like, ads for her sponsor kind of in the mix of that. And it gets to the point where I think that, we can talk about crime, but are we doing it in a trauma-informed way? Are we doing it with integrity? Are we doing it for a purpose that is about information, and education and honesty, as opposed to just entertainment and commercialization? I think that's a very important line to have established. Ali: Yeah, and I think it's very interesting … hearing that, and the way we've been talking about this story, it does seem like it would feel very insensitive to many people. The very surprising thing is when you scroll through the comments, it's incredible how much of it is overwhelmingly positive. You have people weighing in about the connections they had to the case. People saying, "I lived down the street from him. I knew a victim. Thank you for covering this. I've been waiting years for you to cover this and share this story." What do you make of that positivity, Amil? Amil: I was just getting my start as a young journalism intern when Robert Pickton was arrested, and I actually went down to the farm and was working for CityTV. So I remember being very steeped in the details of this case, and they still sit with me. It's a very horrific case, but I'm not surprised at all that someone like this, telling this case and really digging into the details in a way that not that many people have done is relatable and is refreshing to commenters. I read a lot of the comments. It was people who had known the family, had known Robert Pickton, had been on the farm. And they have felt, up until now, that no one has really talked about the many more details that they are familiar with in this way. And I think it's refreshing. To me, it's a lot like Jeffrey Epstein. It's a case that you have heard about for many years. You are familiar with some of the more horrific details. And yet, you still feel like it's being blazed over, or that there are people involved who are being blazed over, who are getting off scot-free. So I understand why her speaking so bluntly and so casually about it is actually kind of refreshing — because she's saying things that people have been waiting a long time to hear. And so I think this is, in many ways, the perfect medium for cases like this to be spoken about. Ali: Riley, what are your thoughts on this? Riley: I guess this points to, maybe, this half-baked idea I have here, which is that the justice system, I think in general, does a really poor job of creating space for collective healing, right? We're told a good outcome is a guilty verdict on a charge, which he got, and that's that, and we've done our job when it comes to crime. When in fact, we know that the ripple effects of crimes like this are profound, and they affect not just the immediate victims, but wider communities like the comments are really alluding to. And so do I think true crime podcast makeup and murder is the way to do it? Maybe not, but do people need a space to be able to talk about it, to be heard, to feel like they can share these details? Absolutely. And it's something that as a society at large, we really fail to do. And I think true crime and mediums like this are just filling in that gap that is actually really important, I think, to a sense of collective healing amongst people — which I didn't think I would associate with this video necessarily, but is the idea, the thread.
CBC
20-06-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
Aysanabee is back with a new sound
Today, Aysanabee drops his sophomore album, Edge Of The Earth. The Indigenous singer-songwriter burst onto the scene in 2022 with Watin, an album that was inspired by his grandfather's stories and won him two Juno Awards. On Commotion, host Elamin Abdelmahmoud speaks with music journalist Emilie Hanskamp, Anishinaabe scholar Riley Yesno and Anishinaabe/Mohawk writer and producer Kim Wheeler about Aysanabee's new album and how it differs from his first one. We've included some highlights below, edited for length and clarity. For the full discussion about new albums from both Bambii and Haim, listen and follow Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud on your favourite podcast player. WATCH | Today's episode on YouTube: Elamin: Kim, do you want to tell the story of the first record? Because I feel like Watin kind of came out of nowhere and then just took the music scene by storm a little bit. Kim: Yeah, absolutely. He made this incredible record where he sat down and he had conversations with his grandfather. And it was during COVID and he recorded those conversations. Then he used them to weave a story throughout his first album, Watin, which is named after his grandfather. And actually, Aysanabee is also named after his grandfather. He took his grandfather's name [instead of] his colonial name, which is Evan, but now he performs as Aysanabee. Yeah, it was such an incredible album. That was the album that got him shortlisted for Polaris. And when you have an album like that, every single album afterwards, you anticipate, right? You're like, "What's he gonna do next? What's he going to do next?" And then with this album, he's given us a new sound. Elamin: This idea of making a record that is entirely around his grandfather's story, his grandfather's experience in residential schools, that forms the narrative framework of that record. When you get to this new album, Emily, is there a conceptual framework to this record? Or is he like, "Man, let's talk about love?" Emily: If his first album was his grandfather's story, his second was more so a breakup album, which is about you, but it's largely about a relationship, maybe the other person who you were in that relationship. I think this album [is] most inward and about himself. You think of [the words] "edge of the earth," you kind of picture yourself at the edge of this cliff, your toes hanging over, you think of these leaps of faith that you take, and I think it's taking stock of the leaps he's taken, the losses that have been both for and against his will, the people he's lost. There's a song about losing his grandfather, there are songs about heartbreak and relationships falling apart, there are songs about love. So I really think it is actually his most personal in terms of how inward it is. I think conceptually that's where he's landing here. WATCH | "Home" Live at Orange Lounge: Elamin: Riley, when you listen to this record, what's the aspect that's most jumping out at you? Riley: I went and read the write-up that you did, Emily, in The Star, about him [Aysanabee], and he mentions in it to you that he took inspiration in his earliest years from Bob Marley and all of these things. I started to smile because when I lived on the rez, we had just cassette tapes all over the place. And a fun fact is that every Native I've ever met loves Johnny Cash, they love Bob Marley, they love that timbre of the voice. I can hear that in the way that he [Aysanabee] sings and you can hear it on this album. And so while it's not necessarily as explicitly "about Indigenous topics," like residential schools with his grandfather in the first one, to me it is so Native still in that connection to the music that Native people love. And I really feel that when I listen to it.
