Canadaland’s COMMONS is coming to an end after six years and 13 seasons, as the podcast’s producers strike out on their own with a new project dedicated to exposing power and money in Canada.

The Hatchet, which launched today on Substack, will be helmed by COMMONS producers Jordan Cornish and Arshy Mann, who also served as host.

The first episode of the weekly podcast and newsletter dives into TD Bank, and by the bank’s own admission, its criminal history of being used to launder hundreds of millions of dollars in drug money in the U.S.

Like COMMONS – which has tackled issues from the emergency room crisis to hockey, cults, and the prison labour industrial complex – The Hatchet is a documentary-style, investigative deep dive.

“Our pitch is basically to examine power and money in Canada,” Mann told Canadaland publisher Jesse Brown on a special introductory episode posted to the COMMONS feed, announcing the launch of The Hatchet and his and Cornish’s departure from the network.

“We’re going to be doing that mostly through the audio documentaries that I think a lot of people have enjoyed through COMMONS,” said Mann. “We’re also going to have a newsletter attached.”

The Hatchet’s journalism won’t be paywalled for the first few weeks.

One last episode of COMMONS has been published on the Canadaland feed, exploring the panic around the Y2K bug.