Podcast Episodes

The hunt for dark matter, two kilometres under Sudbury

For the holidays, The Decibel is sharing their favourite stories of the year, with the producers taking you behind-the-scenes on how the episodes wer…

2 years, 3 months ago

Butter, sugar and a pinch of family

Food and family are often front and centre during the holidays. These two ingredients also help make up our identities and cultures.

So today, The Dec…

2 years, 3 months ago

A wallet was sent to The Globe with a letter from a dying man

Earlier this year, The Globe’s sports editor Jamie Ross got a peculiar package in the mail – a wallet, with a request from a man nearing the end of h…

2 years, 3 months ago

The lost art of human pinsetting

The Globe’s Carrie Tait recently went to visit a bowling alley in the small town of Kimberley, British Columbia. It’s tucked in the basement of the t…

2 years, 3 months ago

The myth and the reality of Newfoundland’s giant squids

A giant squid discovered in Newfoundland in 1873 turned what until then was a mythological creature into the scientifically named Architeuthis dux, o…

2 years, 3 months ago

The complicated art of political cartoons, with Brian Gable

Nearly every day, The Globe published an editorial cartoon. Around 8,000 of those cartoons were drawn by Brian Gable. After 35 years of drawing carto…

2 years, 3 months ago

The man accused of selling toxic substances used for suicide

Earlier this week, a man from Mississauga, Kenneth Law, was charged with 14 counts of second-degree murder. Police allege he helped people end their …

2 years, 3 months ago

What a bad back tells us about Canada’s chronic pain problem

One in five Canadians suffer from chronic pain. According to one estimate, in 2019 the direct and indirect costs of chronic pain totalled $40-billion…

2 years, 3 months ago

School shutdowns, hospital delays and a massive strike in Quebec

There are over a half million public-sector workers on strike in Quebec this week. This comes after an offer from François Legault’s government, whic…

2 years, 3 months ago

Can carbon capture solve emissions problems for oil and gas?

Canada’s oil and gas industry has been facing immense pressure to reduce emissions. Last week, the federal government announced a cap and trade syste…

2 years, 3 months ago