Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPierre Poilievre’s populist appeal
Pierre Poilievre has been known as the federal Conservative’s attack dog. He’s often hyper partisan in Parliament, not afraid to pander to the base a…
3 years, 8 months ago
Baking a birthday cake in a war zone
When your country is invaded, how do you keep your family’s spirits up? In besieged Kharkiv, Ukraine, Natalie Slyusar focused on trying to give her s…
3 years, 8 months ago
The pandemic surge in sexually transmitted infections
Sexual health testing took a nose dive during the pandemic, as health care workers and resources were diverted towards the fight against COVID-19. An…
3 years, 9 months ago
Separatism’s new shape in Quebec
On Monday, a by-election in a Montreal suburb ended in defeat for the Parti Quebecois, the province’s champion of separatism for the last fifty years…
3 years, 9 months ago
Why Canadians aren’t getting their COVID booster
On Monday, Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer Kieran Moore gave a COVID-19 update after being silent for almost a month. The province will expand PCR te…
3 years, 9 months ago
What scares Sarah Polley?
Most people want to shy away from life’s hard moments. But not Canadian actor and filmmaker Sarah Polley. In her first book, Run Towards the Danger, …
3 years, 9 months ago
Inside the federal budget lockup
The federal government has laid out a budget with $56-billion in new spending over six years. On the day the budget is released, journalists get to s…
3 years, 9 months ago
In Bucha and Chernihiv after Russia withdraws
This week, Ukraine took back some key areas in the northern part of the country from Russian troops – including the cities of Bucha and Chernihiv. Wh…
3 years, 9 months ago
The myth of universal health care in Canada
As we enter the sixth wave of COVID-19, hospitals are bracing for yet another surge. After two years of weathering wave after wave, doctors, nurses, …
3 years, 9 months ago
Wastewater is filling the COVID-19 data gap
COVID-19′s sixth wave is here. Quebec’s institute of public health says the sixth wave began in mid-March. On Monday, Ontario premier Doug Ford said …
3 years, 9 months ago