Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBrain drain 🧠 — Banks brace for bad loans, Canadian miners are fleeing.
Episode 1
Scores of Canadian lawyers have fled for the bright lights of New York in recent years, clearly inspired by the undying popularity of Suits.
Canadian …
2 years, 2 months ago
Coming in hot 💻 — Proposed online safety laws come in hot. Germany legalizes recreational cannabis.
Episode 1
Today in news that we’re sure politicians will take in super chill fashion, the federal justice minister unveiled the first draft of a long-awaited O…
2 years, 2 months ago
Grounded 🛬 — Another budget airline bites the dust. Why chocolate prices are high, and likely going higher.
Episode 1
In what’s probably the most rational decision the company’s made since changing its name from Jet Naked, Lynx Air has decided it’s time to throw in t…
2 years, 2 months ago
Smoke ‘em 🚬 — Running out of pipeline capacity. Banning menthol cigarettes.
Episode 1
Like us trying to do spreadsheets while also taking a Zoom call, Canada’s pipelines are at full capacity.
Menthol cigarette bans are helping make the …
2 years, 2 months ago
Vintage wine 🍷 — Cold snap lays B.C.’s wine crop to waste. Uber launches delivery robots in Japan
Episode 1
If you stumble across a bottle of 2024 vintage B.C. wine when perusing the liquor store this year, we recommend you pick it up. It could be a collect…
2 years, 2 months ago
Cybercrime setback 💻 — The law locks out LockBit hackers. Alberta’s tourism industry gets new immigration stream.
Episode 1
A shadowy international syndicate of cybercriminals just got a taste of its own medicine.
As people keep flocking to Alberta’s picturesque mountains, …
2 years, 2 months ago
Hat trick 🏒 — Women’s hockey breaks records, Maple Syrup bounces back.
Episode 1
Less than two months after hitting the ice, North America’s new pro women’s hockey league is already breaking records.
Unseasonably warm weather isn’t…
2 years, 2 months ago
Defence dollars 💸 — NATO nations are spending, Waymo pulls driverless cars.
Episode 1
While most of us are trying to save up these days, NATO nations are spending on defence like a rich kid who got their hands on their father’s credit …
2 years, 3 months ago
Roblaw$ 🛒— T-Shirt dispute, Alberta’s booming honey industry.
Episode 1
The Loblaw corporation has previously beefed with Frito-Lay and other smaller suppliers. Now, it’s in a spat with a guy making novelty T-shirts.
Like …
2 years, 3 months ago
Not guilty 👩⚖️— Canada’s short on judges, The cost of the World Cup.
Episode 1
Housing isn’t the only shortage facing the federal government these days: It turns out there are about as many judges in Canada as there are apartmen…
2 years, 3 months ago