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What's the Deal with Coydogs?
This canine can be found all the way from Panama to Alaska, and shows no sign of going away anytime soon. But what are they? In this episode from Bra…
8 years, 10 months ago
Fantastic Mr. Phillips
In the late sixties, a soap factory in suburban Illinois discovered one of its outflow pipes had been intentionally clogged by an industrial saboteur…
8 years, 10 months ago
Powerline, Part IV: Down the Line
Decades of legal and public relations battles with First Nations have changed the way that Hydro-Quebec approaches new projects. Today, the company h…
8 years, 10 months ago
Powerline, Part III: The Peace of the Braves
The Crees of Quebec signed a landmark agreement with their province and country. The Pessamit Innus now look to that playbook for help in their prese…
8 years, 11 months ago
Powerline, Part II: The Project of the Century
Hydro-Quebec is the provincially-owned utility that helped French-Canadians stake a claim in Quebec politics and economy. As it forged ahead with two…
8 years, 11 months ago
Powerline, Part I: Masters In Our Own Home
This is part one of our series about how a company, with all of the force of a colonial culture behind it, tried to use its power to push original oc…
8 years, 11 months ago
Introducing: Powerline
Hydro-Québec, the world’s fourth largest hydropower producer, pumps out low carbon electricity at the cheapest rates in North America. For some, it i…
9 years ago
Vultures Inherit the Earth
The Bicknell's Thrush is a bird that can only live in a few very very restricted places. It spends its summers in dense alpine forests in the Northea…
9 years ago
Ask Sam | Eating Grass, Killing Trees, Bottling and Logging
The Ask Sam hotline has been blowing up lately! Not like the Galaxy 7, no. In a good way! So Sam, along with a couple of producers from the Outside/I…
9 years ago
In Too Deep
The story of Michael Proudfoot is everywhere, and the details are always more or less the same: a SCUBA diver exploring a shipwreck breaks his regula…
9 years, 1 month ago