Podcast Episodes
Back to Search‘Dead pool’, drought and a drying Colorado River
The Colorado River – the lifeblood of the American southwest – is drying up. The river’s basin supplies water to 40 million Americans across seven st…
3 years, 7 months ago
Can Canada afford big corporate stock buybacks?
Loblaw Companies, the country’s biggest grocery chain, reported its finances for 2022 on Thursday. In a year when Canadians felt the squeeze from sky…
3 years, 7 months ago
The AI chatbot: friend or foe?
Microsoft soft-launched its new AI-powered search engine in early February. After years of playing second fiddle to Google, the new Bing seemed to fi…
3 years, 7 months ago
China's alleged attempts at election interference, explained
Late last week, the Globe and Mail broke an explosive story with allegations that China tried to influence the 2021 election here in Canada. Then, on…
3 years, 7 months ago
Russia accused of war crimes over Ukrainian children
Russia has put at least 6,000 Ukrainian children in camps, according to a U.S.-funded report from Yale University. The report says the children are …
3 years, 7 months ago
Fear lingers after Ohio's toxic train disaster
Weeks after a train derailed and crews released and burned toxic chemicals, officials are reassuring residents of East Palestine, Ohio that the air a…
3 years, 7 months ago
Front Burner Introduces: The No-Good, Terribly Kind, Wonderful Lives and Tragic Deaths of Barry and Honey Sherman
News of the mysterious deaths of billionaire Canadian pharma giant Barry Sherman and his philanthropist wife Honey in December 2017 reverberated arou…
3 years, 7 months ago
The mysterious case of ‘the TikTok tics’
Within the first several months of the COVID-19 pandemic, doctors around the world noticed something strange. Suddenly, they were seeing a surge of y…
3 years, 7 months ago
Big Oil’s ‘monster profits’ and climate rollbacks
Last week, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called out oil companies for raking in “monster profits” and expanding production instea…
3 years, 8 months ago
What, exactly, is getting shot out of the skies?
It all started two weeks ago with a suspected Chinese spy balloon, which carried a payload about the size of three buses. A U.S. fighter jet shot it …
3 years, 8 months ago