Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHow Shopify’s pandemic bet led to losses and layoffs
This week, days before a call to investors that announced net losses and a “transitional” period for the company, Canadian tech giant Shopify laid of…
3 years, 7 months ago
Hockey Canada’s sexual assault crisis deepens
Hockey Canada has settled 21 sexual assault claims. For nine of those cases, it used a fund that draws in part from players' registration fees, payin…
3 years, 7 months ago
Phil Fontaine’s long fight for a papal apology
Decades ago Phil Fontaine helped open Canada's eyes to the horrors of the residential school system. And he's since spent years pushing for an apolog…
3 years, 7 months ago
Spies, grain and fuel: A Ukraine war update
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been raging since Feb. 24. The war has triggered a global food and fuel crisis, because Ukraine is a major exporter …
3 years, 7 months ago
The political resurrection of Danielle Smith
There was a time when former Wildrose Party leader Danielle Smith was in the political wilderness, cast out by a stunning floor-crossing that alienat…
3 years, 7 months ago
Nathan Fielder’s awkward comedy revolution
On This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Nathan for You and HBO’s new comedy The Rehearsal, Nathan Fielder has played a stiff, socially inept agitator that can b…
3 years, 7 months ago
Your 4th dose questions answered
Canada's latest COVID-19 surge is being fuelled by the BA.5 variant. It's prompting some public health officials to make fourth jabs of a COVID-19 va…
3 years, 7 months ago
How to fix urban heat islands
Often when we think about lethal heat, we picture things like forest fires. But the fact is, one of the most dangerous places to be during a heat wav…
3 years, 7 months ago
Everything is expensive Part II: Interest rates
You’ve heard this here before: Everything is so crazy expensive these days. In May, Canada’s inflation rate was 7.7 per cent, the highest it's been …
3 years, 7 months ago
James Webb telescope reveals galaxies far, far away
Last week, NASA revealed five images from the James Webb Space Telescope which gave the sharpest look at the universe’s cosmic history. The images, w…
3 years, 8 months ago