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How the UFC became a stage for Trump
At Donald Trump’s election victory event in 2024, he was flanked on stage by a collection of family, senior staff, and Ultimate Fighting Championship…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Does a ‘peace deal’ fuel Middle Eastern war?
Negotiations for an end to the war in Iran took a baffling turn last Monday when U.S. President Donlad Trump declared via social media that he would …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Weekend Listen: Artificial Intimacy
What happens when a human becomes intimately enmeshed with a chatbot? From people who’ve married their bots or who grieve their loved ones with the h…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Politics! Surveillance backlash, separatism drama
CBC parliamentary reporters Aaron Wherry and Catherine Tunney are back to talk about the big political stories of the week including: Prime Minister …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Trump and the politics of corruption
There’s an old adage from the days of the Watergate scandal: “follow the money.” And in Donald Trump’s second term as President of the United States,…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Alberta’s referendum on a referendum
Western Premiers gathered in Kananskis, Alberta this week to discuss shared issues like trade, defense and energy projects. But another topic oversha…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Why aren’t Canada and the U.S. officially talking trade?
As we inch closer to the July 1st CUSMA review deadline, there still aren’t any formal trade talks between Canada and the U.S. planned. The governmen…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Will the U.S. invade Cuba?
In a major escalation of its months long “maximum pressure” campaign, the United States announced it has indicted Raúl Castro, former president of Cu…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Canada and the politics of Gaza flotillas
Prime Minister Mark Carney has condemned what he described as the “abominable treatment” of flotilla activists detained by Israeli authorities.
His s…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Israel’s open nuclear secret
Earlier this month, 30 Democratic lawmakers sent a letter to the Trump administration with a remarkable request: to publicly acknowledge that Israel …
4 months, 4 weeks ago