Podcast Episodes

AI cheating runs wild on campus

The use of generative AI has become rampant on college and university campuses across North America. KPMG - who surveyed over 400 Canadian students about this in the fall — found that around 60 per c…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

Will laws apply in Ontario’s ‘special economic zones’?

The Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act – also known as Bill 5 – aims to fast track mining projects in Ontario and gives the government the power to create 'special economic zones' that wou…

Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago

A royal visit and a high-stakes political moment

For the third time in Canadian history, the head of the British monarchy delivered the throne speech before ushering in a new session of parliament. It comes at a time when Canada could use some help…

Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago

The ‘cover-up’ of Joe Biden’s decline

Last June, during the first presidential debate of the 2024 U.S. election campaign, Joe Biden stumbled and struggled to find the right words. His performance was described as disastrous and incoheren…

Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago

Is Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ more fantasy than reality?

Donald Trump’s 'Golden Dome’ is a proposed defense program that will feature the use of space lasers, satellites and interceptors designed to provide 24/7 space based defence. It’s advertised as a bu…

Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago

George Floyd’s murder, what’s changed in five years?

On May 25th 2020, Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, by kneeling on his neck for over nine minutes. The whole thing was caught on video and once it …

Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago

Diddy on trial

It’s been a year and a half since the R&B singer Cassie Ventura first accused hip hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs of rape and repeated physical abuse over the course of their decade-long relationship. T…

Published on 6 months, 4 weeks ago

Trump, Hitler and how democracies die

Today on the show is historian Timothy Ryback. Timothy is an author and writer with The Atlantic. He’s the director of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation in The Hague. 

Last year …

Published on 6 months, 4 weeks ago

Is Alberta headed towards a separation vote?

Hundreds of people filled a banquet hall in Calgary last week to hear from the Alberta Prosperity Project, a group that wants Alberta to separate from Canada.

They're trying to drum up support for a p…

Published on 7 months ago

The internet sucks now, and it happened on purpose

It's not you — the internet really does suck. Novelist, blogger and noted internet commentator Cory Doctorow explains what happened to the internet and why you're tormented by ads, bots, algorithms, …

Published on 7 months ago