Podcast Episodes

Weekend Listen: Death, sex, money … and podcasting? (via Bookends)

When the book ends, the conversation begins. On Bookends, Mattea Roach speaks with writers who have something to say about their work, the world and our place in it. You’ll always walk away with big …

Published on 3 weeks, 6 days ago

Trump, and the alarm bells of fascism

After Donald Trump was elected for a second time, historian Timothy Snyder wrote this in the New Yorker: “Trump has always been a presence, not an absence: the presence of fascism.” Today on Front Bu…

Published on 4 weeks ago

U.S. politics! Government shutdown, military pep talk

The U.S. government has shut down after Republicans and Democrats failed to pass a spending bill before the end of Tuesday. Government services will grind to a halt and hundreds of thousands of feder…

Published on 4 weeks, 1 day ago

Will recognition lead to a Palestinian state?

Last week, Canada officially recognized Palestinian statehood. 

In explaining this decision, Prime Minister Mark Carney released a statement which read, "Canada recognises the State of Palestine and o…

Published on 4 weeks, 2 days ago

How the world abandoned climate politics

While Donald Trump may have shocked many at the UN General Assembly when he called climate change “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world”, he may just have been the most extreme messenge…

Published on 1 month ago

Who can rebuild the NDP?

It’s been about a month since the NDP leadership race began and two main contenders have emerged: longtime climate activist and former broadcaster Avi Lewis, and NDP MP for Edmonton-Strathcona, Heath…

Published on 1 month ago

The secret to China’s dominance

Dan Wang is a tech analyst and a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover History Lab. He’s one of the leading China analysts in the world right now and his new book is called “Breakneck: Chin…

Published on 1 month ago

Jimmy Kimmel, free speech and big money media

After a brief suspension for comments he made in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, Jimmy Kimmel has made his return to late night.

It was just the latest example in a string of cancellations, resi…

Published on 1 month ago

Autism and Tylenol: what the science says

Health professionals around the world are disputing  the Trump administration’s claims about autism and its potential causes. U.S. Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr., along with President Dona…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Robert Munsch’s decision to die

Beloved children’s author Robert Munsch has chosen medically assisted death. Canada is one of the few places in the world where MAID is legal for patients like Munsch, who are not terminally ill. Tod…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago