Podcast Episodes

Birth rates are declining. Should we be worried?

Canada’s fertility rate just hit a record low: 1.3 babies per woman, placing us among some of the lowest birth rates globally. 

While discourse around declining birth rates has been dominated by the l…

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

A terrifying hurricane is headed toward Florida

Floridians are packing up and evacuating their homes as Hurricane Milton, one of the biggest hurricanes ever recorded, bears down on Tampa Bay. A major hurricane hasn't hit the region in more than 10…

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

A dispatch from the perilous Darién Gap

NOTE: In yesterday’s episode, we promised to bring you a conversation with a man who’s spent the last year in Gaza, both living through and reporting on Israel’s military campaign there. We were logi…

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

‘Time stopped on October 7th’

‘Time stopped on October 7th.’

Jonathan Dekel-Chen was a longtime resident of Nir Oz, an Israeli kibbutz near the Gaza border. Nearly a quarter of the residents there were either killed or taken hosta…

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

Front Burner Presents: The Flamethrowers Ep. 2

In the second episode of The Flamethrowers, host Justin Ling explores how President Ronald Reagan takes the shackles off right-wing radio and inaugurates a golden era of conservative politics. And Ru…

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A Canadian mission to rescue Afghanistan’s last female politicians

The war in Afghanistan is the longest in both Canadian and American history. The U.S.' withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, signaled not only the end of a 20-year war, but it also marked the re-intro…

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Is China’s economic miracle going bust?

China’s economy has changed drastically in the last four decades. When China started to open up to the world in the late ‘70s and ‘80s, it went from one of the world’s poorest countries, to one of th…

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The gloves stay on in Walz-Vance U.S. VP debate

In most American elections, the vice presidential debates are almost an afterthought — but this has not been a typical election. Republican J.D. Vance and Democrat Tim Walz are relative newcomers on …

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

Death of Hezbollah’s Nasrallah weakens the 'Axis of Resistance'

Last Friday, Lebanon-based militant group, Hezbollah, confirmed that their secretary general, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Beirut. 

As a significant political and cultural l…

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

Politics! Liberals’ survival mode, Conservatives vs CTV News, and more

While the Liberals survived the first non-confidence vote tabled last week, the Conservatives are already trying again. 

The Bloc Quebecois have issued an ultimatum to the Liberals for their party’s s…

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago