Podcast Episodes

The crisis facing Canada's colleges and universities

At the beginning of this year, immigration minister Marc Miller said the government was looking to rein in the number of international study permits …

1 year, 3 months ago

Canadian encrypted phones, a mass hack, and 10 thousand arrests

More than 10,000 arrests, a mountain of drugs stopped at the border, and more than a hundred assassination attempts thwarted. Those are just some of …

1 year, 3 months ago

Weekend Listen: An attempt to explain what vision loss feels like by exploring how it sounds

People don’t think Graham Isador is losing his sight. They think he’s an asshole.

Short Sighted is an attempt to explain what vision loss feels like b…

1 year, 3 months ago

Could the Menendez brothers soon be free?

In 1996, after two hung jury trials, brothers Lyle and Eric Menendez were convicted of killing their parents in one of the most high profile trials i…

1 year, 3 months ago

Will Trump's tariffs crush Canada?

tktktktkIt's time for Canada to pay "a very big price." That was the message from president-elect Donald Trump this week when he announced a 25 perce…

1 year, 3 months ago

The case against Google

The second of two major antitrust cases against Google wrapped up this week. Earlier this year, a judge found the company holds an illegal monopoly o…

1 year, 3 months ago

Trump and the strongman feedback loop

Argentina’s chainsaw-wielding, “anarcho-capitalist” president, Javier Milei, and El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele, who has called himself the “world’s cool…

1 year, 3 months ago

Anti-vax update as Canadian measles surges

Routine childhood vaccinations have been on the decline in recent years, with the anti-vax movement rising during the Covid-19 pandemic.


But the conv…

1 year, 3 months ago

Weekend Listen: What happened to Christine Harron?

Christine Harron, a book-loving teenager from Hanover, Ontario, leaves for school in the spring of 1993 and is never seen again. A suspect emerges, c…

1 year, 3 months ago

Politics, Gaza and money collide at The Giller Prize

For the last year, Canada’s premier literary award The Giller Prize has been embroiled in a controversy that has split the Canadian literary communit…

1 year, 4 months ago