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The unanswered questions of the Iran strike
On Tuesday, Donald Trump angrily swore about his frustrations with Israel and Iran after both countries exchanged missile fire just before the ceasef…
1 year, 4 months ago
Bubble trouble: Do protest bylaws silence dissent?
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association has just launched a constitutional challenge against legislation in the city of Vaughan known as a “bubble z…
1 year, 4 months ago
The MAGA civil war over Iran
Over the last week, as the exchange of missiles between Israel and Iran intensified, Donald Trump’s supporters have found themselves in two camps: th…
1 year, 4 months ago
Trump joins Israel's war in Iran
Days into the Iran-Israel war, the United States has carried out a series of limited strikes centered on three Iranian nuclear sites. U.S. President …
1 year, 4 months ago
In search of separatists in Alberta
Last week, Front Burner spent a few days in Three Hills, Alberta, a small town northeast of Calgary. We attended an event about Alberta independence,…
1 year, 4 months ago
What exactly is ICE?
For months now, agents working for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, have been carrying out raids, arresting people on the street…
1 year, 4 months ago
Politics! Carney’s ’delete laws’ bill, G7 wraps
In this politics roundup, we first check in with the CBC’s Aaron Wherry in the Alberta Rockies about the main takeaways from the G7 summit, which wra…
1 year, 4 months ago
Palantir’s big data, AI long game
Palantir’s technology has been used by everyone from the CIA and Mossad to Airbus and Morgan Stanley. The multi-billion dollar big data software comp…
1 year, 4 months ago
Israel-Iran strikes: What comes next?
Longstanding tensions came to a head last week when Israel launched a missile attack on Iran, targeting the country’s nuclear facilities and killing …
1 year, 4 months ago
Can the G7 find order in the chaos?
Starting Sunday, political and economic representatives of a world order that Donald Trump is intent on shattering are gathering in Kananaskis, in Al…
1 year, 4 months ago