Podcast Episodes

Canada vs. Messi, Argentina

The Canadian men's soccer team is set to take on Lionel Messi and Argentina, the current holders of the World Cup and No.1 ranked team in the world, …

1 year, 8 months ago

Where does Joe Biden go from here?

On Friday, in an exclusive interview with ABC news anchor George Stephanopoulos, U.S. president Joe Biden insisted that only the “Lord Almighty” coul…

1 year, 8 months ago

President as ‘king’, and other giant Supreme Court cases

The U.S. Supreme Court’s latest ruling grants presidents the ability to break the law without fear of criminal prosecution as long as it counts as an…

1 year, 8 months ago

Why is France’s far right surging toward power?

After his centrist coalition suffered a humiliating loss to the far right in European elections early last month, French President Emanuelle Macron c…

1 year, 8 months ago

A massive collapse and the troubling history of Yukon mining

A landslide caused by a heap leach failure at the Eagle mine site in the Yukon has been called a “disaster” by some local residents.

Hundreds of worke…

1 year, 8 months ago

Years after burning down, why hasn’t Lytton rebuilt?

A little over three years ago, a roaring, rapidly spreading wildfire burned through Lytton, a B.C. town of around 200 residents. It essentially burne…

1 year, 8 months ago

Front Burner Introduces: The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam

It was the biggest gold discovery in history...until it wasn’t. In 1995, Canadian mining company Bre-X announced to the world it had found a signific…

1 year, 8 months ago

Stumbles, mumbles, smears: a U.S. presidential debate recap

It was déjà vu all over again in Atlanta, Ga., on Thursday night as Donald Trump and Joe Biden squared off in the first presidential debate of the 20…

1 year, 8 months ago

What Charlottetown’s immigration boom can teach Canada

When Alex Cyr was growing up on Prince Edward Island in the early aughts, the capital Charlottetown was a pretty quaint and homogeneous place.

But in …

1 year, 8 months ago

A Liberal stronghold falls. Is Trudeau next?

The last time a Conservative won a federal vote in the riding of Toronto-St. Paul’s, it was 1988. The Soviet Union was still together. Brian Mulroney…

1 year, 8 months ago