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Back to SearchAs assault looms, Palestinians are trapped in Rafah
Rafah, a tiny city at Gaza’s border with Egypt, is currently sheltering more than half of the territory’s population. Many, crammed together in tent cities, have already relocated multiple times, as …
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
The unknown cost, and political price of the ArriveCan app
Canada’s Auditor General says the government paid too much for the pandemic era travel app, ArriveCan. By how much? She can’t figure out the final figure. Web Copy/DAVE: Canada’s Auditor General has…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
Organized crime's system for stealing cars
Auto thefts have been spiking in Canadian cities, with criminals using and disposing of the vehicles or selling them to fund organized crime, even exporting them overseas. . Why have cars become so …
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
Down the Super Bowl conspiracy rabbit hole
The Super Bowl is this Sunday, and the teams on the field are no surprise. What is surprising is that the off-field mania around Taylor Swift dating a Chiefs player has gotten deeply, deeply weird. S…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
Why did Trump tank a border bill Republicans fought for?
On Wednesday, the U.S. Senate was set to vote on a sweeping national defense bill. It included reforms to immigration, in reaction to a surge in migration across the U-S southern border. It also incl…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
Are trans youth a 'political football' in Alberta?
Alberta premier Danielle Smith has frequently said that she doesn't want to politicize issues around the rights and personal decisions of transgender youth. But then, last week, she unveiled the toug…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
What’s going on at Neuralink, Musk’s brain implant company?
Elon Musk says a person has had a computer chip implanted in their brain as part of Neuralink’s first human trial. The billionaire’s company is racing to develop a device, in an attempt to catch up t…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
Why are men fleeing Ukraine, and the war?
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion nearly two years ago, most men have been banned from leaving Ukraine. That hasn’t stopped thousands from making illegal border crossings to escape. Why are so many …
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
Weekend Listen: Hollywood Exiles
From the BBC World Service and CBC Podcasts comes Hollywood Exiles. Host Oona Chaplin tells the story of the decades-long campaign to root out communism in Hollywood. It’s a campaign that eventually …
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
Former Canadian world junior hockey players face sex assault charges
Four NHL players, and one pro European player, are charged with sexual assault, in a troubling story that began years ago. The charges relate to the alleged group assault of a woman in 2018, that too…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago