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Back to SearchThe emotional fallout of Buffy Sainte-Marie revelations
After CBC’s The Fifth Estate released a bombshell documentary last week calling Canadian music icon and activist Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Indigenous ancestry into question, the reaction has been swift an…
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago
Can Alberta take half Canada’s pension fund?
A report commissioned by Alberta’s UCP government says if it left the Canada Pension Plan, the province is entitled to take over half the plan’s hundreds of billions worth of assets with it. Why have…
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago
Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Indigenous ancestry challenged
Buffy Sainte-Marie’s claims to Indigenous ancestry are being contradicted by members of the iconic singer-songwriter's own family and an extensive CBC investigation from The Fifth Estate, making her …
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago
What happens when the QAnon ‘Queen’ comes to town?
The village of Richmound, Saskatchewan, is struggling to get rid a QAnon cult that moved into a former school in the community. But how do you convince Romana Didulo, the self-styled ‘Queen of the Ki…
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago
Will the Airbnb crackdown lower rents?
With high living costs and rising rents, governments are going after Airbnb and Vrbo. British Columbia is the latest, along with New York and Quebec. How much are short-term rentals to blame? Will t…
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago
The Rent Trap
With housing supply low and rent going up across the country, Canada’s rental crisis is getting worse. And it’s given rise to people who feel rent trapped — stuck in less-than-ideal and difficult liv…
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago
Aid trickles into Gaza, as Israel ramps up airstrikes
This weekend, a limited number of aid trucks finally began moving through the Rafah border crossing from Egypt, toward Gaza. Resources are critically low in the region. Today, the CBC’s Margaret Evan…
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago
The true story behind ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’
In the 1920s, something nefarious started happening to members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. Within four years, at least 60 people were murdered or disappeared. Journalist David Grann takes us thr…
Published on 2 years, 2 months ago
Hamas hostages’ uncertain future
A former peace negotiator who worked on a high-profile prisoner swap on what it could take for captives in Gaza to be returned. Middle East director for the International Communities Organization Ger…
Published on 2 years, 2 months ago
The 'algorithmic fog of war' with Israel and Hamas
Avi Asher-Schapiro, tech reporter with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, takes us through some of the reasons fake news or misleading content about the fight between Israel and Hamas is being amplified…
Published on 2 years, 2 months ago