Podcast Episodes

Why fast-fashion garment workers' lives are still at risk

 In 2013, Rana Plaza - an eight-storey garment factory collapsed in Bangladesh, killing over 11-hundred people.

It's a tragedy that led to a lot of pu…

2 years, 3 months ago

AI video’s groundbreaking, controversial leap forward

 OpenAI has just introduced a new tool, Sora, which turns text prompts into short, shockingly realistic videos. Sora hasn’t been released to the publ…

2 years, 3 months ago

With Navalny dead, is Putin absolute?

The Kremlin says Alexei Navalny died Friday in an Arctic prison. After surviving a poisoning and still making the decision to return to Russia, Presi…

2 years, 3 months ago

Jon Stewart is back. Does America still need him?

When Jon Stewart stepped down as host of the Daily Show in 2015, it seemed pretty conclusive. For nearly 16 years, he guided the show through 9/11, t…

2 years, 3 months ago

Overdoses and a small city state of emergency

Last week, paramedics in Belleville, Ontario responded to 13 drug overdoses in a single hour. By the time the city declared a state of emergency two …

2 years, 3 months ago

As 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 …

2 years, 3 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 f…

2 years, 3 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 ex…

2 years, 3 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 …

2 years, 3 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 migr…

2 years, 3 months ago