Podcast Episodes

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…

2 years, 4 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…

2 years, 4 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…

2 years, 4 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…

2 years, 4 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 …

2 years, 4 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…

2 years, 4 months ago

Why did Canada list Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as terrorists?

Canada announced last week that it has added Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to its list of terrorist organizations under the criminal code.…

2 years, 4 months ago

The Oilers’ historic Stanley Cup final comeback

After going down three games to zero against the Florida Panthers in the Stanley Cup final, the Edmonton Oilers won the next three games in a row to …

2 years, 4 months ago

Are Canadian cities crumbling?

Calgarians are still rationing water more than two weeks after a catastrophic pipe break — and the city says they’ve got at least two more weeks to g…

2 years, 4 months ago

The ‘pronatalists’ trying to engineer a baby boom

Simone and Malcolm Collins are pronatalists: they believe many countries are headed toward a catastrophe of shrinking population, and that we need to…

2 years, 4 months ago