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Back to SearchCan China help bring peace to Ukraine?
For more than a year the possibility of peace in Ukraine has seemed out of reach. But this week, a new world leader stepped in with an offer to mediate. After months of waiting, this week Ukraine's …
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Ryan Reynolds scores with Wrexham soccer gambit
Two years ago, Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, the creator and star of the show, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, bought Wrexham AFC. The small Welsh soccer team had been languishin…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
How Tucker Carlson mastered Fox News fear and outrage
For over seven years on Fox News, Tucker Carlson Tonight leveraged immigration, vaccines and racial tensions to divide viewers’ worlds into “us” and “them”. Carlson became a kingmaker who could make …
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Eight years after Myles Gray’s death, police finally testify
This episode deals with details of violence. In August 2015, 33-year-old Myles Gray was making a delivery for his wholesale florist business in B.C. when he confronted a woman who was watering her l…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
‘Pentagon Leaks’ detail Canada’s military shortcomings
According to new reporting on the trove of leaked documents known as the ‘Pentagon Leaks,’ Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau privately told NATO officials that Canada will never meet a two per c…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
The ‘15-minute city’ conspiracy spreads to Canada
The concept of 15-minute cities — where a person’s daily needs in a city are accessible within a 15-minute walk, bike or transit ride from their home — is a few years old. It’s been picked up by many…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
What’s at stake in the federal workers’ strike?
Picket lines have been set up at major government buildings and ministers' offices across the country as more than a hundred thousand public servants go on strike. After nearly two years of bargainin…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
Fox News settles voting case but ‘Big Lie’ remains
Fox News is the most watched news network in the United States. In the days after the 2020 Presidential election, it broadcasted Donald Trump’s ‘Big Lie”: that the election was stolen from him and vo…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
The impact of anti-trans laws in the US
This year alone, hundreds of new laws targeting trans people have been introduced by Republicans in the United States. Many of them make it harder for doctors to provide gender-affirming care for you…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation controversy, explained
The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation has been pulled into the ongoing controversy surrounding allegations of Chinese meddling in Canadian elections. Last week, the foundation’s president and board …
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago