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Back to SearchFront Burner Introduces: The No-Good, Terribly Kind, Wonderful Lives and Tragic Deaths of Barry and Honey Sherman
News of the mysterious deaths of billionaire Canadian pharma giant Barry Sherman and his philanthropist wife Honey in December 2017 reverberated around the world. Five years later, with no arrests an…
Published on 2 years, 10 months ago
The mysterious case of ‘the TikTok tics’
Within the first several months of the COVID-19 pandemic, doctors around the world noticed something strange. Suddenly, they were seeing a surge of young patients presenting with sudden, explosive ti…
Published on 2 years, 10 months ago
Big Oil’s ‘monster profits’ and climate rollbacks
Last week, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called out oil companies for raking in “monster profits” and expanding production instead of focusing on renewable energy. 2022 was a reco…
Published on 2 years, 10 months ago
What, exactly, is getting shot out of the skies?
It all started two weeks ago with a suspected Chinese spy balloon, which carried a payload about the size of three buses. A U.S. fighter jet shot it down after it floated across the continent. Then,…
Published on 2 years, 10 months ago
Will the legal weed business be okay?
A few days ago, Canopy Growth Corporation, one of weed's biggest players, announced significant cuts and the closure of its headquarters in Smith Falls, Ontario, resulting in 800 layoffs for the town…
Published on 2 years, 10 months ago
How Toronto’s 'boring' mayor resigned in scandal
An hour after the Toronto Star published an article about his affair on Friday, mayor John Tory was standing before reporters at Toronto City Hall. He offered his resignation. During his over eight y…
Published on 2 years, 10 months ago
Front Burner Introduces: The Africas VS. America
In 1985, at the height of the Black Power era, police dropped a bomb in a Philadelphia neighborhood. Their target? A family of Black radicals known as ‘MOVE,’ who found themselves ensnared in a city …
Published on 2 years, 10 months ago
The sex tape and Pamela Anderson’s side of the story
Last year, a TV show called Pam and Tommy dramatized the turbulent marriage between Canadian actress/model Pamela Anderson and Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee. It’s the latest in a string of documentar…
Published on 2 years, 10 months ago
Brother in Syria, sister in Canada, ‘helpless’ after devastating earthquake
Alaa Alakel says the night after major earthquakes struck her home country of Syria was maybe the worst night of her life. She is a student in Toronto and waited sleeplessly by her phone for news fro…
Published on 2 years, 10 months ago
Trudeau’s $196B pitch to fix health care
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with all 13 of Canada's premiers on Tuesday to pitch his plan for increased health-care funding to provinces and territories. The measures would amount to over $46 b…
Published on 2 years, 10 months ago