Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWhat’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…
2 years, 11 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 …
2 years, 11 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 fo…
2 years, 11 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.…
2 years, 11 months ago
War secrets, infighting and spies: inside the Discord leaks
Last week, classified U.S. military documents largely about the Ukraine war started circulating around the internet and making headlines. But the fil…
2 years, 11 months ago
Measuring a decade of Trudeau’s Liberal leadership
Ten years ago this week, Justin Trudeau took over the Liberals’ top job. He won it in a landslide. In his acceptance speech to the excited room, Trud…
2 years, 11 months ago
Why movies about products are everywhere
Last weekend The Super Mario Bros. Movie had the biggest global opening weekend for an animated movie ever. The story of how Nike brought the world A…
2 years, 11 months ago
Who attacked the Nord Stream pipelines?
In late September of 2022, the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines — which supply Russian natural gas to Germany and the rest of Europe via the Baltic Sea …
2 years, 11 months ago
Front Burner Presents | The Naked Emperor E4: It Takes a Village
Sam Bankman-Fried couldn’t have marketed FTX to the masses on his own. He had help – from the institutional investors who brought in the big bucks, t…
2 years, 11 months ago
Front Burner Presents | The Naked Emperor E3: Busted
In the weeks after FTX filed for bankruptcy Sam stuck to his story: he did not commit fraud. FTX’s post-collapse CEO claimed the company had been a …
2 years, 11 months ago