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Back to SearchHow Burning Man got stuck in the mud
This year’s Burning Man festivities were more chaotic than usual when rain poured down in the Nevada desert, turning the usually dry, dusty terrain i…
3 years, 1 month ago
Greenbelt blowback continues to slam Ford government
Doug Ford’s Greenbelt scandal continues to deepen. In the past few weeks, there have been two high-profile political resignations, revelations about …
3 years, 1 month ago
China's boom changed the world. Now, it faces a slump
As Canada deals with high inflation and a housing shortage, the world’s second-largest economy is grappling with a nearly opposite reality. China has…
3 years, 1 month ago
Pierre Poilievre’s tightrope walk at the Conservative convention
Conservatives from across the country will gather this week in Quebec City for their party convention. There are some heated issues on the agenda; li…
3 years, 1 month ago
Front Burner Introduces: CBC Marketplace | Our five-year fight to stop scam calls
As Canada’s top consumer watchdog, CBC Marketplace looks out for your health, your safety and your money. Hosts Asha Tomlinson and David Common bring…
3 years, 1 month ago
Over 100 deaths, lethal substances, and a global investigation
This week – Ontario police charged Kenneth Law, of Mississauga, with 12 counts of counselling and aiding suicide. That’s on top of the two counts he …
3 years, 1 month ago
ChatGPT in university: useful tool or cheating hack?
The ChatGPT hype cycle has died down a bit lately. There are fewer breathless headlines about generative AI’s potential and its risks. But in a recen…
3 years, 1 month ago
As fires burn, N.W.T.’s premier calls out Ottawa
As wildfires burn in the Northwest Territories, premier Caroline Cochrane called out Ottawa for failing to respond to decades-long requests to addres…
3 years, 1 month ago
International students in Canada face discrimination, exploitation
Since new Housing Minister Sean Fraser said Canada “ought to consider” a cap on international students last week, the impact of the program on the ho…
3 years, 1 month ago
What Prigozhin’s death means for Putin
Russian officials said on Sunday that genetic tests had confirmed that Wagner Group head Yevgeny Prigozhin was killed in a plane crash last week. Ju…
3 years, 1 month ago