Podcast Episodes

Will the U.S. invade Venezuela?

Over the weekend, Donald Trump declared on Truth Social that the airspace around Venezuela should be considered closed. Venezuela’s foreign ministry …

3 months, 2 weeks ago

Ukraine peace plan,or Russian ‘wish list’?

In a somber speech last week Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned his people that their country was on the brink of a critical choice: eith…

3 months, 2 weeks ago

In Chad, inside camps for Sudan’s refugees

Sudan’s civil war is now the worst displacement crisis in the world, with more than 12 million people currently displaced from their homes. Earlier t…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

Hatchet buried? The politics of an Alberta energy deal

On Thursday Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta’s Danielle Smith are set to announce the outlines of a plan that could set Alberta and B.C. on a c…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

Gunshots, arson, threats: B.C’s extortion crisis

After meeting on the sidelines of the G20 in South Africa, Prime Minister Mark Carney and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have announced they wou…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

The hunt for alleged cocaine kingpin Ryan Wedding

At a press conference last week U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi laid out fresh allegations against Ryan Wedding, a 44-year-old Canadian and former Ol…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

Is the notwithstanding clause bad for democracy?

Section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms — the so-called "notwithstanding clause" — allows governments, both provincial and federal,…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

The ‘sniper tourists’ of Sarajevo

For decades there have been allegations that wealthy foreigners traveled into the Bosnian war, during the siege of Sarajevo, to shoot at besieged civ…

4 months ago

Did Carney just pass a Progressive Conservative budget?

Mark Carney’s Liberals survived a confidence vote on their first budget Monday night. 

It was a strange vote, with four members of the Conservatives a…

4 months ago

A hinge point for human rights

Over 75 years ago, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was established and signed by the newly formed United Nations after the atrocities of th…

4 months ago