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Back to SearchRussia accused of war crimes over Ukrainian children
Russia has put at least 6,000 Ukrainian children in camps, according to a U.S.-funded report from Yale University. The report says the children are …
3 years, 3 months ago
Fear lingers after Ohio's toxic train disaster
Weeks after a train derailed and crews released and burned toxic chemicals, officials are reassuring residents of East Palestine, Ohio that the air a…
3 years, 3 months ago
Front 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 arou…
3 years, 3 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 y…
3 years, 3 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 instea…
3 years, 3 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 …
3 years, 3 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 Fal…
3 years, 3 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. H…
3 years, 3 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 a…
3 years, 3 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 To…
3 years, 3 months ago