Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCrime is up, is bail reform the solution?
Violent crime is up in Canada. The country’s homicide rate jumped 42 per cent from 2013 to 2021, and attacks have increased on public transit. With …
3 years, 4 months ago
Front Burner Introduces: Let’s Not Be Kidding with Gavin Crawford
If laughter really was the best medicine, Gavin Crawford would have cured his mother of Alzheimer’s disease. As a son, his mother’s dementia has been…
3 years, 4 months ago
Front Burner Introduces: The Secret Life of Canada - The Forgotten War
Not all Canadian history happens in Canada. Over 70 years ago, nearly 30,000 Canadians volunteered to fight in the Korean War. It was the third-deadl…
3 years, 5 months ago
Book bans and Black history in Florida
This week, Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed yet another bill targeting the state’s education system into law. In this case, the law will defund s…
3 years, 5 months ago
The rise and fall of Vice Media
This week, Vice Media filed for bankruptcy. According to reports, the company may be bought for $225 million, plus its sizable debt. At its peak not …
3 years, 5 months ago
Hotter, faster, more destructive: wildfire’s new reality
Albertans are suffering an unprecedented wildfire season. Tens of thousands have been evacuated out of the path of massive blazes. Across the provinc…
3 years, 5 months ago
Canada closed a border loophole. Where will migrants go?
For a year and a half, almost 50,000 migrants had walked into Canada via Quebec’s Roxham Road to seek asylum. Then, at midnight on the morning of Ma…
3 years, 5 months ago
Inside a busy food bank: 'It’s the person across the cubicle'
The Daily Bread Food Bank in Toronto had their worst month on record in March: more people used their services than at any other time in their 40-yea…
3 years, 5 months ago
Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom changes the game, again
When it comes to classic video games, there are names everyone’s heard of. There's Mario. Donkey Kong. And of course there’s the Legend of Zelda. The…
3 years, 5 months ago
Have Congressman George Santos’ lies caught up with him?
Shortly after George Santos was elected to Congress in 2022, the New York Times found that he had fabricated almost every aspect of his life story – …
3 years, 5 months ago