Podcast Episodes
Back to Search"An inflection point": Escalation in the Middle East
Episode 1239
In the past 48 hours, Israel has invaded Lebanon and Iran has fired missiles directly at Israel. Nobody knows what comes next, but it will be difficu…
1 year, 5 months ago
Is AI raising your rent?
Episode 1238
The US Department of Justice is investigating a piece of software that it alleges helps landlords share private information and suggests rent increas…
1 year, 5 months ago
Has Canada's Truth and Reconciliation progress stalled?
Episode 1237
Today marks the fourth National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, which is a good chance to assess where we stand on the 94 Calls to Action. After si…
1 year, 5 months ago
The strange origin story of psychedelics in Saskatchewan
Episode 1236
For this Sunday's look-back episode, we're revisiting an interview from January 2022 about a psychedelic renaissance taking place in an unlikely loca…
1 year, 5 months ago
What the new mortgage rules mean for new (and existing) home buyers
Episode 1234
This episode first aired on September 26, 2024 over at In This Economy?!, our sister show at the Frequency Podcast Network. The show helps Canadians …
1 year, 5 months ago
How The Roaring Lion was lost and found again...
Episode 1235
It's one of the most iconic photographic portraits in world history—and it hangs in one of the most famous buildings in the Canadian capital. At leas…
1 year, 5 months ago
A story of pipelines, consultants and conflicts of interest
Episode 1233
The federal government—as well as the government-owned crown corporation Trans Mountain—has paid tens of millions of dollars in two separate contract…
1 year, 5 months ago
Will the federal government fall today? What about next week?
Episode 1232
Today, the federal Conservatives will table a non-confidence motion, and if the Liberal government cannot defeat it, Canada will be headed to the pol…
1 year, 5 months ago
Is Quebec's new proposal a blow against 'tip creep'?
Episode 1231
It began during the pandemic with good intentions--give more to service workers, support local businesses and 'we're all in this together'. But someh…
1 year, 5 months ago
What happens when 'The Big One' hits the west coast?
Episode 1229
For decades we've known that one day a masssive earthquake would hit the fault off of Canada's west coast—and after new research last year was publis…
1 year, 5 months ago