Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWhy don't companies let you talk to an actual human anymore?
Episode 844
It's one thing when companies that exist entirely online—like Facebook and Instagram—use chatbots and emails instead of a real person as a customer s…
2 years, 8 months ago
Will the Titanic claim more victims a century later?
Episode 843
A submersible intended to take five people to visit the wreck of the Titanic was missing as of Wednesday night. If the people inside are still alive,…
2 years, 8 months ago
How did Canadian airfare prices get so far out of control?
Episode 841
It wasn't that long ago that airlines were slashing prices and offering huge seat sales to lure timid customers back onto planes during the pandemic.…
2 years, 8 months ago
What a school's 'descent into chaos' says about the state of education in Ontario
Episode 839
After a fire forced their high school to close, the Toronto District School Board decided to relocate the roughly 900 students and teachers from York…
2 years, 8 months ago
The Gravy Train, Episode 7: Rehab
Episode 840
If you're a newer listener to The Big Story, you may not know aboutThe Gravy Train, a podcast we released in 2019 chronicling the meteoric rise, and …
2 years, 8 months ago
We live with lots of noise. What's that doing to us?
Episode 838
You know how sometimes you notice that it's eerily quiet? That's because we're so accustomed to the background noise of life in a city of any size, t…
2 years, 8 months ago
Canada and the world get serious about UFOs
Episode 837
Right now, Canada is working on a process to improve our tracking and reporting of sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects. In late May, NASA and th…
2 years, 8 months ago
He fled war and built a life in Canada. They found his body in the St. Lawrence.
Episode 836
This is an immigrant's story. A Canadian story. A mystery. Six months ago, Eduardo Malpica went missing after a night at a bar in Trois-Rivières, Que…
2 years, 8 months ago
A rapporteur resigns. Is a public inquiry on foreign interference next?
Episode 835
Two weeks ago, special rapporteur David Johnston said nothing would stop him from completing his work investigating foreign interference in Canadian …
2 years, 8 months ago
The ChatGPT guy wants to scan your eyeball with an orb. What could go wrong?
Episode 833
Sam Altman, the CEO of Open AI, the company behind ChatGPT, has co-founded a cryptocurrency project called Worldcoin, which is currently scanning peo…
2 years, 8 months ago