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Back to SearchWhy is Quebec's language fight taking on English students?
Episode 942
Quebec's CAQ government has spent years tightening laws around languages in the province, with a stated aim to protect French as its predominant lang…
2 years, 7 months ago
Why are the Liberals carving out a piece of the carbon tax?
Episode 941
It's a very small piece, to be sure. But it's also a huge precedent. Almost immediately after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the announcement las…
2 years, 7 months ago
Will MAiD changes give drug users access to assisted death?
Episode 940
It can be difficult to sort fact from fiction, or anecdotes from data, when it comes to a subject like assisted dying. The topic itself is so emotion…
2 years, 7 months ago
Canada desperately needs more family docs. Why are we making it harder to be one?
Episode 939
Depending on where you live, there's a between one-in-three and one-in-six chance that you don't have a family doctor. And the number of Canadians wi…
2 years, 7 months ago
RERELEASE: How to actually change someone's mind
Episode 936
With the increasingly polarized rhetoric surrounding the terrorist attacks in Israel on October 7, and the IDF's continuous bombing of the Gaza strip…
2 years, 7 months ago
How a massive solar storm could fry our entire grid
Episode 938
Depending on your mood, it sounds either terrifying, or like a sweet release from modernity. But solar storms hit the Earth all the time, and it's on…
2 years, 7 months ago
How Doug Ford's Ontario government mastered the art of the flip-flop
Episode 937
This week, Ontario Housing Minister Paul Calandra (new to the job after his predecessor resigned amid scandal in September) announced another reversa…
2 years, 7 months ago
Is the glut of pot stores finally starting to shrink?
Episode 935
The promise of untold millions once puffed up the legal cannabis industry to unimaginable highs. Then blunt reality set in. Now, with dreams of fortu…
2 years, 7 months ago
A brief history of middle east ceasefires
Episode 934
Two weeks after a terror attack by Hamas, and two weeks into a devastating retaliatory bombing campaign by Israel, thousands of lives are gone, and t…
2 years, 7 months ago
Is "It's your mess, you clean it up!" a viable recycling strategy?
Episode 932
Technically, it's called "extended producer responsibility"—and in practice it means governments handing over the task of recycling packaging to the …
2 years, 7 months ago