Podcast
Front Burner
Episodes — page 58
- Crypto is crashing. Why?
After many months of hype, the cryptocurrency market is crashing. Last week, the trading and lending platform Celsius Network paused all withdrawals, citing extreme market conditio…
- B.C.’s ‘staggering’ money laundering problem
B.C.’s ‘staggering’ money laundering problem
- Front Burner Introduces: Someone Knows Something: The Abortion WarsBonus
Host David Ridgen joins victims' family members as they investigate cold cases, tracking down leads, speaking to suspects and searching for answers. In Season 7 of Someone Knows So…
- Toronto police more likely to use force against people of colour, data suggests
Toronto police are more likely to use force against people of colour, especially Black residents, according to race-based data released this week. The internal data on use of force…
- Did Google make conscious AI?
Earlier this week, Blake Lemoine, an engineer who works for Google’s Responsible AI department, went public with his belief that Google’s LaMDA chatbot is sentient. LaMDA, or Langu…
- Jacob Hoggard and consent in CanadaExplicit
On June 5, after six days of deliberation, a jury found former Hedley frontman Jacob Hoggard guilty of sexually assaulting an Ottawa woman. The jury also acquitted Hoggard of sexua…
- Saudi Arabia’s LIV Golf controversy
Golf's new breakaway tour, LIV Golf, is throwing the world of golf into chaos. LIV held its first tournament this week and is gunning to eclipse the PGA — golf's premier associatio…
- Unpacking Canadian airport chaos
If you've been to an airport in Canada recently, there's a good chance you've dealt with more than your average level of chaos. Some of the issues include hours-long security lineu…
- Front Burner Introduces: The Village Season Three - The Montreal MurdersBonus
In the early 1990s, as AIDS tightens its grip on major cities around the world, the relative safety of Montreal’s nightlife becomes a magnet for gay men. But when they start turnin…
- Solving the mysteries of long COVID
Shortness of breath, fatigue and brain fog. Those are just some of the symptoms that many COVID long-haulers are still facing, even months after they first caught the virus. Accord…
- The reality of intimate-partner violence in rural Canada
On Sept. 22, 2015 in Ontario's Renfrew County, Nathalie Warmerdam, Anastasia Kuzik, and Carol Culleton were all killed by the same man — Basil Borutski. All three women knew Boruts…
- Boris Johnson survives ‘partygate,’ for now
On Monday evening, the U.K. Conservative Party held a vote to determine whether it should oust its leader, Boris Johnson. More than 40 per cent of his own MPs voted against him. Th…
- Why conspiracies surround the World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum, and its annual summit for the rich and powerful in Davos, Switzerland, have long been targeted by criticism from the left. But since the start of the pand…
- Young Thug and lyrics on trialExplicit
Atlanta rappers Young Thug and Gunna are among 28 people that a U.S. grand jury indictment accuses of being part of a criminal street gang. The alleged members of the Young Slime L…
- The millionaires on a mission to pay more taxes
Last week, political leaders and elite business people gathered at the World Economic Forum's annual summit in Davos, Switzerland, to discuss solutions to problems such as climate…
- Grief, outrage after killing of Punjabi music icon Sidhu Moose Wala
The wildly popular Punjabi artist Sidhu Moose Wala was a pioneer in his genre, fusing traditional folk sounds with contemporary rap and trap music. Sidhu shaped his career in Bramp…
- Why Quebec's new language law is stirring controversy
Bill 96, Quebec's newly adopted language law, is meant to protect the use of French in areas such as education, government services, courts and the workplace. But there has been a…
- Collecting evidence of war crimes in Ukraine
An enormous effort is underway to gather evidence of alleged war crimes by Russian forces in Ukraine. Investigators from the International Criminal Court, Amnesty International and…
- Everything is expensive. Why?
Inflation is obvious in Canada, but the reasons for it are a little more complicated. Prices at gas stations rose above $2 a litre in many parts of the country, while the cost of p…
- Texas, guns and America’s political paralysis
The gun debate in America is cycling through its usual motions in the wake of mass shootings in Buffalo, N.Y., and Uvalde, Texas. Today on Front Burner, a look at the state of the…
