Podcast
The Big Story
Episodes — page 92
Sometimes you have to talk about Fight ClubIt seemed like a prank posted to social media—but there are witnesses who confirmed that the advertised fight night between McGill University students actually happened. Nobody was…
Small businesses are desperate and angry, and close to ruinThe irresponsible and illegal opening of an Etobicoke, Ontario BBQ joint this week ended Thursday when the owner was finally arrested. But in the Toronto area, it remains to be see…
How Alberta’s Covid-19 control crashed and burnedFor the first six months of the pandemic, Alberta was one of the best provinces in Canada at containing Covid-19. Then it all went wrong. This week alone, the province had a day in…
“Rural” Canada is not far from the city, and the internet still sucksHalton Hills is just over an hour's drive from Toronto. Many of its residents have been working from home for months. Issues were first raised about its internet connectivity 15 ye…
Roommates and the global pandemicFamilies have spent the past eight months in closer quarters than ever before. But what about people who share a home and aren't related or dating one another? How are roommates ne…
What will happen to Canadian seniors this winter?We want elderly Canadians, who are heightened risk from Covid-19, to be safe. For much of the past eight months, that has meant hundreds of thousands of grandparents haven't seen t…
How is QAnon coping with Trump’s loss?As you might imagine, QAnon supporters believed that Donald Trump would handily win reelection. When he didn't, it blew a hole in the conspirac--hah, of course it didn't. New theor…
What happens when we’re tempted by herd immunity in a dark winterThe proposal is called the Great Barrington Declaration, and while it's couched in lots of scientific language, herd immunity is what it boils down to. It has support from a group…
How will restaurants survive the winter?At least in the spring, there was a summer to come and some sort of certainty — restaurants would stay closed until Covid-19 was under control. This Fall, in most places in Canada,…
How Nunavut’s bubble finally poppedThe territory went more than seven months as the last Covid-19-free spot in North America, but the past weeks have seen one case turn into a couple of dozen. Why did the bubble wor…
How conspiracy became our new religionAlmost two weeks after the American election, leading social media platforms are inundated with false claims about the results. Claims that are supported and amplified by Donald Tr…
Can carbon caches help us preserve a moderate climate?This is the finale of our five-part series in partnership with The Narwhal. Scientists have found protecting nature can provide more than one-third of the emissions reductions requ…
It starts with a trout, and ends up a growing disasterThis is part four of a five-part series in collaboration with The Narwhal. There are no viable solutions to stop the tide of selenium leaching into Canadian and U.S. water from a 1…
As oil and gas declines, where do the workers go?This is part three of a five-part series in collaboration with The Narwhal. Alberta’s oil and gas workers can be underrepresented — or even maligned — in conversations about an ene…
B.C.’s looming extinction crisisThis is part two of a five-part series in collaboration with The Narwhal. Canada’s westernmost province markets itself as 'Super, Natural, B.C.,' but more than 2,000 species of ani…
“Them plants are killing us.”This is part one of a five-part series in collaboration with The Narwhal. Two communities — one in Canada, one in the U.S. — share both a border along the St. Marys River and a tox…
A tsunami of disinformation is coming from the White HouseAlmost everything the President of the United States has been saying since election day is false. His family and supporters are following suit. How is the internet handling a flood…
While America counts, the world waits to exhaleAs of Wednesday night, things looked relatively positive for Joe Biden's bid for the presidency. But Donald Trump's team is filing lawsuits, demanding recounts, or halted counts, a…
Are we living in a simulation?No, the US election is not what spawned this question. New research in a field called 'simulation theory' pegs the odds that we're just AI creations in somebody's supercomputer at…
What to expect when American democracy is at stakeIs Democracy on the ballot in the American election tonight? How real is the threat of violence at the polls? What happens if Donald Trump squeaks out a reelection victory? What ha…
