Podcast
The Decibel
Episodes — page 54
- Stress Test: How TikTok changed the vibe of personal finance adviceBonus
Today we're bringing you an episode of Stress Test, a Globe and Mail podcast about personal finance, hosted by Rob Carrick and Roma Luciw. Gen Z and millennials are getting a lot o…
- The most important revelations from the January 6 hearings
The January 6 Committee hearings have shared several surprising revelations and explosive testimony over the last few months. To make sense of it all, we recap some stand out momen…
- The court case challenging Canada’s public healthcare
On Friday, B.C.’s Court of Appeal upheld a lower court’s decision that access to medical care should be based on need and not the ability to pay. The court sided with the B.C. gove…
- What we learned from the Nova Scotia shooter’s spouse
More than two years after Canada’s worst mass shooting, we’ve finally heard from someone who was there at the start. Lisa Banfield, the shooter’s common-law spouse, spoke last Frid…
- Sri Lanka's crisis and its relationship with China
Sri Lanka is in crisis right now. After months of fuel, medicine and food shortages, protestors have taken to the streets – and the homes of the country’s leaders. The now-former P…
- City Space: How can cities prepare for climate change?Bonus
Today we're bringing you an episode of City Space, a Globe and Mail podcast about how to make our cities better, hosted by Adrian Lee. Climate change isn’t just coming, it’s here.…
- Decoding the Bank of Canada’s supersized interest rate hike
The Bank of Canada raised the benchmark interest rate by one percentage point on Wednesday. The surprise move is the biggest hike since 1998. The aggressive increase is larger than…
- Three solutions for airport chaos from a former airline exec
Things are not going well at airports around the world and Canada has taken a particularly bad turn. On Monday, 70 per cent of flights from Canada’s largest carrier Air Canada were…
- The Rogers outage fallout
On Friday, Rogers’ cellphone and Internet surfaced suddenly stopped working, leaving almost 12 million Canadians disconnected. And it wasn’t just Rogers’ direct customers who were…
- Coping with the coming COVID summer surge
Two and a half years into the COVID-19 pandemic, we may be sick of talking about it – but COVID-19 is not through with us yet. Case counts are higher than the first two pandemic su…
- City Space: Hybrid work is here to stay. What will that mean for our downtown cores?Bonus
Today we're bringing you an episode of City Space, a Globe and Mail podcast about how to make our cities better, hosted by Adrian Lee. If you’re a white-collar worker, chances are…
- What’s going on inside the Assembly of First Nations?
On Tuesday, First Nations chiefs in the Assembly of First Nations voted against continuing the suspension of National Chief RoseAnne Archibald. Archibald was suspended on June 17,…
- Trudeau, the RCMP and a question of interference
Just 10 days after the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting where 22 people were killed, RCMP commissioner Brenda Lucki allegedly pressed senior officers to publicly release information…
- Tuberculosis in Canada? The story behind a recent outbreak
It’s often thought of as a disease from a bygone era, but in some parts of Canada, tuberculosis is still very much with us. When the hamlet of Pangnirtung experienced an outbreak l…
- Wild boars are in Canada and it’s no joke
Adaptable, smart and invasive. No we’re not talking about humans. We’re talking about wild boars. With their populations growing and sightings – even around big metropolitan areas…
- Graduating from pandemic high school
Westview Centennial Secondary School in the northwest of Toronto is celebrating the graduating class of 2022. On Thursday, about 180 students are crossing the stage to get their di…
- The fight to overturn abortion bans in the U.S.
Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on Friday, abortions were immediately outlawed in several states. But this week, the procedures were allowed to…
- Hockey Canada, allegations of sexual assault and a culture of secrecy
A woman alleges she was sexually assaulted by eight Canadian Hockey League players in 2018. The public did not hear about this until 2022, after TSN broke the news that Hockey Cana…
- The cultural and economic force that is K-pop supergroup BTS
The superstar K-pop group BTS announced recently that they are taking a temporary break as a group and pursuing individual projects. This moment was a big deal for their millions o…
- Celebrating Pride in small-town Canada
Today, Pride celebrations in big cities include parades and parties which attract millions of participants around the world. But for many smaller cities and towns across Canada, pu…
