Podcast
The Decibel
Episodes — page 61
- Eating disorders jeopardizing Olympic athletes' lives and careers
Elite athletes’ every move are subjected to scrutiny, rewound and played in slow-motion. And while we often discuss the physical stress this kind of exertion places on them, we’re…
- Stress Test: From investing to housing, personal finance experts share their predictions for 2022Bonus
For the end of 2021, we're bringing you an episode of Stress Test, a podcast about personal finance from The Globe and Mail, hosted by Rob Carrick and Roma Luciw. 2021 was a year o…
- City Space: Who are public spaces – like parks or transit systems – designed for?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. Public spaces are often the best parts of a c…
- Small acts of kindness
A stranger helps a woman keep her new Christmas tradition alive. People come together to make sure their community fridges are full. A group of neighbours celebrate 500 nights of t…
- A new way to eliminate 40% of poverty
Al Etmanski has spent his life working to help improve life for Canadians with disabilities. Now, the federal government is considering establishing a fund to help top-up disabilit…
- Esi Edugyan on the Black stories Canada forgot
Esi Edugyan is known for her books of fiction. She’s a two-time winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize for her novels Half-Blood Blues and Washington Black. In her most recent book,…
- How Omicron is different
The holidays are here and so is the Omicron variant of COVID-19. Science reporter Ivan Semeniuk on what the latest science says about how Omicron is different from other variants l…
- It’s been a great year (for books)
It’s the perfect time to escape into a book. Arts editor Judith Pereira and Western Arts Correspondent Marsha Lederman on the book trends this year, the silver lining of the pandem…
- A quieter ‘patriots only’ election in Hong Kong
This weekend, Hong Kongers head to the polls to elect their government. Well, to elect 20 of the 90 seats in their Legislative Council – and from a roster of candidates carefully v…
- Why this doctor is trying to find you rapid tests
Case counts are rising in many parts of the country as Omicron becomes the dominant variant of COVID-19. As some regions reintroduce public health restrictions, there’s a growing c…
- An Ethiopian journalist reports on the ‘secretive war’
Two years ago, the Prime Minister of Ethiopia was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. But for over a year now, a civil war has raged in Ethiopia between the federal government and the T…
- Putting a price on how nature protects us
What is the price of a wetland? A forest? A river? How can you even go about assessing the value of natural habitats? How do you factor in the watershed’s ability to mitigate flood…
- A Mountie, a residential school and a cover-up
In 1957, a lone Mountie in northern B.C. heard rumours about sexual abuse of boys who attended the Lower Post residential school. The Mountie and a group of Kaska Dena children bro…
- Why global powers fear Russia’s preparing to invade Ukraine
Ukraine and U.S. intelligence officials, as well as online sleuthers, have noticed a buildup of Russian troops along most of the border separating the former Soviet country from Ru…
- Boosters, breakthroughs and another COVID-19 winter
In December of 2020 there was a lot of hope in the air as the first shots of the COVID-19 vaccine were administered in Canada. Fast forward a year and more than 75 per cent of the…
- November’s big job boom and what it means for Canada’s economy
The experts said there’d be about 38,000 jobs added to Canada’s labour force in November. So when Statistics Canada announced that that number was actually 154,000, people were lef…
- Gun laws 32 years after the École Polytechnique mass shooting
It has been 32 years since the École Polytechnique massacre, which left 14 women dead and spurred a debate about gun control in Canada. Progress on this file has been mixed, with v…
- The business case for being bilingual
The debate over the place and importance of the French language in Canada erupted into the corporate world after Air Canada CEO Michael Rousseau gave a speech, mainly in English, i…
- Why this was the moment for Barbados to leave the monarchy
Barbados has moved on to a new future after the country declared itself a republic and replaced Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state with its recently elected president, Sandra…
- Why conversion therapy is still legal in Canada
A bill first introduced in March 2020 is back in Parliament, as its backers try for the third time to put conversion therapy in the Criminal Code of Canada. And this time, the bill…
