Podcast
The Big Story
Episodes — page 61
- One in five cars on Canadian roads have been recalled. Has yours?
A recent report found that 6.6 million cars are being driven in Canada that have been recalled by a manufacturer for one reason or another. Some issues are minor, some could be dea…
- A remote evacuation scramble as the Northwest Territories burns
(UPDATE: Late Wednesday night, the government of the Northwest Territories announced a phased evacuation order for Yellowknife as the fires closed in.) There are hundreds of fires…
- Why does (most of) Canada suck at building transit?
By now you are likely familiar with the long, sad story of the Ottawa LRT—which just returned from being totally shut down for a month. But that project is far from the only large…
- Are our governments siding with big grocers?
Right now, thousands of grocery store workers are striking because, they say, they can't afford to buy food at the chain they work for. Food bank use has skyrocketed. Shopifting ha…
- How 'the Montreal shuffle' is destroying a city's rental market
By now everyone is aware of the strains that short-term rentals like Air BnB can place on a city's housing market. But recently Montreal has seen that problem compounded to devasta…
- Ontario's massive greenbelt scandal, explained in full
The Greenbelt is one of Ontario's biggest environmental success stories—millions acres of protected land that capture carbon, protect at-risk species and play a huge role in feedin…
- Are the federal Liberals cooked? Or not?
The polls are not looking good for Justin Trudeau and company. The Liberals' recent cabinet shuffle failed to halt their downward slide. And even their territorial advantage in Ont…
- Is far right extremism gaining ground in Canada?
A new report looks at the circumstances that led to the convoy's arrival in Ottawa (and other places across Canada) in early 2022, and finds that it stems from a series of events t…
- New guidelines, old hesitancy and the future of covid vaccines
It's almost time for what will likely become your annual covid shot—assuming you're one of the people who will actually get it. Canada's vaccine advisory committee updated its guid…
- RERELEASE: How can we find common ground on climate change?
We realized recently that we've done an awful lot of climate coverage this summer, and that it's been overwhelmingly depressing. So, as we take a brief hiatus for this long weekend…
- How did concerts become so unaffordable?
It turns out Taylor Swift is coming to Canada after all! And if you're hoping to see her, you already know you'll be forking over hundreds of dollars. But in the past few years, ev…
- What Meta's and Google's news blocking means for indie media, and for you
On Tuesday Meta, owner of Facebook and Instagram, made good on a threat to block all news from Canadians on its platforms. Google is promising to do much the same thing, and has al…
- From extreme to extreme: The future of climate in Nova Scotia
First it was fires. Then floods. Now the province, already devastated by two extreme events, will wait to see what kind of impact unusually warm ocean temperatures will have on thi…
- How modern video games hook us, and kids, so completely
Recently a feature story in Maclean's magazine described parents who were "losing their kids to Fortnite." While some gamers may hear that and see the kind of rhetoric that has fol…
- Inside a Canadian man's massive psychic scam
This is the story of a scam that lasted for decades, and cost its victims over $200 million. It was run by a Canadian man who now sits in an American prison. It sold the services o…
- The labour movement is back, baby! Or is it?
Since the last covid lockdowns ended in 2021, barely a month has passed without major job actions—union drives at huge companies, or massive strikes in the public or private sector…
- What's behind the Liberals' massive cabinet shuffle?
Cabinet shuffles ahead of a fall session of parliament aren't unusual, but Wednesday's changes which saw most of Justin Trudeau's ministers switch roles or exit cabinet altogether…
- Why won't Manitoba search a landfill for the remains of two murder victims?
Last year, a man was arrested and charged with the murder of four Indigenous women in the Winnipeg area. When the charges were laid police said they believed the remains of two of…
- Why is Canada updating its emergency nuclear protocols?
Every so often, federal and provincial governments reexamine plans they have made in the event of a nuclear accident or missile exchange, which have existed in one form or another…
- The challenge of creating a clean national power grid
Reaching net-zero emissions by 2035 will require major overhauls to Canada's national power grid. One of the major challenges to doing so is the patchwork of power-generation metho…
