Podcast
The Big Story
Episodes — page 63
- The Gravy Train, Episode 8: Legacy
If you're a newer listener to The Big Story, you may not know aboutThe Gravy Train, a podcast we released in 2019 chronicling the meteoric rise, and tragic downfall of Toronto's mo…
- Will Canada's largest city take a hard left turn?
For a long time now, Toronto has been run by conservative mayors. But all the polls indicate that will change on Monday, with former NDP MP and longtime progressive Olivia Chow hol…
- Why don't companies let you talk to an actual human anymore?
It's one thing when companies that exist entirely online—like Facebook and Instagram—use chatbots and emails instead of a real person as a customer service solution. That's annoyin…
- Will the Titanic claim more victims a century later?
A submersible intended to take five people to visit the wreck of the Titanic was missing as of Wednesday night. If the people inside are still alive, they are rapidly running out o…
- How did Canadian airfare prices get so far out of control?
It wasn't that long ago that airlines were slashing prices and offering huge seat sales to lure timid customers back onto planes during the pandemic. Safe to say, those days are ov…
- What a school's 'descent into chaos' says about the state of education in Ontario
After a fire forced their high school to close, the Toronto District School Board decided to relocate the roughly 900 students and teachers from York Memorial Collegiate Institute…
- The Gravy Train, Episode 7: Rehab
If you're a newer listener to The Big Story, you may not know aboutThe Gravy Train, a podcast we released in 2019 chronicling the meteoric rise, and tragic downfall of Toronto's mo…
- We live with lots of noise. What's that doing to us?
You know how sometimes you notice that it's eerily quiet? That's because we're so accustomed to the background noise of life in a city of any size, that sudden silence catches our…
- Canada and the world get serious about UFOs
Right now, Canada is working on a process to improve our tracking and reporting of sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects. In late May, NASA and the US Department of Defence help…
- He fled war and built a life in Canada. They found his body in the St. Lawrence.
This is an immigrant's story. A Canadian story. A mystery. Six months ago, Eduardo Malpica went missing after a night at a bar in Trois-Rivières, Quebec. Last week, his body was pu…
- A rapporteur resigns. Is a public inquiry on foreign interference next?
Two weeks ago, special rapporteur David Johnston said nothing would stop him from completing his work investigating foreign interference in Canadian politics. Friday, he stopped. A…
- The ChatGPT guy wants to scan your eyeball with an orb. What could go wrong?
Sam Altman, the CEO of Open AI, the company behind ChatGPT, has co-founded a cryptocurrency project called Worldcoin, which is currently scanning people's eyeballs using an orb and…
- The Gravy Train, Episode 6: The Circus
If you're a newer listener to The Big Story, you may not know aboutThe Gravy Train, a podcast we released in 2019 chronicling the meteoric rise, and tragic downfall of Toronto's mo…
- Is it time to change the Cannabis act?
Right now, the federal government is reviewing the laws that made recreational pot legal in Canada. Everything is theoretically on the table, even if the basics of the act are unli…
- Why are some orcas suddenly attacking boats?
For the past few years, orcas off the coast of Portugal and Spain have been attacking, and sinking, small boats. At least three boats have been completely sunk, and many more have…
- A dam explodes, the stakes rise and the war in Ukraine enters a new phase
For the past few weeks, military analysts have been expecting a Ukrainian offensive in the conflict with Russia, one that might the tables on the Russians, break past the front lin…
- Canada's health care system is falling apart. It's not too late to fix it.
In the grips of a deadly emergency, Canada's health care system stood on its head. It's what the people who sign up to save lives do. But after three years of fending off both a vi…
- The "test case" for anti-LGBTQ legislation in Canada
A policy in New Brunswick that took 10 years to create, and was implemented by a Conservative government three years ago, is now being “reviewed” by that same government. Policy 71…
- The Gravy Train, Episode 5: Brazen
If you're a newer listener to The Big Story, you may not know aboutThe Gravy Train, a podcast we released in 2019 chronicling the meteoric rise, and tragic downfall of Toronto's mo…
- Why you never see an original movie anymore
Last week it was The Little Mermaid. The week before that, the tenth Fast and Furious movie. Soon, it will be Spider-Man and then Barbie's turn. Until the next comic book movie sho…
