Podcast
The Big Story
Episodes — page 69
- The Health Care Crisis II: Family Doctors
If everyone in Canada had a family doctor, we could prevent hundreds of thousands of emergency room visits before they happen. But millions of Canadians don't have one, and can't f…
- The Health Care Crisis Part I: Nurses
(This is part one of a five-part series examining Canada's health care crisis. How we got here, what comes next, and what we can do about it.) Nurses are almost everyone's first po…
- How much of the monarchy can Canada realistically get rid of?
Polls show a lot of support among Canadians for reexamining, and perhaps even ending, our relationship with the monarchy. This is clearly an opportunity to do something. But what d…
- Can Pierre Poilievre grab far-right votes without losing control of the CPC?
In recent years many conservative politicians have catered to the more extreme parts of their base to get elected, only to find that once in power they are obliged to continue to s…
- Alberta's leadership fight: Who took the 'United' out of the UCP?
As they choose a new leader and prepare for a looming 2023 election, Alberta's United Conservative Party is looking ... anything but. Never mind leadership hopefuls taking shots at…
- A search for answers after an Ontario shooting spree
Three people, including a police officer, were killed. The gunman dies as well. The crimes stretched over three cities, five police agencies and hours of the middle of a day in Sou…
- The final fight in the Return To Office war
As September begins, many companies are making a big push to bring their employees back to the office. But new data shows that employees are getting even more comfortable working f…
- Lisa LaFlamme on the Queen's funeral and what comes next
Queen Elizabeth II is at rest, but history is moving forward. This weekend, hundreds of thousands will say their final goodbyes to the monarch. On Monday tens of millions around th…
- Will the government get tough on telecoms?
We learned earlier this summer just how vulnerable our connected services can be. It seems like the government did, too. With a new memorandum of understanding and revisions to the…
- Is Ukraine's staggering advance a turning point in the war?
In less than a week, Ukrainian forces have regained more than 3000 square kilometres of territory occupied by Russia, and they plan to keep pushing. Videos show Russian tanks and a…
- After a week, what do we know about the Saskatchewan stabbing spree?
In the moment, details in a breaking story are hard to come by. So are context and understanding. But as we begin to learn the facts of what transpired last week in Saskatchewan, w…
- Is Canada preparing for an authoritarian United States?
Ever since Canada became a nation, we've been secretly worried about our friends to the south, just as we have been publicly supportive. Recent events in the United States have onl…
- Queen Elizabeth II is dead. Here's what happens now.
What happens in the halls of power when a monarch dies? Who will succeed Elizabeth? And what will this mean for the Royal family, and the commonwealth more generally? (This interv…
- The 'forever chemicals' you probably have inside you
There are the normal kinds of toxins that your body can break down over time. These are different. But they're still found in plenty of every day household items, fast food and eve…
- In Quebec's election, a rising progressive party and a new vision of sovereignty
(As well as a note from The Big Story about covering breaking news.) On October 3, nearly everyone agrees that Premier Francois Legault and the CAQ will win another election. But a…
- Everything you need to know about Covid this fall
The weather's getting colder, the kids are back at school, people are returning to work, and that means we're probably going to see more Covid. How much more depends on things like…
- Why Starbucks is fertile ground for a labour fight
Every month or two, more Starbucks vote to unionize. In Canada, that fight is mostly spreading from west to east, with the first in Victoria, BC, and now others even in large Alber…
- The hunt for millions of counterfeit toonies
They call it the "camel-toe toonie", and you will understand why as soon as you look at the front right paw of the polar bear on it. Since they were first discovered in circulation…
- Is Diagolon a joke or a threat? Or both?
When CPC leadership frontrunner Pierre Poilievre shook hands with Jeremy MacKenzie, a founder of the Diagolon movement, he likely had no idea who he was. But he soon found himself…
- How the government took over First Nations' finances. And made things worse.
It's called the Default Prevention and Management Policy. And for decades it was used to take control of budgets and finances away from First Nations leaders, and put them in the h…
