Podcast
The Big Story
Episodes — page 73
- The Aftermath: What Fiona changed forever
Almost two weeks after Fiona hit Atlantic Canada, many communities are still picking up the pieces. In others, there are very few pieces to pick up—because homes and businesses are…
- Canada's hottest economy is not where you might think it is
Asked to picture the hottest economy in the country, your mind goes to one of two places—the skyscrapers of Toronto's financial district, or the oil fields and towns of Alberta. Bu…
- Creative artificial intelligence has crossed a major threshold. What happens next?
Last week, the creative AI DALL-E opened to everyone wanting to use it. The program, which returns images based on text prompts provided by the user, has created mesmerizing tablea…
- The Health Care Crisis V: Privatization
As Canada's health-care system fails, more and more people will be willing to pay up to avoid the most overcrowded and underserviced parts of it. While no politician will come out…
- Inside the world of Indigenous art fraud
Indigenous artists are some of the world's most talented, and their unique pieces are highly valued for their creativity and culture. Unless they're not unique at all. Fraud is a h…
- The Health Care Crisis IV: Dementia
As stretched as our health-care system is right now, it may be nothing compared to what will test it in the years to come. Even if we've handled the worst of Covid, and no new dise…
- The Health Care Crisis III: Emergency Rooms
When Canadians can't get family doctors, walk-in clinics are backlogged and there are no nurses available to provide long-term care in homes or facilities, it doesn't take much for…
- 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…
