Podcast
The Big Story
Episodes — page 76
- Your airport chaos survival guide
Long lines. Flight delays and cancellations. Lost and missing luggage. Airports in Canada have been a mess, for weeks now. And it'll likely stay this way until September, experts…
- Diagnoses and treatments for the ailing Canadian healthcare system
This week, the Council of the Federation, a group consisting of all 13 Canadian provincial and territorial leaders, met in Victoria B.C. to discuss a whole host of issues. At the t…
- Rogers' nation-wide outage and how to prevent it from happening again
On Monday, Ottawa called Canada's telecom giants to the table to talk about ways to prevent future large scale disruptions like Friday's nationwide Rogers outage, demanding a plan…
- Three killings, a coroner's inquest, and a wake-up call on intimate partner violence
Their names were Anastasia Kuzyk, Nathalie Warmerdam and Carol Culleton, and on September 22, 2015, all three were killed by the same man, within hours of one another. The perpetra…
- What Roe v Wade means for Canada
After nearly 50 years, the repeal of Roe v Wade happened on June 24th. Immediately reproductive rights advocates, took to the streets in America to protest the U.S. Supreme Court's…
- Is screen time still bad for kids?
(This is the final part of a five-part series called Interconnected, detailing how technology is changing humanity.) When you were a child, did you have limits on the amount of TV…
- The story of the Lomi, and how our technology handles death and decay
(This is part four in a five-part series called Interconnected, detailing how technology is changing humanity.) The Lomi is a high-tech composter made by a Canadian company. It loo…
- What happens when you track everything about yourself?
(This is part three in a five-part series called Interconnected, detailing how technology is changing humanity.) Do you know how much sleep you got last night? How much of it was R…
- The algorithmic weapons aimed at our democracies
(This is part two in a five-part series called Interconnected, detailing how technology is changing humanity.) We tend to think of algorithms as something hidden and unknowable, at…
- What happened to our attention spans?
(This is part one in a five-part series called Interconnected, detailing how technology is changing humanity.) Have you by any chance been struggling to focus recently? Maybe you u…
- Africville Forever: Have you heard of Africville?
Under the shadow of the MacKay Bridge in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the protest camp of Eddy Carvery has stood firm as the longest civil rights protest in North American history. Eddy…
- Toronto police used more force against Black people, then gave an apology nobody asked for
According to race-based data released by the Toronto Police Service earlier this month, Black people and other people of colour are disproportionately over-policed compared to whit…
- Will the latest Liberal scandal take our eyes off a massacre inquiry?
You will no doubt be shocked to learn that the federal liberal government may have tried to politically influence an agency that should be independent. Who would have thought? Evid…
- Interconnected: Coming soon to The Big Story
Lately we've been wondering: why are we so distracted all the time? Always on our phones, tracking steps, anxious about the future, angry about politics? It probably has something…
- The frustrating, darkly funny story of Ottawa's LRT mess
The City of Ottawa paid millions of dollars for train cars that wouldn't run in the winter. The doors stuck if people tried to open them to get out. One derailment shut down the sy…
- What should we expect from the "freedom" protests on Canada Day?
A leaked intelligence document suggests that the vast majority of protesters planning to be at Parliament Hill on Canada Day will be peaceful. Many of the organizers say the same.…
- Island Crime: Red Jag Guy
“Don't get into a vehicle with a driver you don't know.” This was the golden rule Don Young taught his daughter, Lisa Marie Young. But twenty years ago, on June 29th 2002, Lisa bro…
- How to handle your finances in the new era of inflation
At some point the "how did we get here?" questions about the current state of inflation become less relevant than "how do I deal with this?" With inflation reaching its highest poi…
- An investigation into an RCMP raid on Wet'suwet'en territory
By now, you might be familiar with images of RCMP officers using an axe to break down the door of a tiny house built by Indigenous land defenders on Wet'suwet'en territory. The str…
- Should "self-induced extreme intoxication" be a valid defence for murder or sexual assault?
Canada's Supreme Court said "yes," back in a May ruling. Now the federal government is tabling a bill to say "no," in June. The defence itself is narrow and nuanced, but the idea o…
