Podcast
The Big Story
Episodes — page 87
Did this pandemic teach us how to tackle the climate crisis?A year ago we never would have imagined that humanity could collectively change its work habits so quickly, or that governments could unveil ambitious national programs so quickly.…
As Alberta’s cases spike, Jason Kenney faces a no-win situationThe Alberta Premier does not like restrictions, or telling people to stay home. His caucus likes that stuff even less. But the third wave of Covid-19, which is hammering Alberta th…
Canadians are reporting UFO sightings. What happens with those reports?We have a certain image of the sort of person who reports encounters with Unidentified Flying Objects. It's a ... skeptical image, to put it mildly. And it couldn't be further from…
How B.C. dodged Covid-19’s first wave, but got swamped by its thirdA year ago, as the pandemic's first wave began to recede, British Columbia was held up as a shining example of a large Canadian province that managed to beat back Covid-19. Its top…
For South Asian-Canadians, two pandemics at onceIn neighbourhoods like Peel in Ontario, South Asian-Canadians are being impacted by Covid-19 at a much greater number than their share of the population. At the same time, many hav…
How do handguns get from American gun shows to the streets of Toronto?You probably know already that most of the illegal guns in Canada come from the United States. But how much do you—or the police—really know about the long journeys they take to ge…
A look at the science behind vaccines and blood clotsA rare side effect has dominated the discussion of the AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson vaccines. Some people have used the potential for blood clotting as a reason to "hold out"…
“This isn’t yesterday’s news”: Three years after the Toronto van attackToday we revisit the van attack of April 23, 2018. It's been three years since a van mounted the sidewalk near Yonge and Finch in Toronto's north end, killing 10 and injuring 16. A…
Inside an unprecedented week in Ontario politicsEven people who have spent their lives covering governments of all stripes can't recall a week like the one Ontario's Progressive Conservative government has had. New restrictions,…
How our minds make lasting memories out of a pandemic hazePicture the moment Covid-19 became real to you—when you left to work from home, or sports shut down, or someone you know got sick. How accurate is that memory? Now, what do you rem…
Canada’s Vaccine Hunters have tips to help you book your shotIn one week, the @VaxHuntersCan Twitter account has grown from a few thousand followers to more than 85,000. By the time you read this it may be close to 100,000. And that's becaus…
We may have just realized how little we understand about our universeIn the middle of a world gripped by plague, a major scientific discovery passed nearly unnoticed. If it's verified, it means one of the most important models we use to understand p…
Why does nobody talk about the dangers of meditation?In recent years, meditation has become a huge business in the western world—with millions of people testifying it has helped them calm their minds, improve their mood or even work…
Is in-person worship an essential service?Last weekend, protesters clashed with police over the closing of GraceLife Church in Alberta. It's not the first time that houses of worship have been a flashpoint for anti-lockdow…
Canada had a blueprint for an amazing health data system. We never built it.In the late 1990s, it became clear that Canada's health data systems would need to go digital. A thorough report was presented, the first of many to come, laying out what needed to…
What did the pandemic do to our social media use?It increased it, obviously. But how? And what is that doing to us. A dive into the data that shows us where we spent our extra time, how it made us feel and which platforms have be…
Canada’s housing bubble is hitting smaller and smaller communitiesAnd also... bubbles are supposed to burst, aren't they? At some point? It's been more than half a decade since house prices in Canada began to truly climb, and that climb has accel…
They were switched as babies, and found out decades later. And they aren’t alone.Have you ever been mistaken for somebody else by a stranger? They call you by another name and you say "Sorry, that's not me." And they say something like, "Oh, I’m sorry, you look…
Even as the third wave rises, new businesses offer a glimpse at pandemic’s endIt's been ... a bad year for economies, to put it mildly. The jobless rate has risen just about everywhere. Small businesses across Canada have scratched and clawed to stay afloat.…
The Line 5 pipeline: A disaster waiting to happen, or necessary to avoid an energy crisis?You've probably never heard of Line 5. It's an offshoot of Enbridge's main pipeline and it moves more than a half-million barrels of crude oil and natural gas from Alberta, through…
