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The Big Story
Episodes — page 92
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…
Is the third wave really “a new pandemic”? A Covid-19 Variant FAQWe all want this pandemic to be over. But it's not. And vaccines alone won't stop the third wave of Covid-19 that's now rolling over much of Canada. The third wave is driven by va…
How capitalism profits from an epidemic of lonelinessMost of us have been isolated for more than a year. Many of us, though, have been isolated for longer than that, and will feel it even more sharply when those of us who do have lot…
How Canada-China relations became strained to the breaking pointIt ramped up with Canada's detention of a Huawei executive, and China's retaliatory detention of two Canadian citizens. But it didn't begin there. And tensions are not likely to en…
Ever Given: The stuck boat that was both a crisis and a comedyIts name is the Ever Given. It will forever be a part of the history of this odd time. And when it lodged itself horizontally in the Suez Canal last week, it launched a thousand me…
Canada’s invisible victims of femicidePicture the last story you read or heard about a woman killed by a man. Where did she live? How old was she? Why did you picture it that way? With much of 2020 spent under stay-at…
What we know (and don’t know) about long-haul CovidFor almost a year now, reporter Cynthia Mulligan has been staying in touch with people who caught Covid-19 early and survived, only to see their debilitating symptoms linger. What…
What does the carbon tax ruling mean?Canada's Supreme Court issued an historic ruling yesterday, deciding by a 6-3 margin the the federal government does indeed have the power to implement a carbon tax (or a price on…
How the condo amenity wars are changing Canadian citiesA long time ago, an amenity in a condo was limited to things like a pool, a gym or maybe a patio. Now, as units grow smaller and developers court buyers, they've become more and mo…
Can we create a national plan to kickstart graduates’ careers?The second graduating class of this pandemic is about to enter the workforce. There are still very few jobs and thousands of grads desperate for them. Plus, this year's grads have…
Canada’s vaccine rollout is slow, and very confusing. Here are some answers.So, now the AstraZeneca vaccine is OK for people over age 65? What about the blood clot risk?! Why are some pharmacies taking walk-ins for people in their 60s right now, but some g…
Covid and grief: What happens when we can’t say goodbye?Hundreds of thousands of Canadians have lost loved ones to this pandemic. And most of them lost them without being able to say goodbye or to properly mourn them. Grief over a death…
How Homer Simpson became an aspirational figureThe Simpson family's circumstances have barely changed at all over 30 years—but the world around them has dramatically shifted. When the show debuted, Homer and his family were hol…
A year of anti-Asian racism reaches its inevitable, tragic conclusionFor more than 12 months, Asian-Canadians and Asian-Americans have been targeted for harassment, assault and worse. In the early days of the pandemic, it was words. Then actions. Th…
