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The Big Story
Episodes — page 97
Can carbon caches help us preserve a moderate climate?This is the finale of our five-part series in partnership with The Narwhal. Scientists have found protecting nature can provide more than one-third of the emissions reductions requ…
It starts with a trout, and ends up a growing disasterThis is part four of a five-part series in collaboration with The Narwhal. There are no viable solutions to stop the tide of selenium leaching into Canadian and U.S. water from a 1…
As oil and gas declines, where do the workers go?This is part three of a five-part series in collaboration with The Narwhal. Alberta’s oil and gas workers can be underrepresented — or even maligned — in conversations about an ene…
B.C.’s looming extinction crisisThis is part two of a five-part series in collaboration with The Narwhal. Canada’s westernmost province markets itself as 'Super, Natural, B.C.,' but more than 2,000 species of ani…
“Them plants are killing us.”This is part one of a five-part series in collaboration with The Narwhal. Two communities — one in Canada, one in the U.S. — share both a border along the St. Marys River and a tox…
A tsunami of disinformation is coming from the White HouseAlmost everything the President of the United States has been saying since election day is false. His family and supporters are following suit. How is the internet handling a flood…
While America counts, the world waits to exhaleAs of Wednesday night, things looked relatively positive for Joe Biden's bid for the presidency. But Donald Trump's team is filing lawsuits, demanding recounts, or halted counts, a…
Are we living in a simulation?No, the US election is not what spawned this question. New research in a field called 'simulation theory' pegs the odds that we're just AI creations in somebody's supercomputer at…
What to expect when American democracy is at stakeIs Democracy on the ballot in the American election tonight? How real is the threat of violence at the polls? What happens if Donald Trump squeaks out a reelection victory? What ha…
Inside Canada’s most notorious heistsWhy don't more Canadians know about the criminal masterminds behind some of Canada's most legendary capers? A new audiobook, True North Heists, tells the tales of some of the most…
How long can Hollywood stay in limbo?In a normal year, the start of November would mark the beginning of the prestige movie push, with award hopefuls, franchise films and feel-good family flocks crowding theatres. Thi…
Porn and the Pandemic: A study in adaptabilityIt was perfect timing, really, for OnlyFans. The website was growing in popularity because it allowed people to charge followers for exclusive content, and it didn't forbid pornogr…
Where is Ontario’s real gun violence epidemic?You might think that it's gang-related shootings in Toronto that drive gun-violence statistics in the province. You'd wind up surprised. A new study examined in detail firearms-rel…
Should Canada worry about a huge deficit?Our government has spent hundreds of billions of dollars supporting Canadians through this pandemic. They're deep in debt—but how worried should they be? Traditional economic polic…
Meet the new leader of Canada’s Green PartyAnnamie Paul made history earlier this month when she became the first Black woman to lead a Canadian party when she became the successor to Elizabeth May. Now that the party is he…
A trip to a beautiful little deadly beachIt's called Six Mile Beach, and it sits in a remote part of British Columbia. It’s not on any of the tourism brochures. You need to know how to find it to get there, but once you d…
What happens when you give homeless people money?Not your pocket change, either. We're talking about thousands of dollars in a no-strings-attached payment. A project in British Columbia did just that, and then followed 50 homeles…
How Halloween highlights the COVID-19 communication paradoxTrick or Treating is cancelled in some Ontario hotspots, and it's easy to be upset on behalf of the kids and wonder why. After all, we've been told the safest things are done outsi…
Alleged abuse, coverups and years of trauma: Inside the legacy of the Basilian FathersFor almost two years an investigative team has been digging into into claims of child sexual assault by priests who belong to a Canadian Catholic order known as the Basilian Father…
Remote work has been about survival. What’s happened to careers?In the early days of the pandemic, it was fun to compare crude work-from-home setups. Eight months later, with no end in sight, the novelty is long gone. What's changed about the t…
