Podcast
The Decibel
Episodes — page 25
- ‘We could have acted earlier’: Canada’s Immigration Minister
On Thursday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a major reduction in the number of permanent residents the country will admit over the next three years, saying his government…
- How to make a true crime podcast
14 years ago, a young woman disappeared in Edmonton... two years later, police released a chilling recording from the final moments of her life. Ever since she heard it, The Globe’…
- What a Trump re-election could mean for Canada’s economy
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has said he will impose 10 to 20 per cent tariffs on everything the U.S. imports. This would include, it seems, all of the goods and…
- Why the AFN rejected a $47.8-billion child welfare deal
Last week, the Assembly of First Nations voted to reject a $47.8-billion child welfare deal with the federal government. The agreement would have funded long-term reforms to child…
- How the Parliament Hill shooting changed Canada
On October 22, 2014, a man named Michael Zehaf-Bibeau entered Parliament Hill, killing Canadian soldier Nathan Cirillo and catching security off guard. On the 10th anniversary of w…
- Jupiter’s ocean moon, stranded astronauts and a special asteroid
Ivan Semeniuk is The Globe’s science reporter and today on the show he takes us on a tour of our solar system – and beyond! We start with the news of the Europa Clipper and its sea…
- Trudeau grilled on foreign interference and Indian expulsions
The hearings for the public inquiry into foreign interference led by Justice Marie-Josée Hogue wrapped up earlier this week with testimony from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The P…
- B.C.’s election: a party’s implosion and an unlikely face-off
British Columbia heads to the polls this Saturday, October 19th. It’s been an election campaign full of surprises — from the collapse of one established party, to the meteoric rise…
- The rough state of Canada’s emergency care
Emergency rooms across Canada are in a dire state. Wait times in many ERs remain stubbornly high. And in some provinces, the full understanding of how bad the situation has become…
- Behind the gallery wall: the art that museums don’t show you
If you were to spend an afternoon wandering around an art museum, you’d see hundreds of pieces, if not thousands. But the reality is, what you see on display is only a small percen…
- Introducing ‘In Her Defence: 50th Street’
Amber Tuccaro was 20 years old when she disappeared in Edmonton in August 2010. She was never seen alive again. But she left an important clue: a chilling recording of what appears…
- Why Gen Z is lonely and what they’re doing about it
What does it mean to be connected in the world today? Gen Z – the cohort born between the late 1990s and the early 2010s – has been inundated by social media and smartphones, but t…
- Everybody’s a food critic. Is anybody good at it?
At all but a handful of publications, restaurant critics are a relic of bygone days. In their place, the food influencer has risen up in popularity. Seen mostly on platforms like I…
- Life for Palestinians one year after
This is the second part of a two-episode special looking at the rippling effects of a year of war in Israel, the Gaza Strip and Lebanon. In this episode, Mark MacKinnon, The Globe…
- One year after Israel’s ‘Black Saturday’
The Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, killed nearly 1,200 Israelis and saw 250 people kidnapped. It also sparked one of the largest wars in the Middle East in a genera…
- Why won’t Justin Trudeau step down?
Justin Trudeau’s poll numbers have been bad for a while. The Liberals have lost two crucial by-elections and are trailing behind the Conservatives in seat projections. They just lo…
- On board a Canadian warship in the Pacific
Canada’s Navy has been expanding its presence in the Pacific, as tensions with China rise, leaving vital trade routes in potential danger. At the same time as they recommit their e…
- How Israel’s strikes on Lebanon create new frontlines
On Tuesday, Iran fired hundreds of missiles into Israel following weeks of increasing Israeli aggression on Hezbollah. This week, Israel began ground raids and hit central Beirut i…
- How a little known bank is trying to build big things in Canada
The Canada Infrastructure Bank has been around since 2017, and originally it was meant to help build huge infrastructure across the country. In fact, one person involved in its lau…
- Canada is taking on the Taliban over women’s rights
Canada has joined three other countries in a legal process to hold the Taliban accountable for discriminating against women by enacting increasingly oppressive laws. These range fr…
