Podcast
The Decibel
Episodes — page 35
- You’re not wrong, snowy winters aren’t like they used to be
Snowy season in many parts of Canada is off to a slow start. At the end of December, fewer than half of Whistler Blackcomb’s trails in British Columbia were open due to the lack of…
- Why it feels like everyone is getting sick right now
There seems to be a lot of illness going around right now. Hospitals are struggling with what the Canadian Medical Association called an “avalanche of patients,” and many of you ha…
- South Africa takes Israel to UN court
On December 29, South Africa submitted an application with the International Court of Justice claiming that Israel’s offensive in Gaza is “genocidal in character.” The UN’s judicia…
- Why Taiwan’s election tests China’s authority
Taiwan, the east Asian country of 24 million people, is ramping up to a pivotal presidential election on January 13. Amidst rising tensions with China, voters are being asked wheth…
- Hard truths about ‘gentle parenting’
There’s a conversation happening amongst parents that is drumming up a lot of controversy. It’s around the idea of gentle parenting, which is a catch-all term that generally refers…
- What’s in store for Canada’s economy in 2024
Inflation has been rising, interest rates have accelerated at record pace, and the cost of living has been weighing on us all. Canada’s economy has been flirting with a recession s…
- New attacks threaten to push Israel-Hamas war beyond borders
Tensions in the Middle East have heightened in the last week, not just because the war in Gaza continues, but because of four events that have happened in the last week in the regi…
- Has the promise of plant-based meats gone bust?
Plant-based meat has been touted as a way of having our steak and eating it too. The industry had grand plans to remake the way we eat, cut down greenhouse gas emissions in meat an…
- Where grief fits into Canada’s healthcare system
There is a universal – but uncomfortable – truth about grief: We will all experience it at some point in our lives. And with the scale of death we witnessed during the pandemic, gr…
- It was a rough year for Trudeau – what will 2024 bring?
2023 was a rocky year for Justin Trudeau and his Liberal government. The country was grappling with unaffordable housing and grocery prices, high interest rates, accusations of for…
- The story of the world's most premature twins to survive
For the holidays, The Decibel is sharing their favourite stories of the year, with the producers taking you behind-the-scenes on how the episodes were made, what inspired them and…
- Ford and the never-ending Ontario Place saga
For the holidays, The Decibel is sharing their favourite stories of the year, with the producers taking you behind-the-scenes on how the episodes were made, what inspired them and…
- The hunt for dark matter, two kilometres under Sudbury
For the holidays, The Decibel is sharing their favourite stories of the year, with the producers taking you behind-the-scenes on how the episodes were made, what inspired them and…
- Butter, sugar and a pinch of family
Food and family are often front and centre during the holidays. These two ingredients also help make up our identities and cultures. So today, The Decibel is sharing stories of fin…
- A wallet was sent to The Globe with a letter from a dying man
Earlier this year, The Globe’s sports editor Jamie Ross got a peculiar package in the mail – a wallet, with a request from a man nearing the end of his life, to help return it to i…
- The lost art of human pinsetting
The Globe’s Carrie Tait recently went to visit a bowling alley in the small town of Kimberley, British Columbia. It’s tucked in the basement of the town’s Elk’s Lodge and has a fea…
- The myth and the reality of Newfoundland’s giant squids
A giant squid discovered in Newfoundland in 1873 turned what until then was a mythological creature into the scientifically named Architeuthis dux, or giant squid. In the generatio…
- The complicated art of political cartoons, with Brian Gable
Nearly every day, The Globe published an editorial cartoon. Around 8,000 of those cartoons were drawn by Brian Gable. After 35 years of drawing cartoons for The Globe, Brian Gable…
- The man accused of selling toxic substances used for suicide
Earlier this week, a man from Mississauga, Kenneth Law, was charged with 14 counts of second-degree murder. Police allege he helped people end their lives by selling them sodium ni…
- What a bad back tells us about Canada’s chronic pain problem
One in five Canadians suffer from chronic pain. According to one estimate, in 2019 the direct and indirect costs of chronic pain totalled $40-billion. And yet, the affliction is po…
