Podcast
The Decibel
Episodes — page 63
- A social worker’s 14-year fight against discrimination in child services
Cindy Blackstock, executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring society, has been at the heart of an ongoing battle with the federal government. While working as…
- COP26 is under way – here’s what’s at stake
We’ve already warmed the climate by 1.1 C and we’re starting to see the effects with more frequent extreme weather events. On Monday, political leaders from around the globe will a…
- Is there a point to the COP26 climate summit without China’s Xi?
China’s President Xi Jinping is unlikely to attend COP26, leaving some to wonder how countries will be able to agree on bold moves to lessen climate change without the leader of th…
- New ministers, new ministries and new priorities for Trudeau’s government?
Only nine people in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s new cabinet remained in their old jobs. The massive shakeup in the team included putting a climate activist in charge of Environ…
- What to do about sexual misconduct in Canada’s military
Over the last year, almost a dozen senior Canadian military leaders have been accused of either enabling or perpetrating sexual misconduct, prompting an independent review by a for…
- COVID-19 vaccines for kids are almost here. Are we ready?
The largest childhood mass vaccination campaign since polio could soon be underway in Canada. Health Canada recently received a submission from Pfizer/BioNtech to approve COVID-19…
- A family-fuelled drama within Rogers
The first sign that there was fighting at the highest levels of power at Rogers Communications Inc. appeared in late September. That’s when it was announced that the company’s CFO,…
- The cowboy culture of cryptocurrency
Cryptocurrency, like Bitcoin, created a whole new market – and it felt like a whole new world to journalist and author Ethan Lou. He wrote Once a Bitcoin Miner: Scandal and Turmoil…
- How a Dave Chappelle comedy special led to a staff walkout at Netflix
Dave Chappelle’s latest Netflix comedy special, The Closer, has been getting a lot of criticism since its release on October 5th. That’s because a number of jokes in the standup ar…
- Why Alberta voted on changing the Constitution
On Monday, Albertans headed to the ballot box to cast their votes on a number of things: municipal leaders, the merits of daylight savings and whether the country should get rid of…
- Iqaluit’s contaminated water
People in Iqaluit are in the midst of a water crisis. On Oct. 12 a state of emergency was declared when some of the 9,000 residents in Nunavut’s capital city complained of a suspic…
- What happened to the pandemic baby boom?
In the early days of the pandemic, many speculated that being locked down with partners would inevitably lead to a baby boom. Recently, Statistics Canada released preliminary data…
- The legacy of an ISIS 'fanboy'
A terrorism hoax charge has been withdrawn years after a Burlington, Ont., man told multiple journalists that he had travelled to Syria and worked as an executioner for ISIS. An RC…
- Why don’t people want to work at restaurants?
Restaurants in Canada are facing an exodus. Over the past 19 months the hospitality industry has lost 15 per cent of the work force. Labour issues have been plaguing restaurants si…
- The federal parties regroup before the next Parliament
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has yet to set a date for the reopening of Parliament nearly a month after the federal election. Parliamentary reporter Marieke Walsh updates us on wh…
- City Space: Should all Canadian cities be 15-minute cities?Bonus
Today we're bringing you an episode of City Space, a new podcast from The Globe and Mail about how to make our cities better, hosted by Adrian Lee. The 15-minute city is an urban p…
- The debate over mandating COVID-19 vaccines for health care workers
A deadline to get the COVID-19 jab – or lose their job – is quickly approaching for unvaccinated health care workers in Quebec and British Columbia. Meanwhile, the issue of mandato…
- What a triple murder-suicide tells us about the missed red flags in domestic violence cases
On February 23, 2018, Ulla Theoret was murdered along with her son and her mother by a neighbour who was obsessed with her. More than three years later, an Ontario committee that r…
- How to fix Facebook
It’s been a busy few days for Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen. On Sunday, the former lead product manager for Facebook’s Civic Misinformation team went public with her critic…
- Brace yourself for an expensive winter: Explaining the energy crunch
What do blackouts in China, surging natural gas prices in Europe and Asia and renewable energy have to do with each other? They are all wrapped up in a bumpy moment for the global…
