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The Big Story

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An in-depth look at the issues, culture and personalities shaping Canada today.

Episodes — page 9

  1. Why is Mark Carney putting a Conservative in the senate?

    Prime Minister Carney has made his first Senate appointments - including a sitting Conservative MP and the PM's former Principal Secretary. When Justin Trudeau became Prime Minist…

    E192721:52
  2. Big Headlines: Trump says ceasefire with Iran is 'over' and threatens new strikes, plus Carney announces another major defence deal

    Plus: the Liberal government’s plan to buy thousands of condos in B.C. faces scrutiny, Air Canada chooses its next CEO, Count Binface takes on a British party leader in a bizarre b…

    E192607:40
  3. The law that would surrender Canadian data to America

    Bill C-22 has sparked wide controversy surrounding its potential threat to privacy, as well as the way it's been rushed through parliamentary processes. Not only that, but experts…

    E192522:48
  4. Big Headlines: Canada's ready to build new radar jets for NATO and Montreal honours a fallen officer

    Plus: Alberta and Ontario plan a new oil pipeline, Jeremy Hansen leaves the Canadian Space Agency, Kyle Lowry retires as a Raptor, and what are the risks of bringing prediction mar…

    E192406:35
  5. Canada is making a bet on prediction markets

    It seems like you can place a bet on anything these days-- and in some places, you pretty much. With sites like Polymarket and Kalshi, you can put money on whether or not a politic…

    E192318:11
  6. Big Headlines: Carney departs for NATO summit with Halifax pit stop and Canada's World Cup run ends

    Plus: Rogers reaches a deal to fully own many of Toronto’s biggest sports teams, new funding for energy projects in Alberta and Saskatchewan, a CN Rail train derails near Montreal,…

    E192207:02
  7. The blurry future of North American free trade

    On its July 1st deadline, U.S. President Trump declined to renew the current conditions of CUSMA. It doesn't mean Canada-US-Mexico trade as we know it dissolves, but it signals a n…

    E192123:40
  8. Weekend Listen: Was Canada's 'technical recession' a data mistake?

    Enjoy this special feed drop from our sister show 'In This Economy?!'. The economy started off 2026 in what economists called a 'technical recession', but a huge bounce-back at th…

    E191817:42
  9. Join the bandwagon: Your guide to Canada’s World Cup run

    Almost 14 years ago, Canada was reeling from the loss of its men's national team losing 8-1 to Honduras and crushing its dreams of qualifying from the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. Fa…

    E191924:36
  10. Big Headlines: A new pipeline will stretch from Alberta to B.C. and Canada's biggest test at the World Cup so far

    Payments begin for the federal government’s boosted affordability credit, a man suspected of hitting a beachgoer in the head with a log is released on bail, two women found guilty…

    E192006:32
  11. Canada is facing a very real threat...of ticks

    Ticks! The word tends to give Canadians of all stripes a sense of the creepy-crawlies-- and perhaps a touch of anxiety too. The small parasites that burrow into our skin and pose s…

    E191423:06
  12. Big Headlines: The U.S. declines to renew CUSMA and Canada Post suspends service to 12 European countries

    Plus: Alberta announces a new oil pipeline, a lawsuit is filed over an alleged leak of Alberta voters’ personal information, Canada Post pauses shipping parcels to some European co…

    E191708:44
  13. Hot and Bothered: What's driving the extreme heat?

    We're at a point where "record-breaking heat" has become a broken-record phrase. Year over year, we hear how many parts of the world have reached a new temperature high. And just d…

    E191219:50
  14. Big Headlines: A key CUSMA deadline looms and Canada prepares to send emergency aid to Venezuela

    Plus: Canada will play Morocco in the round of 16 at the World Cup, an America-themed beaver statue is destroyed in Toronto, B.C. nurses issue a strike notice, and Mark Carney’s pl…

    E191606:39
  15. "Buy-a-brick": Carney's plan to renovate 24 Sussex

    Crumbling. Rat infested. Decrepit. Unsafe for human habitation. Perhaps not the words you would want to describe the official residence of Canada's leader-- but 24 Sussex Drive ha…

    E191318:31
  16. Big Headlines: History for Canada at the World Cup and several cities brace for extreme weather

    The Concordia University shooter dies in prison, a former Air Canada pilot accused of flying for decades without a licence appears in court, Drake throws “apology parties” for wome…

    E191506:04
  17. Canada’s invisible youth gang crisis

    A string of shootings across the Greater Toronto Area are being tied to gun-for-hire networks targeted by vulnerable youth through encrypted messaging apps. Toronto Police say they…

    E191120:14
  18. Weekend Listen: Space X goes public, but what are you buying?

    Enjoy this special feed drop from our sister show "In This Economy?!" It’s now the biggest IPO in history – when Space X hit the US market this month, it made CEO Elon Musk a tril…

    E190922:28
  19. Big Headlines: Rescue efforts continue in Venezuela after back to back, massive earthquakes

    Search and rescue efforts continue in Venezuela as the death toll climbs following two large earthquakes Plus: The Prime Minister holds a phone call with the U.S. President, a des…

    E191006:53
  20. Canada has an incel problem

    A more than 100-page manifesto filled with misogynistic and anti-police rhetoric was found in the hours after an Alberta man opened fire in a Montreal neighbourhood. Three people w…

    E190823:17
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