Podcast
The Big Story
Episodes — page 91
“This isn’t yesterday’s news”: Three years after the Toronto van attackToday we revisit the van attack of April 23, 2018. It's been three years since a van mounted the sidewalk near Yonge and Finch in Toronto's north end, killing 10 and injuring 16. A…
Inside an unprecedented week in Ontario politicsEven people who have spent their lives covering governments of all stripes can't recall a week like the one Ontario's Progressive Conservative government has had. New restrictions,…
How our minds make lasting memories out of a pandemic hazePicture the moment Covid-19 became real to you—when you left to work from home, or sports shut down, or someone you know got sick. How accurate is that memory? Now, what do you rem…
Canada’s Vaccine Hunters have tips to help you book your shotIn one week, the @VaxHuntersCan Twitter account has grown from a few thousand followers to more than 85,000. By the time you read this it may be close to 100,000. And that's becaus…
We may have just realized how little we understand about our universeIn the middle of a world gripped by plague, a major scientific discovery passed nearly unnoticed. If it's verified, it means one of the most important models we use to understand p…
Why does nobody talk about the dangers of meditation?In recent years, meditation has become a huge business in the western world—with millions of people testifying it has helped them calm their minds, improve their mood or even work…
Is in-person worship an essential service?Last weekend, protesters clashed with police over the closing of GraceLife Church in Alberta. It's not the first time that houses of worship have been a flashpoint for anti-lockdow…
Canada had a blueprint for an amazing health data system. We never built it.In the late 1990s, it became clear that Canada's health data systems would need to go digital. A thorough report was presented, the first of many to come, laying out what needed to…
What did the pandemic do to our social media use?It increased it, obviously. But how? And what is that doing to us. A dive into the data that shows us where we spent our extra time, how it made us feel and which platforms have be…
Canada’s housing bubble is hitting smaller and smaller communitiesAnd also... bubbles are supposed to burst, aren't they? At some point? It's been more than half a decade since house prices in Canada began to truly climb, and that climb has accel…
They were switched as babies, and found out decades later. And they aren’t alone.Have you ever been mistaken for somebody else by a stranger? They call you by another name and you say "Sorry, that's not me." And they say something like, "Oh, I’m sorry, you look…
Even as the third wave rises, new businesses offer a glimpse at pandemic’s endIt's been ... a bad year for economies, to put it mildly. The jobless rate has risen just about everywhere. Small businesses across Canada have scratched and clawed to stay afloat.…
The Line 5 pipeline: A disaster waiting to happen, or necessary to avoid an energy crisis?You've probably never heard of Line 5. It's an offshoot of Enbridge's main pipeline and it moves more than a half-million barrels of crude oil and natural gas from Alberta, through…
Is the third wave really “a new pandemic”? A Covid-19 Variant FAQWe all want this pandemic to be over. But it's not. And vaccines alone won't stop the third wave of Covid-19 that's now rolling over much of Canada. The third wave is driven by va…
How capitalism profits from an epidemic of lonelinessMost of us have been isolated for more than a year. Many of us, though, have been isolated for longer than that, and will feel it even more sharply when those of us who do have lot…
How Canada-China relations became strained to the breaking pointIt ramped up with Canada's detention of a Huawei executive, and China's retaliatory detention of two Canadian citizens. But it didn't begin there. And tensions are not likely to en…
Ever Given: The stuck boat that was both a crisis and a comedyIts name is the Ever Given. It will forever be a part of the history of this odd time. And when it lodged itself horizontally in the Suez Canal last week, it launched a thousand me…
Canada’s invisible victims of femicidePicture the last story you read or heard about a woman killed by a man. Where did she live? How old was she? Why did you picture it that way? With much of 2020 spent under stay-at…
What we know (and don’t know) about long-haul CovidFor almost a year now, reporter Cynthia Mulligan has been staying in touch with people who caught Covid-19 early and survived, only to see their debilitating symptoms linger. What…
What does the carbon tax ruling mean?Canada's Supreme Court issued an historic ruling yesterday, deciding by a 6-3 margin the the federal government does indeed have the power to implement a carbon tax (or a price on…
