Podcast
The Decibel
Episodes — page 58
- What’s next for making $10-a-day child care a reality in Canada?
On March 28, it was announced that Ontario had finally signed onto the federal child-care deal. With all provinces and territories now signed on, families across the country will e…
- Kamal Al-Solaylee on the war we chose to forget
The UN has called it the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Yemen’s now seven-year-long war has killed almost 400,000 people, mostly children younger than five years old. Millions…
- What students think about the end of masking
Almost every province in Canada has now removed its mask mandates in public schools. But many are questioning if now is the right time, and some are even challenging the decision.…
- Hate crimes in Canada are up. What’s being done to stop them
Hate crimes in Canada are up. Recent data out from Statistics Canada showed that in the first year of the pandemic, incidents reported to police increased by 37 per cent from the p…
- The dangers women and children face after fleeing Ukraine
Women and children make up the vast majority of people who have fled the invasion of Ukraine – now over 3.5 million. And while they are no longer at risk of bombing, shelling and o…
- What the Liberal-NDP deal means for Canadian democracy
The Liberals and NDP have set aside their differences and come to a partnership agreement – a pledge from the Liberals to act on major NDP policy issues in exchange for the NDP’s s…
- Why Muslim women are being turned away from school in India
Videos showing Muslim students begging to be let into a school while wearing hijabs has gone viral in India, sparking protests. Several of the students petitioned the government to…
- The case for fighting Russia in court
An international court has ordered Russia to stop the war in Ukraine, but the attacks carry on. So what was the point of this case? What impact does the order actually have on the…
- Putting a name to the hidden pattern behind domestic abuse
Every six days, a woman in Canada is killed by an intimate partner, and yet the topic of intimate partner violence (IPV) – more commonly referred to as domestic abuse – is rarely t…
- The conflict in Ukraine puts Joe Biden to the test
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivered a stirring speech via video to U.S. Congress on Wednesday, once again calling on the U.S. to impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine, tra…
- To the moon? Where GameStop and other meme stocks landed
It’s been a year since companies like GameStop and AMC were making headlines for their eye-popping stock price spikes. And while the heights of the craze have passed, a lot of reta…
- Three Ukrainian families find refuge in a Polish home
Poland’s capital, Warsaw is struggling to cope with the huge number of people fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Of the more than 2.6 million refugees that have left, 1.7 mil…
- What ‘no-fly zone’ really means
It’s a plea that has been heard around the world: Ukraine wants its allies to set up a no-fly zone in its airspace. They believe it would give them the tactical advantage in the wa…
- 1.4 million refugees arrived in Poland. What happens now?
In two weeks, more than 2.3 million refugees have fled Ukraine because of the ongoing war. It is the fastest exodus since the Second World War. Poland has seen the largest influx o…
- The early favourites in the Conservative leadership race
The race to become the next federal leader of the Conservative Party of Canada is kicking off, not long after the ousting of Erin O’Toole. Chief political writer Campbell Clark say…
- This doctor wants to write prescriptions for housing
According to Statistics Canada, more than 235,000 people experience homelessness in any given year, with 25,000-35,000 people experiencing homelessness on any given night. During t…
- Unpacking Putin’s end game
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has shocked the world with his full-scale invasion of Ukraine. But many within Russia don’t know what’s going on just across the border, due to th…
- 1.7 million warned they may have to pay back CERB relief
Three million people lost their jobs at the beginning of the pandemic. In response, the federal government introduced the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB). The program prov…
- Canada's pushback against Putin
Canada is not a big player on the international stage. But as a medium-sized power, it has been working with the EU, the U.S. and the U.K. to deliver a series of economic sanctions…
- On the ground in Ukraine as the war takes a turn
Russia is gaining ground in its invasion of Ukraine. On day 7 of the war, Russia occupied Kherson, a key city in the southern part of Ukraine. Russia started targeting densely popu…
