Podcast
The Decibel
Episodes — page 68
- Vaccine hoarding and Africa’s COVID-19 crisis
African nations have a problem. They can’t get enough COVID-19 vaccine doses. Vaccine hoarding by wealthy nations and an underserved COVAX program – the one designed to make sure t…
- The case for vaccine passports
The summer is half over, vaccination rates are rising, but we aren’t out of the pandemic woods yet. And since we last explored vaccine passports, the question of whether businesses…
- Your eyes are lying to you: What data tells us about Olympic swimming
To keep their edge after a fantastic showing at the 2016 Rio Olympics, Swimming Canada got serious about their data-mining mission. They tracked all kinds of metrics to really unde…
- The push to diversify corporate Canada
After the killing of George Floyd and the subsequent swell of Black Lives Matter protests, companies rushed to declare their alliance to the cause of fighting anti-Black racism in…
- A new challenge in the COVID-19 pandemic: Nurses quitting
A growing number of nurses are leaving hospitals. The relentless workload, the crushing experience of watching so many people get very sick from the novel coronavirus and die, and…
- Who Canada left behind in Afghanistan
As the U.S. continues to pull its troops out of Afghanistan after nearly 20 years of fighting, the Taliban is taking back more and more territory. This has left Afghan nationals wh…
- Coming Soon: Going to the movies post-lockdown
Ontario movie theatres will reopen on July 16th. For some – like in the Greater Toronto Area – it’ll be for the first time in about nine months. And while many theatres across the…
- The next generation of 9-1-1
Phone technology has evolved at an incredible pace, from the first cellphone in the 1980s, to the sophisticated computers we call smartphones in our pockets now. But some of the mo…
- Haiti and the failed promise of foreign aid
Events in Haiti have been unfolding quickly following the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse in his Port-au-Prince home on July 7. In the past week there has been new…
- Exploring the connection between racism and schizophrenia
Can racism cause schizophrenia? It’s an area of mental health research that has been ongoing for decades and over time, researchers are increasingly finding that having a darker sk…
- Lebanon’s ‘deliberate depression’
Lebanon’s financial crisis was only made worse last year when an explosion ripped through the port of its capital city, Beirut, killing more than 200 people. Now, people are left s…
- The case against vaccine passports
Domestic vaccine passports offer one way of letting vaccinated people get back to normal life by giving them access to privileges non-vaccinated people wouldn’t have. But civil lib…
- Hundreds dead, a town ablaze after record-setting heat wave in Western Canada
The village of Lytton, BC burned to the ground a day after hitting the hottest temperature ever recorded in Canada, forcing residents to evacuate in as little as a few minutes. Inv…
- Family wealth, bidding wars, interest rates: what’s driving Canada’s wild real estate market
Soaring house prices have made it harder to afford a house in Canada than it’s been in three decades, with experts blaming everything from low interest rates to blind bidding to in…
- The uncomfortable conversations about #CancelCanadaDay
Calls to reconsider the fireworks and celebrations of Canada Day have intensified as we approach the national holiday, in light of the announcements from B.C. and Saskatchewan Firs…
- ‘You get some freedom with a vaccine’: What new guidelines mean for your double-vaccinated summer
New guidelines for people who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 were published by the Public Health Agency of Canada last week, which now applies to over a quarter of people in…
- Why you still can’t buy a bike this summer
A lot of Canadians have pandemic-savings money to burn – and not many places to spend it. With travel, entertainment and even dining still severely limited, many have turned to rec…
- As China urges families to have more children, it’s cracking down on Uyghur births
China is encouraging people to have up to three children in a bid to reverse the effects of its one-child policy, which has left the country with an aging population in need of wor…
- Ticks: the ‘bags of blood with feet’ that you should know about
For Dr. Vett Lloyd, there really is nothing good about a tick. That’s why she studies them. After getting bit herself and developing Lyme disease, Dr. Lloyd made it her life’s work…
- Why were two scientists fired from a Winnipeg virus lab?
The head of the Public Health Agency of Canada defied an order of the House of Commons on Monday, refusing to provide unredacted documents about the dismissal of two scientists fro…
