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2158 episodes transcribedPrime Minister Mark Carney is in Alberta this week, making a final pitch for unity in the lead-up to the province's referendum on potential separation...
Today we are going to spend some time trying to understand the expanding front lines of two ongoing wars, where the battlefield isn't just marked by t...
Alberta's referendum is next week and advance voting is already underway. Much of the attention has centred around the separation question. But there...
In late September, amid mounting warnings about the risks of AI, the CEOs of six of the world’s most powerful technology companies signed an agreement...
How did sports betting go from being illegal to being EVERYWHERE? The answer lies in the convergence of daily fantasy sports apps, a bombshell New Yor...
Right now former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is on house arrest, after being sentenced to 27 years in prison. On Sunday his son Flavio won the...
Since last week, there have been a series of alarming bits of news emerging from Siberia. It began with the mysterious death of a woman who worked at...
With the election of the Parti Québécois in Quebec Monday night, it's the first time in twelve years that Canada will have a separatist government in...
Celebrated author Naomi Klein joins the show to talk about how Mark Carney's response to Trump's trade war echoes themes in her book The Shock Doctrin...
Ten years ago, Britain voted 52 per cent to 48 per cent to leave the European Union. The result reshaped British politics, triggered years of negotiat...
A recent terrorism arrest in Alberta has been linked to the group 764, an extremist network that coerces children into self-harming and sharing sexual...
Prime Minister Mark Carney has been working to bring more foreign investment into Canada. At his recent Investment Summit, he told investors from all...
Today is the sixth National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, where the country remembers the 150,000 Indigenous kids who were taken from their commun...
In just over five weeks, Americans will head to the polls for the midterm elections and the contours of the vote are taking shape.Republicans are defe...
A new investigation into the Tumbler Ridge shooter's use of ChatGPT has revealed some disturbing information. It has long been public knowledge that t...
The United States is getting older, and so, increasingly, are the people charged with governing it.The average age of a U.S. senator is 64-years-old a...
On Tuesday, B.C. Premier David Eby called a snap election, two years into his term. He said the province needs to show a strong response to American a...
Earlier this week, Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party won a record number of seats in the country's parliamentary elections. Putin is expected to fr...
On Sunday it looked like the United States was about to wade back into its fight with Ansar Allah, or the Houthis, the Iran-backed group in Yemen that...
Parliament returns today from summer recess, amid ongoing economic uncertainty and an unresolved trade war with the U.S. Prime Minister Mark Carney to...
