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1831 episodes transcribedWhy have benzodiazepines like Valium and Xanax been involved in a large number of Canadian opioid overdose deaths? Zachary Siegel, a journalist and fe...
"By 2045, China wants to become the strongest space power and space technology-based power in the world," says Namrata Goswami, an expert on China's s...
"The fact that these three judges really got this power imbalance between workers and this huge behemoth multi-national corporation...was just really...
"This is his biggest political test to date. It will decide the fate of Jagmeet Singh." With a federal election looming, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is u...
The United States government is entering the thirteenth day of a government shutdown that some predict will last for weeks. So how does this end? CBC...
"I have a love-hate relationship with it." CBC senior technology reporter, Matthew Braga, explains how smart speakers work, why companies like Google...
"The power that we have comes from influence, it comes from trying to convince countries to do things," says co-host of The National, Rosemary Barton....
"We must engage with people who don't agree with us," says Simi Sara host of The Simi Sara Show. She joins Buzzfeed's Elamin Abdelmahmoud and The Glob...
"What Fortnite has done is break all the rules around what makes a successful video game," says Tom Power, host of CBC Radio's q. Fortnite has over 20...
"For 40 years, sovereignty has been in elections by default because either the party in power or the party in opposition was a sovereigntist party ? t...
"Canada doesn't have a refugee crisis. Canada has a crisis of will in terms of what we want to do," says refugee and immigration lawyer Zool Suleman a...
"From the justice system's point of view, you also have these bigger questions about how to conduct terrorism investigations, and investigations into...
Economist correspondent Sophie Pedder says the 'yellow vest' protests in Canadian cities are different in some ways from the movement that inspired th...
"People are frustrated and they're upset and frankly, they're scared," says CBC business correspondent Peter Armstrong about workers in the oil and ga...
"In the vast majority of circumstances, families and care providers in the intensive care unit are on the same page," says Dr. Brian Goldman on Taquis...
CBC Queen's Park reporter Mike Crawley says there's been pushback against the recent appointment of Ron Taverner, a friend of Ontario premier Doug For...
"When the agency that's supposed to protect you is also an agency that you fear, there is really little place for you to find shelter," says Jorge Bar...
CBC reporter Catharine Tunney says the reality TV show starring Canada's Border Services Agency was controversial. The show included footage of drug b...
"The tone here is that this is an an innocent woman. So why would you treat her like a criminal? And the idea is, if you have handcuffed someone you h...
"If a few white people were being killed at the rate that we are being killed...we wouldn't be having this conversation today," says Desmond Cole, in...
