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873 episodes transcribedKyla Scanlon says the economy feels like a gamble right now — one that's built on risk and speculation. We speak with the popular American economic co...
The women who survived sexual abuse by Jeffrey Epstein have been demanding accountability. Now Congress is acting, voting to release the government's...
Two weeks ago, anti-corruption investigators in Ukraine revealed allegations that men close to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy received $100 million US...
To stretch or not to stretch and does it even matter. The debate over the importance of stretching is age old - now it seems like everyone is talking...
As COP30 plays out in Belém, Brazil is trying to present itself as a climate leader while also moving ahead with a new offshore oil project. CBC’s Sus...
A hydroelectric power plant underway in Nunavut is on Prime Minister Carney's nation-building project list. We speak to people living in Iqaluit about...
A conversation with Dave Zirin, sports editor at The Nation, about how the Clase/Ortiz pitch-fixing scandal exposes the explosive rise of prop betting...
The former CEO of Doctors Without Borders, Avril Benoit, reflects on her twenty years at the medical humanitarian organization, and what it was like t...
Because of Donald Trump, John Irving, the bestselling author is refusing to go to the United States to promote his latest novel, Queen Esther — but he...
Oyster farmers on Prince Edward Island are stressed. Many have been pulling up more and more dead oysters in their catches. Two parasites are threaten...
We’re in the last week of the climate summit in Brazil, where misinformation and disinformation are a key focus of the conference. It comes against th...
The host of Fareed Zakaria GPS has a theory about the MAGA movement — it was probably inevitable. In his book Age of Revolutions, he argues that the k...
As the prime minister unveils Ottawa's second list of “nation-building” projects, he continues to signal the direction he wants Canada to take when it...
Children's author Robert Munsch is donating his personal archive to his hometown library because he doesn't want it stored in some dusty room. He want...
After the loss of two MPs, we speak to conservative strategists about Pierre Poilievre's leadership style, and if he should change it. Regan Watts, Er...
Lyse Doucet, Canadian journalist and the BBC's Chief International Correspondent, takes us inside the Intercontinental Hotel in her new book: The Fine...
House Democrats released emails from the convicted sex offender, shining a new light onto the relationship he had with President Donald Trump. The BBC...
Hannah Alper spent much of her teenage and young adult life sharing her location with her friends. But as the years went on, she began to feel it cros...
Alexandra Samuel spent the better part of a year taking often helpful advice and direction from an artificial Intelligence bot who she named Viv. Alex...
Got bad phone habits? We know being on our phones too much isn’t good for us, especially for kids. Yet we all keep scrolling and scrolling and scrolli...
