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1265 episodes transcribedBy one definition, Canada is now in a recession. But last week Canada also had a strong jobs report, and posted its first trade surplus in months. So...
For ten years now, BC’s drug crisis has been a public health emergency. And over that time we’ve brought you many stories but this is one you will not...
The federal government has greenlit a plan to move the belugas at the shuttered Niagara Falls theme park to aquariums in Spain and the United States....
Unicode is taking pitches for emojis. Graphic designer Jennifer Daniel helps decide which ones make it. She says a successful emoji should have multip...
We dig into what the federal government's plan is for Artificial Intelligence in Canada.
David Balzer of Winnipeg is spending his summer recording people's stories of gratitude. Since 2023, the associate professor of Communications and Med...
For the first time in 28 years Scotland is headed to the World Cup. Now a butcher in the small village of Dunning, Scotland is trying to convince the...
We speak with New York Times reporter Declan Walsh who has just returned from a hospital in Congo where Ebola patients are treated with limited resour...
Meet people who blow out the candles on a different day than the one they were born on. Some hate the time of year their birthday falls. Others are ce...
David Sedaris talks about his latest essay collection The Land and Its People. He reveals the news he'd kept from his family, that he secretly married...
A new group of conservative politicians and academics is pushing back against the separatist movement in Alberta. They call themselves Lead Not Leave...
Most young people have heard the warnings about cancer and sun damage. Many of them are soaking up the sun anyway. Montreal dermatologist Dr. Ivan Lit...
Is your job all about meetings? And emails? And meetings that should have been an email? Some corporate workers say the pandemic pulled back the curta...
SpaceX is going public with a sky high valuation of over $1 trillion. Max Chafkin, a reporter with Bloomberg, and the co-host of the podcast “Everybod...
As the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel escalates, we hear from people in Lebanon about how the fighting is affecting their lives. From Israel, p...
At a moment when there's a growing backlash and resistance against the AI that's starting to permeate so many parts of our life — tech journalist Joan...
In any given year, 1 in 5 Canadians suffer from a mental illness. Now there are growing calls to include counselling and psychotherapy in our publicly...
Canada, the U.S. and Mexico are due to review their three-way trade deal July 1 — but one month out, how are things looking for this country? Former a...
Sealtest’s six per cent milk has hit the dairy aisles in Ontario grocery stores. With nearly twice the fat found in whole milk, it’s a staple in South...
Sharlene Rochard is an Epstein survivor and the only Canadian to come forward publicly with allegations against him. She says the abuse started when s...
