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595 episodes transcribedThe long-awaited inquiry into foreign interference begins today. The Globe and Mail’s reporting, based on top-secret CSIS documents, of sophisticated...
Nearly two years on, the federal government’s use of the Emergencies Act against the 2022 convoy protests is still being debated – politically and leg...
Cities in Canada pay for most of the services they provide with property taxes. What homeowners are charged in property taxes – and how much that goes...
Companies around the world are trying to harness the power of the tides to create a renewable energy source. Canada’s Bay of Fundy is a promising plac...
Cases of Invasive Group A Strep infections are on the rise in Canada. It’s an illness with potentially fatal outcomes – four children under 10 have di...
On Oct. 23, 2023, five hospitals in southwestern Ontario realized they were under attack. A cybercrime group was hacking them in order to hold patient...
Canada’s birth rate is at an almost 20-year low. People are deciding not to have kids for a variety of reasons and the pandemic has only intensified t...
Canada is one of the fastest growing countries in the world and in 2023, the population officially reached 40 million people. But economists are warni...
The case of Steven Galloway caused a firestorm when it was first made public, and it continues to this day. Galloway was fired from the University of...
Ontario’s Ring of Fire has long been believed to contain critical minerals like nickel, copper and chromite, purportedly worth tens of billions of dol...
Snowy season in many parts of Canada is off to a slow start. At the end of December, fewer than half of Whistler Blackcomb’s trails in British Columbi...
There seems to be a lot of illness going around right now. Hospitals are struggling with what the Canadian Medical Association called an “avalanche of...
On December 29, South Africa submitted an application with the International Court of Justice claiming that Israel’s offensive in Gaza is “genocidal i...
Taiwan, the east Asian country of 24 million people, is ramping up to a pivotal presidential election on January 13. Amidst rising tensions with China...
Inflation has been rising, interest rates have accelerated at record pace, and the cost of living has been weighing on us all. Canada’s economy has be...
Tensions in the Middle East have heightened in the last week, not just because the war in Gaza continues, but because of four events that have happene...
There is a universal – but uncomfortable – truth about grief: We will all experience it at some point in our lives. And with the scale of death we wit...
2023 was a rocky year for Justin Trudeau and his Liberal government. The country was grappling with unaffordable housing and grocery prices, high inte...
For the holidays, The Decibel is sharing their favourite stories of the year, with the producers taking you behind-the-scenes on how the episodes were...
For the holidays, The Decibel is sharing their favourite stories of the year, with the producers taking you behind-the-scenes on how the episodes were...
