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667 episodes transcribedAs the U.S. election looms, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s team is getting ready for both possible outcomes: a Biden re-election and a second Trump t...
Hydrogen fuel is sometimes called the fuel of the future, and it’s being used in a number of ways around the world. The rail giant CPKC is trialling a...
Canada is in the midst of a primary-care crisis. 6.5 million Canadians don’t have reliable access to a family doctor, and some jurisdictions are turni...
The housing affordability problem in Canada continues, and people are desperate for solutions. The federal government is handing out billions of dolla...
After more than a decade, the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project (TMX) has finally been completed. One of the country’s biggest infrastructure...
Tension is ratcheting up in the Gaza Strip as the Israeli military descends on the southern city of Rafah. This move has forced hundreds of thousands...
TD Bank has been plagued by concerns about its anti-money-laundering capabilities for over a year. In March 2023, they tried to acquire the U.S. based...
175 countries are in the midst of tense discussions around a UN treaty to reduce plastic pollution. The second-last negotiation session wrapped up in...
Campus protests are spreading across Canada including at the University of Toronto and McGill. It comes after high profile demonstrations in the Unite...
The public inquiry into foreign interference aimed to provide answers critical to Canada’s democracy: who are the main perpetrators of the threats aga...
Diet culture that celebrates thinness, weight loss and supplements, has been around for decades. But the global reach of social media and influencers...
Last year, British Columbia’s government began an experiment in drug policy by decriminalizing illicit drug use, up to a certain amount. The pilot pro...
Sudan is facing a dire humanitarian crisis. Nearly 9 million people are displaced from their homes and millions face severe hunger, all stemming from...
By 2030, the federal government is hoping 60 per cent of new car sales will be zero-emission. By 2035, they want that number to be 100 per cent. To he...
Canada’s largest Chinatown has been under siege for over a century: first by race riots, then by poverty and most recently by the threat of developmen...
This week, a group of First-Nations leaders called for the Thunder Bay Police Service to be disbanded for the second time – following charges against...
The government in Hong Kong recently voted to pass a new national security law, referred to as Article 23. It includes seven new offences related to s...
The Israel-Hamas war is continuing in Gaza, but tension extends to another Palestinian territory, the West Bank. Five hundred Palestinians have been k...
When the federal government released their 2024 budget last week, they changed the capital gains tax for the first time in a quarter-century. The tax...
On Wednesday, Kristian Firth became the first person in over a century held in contempt of Parliament and ordered to answer MP questions. It all has t...
