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The Decibel

Context is everything. Join us Monday to Friday for a Canadian daily news podcast from The Globe and Mail. Explore a story shaping our world, in conversation with reporters, experts, and the people at the centre of the news.

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City Space: Supply alone won’t fix our housing crisis. Here are three other factors

Episode Date: September 2, 2022

If we want great cities, people from all walks of life need to be able to live in them. But even with experts predicting that rising interest rates wi...

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A new measure of unhealthy drinking

Episode Date: September 1, 2022

If you have three or more alcoholic drinks in a week, you’re putting your health at risk. That’s according to a new report from the Canadian Centre on...

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A cry for kelp: How this seaweed can help fight climate change

Episode Date: August 31, 2022

Kelp has traditionally been harvested for food, but we’re discovering other new ways we could be using kelp as well … like in packaging, to replace pl...

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Do sugar taxes work?

Episode Date: August 30, 2022

As of Sept. 1, sugar sweetened beverages like pops, iced teas and energy drinks in Newfoundland and Labrador will be a bit more expensive. The provinc...

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