Is Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ more fantasy than reality?
Donald Trump’s 'Golden Dome’ is a proposed defense program that will feature the use of space lasers, satellites and interceptors designed to provide 24/7 space based defence. It’s advertised as a bul...
26 Touko 202527min
George Floyd’s murder, what’s changed in five years?
On May 25th 2020, Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, by kneeling on his neck for over nine minutes. The whole thing was caught on video and once it g...
23 Touko 202528min
Diddy on trial
It’s been a year and a half since the R&B singer Cassie Ventura first accused hip hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs of rape and repeated physical abuse over the course of their decade-long relationship. Th...
22 Touko 202534min
Trump, Hitler and how democracies die
Today on the show is historian Timothy Ryback. Timothy is an author and writer with The Atlantic. He’s the director of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation in The Hague. Last year h...
21 Touko 202532min
Is Alberta headed towards a separation vote?
Hundreds of people filled a banquet hall in Calgary last week to hear from the Alberta Prosperity Project, a group that wants Alberta to separate from Canada.They're trying to drum up support for a pe...
20 Touko 202529min
The internet sucks now, and it happened on purpose
It's not you — the internet really does suck. Novelist, blogger and noted internet commentator Cory Doctorow explains what happened to the internet and why you're tormented by ads, bots, algorithms, A...
19 Touko 202538min
Canada has a measles problem
Measles case numbers in Ontario are now higher than the total registered cases in the entire United States.This week’s report from Ontario Public Health puts the total at 1,646 cases of the disease si...
16 Touko 202528min
The latest in the hockey sex assault trial
Content warning: this conversation contains graphic details of an alleged sexual assault so please take care while listening.Proceedings began late last month in a trial that has been seven years in t...
15 Touko 202525min
