Canada’s QAnon ‘Queen’ and her escalating rhetoric
For months, a B.C.-based QAnon conspiracy influencer named Romana Didulo has been amassing followers online, declaring herself the “Queen of Canada.” In the summer, her audience began distributing cea...
6 Joulu 202124min
Ontario’s election looms, and parties are staking ground
$210-million dollars went out the door and into the pockets of businesses who shouldn’t have received it. That was the assessment of Ontario’s auditor general in an annual report this week that looked...
3 Joulu 202121min
Omicron: New variant, new tactics?
Canada and a growing list of more than 20 countries have confirmed cases of omicron, the latest version of the COVID-19 virus to be labelled a "variant of concern" by the World Health Organization. ...
2 Joulu 202124min
Workers could shut down one of Canada’s biggest beef plants
In the spring of 2020, the Cargill meat-packing plant in southern Alberta became the site of the largest COVID-19 outbreak tied to a single facility in all of North America. Approximately 950 workers ...
1 Joulu 202122min
B.C., climate change and what's coming for Canada
British Columbia is still struggling with the fallout from record-breaking rains that caused floods and mudslides that killed six people and displaced thousands more. This, after the fatal heat dome o...
30 Marras 202130min
Roe v. Wade at stake in Mississippi abortion case
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in one of the most important cases on reproductive rights in decades. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the last remaining abortion clinic in M...
29 Marras 202124min
Introducing: Stuff The British Stole
Throughout its reign, the British Empire stole a lot of stuff. Today those objects are housed in genteel institutions across the U.K. and the world. They usually come with polite plaques. This is a se...
27 Marras 202136min
COVID-19 vaccines for kids: what you need to know
Since the first pediatric Pfizer vaccines landed in Canada last weekend, provinces have been moving fast to get them into arms. Children got their first jabs in Ontario on Tuesday; more kids started b...
26 Marras 202121min
