
UN Palestinian rapporteur Francesca Albanese
Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, recently returned from a week-long trip to Canada. She was given standing ovations at sold-out speaking events, y...
19 Nov 202443min

Trump’s day one: mass deportations?
In the past week, U.S. president-elect Donald Trump has announced many members of his upcoming cabinet, giving a window into his second term’s priorities.There’s little known about the wider implicati...
18 Nov 202424min

Weekend Listen: How bad results can upend lives
They needed certainty. They got chaos. For over a decade, countless people from at least five different countries put their trust in a company offering prenatal paternity tests. It promised clients “9...
16 Nov 202435min

The Billion Dollar Influencer Economy
There are a reported 13 million full time influencers in the U.S. today. According to Goldman Sachs, the influencer economy is worth around $250-billion, a number expected to double by 2027. Despite i...
15 Nov 202428min

Canada’s secret list of alleged Nazi war criminals
In the mid 1980s, the Canadian government tasked a commission to investigate whether a considerable number of alleged Nazi war criminals settled in Canada after the Second World War.The Commission of ...
14 Nov 202425min

Hasan Piker on how Trump seized online culture
For decades, conservatives worried about losing the fight for cultural relevancy. During his campaign, Donald Trump aggressively courted Gen Z and young millennial men — appearing on podcasts, streams...
13 Nov 202441min

Why can't Canada have fast trains?
In Canada, we've spent a lot of time and money studying the prospect of high-speed rail, as enjoyed by many other countries — transit infrastructure that has transformed countries like Japan and Franc...
12 Nov 202425min

How Murray Sinclair changed Canada
Murray Sinclair — an Anishinaabe lawyer, judge, senator, and, most consequentially, the chair of the Truth and Reconciliation commission — died last week at the age of 73. Sinclair helped bring to lig...
11 Nov 202428min




















