What, exactly, is getting shot out of the skies?
It all started two weeks ago with a suspected Chinese spy balloon, which carried a payload about the size of three buses. A U.S. fighter jet shot it down after it floated across the continent. Then,...
15 Feb 202319min
Will the legal weed business be okay?
A few days ago, Canopy Growth Corporation, one of weed's biggest players, announced significant cuts and the closure of its headquarters in Smith Falls, Ontario, resulting in 800 layoffs for the town'...
14 Feb 202326min
How Toronto’s 'boring' mayor resigned in scandal
An hour after the Toronto Star published an article about his affair on Friday, mayor John Tory was standing before reporters at Toronto City Hall. He offered his resignation. During his over eight y...
13 Feb 202322min
Front Burner Introduces: The Africas VS. America
In 1985, at the height of the Black Power era, police dropped a bomb in a Philadelphia neighborhood. Their target? A family of Black radicals known as ‘MOVE,’ who found themselves ensnared in a city —...
11 Feb 202353min
The sex tape and Pamela Anderson’s side of the story
Last year, a TV show called Pam and Tommy dramatized the turbulent marriage between Canadian actress/model Pamela Anderson and Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee. It’s the latest in a string of documentar...
10 Feb 202325min
Brother in Syria, sister in Canada, ‘helpless’ after devastating earthquake
Alaa Alakel says the night after major earthquakes struck her home country of Syria was maybe the worst night of her life. She is a student in Toronto and waited sleeplessly by her phone for news from...
9 Feb 202321min
Trudeau’s $196B pitch to fix health care
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with all 13 of Canada's premiers on Tuesday to pitch his plan for increased health-care funding to provinces and territories. The measures would amount to over $46 b...
8 Feb 202322min
The real story behind ‘Women Talking’
Canadian director Sarah Polley’s new Oscar-nominated film Women Talking is set in an isolated religious community where a group of women and girls must decide how to respond to sexual assault in their...
7 Feb 202323min
