Toronto police more likely to use force against people of colour, data suggests
Toronto police are more likely to use force against people of colour, especially Black residents, according to race-based data released this week. The internal data on use of force and strip searches...
17 Jun 202223min
Did Google make conscious AI?
Earlier this week, Blake Lemoine, an engineer who works for Google’s Responsible AI department, went public with his belief that Google’s LaMDA chatbot is sentient. LaMDA, or Language Model for Dialo...
16 Jun 202226min
Jacob Hoggard and consent in Canada
On June 5, after six days of deliberation, a jury found former Hedley frontman Jacob Hoggard guilty of sexually assaulting an Ottawa woman. The jury also acquitted Hoggard of sexually assaulting a fa...
15 Jun 202229min
Saudi Arabia’s LIV Golf controversy
Golf's new breakaway tour, LIV Golf, is throwing the world of golf into chaos. LIV held its first tournament this week and is gunning to eclipse the PGA — golf's premier association and gatekeeper for...
14 Jun 202227min
Unpacking Canadian airport chaos
If you've been to an airport in Canada recently, there's a good chance you've dealt with more than your average level of chaos. Some of the issues include hours-long security lineups, delayed or cance...
13 Jun 202226min
Front Burner Introduces: The Village Season Three - The Montreal Murders
In the early 1990s, as AIDS tightens its grip on major cities around the world, the relative safety of Montreal’s nightlife becomes a magnet for gay men. But when they start turning up dead in hotel r...
11 Jun 202245min
Solving the mysteries of long COVID
Shortness of breath, fatigue and brain fog. Those are just some of the symptoms that many COVID long-haulers are still facing, even months after they first caught the virus. According to studies on t...
10 Jun 202224min
The reality of intimate-partner violence in rural Canada
On Sept. 22, 2015 in Ontario's Renfrew County, Nathalie Warmerdam, Anastasia Kuzik, and Carol Culleton were all killed by the same man — Basil Borutski. All three women knew Borutski or were intimatel...
9 Jun 202223min
