COVID-19 update: Explaining rapid tests and experimental treatments
Parts of Canada are back in lockdown as cases of COVID-19 spike across the country, particularly in Ontario and Quebec. And with the cold weather setting in, it’s tough to imagine how we may be able t...
13 Okt 202023min
The Central Park Five’s Yusef Salaam on life after wrongful conviction
When Yusef Salaam was 15, he and four other teenage boys were falsely accused of raping a woman in New York's Central Park. Salaam was imprisoned for nearly seven years before he was exonerated. His l...
12 Okt 202021min
Will a fix for racial bias in jury trials backfire?
In 2018, the public outcry around the Gerald Stanley case, where a white farmer was acquitted in the killing of Colton Boushie, a young Indigenous man, paved the way for the creation of Bill C-75. It'...
9 Okt 202021min
Aging Presidential candidates loom over VP debate
Last night, Vice-Presidential candidates Mike Pence and Kamala Harris faced off in their one and only debate of the 2020 campaign. The debate comes less than a week after Donald Trump was diagnosed wi...
8 Okt 202021min
New Green Party Leader Annamie Paul's vision for Canada
Annamie Paul, a Toronto-based human rights lawyer, was on Saturday elected leader of the Green Party of Canada — becoming the first elected Black leader of a major federal party. She takes over from E...
7 Okt 202021min
Her mother survived the first wave in long-term care. Then the second wave came
Iona Guindon felt lucky that her mother Perriette's long-term care home in Ottawa was spared in the first wave of the pandemic. But an outbreak that began on Aug. 30 exposed Iona to horrifying scenes ...
6 Okt 202027min
Donald Trump has COVID-19. Now what?
On Sunday, doctors at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center briefed the media on the health of U.S. President Donald Trump. The news conference came after a whirlwind weekend where a growing nu...
5 Okt 202022min
Indigenous woman records racist abuse in her dying moments
As she lay dying, Joyce Echaquan clicked on her phone to broadcast a Facebook Live video from her hospital bed, as staff hurled racist remarks at her. You can hear Joyce call out for her husband to co...
2 Okt 202020min
