One family’s fight to get airlifted out of Wuhan
When Megan Millward and her husband Lie Zhang left their home in Montreal to visit family near Wuhan for Lunar New Year, they had no idea they would be putting their small family, and two young childr...
5 Feb 202021min
A call to govern media giants like Netflix, Amazon Prime
A new federal report proposes sweeping changes to Canada’s broadcasting and telecommunications sector. The recommendations range from bringing online media platforms like Yahoo and Facebook under the ...
4 Feb 202023min
In the race to lead the Democrats, Iowa caucuses can make or break campaigns
Months of Democratic strategizing and in-fighting culminates on Monday in the first caucus of the party’s 2020 leadership race. Historically, the Iowa caucuses are the first hint of which candidate co...
3 Feb 202021min
'There was no plan': The long road to Brexit
Tonight, at 11 p.m. local time, it finally happens: Brexit. It's been almost four years since Britain launched a referendum on whether to leave the European Union. To remember the highs and lows of ho...
31 Jan 202021min
The fight over witness testimony at Trump’s impeachment trial
As early as Friday the U.S. Senate is expected to vote on whether or not witness testimony will be allowed at Donald Trump’s impeachment trial. It could be a real game changer, especially in light of ...
30 Jan 202024min
An enormous open-pit mine and the future of the Alberta oilsands
Right now, there’s a proposal for a massive oilsands project awaiting approval from Justin Trudeau’s cabinet. The Teck Frontier mine is thought to be one of the largest oilsands mines ever proposed in...
29 Jan 202021min
Contending with all of Kobe Bryant's legacy
NBA legend Kobe Bryant died on Sunday in a helicopter crash near Calabasas, California, along with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven other people. The 41-year-old 18-time NBA all-star won five...
28 Jan 202024min
How to fight a viral disease outbreak
The coronavirus outbreak has come to Canada. A man in his 50s who’d recently been to Wuhan, China is Canada’s first “presumptive case,” and is being treated in a Toronto hospital. Today, on Front Burn...
27 Jan 202022min
