Years after burning down, why hasn’t Lytton rebuilt?
A little over three years ago, a roaring, rapidly spreading wildfire burned through Lytton, a B.C. town of around 200 residents. It essentially burned to the ground. And even though at least $239 mill...
2 Jul 202422min
Front Burner Introduces: The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam
It was the biggest gold discovery in history...until it wasn’t. In 1995, Canadian mining company Bre-X announced to the world it had found a significant amount of gold deep in the jungles of Indonesia...
1 Jul 202440min
Stumbles, mumbles, smears: a U.S. presidential debate recap
It was déjà vu all over again in Atlanta, Ga., on Thursday night as Donald Trump and Joe Biden squared off in the first presidential debate of the 2024 campaign. Biden will be looking to secure a seco...
28 Jun 202426min
What Charlottetown’s immigration boom can teach Canada
When Alex Cyr was growing up on Prince Edward Island in the early aughts, the capital Charlottetown was a pretty quaint and homogeneous place.But in 2024, the city looks very different. In the last fe...
27 Jun 202427min
A Liberal stronghold falls. Is Trudeau next?
The last time a Conservative won a federal vote in the riding of Toronto-St. Paul’s, it was 1988. The Soviet Union was still together. Brian Mulroney was Prime Minister. The territory of Nunavut would...
26 Jun 202424min
Why did Canada list Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as terrorists?
Canada announced last week that it has added Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to its list of terrorist organizations under the criminal code. It now joins the United States as the only Western...
25 Jun 202425min
The Oilers’ historic Stanley Cup final comeback
After going down three games to zero against the Florida Panthers in the Stanley Cup final, the Edmonton Oilers won the next three games in a row to tie the series.It’s a feat that’s only been accompl...
24 Jun 202425min
Are Canadian cities crumbling?
Calgarians are still rationing water more than two weeks after a catastrophic pipe break — and the city says they’ve got at least two more weeks to go before it’s fixed.There’s still much we don’t kno...
21 Jun 202422min
