Front Burner Introduces: The Kill List
When human rights activist Karima Baloch is found drowned off the shores of Toronto, an investigation into her mysterious death leads all the way back to Pakistan, the country she had recently fled. I...
1 Aug 202251min
How Shopify’s pandemic bet led to losses and layoffs
This week, days before a call to investors that announced net losses and a “transitional” period for the company, Canadian tech giant Shopify laid off 1,000 employees – 10 per cent of its workforce. ...
29 Juli 202218min
Hockey Canada’s sexual assault crisis deepens
Hockey Canada has settled 21 sexual assault claims. For nine of those cases, it used a fund that draws in part from players' registration fees, paying out $7.6 million dollars. The scope of Hockey C...
28 Juli 202227min
Phil Fontaine’s long fight for a papal apology
Decades ago Phil Fontaine helped open Canada's eyes to the horrors of the residential school system. And he's since spent years pushing for an apology from the top of the Catholic Church. Today he ref...
27 Juli 202223min
Spies, grain and fuel: A Ukraine war update
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been raging since Feb. 24. The war has triggered a global food and fuel crisis, because Ukraine is a major exporter of grain, and Russia is a major exporter of oil to ...
26 Juli 202225min
The political resurrection of Danielle Smith
There was a time when former Wildrose Party leader Danielle Smith was in the political wilderness, cast out by a stunning floor-crossing that alienated and angered many Alberta conservatives. Now, it...
25 Juli 202225min
Nathan Fielder’s awkward comedy revolution
On This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Nathan for You and HBO’s new comedy The Rehearsal, Nathan Fielder has played a stiff, socially inept agitator that can barely get through a conversation. The amount that ...
22 Juli 202229min
Your 4th dose questions answered
Canada's latest COVID-19 surge is being fuelled by the BA.5 variant. It's prompting some public health officials to make fourth jabs of a COVID-19 vaccine available to all adults. While most provinces...
21 Juli 202221min
