Inside a slaughterhouse COVID-19 outbreak
Today, an inside look at a COVID-19 outbreak that tore through an Alberta slaughterhouse, as seen through the eyes of the plant’s employees — and what their stories reveal about the situation facing e...
4 Maj 202138min
Meet Vaccine Hunters Canada's volunteers
As multiple websites, crowded waiting lists and lines hundreds of people long impede some Canadians' attempts to get COVID-19 vaccine appointments, a community of volunteers is stepping in to help. To...
3 Maj 202129min
Introducing: Life Jolt
Life Jolt - prison slang for a life sentence - examines the lives of women navigating Canada’s correctional system. The team gained unprecedented access to the Grand Valley Institution prison, the fed...
1 Maj 202136min
Rare COVID-19 vaccine blood clots explained
With the news that a woman in Quebec died of a rare blood clot after receiving the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine, some people may feel concerned about the vaccine. Epidemiologist Maria Sundaram ...
30 Apr 202119min
The fight over paid sick leave
As the third wave dominates ICU across the country, this week Ontario and B.C. each finally buckled to pressure and announced the introduction of, at least some, mandated paid sick leave. But the urge...
29 Apr 202124min
What led to Alberta’s enormous COVID-19 surge?
Alberta leads Canada with a COVID-19 case rate nearly twice that of Ontario, and doctors warn Alberta is headed for a similar crisis in its ICUs. Today, what’s keeping Premier Jason Kenney from imposi...
28 Apr 202122min
The fight against Big Pharma's grip on vaccines
Led by South Africa and India, more than 100 mostly developing countries are calling on the World Trade Organization to temporarily waive vaccine makers’ intellectual property protections. Today, scie...
27 Apr 202120min
‘Absolutely harrowing’: India’s calamitous second wave
In India, COVID-19 has reached catastrophic levels. The health-care system is so overwhelmed that the sick are lying on the ground outside hospitals, and doctors are begging online for oxygen. Amy Kaz...
26 Apr 202121min
