The dark side of PPE: Allegations of exploitation, debt bondage
For sometimes as little as two dollars an hour, some migrant workers in Malaysia say they spend their days producing disposable gloves in sweatshop-like conditions in a factory — and spend their nigh...
18 Jan 202128min
The Proud Boys: A brief history
In the wake of last week's attack on the U.S. Capitol, the Proud Boys — a group founded by Canadian Gavin McInnes — has been under intense pressure. The FBI is arresting some of its members. NDP Lead...
15 Jan 202127min
Timothy Snyder on the present and future of Trump's 'big lie'
"Post-truth is pre-fascism." So wrote historian Timothy Snyder in his 2017 book, On Tyranny. He penned it in the lead-up to Donald Trump's inauguration, and he's been warning ever since: The United St...
14 Jan 202120min
Her father died from COVID-19, and now the RCMP are investigating
Last Friday, 16-year-old Ariana Quesada walked into an RCMP station in High River, Alta., to file a formal complaint about the death of her father, Benito, who died eight months ago of COVID-19. He wo...
13 Jan 202123min
Democrats scramble to remove Trump from power
On Monday, for the second time in his one-term presidency, Democrats introduced an article to impeach Donald Trump. Previously, Trump was impeached but not convicted by the Senate. But following last ...
12 Jan 202121min
Trump gets deplatformed
U.S. President Donald Trump was permanently banned from Twitter after the platform cited “the risk of further incitement of violence” following the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol last week. Facebook...
11 Jan 202123min
Canada’s slow drip vaccine rollout
Canada has received more than 430,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. But as of Thursday, only about 45 per cent of those doses have gone into arms. Those numbers are sourced from the COVID-19 Canada O...
8 Jan 202122min
Pro-Trump extremists storm Capitol Hill
Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump sowed chaos in and around the U.S. Capitol, forcing lawmakers to flee as they’d gathered to certify president-elect Joe Biden’s victory, after Trump himself e...
7 Jan 202132min
