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The Big Story

An in-depth look at the issues, culture and personalities shaping Canada today.

Are Canada's maple syrup taps running dry?

21 mins; April 01, 2024

Learn Something?! From This Economy?!

37 mins; March 30, 2024

TBS Listener Feedback: Objectivity, Pornography and Bagged Milk

21 mins; March 29, 2024

Ontario's government fought public workers for years. And lost billions.

19 mins; March 28, 2024

How the government investigates "greenwashing" complaints

20 mins; March 27, 2024

How Loblaw became Canada's "company store"

25 mins; March 26, 2024

How AI takes workplace surveillance to another level

24 mins; March 25, 2024

In This Economy: How subscription fees spiraled out of control

35 mins; March 23, 2024

The past, present and perilous future of bagged milk in Canada

17 mins; March 22, 2024

Measles are back. How worried should we be?

23 mins; March 21, 2024

Why has Canada's program brought zero Gazans to safety?

17 mins; March 20, 2024

Explaining the ArriveCan scandal

22 mins; March 19, 2024

Women are gambling, too. Why don't we see them?

24 mins; March 18, 2024

Are smartphones the new cigarettes?

21 mins; March 17, 2024

Change Jobs?! In This Economy?!

33 mins; March 16, 2024

Can you still trust Google's search results?

23 mins; March 15, 2024

What we do (and don't) know about the mass killing of an Ottawa family

15 mins; March 14, 2024

So, where's Kate Middleton?

25 mins; March 13, 2024

Culture Cancelled: Are Canada's festivals destined to disappear?

20 mins; March 12, 2024

How are other countries dealing with the housing crisis?

31 mins; March 11, 2024

Get Divorced?! In This Economy?!

41 mins; March 09, 2024

Could we learn to talk to whales?

19 mins; March 08, 2024

The crisis in Haiti, explained

26 mins; March 07, 2024

Has the battle over Ottawa’s carbon pricing reached a boiling point?

17 mins; March 06, 2024

Is ultra-low cost air travel doomed to fail in Canada?

16 mins; March 05, 2024

Why dynamic pricing isn’t off the menu entirely

19 mins; March 04, 2024

Pay for Heating?! In This Economy?!

33 mins; March 02, 2024

Everything you never wanted to know about bed bugs

28 mins; March 01, 2024

Quebec has a new housing law. Nobody likes it.

16 mins; February 29, 2024

Why is syphilis surging in Canada?

20 mins; February 28, 2024

A father's fall takes us inside a broken healthcare system

24 mins; February 27, 2024

After two years of resistance, is Ukraine losing the war?

25 mins; February 26, 2024

Peter Mansbridge on how Canadians lost trust in media

29 mins; February 23, 2024

Canadian politicians vs... PornHub?

20 mins; February 22, 2024

Illegal rooming houses and the hidden side of the housing crisis

23 mins; February 21, 2024

What's behind Canada's critical shortage of judges?

21 mins; February 20, 2024

Listener feedback: From kids to cars to a solution to the housing crisis...

28 mins; February 19, 2024

Buy a Condo?! In This Economy?!!

34 mins; February 17, 2024

Can your DNA create a sketch of your face?

19 mins; February 16, 2024

Police budgets, car theft and the spectre of 'public safety'

25 mins; February 15, 2024

An unprecedented look inside the sex lives of Canadians

21 mins; February 14, 2024

A story about how anyone (yes, even you) can get scammed

25 mins; February 13, 2024

As pandemic bills come due, are Canada's small businesses in danger?

24 mins; February 12, 2024

Have a Kid?! In This Economy?!

36 mins; February 10, 2024

Can a prescription cure loneliness and isolation?

19 mins; February 09, 2024

What is Canada's role in a chaotic world?

23 mins; February 08, 2024

Inside the massive ideological split between young men and women

27 mins; February 07, 2024

Canada's fertility rate is at an all-time low. What should we do about it?

21 mins; February 06, 2024

What you're not hearing when you hear about Gaza

23 mins; February 05, 2024

A Health Emergency?! In This Economy?!

38 mins; February 03, 2024

Cats: Cuddly fluff balls or world's worst invasive species?

23 mins; February 02, 2024

Are we hurting our kids by protecting them too much?

28 mins; February 01, 2024

The Panama Canal is running dry, sending global shipping into chaos (again)

19 mins; January 31, 2024

All eyes on London as NHL players expected to surrender to police

22 mins; January 30, 2024

Is Florida coming for Canada's cheap drugs?

20 mins; January 29, 2024

Rent an Apartment?! In This Economy?!

35 mins; January 27, 2024

How Sunrise Records became the last music chain standing

25 mins; January 26, 2024

Is the Bank of Canada courting disaster for many Canadians?

20 mins; January 25, 2024

How hard is it to right a wrongful conviction in Canada?

23 mins; January 24, 2024

Canada is capping student visas. Why now? And will it help?

19 mins; January 23, 2024

The legal fight for the future of artificial intelligence

22 mins; January 22, 2024

A Wedding?! In This Economy?!

22 mins; January 20, 2024

Why this women's hockey league is truly different

22 mins; January 19, 2024

Why Canada's infrastructure planning phase never ends

25 mins; January 18, 2024

A strange truck and an ambitious target: EVs in 2024

28 mins; January 17, 2024

Will Saskatchewan's fight with Ottawa end in handcuffs?

20 mins; January 16, 2024

Canada's Dry: "We’re in a new game here"

23 mins; January 15, 2024

Pay Back CERB...or Go Bankrupt?! In This Economy?!

53 mins; January 13, 2024

Why are Canada's passenger trains so slow?

19 mins; January 12, 2024

A "miraculous" landing raises systemic airline safety questions

16 mins; January 11, 2024

Why tent cities are becoming more permanent

22 mins; January 10, 2024

The pay-for-care loophole that hands out Ozempic prescriptions

19 mins; January 09, 2024

How conspiracy theories went mainstream

24 mins; January 08, 2024

Stick to a Budget?! In This Economy?!

32 mins; January 06, 2024

Seeking superyachts. Signed, Sydney, Nova Scotia

23 mins; January 05, 2024

Why is everyone so sick this winter?

20 mins; January 04, 2024

From polling to populism: A 2024 Canadian political primer

20 mins; January 03, 2024

Why do food prices keep rising?

25 mins; January 02, 2024

Staff Pick: Can humans hibernate their way to Mars?

28 mins; December 29, 2023

Staff Pick: The "parental rights" debate, and the fight over the notwithstanding clause

26 mins; December 28, 2023

Staff Pick: Why are some orcas suddenly attacking boats?

20 mins; December 27, 2023

Good News: We're learning how to save the coral reefs

19 mins; December 22, 2023

Good News: You can fix your broken stuff

22 mins; December 21, 2023

Good News: We're finally finding new antibiotics

23 mins; December 20, 2023

Good News: Plovers in a dangerous time

24 mins; December 19, 2023

Good News: The pandemic didn't make us meaner

21 mins; December 18, 2023

Avoiding Debt?! In This Economy?!

37 mins; December 16, 2023

How a Canadian prepares for a stint on the ISS

20 mins; December 15, 2023

The mystery of a Canadian visionary killed in Dominica

23 mins; December 14, 2023

Toronto vs. Uber, and the future of rideshares everywhere

24 mins; December 13, 2023

How to tell fact from fiction in reports from Gaza

25 mins; December 12, 2023

Is climate-friendly beef even a possibility?

20 mins; December 11, 2023

Hosting a Party?! In This Economy?!

34 mins; December 09, 2023

Normal Gossip's Kelsey McKinney unwraps Spotify's strategy

22 mins; December 08, 2023

The past, present and future of birth control

19 mins; December 07, 2023

Can Alberta just refuse to follow federal regulations?

20 mins; December 06, 2023

Will carbon capture save the climate, or just let us keep burning fuel?

20 mins; December 05, 2023

Are we witnessing the end of retirement?

25 mins; December 04, 2023

A Social Life?! In This Economy?!

34 mins; December 02, 2023

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow on cutting deals with Doug Ford, fixing a broken city and putting pressure on Ottawa

40 mins; December 01, 2023

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