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

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

40 mins; December 01, 2023

"Super pigs" took over the prairies. Now they're spreading further, quickly.

26 mins; November 30, 2023

Why are magic mushroom retail stores popping up across the country?

25 mins; November 29, 2023

Why are some tenants using the 'last resort' of rent strikes?

25 mins; November 28, 2023

We can genetically modify pests. But should we?

23 mins; November 27, 2023

Quit My Job?! In This Economy?!

38 mins; November 25, 2023

RCMP official found guilty of selling intelligence secrets

18 mins; November 24, 2023

Is this really the end of Ontario's Beer Store monopoly?

19 mins; November 23, 2023

What does the government's new "anti-scab" legislation mean for the labour movement?

19 mins; November 22, 2023

A guilty verdict, and a community can begin to heal

26 mins; November 21, 2023

Is the Canadian Dream still attainable?

22 mins; November 20, 2023

Buy a Car?! In This Economy?!

39 mins; November 18, 2023

Are we missing the city for the trees?

22 mins; November 17, 2023

Hate crimes, campus fights and division: How the Hamas-Israel conflict is changing Canada

24 mins; November 16, 2023

How to change hockey culture from the ground up

27 mins; November 15, 2023

Local news is at a tipping point. Will it survive?

21 mins; November 14, 2023

Restaurant revenues are booming, so why are so many losing money?

23 mins; November 13, 2023

Healthy?! In This Economy?!

32 mins; November 11, 2023

Canada's veterinarians are not OK

19 mins; November 10, 2023

Should Trudeau step down? Who would take his place?

18 mins; November 09, 2023

Why it's so hard to fight the airlines. And how to do it anyway.

24 mins; November 08, 2023

Will BC's short-term rental crackdown really work?

20 mins; November 07, 2023

How one woman's fight for justice empowered a city

21 mins; November 06, 2023

Home Ownership?! In This Economy?!

32 mins; November 04, 2023

How Toronto lost its war with raccoons. Badly.

23 mins; November 03, 2023

Why is Quebec's language fight taking on English students?

18 mins; November 02, 2023

Why are the Liberals carving out a piece of the carbon tax?

25 mins; November 01, 2023

Will MAiD changes give drug users access to assisted death?

25 mins; October 31, 2023

Canada desperately needs more family docs. Why are we making it harder to be one?

25 mins; October 30, 2023

RERELEASE: How to actually change someone's mind

24 mins; October 28, 2023

How a massive solar storm could fry our entire grid

19 mins; October 27, 2023

How Doug Ford's Ontario government mastered the art of the flip-flop

19 mins; October 26, 2023

Is the glut of pot stores finally starting to shrink?

18 mins; October 25, 2023

A brief history of middle east ceasefires

22 mins; October 24, 2023

Is "It's your mess, you clean it up!" a viable recycling strategy?

24 mins; October 23, 2023

Trailer: In This Economy?!

2 mins; October 21, 2023

Inside the hilarious, secretive and petty world of book blurbs

23 mins; October 20, 2023

The world waits for Israel's ground offensive, and whatever comes next

25 mins; October 19, 2023

Why is BC banning drug use in public spaces?

23 mins; October 18, 2023

Why are we building fewer homes now than during the worst of the pandemic?

26 mins; October 17, 2023

Will the supreme court decide the future of sex work in Canada?

25 mins; October 16, 2023

How the NFT market rose and crashed, and who's left holding the bill

22 mins; October 13, 2023

Does Ontario already have a two-tier health care system?

21 mins; October 12, 2023

Will the Israel-Hamas war draw in other nations?

27 mins; October 11, 2023

In Manitoba, police killings require inquests. So where are they?

19 mins; October 10, 2023

Inside the questionable practices of the International House of Prayer

40 mins; October 07, 2023

A tiny town vs. QAnon's "Queen" of Canada

20 mins; October 06, 2023

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

24 mins; October 05, 2023

Alberta's premier is coming for Canada's pension fund

23 mins; October 04, 2023

In classrooms, smartphone use is out of control

20 mins; October 03, 2023

Why we're all paying different prices online

21 mins; September 29, 2023

How Canada created an international incident through sheer incompetence

25 mins; September 28, 2023

Why the Bank of Canada wants unemployment to rise

26 mins; September 27, 2023

How Doug Ford's greenbelt plan imploded, and what comes next

21 mins; September 26, 2023

What's behind Canada's surge of car thefts?

16 mins; September 25, 2023

The wild boar paradox and the future of nuclear energy

15 mins; September 22, 2023

The (Cold) Drugs Don't Work

22 mins; September 21, 2023

Are political dissidents safe in Canada?

23 mins; September 20, 2023

A seismic shift in soccer's sexist structure?

23 mins; September 19, 2023

REWIND: The murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar

20 mins; September 18, 2023

What happens if you call 911 and get put on hold?

15 mins; September 18, 2023

How will the streaming wars end? With Cable TV, all over again

24 mins; September 15, 2023

Inside the massive E. coli outbreak in Calgary daycares

20 mins; September 14, 2023

What can the Conservative convention tell us about the future of the party?

25 mins; September 13, 2023

The final battle in the Return To Office war?

25 mins; September 12, 2023

A trial that will test Canada's definition of 'terrorism'

21 mins; September 11, 2023

No barking at the dog park: A tour of Toronto's ridiculous park rules

19 mins; September 08, 2023

Will new rules slow the flood of gambling ads?

16 mins; September 07, 2023

Use this plastic, not that plastic: The fight for truly sustainable packaging

24 mins; September 06, 2023

What Kleenex can teach us about Canadian prosperity

24 mins; September 05, 2023

RERELEASE: What a school's 'descent into chaos' says about the state of education in Ontario

27 mins; September 03, 2023

As school begins, where are Quebec's teachers?

16 mins; September 01, 2023

How the climate crisis will radically change tourism

25 mins; August 31, 2023

So ... what happened to that recession?

19 mins; August 30, 2023

"Basically a movie": Inside the deepening Greenbelt scandal

24 mins; August 29, 2023

The long road to an 'epidemic' of intimate partner violence

23 mins; August 28, 2023

Will Canada place a cap on international students?

24 mins; August 25, 2023

What Toronto's condo massacre can teach us about mass shootings

24 mins; August 24, 2023

How sure is insurance in the climate era?

26 mins; August 23, 2023

A plan to solve the rental crisis needs governments to coordinate. Can they?

23 mins; August 22, 2023

Why mess with success? Inside Alberta's renewable energy pause

21 mins; August 21, 2023

One in five cars on Canadian roads have been recalled. Has yours?

22 mins; August 18, 2023

A remote evacuation scramble as the Northwest Territories burns

18 mins; August 17, 2023

Why does (most of) Canada suck at building transit?

22 mins; August 16, 2023

Are our governments siding with big grocers?

22 mins; August 15, 2023

How 'the Montreal shuffle' is destroying a city's rental market

27 mins; August 14, 2023

Ontario's massive greenbelt scandal, explained in full

26 mins; August 11, 2023

Are the federal Liberals cooked? Or not?

22 mins; August 10, 2023

Is far right extremism gaining ground in Canada?

29 mins; August 09, 2023

New guidelines, old hesitancy and the future of covid vaccines

19 mins; August 08, 2023

RERELEASE: How can we find common ground on climate change?

26 mins; August 07, 2023

How did concerts become so unaffordable?

15 mins; August 04, 2023

What Meta's and Google's news blocking means for indie media, and for you

20 mins; August 03, 2023

From extreme to extreme: The future of climate in Nova Scotia

25 mins; August 02, 2023

How modern video games hook us, and kids, so completely

25 mins; August 01, 2023

Inside a Canadian man's massive psychic scam

26 mins; July 31, 2023

The labour movement is back, baby! Or is it?

23 mins; July 28, 2023

What's behind the Liberals' massive cabinet shuffle?

24 mins; July 27, 2023

Why won't Manitoba search a landfill for the remains of two murder victims?

21 mins; July 26, 2023

Why is Canada updating its emergency nuclear protocols?

17 mins; July 25, 2023

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