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"It's election year" is a phrase often followed by a moment of pause - something said but not understood. This all-Canadian cross-country series will provide a weekly glimpse into the lives...
Toxic political polarization is on the rise around the world – and it’s making a mess of things. Ordinary people who might otherwise disagre...
Everybody loves a pentalogy. In March of 2020, host David Moscrop and guest Amanda Watson discussed how we were managing early pandemic life...
Women’s hockey has surged in popularity in recent years. That growth has been a long time coming. The history of the women’s game stretches...
Democratic life is increasingly marked by toxic polarisation and partisan hostility. Public institutions are overrun by the few, leaving the...
The non-profit sector is massive. According to Statistics Canada, in 2022 the non-profit sector accounted for over 8 percent of GDP – contri...
Is Canada ready to get serious about tackling monopolies and oligopolies? You’ve heard it before, the old joke that Canada is three telecom...
Canada has passed a law preventing federally-regulated businesses from using scab workers. Bill C-58 passed in June and marked a significant...
Universities are medieval, risk averse institutions. Some like to think of them as bastions of radicalism, but they’re actually quite conser...
This week, we have good news and bad news. The bad news, you know already. Climate change is catching up to us. We’re feeling its effects an...
Artificial intelligence means different things to different people. As an amorphous set of technologies deployed in countless applications,...
A few weeks back, we spoke with Tiffany Balducci about the Alberta NDP leadership race. This week, we’re keeping on theme, but instead of lo...
There’s no sharper way to assess the state of life in the early 21st century than through a lens of “enshitification,” a term this week's gu...
The Alberta New Democratic Party leadership race is underway. In June, the party membership will select a new leader to replace Rachel Notle...
Trans rights are under attack throughout Canada. Policy changes in New Brunswick, Saskatchewan, and Alberta have already constrained rights...
In January, former New Democratic Party leader Ed Broadbent died at the age of 87. Outpourings of grief, respect, and gratitude followed thr...
Everybody loves a quadrilogy. In March of 2020, host David Moscrop and guest Amanda Watson discussed how we were managing our lives during t...
Canada’s housing crisis continues with no end in sight. Shelter – a fundamental human need – is unaffordable for millions, and the surge in...
Artificial intelligence is already shaping the way we work, consume, and communicate with one another. It’s also shaping the way we govern o...
Around the world, democracies are on the back foot. For years, experts, commentators, politicians, and other practitioners and observers hav...
Foreign policy might not win elections, but it shapes domestic politics – and the world. Recent months have seen external affairs intersect...
In June, Olivia Chow was elected mayor of Toronto. She faces an all-too-often complacent city with a hefty budget shortfall and a series of...
Canada’s housing crisis is persistent and brutal. In August, the average rent was nearly $2,100 a month – and much higher in cities includin...
In June, this year became the worst wildfire season in Canadian history. Fires burned throughout the country. And there’s almost surely more...
The United States of America is a polarized country marked by toxic partisan politics. The state of American politics comes from somewhere....
There are all kinds of euphemisms for fat bodies. They capture and obscure a persistent social discomfort and prejudice that appears across...
For years, private interests have encroached upon public spaces. As time goes on, there are fewer and fewer places that belong to each of us...
Last week in Alberta, Premier Danielle Smith and the United Conservative Party held on to government in a race that was much closer than the...
This is the first episode in our three-piece series on the past, present, and future of public spaces in Canada. In these episodes we’ll cov...
We spend an awful lot of time talking about housing and development—and we should. But often lost in the conversation is how we manage rural...
At Carleton University, a union local is fighting for a fair deal for its workers–and getting ready for a strike. Across Ontario and Canada,...
Like it or not, we are stuck online. Digital life is a reflection and extension of life offline–if we can even talk about life offline anymo...
In Ontario, Premier Doug Ford is trying to address the province’s healthcare crisis. With over 200,000 people waiting for surgeries, long em...
Canadians can be forgiven for making a national pastime out of expressing anger at the state of competition in the country. Telecom, grocery...
Reconciliation with Indigenous peoples in Canada requires structural transformation. One essential site of institutional reform is the count...
This is the third and final episode in a three-part series on cities in Canada. So far, we’ve tackled how cities fit within the constitution...
Around the world, more than 4 billion people live in cities. That’s just over 50 percent of the global population. The United Nations projec...
This is the first in a three-episode series on cities in Canada. In 1911, 45 percent of people lived in cities in this country. By 2021, tha...
Anti-trans hate and violence is on the rise in Canada and the United States. Indeed, 2021 was the most violent year for trans people on reco...
The labour movement is having a moment. Both in the United States and in Canada, unions have won breakthroughs at workplaces including Amazo...
In a pluralist society, individuals and groups each have their own preferences, interests, and goals. Together they compete, cooperate, inte...
Threats and harassment directed at journalists in Canada are on the rise. A vicious coordinated campaign of hate targeted at a handful of wo...
The crisis in healthcare across the country has opened the door for "reform." In Ontario, Premier Doug Ford is pushing "innovation." In rece...
Artificial intelligence is embedded in our daily lives whether we notice it or not. It shapes how we live, work, and play. Shopping, gaming,...
The agriculture sector is a significant global source of greenhouse gas emissions. In 2019, the United Nations suggested eating less meat wa...
In February, 2021, we took a deep breath and mixed things up by checking in with one of our favourite comedians as we celebrated our 40th ep...
The pandemic isn’t over. Someday, it will be. But we aren’t there yet. We are, however, at a critical juncture – a fork in the road at which...
In the first year of the pandemic, police-reported hate crimes rose by 37 percent. That’s from a recent Statistics Canada report that record...
In the United States, a leaked draft opinion on the constitutional right to abortion has put those who support choice on high-alert. The con...
Artificial intelligence is shaping healthcare in Canada and around the world. The role of AI in delivering care will evolve and, indeed, gro...
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has produced a refugee crisis. Another one, that is. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees repor...