• What a “Freedom Convoy” conviction means for protest rights
    Nov 22 2024

    Plus: An anti-monarchist weighs in on the price tag of King Charles III’s £72 million coronation.


    Also: A Los Angeles school district promises to be a sanctuary for students facing the threat of deportation; and why the appearance of multiple “doomsday” fish on U.S. shores is actually good news.

    Show More Show Less
    1 hr and 13 mins
  • What the Israeli PM’s arrest warrant does & doesn’t change
    Nov 21 2024

    Plus: “Words I never thought I’d say.” Maurizio Cattelan’s banana duct-taped to a wall fetches $6.2 million USD at auction.


    Also: Police are encircling an abandoned South African gold mine, hoping to arrest an untold number of illegal miners currently inside. And their tactics have advocates worried for the Zama zamas’ safety.

    Show More Show Less
    1 hr and 5 mins
  • A BC mayor on the “bomb cyclone” and climate change
    Nov 20 2024

    Plus: A new study determines exactly where in the UK and Ireland a phoney accent is most likely to be found out.


    Also: Lloyd Axworthy helped lead the push to ban landmines. We reach him now that the US has given the go ahead for their use in Ukraine.

    Show More Show Less
    1 hr and 9 mins
  • A surgeon in Kyiv on 1000 days (or more) of war
    Nov 19 2024

    Plus: A Kansas man tells us why he created a page to share terrifying and potentially deadly stairwells, and what makes for a “good” death stair.


    Also: New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt on why the province is now launching a scientific inquiry into the mysterious brain disease plaguing dozens – and possibly many more – in her province.

    Show More Show Less
    1 hr and 7 mins
  • How the Maori rights movement grabbed the world’s attention
    Nov 18 2024

    Plus: What’s behind the string of cheese heists bubbling up pretty much everywhere.


    Also: The Verge’s David Pierce on Bluesky’s big week.

    Show More Show Less
    1 hr
  • A strike shows how much small business counts on the mail
    Nov 15 2024

    Plus: LOL hell breaks loose. A new study suggests people who text using abbreviations are perceived as less sincere.


    Also: Tom Forrestall’s paintings may have a realistic approach, but a friend and curator tells us the late Canadian artist wasn’t afraid of bending the rules -- including using canvases of all shapes and sizes.

    Show More Show Less
    1 hr and 10 mins
  • An ex-prosecutor on the “absurd” choice of Matt Gaetz for AG
    Nov 14 2024

    Plus: A Scottish town learns a marble head being used as a doorstop in a shed, is actually a bust of their founder that's worth millions.


    Also: Ottawa says a decades-old report about Second World War criminals who came to Canada is still too hot to release, but the founder of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network says we all deserve to see the Nazi secrets of decades past

    Show More Show Less
    53 mins
  • Catherine McKenna from COP29: “I’m not gonna sugarcoat it”
    Nov 13 2024

    Plus: An enormous diamond necklace that may have played a role in the downfall of Marie Antoinette sells for a commensurately enormous price.


    Also: Médecins Sans Frontières says a recent attack against an ambulance and patients in Haiti raises serious questions about their ability to provide care in the country.

    Show More Show Less
    1 hr and 1 min