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Bonus ‘The Decibel’: How an algorithm missed a deadly listeria outbreak
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- Bonus ‘The Decibel’: How an algorithm missed a deadly listeria outbreak
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- 1 year ago
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- In July, there was a recall on two brands of plant-based milks, Silk and Great Value, after a listeria outbreak that led to at least 20 illnesses and three deaths (https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-cfia-food-safety-algorithm-listeria-outbreak/) . Public health officials determined the same strain of listeria had been making people sick for almost a year. When Globe reporters began looking into what happened, they found a surprising fact: the facility that the bacteria was traced to had not been inspected for listeria in years.
The reporters learned that in 2019 the Canadian Food Inspection Agency introduced a new system that relies on an algorithm (https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-behind-the-story-investigating-lapses-in-canadas-food-safety-system/#:~:text=At%20the%20outset%20of%20The,to%20a%20production%20facility%20in) to prioritize sites for inspectors to visit. Investigative reporters Grant Robertson (https://www.theglobeandmail.com/a...
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- Joe, meet Joe: Globe reporter talks to an interactive AI avatar of himself
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- 1 year ago
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- Globe reporter Joe Castaldo has a conversation with an interactive AI avatar of himself. Avatars like this one, developed by tech company HeyGen, may one day attend meetings on your behalf.
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- The real town behind Hallmark’s Christmas movies
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- 1 year ago
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- At this time of year, there’s nothing better than settling in with a good Christmas movie. When it comes to the made-for-TV variety – usually made by Hallmark, or, Netflix – they tend to follow a formula: girl from the big city ends up in a small town, connects with a local guy, they encounter a series of surmountable obstacles, and eventually, end up together – with a heavy sprinkle of holiday magic.
A lot of these movies are filmed in and around Almonte, a town about 40 minutes west of Ottawa. It’s been used so many times that SNL mentioned that they’re all “filmed in a month in Ottawa” in a 2017 sketch, and the New York Times profiled the town back in 2020. According to the municipality, 24 movies have been shot there since 2015.
The town has a sparkle that shines through in these movies… and our producers wondered whether that sparkle was as bright in real life. In this holiday special episode, The Decibel goes to Almonte to see if the t...
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- What’s next for Trudeau and the Liberals after a chaotic 2024
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- 1 year ago
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- As new details around the feud between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his former deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland emerge, the Liberal caucus gathered on Tuesday to awkwardly celebrate the holidays. The fete came after the final two days of the fall sitting of Parliament where a lot happened.
John Ibbitson is a columnist and reporter based in Ottawa for The Globe. He goes through what we’ve learned since Monday about Freeland’s resignation, everything you missed about the Fall Economic Statement and where the Liberals could go in 2025.
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- How Canada’s food inspectors missed a deadly listeria outbreak
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- 1 year ago
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- In July, there was a recall on two specific brands of plant-based milks, Silk and Great Value, after a listeria outbreak that led to at least 20 illnesses and three deaths. Public health officials determined the same strain of listeria had been making people sick for almost a year. When Globe reporters began looking into what happened, they found a surprising fact: the facility that the bacteria was traced to had not been inspected for listeria in years. So how did this happen?
They also learned that in 2019 the Canadian Food Inspection Agency introduced a new system that relies on an algorithm to prioritize sites for inspectors to visit. Investigative reporters Grant Robertson and Kathryn Blaze Baum talk about why this new system of tracking was created, and what went wrong.
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- AI Has Mastered Chess, Poker and Go. So Why Do We Keep Playing?
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- 1 year ago
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- The board game Go has more possible board configurations than there are atoms in the universe.
Because of that seemingly infinite complexity, developing software that could master Go has long been a goal of the AI community.
In 2016, researchers at Google’s DeepMind appeared to meet the challenge. Their Go-playing AI defeated one of the best Go players in the world, Lee Sedol.
After the match, Lee Sedol retired, saying that losing to an AI felt like his entire world was collapsing.
He wasn’t alone. For a lot of people, the game represented a turning point – the moment where humans had been overtaken by machines.
But Frank Lantz saw that game and was invigorated. Lantz is a game designer (his game “Hey Robot” is a recurring feature on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon), the director of the NYU game center, and the author of The Beauty of Games. He’s spent his career thinking about how technology is changin...
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- Freeland resigns, upending Trudeau’s government
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- 1 year ago
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- On Monday morning, Chrystia Freeland announced she was stepping down as finance minister. This came after reports of increasing tensions between her and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over the GST break and $250 cheques. She posted her letter on X just after 9 a.m., on the day when she was supposed to deliver the fall economic statement.
Later, after a day of speculation and confusion, the Liberals tabled the fall economic update, and MP Dominic LeBlanc was sworn in as finance minister to replace Freeland. The day ended with a Liberal caucus meeting, where Trudeau’s leadership was put into question.
Globe and Mail senior political reporter Marieke Walsh is on the show to walk us through a chaotic day on Parliament Hill and tell us what this could all mean for the Liberal government.
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- Diagnosing what’s wrong with Canada’s immigration system
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- 1 year ago
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- Immigration policy indirectly shapes a lot of aspects of Canadian life: the economy, the housing market, the labour force. And in 2024, the federal government made a major policy change by cutting immigration targets. In doing so, it acknowledged that the balance they had previously struck was not quite right.
So The Globe and Mail’s Editorial Board studied the issue and looked at ways Canada can improve the system and restore the balance. Editorials Editor Patrick Brethour explains.
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- Syria’s revolution and its impact on global power
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- 1 year ago
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- After 13 years of civil war, the now-former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad fled the country, as his dictatorship unravelled in less than two weeks. Many Syrians celebrated as the rebel group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, laid claim to the capital city of Damascus this week. But the future of the country remains uncertain as different factions inside the country – and global superpowers outside of it – consider what comes next.
Mark MacKinnon, The Globe’s Senior International Correspondent, explains how the al-Assad regime fell apart suddenly and how the influence of Iran, Israel, Turkey, the U.S. and Russia are all in competition in a volatile region.
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- Doug Ford’s plan to dismantle homeless encampments
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- 1 year ago
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- This week, the Ontario government will be tabling new legislation that promises to give police more powers to arrest people who refuse to leave their homeless encampments. And to avoid potential legal challenges, Premier Doug Ford is threatening to use the notwithstanding clause if he has to.
Jeff Gray covers Ontario politics and he explains what prompted this response from the Ford government and the consequences of the province potentially using the notwithstanding clause in this way.
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- What the spread of bird flu signals about another pandemic
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- 1 year ago
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- In November, Canada’s first case of avian flu in a human was confirmed – a teenager in British Columbia, who remains in critical care and on a ventilator. Dozens of cases have been reported in the U.S. too, as it appears transmission from infected animals to people has increased. Some scientists and public health officials have warned that this virus has potential to be the source of the next pandemic.
André Picard, the Globe’s health columnist, joins the show to talk about the hard-won lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic and why we should be paying attention to what comes next with avian flu.
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- Notre-Dame reopening after five-year reconstruction
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- 1 year ago
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- Paris' Notre-Dame cathedral has been restored to its full glory, after more than five years of reconstruction work following a massive fire that heavily damaged its roof and led its spire to crumble. Here’s a look at the key figures behind the restoration of the Paris icon.
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- Chaos in South Korea: martial law, impeachment, resignations
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- 1 year ago
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- Martial law. Impeachment. A treason investigation. All of this has happened within a matter of hours in South Korea.
The Globe and Mail’s Asia Correspondent James Griffiths is in Seoul covering it. He explains what led to all this political tumult and who South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is – the person at the centre of it all.
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- Bitcoin hits US$100,000 amid optimism over Trump's crypto plans
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- 1 year ago
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- Bitcoin passed US$100,000 for the first time on Dec. 5, continuing a stellar rally for the cryptocurrency sparked by expectations of a more friendly regulatory environment under a Donald Trump administration.
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- Why millennials are abandoning the Liberals
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- 1 year ago
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- A November Abacus Data poll found that 38 per cent of millennial voters are planning on voting for the Conservatives, compared with 22 per cent for the Liberals, in the next federal election. This is a major shift from when millennials clinched Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s first majority win in 2015.
Globe and Mail reporter Dave McGinn dug into the polling data and spoke with millennials who have soured on the Liberals to understand exactly what changed.
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- What the Canada Post strike says about the power of unions
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- 1 year ago
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- More than 55,000 members from the Canadian Union of Postal Workers remain on strike and at an impasse with Canada Post, after negotiations broke down. Issues of wage increases and usage of gig workers are at the heart of the dispute and the two sides remain far apart. But in recent strikes involving public sector workers, that didn’t seem to matter — not when the federal government can intervene and send them back to work.
As postal workers enter the third week of striking, will the federal government soon step in? And what does this strike say about the labour movement right now and unions’ right to strike in Canada?
Vanmala Subramaniam, The Globe’s Future of Work reporter, is on the show to talk about the latest on the Canada Post strike, how it fits with other essential services taking work action and how governments intervene in work stoppages.
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- The legal effect of President Biden's pardon of son Hunter
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- 1 year ago
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- Here's a look at the circumstances leading up U.S. President Joe Biden's pardon of his son Hunter, and its legal consequences.
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- How Silicon Valley Monopolized Our Imagination
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- 1 year ago
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- The past few months have seen a series of bold proclamations from the most powerful people in tech.
In September, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta had developed “the most advanced glasses the world had ever seen.” That same day, Open AI CEO Sam Altman predicted we could have artificial super intelligence within a couple of years. Elon Musk has said he’ll land rockets on Mars by 2026.
We appear to be living through the kinds of technological leaps we used to only dream about. But whose dreams were those, exactly?
In her latest book, Imagination: A Manifesto, Ruha Benjamin argues that our collective imagination has been monopolized by the Zuckerbergs and Musks of the world. But, she says, it doesn’t need to be that way.
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“Imagination: A Manifesto (https://www.ruhabenjamin.com/imagination-a-manifesto) ,” by Ruha Benjamin
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) ...
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- Toxic culture, systemic spying alleged at Canada Soccer
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- 1 year ago
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- An investigation by The Globe and Mail found that spying was an ingrained part of the celebrated women’s national team rocked by scandal at the Paris Olympics. But the revelation of a spying program uncovered many other problems inside the Canada Soccer organization.
Globe reporters Nancy Macdonald and Greg Mercer explain what their investigation found, how the scandal has affected players and what Canada Soccer is doing to address allegations.
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- Follow these tips for a food-safe holiday feast
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- 1 year ago
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- Food safety experts say safely serving a holiday feast takes planning and know-how. Outbreaks of some types of food poisoning tend to rise during the holidays.
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- Companies are racing to make AI-powered robots for everyday life
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- 1 year ago
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- The humanoid robot market looks set to explode in the coming years, with companies vying to be the first to get a viable android into our daily lives.
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- The Israel-Lebanon ceasefire, explained
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- 1 year ago
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- This week, Israel and Hezbollah – the Iran-backed armed group in Lebanon – reached a ceasefire deal. A day later, both accused the other of violating the peace.
But the fragile agreement, brokered by the U.S. and France, appears to be holding for now. And while Israel and Hezbollah have agreed to halt their fighting, the war Israel is fighting in Gaza with Hamas continues.
Eric Reguly, the Globe’s European Bureau Chief, has reported from Lebanon during the war. He joins the show to explain what led to this deal, what could help it succeed, and if this could create momentum for a ceasefire in Gaza.
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- What Trump’s tariff plan means for Canada
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- 1 year ago
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- President-elect Donald Trump is making threats that would have dire economic consequences for Canada. Trump said on Monday that he would impose a 25 per cent tariff on all goods from Canada and Mexico, until both countries stop migrants and fentanyl from entering the U.S. If he follows through on this, it could cause a major disruption for Canada’s economy, and some fear it could trigger a recession.
The Globe’s senior parliamentary reporter Steven Chase has been tracking the political fallout of the announcement. He explains how Trump’s plan puts pressure on various sectors of the Canadian economy and how Trudeau and the federal government are planning to face it.
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- Behind the scenes with our 2024 CEOs of the Year
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- 1 year ago
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- Each year, ROB lauds the top innovator, strategist, global visionary, corporate citizen and newcomer. Meet the latest crop, including a potato magnate building the farm of the future, a retail savant and a space maven setting course for a top spot in the new space race.
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- Drake and Kendrick Lamar's rap beef lands in court
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- 1 year ago
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- Drake has escalated his dispute with fellow rap superstar Kendrick Lamar, filing a pair of court notices warning of legal action against major music companies for what Drake called manipulative promotion of Lamar's mega hit "Not Like Us".
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- Ukraine enters the ‘most difficult’ phase of the war
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- 1 year ago
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- The war in Ukraine has been intensifying after a series of escalations in the last week. And as a result of that, Ukrainian forces are entering the ‘most difficult’ phase of the war since it started, according to The Globe’s Mark MacKinnon.
Mark explains how Russia’s recent nuclear sabre-rattling by Russian President Vladimir Putin, U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to allow Ukraine to fire American long-range missiles into Russia and the looming inauguration of Donald Trump have accelerated all fronts of the war.
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- Why hackers are targeting water treatment plants
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- 1 year ago
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- In recent years, cyber attacks have become increasingly frequent and wide-reaching. In 2023, the Toronto Public Library, Canada’s largest-circulation library system, was the subject of a ransomware attack. Its systems were down for months, and the library was taken back to a pre-internet age. Now, hackers are turning to water treatment plants – and it’s not money they’re after.
Patrick White is the Globe’s water reporter. He’s on the show to talk about how these attacks have been unfolding, why they look different from other kinds of infrastructure hacks, and how governments are preparing for this new threat.
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- What the GST break means for you
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- 1 year ago
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- Last Thursday, the Liberals announced a multibillion-dollar plan to help improve the cost of living. It includes a 2-month break from GST on dozens of products and services – from restaurant meals and liquor, to children’s toys and diapers – and a one-time $250 cheque for working Canadians.
But it’s unclear exactly how these measures will get through the House of Commons, which has been the site of a months-long stalemate.
Today, the Globe’s senior political reporter, Marieke Walsh, is here to explain what’s included in this tax break, the impact these changes could have on household expenses, and the politics at play.
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- An experiment in Ontario to improve access to family doctors
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- 1 year ago
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- There’s an experiment underway in Kingston, Ont. The regional health care team is starting to assign people without a doctor to nearby clinics based on their postal code. And one of those clinics has adopted a different way to serve patients and doctors. It’s called a health home.
But is this a feasible solution for an overstressed health care system? Kelly Grant, national health reporter for The Globe and Mail, reports on this new model, how it’s working in Kingston and what it could mean for the rest of Canada.
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- The fandom of Taylor Swift
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- 1 year ago
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- Taylor Swift starts the second week of her Eras tour in Toronto today. And since the record-breaking tour landed in the city, it’s been the site of Swiftie pandemonium.
Tens of thousands have travelled for the concerts, and even a number of out-of-town Swifties without tickets took the trip. The kind of dedication Taylor Swift attracts is rare, even as pop-star fandoms become more fervent. So what’s so special about Taylor Swift? And what sets her fandom apart from others?
Niko Stratis is a freelance culture writer based in Toronto who writes the newsletter Anxiety Shark. Her debut book, The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman, will be out May, 2025. Niko joins us to explain the sensation of Taylor Swift, why being a fan has become more intense, and how it changed the relationships between artists and their fans.
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- Canada’s role in working towards a two-state solution
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- 1 year ago
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- In the midst of the Israel-Hamas war, the idea of lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians seems farther away than it has been in a long time. But there are still people working to create the conditions for a two-state solution; among those are Canadian troops, working in the West Bank in a mission called Operation Proteus.
Claire Porter Robbins is a freelance journalist and former aid worker. She’s on the show to talk about what Canadian soldiers are doing in the West Bank, how the operation has changed since October 7, and what it means for the prospects of a two-state solution.
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- The Newfoundland town that seized its own church
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- 1 year ago
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- In the small Newfoundland community of Portugal Cove south, the town church is considered its lifeblood, a community hub and historical touchstone, all rolled into one. But at the end of August, parishioners were told their church would be sold off to help the Roman Catholic Church pay a $104 million settlement.
And when locals learned they couldn’t stop the sale, they took matters into their own hands.
Today, the Globe’s Atlantic reporter, Lindsay Jones joins the podcast to tell the story of a small Newfoundland town seizing their own church, the historic court case it’s connected to, and how this standoff between one tiny town and the Roman Catholic Church, could end.
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- Margrethe Vestager Fought Big Tech and Won. Her Next Target is AI
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- 1 year ago
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- Margrethe Vestager has spent the past decade standing up to Silicon Valley. As the EU’s Competition Commissioner, she’s waged landmark legal battles against tech giants like Meta, Microsoft and Amazon. Her two latest wins will cost Apple and Google billions of dollars.
With her decade-long tenure as one of the world’s most powerful anti-trust watchdogs coming to an end, Vestager has turned her attention to AI. She spearheaded the EU’s AI Act, which will be the first and, so far, most ambitious piece of AI legislation in the world.
But the clock is ticking – both on her term and on the global race to govern AI, which Vestager says we have “very little time” to get right.
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The EU Artificial Intelligence Act (https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/)
“Dutch scandal serves as a warning for Europe over risks of using algorithms (https://www.politico.eu/article/dutch-scandal-serves-as-a-warning-for-europ...
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- How remote work changed our grooming habits
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- 1 year ago
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- When the pandemic hit, nearly 40 per cent of Canada’s workforce went remote. More than 4 years later, that number has dropped by more than half.
In a moment where bosses push for a return to the office – and workers cling to hybrid schedules – we’re learning just how much remote work has changed our habits, routines... and personal hygiene.
Globe reporter Zosia Bielski recently turned her focus to examining gender and relationships through the lens of time. She joins the podcast to explain how the fight over remote work is about how we use our time and what power our employers have over it.
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- ‘It was amazing!' Taylor Swift's Eras Tour lands in Toronto
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- 1 year ago
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- It’s finally here; Taylor Swift’s series of Eras Tour concerts in Toronto kicked off on Thursday with a jubilant crowd at the Rogers Centre. “It was amazing!” was how Swifties described the show.
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#erastour #taylorswift #toronto #rogerscentre
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- Bonus ‘The Decibel’: The behind-the-scenes look at how Rogers took over Toronto sports
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- 1 year ago
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- Lately, we’ve been getting the news from The Decibel, (https://www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/the-decibel/) the Globe and Mail’s daily news podcast.
In this bonus episode, Lately’s sister pod reveals what it took for Rogers to outmaneuver the competition and buy up some of the biggest sports teams in Canada.
A colossal business deal recently took place when a set of rivals came to an unexpected agreement. Rogers Communications Inc. bought BCE Inc.’s 37.5-per-cent stake in Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment for $4.7-billion. The transaction makes Rogers the majority owner of all of Toronto’s major professional sports teams.
Andrew Willis, a columnist and reporter for The Globe and Mail’s Report on Business, explains to Decibel host Menaka Ramn-Wilms how Rogers has the money to do this, why Bell agreed to sell to a major competitor and how investors may be able to buy their own stake in their favourite sports t...
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- Time-lapse of fans lining up for Taylor Swift’s concert in Toronto - #shorts
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- 1 year ago
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- Fans line up for the first night of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour concert in Toronto on Thursday, Nov. 14.
#taylorswift , #timelapse , #toronto
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- Toronto’s Taylor Swift Era
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- 1 year ago
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- After nearly two years of touring across five continents, Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour is coming to Canada. Thursday is the first of six dates in Toronto, and the tour will wrap up with three dates in Vancouver in December. When the Eras Tour rolls through town, money tends to follow; fans and concert-goers spend on merch, hotels, restaurants… and of course, tickets. Tickets make for attractive auction items, and people fundraising for charitable causes have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars.
For some people, thousands of Swifties descending upon downtown Toronto can be more like a ‘nightmare dressed like a daydream.’ Public transit systems, like Metrolinx and the TTC, say they’re ‘ready for it,’ but that amount of people will no doubt make getting around the city a challenge. Even couples planning their weddings were warned against booking dates while Swift is in town.
Josh O’Kane is here to break down how businesses are getting in on the ...
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- Alberta vs Texas: how two oil giants are taking on clean energy
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- 1 year ago
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- Alberta and Texas have a lot in common. Both have independent western cultures, great country music, and each lead their countries in oil production.
And over the past decade, they’ve both been the unlikely hosts to the multibillion-dollar renewable energy boom – with swaths of the Texas and Alberta energy grids going green. But while Texas becomes a leader, Alberta is changing course.
Jeffrey Jones, a Calgary-based reporter with The Globe’s Report on Business, took road trips through both vistas to learn how and why these oil-producing regions became hubs for clean energy, and what’s behind Texas’s green surge and Alberta’s slowdown.
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- The complexities of gender in the U.S. election
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- 1 year ago
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- Before Nov. 5, many pollsters predicted that there would be a huge gender gap in the U.S. election vote, with women overwhelmingly supporting Democratic candidate Kamala Harris and men voting for the Republican choice, Donald Trump.
That didn’t quite happen. Fifty three per cent of female voters supported Harris, and 46 per cent voted for Trump. In 2020, 55 per cent of women supported Joe Biden, and Trump only got 43 per cent of the female vote. So what does this mean?
Dr. S. Laurel Weldon is a distinguished professor of political science at Simon Fraser University and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She is on the show to share her thoughts on what to make of gender data from exit polls and where feminist movements go from here.
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- Murray Sinclair, as remembered by his friend Tanya Talaga
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- 1 year ago
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- Murray Sinclair died last week at the age of 73. As a trail-blazing judge, senator and chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, he spent his life revealing the truth about Canada’s relationship with Indigenous people.
Globe columnist Tanya Talaga was a friend of Sinclair’s, and often turned to him for guidance and mentorship. She joins us to reflect on his legacy and the work that’s still to be done.
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- The masculinity industry that shaped the U.S. election
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- 1 year ago
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- Professor Timothy Caulfield researches health misinformation, especially when it intersects with celebrity culture. In the new CBC documentary Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, (https://gem.cbc.ca/harder-better-faster-stronger) Caulfield takes a trip to the “manosphere” and meets the men who buy and sell the promise of masculinity in this growing segment of the $5-trillion wellness market. Caulfield talks to Lately about debunking the pseudoscience of drinking urine, how traditional masculine values can actually harm men’s health, and how the manosphere might have propelled Donald Trump to victory.
Plus, Vass finds out what lightly grilled bull testicle tastes like.
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Find the transcript of today’s episode here. (https:/...
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- How Trump’s pet-eating lie became emblematic of the election
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- 1 year ago
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- Donald Trump’s path to victory hinged on seven swing states. He won five decisively, and is leading in the final two. Republicans now control the Senate, are on track to control the House, and for the first time since 2004, a Republican president won the popular vote, too.
Immigration was one of the key issues among Trump voters — 37 per cent saw it as the most important issue in the election. It was also one of Trump’s biggest talking points at rallies, and crucially, at the September debate with Kamala Harris. His notorious line about immigrants eating people’s pets in Springfield, Ohio, lit up his supporters — and incited many of them to descend upon the town in droves.
Shannon Proudfoot is a feature writer for the Globe, and she went to Springfield in the days leading up to the election. She’s on the show to talk about the Springfield she got to know – behind all the hype – and how the story of Springfield can help us understand how the iss...
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- Podcast: The new ‘Rosé All Day’? Stressed moms are microdosing mushrooms
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- 1 year ago
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- The U.S. Surgeon General recently issued a health advisory saying that 48 per cent of parents with kids under 18 are completely overwhelmed by their stress. Most of those stressed out parents are moms – and some of those moms are turning to microdosing psilocybin to cope.
Amberly McAteer is a Toronto-based writer and former editor in The Globe and Mail’s Opinion section. She looked into this trend and explains how parenting now is more stressful than in past generations, and explores what the consequences might be of microdosing an illegal, unregulated substance.
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- Trump elected as U.S. president in comeback
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- 1 year ago
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- Donald Trump has been elected U.S. president, capping a stunning comeback four years after he was voted out of the White House and opening a new era of divisive rule at home and isolationist policies abroad.
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- Podcast: Inside The Globe’s U.S. election night coverage
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- 1 year ago
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- The United States have never seen an election like this before. It began as a rematch between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, but after Biden’s debate performance back in June, he made the unprecedented move of withdrawing from the race. Vice President Kamala Harris stepped in to become the Democratic nominee, and the second debate in September looked a lot different.
Results trickled in last night for this nail biter of an election, with the outcome hinging on seven swing states.
The 2024 U.S. presidential election may be over, but as of 2 a.m. ET on November 6, the winner hadn’t been officially declared.
On today’s show, The Decibel is hosting an election night watch party, featuring Globe journalists in the newsroom and on the ground in key swing states. We’ll hear from international correspondent Nathan VanderKlippe, calling in from Georgia, and reporter Andrea Woo, calling in from Arizona. Patrick Dell checks up on disinformation, and col...
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- Bonus ‘Lately’: The Great Decline of Everything Online
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- 1 year ago
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- We’re off this week, so we’re bringing you an episode from our Globe and Mail sister show Lately.
That creeping feeling that everything online is getting worse has a name: “enshittification,” a term for the slow degradation of our experience on digital platforms. The enshittification cycle is why you now have to wade through slop to find anything useful on Google, and why your charger is different from your BFF’s.
According to Cory Doctorow, the man who coined the memorable moniker, this digital decay isn’t inevitable. It’s a symptom of corporate under-regulation and monopoly – practices being challenged in courts around the world, like the US Department of Justice’s antitrust suit against Google.
Cory Doctorow is a British-Canadian journalist, blogger and author of Chokepoint Capitalism, as well as speculative fiction works like The Lost Cause and the new novella Spill.
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- The fight over clean energy jobs in a crucial U.S. swing state
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- 1 year ago
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- The Inflation Reduction Act was passed after a contentious fight in the U.S. Congress, narrowly passing along partisan lines. The bill committed almost US$370-billion in tax credits and spending by the federal government on clean energy projects. It has become one of the Biden administration’s signature legislative wins.
And yet, it hasn’t really been mentioned in this year’s presidential campaign. The Globe’s climate policy analyst Adam Radwanski wanted to understand why. So he travelled to Georgia – where a large number of IRA investments have led to a strong clean energy sector – to find out why.
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- Green space: Japan to test world's first wooden satellite
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- 1 year ago
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- The world's first wooden satellite has been built by Japanese researchers, and is set to be launched to space next Tuesday (November 5), in an early test for using timber in lunar and Mars exploration.
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- A standoff in Parliament and the latest on Trudeau’s future
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- 1 year ago
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- For more than a month, the government has not been able to pass any legislation. The House of Commons has been at a standstill, as they debate whether the Liberal government breached Parliamentary privilege.
The Globe’s senior politics reporter Marieke Walsh talks about why the House has been unable to put this debate to rest, and why that’s leading to no movement in the House. She also catches us up on the latest news around Trudeau’s leadership of the Liberal Party and what the Bloc Québecois ending its support for the Liberals means for our chances of an election.
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