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U.S. Navy 'flipping' ship upcycled for ocean exploration
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- U.S. Navy 'flipping' ship upcycled for ocean exploration
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- 1 year ago
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- A unique 'flipping' ship from the 1960s, capable of rotating from horizontal to vertical, is set to be saved from the scrap heap. A UK-based ocean engineering company called DEEP has brought her to Europe to refit her with state of the art technology.
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- In Her Defence: 50th Street - Episode 6, Persevere, keep trying, don’t give up / âhkamêyimok
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- 2 years ago
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- What was Amber doing when she disappeared? Police provide some new information about the rest of the phone call, and their investigation. Amber’s mother faces a serious new threat, but vows to keep fighting.
Email the reporter, Jana Pruden, at jpruden@globeandmail.com
Learn more about this podcast at https://www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/inherdefence/#01
Our cover art is a painting of Amber by Lauren Crazybull. Our theme song is No Surrender by Ms.PAN!K. Episode titles were translated into Plains Cree by Dorothy Thunder.
Individuals impacted by the issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls can contact the MMIWG Crisis Line toll-free at 1-844-413-6649.
Support for families impacted by Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls is also available through the Indian Residential School Survivors Society at irsss.ca.
In Her Defence: 50th Street is recorded at Gabby Road Studio on Treaty 6 t...
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- In Her Defence: 50th Street - Episode 5, The Voice / ni nisitawinawâw
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- 2 years ago
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- The release of the voice brings out a flood of tips and suspects. Experts study the tape for clues about the voice, while police come to realize the recording doesn’t have the investigative value they once hoped. Amber’s biological brother says he knows who killed Amber.
Email the reporter, Jana Pruden, at jpruden@globeandmail.com
Learn more about this podcast at https://www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/inherdefence/#01
Our cover art is a painting of Amber by Lauren Crazybull. Our theme song is No Surrender by Ms.PAN!K. Episode titles were translated into Plains Cree by Dorothy Thunder.
Individuals impacted by the issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls can contact the MMIWG Crisis Line toll-free at 1-844-413-6649.
Support for families impacted by Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls is also available through the Indian Residential School Survivors Society at irsss.ca
In Her De...
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- In Her Defence: 50th Street - Episode 4, Blatant Failures / mâmâsîs ê-tôtahkik
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- 2 years ago
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- A notorious serial killer prompts a broad reckoning around the murder of Indigenous women and girls in Canada. Amber’s family files an official complaint around how her missing persons investigation was handled, and a review of the case forces a public apology — with an unexpected twist. Questions persist about Evangeline, the last person known to have seen Amber alive.
Email the reporter, Jana Pruden, at jpruden@globeandmail.com
Learn more about this podcast at https://www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/inherdefence/#01
Our cover art is a painting of Amber by Lauren Crazybull. Our theme song is No Surrender by Ms.PAN!K. Episode titles were translated into Plains Cree by Dorothy Thunder.
Individuals impacted by the issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls can contact the MMIWG Crisis Line toll-free at 1-844-413-6649.
Support for families impacted by Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls is also...
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- In Her Defence: 50th Street - Episode 3, What the trees know / kîkwây mîtosak ê-kiskêyihtahkik
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- 2 years ago
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- Police decide to release the tape to the public, hoping someone will recognize the voice of the man who was with Amber when she disappeared. Amber’s remains are found in a field outside the city, close to where four other women have been found, raising the spectre of a serial killer. A raven visits.
Email the reporter, Jana Pruden, at jpruden@globeandmail.com
Learn more about this podcast at https://www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/inherdefence/#01
Our cover art is a painting of Amber by Lauren Crazybull. Our theme song is No Surrender by Ms.PAN!K. Episode titles were translated into Plains Cree by Dorothy Thunder.
Individuals impacted by the issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls can contact the MMIWG Crisis Line toll-free at 1-844-413-6649.
Support for families impacted by Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls is also available through the Indian Residential School Survivors Society at irss...
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- In Her Defence: 50th Street - Episode 2, Home / wîkihk
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- 2 years ago
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- Amber’s cousin gives us a tour of Fort Chipewyan, the northern Alberta community where Amber was raised. We learn about Amber’s life before she disappeared, and about the threats that were facing Indigenous women in Edmonton. The police investigation changes significantly after the discovery of a recorded phone call that seems to record the final moments of Amber’s life – and the voice of the man who may be her killer.
E-mail the reporter, Jana Pruden, at jpruden@globeandmail.com
Learn more about this podcast at https://www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/inherdefence/#01
Our cover art is a painting of Amber by Lauren Crazybull. Our theme song is No Surrender by Ms.PAN!K. Episode titles were translated into Plains Cree by Dorothy Thunder.
Individuals affected by the issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls can contact the MMIWG Crisis Line toll-free at 1-844-413-6649.
Support for families affected by ...
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- In Her Defence: 50th Street - Episode 1, Missing / ê-wanihiht
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- 2 years ago
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- Amber Tuccaro flies south to Edmonton with her baby and a new friend, and vanishes. Amber’s family doesn’t trust the police investigation, and her relatives and friends do everything they can to find her and bring attention to her case. Police find a stunning piece of evidence.
E-mail the reporter, Jana Pruden, at jpruden@globeandmail.com
Learn more about this podcast at https://www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/inherdefence/#01
Our cover art is a painting of Amber by Lauren Crazybull. Our theme song is No Surrender by Ms.PAN!K. Episode titles were translated into Plains Cree by Dorothy Thunder.
Individuals affected by the issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls can contact the MMIWG Crisis Line toll-free at 1-844-413-6649.
Support for families affected by Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls is also available through the Indian Residential School Survivors Society at irsss.ca
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- Some personal news: LinkedIn is weird now
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- 2 years ago
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- Lately, LinkedIn has become cringe... or cool, or more important than ever, depending on who you ask. So, is LinkedIn working well for us, or has it devolved into yet another shouty social media site?
Tim Kiladze is a Globe and Mail business reporter, Bay Street veteran and LinkedIn connoisseur. He wrote a compelling report on the evolution of LinkedIn: (https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-linkedin-bay-street-corporate-world/) The tone has shifted to more performative “thought leadership,” the line between personal and professional has blurred – and now Bay Street executives are peacocking their post stats over lunch. But if you stay away from LinkedIn, are you sabotaging your career?
Vass Bednar would like to connect. Accept/Reject?
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- The story of a secret mission to save more than 1,500 Afghans
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- 2 years ago
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- Dr. Farouq Samim cried as the Taliban swept back into power in 2021. While he was safe in Ottawa, many members of his family were stranded – and at risk of death – back in Afghanistan. Determined to do something, he paired up with two lawyers he didn’t know to launch a secret mission: Operation Abraham.
The Globe’s International Affairs reporter, Janice Dickson, got inside access on how this rescue effort ended up saving over 1,500 people over three years despite bureaucratic hurdles and increasing threats.
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- Destructive weather phenomenon causes deadly floods in Spain
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- 2 years ago
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- Catastrophic flash floods that have killed at least 72 people in Spain are caused by a destructive weather system in which cold and warm air meet and produce powerful rain clouds called DANA. The impact of DANA explained.
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- Floods, storms, rising sea levels — why do we build on the coast?
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- 2 years ago
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- In 2019, Nova Scotia’s then-Liberal government passed the Coastal Protection Act — legislation that would have brought in regulations around building near the coast. In 2021, the Conservatives were voted into power, and it sounded like they were keen to keep the Act in place.
But in February 2024, Nova Scotia’s government announced that they wouldn’t. Instead, the responsibility for regulating coastal development would be downloaded onto municipalities, and in some cases, even homeowners.
Matthew McClearn is a data journalist for the Globe’s energy and environment team. He’s on the show to talk about what Nova Scotia’s abandonment of the Coastal Protection Act tells us about their approach to climate adaptation, and what happens when a province makes climate change an issue of personal responsibility.
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- Behind Canada’s explosive allegations against India
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- 2 years ago
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- On October 14, the RCMP shared explosive allegations linking Indian government officials to homicides, extortions and coercion committed against Canadians, on Canadian soil. The RCMP said 30 people had been charged so far, and Ottawa announced it was expelling 6 Indian diplomats.
Since the escalation, The Globe has learned the lengths Ottawa and the RCMP went to, to avoid worsening tensions between the countries.
The Globe’s Ottawa Bureau Chief, Robert Fife, takes us inside the behind-the-scenes meetings that led to Canada’s escalation, how far up this goes in the Indian government, and what this all means for the future of Canada and India’s relationship.
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- Bonus 'Machines Like Us': Musk, money and misinformation
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- 2 years ago
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- A bonus episode from our Globe and Mail sister show Machines Like Us. How is Silicon Valley’s shift to the right affecting the US election?
The tech lobby has quietly turned Silicon Valley into the most powerful political operation in America.
Pro-crypto donors are now responsible for almost half of all corporate donations this election. Elon Musk has gone from an occasional online troll to, as one of our guests calls him, “MAGA’s Minister of Propaganda.” And for the first time, the once reliably blue Silicon Valley seems to be shifting to the right. What does all this mean for the upcoming election? To help us better understand this moment, we spoke with three of the most prominent tech writers in the U.S. Charles Duhigg (author of the bestseller Supercommunicators) has a recent piece in the New Yorker called “Silicon Valley, the New Lobbying Monster.” Charlie Warzel is a staff writer at the Atlantic, and Nitasha Tiku is a tech culture re...
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- Mysterious blobs wash up in Newfoundland #nature #mystery #newfoundland #blobs #sea #alien
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- 2 years ago
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- Whether these things are whale boogers, alien poop or something else entirely, we wouldn’t want to step on one at the beach.
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- Spain's Rodri and Bonmati take soccer's top Ballon d'Or awards
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- 2 years ago
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- Spanish midfielders Rodri and Aitana Bonmatí won the men’s and women’s Ballon d'Or award for the best soccer player in the world on Oct. 28.
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- Riding the Greyhound through America’s swing states
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- 2 years ago
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- The U.S. election is a week away, and tensions are running high. Polls show Harris and Trump as more or less deadlocked. America’s Electoral College means the presidency is won one state at a time — and in a country that vast, it’s hard to capture the nuances of the race in the snapshot of a poll.
That’s why the Globe’s feature writer, Ian Brown, got on a Greyhound bus in downtown Los Angeles, and headed east for New York City. He and photographer Barbara Davidson traveled from the deserts of the Southwest to the dairy farms of Wisconsin to try to understand what people were thinking about the election. Ian’s on the show to talk about how taking the bus shaped his thinking about American politics, and he shares some excerpts from his feature on the trip.
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- ‘We could have acted earlier’: Canada’s Immigration Minister
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- 2 years ago
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- On Thursday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a major reduction in the number of permanent residents the country will admit over the next three years, saying his government had not gotten the balance between labour needs and population growth “quite right.”
In 2025 and 2026, the government had initially planned to bring in 500,000 permanent residents – now, they’ve set a target of 395,000 and 380,000, respectively. In 2027, that target is 365,000 permanent residents. This signifies a major policy reversal for the Trudeau government – and would mean that Canada’s net population is projected to decline by 0.2 per cent per year over the next two years.
Marc Miller, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, joins us to discuss why the government is cutting Canada’s immigration targets, and why he says Canadians should trust the Liberals to fix the problem.
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- Is that your last cigarette?
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- 2 years ago
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- Lately, Big Tobacco says it wants to phase out cigarettes and promote, of all things, healthier options. But can the tobacco industry actually sell wellness? And is this pivot to vapes and pouches a smoking off-ramp or just a one-way ride to nicotine addiction?
Award-winning journalist Luc Rinaldi takes us behind the curtain of Big Tobacco’s machinations to report on how an industry built on addiction is looking to reinvent itself for the wellness age. His cover story "Blowing Smoke" (http://tgam.ca/business/rob-magazine/article-tobacco-industry-nicotine-pouches-vaping/) appears in this month’s edition of the Globe and Mail's Report on Business Magazine (https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/rob-magazine/) .
Also, Vass shares her secret to social success.
Find the transcript of today’s episode here (https://lately.simplecast.com/episodes/is-that-your-last-cigarette/transcript) .
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- How to make a true crime podcast
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- 2 years ago
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- 14 years ago, a young woman disappeared in Edmonton... two years later, police released a chilling recording from the final moments of her life. Ever since she heard it, The Globe’s Jana Pruden hasn’t been able to shake the voices of Amber Tuccaro and the man suspected of killing her, so she took a trip to Amber’s home community of Fort Chipewyan, Alberta to look into the case.
Jana joins the show to share how and why she made the second season of In Her Defence: 50th Street, and what she learned reporting on Amber’s unsolved murder.
You can listen to season two of In Her Defence wherever you get your podcasts.
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- What a Trump re-election could mean for Canada’s economy
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- 2 years ago
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- Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has said he will impose 10 to 20 per cent tariffs on everything the U.S. imports. This would include, it seems, all of the goods and resources Canada sells to its biggest trading partner. And that kind of tariff wall could have serious effects across the Canadian economy.
Adrian Morrow is the U.S. correspondent based in Washington, D.C., for The Globe and Mail. He looked at exactly which parts of the Canadian economy would be hit the hardest, how much each Canadian could stand to lose on average and what Canada is doing to prepare for this possible scenario.
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- Why the AFN rejected a $47.8-billion child welfare deal
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- 2 years ago
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- Last week, the Assembly of First Nations voted to reject a $47.8-billion child welfare deal with the federal government. The agreement would have funded long-term reforms to child welfare for First Nations children on reserve. Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak, the AFN National Chief, urged the chiefs to pass the deal so that it would be in place before the next federal election.
Dr. Cindy Blackstock is a member of the Gitxsan First Nation and the Executive Director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society. She’s on the show to talk about how this deal was more than a decade in the making and why she and others say it fell short.
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- Supplement could help protect bees from pesticides
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- 2 years ago
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- Scientists in Colombia say they have developed a novel food supplement that protects bees' brains from pesticides, keeping the insects safe from neurological damage caused by agricultural chemicals.
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- Musk, Money and Misinformation: Tech & The U.S. Election
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- 2 years ago
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- The tech lobby has quietly turned Silicon Valley into the most powerful political operation in America.
Pro crypto donors are now responsible for almost half of all corporate donations this election. Elon Musk has gone from an occasional online troll to, as one of our guests calls him, “MAGA’s Minister of Propaganda.” And for the first time, the once reliably blue Silicon Valley seems to be shifting to the right. What does all this mean for the upcoming election?
To help us better understand this moment, we spoke with three of the most prominent tech writers in the U.S. Charles Duhigg (author of the bestseller Supercommunicators) has a recent piece in the New Yorker called “Silicon Valley, the New Lobbying Monster.” Charlie Warzel is a staff writer at the Atlantic, and Nitasha Tiku is a tech culture reporter at the Washington Post.
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“Silicon Valley, the New Lobbying Monster (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine...
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- How the Parliament Hill shooting changed Canada
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- 2 years ago
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- On October 22, 2014, a man named Michael Zehaf-Bibeau entered Parliament Hill, killing Canadian soldier Nathan Cirillo and catching security off guard.
On the 10th anniversary of what was later deemed a terror attack — and with security risks for politicians only growing — the Globe’s national affairs reporter, Kristy Kirkup, joins The Decibel to revisit the events of that day, sharing stories of responders, and explaining how Parliament Hill changed because of it.
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- Jupiter’s ocean moon, stranded astronauts and a special asteroid
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- 2 years ago
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- Ivan Semeniuk is The Globe’s science reporter and today on the show he takes us on a tour of our solar system – and beyond! We start with the news of the Europa Clipper and its search for the conditions of life on a watery moon around Jupiter. Then we talk about Earth’s new mini moon, before catching up with those stranded astronauts on the International Space Station.
We end by talking about what the James Webb Space Telescope has taught us about the origins of the universe, before zooming back in on a very special space rock with a familiar name.
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- Largest coral bleaching event on record
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- 2 years ago
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- The mass bleaching of coral reefs around the world since February 2023 is now the most extensive on record, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) told Reuters. A staggering 77% of the world’s coral reef areas – from the Atlantic to the Pacific to the Indian oceans – have so far been subjected to bleaching-level heat stress, according to satellite data.
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- Trudeau grilled on foreign interference and Indian expulsions
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- 2 years ago
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- The hearings for the public inquiry into foreign interference led by Justice Marie-Josée Hogue wrapped up earlier this week with testimony from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The Prime Minister said he had the names of Conservative parliamentarians who were engaged in or at high risk of being targeted for foreign interference.
Trudeau’s testimony came just two days after the RCMP announced they had evidence of Indian officials’ involvement in homicides, extortion and violent crime on Canadian soil, which led to Canada expelling six Indian diplomats, and India expelling six Canadian diplomats in retaliation.
Steven Chase is the Globe’s senior parliamentary reporter. He’s on the show to break down Trudeau’s testimony, what else we learned from this round of the inquiry into foreign interference, and how the new revelations about India played into all of this.
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- Fans mourn One Direction's Liam Payne
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- 2 years ago
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- Fans of Liam Payne mourned on Thursday after the One Direction singer died in a dramatic fall from his hotel balcony in Buenos Aires a day earlier. Argentine fans gathered to remember the troubled boy band icon, while people in the English city of Wolverhampton were reeling from the loss of one of their hometown heroes.
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- The rise and rise of private equity
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- 2 years ago
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- Companies in Canada are being bought up by private equity at an incredible rate. The list includes Rexall, MEC, Value Village, WestJet and Sleep Country.
But it also includes local businesses: vets, dentists, retirement homes and more. Critics say it’s an unchecked shift in the economy that results in negative, often dangerous outcomes – where the profit motive can mean higher prices and lower quality of care.
We’re speaking to someone who has brokered such deals: Rachel Wasserman is a lawyer and former investment banker who left that world behind to become a researcher for the Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project (https://antimonopoly.ca/) . Her forthcoming paper is called The Private Equity Playbook: Understanding the Secretive Industry Hollowing Out the Canadian Economy.
She joins us to talk about the cutthroat world of leveraged buyouts, the risks of corner-cutting, and what a private-equity future means for Canada’s ...
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- B.C.’s election: a party’s implosion and an unlikely face off
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- 2 years ago
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- British Columbia heads to the polls this Saturday, October 19th. It’s been an election campaign full of surprises — from the collapse of one established party, to the meteoric rise of a nearly defunct one.
With the ongoing challenges of housing, affordability, healthcare and the toxic drug crisis, polling has BC Conservatives and the incumbent BC NDP in a dead heat.
The Globe’s B.C. politics reporter, Justine Hunter, walks us through the province’s unpredictable election, what both the campaign and the result could tell us about the forthcoming federal election.
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- Trudeau's appearance at the Foreign Interference Commission
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- 2 years ago
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- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave testimony at the Foreign Interference Commission in Ottawa on Wednesday, Oct. 16.
The Commission - https://foreigninterferencecommission.ca
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- Trudeau says he has names of Conservative politicians engaged in or at risk of foreign interference
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- 2 years ago
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- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told the Foreign Interference Commission on Wednesday that he has highly classified intelligence that names Conservative Party politicians and members who are susceptible to foreign interference. Mr. Trudeau also accused Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre of being irresponsible for refusing to undergo a national-security clearance to deal with the activities of his party members.
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- The rough state of Canada’s emergency care
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- 2 years ago
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- Emergency rooms across Canada are in a dire state. Wait times in many ERs remain stubbornly high. And in some provinces, the full understanding of how bad the situation has become isn’t even clear – with inconsistent or little data to rely on. For many Canadians, that lack of clarity in emergency situations is a life or death matter.
Globe investigative reporter Tu Thanh Ha joins The Decibel to break down the details he and data editor Yang Sun dug up and what story the numbers tell about the reality of emergency care.
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- Fragile Andes wetlands crucial for water and electricity for millions
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- 2 years ago
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- Rural communities in the Andes of Colombia and Ecuador are fighting to protect fragile high-altitude wetlands that regulate the area's water cycles, as sharp water and energy rationing hit both nations.
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- Behind the gallery wall: the art that museums don’t show you
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- 2 years ago
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- If you were to spend an afternoon wandering around an art museum, you’d see hundreds of pieces, if not thousands. But the reality is, what you see on display is only a small percentage of a museum’s holdings. Depending on the institution, anywhere from 95 to 99 per cent of the artwork it owns is in storage – and according to a 2019 report, many of those storage spaces are so full that experts say the artworks may be at risk.
Kate Taylor is the Globe’s visual arts critic. She’s on the show to explain how Canadian art museums ended up with such large collections, and how tax breaks are what drives collectors to donate their pieces.
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- Diary of a wartime CEO
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- 2 years ago
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- When Erika Ayers Badan beat out 74 men to become the first CEO of Barstool Sports, the company was small, dominated by brash bros, and indivisible from the controversial reputation of its founder, Dave Portnoy. But she corralled Barstool and turned it into a media empire with a $500-million exit.
So where do you go after helming a culture-quaking company? Ayers Badan became CEO of the cooking and lifestyle brand Food52 – new industry, new struggles. She was hired after layoffs, terrible Glassdoor reviews, and a predecessor who had lasted less than a year.
In a live conversation at Elevate, Canada’s tech and innovation festival, Ayers Badan speaks with Lately about how to manage the unmanageable, what she learned as a woman leading a fratty company that was sold twice in one year, and about her new book, Nobody Cares About Your Career: Why Failure Is Good, The Great Ones Play Hurt, and Other Hard Truths. (https://www.erikaayersbadan.com/book...
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- Why Gen Z is lonely and what they’re doing about it
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- 2 years ago
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- What does it mean to be connected in the world today? Gen Z – the cohort born between the late 1990s and the early 2010s – has been inundated by social media and smartphones, but they’ve also been hampered by years of social distancing in the pandemic. So, what effect has that had on them in terms of their social connections?
The Decibel spoke to several Gen Zers, including Globe reporter Pippa Norman on what life is like – their hopes, anxieties and the way they want to push back against stereotypes.
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- Video shows Florida evacuations as Milton looms #hurricane #florida #milton #storm #weather #drone
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- 2 years ago
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- Drone footage captured on Tuesday (October 8) shows a steady stream of cars along Interstate 75 in Florida, as residents evacuate, fleeing category 5 Hurricane Milton's projected path.
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- Everybody’s a food critic. Is anybody good at it?
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- 2 years ago
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- At all but a handful of publications, restaurant critics are a relic of bygone days. In their place, the food influencer has risen up in popularity. Seen mostly on platforms like Instagram and Tik Tok, influencers take their audience along for the ride at all sorts of restaurants, from high-end to casual dining… but unlike old school critics, they don’t necessarily adhere to standards like paying for their meal or remaining anonymous, which helped critics paint a full – and sometimes critical – picture of an establishment.
Dakshana Bascaramurty is the Globe’s food culture reporter. She’s on the show to talk about how food influencers are changing the attention economy for restaurants and how good they are at helping us decide where to go for dinner.
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- Brilliant northern lights illuminate Lapland sky #auroraboreal #northernlights #shorts #nature #sky
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- 2 years ago
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- Bright red and green northern lights were seen in the skies over Lapland in northern Finland on Oct. 7. The auroras, seen over Sodankyla, north of the Arctic Circle, were captured by a local photographer Alexander Kuznetsov, who described it as the most vibrant red aurora display he had ever seen.
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- Life for Palestinians one year after
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- 2 years ago
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- This is the second part of a two-episode special looking at the rippling effects of a year of war in Israel, the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.
In this episode, Mark MacKinnon, The Globe and Mail’s senior international correspondent, talks about the scale of destruction in Gaza, how people are surviving there and what future Palestinians see for themselves.
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- Emily St. John Mandel Imagines The Future
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- 2 years ago
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- What kind of future are we building for ourselves? In some ways, that’s the central question of this show.
It’s also a central question of speculative fiction. And one that few people have tried to answer as thoughtfully – and as poetically – as Emily St. John Mandel.
Mandel is one of Canada’s great writers. She’s the author of six award winning novels, the most recent of which is Sea of Tranquility – a story about a future where we have moon colonies and time travelling detectives. But Mandel might be best known for Station Eleven, which was made into a big HBO miniseries in 2021. In Station Eleven, Mandel envisioned a very different future. One where a pandemic has wiped out nearly everyone on the planet, and the world has returned to a pre industrial state. In other words, a world without technology.
I think speculative fiction carries tremendous power. In fact, I think that AI is ultimately an act of speculation. The AI we have c...
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- One year after Israel’s ‘Black Saturday’
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- 2 years ago
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- The Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, killed nearly 1,200 Israelis and saw 250 people kidnapped. It also sparked one of the largest wars in the Middle East in a generation. A year of Israel’s ground attack and air strikes on the Gaza Strip has killed more than 41,000 Palestinians, causing mass displacement as fears of a wider war continue to develop.
In the first of a two-episode feature on this sombre anniversary, the Globe’s senior international correspondent Mark MacKinnon captures the feelings of Israelis, sharing the stories of survivors from the attacks and analyzes whether the possibility of a ceasefire remains.
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- The great decline of everything online
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- 2 years ago
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- That creeping feeling that everything online is getting worse has a name: “enshittification,” (https://americandialect.org/2023-word-of-the-year-is-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, (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/710957/chokepoint-capitalism-by-rebecca-giblin-and-cory-doctorow/) as well as speculative fiction works like The Lost Cause (...
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- Massive cavern helps Tokyo prepare for climate change
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- 2 years ago
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- Tokyo has a huge underground cavern to help the Japanese capital deal with expected increases in rainfall, part of the city's plan to deal with the a changing climate and flooding.
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- The $300-billion industry where almost nobody makes money
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- 2 years ago
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- Tupperware just filed for bankruptcy, but the direct sales model it pioneered lives on.
These days, the hustle might be candles, leggings or sex toys. You may be recruited to join via a Facebook friend, who calls it “social selling.” But really, it’s multi–level marketing – a $300–billion industry where the vast majority of salespeople make little to no money.
Our guest is Peabody and Emmy Award–winning investigative journalist Jane Marie, host of the podcast The Dream and author of Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans, an exposé of the dark side of MLMs.
Marie talks to us about how the business model attracts good people in a bad economy. And instead of #bossbabe independence, they find themselves broke and ashamed, drowning in unsellable stuff, wondering: “Hey, am I in a cult?”
This is Lately. Every week, we take a deep dive into the big, defining trends in busi...
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- Yoshua Bengio Doesn’t Think We’re Ready for Superhuman AI. We’re Building it Anyway.
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- 2 years ago
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- A couple of weeks ago, I was at this splashy AI conference in Montreal called All In. It was – how should I say this – a bit over the top. There were smoke machines, thumping dance music, food trucks. It was a far cry from the quiet research labs where AI was developed.
While I remain skeptical of the promise of artificial intelligence, this conference made it clear that the industry is, well, all in. The stage was filled with startup founders promising that AI was going to revolutionize the way we work, and government officials saying AI was going to supercharge the economy.
And then there was Yoshua Bengio.
Bengio is one of AI’s pioneering figures. In 2018, he and two colleagues won the Turing Award – the closest thing computer science has to a Nobel Prize – for their work on deep learning. In 2022, he was the most cited computer scientist in the world. It wouldn’t be hyperbolic to suggest that AI as we know it today might not ...
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- Is self-optimization self-destructive?
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- 2 years ago
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- Workplace productivity apps like Slack, Notion, and Trello are encroaching on our personal lives. According to a trending article in San Francisco Standard, (https://sfstandard.com/2024/06/29/san-francisco-marriage-optimizers/) new apps specifically for couples and families, like Lovewick and Coexist, are gaining traction in Silicon Valley. These tools promise to balance domestic labour by optimizing everything from your chores to your #couplegoals. But is life a project that needs to be perfectly managed? Could there really be an app for that?
Our guest, Oliver Burkeman (https://www.oliverburkeman.com/) is best known as the author of the weekly self-help column “This Column Will Change Your Life” (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/series/thiscolumnwillchangeyourlife) for The Guardian. In this episode, we speak with him about the rise of productivity apps in our personal lives, whether technology can divorce-proof a marriage and what we might be missin...
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- Thousands hurt as pagers explode across Lebanon
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- 2 years ago
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- Lebanon's health ministry said at least eight people had been killed and more than 2,800 injured after pagers detonated across the country. The killed and injured include members of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, the group told Reuters. Viewer discretion is advised.
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- Ukraine’s push into Russia stretches its defences
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- 2 years ago
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- The Globe visited a border crossing that Ukrainian forces captured during their incursion into Kursk. The incursion aimed to divert the Russian military away from the Donbas region and the city of Pokrovsk, which remains at risk of of being razed by heavy artillery.
More on the Ukraine war: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/topics/ukraine/
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