The Globe and Mail
Border crossing between Colombia and Venezuela reflects ‘temporary stability’
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- Border crossing between Colombia and Venezuela reflects ‘temporary stability’
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- 4 months ago
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- The Globe’s Nathan VanderKlippe is at the border between Colombia and Venezuela. He says steady cross-border traffic reflects the “temporary stability” in the region.
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- U.S. attacks Venezuela, captures President Maduro
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- 4 months ago
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- On Saturday, Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro was captured by U.S. military forces in an early morning raid that included attacks on the capital city of Caracas.
Since September, the U.S. has conducted deadly strikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats from Venezuela, as U.S. President Donald Trump accused Maduro of leading a criminal organization.
The future of the Latin American country is uncertain, as the Venezuelan leader is held in New York, facing U.S. federal drug trafficking, terrorism and weapons charges.
The Globe’s U.S. correspondent Adrian Morrow joins The Decibel to break down what’s known about the military attack, its connection to Venezuela’s vast oil reserves, and the U.S. plan to ‘run’ Venezuela.
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- U.S. strikes Venezuela, Trump says Maduro captured
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- 4 months ago
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- Venezuela said it rejected "military aggression" by the United States after multiple explosions rocked capital Caracas and other areas early on Saturday.
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- Eyewitness video shows start of deadly fire at Swiss bar
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- 4 months ago
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- Contains disturbing content: Eyewitness video shows a fire taking hold in the ceiling at Le Constellation bar at Crans-Montana, Switzerland on New Year's Eve. Italian authorities have put the death toll from the blaze at 47.
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- A 2026 forecast for Canadian politics
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- 4 months ago
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- After a year that was truly one for the books in Canadian politics — from Trudeau’s resignation to Trump’s trade war, an “elbows up” election, Pierre Poilievre losing his seat, Jagmeet Singh resigning his leadership, and the prospect of a new Pacific pipeline — 2025 has come to a close. What will 2026 hold?
Stephanie Levitz is a senior reporter with The Globe’s Ottawa Bureau, and she’s on the show to discuss the Liberal road to a majority, the leadership of both the Conservative Party and NDP, and the renegotiation of Canada’s trade agreement with the U.S.
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- The Man Behind the World’s Most Coveted Microchip
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- 4 months ago
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- Jensen Huang is something of an enigma. The NVIDIA CEO doesn’t have social media and, until recently, rarely gave interviews. Yet he may be the most important person in AI.
Under his leadership, NVIDIA has become a goliath. Somewhere between 80 and 90 per cent of AI tools run on NVIDIA hardware, making it the world’s most valuable company. But unlike his contemporaries, Huang has been remarkably quiet about the technology – and the world – he’s building.
In his new book, The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, NVIDIA, and the World’s Most Coveted Microchip, journalist Stephen Witt pulls back the curtain. And what he finds is, at times, shocking: Huang believes there is zero risk in developing superintelligence.
So who is Jensen Huang? And should we worry that the most powerful person in AI is racing forward at breakneck speed, blind to the potential consequences?
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- Getting the most out of credit card rewards
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- 4 months ago
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- What do superusers to do get the most out of their credit cards? Mariya Postelnyak shares the tips she learned from speaking to savvy users.#creditcards #creditcardrewards #personalfinance
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- Exploring Little Italy with astrologer and tech entrepreneur Chani Nicholas
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- 4 months ago
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- Astrology is having a moment, as a space for people trying to make meaning out of chaos. Canadian astrologer Chani Nicholas spent a day with The Globe's generations reporter Ann Hui, but nothing went as planned — Mercury was retrograde. #astrology #chani #horoscopes #mercury
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- Bark! The Herald Angels Sing: how people met their pets
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- 4 months ago
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- The winter holidays are a time to cozy up with family – even if those family members are furry and of a different species. For many, dogs and cats aren’t just animals, they’re cherished loved ones who come into our lives at the exact moment we need them.
This holiday season, The Decibel’s editor David Crosbie, Globe and Mail staffers and Canadians share personal stories about how they met their pets and how caring for them has changed their lives.
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- Step inside the Toronto store where it's Christmas all year round
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- 4 months ago
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- What’s it like to own a store where it’s Christmas all year round? At Flatiron Christmas Market in Toronto, it means getting the best festive decorations, welcoming loyal customers year after year - and neglecting to decorate your own tree.
#christmasdecor #holidays #toronto #christmasornaments
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- Why time feels like it’s speeding up – and how to slow it down
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- 4 months ago
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- Many factors of modern life can make time feel like it’s moving faster than it actually is: hustle culture at work, a productivity compulsion at home, over-programmed kids – they’re all attempts to get as much as possible out of our time and keep up with the frantic pace of life. But life also has moments where time feels like it’s slowing down, or even stops. We know that time can’t actually slow down or speed up – but why does it feel like that?
The Globe’s time use reporter, Zosia Bielski, speaks to The Decibel about why our perception of time can change, what it is about this particular moment that’s making us feel so pressed for time and how we can take back control of the pace.
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- 'I don't think that our stories should ever be forgotten': Thalidomide survivors on compensation
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- 4 months ago
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- The drug for pregnant women left more than 100 Canadians with a lifetime of disabilities. A decade after receiving funding from a government support program, some thalidomide survivors say it has helped make difficult days easier
Read more of their stories: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/article-thalidomide-victims-canada-compensation-10-years-later/
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- Why Heated Rivalry has everyone hot and bothered
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- 4 months ago
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- The Canadian television show Heated Rivalry has found major success not just in Canada, but with American audiences, too. The show, a love story between two male hockey players, has broken television streaming records and taken over social media.
The Globe’s television critic J. Kelly Nestruck joins The Decibel to talk about why Heated Rivalry has resonated with so many people, and how significant it is for a Canadian show to break through to global audiences so quickly.
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- Canadian military officer charged with leaking government secrets
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- 4 months ago
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- Canadian counter-intelligence military officer Matthew Robar, is facing charges of espionage. The veteran military officer is accused of sharing information with Ukraine in its war against Russia, according to a source for The Globe and Mail. Robar was arrested last week, and charged with multiple offences related to passing highly sensitive government secrets to a foreign entity.
Steven Chase, a senior parliamentary reporter for The Globe, speaks to The Decibel about what’s known about Robar, what the espionage charges mean, and how this development might affect Canada’s relationship with Ukraine.
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- The rise of medical tourism
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- 4 months ago
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- This travel season, Canadians might be headed away for something other than a vacation.
More Canadians are participating in medical tourism, travelling to another country to receive medical treatment, though some question its safety and the threats this poses to Canada’s public health care system.
Sarah Bartnicka, a freelance writer for The Globe, explains the costs, the risks and what Canadians can keep in mind for best practices when travelling abroad for a medical procedure.
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- The seafood combo: Dolphins and orcas can work in surprising harmony
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- 4 months ago
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- In the waters off Vancouver Island, killer whales appear to have found surprising allies when it comes to foraging: dolphins. Here's what scientists discovered about the unusual team-up. #nature #whales #dolphins #vancouverisland
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- Wikipedia Won Our Trust. Can We Use That Model Everywhere?
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- 4 months ago
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- It was an idea that defied logic: an online encyclopedia that anyone could edit.
You didn’t need to have a PhD or even use your real name – you just needed an internet connection. Against all odds, it worked. Today, billions of people use Wikipedia every month, and studies show it’s about as accurate as a traditional encyclopedia.
But how? How did Wikipedia not just turn into yet another online cesspool, filled with falsehoods, partisanship and AI slop? Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales just wrote a book called The Seven Rules of Trust, where he explains how he was able to build that rarest of things: a trustworthy source of information on the internet. In an era when trust in institutions is collapsing, Wales thinks he’s found a blueprint – not just for the web, but for everything else too.
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- Why your loyalty points don’t go as far as they used to
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- 4 months ago
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- Loyalty reward programs are everywhere we shop. They’re at coffee shops, retailers, airports and grocery stores. Many of us are connected to our points, but the rewards no longer seem to go as far as they used to.
Vass Bednar, the managing director of the Canadian SHIELD Institute, explains the changes to Canadian loyalty rewards programs, what we are giving up when we hand companies our data in exchange for points – and if it’s even still worth it to collect rewards points anymore.
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- The multibillion-dollar fight over the McCain Foods fortune
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- 4 months ago
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- The heirs to Canada’s multi-billion dollar frozen food empire are fighting. New Brunswick’s McCain Foods is the world’s largest French fry maker, and is privately owned by the McCain family. Recently, one of its heirs, Eleanor McCain, requested to be bought out of her stake in the company – but her relatives are refusing to.
Globe business columnist, Andrew Willis, has been reporting on the showdown inside one of Canada’s wealthiest families. He’ll explain the fight over ownership, whether it could impact the world’s biggest French fry producer, and how these tensions trace back to the 1990s dispute over succession between McCain Foods co-founders.
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- Distresssing content: 'Hero' disarms one of two gunmen at Bondi Beach
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- 4 months ago
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- Distressing content: Video captured the moment a man rushed one of two gunmen at Bondi Beach and disarmed him while the second gunman continued to shoot from a nearby walkway. The premier of New South Wales hailed the man as “a genuine hero.”
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- New crime bill addresses violence against women and court delays
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- 4 months ago
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- Mark Carney’s federal government has introduced its second tough-on-crime bill this fall. The new bill, Bill C-16, focuses on violence against women and children, changes to mandatory minimum sentences and the growing problem of court delays.
The Globe’s justice reporter, David Ebner, explains the specific changes to the Criminal Code that this bill wants to make and what advocates and critics are saying about it.
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- How to apply for claims in Loblaw's bread price-fixing settlement
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- 4 months ago
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- You could be eligible to grab a slice of Loblaw’s $500-million bread price-fixing settlement. The only catch? The deadline to apply expires this week. To learn more about how much you might get from the settlement, read the full story here: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-loblaw-bread-price-fixing-settlement-how-much-money/ #bread #breadpricefixing
#money #shorts
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- Rise in late stage prostate cancer raises concerns over testing
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- 4 months ago
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- Late-stage prostate cancer diagnoses are on the rise in Canada. According to a recent study, between 2010 and 2021, rates of prostate cancer discovered at Stage 4 increased by about 50 per cent in men aged 50 to 74. In men over the age of 75, rates were up over 65 per cent.
There is a simple blood test that can screen for early signs of prostate cancer, called a prostate specific antigen, or PSA test; however, in 2014, Canada recommended against using the PSA for widespread screening. Today, Globe health reporter Kelly Grant explains what this study found and why these guidelines are so highly contested in Canada.
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- Five things travellers can do during an airline strike
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- 5 months ago
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- Strikes and other labour action have created issues at various airlines across the country recently. Air Transat barely avoided a strike on Dec. 10 when pilots threatened to walk off the job. Air Canada flight attendants went on strike at the end of the summer, affecting half a million travellers. Cabin crew at WestJet are now in the midst of new contract bargaining. Here's what you can do if your travel is disrupted during this busy travel season. #holidaytravel #airtransat #aircanada #westjet #strike
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- The traveller’s guide to Canadian airline disruptions
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- 5 months ago
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- Hours before a strike deadline, Air Transat and the union representing airline pilots reached a tentative agreement. For customers, it comes as relief in the middle of a busy holiday travel season. And in a year already wracked by airline work stoppages, the threat of disruption and lengthy customer reimbursement periods continue to loom.
Mariya Postelnyak, The Globe’s Consumer Affairs reporter, speaks about what you need to know as a traveller, what’s afforded in air passenger protections, and how to get what you’re owed if your flights get cancelled.
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- How three Canadian businesses have coped with Trump’s tariffs
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- 5 months ago
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- The Canadian manufacturing sector has been having a hard time, which has been made worse by U.S. tariffs. The impact of these tariffs varies company to company. So a team of Report on Business journalists from The Globe spoke to several manufacturers to see how they’ve fared this past year.
Matt Lundy, The Globe’s Economics Editor, speaks about how badly these companies have been hurt, what they’re doing to try to cope and whether federal government supports have been any help.
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- Unleashing your inner musical theatre kid at Broadway karaoke night
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- 5 months ago
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- This isn't your typical karaoke night in the city. Each month, the organizers of BELT select a musical to sing from prologue to curtain call and self-described theatre kids from all ages join in on the fun. #karaoke #musicals #theaterkid #broadway
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- The construction industry’s opioid problem
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- 5 months ago
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- For families, the tragedy of opioids is beyond measure. The opioid epidemic has claimed tens of thousands of lives in Canada and has been recognized as a public health crisis, but it’s also an economic one – and it disproportionately affects workers in key sectors like construction and the trades. As Ottawa ramps up its push to build major projects fast, could the ongoing toxic drug crisis slow it down?
Today, Globe reporter Jason Kirby joins the show. As part of our Poisoned series, he spoke with workers, companies, unions and health researchers to understand the grip the crisis has on the construction industry and what’s being done about it.
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- The future of Canada’s military and joining Europe’s defence fund
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- 5 months ago
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- Canada is in the midst of reframing its approach to military spending. The reasons for this are twofold; a commitment to fulfilling NATO spending as part of GDP, and the push to diversify spending away from the U.S. To that end, Prime Minister Mark Carney has recently signed a deal joining the EU’s military procurement fund, granting Canada access to both selling and purchasing defence materiel.
Steven Chase, The Globe’s senior parliamentary reporter, is on the show to discuss what this means for our burgeoning national defence industry, the political considerations involved, and where our national armed forces go from here.
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- Breaking down the controversial Bill 60
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- 5 months ago
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- Ontario's Bill 60, officially called the “Fighting Delays, Building Faster Act,” is focused on cutting red tape, speeding up construction, increasing rental housing supply and dealing with delays at the Landlord and Tenant Board. The government says it will ease the housing crisis, while critics say the changes will erode renters' rights.
#politics #ontariopolitics #housing #renting
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- The businessman at the heart of Alberta’s health care controversy
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- 5 months ago
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- It’s not unusual for business owners to forge ties with governments, but there are rules around conflicts of interest when it comes to procurement. In February, 2025, an Alberta senior public servant stepped forward with allegations of political interference in the awarding of large health contracts. These allegations prompted investigators, auditors and opposition politicians to look closely at the ties between Premier Danielle Smith’s government and an Alberta businessman, Sam Mraiche.
Mraiche’s company, MHCare, had been awarded hundreds of millions of dollars worth of procurement contracts from Alberta Health Services. A Globe and Mail investigation found that the connections between Mr. Mraiche, purchasing officials, and senior Alberta political figures have existed longer – and are more extensive – than than previously reported.
Today, Carrie Tait, a reporter with The Globe’s Calgary bureau, and Tom Cardoso, an investigative reporter with The ...
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- Solving a decades-old Robert Munsch mystery
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- 5 months ago
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- Mystery solved 🔍 Reporter Chris Hannay noticed something odd about the copy of Love You Forever that he bought for his son – so he went on the search for answers.
#LoveYouForever #RobertMunsch #childrensbooks#booktok
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- The case against cleaning before hosting
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- 5 months ago
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- With the holidays right around the corner, households are getting ready for company and deep cleans are underway. Even the idea of letting family and friends see a clutter-strewn home can be anxiety-inducing, and images of perfectly-clean celebrity homes on social media don’t help. But what are we actually losing when we prioritize the act of cleaning over the people we do it for?
Zosia Bielski, The Globe’s Time Use reporter, digs into the societal pressure we all face over deep cleaning, why the work often disproportionately falls on women and how letting our guard down in our living spaces can deepen relationships.
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- Algoma Steel to lay off 1,000 workers, union says
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- 5 months ago
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- Algoma Steel is laying off more than a third of its workforce as it accelerates a transition to new equipment in response to U.S. tariffs. (Dec. 1, 2025)
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- Could an Alternative AI Save Us From a Bubble?
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- 5 months ago
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- Over the last couple of years, massive AI investment has largely kept the stock market afloat. Case in point: the so-called Magnificent 7 – tech companies like NVIDIA, Meta, and Microsoft – now account for more than a third of the S&P 500’s value. (Which means they likely represent a significant share of your investment portfolio or pension fund, too.)
There’s little doubt we’re living through an AI economy. But many economists worry there may be trouble ahead. They see companies like OpenAI – valued at half a trillion dollars while losing billions every month – and fear the AI sector looks a lot like a bubble. Because right now, venture capitalists aren’t investing in sound business plans. They’re betting that one day, one of these companies will build artificial general intelligence.
Gary Marcus is skeptical. He’s a professor emeritus at NYU, a bestselling author, and the founder of two AI companies – one of which was acqu...
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- Why do so many Canadian roads not have cell service?
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- 5 months ago
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- Across Canada, highways and rural roads are studded with cellular ‘dead zones’. In some provinces, coverage gaps span over 30 per cent of major roads. In some cases, you can’t receive calls and texts for more than 100 kilometres. So when something goes wrong, what do people do?
Today, the Globe’s telecoms reporter Irene Galea and national news reporter Jill Mahoney have been investigating how many of the country’s major roads and highways are disconnected. They explain why years-long public safety risk persists, how it affects the Canadians driving through them, and what is being done about the problem.
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- Why a new Ontario law has renters worried about more evictions
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- 5 months ago
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- Ontario just passed Bill 60, officially named the “Fighting Delays, Building Faster Act.” It’s a big omnibus bill, but it’s garnered the most attention for reforms to Ontario’s rental system. Doug Ford’s government walked back the most controversial part of the bill, but critics are concerned that what remains will still lead to more evictions and worsen the homelessness crisis.
Today, Shane Dingman, the Globe’s real estate reporter, is on the show to talk about why these legislative changes are so contentious, and what impact they could have on people living in Canada’s largest rental market.
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- Analyzing Alberta and Ottawa's energy deal
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- 5 months ago
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- Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith signed an energy deal this week that outlined potential plans for a new pipeline, prompting reactions from various supporters and critics. The Decibel host Sherrill Sutherland spoke to chief political writer Campbell Clark about what the deal means for Carney's political future. #markcarney #alberta #pipeline #climatechange #podcast
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- Carney, Smith agree to pipeline framework, as minister resigns
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- 5 months ago
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- Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith have signed an agreement that sets the framework for building a new pipeline, carrying bitumen to the west coast. The deal commits to simultaneously making Canada a “global energy superpower” and reducing greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050. Indigenous co-ownership is a requirement for development, as is consultation with British Columbia.
In response, Liberal minister Steven Guilbeault, a former environment minister and longstanding environmentalist, has resigned from cabinet.
Campbell Clark, The Globe’s chief political writer, joins the show to explain what’s in the deal, the politics involved and how likely the pipeline is to get built.
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- Has AI entered a bubble?
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- 5 months ago
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- Globe business reporter , who covers AI, explains why markets are twitchy about AI right now and what’s behind investors’ concerns.
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- Why Canada lost consensus on immigration — and how to get it back
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- 5 months ago
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- The Canadian consensus on immigration cratered last year. In the fall of 2024, an Environics poll found that for the first time in a quarter century most Canadians felt there was too much immigration. Under former prime minister Justin Trudeau, the country experienced one of the biggest periods of immigration growth in its history, but after the shift in public opinion, the Liberal government reversed course. Despite big reductions to immigration levels, most Canadians still think rates are too high.
Today, The Decibel is looking at how Canada’s relationship with immigration significantly changed, what it’s meant for the country and the people who have immigrated to it, and where we go from here.
Tony Keller, Globe columnist and author of Borderline Chaos: How Canada Got Immigration Right, and Then Wrong, will walk us through what motivated Trudeau’s dramatic changes to the immigration system and how they impacted the country. And then, Rupa Banerjee, pr...
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- World champion curler and veteran broadcaster Colleen Jones dies at 65
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- 5 months ago
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- Colleen Jones, a world champion curler whose effervescent personality made her a popular presence on the CBC, has died. She was 65.
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- If AI is a bubble, how will it pop?
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- 5 months ago
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- Some of the world’s largest tech companies, like OpenAI, Google and Meta, have invested hundreds of billions of dollars into artificial intelligence as they try to build the data centres they need. And right now, a lot of the stock market’s growth is based on AI companies. But what if it’s all a big financial bubble? And if it is, what are the signs it’s about to pop?
Globe business reporter Joe Castaldo, who covers AI, explains why markets are twitchy about AI right now and what’s behind investors’ concerns.
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- Alleged drug trafficking, murders and an Olympian-turned-fugitive
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- 5 months ago
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- Last week, the FBI and the RCMP announced 10 new arrests in connection with a $1-billion drug-trafficking ring allegedly run by Canadian former Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding. The charges, which haven’t been tested in court, include drug trafficking, conspiracy to retaliate against a witness and murder. Wedding, who’s been in hiding since 2015, is now one of the FBI’s 10 most wanted fugitives.
Eric Andrew-Gee is The Globe’s Quebec correspondent. He’s on the show to talk about what these new charges bring to light, and whether authorities are any closer to capturing Wedding.
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- Bollywood actor Dharmendra Deol dies at 89
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- 5 months ago
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- Dharmendra, one of Indian cinema’s most popular stars whose versatile performances made him a defining screen presence of 1970s and 1980s Bollywood films, died Monday. He was 89.
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- The controversial push to expand private health care in Alberta
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- 5 months ago
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- No Canadian province allows doctors to offer care under both private and public systems – but leaked draft legislation obtained by The Globe and Mail shows Alberta is trying to change that. The province says it’s proposing the change in an effort to reduce surgery wait times and retain health care workers. But experts say it could result in a two-tiered medical system.
Today, Carrie Tait, a reporter in The Globe’s Calgary bureau, joins The Decibel. She broke the story last week, and she’ll tell us what she’s learned about the province’s plan, the impact a public-private model could have on access to health care and why some critics say this could violate the Canada Health Act.
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- The bureaucracy slowing down access to life-saving drugs
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- 5 months ago
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- For cancer patients, every day of treatment is critical. But the best care possible is not always reaching patients quickly. Despite Health Canada approving a drug treating an aggressive blood cancer, a complex web of organizations, insurance plans and negotiations over drug pricing means it’s still not available in Canada.
Globe reporters Kelly Grant, who covers health, and Chris Hannay, who covers the business of health care, tell us what is holding up life-changing drugs and why Canadian patients are the ones left with the consequences.
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- Are the wolves getting wiser?
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- These animals were caught on camera stealing crab traps in British Columbia, prompting researchers to start keeping a closer eye on them.#wolves #science #animalbehavior
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- Canada courts UAE amid calls to stop its arming of Sudan militia
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- This week, Prime Minister Mark Carney is in the United Arab Emirates to try to shore up foreign investment ahead of next week’s G20 summit in South Africa. Human rights groups and Sudanese activists are calling on Carney to condemn the U.A.E. for allegedly sending weapons to Sudan — a claim the country denies — but federal officials won’t say whether he’ll raise the issue.
Geoffrey York is the Globe’s Africa Bureau Chief. He’s on the show to talk about what’s been happening in Sudan and why Carney and other foreign leaders are hesitant to put pressure on the U.A.E.
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- This Globe reporter put herself in AI videos
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- AI-generated videos are now easier to make thanks to tools like Sora, and they're flooding social media platforms. Here's how you can spot the fakes.
#AI #Sora #AIvideos
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