Episodes

  • Streaming Wars and TV Escapism

    Streaming Wars and TV Escapism
    Feb 7 2021

    Bill Brioux
    John Doyle

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    Binge-watching guide: More than 30 series and specials to help you get through winter 
    Need a short dose of spine-tingling fun? The Sister delivers 
    What is the point of Instagram fame? HBO documentary Fake Famous offers a cautionary tale 
    Pretty Hard Cases: There’s never been a cop show like this 
    A tale for the ages: Fraud, gender and wily stunts
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    37 mins
  • America's Next Chapter

    America's Next Chapter
    Jan 25 2021

    On a broken country’s day of deliverance, Joe Biden arrives, right on time

    How does Biden govern when 50 million Americans don’t believe he won?

    Impeachment 2: The unravelling of the Trump Republicans 

    A one-sided political prosecution of Trump risks more upheaval
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    36 mins
  • What Shape Will Canada’s Economic Recovery Take?

    What Shape Will Canada’s Economic Recovery Take?
    Jan 11 2021

    Would you like to read more from David Parkinson?

    The usual economic indicators aren’t helpful right now. Here are four key ones to watch in 2021

    Ottawa’s wage subsidy program will determine how far and how fast Canada’s economy can come back

    Canada’s economy shows resilience, but new lockdowns threaten growth
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    42 mins
  • The Charitable Sector’s Struggle to Survive

    The Charitable Sector’s Struggle to Survive
    Dec 19 2020

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    COVID-19 pandemic has exposed deep flaws in Canadian philanthropy, fragility of non-profits

    Game-changing research by health charities is slowing to a trickle

    The charities that help struggling Canadians are struggling, too

    What drives donors to give their time or money to charities?
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    38 mins
  • Truth, Facts, and the Future of Journalism

    Truth, Facts, and the Future of Journalism
    Dec 14 2020

    Ontario long-term care homes warn they are not equipped to handle second COVID-19 wave

    Canada’s lost months: When COVID-19′s first wave hit, governments and health officials were scattered and slow to act

    Unfounded

     

     
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    32 mins
  • The Books That Shaped 2020

    The Books That Shaped 2020
    Nov 30 2020
    This was a year like no other, and now that it’s almost (blessedly) over, we reflect on the books that got us through the long days, weeks and months of solitude. How has the world of books – and the writing process itself – changed in 2020? In this podcast, the Globe’s Western arts correspondent Marsha Lederman, features editor Dawn Calleja, writer Emily Donaldson and books editor Judith Pereira discussed their conversations with some of the country’s leading authors about the books that got them through 2020, how the pandemic will shape the books to come, their thoughts about genre and the future of the literary world.
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    32 mins
  • What Investors Need to Know to Make It Through the Uncertainties Ahead

    What Investors Need to Know to Make It Through the Uncertainties Ahead
    Nov 15 2020

    Interested in reading more from Rob Carrick?

    A retirement expert on low rates, when to start CPP and millennials in love with stock trading

    Surveying the pandemic’s financial damage

    Why are readers hesitant to pull savings from big banks?
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    36 mins
  • Stumbling toward the US Election

    Stumbling toward the US Election
    Nov 1 2020

    Interested in reading more from Adrian Morrow?

    U.S. Election 2020: Catch up on the final presidential debate and what Globe writers had to say

    In Michigan, Trump and Biden’s two solitudes clash over race and the pandemic

    U.S. election 2020: Highlights from the final presidential debate between Biden and Trump
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    34 mins