The Decibel
The Globe and Mail
Context is everything. Join us Monday to Friday for a Canadian daily news podcast from The Globe and Mail. Explore a story shaping our world, in conversation with reporters, experts, and the people at the centre of the news.
Episodes (1236)
Why Elon Musk’s $50 billion payday scandal matters
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AI hype vs. AI reality
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Climate change, migration and Menaka’s epic birding day
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The fallout from a law school’s pro-Palestinian letter
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The elite soldiers behind the major battles for Ukraine: Part Two
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The elite soldiers behind the major battles for Ukraine: Part One
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Maternity care and midwives in Canada’s health labour shortage
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How will Canada manage major energy demands in the next decade?
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Canadian parliamentarians accused of helping foreign agents
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Funding for the arts in Canada is broken
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What the Bank of Canada’s interest rate cut means for you
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Why Trump’s apocalyptic rhetoric has such wide appeal
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Where do the university campus protests stand now?
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Breaking up the ‘quasi-monopoly’ of beer in Ontario
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What open banking could mean for you
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How schools are dealing with the problem of phones in class
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The man shaping Alberta’s controversial drug policy
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The money behind the boom of women’s pro sports
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Why aren’t there more public toilets?
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In Chornobyl, after the Russian invasion
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A CEO battle, a Honduras factory, and the shirt in your closet
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How 2016 looms over the wildfires in Fort McMurray today
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Introducing: Machines Like Us
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Alice Munro, remembered
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How Ottawa is preparing for a possible second Trump term
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Hydrogen trains might be the future of Canadian rail
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How nurse practitioners could help Canada’s primary care crisis
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The problem with Canada’s affordable housing
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The $34-billion bet on boosting Canada’s economy
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Understanding Israel’s push into Rafah during ceasefire talks
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TD Bank caught up in drug money-laundering scheme
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How do we solve our global plastic problem?
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Police, campus unrest and the power of student protests
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The ‘stain’ of foreign interference on Canadian elections
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‘What I eat in a day’ videos and the new diet culture
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How the politics of decriminalization played out in B.C.
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Why running is more popular than ever
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Sudan and the neglected wars
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The biggest EV investment in Canada yet
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City Space: Vancouver’s Chinatown fights gentrification
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The call to disband the Thunder Bay police
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How Hong Kong is cracking down on dissent
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As conflict rages in Gaza, a ‘silent war’ in the West Bank
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The capital gains tax, explained
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ArriveCan and the government’s outsourcing problem
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The stakes of India’s election as Modi seeks third term
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What the 2024 federal budget means for you
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How a new kind of drug could change the future of Alzheimer’s
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City Space: How Halifax’s unhoused crisis got so bad
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What we’ve learned from the foreign interference inquiry
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