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)
Canada’s first count of trans and non-binary people
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Elon Musk is set to own our ‘digital town square’
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The mixed emotions of going back to the office
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Buying a $50-million trip to space
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Trouble is brewing in the craft beer world
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How Edmonton hopes to get mosquitos to buzz off
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If you didn’t get a big raise, you probably got a pay cut
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Pierre Poilievre’s populist appeal
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Baking a birthday cake in a war zone
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The pandemic surge in sexually transmitted infections
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Separatism’s new shape in Quebec
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Why Canadians aren’t getting their COVID booster
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What scares Sarah Polley?
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Inside the federal budget lockup
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In Bucha and Chernihiv after Russia withdraws
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The myth of universal health care in Canada
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Wastewater is filling the COVID-19 data gap
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This Métis elder spoke directly to the Pope. Here’s her story
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What the latest climate plan means for Canada’s oil and gas sector
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Canada’s tech sector has a brain drain problem
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What’s next for making $10-a-day child care a reality in Canada?
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Kamal Al-Solaylee on the war we chose to forget
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What students think about the end of masking
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Hate crimes in Canada are up. What’s being done to stop them
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The dangers women and children face after fleeing Ukraine
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What the Liberal-NDP deal means for Canadian democracy
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Why Muslim women are being turned away from school in India
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The case for fighting Russia in court
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Putting a name to the hidden pattern behind domestic abuse
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The conflict in Ukraine puts Joe Biden to the test
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To the moon? Where GameStop and other meme stocks landed
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Three Ukrainian families find refuge in a Polish home
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What ‘no-fly zone’ really means
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1.4 million refugees arrived in Poland. What happens now?
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The early favourites in the Conservative leadership race
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This doctor wants to write prescriptions for housing
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Unpacking Putin’s end game
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1.7 million warned they may have to pay back CERB relief
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Canada's pushback against Putin
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On the ground in Ukraine as the war takes a turn
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As missiles fall around her, this Kharkiv citizen fights disinformation
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Ukrainian refugees find help in tiny neighbouring Moldova
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Behind the food fight over rising grocery prices
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How Black porters made Canada a fairer place
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An inquiry into Canada’s worst mass shooting
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Russia makes its move in Ukraine
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One Black man’s quest for parole after 30 years in prison
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Dr. Bonnie Henry on what B.C. did differently during the COVID-19 pandemic
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The new expanded powers banks have under the Emergencies Act
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Canada vs. U.S.: Inside women’s hockey’s greatest rivalry
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