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The Decibel

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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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Apr 28, 202220:18pending

Elon Musk is set to own our ‘digital town square’

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Apr 27, 202216:21pending

The mixed emotions of going back to the office

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Apr 26, 202219:49pending

Buying a $50-million trip to space

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Apr 25, 202219:27pending

Trouble is brewing in the craft beer world

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Apr 22, 202216:17pending

How Edmonton hopes to get mosquitos to buzz off

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Apr 21, 202217:07pending

If you didn’t get a big raise, you probably got a pay cut

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Apr 20, 202219:02pending

Pierre Poilievre’s populist appeal

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Apr 19, 202220:35pending

Baking a birthday cake in a war zone

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Apr 18, 202212:04pending

The pandemic surge in sexually transmitted infections

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Apr 14, 202215:50pending

Separatism’s new shape in Quebec

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Apr 13, 202214:23pending

Why Canadians aren’t getting their COVID booster

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Apr 12, 202217:44pending

What scares Sarah Polley?

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Apr 11, 202222:48pending

Inside the federal budget lockup

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Apr 8, 202223:22pending

In Bucha and Chernihiv after Russia withdraws

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Apr 7, 202220:50pending

The myth of universal health care in Canada

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Apr 6, 202217:51pending

Wastewater is filling the COVID-19 data gap

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Apr 5, 202216:31pending

This Métis elder spoke directly to the Pope. Here’s her story

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Apr 4, 202212:18pending

What the latest climate plan means for Canada’s oil and gas sector

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Apr 1, 202218:56pending

Canada’s tech sector has a brain drain problem

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Mar 31, 202218:06pending

What’s next for making $10-a-day child care a reality in Canada?

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Mar 30, 202218:27pending

Kamal Al-Solaylee on the war we chose to forget

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Mar 29, 202219:48pending

What students think about the end of masking

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Mar 28, 202220:06pending

Hate crimes in Canada are up. What’s being done to stop them

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Mar 25, 202216:29pending

The dangers women and children face after fleeing Ukraine

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Mar 24, 202216:54pending

What the Liberal-NDP deal means for Canadian democracy

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Mar 23, 202219:30pending

Why Muslim women are being turned away from school in India

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Mar 22, 202220:58pending

The case for fighting Russia in court

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Mar 21, 202217:35pending

Putting a name to the hidden pattern behind domestic abuse

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Mar 18, 202222:38pending

The conflict in Ukraine puts Joe Biden to the test

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Mar 17, 202218:09pending

To the moon? Where GameStop and other meme stocks landed

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Mar 16, 202218:50pending

Three Ukrainian families find refuge in a Polish home

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Mar 15, 202218:37pending

What ‘no-fly zone’ really means

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Mar 14, 202220:05pending

1.4 million refugees arrived in Poland. What happens now?

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Mar 11, 202217:29pending

The early favourites in the Conservative leadership race

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Mar 10, 202222:44pending

This doctor wants to write prescriptions for housing

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Mar 9, 202217:37pending

Unpacking Putin’s end game

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Mar 8, 202218:58pending

1.7 million warned they may have to pay back CERB relief

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Mar 7, 202215:48pending

Canada's pushback against Putin

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Mar 4, 202219:44pending

On the ground in Ukraine as the war takes a turn

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Mar 3, 202220:40pending

As missiles fall around her, this Kharkiv citizen fights disinformation

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Mar 2, 202222:24pending

Ukrainian refugees find help in tiny neighbouring Moldova

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Mar 1, 202216:34pending

Behind the food fight over rising grocery prices

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Feb 28, 202215:01pending

How Black porters made Canada a fairer place

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Feb 25, 202222:06pending

An inquiry into Canada’s worst mass shooting

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Feb 24, 202217:26pending

Russia makes its move in Ukraine

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Feb 23, 202217:41pending

One Black man’s quest for parole after 30 years in prison

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Feb 22, 202224:39pending

Dr. Bonnie Henry on what B.C. did differently during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Feb 18, 202221:37pending

The new expanded powers banks have under the Emergencies Act

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Feb 17, 202221:52pending

Canada vs. U.S.: Inside women’s hockey’s greatest rivalry

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Feb 16, 202216:15pending
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