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As Omicron spreads, governments scramble
16 Dec, 2021 | 0:24:17 |
EN | The Velvet Studio | Front Burner
With the holidays approaching and the Omicron variant spreading rapidly in Canada, people are reconsidering their response. In a busy week of Omicron warnings, Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam said cases are expected to "rapidly escalate"; in her fiscal and economic update, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland committed a $4.5 billion "variant response" contingency; and Canada advised against all...
16 Dec, 2021 | 0:24:17 |
EN | The Velvet Studio | Front Burner
With the holidays approaching and the Omicron variant spreading rapidly in Canada, people are reconsidering their response. In a busy week of Omicron warnings, Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam said cases are expected to "rapidly escalate"; in her fiscal and economic update, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland committed a $4.5 billion "variant response" contingency; and Canada advised against all...
Quebec teacher removed from classroom over hijab14 Dec, 2021 | 0:25:02 |
EN | The Velvet Studio | Front Burner
The debate over Quebec's controversial secularism law, known as Bill 21, has been reignited after a teacher was told she can no longer teach her Grade 3 class because she wears a hijab. Fatemeh Anvari was hired this fall at Chelsea Elementary School, during a period of confusion over whether English school boards had to enforce the religious symbols ban....
Drake has withdrawn from his two nominations for the 2022 Grammy Awards. What the growing tensions b 
Drake has withdrawn from his two nominations for the 2022 Grammy Awards. What the growing tensions b10 Dec, 2021 | 0:26:12 |
EN | The Velvet Studio | Front Burner
On Monday, as the Recording Academy began its final round of voting for the 2022 Grammy winners, people learned Drake was off the ballot. Drake and his management had asked the Academy to pull his two nominations. He still hasn’t offered an explanation, but this is the latest in a series of tensions between Drake and the Grammys: he’s questioned...
Did NATO make a mistake in Ukraine?09 Dec, 2021 | 0:24:38 |
EN | The Velvet Studio | Front Burner
Russia has sent almost 100,000 troops near the Ukraine border in recent weeks. Observers believe the state is trying to extract certain concessions from Europe, particularly assurances from NATO that Ukraine will never be able to join the security group. Janice Gross Stein was a founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs in Toronto. She argues that NATO's...
What's really driving inflation? Politics vs. reality07 Dec, 2021 | 0:25:08 |
EN | The Velvet Studio | Front Burner
You've probably noticed that prices of practically everything — food, gas, haircuts, housing — have been going up lately. Canada's inflation rate is now the highest it's been in 18 years. In Parliament, the Conservative party has been pointing fingers at Justin Trudeau's Liberal government and calling on it to quit racking up deficits. They've even come up with a...
Canada's QAnon 'Queen' and her escalating rhetoric06 Dec, 2021 | 0:24:50 |
EN | The Velvet Studio | Front Burner
For months, a B.C.-based QAnon conspiracy influencer named Romana Didulo has been amassing followers online, declaring herself the "Queen of Canada." In the summer, her audience began distributing cease-and-desist letters across North America on her behalf, demanding a stop to COVID-19 restrictions. Recently, her rhetoric escalated when she urged her followers to "shoot to kill" anyone who administers vaccines to...
Ontario's election looms, and parties are staking ground03 Dec, 2021 | 0:21:25 |
EN | The Velvet Studio | Front Burner
A total of $210 million went out the door and into the pockets of businesses that weren't eligible for the money. That was the assessment of Ontario's auditor general in an annual report released this week that looked, in part, at the pandemic support provided by Doug Ford's Conservative government. And it definitely got the opposition parties at Queen's Park...
Omicron: New variant, new tactics?02 Dec, 2021 | 0:24:49 |
EN | The Velvet Studio | Front Burner
Canada and a growing list of more than 20 countries have confirmed cases of omicron, the latest version of the COVID-19 virus to be labelled a "variant of concern" by the World Health Organization. Despite omicron's global reach, dozens of nations are enforcing travel bans on mainly southern Africa, where the variant was originally detected. Some countries have celebrated South...
Workers could shut down one of Canada’s biggest beef plants01 Dec, 2021 | 0:22:39 |
EN | The Velvet Studio | Front Burner
In the spring of 2020, the Cargill meat-packing plant in southern Alberta became the site of the largest COVID-19 outbreak tied to a single facility in all of North America. Approximately 950 workers were infected, and three died. A year and a half later, COVID-19 appears to be under control at the slaughterhouse. But workers say the underlying working conditions...
B.C., climate change and what's coming for Canada30 Nov, 2021 | 0:30:00 |
EN | The Velvet Studio | Front Burner
British Columbia is still struggling with the fallout from record-breaking rains that caused floods and mudslides that killed six people and displaced thousands more. This, after the fatal heat dome of the summer, and the third worst fire season on record. While experts say it's impossible to determine whether this year's extreme weather resulted directly from climate change, they will...
Roe v. Wade at stake in Mississippi abortion case29 Nov, 2021 | 0:24:10 |
EN | The Velvet Studio | Front Burner
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in one of the most important cases on reproductive rights in decades. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the last remaining abortion clinic in Mississippi, has challenged a state law that would ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The Supreme Court case could determine not just the fate of the clinic, but...
Where — and how — is Peng Shuai?25 Nov, 2021 | 0:25:12 |
EN | The Velvet Studio | Front Burner
After Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai posted a sexual assault allegation against a former top Communist Party official on social media, the post — and Peng — disappeared. In the weeks that followed, the Women's Tennis Association and the sport's top athletes joined the hashtag #WhereIsPengShuai, including Naomi Osaka, Roger Federer and Serena Williams. Even the UN called for proof...
WE Charity misled donors about building schools in Kenya24 Nov, 2021 | 0:27:40 |
EN | The Velvet Studio | Front Burner
Marc and Craig Kielburger's WE Charity routinely misled school-aged children and wealthy philanthropists across North America for years as it solicited millions for schoolhouses in Kenya in its Adopt-A-Village program, an investigation by CBC's The Fifth Estate has found. WE denies it has misled donors. Today, Mark Kelley explains what the team found over the course of the investigation, and...
Minority Report: What to watch for as the House returns22 Nov, 2021 | 0:22:08 |
EN | The Velvet Studio | Front Burner
The Conservative Party is objecting to Parliament's new mandatory vaccination policy. Its leader, Erin O'Toole, is fending off attacks on his leadership. And the Liberals are being accused of benefiting from unfair advantages in the House. This is just some of what's playing out as Parliament returns for the first time since June and the federal election. CBC chief political...
Canada's road to the World Cup19 Nov, 2021 | 0:18:42 |
EN | The Velvet Studio | Front Burner
The last time Canada's men's soccer team went to the World Cup was in 1986. They didn't score a single goal. But now with coaching from John Herdman and star players like Alphonso Davies, the team has started to believe in itself — and this week, won an important qualifying event against Mexico, a soccer powerhouse. After scoring their second...
How a catastrophic climate event unfolded in B.C.18 Nov, 2021 | 0:26:07 |
EN | The Velvet Studio | Front Burner
British Columbia declared a state of emergency Wednesday after days of extreme flooding and mudslides destroyed major highways and cut off entire communities in parts of the Lower Mainland. Mass evacuations were ordered in places like Merritt, Princeton and parts of Abbotsford, a city of nearly 100,000 people, but the full scale of the devastation still isn't known. These kinds...
The cyberattack throttling Newfoundland healthcare17 Nov, 2021 | 0:22:16 |
EN | The Velvet Studio | Front Burner
Since the end of October, a cyberattack on the health-care system in Newfoundland and Labrador has caused thousands of delays and cancellations for services. Patients have missed appointments and procedures that include chemotherapy. With their IT networks knocked out, facilities resorted to pen and paper. The CEO of a cybersecurity firm in Fredericton, David Shipley, called it “the worst cyber...
What happened — and didn't — at the COP26 climate summit15 Nov, 2021 | 0:22:40 |
EN | The Velvet Studio | Front Burner
On Saturday, as COP26 was wrapping up in Glasgow, conference president Alok Sharma fought back tears as he addressed delegates to the UN climate summit. He apologized for how the negotiations ended, with a last-minute wording change that watered down a crucial part of the summit's climate pact. It was just one of many moments of disappointment for climate advocates...
The next phase of COVID-19 in Ontario12 Nov, 2021 | 0:21:56 |
EN | The Velvet Studio | Front Burner
On Thursday, Ontario reported 642 new COVID-19 cases, a 46 per cent jump from a week earlier. But Dr. Sumon Chakrabarti says that in COVID-19's former epicentre of Toronto and Peel Region, the case counts may obscure some good reasons for optimism about the future of the pandemic. Chakrabarti is an infectious diseases specialist at Trillium Health Partners in Mississauga,...
What went wrong at Travis Scott's Astroworld11 Nov, 2021 | 0:26:49 |
EN | The Velvet Studio | Front Burner
With Travis Scott on stage for the first day of his Astroworld Festival on Friday, a crowd of some 50,000 fans at Houston's NRG Park surged forward. In the resulting crush, many fans were immobilized, and some were unable to breathe. Eight people died and hundreds more were injured. A pile of lawsuits, a criminal investigation and social media criticism...
