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“In an effort to put everything into question, we run the danger of losing any kind of firm footing on which to build a more just and equitable society. So the logical end game of a certain project of questioning is total bafflement or the destruction of everything.” - Professor Mark Kingwell

In March 2024, we put out a call for local stories from across the country. We called you to think local and capture the funny, interesting or weird story of your neighbourhood, all wrapped up in a 3 minute nugget of audio.

Is there more to Doug Ford’s buffoonery than $200 and a paper bag?

Documents reveal how Canada’s airline watchdog was pressured to bend the rules and leave Canadians holding the bag.

A sociology professor’s quiet life in Canada gets turned upside down when he is accused of carrying out a 1980 bomb attack on a synagogue in Paris. Hassan Diab says he is innocent — but French investigators are determined to prove otherwise.

Last week, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese landed in Canada, setting off a firestorm of controversy…

“Elon flipped out. He saw Substack as sort of like the number one competitor to X at the time. He banned discussion of the word Substack. And to this day, there's a lot of people who when they want to talk about Substack on Twitter, they write like, S star star B, like, like we're Voldemort or something.” - Chris Best, Substack co-founder and CEO

“The people who want to play morality police and decide who does or doesn't get to speak, they're not qualified arbiters of anything.” - Caryma Sa’d

Justin Trudeau won’t walk in the snow.

What Toronto Star got wrong about UberEats, plus an update on the shaky Trudeau government.