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15/04/2025

Solving mini city mysteries

This week on City Space, our team attempts to unravel a few puzzling urban enigmas. Can anything be a street name? Does a patch of grass qualify as a park? What does this unique house reveal about the development of the area? Irene and our producers guide you through different neighborhoods as they try to solve the mini-mysteries that define a city - in this case, Toronto. The hows and whys (or why nots) of urban design and city planning.

15/04/2025

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35 min
22/11/2018

Bunz CEO Sascha Mojtahedi: Cryptocurrency, Dating and Having Skin in the Game

What once was a secret Facebook group has now grown into a multi-platform, online-bartering movement. In this episode, the CEO of popular trading platform Bunz talks about the future of bartering and Bunz' new cryptocurrency BTZ.

22/11/2018

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32 min
15/11/2018

Spartan Bioscience’s Paul Lem: DNA Testing, Med School and Marvel Comics

Meet the CEO and founder who wants to revolutionize health care by giving patients access to affordable, on-demand DNA results. In this episode, Paul talks about the secrets hiding in your DNA, his past career as a doctor and his love for comic books.

15/11/2018

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33 min
25/10/2018

Flytographer's Nicole Smith: Selfie Sticks, Logging Off and Seeing It To Be It

Sometimes the awkward travel selfies just won’t cut it. Enter Flytographer, the company that matches travellers to professional photographers in big destination cities. CEO Nicole Smith talks about how she turned her idea into an international business.

25/10/2018

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27 min
18/10/2018

Bruce Linton: Cannabis, Partying with Snoop Dog and Parenting

It's been a long time coming, but cannabis is officially legal in Canada. In this episode we hear from Bruce Linton – the man behind Canopy Growth.

18/10/2018

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23 min
28/11/2022

Breaking down Canada’s 4-1 loss to Croatia, plus what it’s like on the ground in Qatar

Despite an early goal by Alphonso Davies, Canada lost to Croatia by 4-1, making them the second team to be eliminated from the World Cup. In this episode, Sonja Missio and John Doyle break down the devastating loss and what went wrong, as well as how their final match against Morocco could decide the outcome for the rest of the group. Plus, Sonja speaks to The Globe’s sports columnist Cathal Kelly, who is on the ground in Qatar, about what that experience has been like. And of course, we delve into other key results from the group stage.

28/11/2022

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33 min
28/10/2020

Episode 1: Are we headed for a global depression?

Are we heading towards another depression? Ian Bremmer thinks so, but says that it’ll look different this time around. On the first episode of Restoring Confidence, Rita speaks to the political scientist and founder of the Eurasia Group about his forecast for a “jagged swoosh recovery” from the pandemic. He also shares his predictions for the U.S. presidential election and the greatest risks facing Canada.

28/10/2020

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39 min
18/02/2025

Why more young people are getting cancer

Rates of cancer diagnosis and death are climbing worldwide in people under 50, according to the World Health Organization. A report, with data between 1990 and 2019 in 204 countries, showed early onset cancer grew 79 percent, while deaths also went up by 28 percent in the same time period. We follow the stories of two cancer survivors along with Kelly Grant, The Globe’s national health reporter. She’ll detail what we know about why younger people are being diagnosed with cancer, the symptoms to look for and why fighting cancer at a young age carries new challenges for Millennials and Gen Xers. Questions? Comments? Ideas? Email us at thedecibel@globeandmail.com Enter this Decibel survey: https://thedecibelsurvey.ca/ and share your thoughts for a chance to win $100 grocery gift cards

18/02/2025

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23 min
12/09/2025

KPop Demon Hunters, Korean culture and why kids love it so much

The movie of the summer wasn’t in theatres this year. It was on Netflix, it’s called KPop Demon Hunters and kids are obsessed with it. It has become the most-streamed movie ever on Netflix. Four of the songs from the movie are on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The movie is about a K-pop girl group who are also secret protectors of the world, keeping demons at bay. It’s the brainchild of Korean-Canadian Maggie Kang, and made by Hollywood studio Sony Pictures Entertainment. Ji-yoon An is an assistant professor of modern Korean popular culture at the University of British Columbia. She explains why kids are obsessed with the movie, and how South Korean culture has spread across the world. Questions? Comments? Ideas? Email us at thedecibel@globeandmail.com

12/09/2025

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23 min
13/05/2025

The history behind the fragile India-Pakistan ceasefire

After several tense weeks of escalating military action across the de facto border in Kashmir, India and Pakistan have agreed to a fragile ceasefire. For the last week there have been reports of gunfire, drone attacks, and missile strikes in the region. This current conflict started after an April 22 terrorist attack left 26 people dead at a Kashmir tourist resort. But this isn’t the first time these two countries have been at odds. Dr. Reeta Tremblay is the former provost at the University of Victoria and a political scientist and expert on the Kashmir region. She’s on the show today to give us insight into the decades-long fight between India and Pakistan, and what needs to happen in order for the two countries to have lasting peace. Questions? Comments? Ideas? Email us at thedecibel@globeandmail.com

13/05/2025

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26 min

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