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An award-winning podcast that digs deeper into important and often unreported issues, by the non-profit digital news organization PressProgress. Join the PressProgress team for conversations with experts and newsmakers across the country, including Editor Luke LeBrun, Alberta reporter Stephen Magusiak, and Associate Editors Rumneek Johal and Jonathan Goldsbie. Produced by Ontario Reporter, Eric Wickham. Winner of the 2024 Canadian Podcast Awards "Outstanding News and Current Affairs Series" category.

Recent Episodes

Inside the fight against data centres in Canada

Send us a note! On September 16, Mississauga passed an interim control by-law pausing approval on all data centres with a peak power draw of over 10MW for the next year. Mississauga is one of a growing number of municipalities putting planning before development on these large digital infrastructure projects in order to make sure the right guard rails and regulations are in place before more data centres show up. But why are these centres showing up everywhere, and why has there s...

38 MIN

Canadian Healthcare: When Provinces Go Rogue

Send us a note! Canada’s single payer healthcare system has always been a point of national pride. But according to advocates, policy decisions by the provinces are actively undermining the healthcare system we all rely on. Alberta’s expansion of private-pay models, British Columbia’s reversal of harm reduction and decriminalization measures amid an ongoing public health emergency, Quebec’s handling of tuberculosis outbreaks in Inuit communities, and Ontario’s cuts to funding for long-t...

62 MIN

Why 5 Ontario Education Unions Served Notice to Bargain with Doug Ford's Government At the Same Time

Send us a note! Five of Ontario’s Education Unions representing over 250,000 workers have served notice to the province to begin bargaining ahead of next school year, in a move some are calling “unprecedented.” Union leaders involved in the announcement have described this announcement as an opportunity for a quarter of a million education workers to say “enough is enough” regarding the chronic understaffing and underfunding of public education. Joe Tigani, president of the Ontario School Boa...

19 MIN

What encampment residents would say to Doug Ford

Send us a note! "The homeless are not Other. They are Us," Ontario's Superior Court declared last month. In a ruling that had advocates cheering, Justice Michael Gibson affirmed that unhoused people are entitled to the same Charter rights as any other Canadian — and that a bylaw targeting a specific encampment for removal had therefore amounted to anti-homeless discrimination. This left Doug Ford fuming. But this isn't about the premier. Not mostly, anyway. It is, as our story exp...

37 MIN

What changes to Freedom of Information laws mean for Ontario

Send us a note! A wave of changes is hitting Ontario, including one that is going to make finding things out about the province more difficult for reporters and the public. In March, Doug Ford announced that his government was going to change Freedom of Information Laws to exempt correspondence from himself and his cabinet ministers. These changes come after a court ruled that Ford’s personal cell phone records were subject to information requests. It’s been known for a long time ...

24 MIN