What's really behind Lisa LaFlamme's abrupt departure from CTV National News? And John Derringer's years of alleged workplace abuse at Toronto's Q107 and the straw that broke the camel's back for ending his show. Teri Hart co-hosts.

A recent radio documentary on assisted dying was originally produced for a company that sells customer-support software.

Cadence Weapon was a nineteen-year-old in Edmonton, battle rapping on the internet when he released his first mixtape, Breaking Kayfabe. He wanted to make “the most fucked up rap anyone’s ever heard.” And it was. It got him a record deal with a major American label, and helped bring Canada’s rap underground to light.  Since then, he released two more albums, and was anointed the poet laureate of Edmonton. He just released his fourth album, the self-titled Cadence Weapon. On this episode, we talk about how Canadian radio failed Canadian hip hop artists, Cadence’s legendary DJ dad, and why he’s rapping about Pinot Grigio these days.  

Not everything outside current affairs is frivolous or misguided. Stories, Siobhan Özege writes, bring us together, too.

An emphasis on personal storytelling has come at the expense of engagement with larger issues, writes Nick Fillmore

For two weeks in 1974, the CBC broadcast ten hours of field recordings from across the country on their flagship show, Ideas. A group of twentysomething composers and an avant-garde acoustic ecologist were trying to capture Canada through sound. On this episode, we ask whether that’s even possible.

Aliya takes a trip to New York to talk to an Albertan running a radio station out of a shipping container.

The former host of CBC's WireTap has moved to New York, but he's having trouble moving on.

Yesterday, it was announced that Jonathan Goldstein's Wiretap was ending after an 11-year run on CBC Radio.

Radio has its own craft and discipline. You might not appreciate, say, a book editor suddenly having absolute power over your TV company. If a book...