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A Sip of Black Tea

We’ll have a fresh Big Story Thursday. But today, we have a special guest appearance from good friend (and frequent guest) of the Big Story,

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December 18, 2018
The inside of the Humboldt Broncos locker room is pictured Wednesday, September, 12, 2018. The Broncos will host the Nipawin Hawks during the season home opener tonight, the first home game since a bus accident killing 16.

And the most important stories of 2018 are…

The difficulty level on this one is non-Trump. After 120+ episodes and countless other rejected ideas along the way, we invite three of our favourite

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December 14, 2018
In this Monday, July 30, 2018, file photo, LeBron James speaks at the opening ceremony for the I Promise School in Akron, Ohio. James has yet to play a minute for the Los Angeles Lakers, yet the NBA superstar is churning out content for the small screen. James is behind the three-part documentary series "Shut Up and Dribble" announced Monday, Aug. 6, 2018, by Showtime.

Why athletes will never shut up and dribble again

The year began with a FOX News host telling the best basketball player on the planet to “shut up and dribble”. That…didn’t happen. Instead, LeBron

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December 13, 2018
A cannabis user rolls a joint at a rally outside governments offices following the legalization of cannabis in Calgary, Alta., Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018.

Is Canada any different now that pot is legal?

October 17 was supposed to change Canada. Legalizing recreational pot marked a huge shift in the country’s justice system, tax revenues, the affairs of the

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December 12, 2018
This image released by Disney and Marvel Studios' shows Chadwick Boseman in a scene from "Black Panther." As Hollywood’s awards season properly gets under way, “Black Panther” is poised to be the first comic book film to be nominated for best picture.

Did Hollywood change in 2018?

How much did Black Panther matter? How about Crazy Rich Asians? You’ll hear a lot about the Year of Diversity in Hollywood this month. But

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December 10, 2018
A high angle view of marinas and high-rise condominium towers crowding the North shore of downtown Vancouver's False Creek inlet, Vancouver, B.C. on Wednesday, September 19, 2018.

How deadly fentanyl builds gorgeous BC mansions

This is a story that spans the globe and touches on almost every major issue facing Canada’s westernmost province. The full scope of the criminal

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December 7, 2018
This Jan. 28, 2016, photo shows a solitary confinement cell at New York's Rikers Island jail. New York state is poised to adopt new standards for solitary confinement in local jails at the urging of Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Canada had a year to end solitary confinement. Time’s up, and it hasn’t.

The practice of isolating prisoners without meaningful human contact violates inmates’ rights, two separate provincial courts have ruled, and Canada must change it. The government

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December 6, 2018

Can we fix elections in Canada?

Wait…do they even need fixing? Well, British Columbia is voting right now on whether or not to keep their first-past-the-post election model or move to

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December 5, 2018
The CN Tower stands between a couple of condo towers in downtown Toronto, Ontario on Saturday, August 5, 2017.

Inside Toronto’s housing crisis

The average Toronto condo rents for $2,385/month. The city’s vacancy rate of 0.5 percent is at a historic low. Apartment viewings attract hundreds of people.

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December 4, 2018
In this Oct. 10, 2018, photo, scientist He Jiankui speaks during an interview in Shenzhen in southern China's Guandong province. China's government on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018, ordered a halt to work by a medical team that claimed to have helped make the world's first gene-edited babies.

Will gene editing technology change the world?

Last week a Chinese scientist announced that he had successfully created the world’s first gene-edited babies—twin girls born from embryos altered to make them resistant

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