When gold was discovered in the Yukon, 100,000 people desperately tried to make it to a small patch of land in one of the most remote environments on ...

Stories about the dirty business of Canadian mining. First episode drops October 13, 2021. Support COMMONS: http://commonspodcast.com See omnystudio.c...

Over 25 years, WE built a golden brand by inspiring children to rally around their charismatic leader. But behind the scenes, employees experienced a ...

The destruction of Borneo’s rainforests has been called the greatest environmental crime of our time. But journalists and NGOs have long alleged that ...

Eddy Haymour has been called a lot of things in his life. Immigrant success story. Kidnapper. Terrorist. Folk Hero. But the long saga of Eddy Haymour ...

The Toronto Community Housing Corporation is the biggest landlord in Canada, and the second biggest in all of North America.  But government after gov...

The Oka Crisis was the biggest military confrontation on Canadian soil in more than a century. On its face, it was about a golf course expansion. But ...

Real estate mania is at an all time high in this country. And in no place is this more true than in Vancouver. But nobody can even agree on what went ...

Vancouver is obsessed with real estate. But what most people don’t realize, is that it’s been this way from the beginning.  Three stories of the swind...

Africville was one of Canada’s oldest Black settlements, a proud community of more than 400 people. And then the City of Halifax decided to utterly ob...