COMMONS

Stories about the dirty business of Canadian mining.First episode drops October 13, 2021.Support COMMONS: http://commonspodcast.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informati...

The destruction of Borneo's rainforests has been called the greatest environmental crime of our time. But journalists and NGOs have long alleged that one man, Abdul Taib Mahmud, ha...

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 is at its heart a story of obse...

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

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 for the Mohawks who took up ar...

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 wrong. Have snooty proper...

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 swindlers, segregationists and ...

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 obliterate it. There was on...

The Bridle Path is one of the most exclusive neighbourhoods in Canada, home to the ultra-wealthy and the famous. But behind their locked gates, some of Canada's elite try to scheme...

Stories about Canada's real estate obsession. The first episode drops on April 28, 2021.Support COMMONS: http://commonspodcast.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy infor...

Almost a year after the worst mass shooting in modern Canadian history, Nova Scotians are still in the dark about what exactly happened. A gunman, dressed in an RCMP uniform, drivi...

For three decades, much of Northern Ontario has been engaged in an unprecedented experiment in policing. It's called the Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service. And the idea is simple: the ...