COMMONS

If you don’t understand oil, you can’t understand Canada. We take you to a place unlike anywhere else in the world, wher... Read more

COVID-19 has upended everything, and forced us to change plans. From here on out, COMMONS will be bringing you stories a... Read more

Appropriation is the buzzword in the news this week, as a misguided editorial was followed by a white elite up in arms ... Read more

On the final episode of the season, the Commons team digs into the rise of the fringe right in Canada. Journalist Evan B... Read more

This season, Commons will be focusing on stories at the intersection of money, influence and politics in Canada. In this... Read more

Betty Ann Adam is a reporter with the Saskatoon Star Phoenix. She is also a survivor of the "Sixties Scoop". When she wa... Read more

Canada is a country ruled by dynasties — political, commercial and criminal. In the first episode of our new series, we ... Read more

The Rizzutos are Canada’s first family of crime. For decades, they dominated Montreal’s underworld with an iron fist. Wi... Read more

The Sahotas are Vancouver’s most notorious slumlords. For decades they’ve let their buildings rot, leaving their tenants... Read more

The Lac-Mégantic rail disaster was a calamity like we’ve never seen before. The families of the victims never got justic... Read more

Welcome back to a brand-new season of Commons! To kick things off, the Commons team is profiling each of the four candid... Read more

There's a well known narrative about the opioid epidemic: pharmaceutical companies and doctors over-prescribed addictive... Read more

They call themselves the Canadian Kennedys. And they’re one of the most famous political dynasties to ever exist in this... Read more

The Desmarais family is by far the most influential Canadian dynasty of the last half-century. But if you don’t live in ... Read more

For almost a century, the Irving family has run New Brunswick like a personal fiefdom. They own the newspapers, the indu... Read more

Robyn Maynard is the author of Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present. We chat with ... Read more

Quebec's racist bill, unveiled. Plus NAFTA explained by one of its founders, former Mulroney Chief of Staff Hugh Segal. ... Read more

For years, people could walk into Vancouver-area casinos with tens of thousands of dollars of suspicious cash and walk o... Read more

The acquittal of Gerald Stanley in the shooting of Colten Boushie sparked outrage across Canada. The anger was further f... Read more

Canadian companies have committed all kinds of wrongdoing abroad. But this is on a different level. One Vancouver-based ... Read more