It’s been more than a year now since Kevin Brosseau got the job and he says he's too busy trying to stop the flow of the drug to worry about Donald Trump's trade war. Temperatures in Europe are soaring -- and French officials are warning people to resist the temptation to swim in unsupervised areas -- because at least 40 people drowned this week, just trying to cool off. Six Nations artist Santee Smith was thrilled to be asked to copy one of her father’s pottery pieces -- a replica that has a pe...
Jun 24, 2026•52 min
More is becoming clear but the mayor of the neighbourhood where it happened says she and her constituents are still looking for answers. We'll also hear from a local rabbi who knew Michel Mizrahi -- a fixture of the city's Jewish community, who appears to have died trying to save others. Members of the Taliban were in Brussels today for talks with European officials. A former Afghan MP tells us that's a dangerous step towards normalizing Taliban rule. For weeks now, a Zulu architect has been wal...
Jun 23, 2026•1 hr 5 min
A police officer, a civilian, and a suspect are dead after a shooting in Montreal's Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood. A witness tells us what he saw and heard. A Canadian banker is in prison in the UAE, facing extradition to South Sudan; his wife tells us the charges are retribution for his work fighting corruption. I'll speak with a lawyer behind the push to end Pakistan's "period tax". She says it's about time her country started treating pads and tampons as necessities. An Australian town crier ...
Jun 22, 2026•1 hr 2 min
A judge finds Frank Stronach guilty of sexual assault. A woman suing him in a separate case tells us why for her, justice is at least partly about the money. Canada's largest auto worker union will start labour negotiations with the Big Three automakers next week — and the union president says there's more at stake for workers than ever before. For his official presidential centre, Barack Obama wanted a new type of building. Our guests were the architects who actually had to design it. An Ontari...
Jun 19, 2026•1 hr
It took over 50 years — but the U.K. government is finally apologizing for pressuring tens of thousands of new mothers to give their babies up for adoption. And our guest was one of those children. A Canadian Senator tells us she disagrees with her colleagues’ conclusion that people whose sole diagnosis is mental illness should be indefinitely excluded from a medically assisted death. Elsewhere in the U.K. all eyes are on the vote in a northern constituency — which could spell the beginning of t...
Jun 18, 2026•1 hr 2 min
A Canadian was just released from an ICE detention centre where he spent the last eight months. He tells us he's glad to be out -- and eager to make sure the world knows just how bad it is inside. The co-chair of the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying tells us why they've recommended that the government indefinitely pause the proposed expansion of MAID to include people whose only underlying medical condition is mental illness. An eighteen-year-old who suffered severe burns t...
Jun 17, 2026•59 min
The federal government tables new legislation designed to ensure access to safe drinking water for First Nations. We ask the Indigenous Services Minister when those taps might start flowing. Despite warnings from officials, a U.S.-Iran peace deal is prompting displaced Lebanese families to head home -- and one mayor says he understands the temptation to return because he never left. This fall, after 74 years, NHL hockey will no longer air on CBC; sportswriter Bruce Arthur tells us that's been a ...
Jun 16, 2026•58 min
Montreal Police investigate their own amid allegations of racial profiling, discrimination and violence. A community organizer tells us people should be shocked -- but she is not surprised. An Iranian-American football fanatic says he'll be in the stadium tonight in Los Angeles as Iran plays its first FIFA World Cup match, but he won't be cheering. While Donald Trump celebrates a ceasefire, a political scientist in Jerusalem tells us why Israelis from the left, right and centre are denouncing th...
Jun 15, 2026•52 min
Canada's men's soccer team plays its first FIFA World Cup game at home. We reach a fan in Toronto with divided loyalties. Ireland is not in the FIFA World Cup. But a closer look at another country's flag is giving fans something to cheer about. A woman in Florida discovers a thrift-store painting that's been hanging in her home for 60 years is actually a Scottish masterpiece — after her son gets an AI appraisal. The organization that governs international chess suspends the game's Russian federa...
Jun 12, 2026•1 hr 1 min
SpaceX goes public tomorrow. Elon Musk is promising investors a chance to own a piece of the future. Our guest says everyone needs to come back down to earth. A woman in Belfast tells us what the past few days have been like for her family and the entire Sudanese community as violent anti-immigrant rioters terrorized the city. A Toronto police officer is shot and killed after executing a search warrant in a residential building. A councillor for the ward where gunfire broke out tells us how her ...
Jun 11, 2026•1 hr 3 min
A city councilor in the Northern Irish city appeals for calm, after a night of violent anti-immigrant rioting in which families were forced from their homes by arson. In a new "online harms" bill, Ottawa proposes a social media ban for kids under 16; and an expert advisor to the government tells us what it would take to make that idea a reality. The government says a brand-new task force will update the country's cancer screening guidelines, after the last group was disbanded due to a controvers...
Jun 10, 2026•59 min
A longtime soccer correspondent tells us he's ready to cover this year's big tournament — but worrying that a never-ending list of FIFA controversies might just drain the World Cup of its magic. The organization that represents Inuit in Canada launches a new poverty-reduction strategy — and calls on Ottawa to scrap a federal food-subsidy program our guest says simply isn't working. The long delayed Gordie Howe International Bridge between Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit, Michigan may finally be se...
Jun 09, 2026•1 hr 4 min
A longtime soccer correspondent tells us he's ready to cover this year's big tournament — but worrying that a never-ending list of FIFA controversies might just drain the World Cup of its magic. The organization that represents Inuit in Canada launches a new poverty-reduction strategy — and calls on Ottawa to scrap a federal food-subsidy program our guest says simply isn't working. The long delayed Gordie Howe International Bridge between Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit, Michigan may finally be se...
Jun 09, 2026•1 hr 2 min
Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre makes his case for Alberta to remain in Canada — and says Liberal governments should shoulder the blame for increasing separatist sentiment in the province where he grew up. The mayor of London, Ontario tells us why he believes the feds should treat addressing homelessness as a nation-building project — and fund it accordingly. A Michigan state highway is renamed in honour of a regiment of Indigenous soldiers who fought in the Civil War — when they weren't even...
Jun 08, 2026•1 hr 2 min
Quebec tables a bill that would ban the sale of energy drinks to anyone under the age of 16 — something Zachary Miron's parents and their community have been pushing for since the teenager's death. Photographer Angelina Katsanis was covering protests at an ICE detention centre in New Jersey when she was injured, and lost her camera bag. And now a police officer has been charged with theft. A British man who climbed Everest describes the shock and joy of learning that one of their guides was stil...
Jun 05, 2026•1 hr 1 min
The Prime Minister unveils a new AI strategy that he says will help Canada catch up with the rest of the world. Our guest says it's a start, but it could use some fine-tuning. Hezbollah has rejected a ceasefire deal brokered between Israel and Lebanon; our guest in Beirut tells us people there were already referring to it as a "less-fire" anyway. A protestor in Albania tells us a crucial stopover for migrating birds is in danger of being destroyed — because Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump want to...
Jun 04, 2026•1 hr 4 min
The European Union has finalized key elements of its strictest-ever immigration agreement, prompting right-wing politician Charlie Weimers to pronounce that "the era of deportations has begun." Irish MEP Regina Doherty tells us why she’s aligned with the people behind that kind of rhetoric. U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra has made some questionable comments in public, but Quebec trade representative Louise Blais says he was much more diplomatic in their private meeting today. We remember Grammy-wi...
Jun 03, 2026•1 hr 7 min
The Prime Minister's team says it wants to renew the free-trade deal with the US and Mexico. We'll ask the trade representative once berated by the US Ambassador whether Team Canada is playing too nice. Russia's latest strikes on Ukraine kill more than 20 people and injure dozens more. A long-time resident of Kyiv says there's no way to be safe — but that doesn't mean he's going to leave his home. NDP MP Don Davies is fed up with Canadian politicians abandoning their original parties for the gov...
Jun 02, 2026•1 hr 5 min
Cricket's international governing body suspends Cricket Canada for financial and governance issues; we'll speak to the CBC journalist, and avid cricketer, whose work helped uncover alleged corruption. After a day of conflicting statements and mixed messages from all sides, the United States, Israel, Iran and Lebanon appear to be at yet another dangerous crossroads. Nil asks a former negotiator where we go from here. Female police officers in British Columbia say they faced gender-based discrimin...
Jun 01, 2026•56 min
Romania's foreign minister says there's no doubt in her mind that an armed Russian drone hit an apartment building in her country -- and believes NATO must respond forcefully, even if it was an accident. The daughter of former Cuban president Fidel Castro has lived in exile for decades -- and Alina Fernández is very hopeful that this U.S. administration will bring about regime change in her homeland. Gilbert Bernal was among those killed in this week's deadly chemical tank implosion in Washingto...
May 29, 2026•55 min
New York and New Jersey investigate allegations that FIFA is misleading soccer fans -- and unfairly inflating World Cup ticket prices. A year ago, the arrest of an anti-corruption lawyer prompted dozens of journalists and democracy advocates to flee El Salvador. Now, that lawyer's husband says he can no longer stay silent. For more than a century, Saskatchewan's Legislature has had a well-appointed private bathroom for male law-makers. But female MLAs won't have their own updated loo until somet...
May 28, 2026•50 min
The Liberal MP and former environment minister announces he's leaving politics -- and says the government's approach to environmental policy is at the heart of his departure. The young man who sold the gun used in the killing of two Edmonton police officers is convicted of manslaughter; a criminologist tells us why his case will almost certainly wind up before the Supreme Court. Women and girls' rugby is surging -- but the science on what all that violent contact does to their brains is way behi...
May 27, 2026•58 min
While trying to spread the word about Ebola safety in Congo, our guest and his colleagues were attacked by a mob that later set fire to a hospital. He tells us what he thinks is behind the violence. After a deadly implosion at a paper plant in Washington state involving a corrosive substance, a former plant worker tells us just how dangerous a vat of what's known as "white liquor" really is. French authorities launch investigations at more than a hundred elementary schools and nursery schools in...
May 26, 2026•1 hr
In a papal first, Pope Leo formally presents his view on artificial intelligence -- and the man behind a Catholic AI tool tells us he's listening. At this point, the cases of Ebola are outpacing efforts to contain it -- but an aid worker in Congo tells us he's determined to help close the gap. A giant overheating chemical tank in southern California is no longer at risk of exploding, but the crisis isn't over. We'll reach a resident who is housing twenty of her evacuated relatives. We remember o...
May 25, 2026•58 min
Alberta announces a vote on whether to hold a vote on whether to separate -- and a former Conservative cabinet minister tells us about his plan to convince as many people as possible that Canada's union is worth preserving. He was restrained without restraint. And now, people in Ireland are demanding answers after the death of a Black man who was suspected of shoplifting -- and set upon by security guards. A Jamaican politician tells us what it was like to be interrupted in parliament for speaki...
May 22, 2026•1 hr 7 min
A former U.S. health official tells us international cuts, and the shutdown of USAID, is hampering the response to the growing Ebola outbreak in Congo -- and recovery won't be easy. The tiny island country of Vanuatu convinces a majority of the world's countries to back a UN motion our guest says could make it a legal duty to fight climate change. The Department of Justice is creating a fund for people who say they were mistreated by the federal government. Police who defended the Capitol on Jan...
May 21, 2026•1 hr 1 min
The United States indicts former Cuban President Raul Castro on criminal charges -- to the delight of a former Miami prosecutor who worked on the case more than 20 years ago. Canada’s Foreign Affairs minister has summoned Israel’s ambassador over the treatment of Canadian citizens aboard a Gaza-bound flotilla -- which our guest has been watching with growing alarm. A man living in the city that is the epicentre of Congo's deadly Ebola outbreak says people there are experiencing both fear and sha...
May 20, 2026•1 hr 2 min
San Diego is mourning after a shooting at its largest mosque -- and we speak to a community leader who, like so many other Muslims, is processing the depth of the loss. Undone deal. A Newfoundland and Labrador review panel finds a proposed energy deal with Hydro Quebec is not in the province’s best interest. And the Premier tells us why he thinks his government can make good on Churchill Falls. We hear from the mayor of a PEI town where one-in-three work in the oyster business -- the mayor inclu...
May 19, 2026•50 min
The Democratic Republic of Congo is battling a rare and deadly strain of the Ebola virus. An aid worker in Kinshasa who lived through the last outbreak shares her frustration and sadness that more wasn’t done to prevent this latest outbreak. Dawson City, Yukon is mourning the loss of the goldrush-era Westminster Hotel -- a watering hole our guest says acted as a community hub that won't be easily replaced. A Montreal-based sex worker tells us she and her colleagues deserve better working conditi...
May 18, 2026•1 hr 17 min
Ottawa has reached a new carbon-pricing agreement with Alberta; we'll ask Julie Dabrusin whether the feds are setting the bar for big polluters too low. In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court of Canada opens the door to a new way for survivors of intimate partner violence to sue their abusers in civil court. A new study suggests at least one Neanderthal did something surprising to deal with a toothache: they submitted to some prehistoric dentistry. It's all hands on deck for the Emerald Coast...
May 15, 2026•58 min
