Plus: The Canadian women’s rugby team makes the pitch for better funding — and says it could be a game changer when it comes to winning the world cup. Also: A lawyer representing victims of the Philippines drug war reacts to former president Rodrigo Duterte’s arrest; an ancient canoe unearthed in New Zealand could hold the answers Moriori people have been looking for; and the owner of an Alberta newspaper mourns its closure and celebrates more than a century in print.
Mar 11, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast “Closure”: After 80 years, an Ontario woman shares her relief after learning where her great uncle, who went missing in action during WW2, was buried. Irish street busker, Tilly Cripwell, describes her fight to stop passersby from touching the breasts of a statue of Molly Malone; a Severance fan -- facing stage-4 cancer -- meets the show’s cast; and what recent fighting in Syria means for the country’s prospects for peace.
Mar 10, 2025•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Hockey Night in Canada - in Inuktitut. Pujjuut Kusugak on making history this weekend when he’ll provide colour commentary in his mother tongue. The head of the U.S. trade association for distilled spirits on Canadian provinces pulling American booze from their shelves; the Vegetable Orchestra sets a new record; a journalist in Lesotho on Donald Trump’s suggestion that no one’s ever heard of the African nation; and why there can only be one “Captain Clutch.”
Mar 08, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Why grammar aficionado Ellen Jovin travelled to 50 U.S. states to explore the finer points of the English language -- one conversation at a time. Canada pledges billions to boost Arctic defence; an American veteran describes being fired from his job by email; the mayor of Laval, Quebec reacts, after several mayors invited to the White House are disinvited; and how a Canadian teen ended up in a Polish prison, accused of being a Russian spy.
Mar 07, 2025•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus: After a long reprieve, one B.C. town faces the prospect of a renewed peacock invasion. Also: A conversation with AI pioneer Richard Sutton, co-winner of this year's Turing Award.
Mar 06, 2025•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast A retired entomologist shows off his creative side, and the nether regions of his favourite beetle, in a new exhibit of glass sculptures. An Israeli human rights organization takes the government to court over its aid blockade; a resident in Point Roberts, Washington, on its connection to Canada and his petition for a humanitarian exemption to tariffs; a fired US federal employee explains why she's attending President Trump’s congressional address tonight; and a childhood friend and former bandm...
Mar 05, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus: A Stanford University scientist on new research into the slimiest parts of our brains that could unlock big developments in memory and aging. Also: On the eve of US tariffs on virtually all Canadian goods, the owner of a Toronto pizzeria tells us about his decision to banish US ingredients from his restaurant.
Mar 04, 2025•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Plus: An immigration lawyer on the influx of calls from 2SLGBTQ+ Americans who want to move to Canada, because they don't feel safe in their country. Also: Greek protesters demand justice, two years after the country's worst rail disaster killed 57 people; and a sendoff for the town clerk of Heart's Content, Newfoundland and Labrador, who’s held the job for more than 50 years.
Mar 01, 2025•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast Revisit some of our past conversations with Academy Award winners, fans and even the owner of a Matthew McConaughey-inspired parrot.
Mar 01, 2025•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus: A pair of newlyweds explain why they chose to forgo running water and electricity for six months to become caretakers of a remote Irish island. Also: A tribute to Shawna Forester Smith, who advocated for better patient care from her bed in a Winnipeg chronic-care unit; the German Catholic Church condemns a carnival float in Cologne that draws attention to sexual abuse in the church; and how a man in England, got a pothole fixed -- by making it look like someone is stuck upside-down, inside...
Feb 28, 2025•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus: “We don’t have a political agenda. We’re trying to feed the country.” Farmers sue U.S. Agriculture Dept after it removes online climate data. Also: “It was as if the sky just exploded.” We take a visit to Europe’s newest Dark Sky sanctuary, the Scottish Isle of Rum; A Saskatchewan social worker on the province’s plan to classify drug-related items as street weapons; Dallas Arcand wins his fourth hoop dancing world championship; and a trio of Canadian-first surgeries will see a Vancouver op...
Feb 27, 2025•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Plus: John McCann (aka The Philly Captain) explains the demise of the so-called “p00p game”. Don’t worry, it will all make sense. Also: The manager of a community-based theatre in the Jenin Refugee Camp tells us about the Israeli military's displacement of some 40,000 Palestinians from their homes in the occupied West Bank -- and about why his family is staying put.
Feb 26, 2025•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus: One man’s battle to have his right to own a raccoon as a pet enshrined in law. Also: People in Bowden, Alberta are in a 51st state of mind as a pro-merger billboard goes up, causing headaches for the town’s mayor.
Feb 25, 2025•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Plus: Five hockey fans drive from Winnipeg to Boston for the 4 Nations Face-Off final, to cheer on Team Canada and their friend, player Seth Jarvis. Also: The earliest known cookbook by a Black American woman gets a new edition; paleontologists discover the 30-million-year-old skull of "the king of the ancient Egyptian forest”; why one public health expert thinks changes to BC’s safer supply program could mean the its effective demise; and how snow in Montreal has kept one wheelchair user stuck ...
Feb 21, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus: An Italian tour guide shares his concerns as visitors get an up close, and potentially dangerous, look at an erupting Mount Etna. Also: A hockey fan on the Canadian/US matchup at the 4 Nations final; Nova Scotia’s auditor general on new legislation that would let the Province fire her without cause; and a historic ocean liner that once regularly crossed the Atlantic, takes its final voyage.
Feb 21, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus: Former Olympian Christina Lustenberger describes what it was like to reach the highest point of the Rocky Mountains, and then ski back down. Also: What happens when a moose shows up at your door; a Ukrainian reflects on her country’s prospects for peace and its relationship with the US; and a reporter breaks down the charges against Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, and the allegations he took part in a coup and plot to kill his political rivals.
Feb 20, 2025•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Plus: Facundo Iglesia from the Buenos Aires Herald on a crypto scandal and Argentina’s leader. Also: We revisit the “Giga Pearl”. It holds the Guinness World Record as the largest authenticated natural pearl. The massive, iridescent gemstone has traveled from the Philippines to Mississauga, then to the U.S. for appraisal, and now it’s back in the Greater Toronto Area for an exclusive luxury art exhibit.
Feb 19, 2025•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus: A surprising discovery about how shockingly vicious hummingbirds seem to be learning to get along. Also: We reach a woman in the hardest hit part of Eastern Kentucky who says despite her small business flooding, she's most worried for those who just recovered from the deadly 2022 floods.
Feb 18, 2025•1 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus: We speak with a researcher who’s discovered that different groups of chimps use different gestures to request what she calls "sneaky copulation". Also: As Donald Trump reshapes the Kennedy Center, Michael Kooman says a tour of his musical has been cancelled out of the blue. And he suspects the president's aversion to drag performance had something to do with it.
Feb 15, 2025•1 hr 12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Nil Köksal in conversation with Shiori Ito, director, producer and subject of the Oscar-nominated documentary. Black Box Diaries begins with a trigger warning: "Close your eyes and take a deep breath if you need to," Ms. Ito tells viewers. "That has helped me many times." It goes on to detail her story of sexual assault and the pursuit of justice in Japan.
Feb 14, 2025•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus: TikTok helps drain global Guinness supplies. We reach a St. John’s pub owner who’s got problems ahead of Saint Patrick’s Day. Also: This week, only six of the 46 people who attempted an especially treacherous Yukon Arctic Ultra race crossed the finish line. Our guest tells us how she managed to stick it out, and why she's already gearing up for her next trek.
Feb 13, 2025•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus: A superfan makes a sprint through Manhattan to snag a coveted ticket to Paul McCartney’s ultra rare club show. Also: We reach Ahmad Muna, whose decades-old bookshop was raided by Israeli police in Jerusalem.
Feb 12, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus: Christie’s goes all in on AI art. We reach a (human) artist who’s part of the first auction of its kind. Also: A town in northern England finds hundreds of Second World War bombs under a children's playground.
Feb 11, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus: How one Canadian distillery is trying to create a liqueur similar to chartreuse because of a shortage of the green alcohol. Also: After Sweden’s deadliest mass shooting last week, we speak to a family member of one of the survivors.
Feb 10, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Nil Köksal speaks with Molly O’Brien, producer and director of the Oscar-nominated documentary, and with the film’s subject: her aunt Orin O’Brien.
Feb 07, 2025•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast We speak to Liberal MP and leadership candidate Karina Gould and Goldy Hyder of the Business Council of Canada. Also: A film history student tells us about the moment he discovered a silent film about Lincoln...believed to be lost to time...in the final hours of his internship with a historic film archive.
Feb 07, 2025•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus: Jeff Douglas on the meaning of “I Am Canadian” then…and now. Also: Scientist David Kring on what we can learn from massive canyons on the moon.
Feb 06, 2025•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus: A cave explorer finds a fungus that turns spiders into zombies…so it can kill them. Also: An Ottawa furniture store owner on why sourcing Canadian products is easier said than done.
Feb 05, 2025•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus: New research on bonobos shows the unique human ability to guess what's going on in the minds of others isn't so unique. Also: . A site on the North Saskatchewan River is revealed to be one of the oldest examples of Indigenous civilization in North America. A Métis archaeologist tells us he could feel that history the first time he saw it.
Feb 04, 2025•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus: When a teenager fell into icy water, Indiana's David Fisher grabbed his double Dutch ropes and jumped into action. Also: After a Canadian father comes forward to say his child is purchasing illicit drugs on Snapchat, we'll hear from an American dad about his ongoing fight to hold the social platform accountable for the death of his son.
Feb 03, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
