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1047 episodes transcribedRecently Vancouver city council passed a unanimous motion calling on Transport Canada to do something about LED headlight glare. Saskatoon optometrist...
Food prices have climbed for years and for families on fixed incomes, every increase means another trade-off. As the federal government rolls out a ne...
We've got a special episode today of Cross Country Checkup. It is Canada's only national phone-in show, broadcasting live from coast to coast to coast...
Zadie Smith wonders if she's weird. She pays attention to a lot in an age when our attention has been captured and her phone-free life can be lonely....
Turkey has become a top destination for the booming business of hair transplants. But why are so many men opting for the procedure? We talk to John Pa...
Coming off his Album of the Year win at the Grammys, where he made a statement denouncing ICE, Bad Bunny will take the stage at the Super Bowl half ti...
Clara Hughes. Hayley Wickenheiser. Beckie Scott. Legends of Team Canada with 13 Olympic medals between them. So what do they watch for when Team Canad...
A young bar-tailed godwit code-named B6 flew for more than 13,000 kilometres from Alaska to Tasmania in 2022. That's the longest known sustained fligh...
Scrap chocolate and vanilla: mango, coconut, and pistachio are the hot new Canadian ice cream flavours… in Mexico, that is. Ice cream is one of many C...
Toronto Star Crime Reporter, Jennifer Pagliaro on an investigation by York Regional Police connecting several Toronto police officers to organized cri...
Canadian hockey legend PK Subban is one of the executive producers of a new CBC special, Rivals: the Four-Nations Face-Off -- chronicling that epic ho...
The number of homeless people in smaller cities, towns and in rural communities is climbing. We hear from two mayors who are grappling with the surge...
Lily and Jack Sullivan have been missing for nine months. For the first time their maternal grandmother is speaking in a CBC exclusive interview.
Many of us participate in Dry January — and go right back to drinking during the other eleven months of the year. Sure, Dry January can be a great jum...
New research from the Canadian Medical Association Journal has found that more people aged 14-20 are being diagnosed with psychotic disorders, includi...
Files released by The U.S. Department of Justice show that many high-profile figures who've tried to distance themselves from Jeffrey Epstein were chu...
“The future is fungal,” says Toby Kiers. She has won the "green Nobel" for her work studying mycorrhizal fungi — the vast underground network that act...
Media theorist Douglas Rushkoff sees potential in the disruption that's come along with AI. He says it's an opportunity for us to reclaim our humanity...
NASA’s Artemis II mission is about to send a crew farther from Earth than any human has ever gone. The mission marks the first crewed lunar flight sin...
Everywhere you turn, there's a distraction, and the evidence suggests we're all reading fewer books. Some have described it as a "crisis". We speak to...
