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1488 episodes transcribedRetired General Wayne Eyre sits down with Matt Galloway to reflect on the forty-year military career he chronicles in his new memoir, Into the Breach:...
Jax Irwin is a Toronto broadcaster, originally from Nova Scotia, and she calls herself a phone enthusiast. Last month, we spoke to her on this program...
A global investigation exposes the hidden costs of the fish meal industry, the food that's made to feed farmed seafood. Investigative journalist and d...
Meta's personal AI agent Muse is now one of Canada's most downloaded apps, and has attracted millions of users since it was first launched in Septembe...
CBC’s senior reporter Caroline Barghout takes us through the arrest of a 30-year-old US resident from Seattle who has been charged in connection with...
More than 250,000 students, teachers and parents are protesting across France over the conditions in the country’s high schools. Some demonstrations h...
Ken Wyder grew up in privilege, as part of the prominent Vancouver family, the Bentalls. But he also grew up subject to his father's violent outburst...
Do you know the story of how the beaver became an official symbol of Canada in 1975? Hint: it involved a real live beaver peeing on a CBC radio host d...
After a high profile cheating scandal there are calls for Manchester City, one of the most successful football clubs in the world, to get relegated fr...
From the time Cassie Campbell-Pascall was a little girl she had to fight to be included in the game of hockey. Since then, she's been a trailblazer fo...
A possible plague-related death in Russia has prompted officials to place hundreds of people under medical observation and multiple health care facili...
Turns out a lot of New Yorkers will. A bakery opened in NYC stocking one product — a $60 loaf of rye bread, served by the slice or by the loaf. As inf...
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jill Lepore talks about her latest book “The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State,” how technology like AI is having...
Ontario increased the speed limit on several highways to 110 kilometers per hour. The province says the new speed limit will help people get to their...
In just over a month, voters in America will head to the polls in the U.S. midterms. The elections will decide if US President Donald Trump will remai...
Willie Blackwater is just 13 when he holds a knife to his rapist's throat, demanding an end to his recurring abuse. It’s the first time Willie stands...
After months of talk, a new proposed oil pipeline to the west coast has a name, a route and backing from the federal government. Pacific Link has been...
There have been alarm bells ringing for some time about dropping math scores in this country. In her documentary, “Are your kids learning math the rig...
For decades, Newfoundlanders left the wharves and sought work elsewhere. Now with cod quotas up and a booming crab fishery, a new generation of fisher...
It’s been over 20 years since the last Concorde flight, and now engineers are working to bring back passenger supersonic flights. Bob van der Linden i...
