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1033 episodes transcribedAnother claim of genocide has been lodged against Israel. This time by the UN Human Rights Council’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry o...
The McVeggie isn’t pretending to be meat. It’s a fried vegetable patty. A few years ago, imitation meat patties like Beyond and Impossible were all th...
Cities in Canada have been taking unprecedented measures to deal with crime in their city — like hiring private security guards to patrol their downto...
What does the Bank of Canada cut to its key interest rate mean for you - and for Canada's economy? CBC’s Senior Business Correspondent Peter Armstrong...
Jennifer Brady was suffering. The Nova Scotia woman was living with lymphedema, a chronic condition that causes painful swelling in the arms and legs....
Getting a good night's rest can be hard. A sleep expert helps you navigate advice from mouth taping to melatonin to cognitive shuffling and more. Aric...
Fewer buyers and rising construction costs are some of the reasons behind the crashing condo market in some of Canada’s major cities. What does this m...
For decades, CBC’s foreign correspondent Brian Stewart covered events that changed the world, from the famine in Ethiopia to brutal regimes in La...
Prime Minister Mark Carney is off to Mexico this week to talk trade with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum. Why his agenda likely includes repairing...
Canadian athletes Camryn Rogers and Ethan Katzberg are winning gold medal after gold medal in the hammer throw. The young B.C. natives join us&nb...
Ukraine says several thousand children have been forcibly deported by Russia since the start of its full scale invasion in 2022. Parents, U...
Her mother Mary's death left acclaimed Indian writer, author of The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy feeling "unanchored in space with no coordinate...
Memes and videos mocking AI and robots as "clankers" are having a moment. It's funny, but also reveals our anxiety about tech made to seem increasingl...
The House is back and so is our national affairs panel. CBC’s chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton, Ryan Tumilty of the Toronto Star and Step...
In the days since Charlie Kirk's fatal shooting, the political rage in the US is HIGH. We examine how some are using Kirk’s death to push furthe...
Nairobi native Ibrahim Lwingi is scared for his life and he’s not the only one. Decisions being made in the White House, halfway across the world, thr...
The military is off its target to have women represent 25% of the armed forces by 2026. We speak to a new recruit who joined the Air Force earli...
Is asking chatGPT to give you an idea for your high school assignment cheating? Is teaching AI prompts in an English class a good use of time? These a...
Globe and Mail columnist Marsha Lederman has been writing, trying to understand what happened on October 7, the subsequent war, and its ripple effects...
For the first time since the war in Ukraine began, NATO has shot down Russian drones over its own territory. Nearly 20 drones crossed into Poland, pro...
