Welcome to the inaugural issue of Generation Why, a weekly interactive magazine curated by young Canadians for young Canadians.Each week, CBC readers under the age of 30 and young staffers will collaborate to build a digital digest of the best content that CBC news and current affairs programming has to offer.

Organizations with ties to former Harper senior adviser Tom Flanagan, including Alberta's Wildrose Alliance Party and the CBC, are distancing themselves from the politics professor after his comments on child pornography last night.
Terry Milewski's look at the Boeing F/A-18E Super Hornet, now emerging
as a rival to the Lockheed Martin F-35 as the Canadian Forces'
replacement for its aging CF-18s, really got the CBC Community talking. 
Young people today have an unprecedented amount of access to global information, but in this increasingly fast-paced, ever-changing digital landscape it can be easy to miss stories that are interesting, informative or useful.
Herbal incense containing synthetic cannibinoids can be purchased at head shops across Canada thanks to a legal grey area over which chemicals have been declared illegal and which have not.
Butchers and restaurateurs are reporting the
From skits involving Canadian actors to Life of Pi's many Oscar wins to Ben Affleck's acceptance speech for Argo, Canada was a big player at last night's Academy Awards.
CBC reporter Asha Tomlinson took a break from the breaking news desk to produce a series of stories on what it means to be black in contemporary Canada.
A prank that started with a misleading Disney World brochure in a teacher's desk and ended with a slide presentation to the whole graduating class at an Ontario public school is being called "bullying" and a breach of trust.