The Sunday Editionwith Michael Enright

For hygiene, for elegance, for so much more. John J. Boyd explains why it’s essential to always have a good-sized cloth handkerchief at the ready.

Mohamed Hage and Lauren Rathmell are greenhouse pioneers and agri-biz stars. Their company, Lufa Farms, specialises in growing vegetables on Montreal rooftops. For them, hydroponics, economy and ecology go hand-in-hand.

Sister Nora Nash has taken a vow of poverty, but she can hold her own in corporate boardrooms. She and her fellow nuns at the Sisters of St. Francis in Philadelphia are on a mission to convince companies like General Electric, ExxonMobil and Wells Fargo to care as much about the environment, income inequality and other social issues as they do about the bottom line.

Israel’s most important writer and peace activist talks about his early life and influences, his extraordinary process when he writes, and his passionate concern for the uncertain future of his country. Grossman spoke to Michael in front of an audience at the CBC’s Glenn Gould Theatre. On Thursday, he was awarded his country’s highest civilian honour, the 2018 Israel Prize for Literature.

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“Librarians are the trail guides who move youngsters through the thickets and forests of books in the uncharted world of the imagination.”

Paul Rogers is Professor of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford, and the author of 'Irregular War: ISIS and the New Threat from the Margins.'

Brampton’s Drug Treatment Court offers drug addicts at high risk to re-offend a choice — go to rehab, or go to jail. It’s an alternative, non-adversarial criminal court; one of 22 in the country.

Yascha Mounk's new research shows that growing numbers of people in democratic countries — especially younger people — don't consider it all that important whether they live in a democracy or not.

Thomas D'Arcy McGee transformed from a revolutionary Irish Catholic agitator to a Father of Confederation.

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After we aired a documentary about PhD students who bailed on academia, dozens of listeners wrote to us with stories of their own transitions out of higher education.

They’ve come a long way from the sciences and humanities. A florist, an instrument maker, a carpenter and a bike shop owner on why they, like so many others, said goodbye to academia, and how they built their "post-ac" lives.

"When we look south, we all too often take on a self-righteous attitude that what is happening to black people in the U.S. could not happen here."

In boardrooms across the country, First Nations communities are signing mega-deals to bring jobs and billions of dollars to struggling communities.

Helen Leask’s essay is called, “The Train, Re-Taken.”

Actor Ray Landry joins Michael to review listeners’ response to our joke interview with President Trump’s advisor on international trade, aka Peter Rabbit.

We live in the age of “alternative facts” and “fake news,” but rumours have been with us forever.

Veteran journalist Joanne Lipman says the culprit is “unconscious bias.”

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Michael shares his thoughts about the search for escape hatches from what often feels like a dystopian world.

His day job is in an office, but Canadian writer Pino Coluccio’s passion is writing poetry. He crafts sharp, witty poems about the absurdities of modern life, some of which are collected in his latest book, Class Clown.