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Sunday April 03, 2016
The Sunday Edition What's it like to do stand-up for the first time?
Vanessa Caldwell just did her very first stand-up comedy show. After years of believing she didn't deserve to be in the spotlight, she actually got up on a stage and told some jokes.
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Sunday March 20, 2016
The Sunday Edition Is it a crime to give a pig water on a hot day?
Last summer, when Anita Krajnc pushed a water bottle into a truck-load of pigs on their way to slaughter. Krajnc was charged with criminal mischief. Karin Wells brings us Krajnc's story in her documentary, "They're Not Human, You Dumb Frick'in Broad!"
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Sunday April 10, 2016
The Sunday Edition The Meaningful Man - a one hour special
The Meaningful Man - a one hour special: A chronicle of survival and a call to life, Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning" has the power to change people's lives. The book is part memoir, part manifesto, and part discourse on human psychology. Seven decades after it was first published, it continues to inspire readers.
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Sunday May 01, 2016
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Why England's new $300-million polar research vessel SHOULD be called "Boaty McBoatface"- Michael's essay
How an internet contest designed as a serious search for a fitting name for a new scientific research vessel, yielded "Boaty McBoatface." The great naturalist David Attenborough is not amused. More read comments
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Race and Real Estate: Vancouver's China Syndrome - a Karin Wells documentary
Karin reports from Vancouver, where the most - and the wealthiest - Chinese immigrant investors have settled. The new Chinese are being blamed for pushing Vancouver real estate prices sky high. More read comments
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"Yes, It's a Thing" - The Doorway Effect
Have you ever headed upstairs, walked through the door of your bedroom, and then asked yourself, "Why did I come in here?" You may feel reassured to learn that yes, the so-called "doorway effect", is indeed "a thing." More read comments
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Two Waynes and a Shuster
Their humour was corny and slapstick. They sang songs, dressed up - even parodied Shakespeare. Wayne and Shuster were Canada's first TV megastars. Sons Brian and Michael Wayne, and daughter Rosie Shuster pay tribute to their famous fathers. More read comments
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