Sunday April 30, 2017

2017 Gabriel Awards

Three documentaries produced for The Sunday Edition, have just been recognised with Gabriel award.

Posted: Apr 30, 2017 12:06 PM ET
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Sunday July 02, 2017

THE SUNDAY EDITION How the Vimy myth was created, and why it's wrong to perpetuate it

If there's one thing bitter political foes can agree on, it's that the World War 1 battle of Vimy Ridge was the smithy in which Canadian nationhood was forged. But some historians take issue with this. They argue that the Vimy narrative of heroism, unity and triumph, was non-existent in the years after the war — that it was invented for purely political aims many decades later. Ian McKay is the L.R. Wilson Chair in Canadian History at McMaster University. He's the co-author, along with Jamie Swift, of "The Vimy Trap: Or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Great War."

Posted: Jul 02, 2017 3:51 PM ET
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Sunday July 09, 2017

THE SUNDAY EDITION Using comics to explore foreign reporting and the isolation of being held hostage

In recent decades, there has been an explosion of comics and graphic novels dealing with very weighty subjects ... like grief, war, foreign politics and even the Holocaust. French-Canadian cartoonist Guy Delisle is renowned for his graphic novel travelogues, and his new book, "Hostage", is an intimate exploration of the experience of being kidnapped. Sarah Glidden made a name for herself with her graphic novel, "How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less," and her new book is "Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria and Iraq."

Posted: Jul 09, 2017 5:09 PM ET
Last Updated: Jul 07, 2017 6:14 PM ET read comments
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Featured Episode

Sunday July 16, 2017
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"The gods didn't warn us": a poem about the B.C. wildfires

As flames continue to consume forests and towns in her home province, we asked one of Canada’s most respected and prolific poets to write about fire. Lorna Crozier’s poem is called “The Gods Don’t Tell Us Everything.” More Jul 16, 9:52 AM ET read comments

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- Baseball honchos want to speed up the game. Are they right?
  
  Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred has been making noises about changing the game, changes that would pick up the pace. While the baseball season is in full swing, we speak with Stacey May Fowles, author of Baseball Life Advice, and Jamie Campbell, former play-by-play commentator, now host of Blue Jays Baseball on Sportnet. More Jul 14, 4:09 PM ET read comments
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- Why we need baseball in these trying times - Michael's essay
  
  In these turbulent times, Michael gives thanks for the start of the baseball season and the calming effects of the game. More Jul 12, 2:32 PM ET read comments
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- Canadian scientist builds bridges to reach climate change skeptics like Trump
  
  Donald Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris Accord on climate change left the United States all on its own at the recent G20 meetings. We re-visit Michael Enright's April 2016 conversation with Katharine Hayhoe, the director of the Climate Science Center and a professor of political science at Texas Tech University. She is also a Canadian, and one of the most prominent climate scientists working in the United States today. More Jul 14, 6:23 PM ET read comments
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- A book club for two, still going after 35 years — on the phone
  
  Two friends. Two cities. With their very own read-aloud book club. A little War and Peace down the line? Alisa Siegel's documentary is called "Telephone Books." More Jan 06, 5:04 PM ET read comments
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