The Sunday Editionwith Michael Enright

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.

Several women are assuming traditional male lead roles at Stratford this year. Seana McKenna and Martha Henry explore what female actors bring to male characters.

Emelia Symington Fedy and her feminist friends used to call each other “Wives for Life." Then having children got in the way.

John Cacioppo was among the first social scientists to link chronic loneliness to premature death. He died last month.

Actor Ray Landry returns to The Sunday Edition to impersonate U.S. trade adviser Peter Navarro. Landry played the roles of Jimmy Carter and Mitt Romney in previous years, when April 1st also fell on a Sunday.

Although the Messiah is often associated with Christmas, Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus originally was conceived as a work for Easter. Our documentary, “Hallelujah People!” traces the origins and the mysteries of this wondrous word, from ancient Israel to today.

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“Some cops have a name for it: ‘testilying.’ It's also called Blue Lies."