A venomous session of Parliament has now adjourned after months of attacks and counter-attacks, a spending scandal in the Senate that will linger into summer and a Conservative preoccupation with the new Liberal leader. Time to talk politics.

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Ajit Varki believes that to really understand how we reached the top of the evolutionary ladder you have to be in denial. He shares his theories on how Denial, Self-Deception and False Beliefs allowed human beings to surpass other species, to survive ... thrive and think.

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What dilemmas will define Canada at home and abroad in the coming years? Humanitarian and former diplomat Stephen Lewis, journalist and host Lorna Dueck and award-winning writer, Dr. Vincent Lam debate the big issues at the Glenn Gould studio in Toronto. And later we ask if politicians should be held to a higher ethical standard.

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Talking money, morals and movements of change with rock-star philosophers Slavoj Zizek and Michael Sandel. Economists refer to the free market as the invisible hand. But for my Michael Sandel, it's become more like a scratching claw. He says market ideology has come to shape and influence parts of our lives and societies where it has no proper place. He argues that we don't just have a market economy... we live in a market society. Is it time for an ethical revolution?

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There's no truce in the war to save rare species. Habitats are smaller and under attack. Environmentalists argue it's a battle worth fighting. But are all species priceless in and of themselves... or are some just not worth as much of our concern and conservation efforts than others. According to one of the world's most iconic scientists, it's an ethical conundrum we will face. 

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Wars don't get much more confusing than the one in Afghanistan where enemy combatants look like farmers and battlegrounds lack front lines. Into that whirlwind stepped the Canadian army and with them Captain Robert Semrau. Here's his take on the day that ended his military career and sparked a national debate on soldiers ethics and the idea of mercy killing. And later, U.S. War resisters ask when soldiers have the right to follow their conscience.

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News that Montreal's Mayor Michael Applebaum is facing corruption-related charges has many wondering how the city will govern moving forward. Should the city of Montreal be placed under trusteeship by the province amidst Applebaum's arrest and charges?

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A spokeswoman for Quebec's anti-corruption unit says Montreal Mayor Michael Applebaum has been arrested. Alain Gravel, Host of Enquète, an investigative journalism program on Radio Canada joins us to tell us more.

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Canada's efforts at a trade deal with the European Union have been marked by missed deadlines, stubborn issues and wary sectors at home. With Prime Minister Stephen Harper poised to showcase a deal while at the G8 Summit, we look at what's at stake.

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Mistaken, misused, texted out of existence by the flurry of the thumb. The Society for the Protection of the Apostrophe is trying to save the apostrophe from atrophy, even as Kill-the-Apotrosphe.com aims for assassination. What's next? The hyphen?

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