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Monday: A Mayor's Power

Some of Canada's mayors say they can't build better cities unless they're granted more personal power.
 
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Panda Diplomacy

It look as if Prime Minister Harper has convinced China to loan Canada a pair of pandas. With the two countries considering a free trade agreement, is panda diplomacy significant any more?

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Syria's security forces targeting hospitals

Activists and human rights groups are concerned the brutal crackdown in Syria isn't just against anti-regime protesters, but against medical workers who try to treat the wounded. They also say that at least 400 children have died in the violence. Today, we'll look at the situation facing wounded Syrian protesters and the medical practitioners who are risking their lives to try to save them.

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Old tribal tensions in South Sudan

Chances are, you wouldn't recognize the new flag of South Sudan if someone waved it in your face. There are lots of people in South Sudan who don't feel like recognizing it either since their government seems incapable of protecting them. Only months ago, people in South Sudan were celebrating their new country's independence. There's a lot less to celebrate now as old tribal rivalries rage in the countryside.

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Latest Census confirms Ontario's decline

Get ready to gloat Canada, Ontario for so long the dominant province is confronting cold calculations this morning that confirm its industrial, economic and demographic power is on the wane. The Consensus out of the latest Census is that the very things that made Ontario surge now make it sluggish and the center of the universe is tilting West.

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Thursday's Checking-In

Michael Healey shared the story of his sidelined play, PROUD and then many of you got LOUD. We'll share the reaction to the controversy over a creative chill from government and we'll revisit the question of mandatory disclosure of HIV/AIDs. We'll also share a few more hair-raising tales from those of you who heard our documentary on Sleep Paralysis only to realize that was the very thing terrorizing Your Own Nights.

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The Boy with the Past (Documentary)

He was 16 years old when his twins were born. A teenage father who'd agreed with his 15 year old girlfriend that the babies would be better off adopted by another couple. But that didn't make it easy. No one ever talks about the teenage Dad. He is often ignored, shunned or shamed. Aziza Sindhu brings us the story of one man and the children he does not know and cannot forget.

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Regulating Trans Fats

They've been linked to coronary heart disease and increased cholesterol levels and now Trans Fats are being linked to Politics. Government documents show Health Canada was ready to regulate the amount of trans fats in food products - it even had its messaging in place - but the whole idea was scrapped with nary an explanation. Today, we're looking for one.

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Bringing Baby Doc Duvalier to justice in Haiti

Call it a victory for impunity. A judge in Haiti says Baby Doc Duvalier's record of extra-judicial killings, torture and disappearances has hit a statute of limitations. He could face corruption charges but the penalties would be light. And while a majority of Haitians may be too young to remember Baby Doc's 15 year rule, a whole lot of people in Montreal who fled Haiti recall it all. From the anger in the diaspora to the amnesia on the ground, to the seeming indifference in the international community, we're looking at Justice Haitian-style.

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Policing the Mentally Ill

Their lives end with a banner headline. A person believed to be mentally disturbed, shot dead by police. It is happening enough in this country that some police forces are changing how they interact with those suffering mental illness. Today, we're examining how police training and police practice is trying to adjust to recognize mental illness on the beat.

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