Gamechanger
The stories behind the people, events, and ideas that have fundamentally changed the way we move through our world ... the decisions we make, the actions we take and how we figure out the best path forward.
Quebec students forced the Charest government into a compromise on the incendiary issue of tuition hikes and one of their leaders is insisting their motivation...
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It was a fight in Quebec that polarized Canadians when Dr. Henry Morgentaler stood trial for performing an abortion. As MPs confront a private members...
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Europe today is reacting to two big elections, one in France ... ousting Nikola Sarkozy in favour of Socialist Francois Hollande and the the other...
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Our project Game Changer focuses on Charles Taylor. We speak with the Canadian, the philosopher and public intellectual so admired that last month scholars from...
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As Game-Changers go, they don't get much bigger or more controversial. Thirty years ago, with the flourish of signatures we got our Canadian Constitution complete...
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There is a story behind every equation and the very best of those equations have helped us to understand and shape our world. Ian...
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Jane Goodall is one of the world's most respected animal scientists. And one of the best-known scientists of any kind. Among her groundbreaking discoveries...
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In warfare, death from the sky is almost as old as the Zeppelin. But the Predator drones may have brought something new to violent...
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James Ferry was told 20 years ago that he did not belong as a priest in the Anglican church. This past weekend at Holy...
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Her influence has taken root in India and is growing around the world. She's fighting for farmers, the seeds they plant, and the food...
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The average author might have been delighted at the idea that reviews were already popping up for a book not yet published. But for...
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As viruses go there has been none more stealthy or sophisticated. The Stuxnet virus wormed its way into untold numbers of computers around the...
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Waneek Horn-Miller came of age in the political turmoil of Oka and went on to become one of the few Aboriginal Canadians in Olympic...
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A year ago a single country was rocked by triple disasters in a single day. The first anniversary of Japan's 3/11 is this Sunday....
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012 | Categories: Gamechanger |
The outrage and questions over the Conservative's alleged election tactics keep on coming down the line. Yesterday, Opposition MPs seized on the story of...
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012 | Categories: Gamechanger |
In the summer of 2009, Sarah Jones was a pediatric surgeon hanging out with her family at their home in the country when an...
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It is the company that empowered generations of women with a ring of a doorbell. Avon spread from North America to Russia and soon...
(Photo by: Flickr User, kjunstorm) Stats show about 1 in 5 new romantic relationships these days get their start online and for same-sex couples, that...
A Quebec cancer researcher may have made a real game changing discovery for women's health. Dr. Lucy Gilbert believes ovarian cancer can be detected...
A Quebec cancer researcher may have made a real game changing discovery for women's health. Dr. Lucy Gilbert believes ovarian cancer can be detected...
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Our project Game Changer looks back at 1976... when the ground shifted seismically and politically for China. Ten years into the cultural revolution, the...
Our project Game Changer looks back at 1976... when the ground shifted seismically and politically for China. Ten years into the cultural revolution, the earth...
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It is hard to imagine that one television discussion could change a nation, but that is exactly what happened when Ricardo Lagos publicly denounced...
In the wake of the coordinated withdrawal of service by prominent internet companies including Wikipedia, U.S. lawmakers are backing away from two controversial proposed...
Phyllis Siegel & Connie Kopelov, first same-sex couple to marry in Manhattan, NY. Today our project Game Changer examines Canada's influence in the world-wide...
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 | Categories: Gamechanger |
In the old days, they panned the rivers and creeks north of here for the gold flakes that sent so many scurrying to the...
As the Arab League monitors and the Syrian government continues to kill, it is worth noting that it was exactly a year ago a...
Anyone who's sat through first-year economics knows societies have to consume to grow. But we may need to rewrite the Economics 101 textbook. We...
Thursday, December 15, 2011 | Categories: Gamechanger |
It began as simple time saver. No more stamps, no more phone calls when a quick email would suffice. It changed the game in...
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 | Categories: Gamechanger |
Remember how we all stopped using CFCs in fridges and in aerosol cans, all because of the hole in the Ozone layer? We replaced...
They developed The Kindle, Guitar Hero and the little robot vacuum cleaner that scuttles along the floor. But they've also created the exo-skeleton robots...
It was one of those Sundays, where one scientist was spelling off the other, checking the lab mice in a project that was all...
Today, our project Game Changer looks back at First Nation communities to ask why wasn't each a Game Changer for itself and for the...
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 | Categories: Gamechanger |
The RCMP was one of the last major police forces in the world to admit women to its ranks in 1974. It took another...
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 | Categories: Gamechanger |
It used to be dismissed as irresponsible science but Planet Hacking is getting a lot more attention these days. Geoengineering, altering the atmosphere to...
In the late 80s and through the nineties, three veterinarians with Health Canada were growing increasingly uncomfortable as they investigated bovine growth hormones to...
She was little girl unloved and unsuspecting when her parents drove her up the hill in Red Deer Alberta. It was a moment that...
Our season-long look at Game Changers examines those moments that changed ordinary lives in ways no one could anticipate. We asked for your stories. You...
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Keris Myrick hears voices no one else can hear. She learned to ignore them. She also learned to ignore the voices of mental health...
Today on The Current, we celebrate 75 years of game changing moments on CBC Radio. Step onto a pebbley beach in France on D-Day,...
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 | Categories: Gamechanger |
Back in the late 90s, Homemakers' Magazine shared the wrenching story of Afghan women and their treatment under the Taliban. With that article, Homemakers'...
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 | Categories: Gamechanger |
Right now across this country as the weak October light comes through the window, someone who you don't know or someone you know all...
It was the year of the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, the Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia, the assassination of Martin Luther King and the slaughter...
It was trouble. Libraries banned it. Women hid their copies. Critics called it trash and pornographic. It dedicated chapters to lesbians, abortions, masturbation and...
We've got billions of people to feed on this planet and billions more on the way and yet 75-percent of the world's farm land...
The U.S. still walks a tightrope with events that began at this precise time four decades ago, when infuriated Saudis along with other Arab...
If there really are multiple universes with multiple you's and I's ...its not just grammar that will be a challenge. David Deutsch, an esteemed...
When the man Shannon Moroney loved brutally attacked two women, she too became a victim. His actions destroyed her relationship and her career but...
The year was 1976 and in a suburban California garage, a 21 year old college drop out, Steve Jobs and a high school buddy...
They call them Superweeds choking whole fields of crops resistant to the very chemical that was supposed to kill them. Glyphosate or Roundup-ready crops...
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