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Game Changer

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 Student Protests as Game Changer?

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... Read More »

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Laws and Mores: The legal battles of Dr. Morgentaler

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... Read More »

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Whither the Eurozone

Europe today is reacting to two big elections, one in France ... ousting Nikola Sarkozy in favour of Socialist Francois Hollande and the the other... Read More »

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Philosopher King: Charles Taylor

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... Read More »

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Tracking The Charter of Rights - Part 1 & 2

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... Read More »

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How math equations changed the world

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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Primate Scientist Jane Goodall

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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Predator Drones

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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Reconciliation in the Anglican Church of Canada

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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Environmental Activist: Vandana Shiva

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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Climate Scientist: Michael Mann

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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Cyber Warfare: The Stuxnet Virus

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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Improving Native Health: Waneek Horn-Miller

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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After Fukishima's Nuclear Disaster

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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Robo-Call Scandal - Will it Stick?

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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The Hand of Fate: Dr. Sarah Jones

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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Ding, Dong ... Avon Calling

It is the company that empowered generations of women with a ring of a doorbell. Avon spread from North America to Russia and soon...

An Exploration of Dating Online

(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...

Ovarian Cancer Research: Game Changer

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...

Ovarian Cancer Game Changer

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... Read More »

China's Game Changer: 1976 Tangshan Quake

Our project Game Changer looks back at 1976... when the ground shifted seismically and politically for China. Ten years into the cultural revolution, the...

James Palmer - Game Changer

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... Read More »

Game Changer for Chile - Ricardo Largos

It is hard to imagine that one television discussion could change a nation, but that is exactly what happened when Ricardo Lagos publicly denounced...

Internet blackout against SOPA/PIPA a success

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...

Same-Sex Marriage Laws in Canada

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...

Prospector Shawn Ryan on Yukon Mining

In the old days, they panned the rivers and creeks north of here for the gold flakes that sent so many scurrying to the...

Inspiring The Arab Spring: Mohamed Bouazizi

As the Arab League monitors and the Syrian government continues to kill, it is worth noting that it was exactly a year ago a...

Peak Stuff: Consumption decoupled from economic growth

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...

Atos, an IT company bans internal e-mail

It began as simple time saver. No more stamps, no more phone calls when a quick email would suffice. It changed the game in...

Switching CFCs for HFCs: More harm than good?

Remember how we all stopped using CFCs in fridges and in aerosol cans, all because of the hole in the Ozone layer? We replaced...

Technologies & Innovations of the MIT Media Lab

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...

Changing the game with stem cell discovery

It was one of those Sundays, where one scientist was spelling off the other, checking the lab mice in a project that was all...

Past Aboriginal Housing Crises

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...

The First Ladies of the RCMP

The RCMP was one of the last major police forces in the world to admit women to its ranks in 1974. It took another...

Geoengineering to control climate change

It used to be dismissed as irresponsible science but Planet Hacking is getting a lot more attention these days. Geoengineering, altering the atmosphere to...

Whistleblowers concerned over safety of Bovine Growth Hormones

In the late 80s and through the nineties, three veterinarians with Health Canada were growing increasingly uncomfortable as they investigated bovine growth hormones to...

Ms. Muir vs. AB Govt on wrongful sterilization

She was little girl unloved and unsuspecting when her parents drove her up the hill in Red Deer Alberta. It was a moment that...

Game Changing moments from our listeners

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... Read More »

Changing the face of Schizophrenia: Keris Myrick

Keris Myrick hears voices no one else can hear. She learned to ignore them. She also learned to ignore the voices of mental health...

The Current Celebrates 75 Years of CBC Radio

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,...

Game Changers for Afghan Women & Girls

Back in the late 90s, Homemakers' Magazine shared the wrenching story of Afghan women and their treatment under the Taliban. With that article, Homemakers'...

After the Storm: Love After a Stroke

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...

Olympian John Carlos

It was the year of the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, the Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia, the assassination of Martin Luther King and the slaughter...

Game Changer: Our Bodies, Ourselves

It was trouble. Libraries banned it. Women hid their copies. Critics called it trash and pornographic. It dedicated chapters to lesbians, abortions, masturbation and...

Food as Game Changer

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...

Game Changer: 1973 Oil Embargo

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...

Quantum Computing

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...

Shannon Moroney's Story

When the man Shannon Moroney loved brutally attacked two women, she too became a victim. His actions destroyed her relationship and her career but...

Game Changer: Steve Jobs

The year was 1976 and in a suburban California garage, a 21 year old college drop out, Steve Jobs and a high school buddy...

Superweeds

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... Read More »