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A new report from the Mental Health Commission of Canada hopes to persuade Ottawa to take a lead role on mental health care. It says,...
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Today on the anniversary of VE Day, what do we talk about when we talk about war? Noah Richler argues the Harper government and militarists...
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She spent her childhood in the High North, the daughter of nomadic parents. Her Inuit community was little more than a trading post. But in...
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Over the last 28 years, Associated Press reporter Micheal Graczyk has made the trek to tiny Huntsville Texas, home to co-eds, convicts and those on...
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Fredrik Gertten comes from Sweden and makes documentaries that focus on the struggles of the vulnerable. But when he made a documentary about a workers...
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One of the very few journalists to have ever interviewed Bin Laden or seen the inside of the Pakistan compound where he lived and hid...
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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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Canada has more female premiers now than at any point in the country's history. Kathy Dunderdale is Newfoundland and Labrador's first female premier, and the country's...
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The West African country hopes to remain peaceful after a long-awaited War Crimes verdict. A Vancouver man -- with fond childhood memories-- is trying to...
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Meet Kim Motley, a former American beauty pageant winner who is facing the ugly side of Afghanistan's justice system. She is the only foreign lawyer...
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Taras Gresco is the author of a thought-provoking book entitled Straphanger. He argues, bikes and efficient public transit are the benchmarks by which cities will...
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As a girl Deborah Feldman was not allowed to read. She'd hide books under her mattress in a spirit of defiance against the restrictive life...
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It began as a film to document, the plight of the indigenous people of Guatemala in the midst of a brutal counter-insurgency campaign. Thirty years...
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Are we immune from a Wall Street style meltdown? A controversial book raises doubts that our banking and financial system is somehow morally superior and...
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It is a race Alberta politics hasn't seen for a generation as the Progressive Conservative dynasty that has swallowed so many seats in so many...
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All eyes are on Syria, its dictator feeling the international pressure to back down, its people still vulnerable in an uprising that they have stubbornly...
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Something odd is afoot in Beijing. The most troublesome bits of Chinese history have disappeared from the bookstores. The month of February has been scrubbed...
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Today, we explore one of the Titanic's most moving stories - the band that played on dekc as the great ship went down almost a...
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It's often said that nations and their people are shaped by war. Indeed it's conflict that dominates the news and colors our world view. Whether...
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From the 1980s to the 1990s and now into the 2010s . successive federal governments have snipped, clipped and sliced the CBC's taxpayer-funded allowance. Now...
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Statistics show 40-percent of working wives in the U.S. and an estimated 30-percent in Canada earn more than their male partners, a shift that is...
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If you really want to know how the world economy is affecting people maybe you should head to the tin shacks and fetid alley of...
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This morning we dissect the new budget and check in with the government's Minister of State for Finance, and two critics from the other side...
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There's not much entertaining about the middle ages... the wars, the plagues, the smells. But one medieval sport seems to be enjoying a renaissance. Today,...
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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 Stewart...
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It's an open debate how much Stephen Harper may have changed Canada. But can you imagine raising the GST, or reviving the long form census?...
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Many people who were abused in the Catholic Church found friends and support in a group known as the Survivors Network of those Abused...
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When the end comes, will you be ready? The preppers will be. Many people believe governments and societies aren't ready for a serious emergency, let...
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Today, 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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Greg Gilhooly's name isn't on any of the court documents. He didn't have an opportunity to read a victim impact statement into the public record....
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You likely think it's a good habit to brush your teeth after every meal. Certainly the toothpaste companies do -- that's why they invented the...
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When Canada's Immigration Minister, Jason Kenney, talks about transformational change, he's not engaging in hyperbole. Kenney has either introduced or is planning to introduce a...
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LISTEN HERE to our series of conversations with the candidates running for leadership of the NDP. We have spoken to every contender except Thomas Mulcair....
He's a reservist in the Canadian Armed Forces, a small business owner and an investment consultant with an MBA. He is not an elected politician...
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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 Micheal...
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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 competition....
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Miguel Quintana talks about the realities, fears and complexities of life in the contaminated zone in Fukushima... through the eyes of one farmer who stayed...
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The world is a-Twitter about the upsurge of activism at the click of a button. Online movements doing the work of journalists, governments and traditional...
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The women have taken to the streets. The parents are running the protests. Across Japan, the fallout from the triple disasters of earthquake, tsunami and...
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She may be one of the youngest woman in parliament and she's not the newest but Niki Ashton's message is all about "NEW Politics" .....
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As observers from the EU, the U.S., the OSCE and fifteen-thousand assorted and angry Moscovites questioned the veracity of Vladimir Putin's victory in Sunday's Russian...
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He points out he's the only NDP leadership candidate who's already defeated a Tory MP to get elected. Nathan Cullen is also the only one...
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Today, we'll talk to the man who was at the helm for many years about investigating alleged wrong-doing. Canada's former chief electoral officer, Jean-Pierre Kingsley believes...
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She began as a booking agent for Air Canada, joined the union and eventually rose to the highest ranks of the labour movement. Peggy Nash...
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His has been a life steeped in politics and the NDP, from his mother's storied political career, to his time as an aid worker, a...
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if you think teens are using social media to stay connected, what happens when it creates a disconnect? New studies show teenage exposure to aggressive...
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He sits on the board of a Venture Capital fund and fights for higher corporate tax rates. As a quintessential backroom strategist, he was invisible...
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Crunch the numbers and it is neither Conventional Crude nor Unconventional Oil Sands fuel that will send global temperatures rising highest .. fastest. That distinction...
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They have been dubbed the NEETs... not in education, employment or training. A cohort of European youth between 18 and 25 whose ambitions for work...
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What is David Agus trying to tell us? The outspoken U.S. oncologist argues that we can bring an end to the illnesses that plague us...
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