He was a brilliant economist, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund. Pundits agreed: he was a shoo-in. Dominique Strauss-Kahn was going to be the next President of France.

And then came the sex scandals ... and they haven't stopped. Guest host Helen Mann speaks to investigative journalist Edward Jay Epstein about the rise and fall of the "Great Seducer."

Alison Redford: The re-elected Alberta premier's honeymoon didn't last long. She campaigned on taking a leadership role in Canada, but is being attacked by federal politicians.

Quebec student protests: Unrest continued on the streets of Montreal last night, following passage of two new laws designed to calm things down. Jim Brown talks with Quebecers Francine Pelletier and Dominique Jarry-Shore.

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Edmonton Symphony: Music director Bill Eddins has just returned from playing Carnegie Hall.

Newfoundland Pathology Scandal: Karin Wells speaks with breast cancer survivors Minnie Hoyles and Patricia Sweeney five years after their misdiagnosis. 

Orthodoxy and the Internet: Forty thousand Orthodox Jews in New York are gathering today to protest the internet. Jonathan Rosen is the author of The Talmud and the Internet: A Journey Between Two Worlds.

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Innocence: Alan Young is the founder and director of the Innocence Project at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto. It is seeking a legal ruling to require that evidence in murder cases not be destroyed.

The Will of the Land: For two decades, Swiss-born photographer and painter Peter Dettling has documented the beauty of the Canadian Rockies. But as millions of tourists come to enjoy it, it is being "loved to death."

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