The Age of the Drone
There’s a revolution happening and it’s overhead. The drones are coming. From Amazon to Google, the government and your neighbours, everyone is embracing the drone. The big question is: who gets to use them, and how?
Recent Episodes
The Truth About Female Desire
Sunday, November 5, 2017 at 2 PM
An astonishingly frank exploration of what turns Canadian women on and why. A generation ago a woman who liked sex went to great lengths to hide it. Now she brags about it on national TV. Canadian women tell shocking truths about female desire.
Roboticize Me
Saturday, September 3, 2016 at 2 PM
Comedic actor Peter Keleghan take us on a trip through a wild new world of robotics.
Dot.Con
Thursday, June 9, 2016 at 9 PM
The digital era is good for most people. But it is beyond good for con artists. Go inside the writhing underworld world of online scams.
Deluged by Data
Saturday, March 12, 2016 at 2 PM
For better or worse, we’re bombarded with information in today’s digital age. Is this flood of data a blessing or a curse? A new way to understand our lives – or just a way to miss out on living them? Can we learn to control our data, before it controls us?
Vietnam: Canada’s Shadow War
Saturday, January 16, 2016 at 2 PM
On the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, we look at Canada's role in America's war in Vietnam and how this country was changed by the experience.
The Mystery of the Bell
Saturday, January 2, 2016 at 2 PM
From Ontario to Alberta, we follow a trail of clues through four generations of suspects in the search for one of the most sought after objects in Canadian history.
Weather Gone Wild
Saturday, December 26, 2015 at 2 PM
Summer snowstorms. Disastrous flooding. Devastating wind and ice storms. Rampaging wildfires. Ruinous drought. Our weather has taken a turn for the extreme. And it’s going to get worse. As intense and unpredictable weather becomes the new normal, how can we adapt and survive?
Forgotten No More: The Lost Men of the 78th
The remains of eight Canadian WW1 soldiers are found in a French garden, nearly 100 years after they died in the Battle of Amiens.
Volunteers Unleashed
Saturday, October 10, 2015 at 2 PM
Going overseas with good intentions does not guarantee good will be done. A look at 'voluntourism' — the fastest growing and most controversial travel sector.
Royals & Animals: Till Death Do Us Part
Thursday, October 8, 2015 at 9 PM
Some they love to pet and pamper, others they love to shoot — the contradictory relationship between the British royals and animals.
A TV Renaissance
Saturday, September 26, 2015 at 2 PM
In the online age, the death of television has been widely predicted. But guess what? TV is going through a renaissance, and Canadians at home and abroad are in the thick of it. From HBO to Netflix, TV has never been more popular.
Wild & Dangerous: The World of Exotic Pets
Thursday, September 17, 2015 at 9 PM
A look into the relationships between people and their exotic pets, examining the issues that come with keeping undomesticated animals. Does love for a pet outweigh concern for public safety, endangered species and habitats at risk?
Transforming Gender
Thursday, August 27, 2015 at 9 PM
The era of transgender enfranchisement is upon us. Through personal stories we pull back the curtain on what it means to be — fundamentally and in your deepest core — in conflict with the gender you were assigned at birth.
Tales from Kingston Pen
Saturday, May 2, 2015 at 2 PM
Stories of redemption, punishment, and trauma from one of the oldest prisons in the world, the Kingston Penitentiary, which will finally close its doors in 2014.
The Condo Game
Friday, January 9, 2015 at 2 PM
Look at the forces at play behind the fastest moving condo market in North America, Toronto, and discover that the glittering glass hides a sea of troubles.
State of Incarceration
Saturday, October 18, 2014 at 9 PM
Crime rates in Canada are plummeting, so why are we spending hundred of millions on new prisons?
Syria: Behind Rebel Lines
Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 9 PM
Behind the rebel lines in Syria. Eyewitness account of a revolution.
The Psychopath Next Door
Most of us think of the psychopath as a serial killer, but most are not physically violent criminals and they live among us, undetected. Charming, manipulative and ruthless, these are the “snakes in suits” who don’t rob the bank, but instead become a director of it.
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