A young woman from Hungary is lured to Canada under false pretenses and then coerced into the sex trade. After enduring months of unimaginable exploitation and cruelty, including physical, psychological and emotional abuse, she broke free from the invisible chains that bound her. Today she speaks for those human trafficking victims in Canada who are too broken, too afraid or too ashamed to speak for themselves.

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The odds of being hit by lightning are roughly one in a million. On today's episode of Metamorphosis, we tell the story of a man who is that one in a million. Dr. Anthony Cicoria was a successful orthopaedic surgeon. He was happily married and the father of three young children. But a bolt out of the blue changed everything and resonated through every aspect of his life.

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Imagine you're an incredibly active 13-year-old, and suddenly given what amounts to a medical death sentence. That's what happened to Sylvain Bedard, the subject of this episode of Metamorphosis. After his 18-year-old sister died of a sudden heart attack, Sylvain was diagnosed with the same degenerative heart condition. Doctors told Sylvain it was quite likely he would die by his 18th birthday. But that's not how his story ends. Instead, a gift from a complete stranger gave Sylvain Bedard's story a remarkable new beginning.

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Today on Metamorphosis, we're telling the story of a young man from Colombia with no arms who arrives on a church doorstep in Toronto's Hispanic community looking for help. The community embraces him and helps him buy artificial limbs. But a terrible decision on his part leaves the community feeling angry and betrayed.

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Today's episode of Metamorphosis involves the transformation of two people: Mary Johnson and Oshea Israel. Their lives were devastated by murder and eventually transformed through the power of forgiveness.

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