Doc Projectwith Acey Rowe

In this week's episode we bring you two stories — about our homes, how we shape them and in turn how they shape us. Sean Towgood has some helpful tips on setting up your home to weather the shelter-in-place order. And Richard Kemick reminisces about his family house from the confines of his own home.

Ever since she was little, Jodee Mundy has moved between the Deaf community and mainstream society, feeling a little out of place in both. In this documentary, we explore what it was like for Mundy to be the constant interpreter, to witness her parents and brothers negotiate a world that is not set up to accommodate them, and what happened when she finally snapped.

As COVID-19 spreads in prisons, a lot of the conversation has focused on releasing non-violent offenders. But according to Ontario's Auditor General, 71 per cent of people in Ontario jails aren’t necessarily offenders at all. They are pretrial — detained, but presumed innocent — like 21-year-old "T" who was held at the Toronto East Detention Centre.

Amiththan Sebarajah is a through hiker who's clocked over 10,000 km of long-distance hiking. As a person of colour, he's always been an anomaly on the trail. But his most recent hike brought his trauma as a child in Sri Lanka to the surface.

Rachel has dissociative identity disorder, formerly called multiple personality disorder. There are 11 personalities — or alters — within her system. Rachel is the main personality of this system, the long term host, as she describes it. 

Three researchers were given rare access to an immigration holding centre to study the effects of detention on adults and children. They encountered a system that stripped everyone of the agency to help.

Over the course of eight years, Sharon and Kim Greenock fostered five children. They already had three kids of their own. Along the way, the couple learned about the joy, grief, chaos, worry and love that comes with fostering children.

Swinn’s Service, a garage near Tillsonburg, Ontario, is a family-run business passed down from father to son. It's facing closure once its current owner retires because cars are increasingly computerized and few mechanics want to move to the country.

Connie Woods and Cynthia Laliberte were children when most of their family were murdered in their home. They say they never received the government or community support they would have needed. Now, they're asking why not?

Eunice Kim came to Canada from Korea when she was five years old, but had never heard of the term 'han,' sometimes referred to as "Korean rage."

In this week's episode we bring you two stories — about how our voices shape who we are. Gretel Kahn embarks on a journey to change her accent. And Joceline Doucette changes her creative pursuits when a medical condition impacts her voice.

A Namibian woman, the mother of two Canadian-born children, has gone into hiding in Fort McMurray because she fears deportation. Ngurimuje Mujoro's spouse has applied to sponsor her as a permanent resident, but the Canada Border Services Agency says a pending application does not stay a removal.

Universities have raised concerns about students at public schools taking some of their courses at unaffiliated private schools, where for a fee they can have a better chance at the marks needed to get into the post-secondary institution of their choice.

The Canadian government declared the Sinixt First Nation extinct and struck it from the Indian Act in 1956. The group is still fighting today for recognition to prove that they are, indeed, living.