The Sunday Magazine with Piya Chattopadhyay

Piya Chattopadhyay talks with Bob Joseph and Maurice Switzer about whether we’ve actually reached a moment of national reckoning and what reconciliation should look like for citizens and their governments.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon on the extraordinary story of how a women-led Kurdish militia became the world’s greatest hope to defeat the Islamic State

Journalist Dan Robson explores what it means to lose a parent in his new memoir, Measuring Up

Panellists Susan Delacourt, a national columnist for the Toronto Star, and Emilie Nicolas, a columnist for Montreal's Le Devoir, join Piya Chattopadhyay to discuss Quebec's move to amend the constitution, this week's vote in parliament to prevent a pandemic election, and provincial re-opening plans.

Ahead of Tuesday's results for the Governor General's Literary Awards, Billy-Ray Belcourt joins Piya Chattopadhyay to discuss his memoir A History of My Brief Body — which has been nominated for a non-fiction award — and how love and joy can be liberating practices for Indigenous people.

Host Piya Chattopadhyay hosts a political panel with Susan Delacourt and Emilie Nicolas, discusses love and joy as acts of rebellion with Billy-Ray Belcourt, hears from listeners about the cabin/camp/cottage debate, talks heartbreak and poetry with Edward Hirsch, and chats about Indigenous fishing and research with Andrea Reid.

Heartbreak is hardly something we'd go out of our way to seek, but renowned American poet Edward Hirsch argues that it's one of the most important properties of poetry. He says it makes you feel the intensity of grief, and it helps us deal with the times we're inevitably going to have our hearts broken.

Nisga'a biologist and National Geographic explorer Andrea Reid has worked with fishing communities across the globe. But it was an opportunity to learn from her own nation's practices in northern British Columbia that led to her stepping into a new local role: to help run UBC's new Centre for Indigenous Fisheries.

Last week, we dug into the origins of what Canadians call summer getaways with linguist Sali Tagliamonte. This week, listeners from across Canada chime in with their own take on the camp/cabin/cottage debate.

Guest host David Common speaks to Paul Rogers about Palestinian-Israeli peace post-ceasefire, discusses the importance of urban play for kids with Tim Gill, digs into the differences between a cabin, a camp and a cottage with Sali Tagliamonte, chats with rising Québécois literary star Kevin Lambert about his newfound success, and biologist Emily Willingham about her research into animal penises.

Israel and Hamas have reached a ceasefire, ending 11 days of widespread destruction that killed more than 250 people — including 243 Palestinians and at least 12 people in Israel. Guest host David Common talks to Paul Rogers, a Professor of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford, U.K about the prospect of long lasting peace.

Linguist Sali Tagliamonte walks us through the cultural, geographic and economic factors that have shaped the language we use when describing cabin/camp/cottage season — and what our word choices say about us and our history.

Québécois writer Kevin Lambert may only be 28 years old, but his dark novels have already made him an award-winning author. Lambert joins guest host David Common to discuss his recently translated debut novel 'You Will Love What You Have Killed' — and his newfound success.

Host Piya Chattopadhyay discusses Palestinian-Israeli violence with Gershon Belkin, 'Wuhan Wuhan' with Yung Chang, the return of handshakes with Ella Al-Shamahi, and the secret life of taxi drivers with Marcello Di Cintio.

Dozens of Palestinians and Israelis — including children — have been killed by the latest spasms of violence in Israel and the Palestinian territories, and hundreds more have been wounded. Gershon Baskin, a former peace negotiator, columnist for the Jerusalem Post and Al Quds newspapers, and founder of the Israeli-Palestinian Public Policy Institute explains the rapid escalation of hostilities — and where the current violence appears to be heading.

16 months ago, the city of Wuhan, China, became notorious as the home for a frightening, new coronavirus that swept the world. But as Yung Chang's new film 'Wuhan Wuhan' shows, the reality was richer and more complex.

In 'Driven: The Secret Lives of Taxi Drivers', Marcello Di Cintio unearths the tales of a handful of Canadian cabbies, and he hears the stories you may miss if you don't pay attention.

Host Piya Chattopadhyay talks pandemic highs and lows with Jonathon Torrens, Elamin Abdelmamoud and Jen Zoratti; Anna Sale talks about hard conversations; and musician Beverly Glenn-Copeland discusses his late-career renaissance. Plus, odes to the postal codes and to moms who've had pandemic babies.

The creator and host of the podcast Death, Sex and Money brings her trade-mark deep empathy to the page in her new book, Let's Talk About Hard Things. Anna Sale joins The Sunday Magazine host Piya Chattopadhyay to discuss how to nurture your relationships with words, and why we need to give each other space to fall apart sometimes.