The Sunday Editionwith Michael Enright

Nova Scotia now has more craft distillers per capita than anywhere else in the country, and distillers like Thomas Steinhart are using home-grown flavours like rosehip, mushroom, maple syrup and kelp in their award-winning products. David Gutnick's documentary is called "Home is Where The Gin Is."

Anna MacQuarrie’s adopted children suffered childhood traumas which have left them prone to violent outbursts at school. She believes everyone has a right to an inclusive education, and says when it is done right, violence and disruptions in the classroom can be controlled. In addition to being a parent, Ms. MacQuarrie is a human rights consultant for the advocacy group, Inclusion International.

Novelsit Patrick deWitt's latest book, French Exit, is a tragedy of manners with an absurdist twist. It was shortlisted for the 2018 Giller Prize.

A chronic cough can be exhausting, both physically and emotionally. There are many causes, none of them easily diagnosable. Dr. Jaclyn Smith is a pulmonologist and professor of respiratory medicine at the University of Manchester. She's also a member of the International Society for the Study of Cough.

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Canadian Lt.-Gen. Roméo Dallaire led the UN forces in Rwanda, and his warnings to the world about the violence fell on deaf ears. Within 100 days in 1994, supporters of the Hutu-majority government killed about 800,000 people, and Dallaire returned to Canada with PTSD and psychological scars he bears to this day.

As Nova Scotia introduces a new bill to automatically make every citizen an organ donor, host Michael Enright asks what's stopping us all from following the province's lead.

Lawyer Verena Tan calls the children of incarcerated Canadians an "invisible group," whose best interests are overlooked by the criminal justice system. In a new report commissioned by the Quaker group Canadian Friends Service Committee, she examined a year's worth of sentencing reports and found no cases where judges referenced the defendant's children.

When the Dionne quintuplets were born in in a tiny village in northern Ontario, they became the darlings of the world. Then they became a spectacle. Writer Shelley Wood has crafted a fictionalized account of their early years, The Quintland Sisters.

With student assaults on teachers on the rise, parents in Newmarket, Ont., are rallying to find a solution. But some say their call for help is being silenced.

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Deborah Lipstadt's new book on anti-Semitism comes at a time when the ancient hatred is finding new champions around the world. It is a clarion call to take anti-Semitism seriously as an evil that has led to the vilification, persecution and murder of millions of Jews for millennia.

On October 17, 1977, question period was broadcast on television for the first time, turning it from a daily chance to call the government to account, to a puffed-up piece of political theatre.

In Alisa Siegel's documentary, photographer Tony Luciani describes how taking photos of his mother, who is suffering from dementia, brought her a sense of purpose and a feeling of joy. “She was playing again, and to hell with what people think,” he said.

Though standing desks are now ubiquitous in the country's offices, one doctor says there's 'not much evidence' that making the switch has a positive impact on health.

Reporters spent countless news cycles fixated on the Mueller report, to their detriment, says media critic Jay Rosen. As the U.S. heads into another presidential campaign, he shares his recipe for improving political coverage going forward.

Sleep deprived? There's an app for that. In fact, there's a lot of apps for that. In his documentary, Ira Basen explores the exploding world of high-tech fixes for insomniacs — and speaks to one doctor who cautions against putting too much faith in them.

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A booklet published by the British Ministry of Information in 1942 called How To Keep Well in Wartime, contains health tips still of value today. Take, for example, this gem of advice about how to get enough sleep: "People who suffer from cold feet should put on socks."

Our recent documentary, "Hard Lessons," told the shocking story of elementary school teachers who are regularly physically attacked by their young students. Why is this happening? What can be done to prevent it? And why do principals and school boards want to keep this issue from the public?

Every day, tens of millions of litres of treated effluent pour into Boat Harbour from Northern Pulp, a mill located across the water from Pictou. Successive governments have attempted — and failed — to clean up Nova Scotia's most contaminated site. Now, a deadline looms. The company has been ordered to stop the effluent flow into Boat Harbour by Jan. 31, 2020.

In this episode of our recurring series, "Think Again", Michael talks to Australian researcher Flavia Cicuttini, who upends everything you ever thought you knew about breakfast.