The Sunday Editionwith Michael Enright

Sarah Valiunas, 26, was a popular busker in Nelson, B.C., who died of an overdose in Toronto in August 2018. Bob Keating's documentary is called "The Voice of Sarah Vee."

Gwynne Dyer joined Michael Enright to discuss the connection between automation, joblessness and populism, which is the subject of his new book Growing Pains: The Future of Democracy (and Work)

Vicki Fecteau, director of the Canadian Coalition for Farm Animals, talks to Michael Enright about vast number of animals that die in barn fires in Canada and what should be done.

Brock University oenologist Belinda Kemp deconstructs what goes into the price of a bottle of wine.

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“If you made a grand total of $9,380, down somewhat from the year before, but you love your job — congratulations. You are a Canadian writer.”

In Kakora, Tanzania, clean water — funded, in part, by the Canadian government — is transforming the lives of women and girls.

Less than 10 years after receiving $14 billion from federal and provincial governments, GM is closing its plant in Oshawa, killing 3,000 jobs. Just how much power do governments have to create jobs in the private sector?

In episode one of The Backlist, a series about Canadian novels that have fallen out of public memory — or never got the attention they deserved in the first place — B.C. writer Theresa Kishkan talks about Ethel Wilson’s 1954 novel Swamp Angel.

Research shows the internet is shortening our attention span and harming memory, creativity, wisdom and the capacity for empathy and critical thinking. Michael Enright talks to Maryanne Wolf, the author of Come Home: The Reading Brain in the Digital World.

The Sunday Edition reveals the truth about gift-giving. Women have been silent for far too long about buying presents that their husbands give to others. Producer Frank Faulk rips the wrapping paper off this widespread undercover activity built on exploited labour and deception.

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"There seems to be something in the DNA of large and hallowed institutions, especially Catholic ones, which breeds delay, dissembling, cover-up," says Michael Enright, who attended St. Michael’s high school in the 1950s.

The Canadian government provides aid to Yemen, which faces the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. But it also sells arms to Saudi Arabia — even though airstrikes carried out by the Saudi-led coalition waging war against Houthi rebels have killed thousands of Yemeni civilians.

In 1982, Clark sued his parents for the right to leave the institution they placed him in as a child. It was a pivotal moment in the Canadian disability rights movement, and still has echoes today. David Gutnick's documentary revisits the landmark case.

Twin State Typewriter served the town of White River Junction, Vermont for half a century, selling and fixing typewriters that arrived by mail from across the country. Alisa Siegel attended the farewell party for the store’s owners, Wanda and Don Nalette. Her documentary is called “Beautiful Instruments.” (Correction: Twin State Typewriter is in Vermont, not New Hampshire as was originally written here.)

Michael Enright interviewed Margaret Atwood at a fundraiser for The Literary Review of Canada.

Section 33, a clause in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, allows politicians to pass laws that violate the Charter. It is also known as the notwithstanding clause, and in more than three decades, it has been rarely invoked. But law professor Benjamin Berger fears that recent threats to use the clause could signal a dangerous turn.

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