The Sunday Editionwith Michael Enright

It's a journalist's job to find the human stories behind disasters, violence, tragedy and hardship. But the telling of these stories can sometimes have devastating impacts for the subject and sometimes the journalist.

For 25 Grade 6 students in Saskatoon, school happens in a nursing home — all year long. Talk about a different kind of education. David Gutnick's documentary is called "The School of Real Life."

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.

As a boy, Rod MacLeod was sexually assaulted by a Basilian priest over a period of four years. He refused all offers to settle his case out of court; instead, he went to lawyer Rob Talach, known as "the priest hunter."

Listen to this week's episode with guest host David Gray.

Sharon Wood, Laval St. Germain and Will Gadd are three Canadian adventurers who test human limits on extreme landscapes. They speak about about the risks and rewards of their incredible feats — and some of the world's most forbidding, yet vulnerable places.

Early risers are seen as more dependable, more productive, even as holding the high moral ground. But maybe it’s time to think again. Camilla Kring, says we must abandon our nine-to-five mentality. She consults with organizations around the world about how to accommodate the internal sleep clocks of employees, and why that will improve life for everyone.

Michael Crummey's latest book, The Innocents, is the story of an orphaned brother and sister struggling to survive, utterly alone, on a remote cove in 18th Century Newfoundland.

Ontario law passed in 2016 gave equal rights to same-sex parents and multi-parent families.

Woodstock was more than a music festival; it was a massive celebration of counterculture, free love, and peace. York University's rock 'n' roll professor, Rob Bowman, takes us back to those heady days of the 1960s with some of the tunes that installed the event on the musical map.

Listen to this week's episode with guest host David Gray.

For decades, doctors have depended on surgery, radiation and chemotherapy to treat cancer patients. The new hope for many cancer scientists and patients is the emergence of immunotherapy — using the body's own immune system to fight cancer.

Toni Morrison, a giant of American literature and culture, died last Monday. In 1989, she spoke with Michael Enright on As It Happens, and they discussed what was then a growing movement among black Americans to refer to themselves as African-American.

Calls for tougher restrictions on guns in America are routinely batted away by gun advocates who invoke the Second Amendment. In this 2013 interview, we speak with Saul Cornell, a professor of history at Fordham University and the former Director of the Second Amendment Research Center about what the Second Amendment actually says and means.

Canadian poet Alexandra Oliver uses old forms to explore contemporary concerns like the consequences of technology, living in the suburbs, and leaving places behind. Her recent books include Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway, Let the Empire Down and On the Oven Sits a Maiden.

Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah speaks with Michael Enright about the falsehoods and contradictions that prevent us from understanding who we really are, and how we can best live together. His book is called The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity.

When swan lover Beverly Kingdon and biologist Harry Lumsden joined forces, good things happened. The woman who loved swans and the Ontario wildlife scientist with a cause have worked tirelessly to bring the largest swans in the world back from the brink. Theirs is an environmental success story. Alisa Siegel’s documentary is called “A Village of Swans, A Village of People.”

Listen to this week's episode with guest host Kevin Sylvester.

Andrea "Dre" Barone has loved playing hockey since he was a little kid. But the sport has not always loved him back. He has been subjected to abusive homophobic comments, which first left him feeling bruised but then inspired him to fight homophobia in the locker room and on the ice.

A Toronto dentist has a secret weapon in her quest to soothe her patients: a friendly dog named Moishie who will happily snuggle for the duration of a procedure.

Canada has always punched above its weight in the world of children's books, but we seem to be in a golden age right now, with Canadian illustrators winning international awards, hitting bestseller lists and changing tastes.

Woodstock was more than a music festival; it was a massive celebration of counterculture, free love, and peace. York University's rock 'n' roll professor, Rob Bowman, takes us back to those heady days of the 1960s with some of the tunes that installed the event on the musical map.