The Sunday Editionwith Michael Enright

The Falkland Islands, a British Overseas Territory, was invaded by Argentine forces on April 2, 1982. When they retreated 10 weeks later, they left behind an estimated 25,000 landmines. Removing them is the last battle of that war, and the men fighting it are from Zimbabwe. They’ve been de-mining the area since 2009. Their job will be done by the end of 2020. Every mine will be removed, but not every de-miner will go home.

Toronto chef and food activist Joshna Maharaj believes that institutions such as hospitals, prisons and long term care facilities too often rely on “Weekend at Bernie's”-style cooking: propping up dead meals with cornstarch. She is on a mission to change all that.

Kristina Allen of Elysian Weddings and Events in P.E.I. says she and her team of consultants have been spending a lot of time consoling their clients and helping them make difficult decisions about their best-laid plans during this pandemic.

Larry Kramer's rhetoric was inflammatory and could be divisive, but when he was on a tear, people noticed and change happened. Kramer died on May 27, 2020 at the age of 84. Michael Enright spoke with Kramer in 2007 — an intense conversation with someone who changed both public attitudes and public policy.

This is a story about the silver lining in the cloud, about hunches and good health, about being open to a new experience and finding it in the strangest places. It is a tale from the road about a documentary producer who is forced to confront a problem; a problem that takes him to a Russian banya in Brooklyn.

Award-winning broadcaster Michael Enright is leaving The Sunday Edition after 20 seasons of hosting the current affairs radio show to host a new program on CBC Radio.

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Set in a post-war America and Dublin in the 1970s, Anne Enright's novel is the story of Irish theatre legend, Katherine O'Dell, as written by her daughter Norah.

One of the biggest dilemmas we face in the post-pandemic world is the state of the economy: What will it mean to return to work? Who will still have a job and who won't? Are there sectors of the economy that will never recover from COVID-19? And will we be living with government deficits for decades to come? Jim Stanford, one of Canada's most progressive economists, sheds light on these questions and more.

Author and documentary filmmaker Tom Shachtman talks about the influence of the late Eric Hoffer and his book The True Believer, which has become a classic. It is almost seven decades old, but it describes the brand of political extremism we see in politics today.

Emily Dickinson’s path from unknown hermit to full-blown icon is unique in American poetry. The first word of the first poem that she ever wrote was "awake." Almost two centuries later, Emily Dickinson is still jolting us into consciousness. We reprise our one-hour special, which was produced by Karen Levine.

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Charles Taylor speaks with Michael Enright about some of the big questions the pandemic has raised about the future and the way we live now — and how he finds reasons for hope in the social solidarity Canadians have shown, and the potential for shaking off our old dogmas and routines.

In mid-March, there was a big Orthodox Jewish wedding in a Montreal hotel. Within days it had led to an outbreak of COVID-19, and the community had become a coronavirus hotspot. This had the potential to further divide them from their neighbours. But then the traditionally insular Hasids began reaching out and some of their neighbours — including singer-songwriter Martha Wainwright — began reaching back. David Gutnick’s documentary is called At The Root of Everyone.

A lot of things are hard to take for granted after two months of pandemic — and one of them is food: what we eat, where it comes from, and how we get it. It's also laid bare how intricate, interwoven and vulnerable to disruption and sudden change our food systems are. Gisèle Yasmeen, Executive Director of Food Secure Canada — a national alliance of organizations and individuals working to improve food security — discusses how the pandemic has revealed the weaknesses of our food systems, on both global and national levels.

A Winnipeg mom on life without the joys of baseball: Tracy Turner has always been passionate about softball. She played the game right through to her early 30s and now coaches her teenage daughter’s team, while her teenage son is an ump for younger children. With physical distancing, baseball rules are likely to change she says, but she thinks softball players will be out on dusty ball diamonds once again this year.

What do Bill Clinton, Jon Stewart, the Indigo Girls and Sir John Gielgud have in common? They are all cruciverbalists, people who love wordplay and crossword puzzles. Adrienne Raphel is the author of Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them. It's a passion The Sunday Edition's Michael Enright shares.