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January 15th: VLT Addiction and The Torch in Saskatchewan **FINAL EPISODE** We start the final episode of the Edtior's Choice podcast with an interview from Newfoundland with Keith Piercey. He's the lead claimant in a class action suit against the Atlantic Lottery Corporation. Following his story, we'll head to Saskatchewan. The Olympic Torch passed through the province last weekend and CBC's Abby Schneider was there to speak with some of the thousands who came out to catch some of the spirit. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 14th: Badge of Pride and What Andrew Carnegie did for Sudbury First up today, we'll hear about a documentary from The Passionate Eye entitled Badge of Pride. It's a new documentary that explores what it's like to be a gay police officer in Toronto, despite changing attitudes. After hearing about that, we'll hear from organist and Laurentian University music instructor Robert Hall. He's created an organ performance to honour American millionaire Andrew Carnagie's contributions to the congregations in the north. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 13th: Learn How to Achieve Heaven on Earth and Meet Dredger How to Achieve a Heaven on Earth: that's the title of a new collection of essays that looks athow to make the world a better place. It featuresthoughts from the likes of Barack Obama, Warren Buffet,Tony Blair and Prince Edward Islander Darlene MacInnis. She'll tell us about her essay. After that, we'll meet New Brunswick's wrestler-turned-actor Robert Maillet, who appeared in Sherlock Holmes with Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 12th: Rowed Trip Canadian adventure writers Colin and Julie Angus recently released a book entitled "Rowed Trip: From Scotland to Syria by Oar." Those locations aren't random: Colin's family is from Scotland and one side of Julie's family hails from Syria. Host Sheryl MacKay of CBC British Columbia's North By Northwest asked the couple to tell us about their trip and their new book. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 11th: Deceptive Advertising on the Slopes and Doyle on Republic of Doyle Mountain ski resorts across Canada can brag about their massive snowfalls all they want but can we really take any ski hill's marketing campaign at face value?Well, no, not according to a couple of economics professors at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. After hearing from one of them, we'll meet John Doyle, the Globe and Mail's television columnist. He shares his thoughts on a new CBC Television show, Republic of Doyle. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 8th: Order of Canada Appointee Murray Angus and The Doctors Behind Mission Africa Smiles Murray Angus is one of the founders of The Nunavut Sivuniksavut Program, developed to teach young Inuit about land claims. We'll hear his reaction to being named to the Order of Canada. Then, we'll meet Dr. Louise Laberge, the founder of Mission Africa Smiles and Daniel Borsuck, a plastic surgeon who'll be going over to Mali with the group to help children in Africa with severe facial disfigurements. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 6th: The Continuation and Conclusion of Margot Brunelle's Trip to Stone Bear Retreat On yesterday's edition of the show, the CBC's Margot Brunelle started us on a journey at Stone Bear Retreat. The retreat is near the Bear River Reserve in Nova Scotia. That's where Frank Meuse was chief for many years. Today, he's a spiritual leader and nature guide. Frank took Margot on a tour of the retreat. Here's the continuation and conclusion of the trip. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 7th: Perspectives on Alzheimer's from Sudbury and the Hub Cigar and Newsstand Turns 100 A recently released study says that Alzheimers disease could cripple the Canadian healthcare system in the coming years. We hear from the executive director with the Alzheimer's Society of Sudbury-Manitoulin and the daughter of a Sudbury woman with dementia for their perspectives. After that, we'll head to Edmonton, AB where the Hub Cigar and Newsstand turns 100 this year. The CBC's Andrea Huncar brings us stories from the Hub's life and near-death experiences. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 5th: Charlottetown's new youth discover their city through photography and Stone Bear Retreat (Part One) Last summer, close to 100 young immigrants hit the streets of Charlottetown with cameras. Their work is now on display and Maggie Brown set out to meet the activity's organizer (from the Newcomers Association) and a couple of the photographers. After her report, We'll hear Part One of a three-part series about Stone Bear Retreat from Nova Scotia's Information Morining. Founder Frank Meuse takes CBC's Margot Brunelle through the grounds. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 4th: Artist and Paddler Stewart Marshall and the formerly homeless Ben Venderleye First, we'll meet artist and paddler Stewart Marshall. Marshall once traveled for days in a hand-built kayak. He did it to paint some of British Columbia's most remote shorelines. After we hear his conversation with host Sheryl MacKay, host Terry MacLeod will introduce us to Ben Venderleye. He was homeless for years but he's been doing better since he was given his own apartment as part of a housing program in Calgary, Alberta. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 31st: Favourites from 2009 Today, we'd like to present some of our favourite clips from the past year on the show. First we have a story from the Calgary Eyeopener about golfer Matt Barker, who attempted to play 12 rounds in one day back in June to raise money for the ALS Society of BC. Then, we'll enjoy a quick clip that came to us from Voyage North last July when bells rang out simultaneously in Thunder Bay, Ontario and Gifu, Japan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 30th: The Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra's Peter Gardner This year, the Canadian Music Centre is recognizing 50 outstanding performers as ambassadors of new music in Canada. The CBC's Mack Furlong spoke with a Newfoundlander on that list, the General and Artistic Director of the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra, Peter Gardner. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 29th: Edmonton's Shawna Pandya, Artwork Found and Galore Author Michael Crummey Edmontonian Shawna Pandya is passionate about space technology, medicine and humanitarian work. She'll tell us why she's taking a year away from medical school to work on a project in California. Then, Bill Mayberry of the Mayberry Fine Art Gallery in Winnipeg, MB will tell us how a rare painting worth $300-thousand dollars came his way via e-mail. Finally, host Leigh Anne Power of the Central Newfoundland Morning Show will speak with author Michael Crummey about the roots of his writing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 28th: Jann Arden on Daybreak Alberta Jann Arden is a singer-songwriter from Alberta. She's been in the music business for about 20 years and she recently released her latest album. It's called "Free." Here's Jann Arden in conversation with host Russell Bowers on Daybreak Alberta. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 24th: The Canadian Hero Fund and Windsor Photographer "Crustina" First today, we'll hear from Tim Peters, a co-founder of The Canadian Hero Fund. The initiative works to support the families of Canadian soldiers who lost their lives to the war in Afghanistan. Following that, Phog Lounge owner Tom Lucier of Windsor, Ontario tells us about a local photographer whose work he's currently showcasing at the lounge. Her name is Cristina Naccarato and she does most of her work at concerts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 23rd: 10-year-old Ronnie Theissen raises money for the homeless and Savage Island's new name 10-year-old Ronnie Theissen wants to buy a house for a homeless family. He's partnered with a Saskatoon charity to make his dream a reality. After we meet him and his mother, Shelley, we'll hear from Percy Sacobie of Fredericton, NB. The province has agreed to re-name Savage Island, which sits in the Saint John River, seven kilometers west of Fredericton. Sacobie felt it was hurtful and offensive to his people, the Maliseet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 22nd: Sponsor Winnipeg and Glowworms in Halifax Cemeteries Sponsor Winnipeg is a program targated at people, businesses and organizations who are prepared to pay to have their name attached to a civic facility or program. Grant Norman is the councillor spearheading the program for the city. After we meet him, we'll hear about two Maritime scientists who've discovered a species of glowworm that's considered endangered in parts of Europe, thriving in - of all places - a few local cemeteries. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 21st: Vanishing Sentinels and Schoolbuilding Alberta'a iconic prairie sentinels are showcased in a new calendar. Jim Pearson began working on a project called Vanishing Sentinels back in 2002 to document the history of wooden grain elevators on the prairies. After we meet him, we'll hear an interview with teacher Ryan Dvorak of Port Alberni, BC. He's running a pilot program at his school, having students build their own classroom. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 18th: The Victoria Bridge and a CMA Torchbearer Montreal, Quebec's Victoria Bridge has now been in use for 150 years. CBC Montreal's Loreen Pindera spoke with some locals to find out more about the bridge. After we hear what she found out, we'll meet Dr. Kathy McNally. She works in Charlottetown, PEI, but she was in Ontario this week to carry the Olympic Torch. She was one of 20 members of the Canadian Medical Association who were selected to be torchbearers. CBC Prince Edward Island's Mitch Cormier got in touch with her. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 17th: The Story of Catherine Snow Jim Snow recently won a unique contest. The contest was inspired by the story of the last woman hanged in Newfoundland. In 1834, Catherine Snow was hanged in St. John's for the murder of her husband. She was pregnant when convicted and they waited until she gave birth before the sentence was carried out. A year ago, Nellie Strowbridge published a novel about the event called Catherine Snow. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 16th: Tourism on Oak Island and Reflections of a Bookseller Oak Island is in Mahone Bay along the south shore of Nova Scotia. It's filled with legend and mystery – if not gold - but the Oak Island Tourism Society has been thus far unsuccessful in their efforts to start up an interpretive centre. We'll hear Charles Barkhouse's view and why he believes they shouldn't disband. After that, we'll hear from Salmon Arm, BC's Kay McCracken about her new book, A Raven in My Heart – Reflections of the Bookseller. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 15th: Guardians of the Lamp: The Calgary General Hospital and Its Nursing School Remembered You often hear that nurses are run off their feet and that their jobs have become more specialized. Eleanor King Byers is a retired nurse who lived through the changes. She's written a new book in which she's captured some of the history and the hilarity of life as a nurse training at the old Calgary General Hospital. Her book is called Guardians of the Lamp: The Calgary General Hospital and Its Nursing School Remembered. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 14th: The Politics of Black Women's Hair Black women's hair is getting a lot of attention lately. Chris Rock recently produced a documentary called Good Hair and earlier this year, model and tv host Tyra Banks revealed her natural hair on her daytime talk show. Ontario Today decided to open up their phone lines and asked black women to talk about their hair but first, host Rita Celli spoke with Althea Prince. She's a sociologist and author at Ryerson University. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 11th: The new President of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut’s Chamber of Mines, a 25-year-old grad student and aspiring filmmaker from Yellowknife and Biathlete Brendan Green of Hay River Today, we have three items from the Northwest Territories. We'll start with an interview with John Kearney. He's the President of Canadian Zinc as well as the new president of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut's Chamber of Mines. Then, we'll meet 25-year-old grad student and aspiring filmmaker Chris White. He'll tell us about his Yellowknife-based web series entitled Teenage Wasteland. Finally, biathlete Brendan Green gives us an update on his performance in Europe's World Cup series. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 10th: Ham Radio and The Red Cross Team Up and Hayward Young Discusses the Upcoming Qualipu First Nation Band In times of emergency, the newest technology may not be the most reliable. That's why the Red Cross relies on the help of ham radio operators across the country. CBC reporter Holly Conners spoke with a member of Sydney, Cape Breton's Amateur Radio Club. After that conversation, we'll hear from Hayward Young. He was the chief of the Indian Head First Nations Band for nearly five years. He answers questions about the Qalipu First Nation Band. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 9th: The Little Lake Mystery and What to do with Apple Skins A mystery was recently uncovered in Peterborough's Little Lake: the skeleton of a large ship. Underwater archeologists have been examining the remains to determine which ship it was. We'll hear one historian's theory. Then, we'll meet Vasantha Rupasinghe. He holds the Tree Fruit BioProduct Research Chair at Nova Scotia Agricultural College and he told Maritime Noon host Costas Halavrezos about some ways we could use a popular piece of refuse: the apple skin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 8th: Harper in China and The Busking Gymnast First up on today's episode, we'll meet Ti-anna Wang, the daughter of Chinese pro-democracy activist Wang Bingzhang. She discussed what she would have liked to have seen Prime Minister Harper address while he was in China. After that interview, we'll meet twelve-year-old Parker Ramsay. He's a gymnast from Cornwall, PEI who's trying to raise money for a trip to Dallas, Texas by busking. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 7th: Prison Fellowship and lifelong peace activist Douglas Roche A separate unit guided by Christian values and principles is being proposed for a new Manitoba women's prison. The proposal comes from Prison Fellowship Canada. We hear more details about the program from Prison Fellowship VP Norm Cox. Following that, former MP, ambassador and senator Douglas Roche discusses Canada's relationship with war, peace and the U.S. with Maritime Noon host Costas Halavrezos. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 4th: Trying to Save the Surrey Park Animal Farm and Paddler/Painter Don Alder Last week, the Vancouver Park Board voted to implement cuts that will close both the Stanley Park Animal Farm. Yosef Wosk offered the park board 100 thousand dollars to help keep the animal farm open but that offer was declined. After we hear his story, we'll meet Don Alder. He's a fingerstyle guitar player who was recently nominated for a Canadian Folk Music Award. His new album is called Not A Planet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 3rd: Corb Lund, The Losin' Lately Gambler Corb Lund's new album is called Losin' Lately Gambler. Although he has been losing lately on his beloved Edmonton Oilers, he is winning over a lot of new fans in the U.S. with the new release. It's his sixth album in Canada but his first in the States. Host Russell Bowers of CBC's Daybreak Alberta recently caught up with Corb Lund backstage at the historic Corral in Calgary. They started by reminiscing with some of the pictures on the walls. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 2nd: The Frantics Celebrate 30 Years Do you remember The Frantics? Does Mr. Canoehead or Boot to the Head ring any bells? Over the years, the sketch comedy troupe has been heard on CBC Radio, seen on CBC Television and they've toured their live shows coast to coast to coast but they've been out of the spotlight recently. That all changes on December 7th, when The Frantics will give a special show to celebrate 30 years in the biz. Paul Chato and Peter Wildman are half of The Frantics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 1st: Weird and Wonderful Moments from the History of the Grey Cup Last Sunday, the Montreal Alouettes won against the Saskatchewan Roughriders at the 97th Grey Cup Game in Calgary, Alberta but no matter who's in the game, Canadian football has a long tradition across the country. Here's the CBC'S Mark Lee looking at some of the "Weird and Wonderful" moments from the history of the Grey Cup. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 30th: Maine on Hydro Quebec Hydro Quebec is buying up New Brunswick power and it's also looking into some kind of deal with Prince Edward Island Power. The premier of Newfoundland is furious about this and he's even gone to the United States to warn Americans about Hydro Quebec gaining a stranglehold on power. The Americans do have some concern about it, particularly in Maine. John Martin represents a northern district in Maine's house of representatives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 27th: American Ex-pats on U.S. Health Care Debate A group of American ex-pats come together as a group, to voice their concerns about the debate about health care that's going on south of the border. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 26th: Inuvialuit History & Arctic Trekking A group of Inuvialuit people has the rare opportunity to view a collection of aritifacts from their cultural history. And author, photographer and filmmaker Dianne Whelan travels over 2000 km across the arctic by snowmobile. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 25th: Gender Divides in Northern Ontario and Shane Yellowbird from Nashville In a story from The World This Weekend, we'll hear about life in northern Ontario's mill towns, now that more men are collecting employment insurance and others are packing up and moving elsewhere to find work. At the same time, women are staying put, for the most part. Then, we'll hear from singer songwriter Shane Yellowbird. He performed at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville for the first time on Friday. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 24th: Men who give gifts and the women who buy the gifts men give There's just over a month to go until Christmas. The malls are filling with shoppers, many of whom have a certain something in common: they're women. The Sunday Edition has uncovered a truth that people have been silent about for far too long. They sent documentary producer Frank Falk out to rip the wrapping off a widespread practice. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 23rd: Black Raspberries and Surfing the Dartmouth Ferry The poems continue to come for Robert Acorn, a man in his 80s. Writing has been a family pursuit, his brother Milton was a literary icon. Robert's newest collection is called Black Raspberries. He spoke with Matt Rainnie on the program Mainstreet in Charlottetown. After that interview, we'll meet two intrepid canoeists who surf the Dartmouth Ferry wake. Freelancer Shaina Luck spoke with them for the Halifax program Information Morning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 20th: The Million Dollar Cow and Artist Brian Boulton Let's hear a bit about one of Prince Edward Island's bovine celebrities: Eastside Lewisdale Gold Missy. She's an island-born Holstein that sold at auction earlier this month for 1.2 million dollars. Following her story, we'll hear host Sheryl MacKay of CBC British Columbia's North By Northwest's visit to the Windsor Gallery in Vancouver. She was there to meet B.C. artist Brian Boulton. He's created a series of life-size and life-like pencil drawings. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 19th: Canada and Other Matters of Opinion with Rex Murphy Yes, he's sly, witty, corrosive and discombobulating - and that's on a bad day - but who is Rex Murphy and why does he have so many opinions? Millions of Canadians look forward to his weekly show Cross Country Check Up on CBC Radio, his commentaries on The National on CBC TV and his Saturday column in The Globe and Mail. The best of those columns have been compiled into a brand new book called Canada and Other Matters of Opinion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 18th: Thinking About Hana's Suitcase and Farm Radio International The spirit of Hana's Suitcase is in Winnipeg, MB. Her story has inspired students at Maple Leaf School to create an art project. Local artist Tamara Weller asked the grade six students to research a child affected by the Holocaust and create a suitcase for him or her. After we hear about that story, we'll hear from Gladson Makowa, a producer with the Story Workshop in Malawi, and Kevin Perkins, the Executive Director of Farm Radio International. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 17th: Overcoming Personal Roadblocks Today on the podcast, we'll meet a visually impaired runner (Noella Klawitter of Ottawa, ON), a violinist who was born without a right hand (Adrian Anantawan of Toronto, ON) and an actress who stutters (Krystal Garib, originally from British Columbia) but can now perform on international stages, including Broadway, thanks to a little help from the bard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 16th: Photography in Papua New Guinea for Light Up the World Last weekend, many Prince Edward Islanders took part in the Nichola Goddard Light up the World fundraiser. Captain Goddard was the first female Canadian soldier to die in combat. Her parents live on PEI. The events started Saturday afternoon with the opening of an art show at the Confederation Centre Gallery. Photographer Dianne Bos traveled back to Papua New Guinea with the late Captain Goddard's parents, Sally and Tim. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 13th: Military Matters from Newfoundland and Labrador Have you ever visited a flea market and seen old war medals for sale? Ever wonder who owned those medals and how they got there? Sherri Lang and her husband have set up a website to help families find missing war medals. After hearing from her, we'll hear from Ralph Brant. He's the manager of flight operations with Serco, the company that provides Services for Base 5 Wing Goose Bay in Labrador. He discusses the future of unmanned vihicles in the military. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 12th: Power Play and Memories of the Fall Playing is something we assume our children know all about but it turns out not all kids know what to do when they have down time. A pilot program of the Cape Breton Victoria Regional School Board is adding the lesson of playing to their curriculum. After that story, we'll hear an item from Daybreak Montreal. The world celebrated the fall of the Berlin Wall earlier this week. To mark the occasion, host Nancy Wood spoke with four Montrealers who are originally from Germany. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 11th: Breaking the Silence The casualties of war are particularly vivid today. We hear their names and we're reminded of the numbers. What we are less aware of are the invisible casualties – the soldiers who've survived with injured hearts and minds. For years, Ted Barris has been chronicling the otherwise untold tales of Canadian war veterans. His latest book is a remarkable foray in to the lives of men and women who "just don't talk about it." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 10th: Coyotes and Humans Taylor Mitchell was the young singer-songwriter who was killed by coyotes while hiking in Nova Scotia. Mitchell's death has evoked a visceral response from people around the Maritimes. Biologist Bob Bancroft visited host Costas Halavrezos in the Maritime Noon studio to tell us about the relationship between coyotes and humans. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 9th: The Price of a Bargain, Mountain Equipment Co-op and Bicycles First up, an interview with Gordon Laird, the author of "The Price of a Bargain: The Quest for Cheap and the Death of Globalization." Following that conversation we'll hear from Tim Unger. He's a co-owner of The Fairfield Bicycle Shop in Victoria, BC and he's responding to Mountain Equipment Co-op's preparations to release their own line of bicycles. We'll also hear a reaction to the criticisms from a public affairs manager with MEC, Tim Southam. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 6th: Inside Hana's Suitcase Today, we'll hear about the new documentary film entitled Inside Hana's Suitcase. Filmmaker Larry Weinstein and Hana's brother, George Brady, spoke with guest host Jesse Wente on Q. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 5th: Kittywigs and No Students at Durness Today, we have two stories from the program As It Happens. Durness Parish School was built in 1760 in the far north of Scotland but for 19 years, the headmaster lived and worked at Durness Parish School with no students. After hearing from the current headmaster, host Carol Off speaks with false feline follicle specialist Julie Jackson. She makes wigs for cats. They're called Kittywigs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 4th: Regent Park Resident Aziz Rahman Today's highlight comes to us from Toronto's Metro Morning. Last week, the show put a special focus on the Regent Park area of downtown Toronto. It's one of Canada's oldest and largest social housing communities and it's in the middle of a dramatic transition. One billion dollars will be spent over 15 years to replace old housing complexes with new subsidized apartment buildings and condos. Aziz Rahman has lived in Regent Park for about 13 years. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 3rd: Melissa Bel She's only 20 but she's ready to take on the world... well, at least Europe, for starters. Ontario singer Melissa Bel is about to unleash her talent with her debut CD called "Brave." It's being launched in five European countries. Melissa Bel spoke with Mary Ito on the Ontario program Fresh Air. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 2nd: Ian Rankin at the Ottawa International Writers Festival Ian Rankin is the man behind the best-selling Rebus series of novels. That series has finished, after two decades, and Rankin has now turned his attention to a new character, Malcolm Fox, in his latest novel, The Complaints. Host Alan Neal spoke with Ian Rankin onstage at the Ottawa International Writers Festival. They talked about his new character, a cop who works in the Complaints and Conduct Department in Edinburgh, investigating other cops. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 30th: Love & Savagery The 20th annual St. John's International Film and Video Festival kicked off earlier this month with a feature film called Love and Savagery. It was written by poet, screenwriter and Newfoundlander Desmond Walsh. Love and Savagery is a love story about a Newfoundland poet exploring the Burren region in Ireland and an Irish barmaid. The film was shot in Western Ireland and Eastern Newfoundland and was directed by Quebecois Oscar-nominee John N. Smith. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 29th: The Antikythera Mechanism The Antikythera Mechanism was discovered a hundred years ago in the wreckage of a 2000-year-old ship. For much of the last century, researchers, like Dr. Daryn Lehoux in the Classics Department at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, have been trying to figure out what this complex mechanical device can do. Dr. Lehoux spoke with host Bob MacDonald on Quirks and Quarks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 28th: Peak Oil and Agriculture For a few weeks now, CBC Radio's political affairs program, The House, has been looking into the effects of higher energy costs on a number of different policy areas. This week, the show had a look at the food in your fridge. The CBC's Louise Elliott brought us a look at what the end of cheap oil means for agriculture. After that, we'll hear from farmer and teacher Rick Monroe of Kingston, Ontario. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 27th: Q&A with Dutch Thompson Dutch Thompson has a weekly column about the old days on Prince Edward Island that airs on CBC Charlottetown's program Mainstreet. Last week, Dutch opened up the mailbag and answered a few requests from listeners who had some questions about the bygone days. Here he is with Mainstreet host Matt Rainnie. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 26th: Singer and 2009 Portia White Prize Winner Mary Jane Lamond Singer Mary Jane Lamond has been nominated for the 2009 Portia White Prize. The award recognizes an artist who's left a lasting mark on Nova Scotia's creative landscape. Lamond is nominated in recognition of her use of modern instrumentation and arrangements to frame Nova Scotia's Gaelic traditions. Recently, she performed and chatted about her nomination on a live edition of CBC Cape Breton's program, Mainstreet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 23rd: Jewelry from Recycled Materials and The Table From the Seas Edge Catherine Sutherland wants us to rethink the ways we adorn our bodies. She's a jeweller who uses only recycled metals and much of her work is done with smashed glass from vandalised bus shelters. After meeting her, we'll meet Silas Birtwistle, who is also using his work to bring attention to the environment. He just finished his tour of the BC coast, looking for driftwood to build a table and 12 chairs. He'll add that to driftwood collected from three other "corners" of the earth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 22nd: Pop Life Andy Warhol once said "good business is the best art." Well, the National Gallery of Canada is hoping to cash in on Warhol and his contemporaries. Pop Life is a blockbuster exhibition coming to the gallery next June. It opened at the Tate Modern in London, England earlier this month. Jonathan Shaughnessy was there on opening night. He's the assistant curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery and he's in charge of bringing Pop Life to Ottawa. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 21st: Come, Thou Tortoise Author Jessica Grant's new book "Come, Thou Tortoise" is fresh, funny... and longish – about 310 pages. 300-year-old Winnifred - she's the tortoise – plays a supporting role in the novel. On the other end of the scale, there's Wedge. He's a mouse. Along with these two characters is Audrey Flowers. She's coping with her father's death. Author Jessica Grant joined host Shelagh Rogers from St. John's, Newfoundland to talk about the story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 20th: A History of Ghosts and The Aykroyd Family The family that seances together stays together. That seems to be true for the Aykroyds, anyway, and yes, we do mean comedy legend Dan Aykroyd and his father Peter Aykroyd. They were in Studio Q last week to talk about Peter's new book, A History of Ghosts: The True Story of Seances, Mediums, Ghosts, and Ghostbusters. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 19th: Danielle Smith and the Wildrose Alliance Back in the days when Peter Lougheed was the Premier of Alberta, the conventional wisdom was that the ruling Tories didn't have to worry about the parties to the LEFT of them. They needed to watch out for any party to the RIGHT. All these years later, Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach is, indeed, looking over his Right shoulder. This weekend, Alberta's Wildrose Alliance party elected a new leader. Host Anna Maria Tremonti spoke with one of the leadership candidates last week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 16th: Australians on the Road in North America A year ago, the family you're about to meet was living a pretty normal life in Perth, Australia, complete with a mortgage, work, school and a dog. Then came the big idea. They decided to sell the house, pull their daughter out of school, put all their stuff in storage and hit the pavement for a year-long road trip across North America. So far, they've logged 23-thousand kilometres. Fiona Leonard is an ex-diplomat, and currently a freelance writer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 15th: Chloe Sainte-Marie's Innu Album and The Fiddle Tree Quebec singer and actress Chloe Sainte-Marie sang all of the songs on her new album in Innu. The songs were written by Innu poet and singer Philippe McKenzie. Host Susan Campbell spoke with Sainte-Marie and Romeo Saganash. In another musical story, musicians from around the world were on Cape Breton Island last weekend for the Celtic Colours International Festival. As part of the festival, seven special string instruments got back to their roots – in the forest. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 14th: That's Where I Want To Go Each year, the Anatomy Department at the University of Toronto receives the remains of about 130 people and each year, the department honours those who made the decision to donate. Medical students are there to acknowledge the gift. They speak, they play music and they listen to stories about the people who were prepared to be cadavers on a dissection table in the cause of health, education or research. Alisa Siegel put together this documentary. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 13th: Green Stickers from PEI's Autism Society and Cracking the Spud's Genetic Code People with autism can find themselves in difficult or dangerous situations when they have to deal with police or emergency workers. Now the Autism Society of Prince Edward Island has come up with a green sticker to put in homes and cars to give firefighters, police and paramedics a heads up. After we hear about that initiative, we'll learn about an international team of scientists with similar goals has cracked the genetic code of the planet's most popular vegetable. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 12th: Free-Range Turkeys in Punkeydoodle's Corners and A Playground Design (In Part) By Children! On Thanksgiving, most of us wouldn't trade places with a turkey but a turkey's life doesn't seem so bad on Church Hill Farm in Soutwestern Ontario. Co-owner Max Lass describes a day in the life of a Church Hill turkey. Then, the CBC's Lisa Robinson brings us along to the new outdoor playground at Grant MacEwan University's child care centre in Edmonton. It's been three years in the making and besides a team of professionals, the kids played a part in the design of the space. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 9th: Social Media for Local Businesses * Premature Births in Canada * Historic Buildings in Saint John, NB Pierre and Dan Martell run a Moncton-based home-building company called Martell homes. CBC's Penelope Smart found out why their company is building its foundation on Twitter and Facebook. We'll also find out why more and more babies are born prematurely in Canada and why concerned citizens have put together a historic walking tour of downtown Saint John, NB. Joan Pearce met with CBC news reporter Sarah Trainor for a mini guided tour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 8th: Eat, Shrink, Love In Lori Lansens' new novel, The Wife's Tale, she puts the reader inside the head - and body - of a woman who has spent her life carrying around a lot of extra weight and emotional baggage. When the woman's husband walks out after 25 years of marriage, his disappearance lightens her load and she begins to transform. Host Shelagh Rogers spoke with Lori Lansens about the book on a recent episode of The Next Chapter. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 7th: Grace Park on Q The Korean-Canadian-American actor Grace Park is easily and often recognized as Boomer - a humanoid cylon – from Battlestar Galactica. Nowadays, she's starring in CBC Television's The Border. Grace Park took some time to chat with Jian Ghomeshi in Studio Q earlier this week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 6th: Soap Box Derbies in Cascapedia-Saint-Jules and the CF-101 in Happy Valley-Goose Bay First, we'll hear an item about the region of Cascapedia-Saint-Jules in the Gaspe Peninsula. Last week, children of all ages were putting the finishing touches on their prized chariots. They've been spinning wheels and adjusting bearings all year for the soap box derby. There was a much bigger vehicle rolling through the streets of Happy Valley-Goose Bay in Labrador last week. It was a CF-101 Voodoo fighter jet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 5th: Bathing in History Most women wouldn't turn down the chance to spend a day relaxing at a spa. Doing that in an 8 century-old Roman bath is a totally different experience. Hammam el ward is one of the oldest Roman baths in Syria. It's also long been known in the Syrian culture as a place to get a diva-like treatment in the old fashioned way and it's where some women look for a potential bride for their sons. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 2nd: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age In his new book, Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age, Viktor Mayer-Schonberger argues that forgetting is a natural human process and he argues that digital technology and cheap storage are creating all sorts of problems, from an assault on privacy to an inability to make decisions. Spark decided to look into the issue of memory and started with the story of a man whose life was profoundly affected by the long arm of digital memory. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 1st: Dr. Richard Cytowic and Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia You've heard the expression "blue Monday" but what if Mondays really were the colour blue? And Tuesdays were red? Well, for some people, they really are. These people actually sense the days of the week and the months of the year, as being coloured. It's one form of a neurological condition known as synesthesia, where a person's senses overlap and combine - for instance, seeing sounds or hearing colours. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 30th: Author Wayson Choy on The Next Chapter Medical emergencies and near-death experiences are the stuff TV series are made of. They can be intense but distant, too – somehow outside of our own experiences. On the other hand, when Wayson Choy writes about his illness, the experience feels personal and recognizably real. Choy went through two brushes with death. There was a lot a drama and long stretches of slipping in and out of consciousness and hovering in a place somewhere between life and death. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 29th: Hawksley Worman on Mainstreet As a rock singer-songwriter, Hawksley Workman is a Juno award-winner. As a music producer, he's worked with the likes of Great Big Sea, Serena Ryder, The Skydiggers and Hey Rosetta. Last weekend, Hawksley Workman performed at The Guild in Charlottetown, PEI. Our host for CBC Prince Edward Island's Mainstreet is Matt Rainnie and he spoke with Workman before the performance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 28th: A Rare Violin and 50 Jobs in 50 States Last week, fourteen lucky musicians won the privilege to play a rare instrument for three years. One of those instruments - a violin - has an unusual story. Owner Greg Cook told that story to Carol Off on As it Happens. Then, we'll hear about how twenty-seven-year-old Daniel Seddiqui spent the last 50 weeks traveling across the 50 U.S. States and working 50 different jobs. Last week, he spoke with Carol Off while he was spending the final week of his vocational voyage in Napa. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 25th: Henry Leland House A new housing complex in Kamloops, British Columbia is using tough love to get homeless people off the streets. Henry Leland House is named after the homeless person in Kamloops to most recently die out in the cold. The house does take a disciplined approach but, as the CBC's Shelley Joyce tells us, it's helping people rebuild their lives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 24th: Polaris Prize Winners on Q Earlier this week, it was announced that F*****d Up are the winners of this year's Polaris Prize for best Canadian album. It was for their record "The Chemistry of Common Life." A couple members of the F****d Up crew made it up to Studio Q the very next morning to talk about the big night. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 23rd: Lean Times Both of today's highlights come from CBC Toronto's Metro Morning special series, Lean Times, in which producer Mary Wiens is looking at how people are adapting to today's economy. It's not all bad news. The economy has forced some folks to make long overdue changes. In our first highlight, Mary introduces us to Robert Irvine and in our second, she brings us a view from the financial industry. She spoke with the CEO of Caldwell ecurities, Tom Caldwell. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 22nd: Message In A Bottle CBC Radio listeners in Newfoundland and Labrador know Ross Traverse as a gardener extraordinaire who's often a guest on Radio Noon but he recently had an adventure an ocean away from his home in Torbay. Three years ago, he gave a letter to the Atlantic and ended up getting it back, along with some new friends. Central Newfoundland Morning Show host, Leigh Anne Power, reached him at his home to get the details. Here's their conversation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 21st: Immigration Minister Jason Kenny on easier immigration for Afghan interpreters working with Coalition Forces Today's highlight is a follow-up story from an examination done earlier this month by The Current. Guest host Jan Wong had spoken with an Afghan national who worked as a translator for coalition forces in Afghanistan. He told her about the sometimes life-threatening risks that translators face while working there. Well, last week, Immigration Minister Jason Kenny announced that Canada is going make immigration easier for Afghan interpreters. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 18th: What ever happened to the flying car? This week on Spark, contributor Hannah Classen sought to find out what ever happened to the flying car. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 17th: Alberta's Rat Patrol With the rat infestation in Swift Current, SK, you might expect more rodents than ever to be found by Alberta's Rat Patrol officers. They travel along the Alberta-Saskatchewan border looking for rats and giving out poison to farmers who think the rodents might be on their land. Rat Patrol officers are getting a lot more calls this year but the CBC's James Hees tells us that they're not finding any more rats this year. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 16th: West Coast Lighthouses and Remembering the Battle of the Plains of Abraham First, a look at lighthouse layoffs. It's a contentious issue these days on the west coast. The Coast Guard recently announced plans to automate at least four lighthouses. The west coast's staffed lighthouses are unique. Most jurisdictions in North America don't have any manned stations left. After that story, we'll head from the coast to the plains. The 1759 Battle of the Plains of Abraham is still a touchy subject for many Canadians but not for the descendants of the two opposing generals ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 15th: Remembering Ruth and Letters From Afghanistan There's a special book on display at the Ruth E. Dickinson Library in the Barrhaven area of Ottawa. It's resting on a podium just inside the main entrance and patrons have been writing in the pages since last week. It's a book of condolences and it's in honour of the woman that the library was named after. After hearing her story, we'll hear letters from Sgt. Robbie Bulger, who is with the Canadian military, serving in Afghanistan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Setpember 14th: Canadian Jockey Chantal Sutherland Today's highlight is host Jian Ghomeshi's conversation with Canada's top female jockey, Chantal Sutherland, on Q. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 11th: Latin America and Laptops Uruguay may be a small country of just three-and-a-half million people but it has big ambitions for its elementary school students. By Christmas, all 340-thousand of them will be online, from the biggest schools to the tiniest schoolhouses, which is where the CBC's Trevor Dunn is headed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 10th: Author Michael Crummey and his latest novel, "Galore" Newfoundland writer Michael Crummey has published five books of poetry, a book of short stories, a non-fiction book and three novels. His latest novel, Galore, is a family saga and the story of a place – the town of Deep Paradise. To give you a sense of the flavour of the book, it includes a witch trial, a cuckolded ghost, mummers, folk remedies and a man who was swallowed by a whale. Michael Crummey spoke with Shelagh Rogers onstage. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 9th: Maritime Prostock Racer Shawn Tucker This past weekend, Shawn Tucker of Fredericton, New Brunswick and more than 40 other drivers started, and ran, their engines. They were trying to qualify for the Peterbilt 250 at the speedway in Geary, outside of Fredericton. Tucker races in the Maritime Prostock Tour. He's a two-time Maritime Champion and he's won the race at Geary's Speedway 660 once before. CBC's Hance Colburne paid a visit to Tucker's car shop last week before the race. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 8th: Do Not Call Penalizations? Telemarketers used to drive us to distraction. There are fewer calls these days, thanks to the Do Not Call legislation, but that came in a year ago, and the CRTC still gets hundreds of complaints about offending callers. Rumour has it that the CRTC is holding secret talks to decide whether three particular companies should be penalized for violating the list. Critics say the offenders should be publicly shamed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 7th: Drivers' and Bike Couriers' Road Rage Road rage is not just a passing irritation, as we found out last week. A bike courier is dead. A former Attorney General of Ontario is charged with criminal negligence causing death. The two, driver and courier, merged paths on a Toronto street with tragic consequences. Last week, The Current's guest host, Susan Ormiston, spoke with assistant professor of sociology at Northern Illinois University, Jeffrey Kidder. He studies bike courier culture. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 4th: The Village Market and The Diefenbunker First, let's head to the Regina Food Bank. It's about to open its own grocery store, the first of its kind in Canada. People who use the food bank are only allowed to pick up food every couple of weeks but the store will allow those in need to buy groceries in between. After getting a sneak peek there, we'll head to the Diefenbunker, located outside of Ottawa. It's a maze of bomb-proof vaults, offices and living quarters buried several stories underground. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 3rd: Installation Animations, Pilots and Paws Today, we're travelling to a family farm in Woodrow, Saskatchewan with Graeme Patterson. He's an animator and filmmaker who builds meticulously constructed models of barns and churches and then creates quirky, stop-motion animations inside them. Then, we'll find out about an innovative program in the U.S. that's helping stray animals find new homes far from where they were found. It's called Pilots and Paws. Debi Boies talked to Robert Harris on As it Happens. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 2nd: Muslim in Mumbai It's a tense Ramadan in Mumbai, coming as the trial continues for the only gunman to survive last November's attacks in the city. 170 people died when 10 men with links to Islamic extremists in Pakistan attacked several locations. The violence damaged relations between India and Pakistan. It also increased tensions between India's Hindu majority and its Muslim minority, tensions that had already been on the rise. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 1st: A Barista's Signature Drink Baristas in British Columbia put their grinding, tamping and pulling techniques to the test last weekend in Victoria. They were competing in the Western Regional Canadian Barista Championship. Victoria's Derek Lucas won the event two years ago and Rosie Westwood visited the cafe where he works to see how he prepared for the competition. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website August 31st: Not Necessarily the News A panel game from Yellowknife where newshounds separate the real news from the fake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website August 28th: Beetle expert and strength from money A look into the tiny world of entomologist Dr. Reginald Webster.And how counting your pennies make you feel like a million bucks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website August 27th: Spiral Tunnels The Spiral Railway Tunnels through Kicking Horse Pass, British Columbia, are 100 years old. Author Graeme Pole has some fascinating stories from their history. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website August 26th: Summer Reading List Get some advice about hot summer books from the Thunder Bay public library and Voyage North. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website August 25th: Grownups Read Things They Wrote As Kids Hear some grownups reading things they wrote when they were kids. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website August 24th: The Zombie Handbook and Former CFL Player Jay McNeil on Shelf Life Do you know how to fight off a zombie attack? Dan Lessard at CBC Sudbury decided he should get more detailed advice in case of an outbreak of the undead, so he asked an expert. After that, we'll hear from retired Canadian football player Jay McNeil. Sometimes reading a book can be a life-changing experience but McNeil had a life changing experience and then found the book. McNeil is a five time all star and was a two-time Grey Cup Champion as a member of the Calgary Stampeders. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website August 21st: Skateistan and Dr. Roberts on Dogs Reading People For the past year and a half, a handful of Australians, Europeans and Afghans have been working at 'Skateistan.' It's a not-for-profit group that teaches young Afghans how to skateboard. Shams Razi is a skateboarding instructor with Skateistan. After hearing from him, we'll hear from Dr. William Roberts, who says a new study proves that dogs don't know what's going on in people's minds. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website August 20th: Canada's Side Man Goes Solo Kevin Fox has often worked behind the scenes in the world of music as a composer or side man. In fact, he's been dubbed Canada's most ubiquitous sideman but his latest project is a solo cd called Songs for Cello and Voice. Kevin Fox spoke with Matt Rainnie on the program Mainstreet from PEI. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website August 19th: Animal Artists A few weeks ago, a new art exhibition opened in Ottawa. It's a diverse show featuring the work of such up and coming names as Koopa, Ramona and Koko. They're not household names – no yet, anyway - and, truthfully, the artists may not even care. In fact, they might not even know they're considered artists. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website August 18th: Veteran George MacDonell and a WWII Battle in Hong Kong During World War Two, almost two thousand Canadian soldiers fought to defend Hong Kong against the Japanese Army. The battle began on December 8, 1941. It ended in defeat for the Allied forces a few weeks later. Those who survived were captured and suffered a long and harsh imprisonment. This past Saturday, a memorial wall was unveiled in Ottawa. It's engraved with the names of all the soldiers who fought in that battle. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website August 17th: Pelton's Young Naturalists Club and the Russell Canoeing Family We'll start this week's highlights with a story about an unusual summer camp at St. Margaret's Bay in Nova Scotia. For the last seven years, Scott Pelton's summer camp in St. Margaret's Bay has been giving children a chance to play by the water. Then, we head onto the water. Eleven paddlers from Nova Scotia competed in the Canoe/Kayak World Championships that played out in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia this past weekend. Two of them are brothers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website August 14th: Women in Politics, The Governor General's Cup and Cross-Country Cyclist Wes Bauer Former conservative cabinet minister Flora MacDonald was in St. John's to encourage other women to follow her lead. ** About twenty small planes landed at the Deer Lake, NL airport earlier this week as part of the Governor General's Cup Cross-Canada Centennial of Flight Celebration. ** With the support of an organization known as "Chase The Cure," 22-year-old Wes Bauer is biking from coast to coast to raise money for cancer research and patient support. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website August 13th: Body Image in India Today on the show, we have two items from CBC reporter Natasha Fatah that explore body image in India. The country's skyrocketing economy is racing to catch up with the West and the rise of disposable income amongst the new middle class has led to high demand in some unusual industries, such as cosmetic surgery. Along with the desire to change body shape in India, there's a perceived stigma attached to skin tone. It's a sensitive subject that's now being challenged. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website August 12th: Preventing Youth Crime Stopping crime before it happens is a no-brainer but how many communities actually work together to help children and teens make better choices? One U.S. township has made it a goal to see fewer teens behind bars and so far it's paying off. Chief Bill Kelly is the chief of police in the Abington Township of Pennsylvania. He's been involved with the town's remarkable program since it began about 10 years ago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website August 11th: Remembering John Hughes and Q&A with Louise Penny CBC's Eli Glasner discusses the work of director John Hughes, who passed away last week. Then, we hear a clip from the CBC Book Club podcast. This month's featured book is "The Murder Stone" by Louise Penny. Penny is a best-selling Canadian mystery author, and "The Murder Stone" completes a four-novel set that began with Still Life. In host Hannah Sung's first weekly chat with Louise Penny, the author talks about breaking out of writers' block. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website August 10th: Bhutanese Families in Charlottetown Three Bhutanese families have recently traveled from refugee camps in Nepal, halfway around the world, to Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. They're the first in a wave of families coming from the country, high in the Himalayas. For seventeen years, the refugees have lived in camps across the border from their home country. Now, they're making a new home in Canada. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website August 7th: Duke and Battersby on Art and Stuart McLean Speaks with a Fan from Texas The quirky animations and sublime video art of Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby are talked about and studied in art schools across North America. Here are Duke and Battersby in our Halifax studio interviewing each other about art. ** Last weekend on Vinyl Cafe, host Stuart McLean spoke with a fan from Austin, Texas named Don Baker. Baker left the United States for the first time in his life this summer. He came to Canada to see the Vinyl Cafe in Concert. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website August 6th: David Suzuki Interviews Wal-Mart Canada CEO David Cheesewright This week we presented The Last Call with David Suzuki. It explored the relationship between the environment and the economy. As part of that feature, David spoke with the CEO of Wal-Mart Canada, David Cheesewright. Here's their conversation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website August 5th: Goodbye to Barbara Peacock and Searching for a Giant Earthworm For our first highlight, we'll hear a conversation between two long-time CBC hosts, Tony Doucette and Barbara Peacock. Barbara's broadcasting career has spanned more than three decades and she issued her final broadcast of CBC Windsor's Crosstown last Friday. Then we'll meet University of Idaho soil scientist Dr. Jodi Johnson-Maynard. She's searching for the giant Palouse earthworm along the border of Idaho and Washington. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website August 4th: Comedian Wes Borg and the World Cup of Field Ball Let's get to know Wes Borg. He's a former member of the legendary Edmonton comic group Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie. He now calls Victoria, BC his home and he's been busy in his new town. Borg is making people laugh all over Victoria. Then, we'll hear about a world-class sporting event that happened in Central Newfoundland this past weekend. It was the World Cup of Field Ball. You might be wondering "What's field ball and why is the World Cup taking place in Bishop's Falls?" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website August 3rd: Remembering the Slaves at the Fortress of Louisbourg and David Malcolm, Writer-in-Residence for the Yellowknife Library First, let's visit the Fortress of Louisbourg in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. The staff there has created a new tour of the historic site. It depicts the lives of the 358 slaves that were owned by the French there between 1713 and 1768. Then, we'll meet David Malcolm of Yellowknife, NWT. He loves the library. Over the past several months, he's spent hours there, working on a book he's writing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website July 31st: Jeff Mack's Intervention This past June, A&E aired an episode of the their show Intervention called "Episode 86 – Jeff's Story." It was the true story of a firefighter's comeback from alcoholism. That firefighter is Jeff Mack and he's stationed in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Mack figures he hit rock bottom after fighting a house fire a few years ago. He has vivid memories of being in that burning house. The floor gave way suddenly and the firefighter with him fell in. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website July 30th: Sackbuts and Looking for Mr. Right First up, Sarah Rowland. She's a 30-something freelance writer and dating columnist from the West coast and she's traveling across Canada in search of Mr. Right. Recently, she took her search to Charlottetown. Then we'll hear about a secret kept by the production team at Information Radio in Winnipeg, MB, until now. They use a special term to describe guests who are good talkers: they call them sackbuts. A sackbut is a 400-year-old instrument that was the precursor to the trumpet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website July 29th: When The Great One was in The Sault Today's highlight is about a Canadian who had one of the most famous numbers in all of professional sports: Number 99. Wayne Gretzky scored that famous double-nine during the single year he spent playing junior hockey in Sault Ste Marie, in northern Ontario. As the CBC's Megan Thomas reports, even as a skinny 16-year-old, Gretzky left his mark on the city. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website July 28th: Judas Feast and Electric Bicycles First, we'll hear from Johnny Nash and Shawn Hill of Ottawa. They both love heavy metal music, they're both chefs and now, they both star in a show that brings food and heavy metal together. It's called "Judas Feast." Then, we'll hear from Ryan Kloster, the General Manager of Green City Motors. He sells electric bicycles and got some good news when, earlier this month, the Alberta Government announced new regulations that will allow riders to operate e-bikes without a license or insurance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website July 27th: All-Ages Shows on PEI It can be pretty tough to get established as a musician anywhere. When you're first starting out, it's not easy booking gigs or selling tickets but on Prince Edward Island, there's an extra difficulty. There just aren't many venues to play in and there are even fewer places available to hold all-ages shows. Matt Dixon has organized several alcohol-free shows on the Island. Recently, he spoke with Matt Rainnie of the program Mainstreet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website July 24th: Comedian Martin Short on Q Comedian Martin Short is one of Hamilton, Ontario's favourite sons, a TV sketch-comedy wizard, star of hit films and a veteran of the stage. Short will be performing at Just For Laughs in Montreal, Quebec towards the end of July but first, CBC Radio One's Q reached him by phone. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website July 23rd: Doing Laundry with Todd Janes Today on the program, host Angela Antle is doing her laundry with artist Todd Janes. He's in a coveted parking space in downtown Edmonton, oblivious to the roar of the Albertan economic machine behind him. Todd, meanwhile, is spritzing lavendar water and feeling at one with his fancy new iron. Here's Angela's visit with Todd Janes from the CBC Radio Summer show Socket. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website July 22nd: Canadians and The Moon Forty years ago last Monday, Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon. Armstrong and his other crewmates from Apollo 11, like Michael Collins and Edwin, or "Buzz," Aldrin, made history and captured the world's imagination when they touched down on the moon's surface. Robert Godwin has interviewed the lunar walkers about their experiences in space. He's the curator of the Canadian Air and Space Museum in Toronto. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website July 21st: Adoption Woes There are folks across Canada whose dreams of building their families are threatened. That's where eight Prince Edward Island families now find themselves. They were trying to adopt young children from Ethiopia but in the midst of the adoption process, many have been side-swiped by the bankruptcy of Ontario-based Imagine Adoptions. Tammy MacKinnon is a spokesperson with the PEI Adoption Coalition. She spoke with the CBC's Matt Rainnie on Island Morning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website July 20th: A Welcome Home for Sgt. Corey Peckford, James Earle Flies Solo at 14 and Dean Burry's Opera "A Creature of Habit" Sgt. Corey Peckford is back home for a visit but he wasn't expecting a motorcade, complete with fire trucks, sirens and flashing lights. ** A 14-year old from Happy Valley-Goose Bay made history last Wednesday as the youngest pilot in Newfoundland & Labrador, and the second-youngest in Canada, to fly solo. ** An opera opened in Trinity, NL last week that was inspired by Sir Richard Whitburn's 1579 claim that he saw a mermaid in the area. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website July 17th: Visa Restrictions As you probably already know, parts of Mexico are places of extreme violence, and now, people coming in from Mexico into Canada are going to find it a little tougher to get in. They, along with people coming in from the Czech Republic, now have to present visas. The government says that this is a measure that will reduce illegitimate claims for refugee status. Others say there has to be a better way. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website July 16th: Rufus Wainwright Discusses Prima Donna on Q Montreal-born performer Rufus Wainwright has caught a case of the Verdis. His debut opera "Prima Donna" opened in England on Friday. Composer and librettist Rufus Wainwright spoke with host Jian Ghomeshi on Q earlier this week. Here's their conversation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website July 15th: Indianthusiasts On the CBC Radio One summer show ReVision Quest, host and First Nations comic Darrell Dennis plunders the past to challenge the misconceptions about what it means to be an Aboriginal person in Canada today. This week on the show, he introduced listeners to the "German Hobby Indians" who admire First Nations culture so much that they dress up like natives on weekends. You'll hear Darrell speaking with a Cree filmmaker who's living in Germany. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website July 14th: Historic Dartmouth and Park Brown For students, getting a summer job they're passionate about can be a challenge, so Alex Summerville decided to create his own job. He researched and wrote a Historic Walking Tour of Dartmouth for the Dartmouth Heritage Museum in Nova Scotia. We'll also hear about a new sitcom that's being filmed in Sudbury, Ontario. It's based on what goes on inside a provincial park. Dan Lessard went down to the set to talk to series co-creators Gordon Harris and Stephane Ostrander. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website July 13th: CARTA wants to see the Canadian Car and Ringing Bells for Peace from Thunder Bay, Ontario to Gifu, Japan Over the past few months, the Canadian and Ontario governments have thrown billions of dollars at the struggling auto industry. Scott Paterson thinks it would have been better spent developing a truly Canadian car. Also, bells rang out simultaneously in Thunder Bay, Ontario and Gifu, Japan last week. This year is the third straight that the sister cities have rung the bells for peace. Reporter Gord Ellis went to Hilcrest Park in Thunder Bay for the program Voyage North. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website July 10th: Dr. Yvan Pelletier of the BioPotato Network The potato is getting a 5.3 million dollar make-over. Agriculture Canada is funding the three-year project, called the BioPotato Network. Thirty-one scientists across the Maritimes and in Ontario are looking at new uses for the potato, from nutraceuticals to bioplastics and insecticides. Eleven of those scientists are working on Prince Edward Island. Doctor Yvan Pelletier is the co-head of the BioPotato Network. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website July 9th: A Learning Holiday and Going Garbage-Free A Swiss family is giving new definition to the term "working holiday." Right now, they're up in Wakefield, Quebec learning French at the River Echo language School. The Adank family has already spent part of the summer in BC, learning how to speak English. ** Toronto is in the midst of a garbage strike, and that has people thinking about how to reduce their waste. A few years ago, artist Sarah McGaughey made it her mission to go totally garbage-free for one month. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website July 8th: Chilcare Problems in Nunavut and Quebec en crimes First up is a report from The World This Weekend. For parents in places all over Canada, daycare and the lack of it is a major issue but imagine trying to find someone to look after your child in the small, isolated communities in the Arctic. Then, we hear about a museum in Trois-Rivieres that's exhibiting evidence from some of Quebec's most notorious crime scenes. The collection includes evidence from the Coffin affair and the FLQ crisis, among other notorious crime scenes in Quebec. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website July 7th: Project Hero, Commending Reg Crooze and the Norseman 100 Today, we have three items from Newfoundland & Labrador. Toronto businessman Kevin Reed is the founder of Project Hero. The organization seeks to get free tuition for children of members of the Canadian Military. ** Reg Crooze of Hare Bay, NL was commended by the RCMP's Commissioner last week for an act of bravery that took place sixteen years ago. ** The Norseman 100 was flown by Canadians during WWII. Find out why it's visiting locations on the east coast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website July 6th: Photographer Kim Waldron, Preparing Shiloh Youth Ranch and The Oldest Operating Steam Locomotive in Canada Socket host Angela Antle spoke with Montreal photographer Kim Waldron. Waldron phoned up some men she didn't know to ask them if she could wear their work clothes. ** The Mercer family runs the Shiloh Youth Ranch. They spoke with the CBC's Adrienne Lamb about getting the ranch set up for summer campers after a fire destructed much of their property two months ago. ** The legendary #3 is back on the rails in Winnipeg. At 127 years old, it's the oldest operating steam locomotive in Canada. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website July 3rd: Jowi Taylor and the Story of Six String Nation It was during the lead up to the Quebec referendum in 1995 that Jowi Taylor came up with the idea for a guitar that would incorporate pieces of Canadian history, literally. He spearheaded a tremendous effort to find things as disparate and meaningful as Pierre Trudeau's canoe paddle, the sacred Golden spruce of Haida Gwai and Maurice Richard's Stanley Cup ring. Then, he had the 64 artifacts turned into a guitar. The guitar debuted three years ago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website July 2nd: Clips from the final episode of The Point Well, we said goodbye to our Radio One program The Point last Friday. Host Aamer Haleem had CBC anchor Ian Hanomansing and the Calgary Herald's Swerve Magazine Editor Shelley Youngblut join him for the farewell show. They heard from some dedicated Point listeners and discussed some perfect and not-so-perfect endings in the movies and in real life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website July 1st: Stained Glass and Scannography in British Columbia Today we have two items about British Columbia artists. First, Mike Bertucci, whose art is best viewed with a stream of warm sunlight. His stain glass creations shimmer in almost every corner of his house. The Prince George artist has been selling his work for over 35 years. Heading a bit farther south in B.C., an art show on Saltspring Island is exhibiting the work of six photographers who are changing their art. One, Janet Dwyer, doesn't even use a camera - she uses a computer scanner. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 30th: Toys for Grown-ups Who Were Kids in the 80's and The Dangerous World of Butterflies Let's go back to the 1980s when Saturday morning cartoons were little more than extended toy commercials. The Transformers, G.I. Joe, He-Man and all the rest found a way to keep the little tikes amused while pushing the latest action figures. We'll also hear about author Peter Laufer. Weary of writing about his usual topics of politics and war, he made an off-hand comment that his next book would be about "butterflies and flowers." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 29th: Fifty Years After The Storm Half a century ago, a killer storm blew through the Maritimes. Thirty-five fishermen died. Dutch Thompson told the story of that storm to Matt Rainnie on a recent edition of Mainstreet from Charlottetown. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 26th: Letters From Beauly and a Gaelic Songwriter in Northern Ontario It's not often that cleaning out the attic leads to writing a book but that's what's happened to Melynda Jarratt of Fredericton. When her family discovered a storehouse of letters written to and from her grandfather, she knew there was a story to tell. Then we'll hear from Dave Nicholson, a historian in Thunder Bay, Ontario. He has a story about a Gaelic songwriter who moved to that area from Scotland in the 19th century. He spoke with Gerald Graham on the program Voyage North. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 25th: Dialogue Coach Eric Armstrong Five of the artists nominated for Dora Mavor Moore awards by the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts this year have voice coach Eric Armstrong to thank, at least in part. Armstrong worked with them on their various dialects and he joined host Jian Ghomeshi on Q earlier this week to demonstrate his unique talent for authentic speech from near and far. Here's their conversation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 24th: The God Debate - Terry Eagleton Well, taking a shot at God seems to be a sure-fire way to get on the best seller lists these days. A vocal congregation of atheists has immerged in recent years, complemented by Richard Dawkins' book "The God Delusion" and Christopher Hitchens' book "God Is Not Great" but do they really know anything about the religions they so happily dismiss? Not really, according to Terry Eagleton's new book. Eagleton's one of Britain's best-known thinkers and critics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 23rd: All-Day Kindergarten An estimated one in four children in grade one are significantly behind their peers and some of them never close that gap. A statistic like that brings us to the debate over what to do about it and whether or not the answer lies in our kindergartens. For their thoughts, Anna Maria Tremonti hosted a panel discussion with three guests on The Current. They included the man who wrote the report that proposed this program, Charles Pascal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 22nd: Bikes Versus Cars Welcome to summer. As the weather heats up, so do the battles on the roadways between cyclists and drivers. Stories of uncontrolled rage and psycho drivers circulate through the cycling communities in Canada but what triggers this rage? Why are some incidents so violent? Freelance broadcaster Shelley Joyce talked to some cyclists and an academic who has studied the culture of speed. Here's what they had to say. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 19th: A Citizen Makes An Arrest in Ottawa At what point would you take the law into your own hands? At what point would you become so frustrated by vandals continually damaging your property, combined with a lack of response by the authorities, that you'd resort to making a citizen's arrest? That's exactly what Thomas Stamoulis had to do but how he did it is the real story behind this case. Thomas manages the Mystiko Greek Kitchen and Wine Bar in Ottawa. He spoke with host Aamer Haleem on The Point. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 18th: Vocalist Bernard Lachance on C'est la vie Bernard Lachance is a singer from Quebec. He's been successful in his efforts to market himself but his big break came when he posted a video on YouTube. He invited Oprah Winfrey to see him perform in Chicago and, for him, the rest is history. C’est la vie host Bernard St-Laurent asked Bernard Lachance to take him back to the beginnings of his career, to his first concert. Here's their conversation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 17th: 20 Rounds of Golf in One Day for ALS For the most part, golf is a leisurely game. A round of 18 holes usually takes a good part of the day but Matt Barker was hoping to pack in a lot more than that last Monday. The assistant golf pro from Calgary, Alberta attempted to play 12 rounds in one day. That's 216 holes. He made the attempt to raise money for charity. Calgary Eyeopener host Jim Brown caught up with Matt Barker before he tee'd off at the Radium Resort Golf Course in BC. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 16th: Morley Safer on Q Twelve-time Emmy award winner and host of 60 Minutes Morley Safer was in Toronto last week to receive a tribute from the Canadian Journalism Foundation. He joined host Jian Ghomeshi on Q to reflect upon his eminent career. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 15th: Youth and Politics Today's highlight has to do with age and maybe a little ageism. In a week where the political news is set on the forgetfulness of a 26-year-old and at a time where government assistants decree everything from the availability to the accessibility and the accountability of powerful ministers, The Current asked about the intersection of age and responsibility in politics. Anna Maria Tremonti hosted this onversation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 12th: Flag Football in Saskatoon Most organized sports for kids are pretty expensive. With season's fees and the cost of equipment, activities like hockey and soccer can be pricey affairs. That's one of the reasons why flag football is taking off right now in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The kids don't need pads or helmets to play and the organizers have also put the emphasis on fun rather than competition. The CBC's Dan Kerslake reports on the growing popularity of the sport. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 11th: Canada and The Internet It's expensive and it's slow. Canada's Internet service isn't exactly something to e-mail home about. Earlier this week on The Point, host Aamer Haleem asked his Point People, Calgary urban columnist and college professor Naheed Nenshi and Canadian Press Washington correspondent Lee-Anne Goodman, if adding 'free' to the list of features would make things any better. First, Aamer spoke with the Managing Editor of Digital Journal, David Silverberg. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 10th: Michael Ignatieff's French Fluency in both of Canada's official languages is a requirement for any Prime Ministerial wannabes, so what kind of French does Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff speak and what image do his language skills project to francophones? Recently, C'est la vie looked into how francophones relate to Michael Ignatieff's French. Bernard St. Laurent speaks with a man who has polled Quebeckers about how they plan to vote in a federal election. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 9th: Mrs. Traill's Garden There's a little garden in southern Ontario with a historic plaque that honours the 19th century Canadian writer Catherine Parr Traill. It's in the tiny village of Gore’s Landing, just an hour east of Toronto but this was "the backwoods" in Catherine Parr Traill's day; "the bush" to her sister Susanna Moodie. Catherine Parr Traill and Susanna Moodie are icons of early Canadian literature. Both of them were English immigrants. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 8th: Canadian Monopoly Champion Will Lusby On Saturday, May 30th, Will Lusby of Ottawa won the Canadian Monopoly championship at the Montreal Science Centre. He was on Q last week speaking with host Jian Ghomeshi. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 5th: Parental Alienation Rhonda Pisarello was eight years old when her parents divorced. Soon after, her father and his new wife took her and her two siblings to another country. Rhonda was beaten when she mentioned the mother they'd left behind and her father and stepmother would call that woman "The Thing." That was decades ago and though parental alienation makes the news today, it's been around for a very long time. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 4th: Tales of the Taliban Just over Afghanistan's border, Pakistani troops are mopping up after an unparalleled assault against the Taliban of the Swat Valley. An uneasy truce had allowed the Taliban to consolidate its power inside Pakistan in some rather remarkable ways. American journalist Nicholas Schmidle had a rare opportunity to see it up close. He's spent the past two years travelling the region, sometimes penetrating Taliban ranks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 3rd: Humans and Animals Today on the show, let's have a look into the mind of an animal geographer. Carleton University PhD candidate John Wall wants us to reconsider the way we think about "domesticated" animals. He was on The Point last week to talk about it. Here's the host of the show, Aamer Haleem. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 2nd: Bygone PEI Take a drive in the PEI countryside this time of year and you'll see two things in the fields that were parked in barns all winter: tractors and horses. Dutch Thompson regularly shares stories from the bygone days of the Island on the program Mainstreet. Here he is with host Angela Walker. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 1st: James Lovelock on The Current Today on the podcast, I've got some good news and some bad news. The good news is that the Earth is finding a way to heal itself. The bad news is that it's likely going to sacrifice a lot of us to do it. When it comes to climate change, we can try to reverse it, slow it or mitigate it but a British scientist named Dr. James Lovelock says that there's no gratitude in green. Forget the mitigation. Start working on adaptation fast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 29th: Mavis Gallant on Q Today on the show, I'd like to let you listen to a feature interview with Mavis Gallant from Q. She's a Canadian master of short story writing with a global profile. She's lived in Paris since the fifties but remains a citizen of Canada and she just published a collection of stories called "Going Ashore." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 28th: Appreciating Lotus Tea A cup of tea is a universal symbol of hospitality and good will. Sharing a pot can cross cultures and open doors. For those living away from home, the aroma can stir up memories of far away places but not all teas are created equal. As the CBC's Julia Kilpatrick found out, there's more than just dried leaves in a cup of Vietnamese Lotus tea. Here's Julia's report. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 27th: Fake Medical Journals Have you ever heard of Vioxx? It's an anti-inflammatory drug that's made to ease chronic pain for folks with arthritis. It was made and marketed by a pharmaceutical giant called Merck and prescribed to 80 million people worldwide but five years ago it was pulled off the market after studies showed that the use of Vioxx could double the risk of a heart attack. Now, a lawsuit in Australia reveals some of Merck's marketing secrets. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 26th: The Mystery of the Mad Trapper Continues Today we're going to consider a mystery: who was the Mad Trapper? His name may be known but there's little else on record about the man who became a legend in the north. There's a new documentary called "Hunt for the Mad Trapper" that sets out to change all that. Host Aamer Haleem spoke with filmmaker Carrie Gour last week on The Point. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 25th: The Missing Canadian Family Saga Many Can-lit novels feature families but there aren't many Canadian books that could be considered sweeping family sagas. Is there a Canadian equivalent to Roots or The Forsythe Saga? The writer Aretha Van Herk did some research into that question. She shared her findings with Shelagh Rogers on The Next Chapter. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 22nd: New Ideas on the Settling of North America A recent study coming out of the United States is shining new light on how North America was settled. Until now researchers believed the continent was populated by successive waves of migrants from Asia but now that theory's being put to the test. Kari Schroeder is with the University of California. She spoke to Ted Blades on the program On the Go from St. John's. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 21st: "America's Worst Mom" So, let's say you're the parent of a 9 year old. Would you let him or her ride the subway alone? Well, a recent guest on Q created a firestorm of controversy when she confidently waved goodbye to her 9 year old son, wished him well on his first solo subway ride in New York City and then wrote about it in the New York Sun. Syndicated columnist and humourist Lenore Skenazy says we've become outrageously alarmist. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 20th: The Future of Innu Education School isn't even out for the summer but the Innu Band Councils in Labrador are consumed with next fall and what's about to happen to their children's education. On June 30th, they're taking over. Innu leaders will decide what their kids learn and how they learn it. It's a bold move to take over education from the hands of the province. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 19th: What's up with that QWERTY keyboard? Spark is CBC's technology show. It usually focuses on what's new and upcoming in technology but a recent episode celebrated the joys of old technology. One of the topics they took on was the quirky QWERTY layout of keyboards. The design has been around since the invention of the typewriter But why is it still around? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 18th: Ecstasy and Agony The drug Ecstasy is a favourite of rave culture because of the euphoric buzz it gives but there's a dark side to the drug, too, and it's not just the potential side effects of taking E. Poachers in southeast Asia are cutting down a rare tree because there's an oil in the bark that's used to make the drug. To try and stem the slaughter, environmental groups and legal agencies are teaming up in the jungles of Cambodia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 15th: Building Walls and Tearing Down Others We're used to hearing stories about people with disabilities finally finding jobs and making a good impression on people around them but today's highlight is the story of a whole construction crew that not only have jobs, they're among the best at what they do. Mike Perrier and his employees build walls using insulated concrete forms. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 14th: Episode One of The Book Club's Audio Podcast Last Friday, May 8th, the Canada Reads Book Club launched a new CBC audio podcast. It's hosted by Hannah Sung and it features authors and other special guests highlighting a new novel every month. In the first episode, Hannah asks author Howard Engel about his memoir, "The Man Who Forgot How to Read," and about creating his most famous fictional character, Benny Cooperman, P.I. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 13th: Big Changes to Parks Canada's Warden Service The warden service for Parks Canada is marking its 100th anniversary this year but the milestone comes as the service is going through a fundamental change. It all has to do with the carrying of firearms. Right now, 425 wardens patrol our national parks, which include Banff and Jasper, but fewer than 100 of them will be keeping their badges. Those wardens will be carrying handguns by the May long weekend. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 12th: Stranded Sealer Last Monday began just like any other day at work for sixty-six-year-old Rex Saunders but when his boat hit an ice floe, things took a turn for the worse. Rex Saunders spoke with host Carol Off about what happened on the program As It Happens. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 11th: Filmmaking and Gender Relations in Afghanistan "Afghan Star" and "Audition" are two of the films at this year's Hot Docs festival in Toronto and they take viewers inside the world of culture and gender relations in Afghanistan. Directors Nelofer Pazira and Havana Marking discussed the making of their films on Q with host Jian Ghomeshi. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 8th: Michael Geist on the final episode of CBC's Search Engine Podcast This week, we bid farewell to the Search Engine podcast. Even after Search Engine, the program, was removed from the Radio One broadcast schedule, host Jesse Brown continued to produce the podcast, discovering all the surprising and significant ways that the Internet is transforming our world. In the final episode of the podcast, Jesse spoke with Michael Geist about why Canada is on America's "priority watch" list of the world's worst copyright-abusing countries. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 7th: Karachi Match Do you think love can be arranged? Natasha Fatah was asking herself that question when she went to her cousin's wedding in Karachi, Pakistan. Natasha grew up in Canada and she's extremely sceptical about her cousin's prospects for a healthy, loving marriage and that's because he doesn't even know his bride-to-be. As Natasha watches the event unfold, she begins to wonder whether the arranged marriage system is actually better than falling in love first. Here's her story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 6th: A Natural History of the World's Largest Animal There is no creature on our planet that's bigger than the blue whale. A blue whale's heart can be as big as a car. Their calves gain eight pounds per hour after birth and their mothers wean them only when they've reached 40-thousand pounds. They can call to each other from across an ocean. At least, that's something they used to be able to do. We may have wrecked that ability with our own noise pollution. Back in the day, they were easy prey. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 5th: "Le Petit Nicolas" "Le Petit Nicolas" is a favourite character in a series of illustrated story books. For his fifth anniversary, there's a big exhibition and celebration going on in Paris. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 4th: David Suzuki's Big Picture At 72 - no wait that's 73 - David Suzuki is as passionate as ever. He talks to Shelagh Rogers about why people might be slow to change despite scientists' warnings. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 1st: Homeless World Cup Canada has participated in the Homeless World Cup since 2006. The team recently competed in the finals of a mainstream league. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 30th: Ligntning strikes in “Act of God” A new documentary profiles people who were hit by lightning and survived. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 29th: Vancouver company sues El Salvador A Canadian mining company bets the farm on gold in El Salvador. But it didn't bet on the farmers opposition. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 28th: Free House Farmer Wayne Hillman of Comber, Ontario, is trying give away a house on his property. But so far, haven't been any takers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 27th: Tax Mistake Irvin Laroux spent ten years fighting the Canada Revenue Agency over its claim that he owed a million dollars in back taxes and penalties. He ended up winning the battle, but lost almost everything else in the process. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 24th: Disney's "Earth" CBC Film reviewer Eli Glasner tells us how much recycling to expect in Disnification of the popular BBC series. He gives other green screen recommendations for those who like docs and those who do not. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 23rd: Earth Day Edition of News Quiz Pick the environmentally themed news story that's fake from the real ones. It's "Not Necessarily the News" from Yellowknife's morning show, Trailbreaker. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 22nd: Robot Building Championship & Dragons and Castles A mentor and a student report from the 2009 Robotic Championships in Atlanta where they are competing. Also, A woman from Sydney, Cape Breton has an idea that she thinks could be a huge boost to the island’s tourism industry and she's pitching it on Dragon's Den. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 21st: Leonard Cohen on Love At 74, Canadian legend Leonard Cohen is back on tour. He spoke with Jian Ghomeshi on Q about the dangerous arena you enter when you fall in love. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 20th: Digital Culture and Religion Spark host Nora Young in conversation with Rachael Wagner whose research touches on some of the latest websites, games and tools that bring spirituality to virtual spaces. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 17th: Alexis Nyandwi is Going Back to Rwanda It's been 15 years since the Rwandan Genocide and 15 years since Alexis Nyandwi has been back home. He was born in Rwanda. His family fled and came to Canada in 1994. Now, Nyandwi is a student at the University of Saskatchewan. He's going back to Rwanda this summer with ten other students. They want to help the country. For Nyandwi, it's more than charity. It's also about reconnecting with his roots. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 16th: Points About Marijuana For many young people, smoking up is almost a rite of passage. In much of Canada, marijuana has long been considered a recreational drug, with regular calls for the rules around it to be relaxed. It's even gained acceptance for certain medicinal uses but recent studies are linking marijuana use to certain psychotic illnesses. The host of The Point, Aamer Haleem, discussed those studies with his Point people. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 15th: Budgeting Alberta In late 2005 every man, woman and child in Alberta got a cheque in the mail – a four-hundred-dollar "prosperity cheque" reflecting a booming oil economy and courtesy of the conservative government of Ralph Klein. At the time, his critics, who included economists, business leaders and other politicians, called it a wasted windfall, saying the province should have invested the money and accusing the government of having no long term plan for growth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 14th: Remembering Gerald Conroy Sixty-five years ago allied bombers raided the city of Berlin on 'the night of the strong winds.'The date was March 24th, 1944. It was one of the final air offensives on the city during World War II. Nova Scotian Gerald Conroy piloted a Halifax bomber that night for the last time. His niece recently returned to Merbitz, Germany where his plane went down. She went to honour his memory with a special ceremony. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 13th: Billy Bob Thornton on Q As CBC Radio's Q played across the country last Wednesday, the buzz about host Jian Ghomeshi's interview with Oscar-winner Billy Bob Thornton grew. Thornton was in Studio Q with his band The Boxmasters and if you were listening, you heard what could best be described as a 'showdown at the Q corral' when Thornton took offense to Jian's mention of his cinematic accomplishments. By mid-day on Wednesday, there were 500 comments about the interview on Q's blog. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 9th: Rebirth on the Nile Fifty years ago, when Egypt flooded the countryside around the new Aswan Dam, it sought international help to protect ancient monuments that would have been lost but the government was less concerned about helping the people who lived in the flood path. The descendents of ancient Nubia were uprooted from riverside villages and banished to a parched desert landscape. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 8th: Adventures in Mothering Mother There are moments in our lives that create a "before" and an "after." They're big life events like graduation, marriage, childbirth, divorce and accidents. In the case of Meg Federico's octogenarian mother, it was a fall on a sidewalk that forced the fiercely independent woman into full-time care. Meg nicknames her mother and step-father's house "the Departure Lounge." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 7th: Joe Shuster's Fetish Art Who would've thought that Joe Shuster's side project was fetish comics! The co-creator of Superman also worked on Nights of Horror, an erotic fifties title that featured scenes of bondage and sexuality. Craig Yoe has collected Shuster's drawings in a new book and he joined host Jian Ghomeshi last week on Q. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 6th: At the Princess Ball On the last weekend of March, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and several other famous princesses appeared at a special ball in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Dozens of child princesses, along with their mothers and grandmothers, were also there, dining and dancing the night away. It was all in the name charity, raising money to refurbish a room in the children's section of the city's hospital. The CBC's Jillian Pavlin waved her magic recording wand. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 3rd: Newfoundland, Sixty Years Later On April 1st, 1949, Newfoundland and Labrador was officially welcomed into the federal fold as Canada's tenth province. That was sixty years ago, as of this past Wednesday. On a sixtieth anniversary, it's customary to give diamonds but there isn't much love lost between Premier Danny Williams and Prime Minister Stephen Harper these days and most Newfoundlanders and Labradorians aren't exactly feeling all warm and fuzzy about Confederation anyway. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 2nd: A Closing Chat with Judy Maddren If you listened to CBC Radio last Friday morning, you would have heard the end of an era. Host Judy Maddren delivered her final broadcast for World Report. For 16 years, as the voice of national news, Judy was a part of the CBC Radio morning schedule, so we couldn't let her leave without a proper goodbye. Last week, Judy joined host Wei Chen in the Ontario Morning studio, which is just down the hall from World Report's. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 1st: The Happiness Project and More Snow for Calgary! The guest featured in today's highlight is actively engaged in the pursuit of happiness, wherever it may be but while Gretchen Rubin has found no end of advice along the way, she's also discovered a few myths about what actually makes us happy. Meanwhile, if you live in Calgary, you may be none to happy with the weather conditions lately. If you’re not a Calgarian, you may not have heard: the city recorded between 13 to 25 centimetres of snow on the weekend. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 31st: Laurent Eyquem, Composer for Film From childhood, Laurent Eyquem wanted to be a musician and a composer but an accident almost put an end to his career. To tell us more about Laurent Eyquem – his childhood, his accident and his breakthrough score – here are host Bernard St-Laurent and CBC’s Jeanette Kelly on C’est la vie. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 30th: Charles Montgomery on Cities and Happiness The award-winning journalist and world traveler Charles Montgomery has turned his pen to cities and his mind to happiness. Specifically, if Vancouver has such a high quality of life, why are people there so unhappy? Charles Montgomery joined Jian Ghomeshi on Q to make the case. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 27th: Waka Waka! The cult sensation of Florida Panthers play-by-play man Randy Moller! You wouldn't exactly call south Florida "hockey country" but that might be changing. For one thing, the NHL's Florida Panthers are taking a run at the playoffs for the first time in nine years but it seems they've also got a cult hero on their hands. Our sportologist, Nick Purdon, has the story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 26th: Former CBC President Perrin Beatty The CBC is one of the country's biggest providers of local media content and just like every other media organization out there, our private income has taken a massive hit. Unlike every other media organization out there, we have a big public cushion of over a billion dollars. So when we go to the government for help, what is offered instead, is a reminder of what our mandate is. Last week, the CBC's President - Hubert Lacroix – presented his plan to the board. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 25th: Giant Today, I want to introduce you to Giant, a.k.a. Michel Andrew. He was resting up and nursing a few blisters this past weekend and that's because he finally completed his walk from Sheshatshiu to Natuashish. It took nearly five weeks and more than three hundred kilometers, and he did it all to raise awareness and money for diabetes. The community of Natuashish gave him welcome that nearly measures up to his name. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 24th: Reflecting on Racial Descrimination Reporter Barbara Roberts was at the Boyce Farmers' Market in Fredericton, New Brunswick last Thursday, reporting from the local events marking the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Here's Barb in conversation with Jessie Sagawa of the New Brunswick African Association. Jessie talks about some of the problems she encountered when she came to Canada from Malawi. Some of the language you'll hear is explicit. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 23rd: Art Access It's often difficult to find places where kids with special needs can be themselves without being judged for being different. It's one reason why the members of an art class in Charlottetown like it so much. They can run around, be loud and be creative all in their own ways. It's called the Art Access class. One week they paint, another they dance. On the day that the CBC's Lindsay Carroll dropped in, they were making prints. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 20th: Phebe Laurendeau On the day that she was born, it was clear that little Phebe Laurendeau was in trouble: deprived of oxygen, initially put on a respirator and later fitted with a feeding tube. Her heartsick parents were confronted with difficult choices. They directed their doctors in Montreal to stop treatment, understanding their firstborn would die but a hospital ethics committee overruled them. Today, Phebe is 16 months old and her parents are suing the ethics committee. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 19th: The Ukrainian Shumka Dancers of Edmonton They're one of Edmonton, Alberta's famous cultural exports. The "Ukrainian Shumka Dancers" out of Edmonton turn 50 this week. In the past five decades, the world-class group has performed in China, Ukraine and around Canada. The dancers who make Shumka happen give almost all their time to the company but as the CBC's Mackenzie Grisdale tells you, Shumka gives the dancers a second home. She prepared this report for Edmonton AM. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 18th: A Daily Dose of Poetry with Dionne Brand Imagine if, instead of reaching for the newspaper in the morning, you opened up a book of poetry. Poet and novelist Dionne Brand thinks we could all use a daily dose of poetry to get us through our hectic lives. She was recently in Halifax, where she spoke with the host of Information Morning, Elizabeth Logan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 17th: Vigilante Justice Today's Editor's Choice is about taking the law into your own hands. Host Aamer Haleem asked point people Shelley Youngblut (the Editor of Swerve Magazine) and lawyer Bernd Christmas if there's ever an excuse for vigilante justice. First though, he had a discussion with the justice issues reporter for the Winnipeg Free Press, Mike McIntyre. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 16th: Calling Doctors to Labrador It's not uncommon to hear about rural areas offering bonuses and free office space to attract doctors, but in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, NL, they're using the lure of the Labrador wild, and it seems to be working. Reporter Peter Cowan ventured into the bush along with a few doctors to find out more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 13th: Digital Lit A few months back Oprah Winfrey announced that Amazon.com's Kindle was her favourite gadget of 2008. Think of the Kindle as an iPod for books, letting you read all your favourite novels at a touch of a button. The Kindle's just a part of a fast-growing industry that's offering books digitally -- a trend that worries many fans of the beloved bound volume. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 12th: Polythechnique Denis Villeneuve is the director of the film "Polytechnique." It recounts the tragic 1989 massacre at Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique. The controversial film has inspired both stellar reviews and strong disapproval. Denis Villeneuve joined host Jian Ghomeshi on Q to talk about it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 11th: Waiting in Line at the EI Office and Daylight Disasters You may be familiar with the line from a Tom Petty song that says "It's the waiting that's the hardest part." Well, that couldn't be more true for people who've just lost their jobs and are waiting for employment insurance. ** Hopefully you remembered to change your clock over the March 7th weekend or you may have been late to work on Monday! For most people, Daylight Saving Time mix-ups are relatively harmless. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 10th: Romeo Phillion on The Current Forty-two years ago, when a firefighter from Ottawa named Leopold Roy turned up dead, it was easy to cast suspicion on Romeo Phillion. He was a troubled man, and something of a drifter. When he admitted to the murder - a confession he would later recant - that pretty much sealed the deal but last Thursday, after serving thirty-one years in prison and five years on parole, the Ontario Court of Appeal overturned his conviction. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 9th: The Underground Economy Do you have any idea how much money is generated by Canada's underground economy? It's really hard to know what the figures might be, given that it's all going on off the record. That's the point. Naturally, it's a concern for the Canada Revenue Agency. The CRA has launched a video contest where you can help get the word out that the underground economy is a bad thing. But is it really all that bad? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 6th: Canada Reads, Day 4 This year's Canada Reads debates began on Monday, March 2nd with five books vying for the title of the book for Canada to read in 2009. "Mercy Among the Children" was the first contender voted out of the running. It was championed by singer-songwriter Sarah Slean, but Slean still has the power to vote along with the other panelists. Here's a clip from yesterday's show, shortly after host Jian Ghomeshi determined which book was the second to be voted out. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 5th: Autobifictionalography Writer Linda Barry Linda Barry can be described as an author, and a comic artist, but her work truly defies categorization. She herself has coined the term autobifictionalography to describe her memoir "100 Demons" and her latest book, "What It Is" has been called part art book, part self-help, part artistic autobiography and manifesto. Linda Barry spoke with Eleanor Wachtel at the International Festival of Authors in Toronto. Here's part of their conversation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 4th: Premier Danny Williams on Q The ever popular Premier Danny Williams is everywhere in Newfoundland and he was front and centre at the East Coast Music Awards last Sunday night. Danny Williams joined host Jian Ghomeshi on Q earlier this week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 3rd: Art for Heart Back in January, Island Morning from CBC Prince Edward Island covered a story about a 12-year-old named Aiden Harrington. He'd made a science project about his two-year-old brother Quinn, who was born with a serious heart problem. Now, Aiden's 10 year old sister, Hannah, has also gotten into the spirit of bringing attention to the IWK Health Centre for children. She decided to enlist the help of her entire school to create a unique fundraiser. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 2nd: Our Relationship with Animals and Not Necessarily the News Well, we love some of them as pets, but use others for food. Author Erica Ritter says that's just one of the paradoxes in our relationship with animals. Host Jane Hawtin of CBC Toronto's Metro Morning spoke with Ritter about her new book on this very subject. After that interview, hear Not Necessarily the News from CBC North's The Trailbreaker. In it, Peter Skinner asks a panel of newshounds to pick the fake news story from the real. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 27th: Ed Robertson on what happens now As you may have heard, the Barenaked Ladies announced this week that lead singer Steven Page is leaving the band. A statement said it was by mutual consent. Writing on his blog, Page said he would be releasing a solo album, composing music for the Stratford festival and working further with the Toronto chamber music ensemble the Art of Time. So what really happened, and what happens now with the Ladies? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 26th: Is Canada Losing Its Cool? A sizable portion of the Canadian public has always been wary of getting too close to U.S. politics and U.S. politicians but that was before Barack. The polls show that we here in Canada love him more than our own leaders. To discuss this phenomenon and why the judgments may or may not be fair, host Anna Maria Tremonti spoke with author and Toronto Star columnist Linda McQuaig and the Toronto Sun's Senior Associate Editor, Lorrie Goldstein. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 25th: Clare Lawlor on Remembering Names It happens all the time: you meet someone new, a friend of a friend or maybe a new co-worker, and just plum forget his or her name. That's fine if you never see that person again but if you do, it can be a bit awkward. One little name is such a simple thing to remember, but for many of us, forgetting someone's name happens all the time. Now the question is why, and what might be the trick to avoiding this kind of situation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 24th: Interview with Peter Keleghan Last Friday night, Canada's largest actors' union, ACTRA honoured Keleghan with its "Award of Excellence" for his outstanding body of work as well as his contribution to the Canadian acting community. But before that, Peter Keleghan joined host Jian Ghomeshi in Studio Q. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 23rd: Open Source Government Last week on The Point, Vancouver magazine columnist Frances Bula joined guest host Ian Hanomansing with a look at open source government. It may be transparent, but who's looking? After touching base with Frances, Ian discussed the idea with his Point people for the day: Eagle Feather News editor John Lagimodiere and Dragons' Den venture capitalist Arlene Dickinson. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 20th: David Helwig and The Sway of Otherwise Last year, writer David Helwig won the Matt Cohen award honouring a lifetime of achievement in poetry and prose but it's not like David's retiring anytime soon. He's midway through his term as PEI's Poet Laureate and he's just released a new collection of work called "The Sway of Otherwise." Recently, he spoke with Matt Rainnie on PEI's afternoon show, Mainstreet. He began by reading one of the poems from his new book. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 19th: Al Jazeera English in Canada The last time Al Jazeera tried to get its signal in Canada, its Arabic language channel was stopped in its tracks by those who argued it was anti-Semitic and anti-Israel. Since that time, Al Jazeera English has grabbed the world's attention as the only international television network reporting out of Gaza in Israel's fight against Hamas. Now, Al Jazeera English wants to be distributed in Canada. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 18th: Transmitting Through Gros Morne National parks are supposed to be nature's refuge and they're supposed to be as an unspoiled and untouched as possible, but there's a proposal to build a transmission line through Gros Morne National park on the west coast of Newfoundland. Peter Deering is the manager of resource conservation with the park. He spoke to CBC reporter David Burke. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 17th: On Shepard Fairey and Street Art He's portrayed as the little guy: the American indie street-artist whose blue and red treatment of a photo of Barack Obama became an iconic campaign poster and now hangs among the masters of Washington's National Portrait Gallery. Although Shepard Fairey began his art on the street, he now has a design and marketing company with corporate contracts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 16th: Sheldon Chad in Senegal Today's highlight comes from the program Dispatches. Every week, the show features reports and documentaries by correspondents from around the world. Today, we'll hear from Sheldon Chad, who's in the midst of a pilgrimage in Senegal. Dispatches is hosted by Rick MacInnes-Rae. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 13th: Expectations and the Vancouver 2010 Olympics Today's piece comes from the program The Inside Track and there's a special reason to highlight the show this week. Host Robin Brown was recently named one of the Most Influential Women of 2008 by the Canadian Association for The Advancement of Women and Sport. This week, the Inside Track was all about the upcoming Vancouver Olympics. One year from now, the 2010 Games will kick off and expectations for Canada's athletes are high. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 12th: Northern Lights and Silver Screens A quaint little village in northern Canada is drawing tourists from around the world. There are no fountains or cobbled streets and the temperature often drops below minus 50, but there's one thing that keeps the crowds coming to Aurora Village. Though maybe you prefer spending your evenings doing something a bit more relaxing – and warmer - like watching a movie, but what if you had to watch six movies at once? That's what Paul Crook does every weekend. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 11th: The Necessities of Life Award-winning filmmaker Benoit Pilon has a new movie. It's called "The Necessities of Life," and it tells a tale of one man's spiritual and cultural displacement within Canada. Host Jian Ghomeshi spoke with Quebec director Benoit Pilon and actor Natar Ungalaaq on Q. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 10th: Surfing in the Kitchen with Hannah If you look for recipes online, you could be one of the many Canadians who bring their laptops into the kitchen. Last week on Spark, CBC contributor Hannah Classen investigated how we can splatter-proof our Internet recipes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 9th: Buy Canadian? The proposed protectionism in a new stimulus package in the U.S. has got unions and politicians pushing for a "buy Canadian" parallel, but what exactly are the implications of buying Canadian?Host Anna Maria Tremonti explored this question on The Current last week. She spoke with Canadian Auto Workers Union President Ken Lewenza and University of Alberta business professor Alice Nakamura. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 6th: Recognizing Black History in Calgary and Toronto CBC Calgary's morning show, The Eyeopener, will be marking the month by sharing some stories about Black pioneers and groundbreakers from Alberta's history. Their guide is Calgary author and historian Cheryl Foggo. Also, Rosemary Sadlier wants August 1st, Emancipation Day, to become an official national commemorative holiday. She spoke recently about it with Jane Hawtin on Metro Morning in Toronto. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 5th: Lifesaving Kids in Manitoba and Living Without Technology Resourcefulness is a useful trait for any of us to have, but for a 14-year-old boy and an 11-year-old girl in Manitoba, it wasn't just useful, it was life-saving. They were snowmobiling with their father this weekend on Lake Winnipeg. Also, Most of us find it annoying when the power goes off for a few hours, but recently some students on PEI turned the power off on purpose - for 24 hours. They're taking Philosphy 101: Technology, Values & Science at the University of Prince Edward Island. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 4th: Discussing religion, or lack thereof, on The Point You may be familiar with those who say, "There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life." Those folks have taken their views to our city streets, literally. They're doing it with a bus campaign that's causing plenty of controversy. Is it free speech or hate speech? Host Aamer Haleem explored the differing views with actor and business owner Catherine Law Haggquist and documentary film maker Roberto Veri on The Point. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 3rd: Budgetary Spin Well, the big surprise about last week's budget was that there were no surprises. It used to be that budget secrecy in Canada was, well, sacred. We wouldn’t know anything about what was going to be in the budget until the finance minister delivered the details in the House of Commons, but it isn't like that anymore. Over the past decade or so, governments have taken to leaking budget information well before budget day. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 2nd: Corbin Bernsen in Kipling, SK L.A. Law's Corbin Bernsen was one of the best-known faces on TV in the late 80s and early 90s. Nowadays, he's a film maker and he's producing a movie starring the town of Kipling, Saskatchewan. There's local money involved in the project, along with a whole lot of enthusiasm. Bernsen joined host Jian Ghomeshi from our Regina studio on Q. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 30th: Seeing-Eye Children I want to tell you about Abdulai Aseysey. He may be just a kid, but he has it in his head that he could lead his country someday, and Sierra Leone can use all the ambition it can get. Seven years after civil war, it's a country convulsed by poverty. Annual per capita income is less than $300 and life expectancy is in the low-40's. Diamonds are the country's most prized resources, and there isn't much left over to nurture human resources, like Abdulai. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 29th: Winter in Newfoundland and Labrador Today I've got two wintery stories from CBC Newfoundland and Labrador ready for you. Chesley Lethbridge of Happy Valley-Goose Bay says for more than two decades he traveled hundreds of kilometres of trails each winter to make a living. Here he is giving reporter Kate Kyle a reality check. Then to the island of Newfoundland where there's no better bragging rights than having a big backyard rink. Just ask the husband and wife whose giant sheet of ice is the talk of the town. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 28th: The Rumour Monger Last week on Definitely Not the Opera, guest host Nick Purdon was talkin' about talk. Specifically, the kind of talk that you hear "through the grapevine." Well, here's a story about someone who started a rumour - rumour ground zero, if you will. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 27th: What's next for Omar Khadr? Today on the podcast: Closing Gitmo. U.S. President Obama moved swiftly to order an end to the detention centre at Guantanamo Bay. Closing the prison camp opens the door to a big question: what happens now to the Canadian who's been there for six years? Nate Whitling is one of the lawyers representing Omar Khadr, and guest host Sheila Coles spoke with him last week on The Current to find out what could come next in Khadr's story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 26th: Alternative Living for Oil Workers in Stoughton, SK Well, it may be hard to believe, but there is at least one spot in Canada that's still booming. There's actually an oil play going on in southeastern Saskatchewan that's attracting workers from across Canada. Trouble is, many of them don't have a place to stay. So, a worker from Alberta and a group of his buddies set themselves up in an alternative space. The CBC's Michelle Higgly reports brought us this report from the town of Stoughton. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 23rd: Unions at Walmart Do you think workers at your local Walmart should try to organize a union? Well, that was the first item up for discussion on Wednesday's edition of The Point. Here's host Aamer Haleem with his point people for the day: urban affairs expert Naheed Nenshi and Vancouver television personality Simi Sara. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 22nd: Bill Ayers Gets Sent Home and Obama Brushes That Dirt Off His Shoulder On Sunday, January 18th, Chicago academic and activist Bill Ayers arrived at Toronto's Island Airport. But when border authorities caught wind of who they were talking to, they put him back on a plane and sent him home. Also, earlier this week, Barack Obama's inauguration as US President inspired Q to look at the events from a cultural perspective. While speaking at a rally during the Democratic primaries, Barack Obama pantomimed brushing dirt off his shoulders. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 21st: Checking Old Chestnuts in Victoria and Opening Doors to Stranded Students in Ottawa Victoria, British Columbia has legions of tall beautiful trees lining its city streets. But those old soldiers are getting on a bit and many are reaching the ends of their lives. The CBC's Sterling Eyford went out to diagnose an old chestnut. Also, it's been pretty difficult to get around Ottawa since transit workers went on strike in December. University and college students are amongst those hardest hit. Now, The University of Ottawa wants to help. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 20th: Indonesian Film Maker Nia Dinata Nia Dinata's one of Indonesia's best-known film directors. She's even been up Oscars, but while the Americans in the Academy may be fond of her, some Indonesians are not. That's because she'll often focus on controversial subjects that offend some citizens her mostly-Muslim country. As a result, the government censors cut a lot out of her films before allowing them to be shown in public. But Dinata's not giving in. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 19th: Canadians Are Crazy; Newfoundland Firewood Chad Holloway of Port Blandford, Newfoundland sold firewood to a local park to pay for his university tuition. It was just a summer job at the time, but now, he’s got a Bachelor of Business Administration, his own company - Newfoundland Firewood. Also, a story from Sudbury, Ontario. Jules Giraudat thinks that Canadians are crazy. He's from Paris, France and has spent the last four months as an intern at Sudbury's weekly francophone paper, Le Voyageur. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 16th: Studies in Blood and HIV Researchers in Ontario are helping to solve the mystery of why some people contract HIV, and others seem to fight off the virus. They say the key might lie in a newly identified blood type. Scientists from the Canadian Blood Service and the Hospital For Sick Children teamed up with Swedish doctors to make the discovery. Their findings are in this week's edition of the journal, Blood. Dr. Don Branch is the lead author of the report. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 15th: Will you produce my album? Ryan Laird traveled from Fergus, Ontario, to Nashville, Tennessee chasing his music dreams, but he had to do something to stand out. How about a giant billboard addressed to country star Taylor Swift? Ryan Laird told his story on Q earlier this week. Here's Q guest host Jonathan Torrens. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 14th: Finding Pakistan Many are watching Pakistan closely, for how it deals with the Mumbai investigation, and with its own domestic rise in violence and religious extremism. CBC News producer Natasha Fatah recently traveled to Pakistan, the country of her birth. She wanted to examine how much of what we hear outside the country is perception versus reality. Here's her documentary - "Finding Pakistan." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 13th: Skiing Out of Bounds Last week, a group of skiers boldly went where no group was supposed to go – out of bounds, into the back country of Grouse Mountain in British Columbia. They were caught, banned from the resort and may have to pay for the cost of the helicopter that came looking for them. The ensuing controversy raised questions about personal freedom versus social obligation and entitlement versus responsibility. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 12th: Discussing the Fate of Department Stores Today's highlight comes from CBC Radio One's lively debate show, The Point. Host Aamer Haleem rounded up a panel of thinkers to discuss the shaky future of the large department store. As the global economic crisis continues, shoppers across North America have opted to save more and spend less. And in an age of boutiques, Internet shopping and big box outlets, are department stores able to survive? Or will they go the way of the traveling salesman? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 9th: Matthew Epp, 2007 Matthew Epp's battle with his own personal dragon has come to an end. After living with cancer almost his whole life, the 16-year- old passed away on January 2nd. In the spring of 2007, Matthew was on The Afternoon Edition from CBC Saskatchewan to talk about his then newly published book. "Hope & the Dragon" is about a young boy living with cancer. Here's Matthew speaking with host Colin Grewar. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 8th: Radio-Canada's Peter Mansbridge Céline Galipeau has been a foreign correspondent for the CBC's French & English services in London, Paris, Moscow and Beijing. She's also reported extensively from Afghanistan and India. Now, Céline Galipeau's taking over the most prestigious anchor job on French TV in Canada. You could say she's Radio-Canada's Peter Mansbridge. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 7th: Author Wally Lamb Today, from the Sunday Edition, Michael Enright speaks with Wally Lamb. His first two novels, "She’s Come Undone" and "I Know This Much is True" were New York Times bestsellers. His latest book is the story of a high school teacher and his wife, a school nurse, who work at Columbine High School. She survives the Columbine massacre, but is unable to recover from the trauma. The novel explores the couple’s struggle to regain their balance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 6th: Health Hero Pauline Gauthier When we hear stories of pain and suffering in the news, many of us may feel helpless and frustrated, but Pauline Gauthier was inspired. Now Reader's Digest has named the nurse from Saskatoon as one of its heroes for 2008. Pauline had worked with sick kids in northern Saskatchewan, but it was the face of a dying boy in Afghanistan that would change her life and the lives of many children in his country. She established the program "Adopt Afghanistan." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 5th: The Samso Shade of Green About 10 years ago, the government of Denmark held a competition to see which community could make itself the brightest shade of green. The winner was the island of Samso in the Danish Sea. Today, it's not just carbon-neutral, it's carbon-negative. It makes money selling its excess power and it's now an international destination for communities wanting to follow its lead. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 31st: 27 Ideas in 27 Minutes This week, our trends and technology show Spark tried something a little different. Producer Jane Farrow put together a special episode chock-full of fresh ideas for 2009. Here's host Nora Young with 27 Ideas in 27 Minutes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 30th: Our Final Moments Definitely Not the Opera capped off 2008 by asking... are our final moments our finest moments? Guest host Nick Purdon spoke with writer and musician Murray Foster about how to celebrate our last moments and what the best way to go would be. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 29th: Kenneth Grahame's Biographer on The Sunday Edition This week, The Sunday Edition had a look into the world of author Kenneth Grahame and the characters of The Wind in the Willows – Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad. Host Michael Enright spoke with Grahame’s biographer, Alison Prince. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 24th: The Royal Canadian Air Farce Comes to a Close Today’s highlight is an interview from Q with two of the founding members of The Royal Canadian Air Farce. After 35 years of political parody, their final show airs on New Year's Eve. Roger Abbott and Don Ferguson joined host Jian Ghomeshi to talk about their long run and their radio roots. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 23rd: The E-Book It's a perennial gift this time of year: the book. Books have stayed pretty much the same for hundreds of years - at least in form. But now there’s something new in book technology. Ottawa arts reporter Kate Porter has been looking into the e-book. She spoke with Ottawa Morning host Kathleen Petty. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 22nd: "Fruit" author Brian Francis Brian Francis' book "Fruit" was picked by Vancouver author and broadcaster, Jen Sookfong Lee for Canada Reads 2009. "Fruit" is Brian's first book and it can make you laugh and cringe at the same time. It's the story of Peter Paddington, from Sarnia, Ontario, a teenager busy dealing with adolescence, his weight and his sexuality. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 19th: Shoplifting and Haggling Two stories from shopping malls in Toronto and Edmonton at the busiest time of year. Hear from a security expert on preventing shoplifting. And, looking for a deal? Some how-to's for would-be hagglers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 18th: Salman Rushdie Part 2 Writers & Company interviews author Salman Rushdie on stage in front of a crowd of 1200 in this serious and often funny interview. In Part 2, he talks more about his childhood and the concept of home. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 17th: Salman Rushdie Part 1 Writers & Company interviews author Salman Rushdie on stage in front of a crowd of 1200 in this serious and often funny interview. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 16th: Yukon school releases first CD and a Hamilton family who's obsessed with boxing A Yukon teacher arranges a 'Over the Wire' project every where the students remotely collaborate with a professional artist. Then, from The Inside Track, a family with five kids who are successful boxers. They talk about how it's been good for the family. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 15th: Group of Seven Nutcracker This is the first year of the Ballet Jorgen's Group of Seven Nutcracker. The company director "Canadianized" the production, making it set in Ontario, starring a new immigrant to Canada, with raccoons and loons as backup dancers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 12th: The mystery of the munched Christmas lights Marcy Markusa and Terry MacLeod help figure out what’s munching at Bill Taylor’s Christmas lights. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 11th: Joel Cohen, co-Executive Producer of The Simpsons Calgary-born Joel Cohen is now the co-Executive Producer of The Simpsons! He joined host Jian Ghomeshi on Q to talk about life inside the world's most popular dysfunctional family. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 10th: Foreign-educated Canadian doctors and political team building in the wilderness White Coat, Black Art host Dr. Brian Goldman is in Ireland with two Canadian medical students, Hannah Smith and Geoffrey Stevens. They did their schooling there and now can't come home to practice. Then, Anne Thornley-Brown, the president of a team-building exercise company, shares her ideas on how to whip the Commons into order. She speaks with Kathleen Petty on CBC Radio’s The House. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 9th: Booting Up and the Pharma Sutra Spark host Nora Young spoke with David Schlesinger, a lawyer representing call-centre employees who are suing their employers over their computers' long boot-up times. Then, Aamer Haleem speaks to producer Leanne Goodman. She's working on a documentary about the movement within pharmaceutical corporations to introduce drugs that treat female sexual dysfunction. Concerns are being raised on whether this is just another move to exploit women's bodies in a post-Viagra world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 8th: Companies Spying On Their Customers A British Columbian utility company hired a disguised private investigator to illegally snoop on a couple complaining about their monthly rates. The outraged customers spoke to CBC 's Go Public reporter, Kathy Tomlinson. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 5th: Crafting An Award For A Guitar Hero Fred Casey makes guitars. He was chosen by the Winnipeg Folk Festival to craft one as an award for music icon Richard Thompson. He speaks with Manitoba's Information Radio about the honour. And they say no man is an island. But The Point host Aamer Haleem speaks to man who refutes that phrase after spending a year in complete isolation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 4th: Is Canada an Internet Ghetto? The idea of Canada as an isolated Internet backwater has sparked heated discussion across the web. Here's Jesse Brown of CBC Radio�s Search Engine with details on the debate so far. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 3rd: Saying Farewell to "The New Music" From Much Music...to Much Less Music. The layoffs at CTV have hit Much, Much More Music and MTV Canada. They also ended the 29-year run of the music magazine program called "The New Music." Former VJ Hannah Sung and Q�s man of media John Turner joined host Jian Ghomeshi to talk about what the show meant to them and to Canadians. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 2nd: Cape Bretoners and Fort McMurray A panel discussion about how Cape Breton families are affected when family members work in Alberta. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 1st: Amman Stand-Up Comedy Festival Two performers at the Middle East's first stand-up comedy festival talk about doing comedy in the arab world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 28th: Horse Gifting The mother of a murdered man presents an RCMP officer with a horse to thank him for his help and support. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 27th: Anne Made Me Gay and Mary Lou Finlay A cabaret show celebrates Anne of Green Gables in a new way, and Mary Lou Finlay guest hosts Edmonton A.M. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 26th: Farm energy audits. An energy auditor talks about how farms can save thousands of dollars on energy bills. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 25th: M.G. Vassanji and Railway Conductor School Author M.G. Vassanji talks about his new book, "A Place Within - Rediscovering India." And students in British Columbia train to become railway conductors. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Novenber 24th: Teenage Drivers and New PhDs We join CBC's The Point for a debate on tougher regulations for teenage drivers plus we hear from two sisters of the Cree nation who just graduated from the University of Alberta PhD program. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Novmeber 21st: National Portrait Gallery Q host Jian Ghomeshi spoke to Senator Jerry Grafstein about trying to find a hoem for the National Portrait Gallery. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 20th: Concerns over Medical Scrubs The Sunday Edition's Michael Enright spoke to Betsy McCaughy about why wearing medical scrubs outside the hospital may not be such a good idea. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 19th: One Native Life Host Shelagh Rogers talks to Ojibwe writer Richard Wagamese about his new book One Native Life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 18th: The Dangers of Sonar and Free Art in London, England We check in with a Zoologist in Victoria on the dangers of using ocean sonar plus Q host Jian Ghomeshi talks to a British artist who's giving his art away for free. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 17th: Charitable Newfoundlanders and new media in Canada's North A profile of Smiling Land, a group of charitable Newfoundlanders and Labradorians plus we look at how the internet is an essential survival tool in Canada's North. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 14th: Shopping on Remembrance Day and Diesel Fuel from Fungi While some offices and stores were closed on Tuesday, some businesses were booming. The CBC's Erin Collins spoke to Wayne Hennesy who runs Willow Park Liquor and the CBC's Tom Spear went to the Forest Lawn Legion to find out what veterans think. Then, Host Bob McDonald of Quirks & Quarks speaks with Dr. Gary Strobel about fuel from fungus. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 13th: What's Going On with the Mackenzie Gas Project and International Recognition for Bouctouche, New Brunswick Ian Doig is an oil and gas analyst with more than 40 years in the energy business. He's wondering about the status of the proposed Mackenzie Gas Project, given that it's been about a year since the environmental assessment hearings ended. Also, The community of Bouctouche, New Brunswick is making a buzz for its sustainable and responsible tourism initiatives. The town recently won a national prize and was a runner up at an international competition in Dubai. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 12th: Freegans How many of you out there spend your time trying to get as much as you can without having to pay for anything? Some folks may label you cheapskate, but a growing number of others are suggesting that you should refer to yourself as a freegan. That's right, a freegan. Host Aamer Haleem discussed the rise of this movement on The Point. He spoke with Bob Thompson, a professor of popular culture at Syracuse University in New York, and Point people Amanda Jardine and Catherine Haggquist. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 11th: Young Love During WWII Today�s highlight is a very personal remembrance story, a story of young love during World War Two. Here�s Host Colin Grewar of CBC Saskatchewan�s Afternoon Edition in conversation with a woman from Australia who is still trying to find out what happened to a Saskatchewan soldier who went missing in action more than 60 years ago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 10th: "Gallivanting Around Afghanistan" and Douglas Coupland's New War Monument On the day before Remembrance Day, hear from two artists whose work has been affected by war. Twenty-four-year-old photographer Matthieu Aikins calls from Afghanistan. He's there alone, dressing as an Afghan, taking pictures and talking with the locals. Vancouver writer and artist, Douglas Coupland unveiled his Monument To The War of 1812 near Toronto's historic Fort York. He talks about the sculpture and explains how it connects us to the past. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 7th: Researching the Northwest Passage and Developing a First Nation Atom Hockey Team Who would be in charge of an ice-free Northwest Passage? Both the U.S. and Canada have a major interest in the arctic ocean seabed, which is rich in oil and gas. Then, we head to the Canada Games Centre in Whitehorse, YT where Nancy Thomson dropped by the first on-ice practice of a new First Nation atom development hockey team. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 6th: Newfoundland and Labrador Gains "Have" Status and Women Learning to Use Heavy Machinery The big news in Newfoundland and Labrador this week is that the province has officially gained "have" status. On Monday, federal Finance Minister Jim Flarhety announced that the province will not get equalization payments. Also, Despite job opportunities, not a lot of women are choosing the skilled trades. A program at the College of the North Atlantic in Happy Valley - Goose Bay is trying to change that. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 5th: Culture and Politics in Quebec and the Canadian North Nunavut�s just elected a new batch of Members of Legislative Assembly, and they're armed with three new laws that are supposed to protect the Inuit language. Would the Northwest Territories do well to take some cues from Nunavut? Also, Few would have predicted it, but the Bloc is back - strong as ever. But the question now is what's next for a party that almost single-handedly held the government to a minority? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 4th: Understanding the Holocaust and Meeting the Pan Canadian Folk Ensemble The sheer scale of the loss of life in the Holocaust is almost impossible to comprehend, but some students in Halifax are trying to understand what happened - and share that knowledge with the world. Following that story, we'll hear a chat with Chris Luedecke, Christine Fellows and Kim Barlow of the Pan Canadian Folk Ensemble. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 3rd: A Modified Lemon and Sable Island-born Gus Walsh Michael Lifshitz of Cote-Saint-Luc needs his wheelchair to get around, and Quebec's automobile insurance board has a program that paid to adapt the van for his needs. But the van�s turned out to be a lemon and now the board won't pay to equip another one until this one is exactly five years old. Then, we'll hear from Gus Walsh of Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia. He was born in 1923, and he�s one of only two people ever born on Sable Island. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 31st: The Happy Heckler Today on the program we�re going to meet the Happy Heckler. His name�s Robert Szasz. He�s originally from Canada, but now he�s the Tampa Bay Rays' most famous fan because he taunts the hitters on the other teams using their own stats. He was on Q with host Jian Ghomeshi on the morning before game five of the World Series. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 30th: Ending Crime, Carbon Monoxide Detectors and Mr. Campeau's Drummers Crime: We try to solve it, stop it, stamp it out, but do you think we could ever really end crime in our communities? ** All homes are supposed to be equipped with a carbon monoxide detector. But when one goes off, do you know what to do? ** Guy Campeau of MacLeod Public Elementary in Sudbury, Ontario came up with a drumming program as a way for students in the special education classes to learn a skill and share it with the rest of the school. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 29th: Dan Falk, Author of "In Search of Time: The Science of a Curious Dimension" Marty McFly went 30 years into the past in Back to the Future. It's the kind of stuff you find in sci fi novels and movies, but there�s a well-known science journalist who says time travel isn't so far-fetched and that scientists are studying it now, too. Dan Falk explores this subject in his new book called "In Search of Time: The Science of a Curious Dimension." He talked about it on CBC Ottawa�s All In A Day with the show�s host, Adrian Harewood. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 28th: High Spirits, Fire Safety in Apartment Buildings and Author Kathy Reichs As part of the CBC News series High Spirits, reporter Teddy Katz talked to some of our newer Canadians. ** Firefighters in St. John�s, Newfoundland were called out to an apartment building last Friday morning. Everyone was fine, but Captain Don Feehan wasn't very happy about the scene, and here�s why. ** Kathy Reichs is best known as the author of a series of thrillers featuring her alter ego, Temperance Brennan. A good part of her novel "Bones to Ashes" is set in New Brunswick. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 27th: Camping out in city parks, Senior drivers and Paper mache puppets A conversation from The Point about the contentious debate in Victoria, BC regarding a judge's decision to let the homeless camp in city parks. ** In Alberta, seniors are breaking down stereotypes that mark them as bad drivers by updating their driving skills. ** Marionette wizard Ronnie Burkett tells us about the creation of the puppets for his new show "Billy Twinkle - Requiem for a Golden Boy" that premiered in Edmonton, Alberta last week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 24th: Learning in Africentricity and an Aquacultural Experiment It was convocation week for senior students at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia and the Mount honoured the first graduating class of its Master of Education in Lifelong Learning with a focus on Africentricity. Also, a fish farm in Kyuquot Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island is running an interesting aquacultural experiment. If it works according to plan, it�s supposed to have less of an impact on the environment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 23rd: Gail Collins gets second place for The Cuffer Prize and Moses Znaimer talks Zoomers The Central Newfoundland Morning Show�s Gail Collins is being honoured for her short story writing. She placed second for The Cuffer Prize. After we hear from her, we'll hear an interview with media pioneer Moses Znaimer. Znaimer is the founder of CityTV, MuchMusic and lots of other channels. Now, he�s entering into his so-called retirement years, and he�s wants to change the face of aging. Znaimer�s the executive director of the Canadian Association of Retired Persons. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 22nd: From Saskatchewan - The Food Desert and a Canola Proposal Citizens of Saskatoon are worried that their city is becoming a food desert. In the 1960's there were about five major grocery stores in downtown Saskatoon. Since then, that number has dropped significantly to, well, zero. Then, we'll hear about something strange that appeared in a field near Moosomin earlier this month. It wasn�t a crop circle, but there is a ring involved. In a canola field, there was a giant message that read "Jeannie will you marry me?" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 21st: Colm Feore on Q Colm Feore is one of Canada's great men of film and theatre. He�s got an outstanding range: he works in Stratford and Hollywood, and he's passionate about Canada's arts scene, too. Colm Feore was on Q last week with Jian Ghomeshi. They were in front of a live audience in the Glenn Gould Studio. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 20th: An Artist and Breeder's Dogs Are Put Down and Yellowknifers Sculpt Family Members Last month, 34 dogs owned by a Behchoko, NWT artist were put down. A veterinarian said many of Archie Beaulieu's dogs had no food or water. But Beaulieu says they were killed over a land dispute he's in with the community government. And in another story from CBC North's The Trailbreaker, Nine Yellowknifers attended sculpting class this past weekend as part of a seminar put on by the Aurora Arts Society. They were told to sculpt someone close to them. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 17th: Margaret Atwood on The Next Chapter with Shelagh Rogers Last weekend on The Next Chapter, author Margaret Atwood talked about debt, the devil and using debt as a way to advance the plot. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 16th: Getting Bitten by a Black Widow and A Thanksgiving Item from Edmonton AM Last week, one young woman in Carlyle, Saskatchewan had a run-in with a black widow spider. Brittany Owens is 16-years-old, and she was working at a grocery store when it happened. She tells her story to CBC Saskatchewan's Afternoon Edition. Then we'll hear about Thanksgiving at the Boyle Street Co-op in Edmonton, Alberta. A dinner serving 500 pounds of potatoes and carrots, 80 litres of gravy and 75 turkeys was prepared for the less fortunate by local students. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 15th: An American Report on Albertan Oil and Ramish Ferris Comes Home The US based National Commission on Energy Policy issued a report last week criticizing Alberta's oilsands. Sasha Mackler is the Research Director of the National Commission on Energy Policy, and he was on the phone with the CBC�s Doug Dirks. Also, we'll hear some of what Ramish Ferris had to say when he got back after five months from the cross-country journey he made to raise awareness about polio. He spoke to a crowed at the Yukon Territorial Government building. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 14th: The Situation of Emergencies in Virden, Manitoba and False Reports on Crime For a lot Manitobans, it's hard to find a family doctor, but most do have the option of going to emergency. The ten thousand people in the Virden area aren't so lucky. People are so worried about the lack of care that they've formed a new group called "Concerned Citizens for Quality Health Care". Also, Last week on The Point, host Aamer Haleem called up Winnipeg journalist Mike McIntyre. They talked about all the set-backs that can happen when citizens call in false crimes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 13th: Time in the Ozone Box and Olympic Swimmer Alex Baumann The Entrepreneur of the Week for Sudbury's Morning North knows how to kill bacteria and make your kids' hockey equipment smell fresh again using a waterless sanitation system. And we hear from two-time gold-medallist swimmer Alex Baumann. He was back in his hometown of Sudbury last week to rename the pool at Laurentian University after his former coach. He's also in charge of the Canadian Olympic team�s Road to Excellence program. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 10th: From First Steps to First Year and From Memoirs to Mysteries First Steps is a home for pregnant teens and young moms at risk in New Brunswick like Jessica Pitre. The last time CBC Radio got in touch with Jessica, she was planning to attend the University of New Brunswick. The CBC�s Rachel Cave had a chance to catch up with Jessica, now that she's had a month to find her way around campus. Then, an interview with writer Pat Capponi. She published a book of memoirs called "Upstairs in the Crazy House" but now she's moved into writing mysteries. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 9th: The VSO Heads to Asia, Blackie's Coast and Honouring Hazel Charlton Maestro Bramwell Tovey is leading the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra in a tour to China and South Korea. ** Blackie's Coast is about a seaplane pilot in the 1970's who flies into remote areas of Vancouver Island, moving people and saving lives. The show has scripts, a cast, and even a couple of planes. All it needs now is a network to back the production. ** In 2007, Hazel Charlton saved the life of Rowena Cross. St. John Ambulance is now honouring Ms. Charlton with an award. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 8th: Chad VanGaalen on Q Earlier this week, Calgary songwriter, animator and instrument builder Chad VanGaalen dropped by Studio Q. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 7th: On the HMCS Calgary Today, drama on the high seas. Dispatches goes on patrol with the Canadian Navy as it hunts for pirates and gunrunners in the waters of the Middle East. When David Common sailed on the warship HMCS Calgary, he discovered that the crew is up to the job, but when it comes to the equipment and the rules of engagement, it�s a different story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 6th: Overcrowded School and School Safety Morley Community School in Alberta is so overcrowded, some classes are held in boot rooms. Staff say they need a new building. And, Charlottetown Rural High School runs an emergency drill to practice what would happen in case of a school shooting. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 3rd: Canada's French-English Digital Divide and a Father-Daughter Flying Team The Canadian Internet Project recently reported a fifteen percent gap in Internet use between French-speaking and English-speaking Canadians. Nora Young of Spark spoke with a co-author of that report as well as a podcaster from Quebec about the issue. Also, Cecil and Dawn Hansen are from the Mackenzie Delta. They�re father and daughter, and they fly jets together all over the country for Canadian North Airlines. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 2nd: On the Streets of Newfoundland The city of St. John�s is trying to make the legendary George Street a bit more family friendly. Host Aamer Haleem discussed the situation with CBC Radio National Reporter Vik Adophia on the debut episode of The Point. Then, we hear from a citizen and the deputy mayor of Gander. Dennis Turner has set up a sign on his property to remind passing drivers of the street's speed limit. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 1st: Halifax's Forgotten Prison, Recreation Directors in the Yukon and Taking Care of Tokens Life in the city wasn't always as peaceful as it is today, especially in the city's south end. The provincial penitentiary used to be just down the road from Point Pleasant Park. ** Being a recreation director is an arduous task - budgeting, programming, planning, relying solely on volunteers to help out. Last weekend, recreation directors from the Yukon gathered for their annual meeting. ** No more tickets: A new era began this week for Toronto�s commuters. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 30th: Shelagh Rogers and Paraglider Sam Pane First, a clip for you from the final installment of Sounds Like Canada. Shelagh Rogers joined host Kevin Sylvester. Then we follow a man as he takes his first flight on a powered paraglider. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 29th: Captains of Industry on Canvas Painter Geoffrey Raymond is out on Wall Street, with his portraits of CEOs and other big suits. He�s inviting passers-by to take a marker and scrawl something on them. Here he is on Q with host Jian Ghomeshi. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 26th: Growing Up With Julie and Basketball Athlete Bo Hedges Growing up with Julie is the title of Gerry Steele�s first book. Julie was his mother, an Acadian woman who married into a Scottish family. Steele's book examines the racism suffered by his mother - while she worked to raise a family in poverty. Then we meet athlete Bo Hedges. Hedges was on the national men�s wheelchair basketball team at the Paralympic Games in Beijing this year. Canada won the silver, but lost the gold medal to Australia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 25th: The Elmira Produce Auction Co-operative In 2003, at the height of the B.S.E. or 'mad cow' crisis, the U.S. closed its border to a lot of Canadian agricultural products. In response, Mennonite farmers in the Waterloo and Wellington County region of Ontario decided to grow more fresh produce. But how were they going to get that increased domestic production to consumers? The farmers decided to help themselves by forming the Elmira Produce Auction Co-operative. The group sells to local wholesalers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 24th: Goodbye to a Steelworkers' Hall, Food Prices in Lutselk'e, and Fuel in the Fishing Industry 1. The historic Steelworkers hall in Sudbury, Ontario has burned down. The CBC's Greg Younger-Lewis spoke with Gary Patterson, a former president of local 6500. 2. In places like Lutselk'e, NWT, four litres of milk can cost almost fourteen dollars. That�s the impact of rising fuel prices. 3. There's an initiative on the go in Newfoundland & Labrador to address the issue of high fuel costs in the fishing industry. The goal is to reduce energy consumption by up to twenty percent. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 23rd: The Journey of Prescription Drugs Today�s highlights are from White Coat, Black Art. This week, the show had a look at the journey a new prescription drug takes from research to testing to approval to sales. First stop, the Canadian Expert Drug Advisory Committee. Members weigh the costs and benefits of new drugs and recommend whether or not the provinces should pay for them, effectively sealing each drug's fate as a blockbuster or a dud. We'll also hear about backroom deals that provinces strike with drug companies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 22nd: Stephan Hopkins Memorial Foundation and James Collip The Stephan Hopkins Memorial Foundation in Deer Lake raises $200,000 for equipment used to find drowning victims. And, find out about James Collip, "the forgotten man" in the discovery of insulin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 19th: Glamour Guts and Cap La Ronde Today we have two items from CBC�s Information Morning in Halifax, Nova Scotia. First, living glamourously with intestinal disease. A new film has just come out that takes a light-hearted approach to the difficulties of living with the disease. Also, Nova Scotia is known as Canada�s Ocean Playground for its pristine beaches, but the province also has an ugly past of excavators chewing up shorelines for profit. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 18th: Aboriginal Leaders Meet in Charlottetown, Cape Farewell and Nature Calling Where Nature Calls! 1. Aboriginal leaders from around the country are gathered in Charlottetown this week. They're there to brainstorm the best ways to build their communities without relying on government support. 2. Sean White is among a group of students on an arctic expedition to study climate change. 3. An eleven-year-old in Prince George, British Columbia comes face-to-face with a flying squirrel in his bathroom. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 17th: Phlo Design Gets in Business Throughout the summer, Sounds Like Canada has been running a business makeover series. The series targets Canadian entrepreneurs whose businesses needed a little sprucing up and paired them with business students and mentors. Last week, host Kevin Sylvester and producer Jen Moss introduced us to Sarah York and Tasia Giannakopoulos of Edmonton, Alberta�s Phlo Design. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 16th: Cultural T-Shirts, Edmonton's First Streetcar and the Die Nasty Soap-a-thon 1. Lisha Hassanali drops by to explain the multicultural t-shirt revolution on Here and Now�s Passport to Culture. 2. Edmonton, Alberta's very first streetcar is now on display in Churchill Square. The CBC's Mark Harvey spoke with the President of the group that restored and now operates Streetcar Number One. 3. It's also the return of theatre season in Edmonton. And what better way to kick it off than a fifty-three hour, non-stop soap-a-thon? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 15th: Artistic Leaders on Funding Cuts In Q�s continuing coverage of the funding cuts to the arts in Canada, host Jian Ghomeshi spoke with a panel of artists, and there was more range of opinion than you might expect. Here he is with Co-Chair of the Canadian Arts Coalition Anne-Marie Jean, Professor S. Randy Boyagoda of Ryerson University and curator and writer Gregory Elgstrand. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 12th: Veterans on The War in Afghanistan, CUPE vs. the Health Boards and a Speller From the North 1. David French of CBC British Columbia�s Daybreak South talks politics with three members of the Kelowna chapter of the Royal Canadian Air Force. 2. CUPE�s Newfoundland and Labrador branch says health boards are withholding retroactive pay for some support staff. Union President Wayne Lucas says hundreds of workers are effected. 3. Eleven-year-old Caitlin Chambers is set to represent spellers from the north at the national spelling bee in Vancouver. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 11th: Patrick Brown, "Butterfly Mind" CBC correspondent Patrick Brown has been reporting the world to Canadians for more than thirty years, covering war zones and countries in upheaval. Today, he lives in Beijing, where he's learned the language and makes television documentaries. He's also written a memoir, weaving his observations of that country and the other conflicts he's covered, into his own personal struggle with alcohol. Patrick Brown joined Dispatches host Rick MacInnes-Rae from Beijing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 10th: Prince Rupert's Christian Youth Group and Leadership Changes in the CAW Prince Rupert, British Columbia�s Fellowship Baptist Church is a busy place on Wednesday nights. The church has the city's only Christian youth group. Daybreak North's Robyn Burns caught up with the Youth Pastor, Jared Mawhorter. Also, the Canadian Auto Workers marked the end of an era on the weekend. Union members from across Canada met in Toronto to say good-bye to longstanding national President Buzz Hargrove. They unanimously elected Ken Lewenza to be his successor. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 9th: Poverty and Wealth on the East Coast and Canvassing for the Arthritis Society A recently-released report on financial security illustrates the growing gap between rich and poor in Atlantic Canada and the growing dependence on debt. Also, It�s Arthritis Awareness month, and canvassers are fanning out across Nova Scotia. Information Morning's Margot Brunelle had a chance to chat with one of them as she was going door to door in Cole Harbour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 8th: Sounds Like Canada Election Phone-In Last Wednesday, Sounds Like Canada went across the country asking Canadians for their views on the impending election. Some themes emerged: leadership, patriotism, international relations. Now, not everyone could tune into every region as they went from Atlantic to Pacific, so they assembled some of the highlights. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 5th: Kardinal Offishall on Q Kardinal Offishall has one of the hottest singles on the charts today. His new album "Not 4 Sale" is in stores next Tuesday, featuring guest shots from stars like Akon and Rihanna. But will it raise the international profile of Canadian Hip-Hop? Here�s Kardinal Offishall on Q with Jian Ghomeshi. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 13th: Breastfeeding an Adopted Child You might assume that mothers who adopt their children are among those who have to forgo breast-feeding. But that's not always the case. One new mother was determined to breastfeed her son despite never having been pregnant. Reporter Jane Adey has her story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 12th: The Politics of Apologies On the morning before the Prime Minister�s formal apology for the federal government's role in Canada's residential school system, The Current examined the politics of apologies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 11th: Lemonade Capital Prerna Chandak has her own company called Lemonade Capital. It lends money to young people who are trying to get their business ideas off the ground. Here�s Prerna on Sounds Like Canada with host Kathryn Gretsinger. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 10th: Archives from CBC Radio's World Report CBC�s World Report turned forty last week and to celebrate, host Judy Maddren presented clips from the show�s archives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 9th: Labour in the Game Industry Some of the world�s biggest game developers have a major presence in Canada, but beneath the flashy graphics there's a real life battle being waged. Throughout the past decade the game industry has been hit by a series of lawsuits from employees who say they were overworked and underpaid. The game giants say they've put those practices behind them, the CBC�s Eli Glasner found that crunch time is still a crutch for the industry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 6th: My Locs Tamika Royes believes many black women feel pressure to chemically straighten their hair. She wanted a more natural hairstyle and decided to loc her hair. As Tamika prepares for her graduation pictures, she explains why her locs are much more than just a hairstyle. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 5th: The Kids In The Hall It is a comedy troupe that has had a special place in Canadian hearts since its show first aired in 1988. Now, 20 years later, the Kids In The Hall are back with a North American tour. Two of the Kids, Dave Foley and Kevin McDonald, joined Jian Ghomeshi live in Studio Q. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 4th: Life on the School Bus Last week, an incident of alleged bullying led a 17-year-old student to grab the fire axe from the front of his school bus. He then used the axe to threaten the teen he said had been bothering him. Here's the CBC's Barb Taylor with Doreen Wall, who has been a school bus driver in Prince Edward Island for thirty years. This segment originally aired on Charlottetown's Island Morning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 3rd: The Banyan Tree Foundation A few years ago, a Canadian organization had a bright idea - give loans to people who would use the money to make contributions to charities and then claim tax breaks. But now, Revenue Canada wants the donors to give back more than 63 million dollars in tax refunds - and charities are worried about losing a stable source of revenue. Here's Anna Maria Tremonti with the Current's look into what's happening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 2nd: Shelagh Rogers Looks Back Shelagh Rogers bid farewell to Sounds Like Canada last week. Here she is with highlights from the past six years. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 30th: Farming and Infrared Technology Campaigns against smoking have forced many farmers out of the tobacco business. Some have sold their land and quit farming altogether. But not John Wenninger. He took a grant from the province of Ontario and invested it in new technology to dry fruits and vegetables. Now as freelance broadcaster Mary Ann Colihan reports, Wenninger's experiments have lead to new additives for craft beers and specialty baking products. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 29th: Alex Trebek on Q He�s the Canadian-born quiz show host who you can catch on CBC Television starting this September. Here�s Q host Jian Ghomeshi with your audio clue. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 28th: Re-Thinking Pink Pink ribbon merchandise can be found amongst everything from clothing to office supplies, but breast cancer survivor Roseanne Cohen wants us to reconsider the colour and the campaign. Here�s "Re-Thinking Pink" from Outfront. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 27th: The William R. Bennett Bridge opens in Kelowna Kelowna�s much-anticipated William R. Bennett Bridge was officially opened this weekend. Nearly ten thousand people filled City Park for the celebration. The CBC�s Bonnie Allen was there for the speeches, the ribbon cutting and the rush across the bridge. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 27th: The William R. Bennett Bridge opens in Kelowna Kelowna�s much-anticipated William R. Bennett Bridge was officially opened this weekend. Nearly ten thousand people filled City Park for the celebration. The CBC�s Bonnie Allen was there for the speeches, the ribbon cutting and the rush across the bridge. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 26th: The BC Beetles The unusually balmy winters British Columbia have been a welcome mat for hordes of mountain pine beetles. They�ve left millions of hectares of BC forest dead or dying. Here�s The Current's Friday host Duncan McCue with a look into how those who manage Canada's forests are reacting, as the beetles munch eastward. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 26th: The BC Beetles The unusually balmy winters British Columbia have been a welcome mat for hordes of mountain pine beetles. They�ve left millions of hectares of BC forest dead or dying. Here�s The Current's Friday host Duncan McCue with a look into how those who manage Canada's forests are reacting, as the beetles munch eastward. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 23rd: Reconsidering taxes in Halifax Halifax is considering a new tax structure that would be the first of its kind in North America. A committee of council is looking at whether residents should pay taxes based on the services available to them instead of the value of their property. The municipality is asking for public comment, and CBCreporter Preston Mulligan visited an open house in ColeHarbour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 22nd: Flight of the Dragonfly The new book "Flight of the Dragonfly" recounts the abduction and eventual recovery of a Calgary woman�s two young daughters in Lebanon. Here�s Calgary Eyeopener host Jim Brown with author and mother Melissa Hawach. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 21st: Urban Trees Trees are a vital part of our cities, but in order to reach maturity urban trees need a lot more care than their natural cousins. CBC freelancer Andrew O'Connor met with some arborists in Toronto to find out how they look after one of Canada's largest urban forests. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 20th: The Royals in Calgary, 1939 In honour of Victoria Day, CBC Radio�s Rewind presented a collection of clips from the Royal Visit of 1939. As war loomed overseas, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth toured the country by train to bolster the bonds of the Empire. Here�s Michael Enright with a clip from their visit to Calgary. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 19th: Phyllis Lambert on Griffintown Montreal�s most prominent architectural activist is opposing a major redevelopment plan for Griffintown. Her name is Phyllis Lambert, and she says the city is taking the wrong approach in revitalizing Montreal�s historic Irish quarter. Here�s Sounds Like Canada host Shelagh Rogers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 16th: Sudbury's $550-Billion Question Whitefish Lake First Nation near Sudbury, Ontario is seeking $550-billion in compensation for lands it says were promised but never delivered. Here�s host Marcus Schwabe of Sudbury�s Morning North. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 15th: Skateboarding for the Environment A skateboarder in Fredericton, New Brunswick took a stand for the environment. Now, he may end up standing behind bars. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 14th: Snack Time on Q A couple of the Barenaked Ladies dropped by Studio Q to tell us about their freshly-based kids album "Snack Time." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 13th: The Big Pour at the Bow Tower This weekend, every large cement truck in Alberta was involved in the big pour for the Bow Tower in Calgary. It was a massive undertaking, and literally hundreds of construction workers were involved in the process. The CBC's Peter Akman met with the Associate Vice President of Matthews Development to find out more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 12th: The Face of Giving Many Canadians were out buying chocolates and flowers for their moms this past weekend. But in some parts of Africa, the best Mothers Day gift is a safe pregnancy. Thanks to the Canadian Physicians for Aid and Relief, help is on the way. C-PAR spokesperson Roxane Tracey told us how they're helping to give the gift of life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 9th: Hip Hopera Hip Hop and Opera are not the music titans they once were. Rap music sales dropped last year by more than thirty percent, and the future of Opera appears to rest with an aging audience. The Canadian Opera Company in Toronto is running an experiment called "Hip Hopera" to see if the two genres can help each other out. CBC Arts Reporter Eli Glasner was at the premiere. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 8th: Aboriginal Reserves, Live Phone-in Sounds Like Canada continued its look at aboriginal life in Canada with a special live program. Shelagh Rogers opened the phone lines and asked for your opinions about reserves and whether or not they�re working in the best interests of aboriginal people in Canada. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 7th: Joe Keithley of D.O.A. Vancouver punk band D.O.A. celebrates the 30th anniversary of their debut album "Disco Sucks." Here�s front man Joe Keithley with Jian Ghomeshi on Q. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 6th: Here's to Music and Education May 5th was Music Monday - an entire day dedicated to exploring music's ability to enrich the lives of young people, especially through music education. Here's To You on CBC Radio 2 asked listeners to write in with their memories of a music teacher who inspired them. Here's host Catherine Belyea with some of those letters. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 5th: Eric Lindros, Ombudsman As an NHL player, Eric Lindros was among the best. Now, he�s behind the scenes with the NHL Players Association. Here�s host Robin Brown on The Inside Track. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 2nd: Four Years Later For four years, an Ontario couple has been waiting to hear the details surrounding their son's death. Twenty-five year old Karl Stunt died as the result of a workplace incident at Sunshine Village in Banff in 2004. The resort was eventually charged with a number of violations under the Occupational Health and Safety Act. Bill Stunt is Karl's father, and he�s in Calgary to attend the trial. Here he is on the Calgary Eyeopener with host Jim Brown. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 1st: Robert Robichaud in Maugerville, NB Robert Robichaud is just one of the many homeowners in New Brunswick watching the water rise in his basement. In 2005, flooding caused ten thousand dollars worth of damage to his home in Maugerville. This time around, he's prepared himself, but as CBC Reporter Nicolle Carlin found out, even the best preparations can't protect his home from the rising water. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 30th: Yukoners in Tibet It's probably fair to say that many of the people who have been protesting China's treatment of Tibet have never been there. But two Yukoners, David and Darlene Sillery, are just back from a year-long bike trip that took them through the heart of the country. The CBC's Susan Stanley sat down with the couple to talk about their trip and their impressions of Tibet and China. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 29th: Wanted - New Chief of Defence Staff Chief of Defence Staff General Rick Hillier is preparing to step down. With our troops in an Afghan war, our government talking about Arctic sovereignty, and military observers getting out their calculators, The Current asked about the five men touted as contenders for the opening at the Department of National Defence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 28th: Quebec City's 400th Anniversary This week, Quebec City is celebrating the 400th anniversary of its settlement. Today, the city is thriving with the colourful stories of brave immigrants who made their home there. This special episode of C�est La Vie is live from the Palais Montcalm. Here�s Bernard St-Laurent with Part 1 of a special tribute to the capital city of La Belle Province. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 25th: Jay McCarroll and Reality TV Jay McCarroll was the first season winner of the hit TV show Project Runway. But after the cameras were turned off, he found making clothes was harder than making television. Jian Ghomeshi talked to him on Q. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 24th: Chef John Bishop in Vancouver Food and Wine magazine has just came out with its list of the Top Ten restaurant cities, and only one Canadian city made the list � Vancouver. Many of the hottest chefs in the city have one thing in common; they all worked in the tiny perfect kitchen of John Bishop. Here�s Sounds Like Canada guest host Stephen Quinn. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 23rd: The Green Club While some Canadians are still debating the merits of events like Earth Day, it's often members of the youngest generation that lead the most environmentally-friendly lives. Parenting columnist Karen Horseman found this out when she started a Green Club at her children's school. On Metro Morning, she tells us why the kids are giving her hope for a greener future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 22nd: The Regina Music Box You could buy a Regina Music Box from the Sears mail-order catalogue back in the 1890�s for about $80. Today, Regina Music Boxes in good working order can sell for as much as $20,000. One such music box can be found in the Presentation Sisters Convent in St. John's Newfoundland, which is where Sunday Afternoon in Concert host Bill Richardson reached Sister Mary Perpetua Kennedy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 21st: Yuki's Story It's not easy to be a teenager of any gender, let alone a boy who believes he should really be a girl. Joshua Damon lives in Summerside, PEI, and considers himself a trans-gendered teen. Some people in his community show him compassion, but others arent so understanding. The CBC's Angela MacIvor spent some time with Joshua, who has started to go by the name Yuki. Here is Yuki's story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 18th: Iman Kate's Arrival Iman Kate was an Iraqi widow who producer John Chipman met among Iraqi refugees in Syria. One of The Current's listeners was so moved by Iman Kate's story that she spent more than a year trying to help the Iraqi woman and her twin sons immigrate to Canada. Iman Kate and her children arrived in British Columbia last week to begin their new lives, and John Chipman was with them as they spent their first few days in Canada. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 17th: Entertaining Royalty Entertaining guests can be a lot of fun, but it can also be pretty nerve-wracking, especially if you have to do all the planning and organizing. Now, imagine having the names of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip added to the guest list. Here�s the Archives Guy, Ian Hamilton, with the dos and don'ts of dealing with royalty... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 16th: The Musical Blacksmith Forty years ago, John Little started teaching himself how to be a blacksmith. In a coastal community like East Dover, Nova Scotia, anchors were the order of the day, but John branched out. His sculptures have been featured in museums and played by reknowned musicians like jazz drummer Jerry Granelli. Last fall, John Little made the short lists for a couple prestigious Nova Scotian awards. Sounds Like Canada guest host Matt Rainnie dropped in on him at his barn in East Dover. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 15th: The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek In the summer of 1980, international media portrayed Banff as a place under seige by a killer bear. One man died, others were seriously injured and as a result, tourism suffered. Sid Marty had just retired as a park warden when all of this was happening. He followed the events closely, helped the wardens on stakeouts for the bear, and now, 28 years later, he has written the story of what happened. His book is called "The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 14th: Parti Pris C'est la vie went back in time this week, to the 60's and the birth of a social movement called "Parti Pris." It was the cultural nucleus of what became known as the "Quiet Revolution." Malcolm Reid was a young journalist in Montreal at the time, and his book about Parti Pris is finally going to be translated to French. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 11th: Sarah Polley on Bill C-10 Oscar nominated filmmaker Sarah Polley is going to Ottawa to protest Bill C-10. Here she is with Jian Ghomeshi on Q to talk about her plan to kill the bill. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 10th: Ex-Liberal Supporter Irma Ferlatte in New Brunswick A longtime Liberal supporter in New Brunswick says her party is self-destructing. Irma Ferlatte is a retired teacher, and she's spent half a century supporting the party. But this week, she'll be at a rally in Dalhousie to protest the elimination of early French Immersion in the province. She plans to literally set fire to her Liberal party membership card during the protest. Here�s host Rhonda Whittaker on Moncton�s Information Morning with Irma Ferlatte. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 9th: Community Cares on Cape Breton Island Guess what your future holds if you drop out of school, take drugs, get into trouble with the law, or, if you're female, get pregnant, when you're in your teens? The answer is probably not much. But in one town on Cape Breton Island there is a way out of a dead-end future for some young people. It's called the Community Cares program. The CBC's Holly Conners reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 8th: Homework If you're a parent, you know the drill. You walk in the door after a long day, and ask a question you really don't want the answer to: "Do you have any homework?" Here�s guest host Gillian Findlay on The Current. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 7th: Bi-Racial Families in Toronto Bi-racial marriages across the Greater Toronto Area are on the rise in a big way according to the most recent census results. For some of the staff at Metro Morning, that reality is more than a statistic. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 4th: Ottawa Morning in Orleans Ottawa Morning did a special broadcast all about the changes facing a community in Orleans, Ontario called Queenswood Heights. It was Orleans first suburb, and many of the original owners never left.Now, it's a community grappling with change. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 3rd: Kids, Africa, and the Circus CBC�s Newfoundland and Labrador West Coast Morning Show host Dorothy King spoke with a university student from western Newfoundland who plans to spend her summer in Africa helping kids join the circus. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 2nd: Forcing the CFL to Go Metric Here�s a story from the April Fool�s Day edition of the Calgary Eyeopener. The CBC�s Jennifer Keene reported that the Canadian Football League would be facing some major changes this season thanks to a little known department in Ottawa. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 1st: Graphic Novelist Art Spiegelman On Q, guest host Laurie Brown spoke with Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novelist Art Spiegelman. Spiegelman's best-known work is "Maus", a disturbing story of the Holocaust in which mice and cats take the place of human beings. He discussed how cartooning can educate and outrage, and where to draw the line. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 31st: Dr. Seuss Children�s books are often deceptively simple, and the works of Dr. Seuss are no exception. Behind all the bright colours and quirky characters, there are profound political statements for both kids and adults. With the recent release of Horton Hears a Who in movie theatres, The Current explores why the political messages Dr. Seuss conveyed 50 years ago are just as relevant today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 28: Prison Computer Courses When prison inmates serve long sentences, the world they�re released back into is often drastically different from the world they knew before. That�s why one prison in Edmonton is offering its inmates a hands-on course in how to repair computers. The goal is to teach the inmates the kind of valuable, marketable skills needed in today�s job market, so that when they leave prison, they�ve got a better shot at becoming fully-integrated and contributing members of society. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 27th: The Food For Thought Finale It�s time to say goodbye to one of CBC Radio�s columnists. Don Genova has produced the Food For Thought column for us for the past ten years. In the last edition of Food For Thought, Don looks at the range of stories he�s brought us from here and abroad. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 26: The Little School That Could A tiny school on the Eelground Reserve just outside Miramichi, New Brunswick is teaching the community more than just math and social studies. This school has won so many awards for innovation and excellence, it�s quickly becoming a leader in Aboriginal education. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 25th: SIN Security The Current had a look at the Social Insurance Number system in Canada to find out if it�s anywhere near as secure as one would hope it to be. Guest host Mike Finnerty spoke with a member of the Fraser Institute who studies SIN theft and a Retired Detective Sargeant who wrote a book called �Stop Fraud.� Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 24th: The Good Show Today on Editor�s Choice, we�re presenting segments from our holiday weekend special The Good Show. Hosted by Amy Jo Ehman, these are stories from CBC Sasktachewan that tell of good people doing good things. They range from heroes who saved people from burning cars, to a group of student nurses who helped clean up an oil spill in Korea. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 21st: Dancer Sashar Zarif In recognition of Nowruz, the Persian new year, Q invited dancer Sashar Zarif to the studio. He�s originally from Iran, but now he�s a professor at York University in Toronto.Host Jian Ghomeshi spoke with him about his life as a refugee, his switch from engineering to dance, and his definition of home. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 20th: The Naked Swimmer For Carrie Saxifrage, swimming isn�t just a way to cross the five miles of water between two BC islands - it�s a spiritual, sensual journey that reconnects her with her body. And that�s why she�s doing the swim wearing nothing but a bathing cap and arm warmers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 19th: Regarding Biopsies An inquiry is set to begin in Newfoundland surrounding more than one thousand incorrect cancer screenings, some of them fatal. The problem has doctors calling for an overhaul of the way biopsies are done across the country. Here�s Matt Galloway on Sounds Like Canada. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 18th: A Refugee's Story A refugee who now lives in Canada is trying to get his daughter out of Burma, also known as Myanmar. His family is Christian, and he says he fled because of religious persecution. The man told his story to the CBC�s Brian Higgins through the help of a translator, and he asked us not to use his name, in order to protect his family. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 17th: Closing Schools, Making Schools Today�s Editor�s Choice is from British Columbia�s Daybreak North. A panel of speakers was invited to talk about the pros and cons of shutting down half-empty schools. They also offered their thoughts on specialized schools based on religion or ethnicity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 14th: Bad Weather, Good Behaviour According to many criminologists and police officers, bad weather means good behaviour � when the mercury drops, crime rates go down. And that�s got the CBC�s Blair Sanderson wondering if this winter will turn out to be one of Canada�s safest. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 13th: Who decides on public art? When it comes to public art made for community spaces, a government committee gets to decide what kind of artwork is appropriate. But does this process encourage the creation of bland and boring pieces? And doesn�t it defeat the purpose of art to begin with? Here's Jian Ghomeshi on Q. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 12th: The Cats in Fredericton There�s a group of cat lovers in Fredericton who call themselves CARMA. They�re concerned that the citizens of Fredericton don�t see the CAT-astrophe that�s right outside their doors. The CBC�s Shaun Waters delivered this report. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 11th: Aid for Edmonton's Sex-Trade Workers JoAnn McCartney works with Edmonton sex-trade workers who want to quit prostitution. Sounds Like Canada invited her to talk about her view on the trial of Thomas Svekla, and why women�s bodies keep turning up in the outskirts of Edmonton. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 10th: Riding Clean Today�s selection is from The Inside Track. Professional cycling has been mired in drug scandals for much of the past ten years. It�s because of the deteriorating reputation of cycling that a team in based in Colorado is coming clean. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 7th: Vanessa Farquarson's Green Year Last year, The Current interviewed Vanessa Farquarson. She was in the midst of her year-long resolution to make one �green� change to her lifestyle every day. Well, 2007 is over now and Vanessa has celebrated her �un-greening�. Here she is on The Current with Anna-Maria Tremonti. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 6th: The Gold Rush This year marks the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the gold rush in the Yukon and British Columbia. Our Archives Guy, Ian Hamilton, explains how the events of 1858 made millionaires, destroyed lives, and left us with a rich legacy of Canadian folklore. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 5: The Hydrogen-Powered Bus Every morning in Charlottetown, PEI, bus driver Kevin Ramsay's passengers have their commute fueled by hydrogen. It's one of ten vehicles being tested across Canada and it's been in use by Charlottetown's transit system for a couple of months. The CBC's Nancy Russell got on board to find out how the pilot project is going. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 4th: A Panel of Undecided Voters Leading up to the provincial elections in Alberta, CBC Calgary's Eyeopener spoke with a panel of undecided voters. In their final discussion, host Jim Brown wanted to know what they would be doing once they got to the voting booth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 3rd: Hockey Fiction In this year�s Canada Reads debates, Paul Quarrington�s �King Leary� was crowned as the book for Canada to read in 2008. It was defended by guitarist and writer Dave Bidini. Here he is on The Inside Track with Robin Brown. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 29th: Burden of Belief Producer Natasha Fatah traveled to Indonesia to investigate the rise of conservative Islam in that country. She discussed her project with The Current�s Anna Maria Tremonti and presented her documentary �Burden of Belief�. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 28th: Gordon Pinsent on Q Newfoundland native Gordon Pinsent is a writer, actor, and director. His career has spanned half a century. He joined Jian Ghomeshi on Q to talk about his starring role in Sarah Polley�s �Away From Her�. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 27th: The National Debt Budget day in Ottawa means that we, as in Canadians, get to find out how the federal government plans to spend our money. The largest single expense is interest payments on the national debt, but who does the government owe all this money to? The CBC�s Blair Sanderson reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 26th: The "Anne" Badge Girl Guides of Canada has issued a new badge to mark the 100th anniversary of Anne of Green Gables. To find out more about the new Anne badge, the CBC�s Pat Martel reached Shauna Klein--she's a marketing manager with the Guide's head office in Toronto. This interview aired on PEI�s Information Morning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 25th: CIDA's Afghanistan Task Force It's been a month since John Manley released his report on Canada's mission to Afghanistan, so CBC Radio invited Stephen Wallace to our weekly national politics program, The House. He�s a member of the Canadian International Development Agency, also known as CIDA, and is currently the Director of CIDA�s Afghanistan Task Force. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 22nd: International Mother Language Day To celebrate International Mother Language Day, the Calgary Eyeopener went to the streets to find out how new English-speakers deal with learning slang, and host Jim Brown spoke with John Archibald from the University of Calgary. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 21st: Bio-Fuel and Wheat Prices Today�s Editor�s Choice is from The Current. It�s an investigation of how the rise of corn-based bio-fuel has led to a shortage of wheat and an increase in the price of bread across Canada. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 20th: Jemeni's Love of Reading Here at CBC Radio, we�re getting ready for Canada Reads 2008. Starting on February 25th, five celebrity panelists will each defend a book to be named the Canadian read for 2008. We�re publishing a series of preview podcasts highlighting this year�s panelists. Hip-hop poet Jememi is defending Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson. Here she is discussing her childhood love of reading. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 19th: Tony Visconti on Q Music producer Tony Visconti got his start in the early �60�s. Since then, he�s worked with artists like David Bowie and The Moody Blues. Here he is on Q. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 18th: Remembering the 1988 Olympics This year marks two decades since Calgary hosted the winter Olympic Games in 1988. Two-time Olympic skeleton racer Lindsay Alcock credits the �88 games for inspiring her career. Here she is on The Inside Track with host Robin Brown. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 15th: Hlinka on the Auto Industry Earlier this week, General Motors reported a thirty-nine billion dollar loss... but according to business columnist Michael Hlinka, the more important number was the one attached to the buyout package offered to thousands of GM�s American workers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 14th: A BC Totem Pole in NY Today on the podcast, carving out a home in the Empire State. A totem pole from the Nass Valley in British Columbia is looking for a new home � in Rochester, New York. Here�s retired anthropologist Margie Blackman on BC�s Daybreak North. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 13th: White Lies About the Inuit Have you ever heard that the Inuit have more than fifty words for snow? Well, meet John Steckley. He�s an anthropologist at Humber College in Ontario, and he�s written a book called White Lies About the Inuit. Here he is on Metro Morning with host Andy Barrie. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 12th: The Knitting Teacher Every school teacher faces the challenge of getting his or her students to focus on their learning and finish their homework. One elementary school teacher in Windsor has found a solution by letting her students do something many of their grandmothers used to do. Here�s the report for the CBC�s Allison Johnson. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 11th: David Shulman Israeli writer David Shulman has been a peace activist now for almost thirty years. His latest book is a compelling chronicle of his efforts to bring Arabs and Israelis together. Here�s David Shulman on The Sunday Edition with Michael Enright. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 8th: The Sacred and The Secular A Priest, a Rabbi and a theologian...were guests on The Current. They discussed the role that spirituality can and should play in a world of political leadership. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 7th: Andy Jones on Q Writer, actor and comedian Andy Jones is well-known in the Newfoundland arts scene. His latest play is called "An Evening with Uncle Val." It tells the story of a 70-year-old retired fisherman who moves to the "big city" of St. John's. He was on Q with host Jian Ghomeshi. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 6th: Grandmothers to Grandmothers In many communities across Africa, grandmothers are often left to pick up the pieces after AIDS hits. Edmonton�s Vicky Strang is one of twelve Canadian grandmothers who will be leaving for Africa to lend their support. Here�s Vicky on Edmonton AM with host Ron Wilson. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 5th: Personal Digital Addiction It was hailed as way to cut down on our work hours, but for many of us, mobile technology has done just the opposite. Now at least one employer is telling its workers not to use their blackberries after work. Here�s technology columnist Jesse Hirsh on Toronto�s Metro Morning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 4th: The Ultimate Commuter Two weeks ago, Sounds Like Canada launched their national commuter challenge to find Canada�s ultimate commuter. They received hundreds of calls and letters about how Canadians are traveling across land, water, air, space and time. Host Sheila Rogers and producer Theresa Lalonde announced the four finalists and the contest champion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 1st: Learning Gaelic Mira Road Elementary School in Sydney, Nova Scotia has added Gaelic to the curriculum for students in grade three and four. The CBC�s Wendy Martin visited the school and talked to the principal, Sandra Leblanc, the Gaelic instructor, Hector MacNeil, and two of the students. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 31st: John Manley on Politics and Culture Last week, we selected an interview from As It Happens with former Deputy Prime Minister John Manley. He was talking about the recommendations his panel made about Canada�s future involvement in Afghanistan. Well, while he was working on that report, John Manley was also on the jury for the Charles Taylor prize for non- fiction. Here he is on Q with host Jian Ghomeshi. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 30th: Simultaneous Interpreters We�re celebrating an anniversary here at CBC Radio One. C�est la vie is a program about life in French-speaking Canada, and 2008 marks their 10th year on the air. To mark the occasion this week, they presented some of their best archives on the theme of translation. Here�s the CBC�s David Gutnik discovering the world, and brains, of simultaneous interpreters. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 29th: Community School Today we�re traveling to Ellerslie, PEI where Reporter Kerry Campbell discovered most of the town�s citizens gathered at the local public school. They were participating in the after-hours community school program. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 28th: A Black-Focused School for Toronto? This week, The Sunday Edition: Why does Toronto need a black-focused school? Host Micheal Enright discussed the question with a panel of educators and community service workers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 25th: That's MY dog on the TV! Today, the story of Tracey Gaughran-Perez and her pug, Truman. Somehow, a picture that Tracey took of her dog made it to FOX Television, without her permission. Host Jesse Brown of Search Engine explores the flipside of copyright, when companies pirate you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 24th: Inside the Prison System Today�s Editor�s Choice is from The Current�s investigation of Canada�s federal prison system. Host Anna Maria Tremonti spoke with inmate Sean Johnston over the phone. He�s at Warkworth Institution near Campbellford, Ontario, serving a l