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Jan 9, 2025 • 16min

Aura Kagan on her work helping people with aphasia

Dr. Aura Kagan has been named to the Order of Canada for her work transforming the lives of people with aphasia, a language disorder that affects a person’s ability to communicate.
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Jan 9, 2025 • 25min

Tim Caulfield on finding truth amid the information chaos

How do you figure out what's true, in a time when misinformation is rampant? Timothy Caulfield looks at how our information systems became so chaotic in his new book The Certainty Illusion: What You Don't Know and Why It Matters.
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Jan 8, 2025 • 21min

Why is Elon Musk meddling in world politics?

Elon Musk recently pushed the false claim that the U.K.’s prime minister is "deeply complicit in mass rapes," and suggested the country needed to be liberated by the U.S. That’s just one example of how the tech billionaire is using his position and influence to meddle in international politics — what’s his endgame?
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Jan 8, 2025 • 19min

The stories of undocumented migrants in Canada

There could be as many as half a million undocumented migrants in Canada, living and working in the shadows of society. Some of those migrants have shared their stories with the CBC’s Lyndsay Duncombe, from the challenges of daily life to their fight for legal status.
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Jan 8, 2025 • 26min

Lorin MacDonald, Colin Clarke named to Order of Canada

Matt Galloway speaks with two incredible Canadians recently appointed to the Order of Canada. Lorin MacDonald has championed disability access and inclusion; and Colin Clarke is an educator who has shared his passion for music with young people. 
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Jan 7, 2025 • 20min

Trudeau’s stubbornness helped his rise — and his fall, says former adviser

Justin Trudeau’s stubbornness and self-confidence helped his rise to power, but have served him “incredibly poorly on the way down,” says Gerald Butts, who was once one of the prime minister’s closest advisers. Matt Galloway discusses Trudeau’s resignation and legacy with Butts and Monte Solberg, a former Conservative cabinet minister under Stephen Harper.
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Jan 7, 2025 • 22min

A rogue wave nearly killed him. Here’s why they’re so deadly

Noah Mintz was only in knee-deep water when he was almost paralyzed by a rogue wave, rising suddenly out of the ocean at twice the size of the waves around it. We learn more about these deadly walls of water in the documentary The Wave.
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Jan 7, 2025 • 12min

Did South Korea’s president fall down a ‘YouTube rabbit hole’?

Protestors in South Korea are demanding the arrest of President Yoon Suk Yeol, who declared martial law and is now accused of committing insurrection — with some observers pointing the finger of blame at what he was watching on YouTube.
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Jan 7, 2025 • 12min

Trump threatens to retake Panama Canal

U.S. president-elect Donald Trump is threatening to retake control of the Panama Canal, but Panama's president says it's not for sale. Dennis M. Hogan has studied this critical artery of global trade for years, he explains how it’s yet again become a centre of geopolitical tension.
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Jan 6, 2025 • 20min

Justin Trudeau will resign. What happens next?

Justin Trudeau says he will resign as prime minister after the Liberal Party picks a new leader. Matt Galloway discusses what happens next — and when Canadians can expect an election — with former Conservative strategist Chad Rogers, Liberal strategist Susan Smith and Brad Lavigne, a former national director of the NDP.

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