Trump has dominated much of the discussion in Ontario’s provincial election, forcing issues like health care and housing to take a backseat. We discuss what’s been happening on the campaign trail, the imminent live debates, and why Premier Doug Ford called this snap election in the first place with our provincial politics panel: the CBC’s Mike Crawley, the Toronto Star’s Robert Benzie and the Globe and Mail's Laura Stone.  

Former Prime Minister Joe Clark is writing to his friends in the U.S., reminding them of their country’s long friendship with Canada. He’s urging other proud Canadians to rally around the flag and reach out to their American connections, because he says not everyone there supports U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats about tariffs or making Canada the 51st state.

A sauna feels nice on a cold winter’s day — but what do we know for sure about the benefits? Matt Galloway talks to filmmaker Anna Hints about sauna culture and asks Dr. Peter Attia what sweating it out does for our health and longevity.

Canada’s flag is celebrating its 60th anniversary — at a time when Canadians are feeling especially patriotic. We dip into the archives to hear how the red-and-white maple leaf design came to be.

The high cost of housing (and life in general) is forcing many young people to move back in with their parents, if they ever moved out in the first place. Maclean's journalist Claire Gagne looks at what that means for both the young adults stuck in their childhood bedrooms, and their parents’ hopes and dreams for retirement — and perhaps an empty nest.

Some tech and business leaders are calling for radical change in Canada's economy to protect against Trump’s tariffs and other future threats. Matt Galloway talks to entrepreneur and former Shopify executive Daniel Debow, who is part of a new group called Build Canada; and Benjamin Bergen, president of the Council of Canadian Innovators.

U.S. President Donald Trump seems preoccupied with South Africa. He’s offered asylum to white farmers who say they’re facing racial discrimination there, is skipping the G20 in Johannesburg and has restricted all aid to the country. The Globe and Mail's Africa Correspondent Geoffrey York explains why Trump has South Africa in his sights — and how much it has to do with Elon Musk.

U.S. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said that it’s “unrealistic” that Ukraine will regain key land taken by Russia or join NATO as part of any peace settlement. We hear how Ukrainians are reacting to that news, and whether Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will be sidelined after U.S. President Donald Trump’s pledge that peace negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin will start “immediately.”

Parents may pleasantly puzzle over the “goos” and “gahs” that their babies make, but now researchers say that baby talk shares patterns with the songs of humpback whales. What can that teach us about how children learn to talk, and how language evolves more broadly?

Some Canadian cities are hiring family doctors as municipal employees, taking over the paperwork so the physicians can focus on their patients. Could this novel model help to ease the family doctor shortage across Canada?