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Hundreds of residents were hastily evacuated as a wildfire threatened Churchill Falls, N.L., on Wednesday. Matt Galloway gets the latest from John Gaudi, guest host of Labrador Morning.
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Climate expert Blair Feltmate says governments need to treat cooling as a human right, especially as summer heat waves intensify. If they don’t, he warns that the death toll from events like heat domes could rise into the thousands.
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Olympic gold medallist Maggie Mac Neil has accomplished everything she wanted to in swimming, and now wants to make room for other things in her life. She talks to Matt Galloway about the weight of expectations as she heads to compete in Paris, and what comes next.
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The Edmonton Oilers have battled their way back into contention for the Stanley Cup. As they face a do-or-die game 7 on Friday, we check in with a city craving a championship.
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Close calls and mental fatigue are pushing B.C.’s experienced wildfire fighters to quit, right as fire seasons get longer and harsher. In her documentary The Burn, Joan Webber looks at what that means for the less experienced workers who replace them — and the communities they’re trying to protect.
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Politicians in Ottawa take their summer break, our national affairs panel dissects a session preoccupied with foreign interference — and accusations on all sides. Matt Galloway talks to the CBC’s Rosemary Barton, the Toronto Star’s Stephanie Levitz and the National Post’s Ryan Tumilty.
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Nora Young knew technology was inherently political when she created Spark in 2007, mere months after the iPhone was unveiled. As the CBC Radio show ends its 17-year run, she says we should be demanding more from the technologies that shape our lives.
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The U.S. surgeon general is calling for a warning label on social media, citing mental health risks for teens. Would warnings similar to the ones on cigarettes make a difference?
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People are living much longer these days, but economics professor Andrew Scott says our society isn’t set up to support that. His new book The Longevity Imperative looks at the major overhauls needed to make a longer life rewarding, from employment to health care.
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The water main that failed in Calgary was a prestressed concrete cylinder pipeline, a type of infrastructure that has ruptured in other places, too. What other Canadian cities rely on these pipes?
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Many people think cigarette butts are biodegradable, but in reality they stick around for years, leaking chemicals and microplastics into the environment. We hear about a push to educate smokers and hold big tobacco companies responsible for their products.
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More great white sharks are appearing off Canada's east coast. We hear why that’s a win for conservation — and what it means for humans heading down to the beach.
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New research shows that discarded pharmaceutical drugs are having an alarming impact on wildlife — even causing sex reversals in some species. We talk to researcher Karen Kidd.
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Sebastian Junger felt the pull of a deep black void as he lay bleeding to death in a hospital trauma room in 2020. The war correspondent and lifelong atheist tells Matt Galloway how close he came to death in that moment, and how it forced him to reconsider the idea of an afterlife.
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Earl Moberg was 81 and had advanced dementia when he went missing last year. He was never found. Matt Galloway talks to his daughter Britt Moberg about the changes she wants to see in senior care to stop this happening to other families.
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The war in Ukraine has been the subject of a flurry of conferences this week, from a peace summit in Switzerland — without Russia — to the G7 summit in Italy. Will all these talks bring the country any closer to peace?
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Olympian Malindi Elmore retired from track running in 2012. Now at 44, she’s back and competing in the marathon at the Paris Olympics. She talks to Matt Galloway about losing her passion for racing, and how she got it back.
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From the Kennedy assassination to the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, U.S. presidents tackle their pressing crises in the Situation Room. Former White House staffer George Stephanopoulos takes us inside that bunker — and some defining moments in history.
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Junaid Khan is one of a growing number of non-Indigenous people in Canada learning Indigenous languages. We listen back to Duncan McCue’s 2023 documentary about the swell of interest in Indigenous languages across Canada.
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Many workers just don’t head out for a sit-down lunch with colleagues anymore, opting instead to eat quickly at their desks. What does our midday meal say about our modern lives?
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