• When it comes to sports betting, does everyone lose?
    Mar 23 2026

    With the legalization of sports betting in Canada, and much of the United States, watching your favourite team has changed. If you don't partake, you're bombarded with ads, and if you do, it's likely changed the way you view and cheer on your team. But it's changed the game for players, officials, and sports journalists too. Author Danny Funt on his new book Everyone Loses, The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling.

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    24 mins
  • Why are more young Canadians self-harming?
    Mar 23 2026

    A new study shows the number of young Canadians treated for self-harm has more than doubled in the last 25 years. Montreal filmmaker Alex Anna talks about her own experience with self-harming and how it shaped how she saw herself as a teen.


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    26 mins
  • How war in the Middle East is upending the global economy
    Mar 23 2026

    Stuck ships, wrong ports, and higher costs: war in the Middle East is causing headaches for worldwide supply chains. New York Times reporter Peter S. Goodman explores the mounting impacts on supply chains that remain highly integrated.


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    20 mins
  • Cubans in exile want an “end to communism”
    Mar 20 2026

    Millions of people in Cuba are still without electricity after the country’s power grid collapsed on Monday. It comes as the U.S. has an oil blockade in place in the country and as President Trump says he would consider “taking Cuba.” The CBC’s Jorge Barrera is in Havana and tells us how the blackout has been impacting people's lives there. Plus Sebastián Arcos, the interim director of the Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University, talks about what comes next at this pivotal moment for the country.


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    20 mins
  • A Canadian company is helping white supremacists fundraise
    Mar 20 2026

    CBC’s investigative program, the fifth estate--has spent months looking into two Canadian platforms and the role they play in monetizing hate--under the banner of free speech. Rumble and Entropy both promote themselves as cancel-free spaces and have attracted extremist voices--that many say spew harmful content that may lead to real world harm.

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    16 mins
  • Why risky play is good for kids
    Mar 20 2026

    The Canadian Pediatric Society says "risky play" is good for kids’ mental, physical and social health — even if it might result in injury. In an interview from January, we hear what’s behind this new advice, why ”incredibly boring playgrounds” are part of the problem, and why parents might need to just take a deep breath.

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    21 mins
  • Cigarette butts help birds
    Mar 20 2026

    New research from the University of Lodz in Poland seems to show that some birds get healthier if they use cigarette butts in their nests.


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    9 mins
  • The power of kindness and other life lessons from a priest
    Mar 19 2026

    Father James Martin is known around the world for giving voice to Catholics who are often excluded from their church, including those in the LGBTQ community. In his new book “Work in Progress” he writes about how he found faith in the margins and why his most important life lessons came working as a busboy in a busy small town restaurant.


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    24 mins