The Boxer’s Brain
Claire Hafner at 47, is among the top women boxers in the world. She’s just about ready for retirement but wants to win the Canadian title before hanging up her gloves. However, a question hangs over ...
17 Touko 202431min
Return to Afghanistan
CBC producer Naheed Mustafa, then a freelance writer and broadcaster, landed at the Kabul airport on a blistering hot summer day back in 2008. She’d come to report on how the country had been transfor...
10 Touko 202427min
The great baby last name debate
When Julia Pagel was seven months pregnant, she and her husband faced all the usual new parent decisions: making a birth plan, deciding which stroller to buy and whether to use reusable or disposable ...
3 Touko 202427min
The story of the Trans Mountain pipeline
On May 1st the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion will begin commercial operations. It marks the end of a 12 year saga that included protests, legal challenges and the purchase of the pipeline itself b...
26 Huhti 202427min
Finding freedom: Breaking the bonds of human trafficking
Mary Kajumba needed money to make a better life for her daughter. So, with the help of a placement agency she left her home in Uganda, and went to Iraq where she got a job as a restaurant cleaner. It ...
19 Huhti 202426min
Missing in Action: the decades-long effort to get stunt workers their Oscar due
Over the past near-century, Academy Award categories have come and gone. In the silent film era there was an award for Best Title Writing. You know, the written cards that summarized the “dialogue”? O...
12 Huhti 202426min
Angie’s Angels
On October 23rd, 2023 Bob Hallaert, a man with a history of intimate partner violence, shot and killed Angie Sweeney days after she broke up with him. They’d been together for about three years. What ...
5 Huhti 202427min
Flushed away: The mysterious case of the missing public toilets
Public washrooms are few and far between in Canada. When nature calls, it’s often a scramble to find a coffee shop or mall restroom that's accessible. In Montreal this is certainly the case, but it wa...
29 Maalis 202426min
