The Dreams of My Father
All Sonali Sharma wanted was to go to school in Canada and become a nurse. It was everybody’s dream for her. So much so, that when she was accepted to a private college in Vancouver, Sonali’s entire v...
29 Sep 202326min
R is for Reading
There’s a battle going on about how to teach kids to read. It’s been fought over decades. In Canada, it mostly shakes down as follows: on one side, phonics, which focuses on letters—how they sound, ...
22 Sep 202326min
Farmer's Island
In tiny towns and massive cities across Canada, it can be typical—and legal—to have a vegetable patch or a few chickens. But Newfoundland and Labrador has what many see as strict and outdated rules wh...
15 Sep 202326min
The Homecoming
Canada's first music copyright trial took place in Ontario's highest court just over forty years ago. It saw a little-known lounge musician named Ivan Gondos face off against established hitmaker Hago...
8 Sep 202333min
Change is coming to The Doc Project podcast feed
An update from Acey Rowe about exciting new things coming to a podcast feed near you...
30 Aug 20232min
All the people on my street
After learning of an annual neighbourhood New Year's Eve Party to which he had never been invited, Tom Howell became more curious about his neighbours. He’d lived on the same street for 15 years, yet ...
17 Sep 202227min
The Lost Skier
In February 2018, Danny Filippidis, a Toronto firefighter, was on a ski trip with some friends. He left his buddies to go get his phone at the bottom of the slope. That's the last anyone saw of him fo...
2 Sep 202227min
Blood Money
As a journalist, Kim Wheeler has been covering Indigenous stories for nearly thirty years. But there's one story that has taken her decades to tell: her own. When she was 13 days old, Canadian authori...
26 Aug 202227min
