CBC Radio: Editor's Choice: Episodes
The Entrepreneur of the Week for Sudbury's Morning North knows how to kill bacteria and make your kids' hockey equipment smell fresh again using a waterless sanitation system. And we hear from two-time gold-medallist swimmer Alex Baumann. He was back in his hometown of Sudbury last week to rename the ...
First Steps is a home for pregnant teens and young moms at risk in New Brunswick like Jessica Pitre. The last time CBC Radio got in touch with Jessica, she was planning to attend the University of New Brunswick. The CBC’s Rachel Cave had a chance to catch up with Jessica, now that she's had a month ...
Maestro Bramwell Tovey is leading the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra in a tour to China and South Korea. ** Blackie's Coast is about a seaplane pilot in the 1970's who flies into remote areas of Vancouver Island, moving people and saving lives. The show has scripts, a cast, and even a couple of planes. ...
Earlier this week, Calgary songwriter, animator and instrument builder Chad VanGaalen dropped by Studio Q.
Today, drama on the high seas. Dispatches goes on patrol with the Canadian Navy as it hunts for pirates and gunrunners in the waters of the Middle East. When David Common sailed on the warship HMCS Calgary, he discovered that the crew is up to the job, but when it comes to the equipment and the rules ...
Morley Community School in Alberta is so overcrowded, some classes are held in boot rooms. Staff say they need a new building.
And, Charlottetown Rural High School runs an emergency drill to practice what would happen in case of a school shooting.
The Canadian Internet Project recently reported a fifteen percent gap in Internet use between French-speaking and English-speaking Canadians. Nora Young of Spark spoke with a co-author of that report as well as a podcaster from Quebec about the issue. Also, Cecil and Dawn Hansen are from the Mackenzie ...
The city of St. John’s is trying to make the legendary George Street a bit more family friendly. Host Aamer Haleem discussed the situation with CBC Radio National Reporter Vik Adophia on the debut episode of The Point. Then, we hear from a citizen and the deputy mayor of Gander. Dennis Turner has set ...
Life in the city wasn't always as peaceful as it is today, especially in the city's south end. The provincial penitentiary used to be just down the road from Point Pleasant Park. ** Being a recreation director is an arduous task - budgeting, programming, planning, relying solely on volunteers to help ...
First, a clip for you from the final installment of Sounds Like Canada. Shelagh Rogers joined host Kevin Sylvester. Then we follow a man as he takes his first flight on a powered paraglider.
Painter Geoffrey Raymond is out on Wall Street, with his portraits of CEOs and other big suits. He’s inviting passers-by to take a marker and scrawl something on them. Here he is on Q with host Jian Ghomeshi.
Growing up with Julie is the title of Gerry Steele’s first book. Julie was his mother, an Acadian woman who married into a Scottish family. Steele's book examines the racism suffered by his mother - while she worked to raise a family in poverty. Then we meet athlete Bo Hedges. Hedges was on the national ...
In 2003, at the height of the B.S.E. or 'mad cow' crisis, the
U.S. closed its border to a lot of Canadian agricultural products. In response, Mennonite farmers in the Waterloo and Wellington County region of Ontario decided to grow
more fresh produce. But how were they going to get that increased domestic ...
1. The historic Steelworkers hall in Sudbury, Ontario has burned down. The CBC's Greg Younger-Lewis spoke with Gary Patterson, a former president of local 6500. 2. In places like Lutselk'e, NWT, four litres of milk can cost almost fourteen dollars. That’s the impact of rising fuel prices. 3. There's ...
Today’s highlights are from White Coat, Black Art. This week, the show had a look at the journey a new prescription drug takes from research to testing to approval to sales. First stop, the Canadian Expert Drug Advisory Committee. Members weigh the costs and benefits of new drugs and recommend whether ...
The Stephan Hopkins Memorial Foundation in Deer Lake raises $200,000 for equipment used to find drowning victims.
And, find out about James Collip, "the forgotten man" in the discovery of insulin.
Today we have two items from CBC’s Information Morning in Halifax, Nova Scotia. First, living glamourously with intestinal disease. A new film has just come out that takes a light-hearted approach to the difficulties of living with the disease. Also, Nova Scotia is known as Canada’s Ocean Playground ...
1. Aboriginal leaders from around the country are gathered in Charlottetown this week. They're there to brainstorm the best ways to build their communities without relying on government support. 2. Sean White is among a group of students on an arctic expedition to study climate change. 3. An eleven-year-old ...
Throughout the summer, Sounds Like Canada has been running a business makeover series. The series targets Canadian entrepreneurs whose businesses needed a little sprucing up and paired them with business students and mentors. Last week, host Kevin Sylvester and producer Jen Moss introduced us to Sarah ...
1. Lisha Hassanali drops by to explain the multicultural t-shirt revolution on Here and Now’s Passport to Culture. 2. Edmonton, Alberta's very first streetcar is now on display in Churchill Square. The CBC's Mark Harvey spoke with the President of the group that restored and now operates Streetcar ...