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The extradition of an alleged terrorist from Venezuela to Cuba sheds new light on an old story - and re-opens an old wound for one [...]
A lot of Canadian birds spend their winters in the Gulf, or use it as a resting and feeding ground during their migration. So now that the Gulf is slick with oil from the BP spill, many Canadian bird watchers and experts fear that once [...]
We repeat a documentary from our season that takes a look at prostitution from a different perspective - the buyer's. We delve into the world of [...]
It's no secret that Pakistan's intelligence agency nurtured the Taliban back in the 90s, but that relationship was supposed to have been severed after 9/11. Well, not according to classified US military documents released by the whistleblower website Wikileaks. They suggest Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) [...]
The latest statistics show that crime rates in Canada continue to decline. So how can the Harper government still justify the need for its tough-on-crime agenda? Jim Brown talks with Justice Minister Rob Nicholson and Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page to get some [...]
Two weeks from today, the citizens of Rwanda will head to the polls - and President Paul Kagame is expected to walk away the winner, once again. But critics say that's largely because in Kagame's Rwanda, there is no room for [...]
Thirty years after the killing fields, it's Judgement Day for the Khmer Rouge. A verdict is expected Monday in the trial of Pol Pot's chief executioner. We get into the historic ruling and what it means for [...]
The Harper government's decision to replace the mandatory long-form census with a voluntary survey has stirred a lot of controversy. Critics say the move will result in data that is skewed and unreliable - and highlights the need for politicians to stay out of Statistics [...]
Tackling Mexico's drug wars ... some experts say the answers lie just a few countries down the road - in [...]
Ken Masse is literally sitting on a gold mine. And he refuses to budge. Masse is the last thing in the way of Osisko Mining Corporation's plan to develop Canada's largest open-pit gold mine in tiny Malarctic, Quebec. All of Masse's neighbours have sold out [...]
The atrocities committed in Uganda during Idi Amin's 8-year reign of terror have gone largely unpunished. But Duncan Laki couldn't let his father's killers off that easily. We talk about one man's quest to bring a brutal regime to [...]
By next year, Canada will have sent 1.9 billion dollars in aid to Afghanistan. Has that money been spent wisely? Is it getting results? Should we keep giving? Critics say the answer to all of those questions is 'no.' As President Hamid Karzai hosts an [...]
Doug Tipple was hired to carry out huge reforms in the Public Works department. One year into his three-year contract, he was fired and the public service labour relations board ruled his dismissal was a sham and cover-up. CBC reporter Julie Ireton brings us the [...]
They say one man's trash is another man's treasure ... Well, in Darren Atkinson's case, it's also his job. We take you into the world of dumpster [...]
Marrying your way to a residency card. Some immigration lawyers say the use of fraudulent marriages to get legal standing in Canada is a widespread problem and more needs to be done to address it. But others say any effort to clamp down on the [...]
Guest host, Jim Brown talks to the head of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria about why he thinks 2010 will be a decisive year in the fight against [...]
A mother and daughter sit down to talk about one of the most tragic and under-reported chapters in the history of World War Two ... and how it continues to shape their [...]
We investigate the case for air conditioning as a human right and whether we can square its benefits with its environmental and social [...]
Nick Bala is a professor of law at Queen's University. He's suffering from a very advanced cancer that is difficult to treat. But he says things could -- and should -- have been different, if only the pathologist who examined his original biopsy had got [...]
Meet the first-born son of one of the founders of Hamas and find out how he ended up spying for Israel and converting to [...]
It has been 14 years since Wayne Greavette was killed by a booby-trapped flashlight full of explosives and roofing nails. And police still don't know who is responsible. The CBC's David Ridgen brings us the second documentary in his series on Canadian Cold [...]
The federal government has decided to scrap the mandatory long-form census and replace it with a voluntary one. But now a groundswell of opposition to the decision is building. Critics -- including former Statistics Canada officials -- say it will lead to skewed and incomplete [...]
In the five years since Google Maps was introduced, Google has become one of the world's most dominant map-makers. But Google doesn't produce a single, definitive map of the world. It makes multiple versions, many of which conflict with each other, especially in areas that [...]
A documentary about four Canadian sailors and how they survived the worst peacetime disaster in the history of the Canadian [...]
The Federal Court of Canada has ruled that Ottawa has not done enough to protect Omar Khadr's constitutional rights and has given the government until today to come up with a better remedy. We look at what the government has and has not done and [...]
This summer marks 60 years since the beginning of the Korean War. 27,000 Canadians fought in that war. More than 500 died. And yet the Korean Peninsula is still fraught with political tension and the potential for [...]
Oka Anniversary - It was twenty years ago this weekend that the Quebec police raided a Mohawk barricade and set-off the Oka Crisis. Francine Lemay's brother was a police officer who died in that raid. And she is marking the event by trying to bridge [...]
GG Apointment - David Johnston, a legal scholar and the President of the University of Waterloo, has been named as Canada's next Governor General. We look at what he brings to the job and how minority governments, Parliamentary prorogations and constitutional debates have made the [...]
FIFA, soccer's world governing body has come under fire during the World Cup over blown calls and refereeing blunders. But according to investigative journalist Andrew Jennings, FIFA has much bigger problems ... namely corruption, bribery, vote rigging and ticket [...]
It has been a year since an Air France flight plunged into the Atlantic en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. And the families of the 228 people who died in the crash still have no idea what caused the tragedy. We have a [...]
After the worst financial crisis since the great depression, the global economy has been faring much better of late. But now more and more economists fear the recovery could be a temporary bounce on the way to a so-called "double-dip" recession. We open up that [...]
The Canadian prairies have been hit by severe rainstorms. There are epic floods in China, France, Romania and Brazil. And the American West has been hit by some of the worst flash-floods anyone there can remember. Some are calling this a "Pearl Harbour" moment for [...]
A new poll has found that two thirds of Canadians believe police were justified in detaining 900 people in the wake of sweeping - and sometimes violent - street protests during the G-20 Summit. We're asking if Canadians are too quick to give up their [...]
Senior citizens have long been prime targets for financial scams. But increasingly, the people targeting them aren't strangers. They're people they know and trust ... even members of their own [...]
*** This longer version is a podcast exclusive *** The World Cup host country was wracked by xenophobic violence in 2008 and some people fear there could be another backlash against immigrants once the tournament ends and the reporters head home. The CBC's David [...]
A documentary about a mother's 30-year quest for answers about her daughter's [...]
Are our brains changing because of the Internet? In this part we discuss how we now process information collectively, and whether this new form of intelligence is just as [...]
Some people argue Pride's relevance is waning because the political battles have been won and parades are little more than a self-indulgent advertising opportunities; others say pride is relevant both as a celebration and a way of fighting important battles that still need to be [...]
Lighthouses -- a once iconic fixture on the Canadian landscape -- are disappearing. The federal government is reviewing the roughly 50 lighthouses that are still staffed. And it has announced that it wants to divest itself of nearly a thousand other lighthouses. We'll look at [...]
As we celebrate Canada Day today, we're going to take a second look at a powerful symbol of Canadian identity - The North. [...]
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is moving forward with a proposal to create a separate internet suffix for pornographic websites. The company behind the proposal says a .xxx suffix would allow pornography sites to operate more openly and under better [...]
The Democratic Republic of Congo is marking the 50th Anniversary of its independence today. But instead of celebrating a half-century's worth of achievements, the country is mired in violence, poverty and bad governance. And some say it all began with the death of one [...] |
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