Plus: Five hockey fans drive from Winnipeg to Boston for the 4 Nations Face-Off final, to cheer on Team Canada and their friend, player Seth Jarvis.

Also: The earliest known cookbook by a Black American woman gets a new edition; paleontologists discover the 30-million-year-old skull of "the king of the ancient Egyptian forest”; why one public health expert thinks changes to BC’s safer supply program could mean the its effective demise; and how snow in Montreal has kept one wheelchair user stuck at home.

Plus: An Italian tour guide shares his concerns as visitors get an up close, and potentially dangerous, look at an erupting Mount Etna.

Also: A hockey fan on the Canadian/US matchup at the 4 Nations final; Nova Scotia’s auditor general on new legislation that would let the Province fire her without cause; and a historic ocean liner that once regularly crossed the Atlantic, takes its final voyage.

Plus: Former Olympian Christina Lustenberger describes what it was like to reach the highest point of the Rocky Mountains, and then ski back down.

Also: What happens when a moose shows up at your door; a Ukrainian reflects on her country’s prospects for peace and its relationship with the US; and a reporter breaks down the charges against Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, and the allegations he took part in a coup and plot to kill his political rivals. 

Plus: Facundo Iglesia from the Buenos Aires Herald on a crypto scandal and Argentina’s leader. 

Also: We revisit the “Giga Pearl”. It holds the Guinness World Record as the largest authenticated natural pearl. The massive, iridescent gemstone has traveled from the Philippines to Mississauga, then to the U.S. for appraisal, and now it’s back in the Greater Toronto Area for an exclusive luxury art exhibit.

Plus: A surprising discovery about how shockingly vicious hummingbirds seem to be learning to get along. 

Also: We reach a woman in the hardest hit part of Eastern Kentucky who says despite her small business flooding, she's most worried for those who just recovered from the deadly 2022 floods.

Plus: We speak with a researcher who’s discovered that different groups of chimps use different gestures to request what she calls "sneaky copulation".

Also: As Donald Trump reshapes the Kennedy Center, Michael Kooman says a tour of his musical has been cancelled out of the blue. And he suspects the president's aversion to drag performance had something to do with it.

Nil Köksal in conversation with Shiori Ito, director, producer and subject of the Oscar-nominated documentary. 

Black Box Diaries begins with a trigger warning: "Close your eyes and take a deep breath if you need to," Ms. Ito tells viewers. "That has helped me many times." It goes on to detail her story of sexual assault and the pursuit of justice in Japan.

Plus: TikTok helps drain global Guinness supplies. We reach a St. John’s pub owner who’s got problems ahead of Saint Patrick’s Day.  

Also: This week, only six of the 46 people who attempted an especially treacherous Yukon Arctic Ultra race crossed the finish line. Our guest tells us how she managed to stick it out, and why she's already gearing up for her next trek.

Plus: A superfan makes a sprint through Manhattan to snag a coveted ticket to Paul McCartney’s ultra rare club show.   

Also: We reach Ahmad Muna, whose decades-old bookshop was raided by Israeli police in Jerusalem.

Plus: Christie’s goes all in on AI art. We reach a (human) artist who’s part of the first auction of its kind.    

Also: A town in northern England finds hundreds of Second World War bombs under a children's playground.