Assessing the risk climate change poses to your home; making sense of the tragedy at Travis Scott's Astroworld; how racism gets reflected in roads, bridges and urban design; how Ethiopia's prime minister went from winning the Nobel Peace Prize to being snared in a civil war; Victoria Leacock Hoffman, the friend and colleague who produced the original production of Jonathan Larson's Tick, Tick ... Boom!; and more.

Why addressing income inequality is an important part of confronting the climate crisis; Mariah Carey's Christmas single is back with a vengence; how the Kyle Beach case could provoke a reckoning on sexual assault in hockey; why QAnon is rallying around JFK Jr.'s return; how the reboot of Y: The Last Man complicates gender; former Nirvana manager Danny Goldberg's alternate history of the 2020 election and more.

Afghanistan's former climate negotiator says his country is trapped in a deadly feedback loop of conflict and climate change; what three court trials unfolding now reveal about racism in the U.S. legal system; Mannakin Hall has a giant mountain of fake body parts in the middle of the English countryside; reviewing the new Guardians of the Galaxy game; Colin Kaepernick's enduring influence; and more.

A beginner's guide to the Metaverse; Jan Egeland on Afghanistan's humanitarian crisis; new season of podcast Stuff the British Stole examines colonialism one ill-gotten artifact at a time; how Islam became such an important feature of Dune; Black hockey player Bernie Saunders recounts his love of the game and how racism drove him away from it; and more.

A daughter comes to terms with her unvaccinated father's death from COVID-19; the artists who design some of the NHL's most striking goalie masks; one man's trillion-dollar coin idea and how it could settle the U.S. government's debt ceiling crisis; why vinyl record prices have hit head-spinning highs; Hillary Clinton co-authors a political thriller with Canadian writer Louise Penny; how Yuta Watanabe's journey to the Toronto Raptors could impact the future of Japanese basketball; and more.

Facebook is caught in another scandal and one expert says this one might stick; the visual effects that brought Ted Lasso's world to life; how the WNBA got to a near-perfect vaccination rate; the mascot consultant who was the original Phillie Phanatic and helped create Gritty; how female journalists of colour are dealing with online hate; that time Oregon state officials dynamited a beached whale; and more.

The case for rapid COVID-19 antigen tests; Indigenous activist Cindy Blackstock says the harm Canada must account for is ongoing; the new cystic fibrosis drug that's changing lives; why the education system needs to become more climate literate; Dave Bidini's letter to a young Toronto Maple Leafs fan; and more.

An Alberta Reddit moderator says the pandemic has brought a wave of online misinformation at the worst possible time; internet sleuths are driving attention to the Gabby Petito case, for good and bad; Thomas King's new graphic novel explores Indigenous nationhood; legendary drummer Chris Frantz on keeping the beat for Talking Heads; and more.

Political scientist says forced party unity muzzles MPs and hurts democracy; sexual assault allegations leave Western University students angry and fearful; Becky Toyne's review of Sally Rooney's Beautiful World, Where Are You; How the Taliban could use the former Afghan government's personnel databases to target its opponents; meet the upstart company working to disrupt the 'whitewashed' opera industry; and more.

Leylah Fernandez's impressive run at the U.S. Open; Canadian Muslims say the Islamophobia sparked by 9/11 still lingers; meet the doctors walking the streets of Hamilton offering COVID-19 vaccines to anyone who wants one; Paul Schrader is one of the most acclaimed filmmakers of the last half-century and there's a good chance you've never heard of him; LeVar Burton wants to read to you through the pandemic; and more.

Correction: In the original version of this week's episode, we said, "About 85 per cent of Canadians have now had at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine." It has been corrected to clarify that number is specific to Canadians eligible for vaccination.