You’ve probably seen the pictures of clear canals and blue skylines as the world shuts down. They look like scenes from a better future. But most of them are real, and there’s not a lot of good news at the moment, so maybe we should take what we can get...

A global pandemic causes a massive change in human behaviour, and as it upends the world it can also offer us some lessons on what is essential and what is not. And if we can learn from this shock to our collective systems, perhaps we can prevent the next one.

GUEST: Katherine Hayhoe, climate scientist

Is a climate wakeup the silver lining on a horrible situation?

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The former Calgary mayor is beloved by many in the province. He might well be the favourite in the race to succeed Rachel Notley as leader of the Alberta NDP. But he's never really been involved with the party, and his trademark 'purple' comes from blending Liberal red and Conservative blue. No orange in sight.But his campaign will force some fascinating questions onto the party, both in Alberta and nationally. Questions that have been bubbling just below the surface for the past couple of elections, and are making insiders wonder about the future of a unified national NDP...

GUEST: Graham Thomson, Alberta-based political analyst

Could Naheed Nenshi cause an NDP divorce?

It can be easy, given our changing climate, not to worry much about events that aren't extreme. It's not flooding? No hurricanes or heat waves or wildfires? Just a little rain?! Well, we can live with that. And maybe we can, but in the Arctic, a lot of things can't.

In recent years, snowfall has been replaced with rainfall more and more often. And sure, they're just different types of moisture, but the impact is fascinating and profound. And has a ton of implications for both Canadians in the region, and every other creature that makes its home up there.

GUEST: Ed Struzik, writing in The Tyee

It's raining in the Arctic. That's ... not good.

It was one of the strangest scandals in recent Canadian history, located right at the spot where the housing crisis collides with the climate crisis. From allegations of political corruption and  RCMP investigations to endangered species and Las Vegas massages.

Every Monday for the next three weeks, The Big Story, in partnership with The Narwhal, will take you into the heart of the Greenbelt scandal that rocked Ontario, speaking to the people who broke the story and people who lived it. If you think you know what happened... you don't know it all.

Hosted by Emma McIntosh, investigative reporter with The Narwhal.

Paydirt: The Inside Story of Ontario’s Greenbelt Scandal

More and more Canadians are struggling to afford the costs associated with the death of a loved one. In Newfoundland, a recent news report reveals bodies are piling up in a freezer outside of a morgue for this reason. 

Jordan talks to Erin Bury, CEO and co-founder of Willful, a digital estate planning app that aims to make estate planning more accessible and affordable.  

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Over the past few weeks, there have been hundreds of questions, plenty of notes and briefings, dozens of hours of testimony (including from the Prime Minister himself) and no shortage of references to classified intelligence—all this during an inquiry aiming to help the foreign interference commission, and the Canadian public, learn exactly who knew what about efforts to impact Canada's elections, and what they did about it.

If that sounds like a mouthful, well, it is. The inquiry is attempting to balance the need for transparency with the imperative to protect Canada's intelligence operations, and it has often left questions half-answered, or responses less than declarative. So on the final day of this phase of the inquiry: What have we actually learned, for certain, about efforts to interfere in Canada's elections?

GUEST: Laura Stephenson, professor of political science, Western University; co-director of The Consortium on Electoral Democracy

Is a climate wakeup the silver lining on a horrible situation?

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