Pets provide nonjudgmental emotional support.  Studies show that contact with pets reduces stress, and that animals help older adults cope with social isolation—  Here is Nasha Kasha's all cat show. Some of these stories may conflict with the data, but each has a happy endings.

2021 is the 150th anniversary year of Ukrainian poet Lesya Ukrainka.  Her significance for Ukraine and for Europe is this week's story on Nasha Kasha.

This week, Nasha Kasha revisits North Winnipeg, and we learn about its history and evolution from a long time resident and film-maker.

 Ricky Skaggs plays one in Mandolin Rain.  Rod Stewart's mega hit Maggie May closes with one.  R.E.M featured one in the song Losing My Religion.  Today, Nasha Kasha salutes the mandolin.  Companion, music tool, sad song tremolo.

Halifax broadcaster, author and politician Richard Zurawski was very close to his father. But for much of his life Richard knew only a fraction of his father's story.

He is called the father of multiculturalism.  Senator Paul Yuzyk died July 9th, 1986.  As we approach the 35th anniversry of his passing Nasha Kasha acknowledges Yuzyk's legacy. 

A rushnychok is an embroidered cloth: a memento haded down through generations.  Here is the story of a band that wove their songs and music through that embroidery for more than a decade. 

Marten Falls First Nation is an Anishinaabe reserve located in Northern Ontario.  It's communities live on both sides of the Albany River far to the north of Thunder Bay.  This week Nasha Kasha brings us their story.  First we'll hear from Canada's top First Nations leader.

Nasha Kasha visits Sarnia to reprise and to update the story of a church congregation, like so many, on the margins of viability.  

To come to live permanently in a country other than one's native land is to immigrate.  What the Oxford Canadian Dictionary doesn't mention are the hardships.