John Stanton says running helped him quit smoking and it can help others too.

“The fact that Selwyn and I made the film with the complete support of the National Film Board, with the support of Concordia, that gives me a lot of hope that we are in a slightly different place,” Mina Shum said. “Can we do better? Yes we can do better.”

“Getting nominated for best picture is something you dream when you’re alone at night but you don’t dare say it, because you don’t want to jinx yourself,” said Pierre Even. “But now it’s true, just happened and we are very thrilled and very happy about it.”

Eye on the Arctic talks with Heather Exner-Pirot about the top Arctic stories of 2015.

Prof. Steven Laviolette says Canada should consider marijuana’s effects on the adolescent brain before legalizing the drug.

"Having read each of the books on the longlist, I know how difficult it must have been to arrive at today's decision," said Noreen Taylor, founder of the Prize and chair of the Charles Taylor Foundation. "The jury had to choose between a dozen excellent books, with subjects spanning the deeply personal to the poetic and a quality of writing that is uniformly strong."

“In four years since Syria’s civil war began, the previous government allowed only 3,000, in four years!” Goldberg said. “It’s a sea change, a dramatic shift between before the (Oct 19, 2015) elections and after the elections with regards to refugees selected overseas.”

Christopher Waddell explains the strategy behind the proposed $2.65 billion (Cdn) merger of Corus Entertainment and Shaw Media to RCI's Carmel Kilkenny

“Education is not something that normally comes top of mind when we talk about helping people in the midst of a conflict,” said Meg French of UNICEF Canada. “But it’s really important for kids. It gives children a sense of normalcy.”

Egale’s Helen Kennedy says the census question on gender leaves out a whole spectrum of people.