News that China had executed four Canadian nationals emerged last week, just as the country imposed tariffs on a range of Canadian products. Given that, and the increasingly unstable world order, how should Canada be thinking about its relationship with China? Michael Kovrig, the former Canadian diplomat detained by China for more than a thousand days, explains why he thinks that country should be seen as both an adversary and a trade partner.

When Phillip Winter found out he had a genetic variant that can cause sudden cardiac events and death, he felt like a “dead man walking.” But new research into the variant, known as the Newfoundland Curse for its prevalence there, makes him hopeful that he might someday overcome that curse. Winter, his dad and a researcher discuss the new findings fuelling their hope.

Lots of men who take finasteride for hair loss notice results and no ill effects — but an investigation by Radio-Canada’s Enquête heard from dozens of men who experienced negative, life-altering mental, sexual and physical side effects. Brigitte Noel, a reporter who worked on the investigation, explains the toll those side effects can take, and how taboos around men’s health have made it harder for some to seek help.

The federal election campaign is officially off to the races — and each of the leaders are positioning themselves as the candidate who can bring change for Canadians feeling pressed by tariff threats and the high cost of living. How are they making their cases? Stephanie Levitz of the Globe’s Ottawa bureau, host of CBC’s The House Catherine Cullen and La Presse columnist Michel C. Auger explain, and break down the race so far.

U.S. officials are making it harder for Canadians to access the iconic Haskell Free Library that straddles the border between Quebec and Vermont, a shared building that used to be a sign of friendship between the two nations. We hear from a library board member about how the town of Stanstead is pushing back against the move.

NASA’s new SPHEREx telescope launched earlier this month is set to collect data on more than 450 million galaxies, and some 100 million stars in the Milky Way in an effort to build a 3D map of the universe. That’s a lot of information — and the Canadian who acted as the lead flight systems engineer for the telescope’s launch discusses what they hope to learn from all that data.

Trinity was only 14 years old when she stumbled into the chat room where she would be groomed and abused for three years by online extremists. The group, known as 764, convinces children to commit unimaginable harms to themselves and others, like self harm. Ioanna Roumeliotis tells Mark Kelley about The Fifth Estate’s investigation into the group one investigator describes as “absolutely evil,” and Trinity’s mother explains why she feels the RCMP didn’t do enough to help her daughter.

Many Tesla drivers are doing everything they can to distance themselves from the company’s controversial CEO, Elon Musk, as the cars become targets for vandalism and protest. We look at whether or not the movement might actually hurt the carmaker, and how these EVs went from a left-wing status symbol to a token of conservative politics.

A new study suggests that babies as young as a year old can store memories. One of the study’s authors explains why humans don’t remember being a baby despite that newfound fact, and what questions remain about our earliest memories.

Partial remains of two Indigenous women were found at the Prairie Green Landfill near Winnipeg earlier this month, in a search the victim’s families pressured all levels of government to undertake for years. Manitoba’s Minister of Families, Nahanni Fontaine, says the commitment to bringing their loved ones home is a testament to the families’ strength and dedication. But “savage levels of violence” against Indigenous women and girls persist across Canada, she adds.