The UN Biodiversity Conference, COP15, is underway in Montreal, with negotiators from around the world hammering out fresh targets to protect biodiversity globally. Radio-Canada environment reporter Etienne Leblanc tells us what’s happened at the summit so far and what progress has been made.

Disability rights advocates warn that poverty and a lack of support are leading Canadians with disabilities to consider choosing medical assistance in dying. We talk to Jacquie Holyoak, who struggles to live on disability support payments and has been talking to her doctor about MAID; Rabia Khedr, national director of Disability Without Poverty; and Trudo Lemmens, professor of health law and policy at the University of Toronto.

At least four people died when their boat sank in the English Channel this week, a route taken by tens of thousands of migrants and refugees trying to reach the U.K. Matt Galloway discusses these perilous journeys and the lack of legal routes for some nationalities, with Nando Sigona, chair of international migration and forced displacement at the University of Birmingham; and Christa Rottensteiner, chief of mission with the International Organization for Migration in the U.K., a United Nations agency.

Ottawa's plan to tackle sexual misconduct within Canada’s armed forces has been met with skepticism. Matt Galloway talks to Minister of National Defense Anita Anand, and Sté​fanie von Hlatky, the Canada Research Chair on Gender, Security and the Armed Forces.

U.S. scientists say they’ve made a breakthrough in harnessing fusion energy, the process that powers the sun. We discuss what that could mean in the push for clean power with Robbie Scott, a senior plasma physicist in the Central Laser Facility’s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory; and Greg Twinney, the CEO of General Fusion, a Vancouver-based fusion company.

Millions of people have tried out ChatGPT, a new online artificial intelligence tool trained to mimic human responses. It can respond to questions, craft poems or plays, and even write the introduction to a radio show. We discuss its potential and the pitfalls with University of Pennsylvania professor Ethan Mollick; and Oxford University professor Michael Wooldridge, author of A Brief History Of Artificial Intelligence: What It Is, Where We Are, and Where We Are Going.

Ottawa is planning to update anti-terror legislation to make it easier for aid agencies to tackle the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, without changing the Taliban’s designation as a terrorist organization. But some aid groups say the change should have come much sooner. Matt Galloway talks to Samira Sayed-Rahman, a humanitarian worker with the International Rescue Committee; and Martin Fischer, director of policy for World Vision Canada.

An advocacy group in B.C. is calling on the provincial government to make prescription contraception free for everyone. We discuss the impact that might have with Dr. Wendy Norman, the Family Planning Public Health Research Chair with the Public Health Agency of Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

We discuss grassroots efforts to protect biodiversity in Canada with Andrew Gonzalez, a professor of biology at McGill University and the founding director of the Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science.

Iran has begun to execute protesters involved in recent demonstrations, after what human rights groups are calling “sham trials.” We talk to Amir Bajehkian, an Iranian-Canadian activist in Vancouver, whose cousin was recently arrested in Tehran.