Hearings into the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol are exploring the role of the Republican Party and former president Donald Trump. We talk to Washington Post reporter Amber Phillips; John Fund, a columnist for the National Review; and Molly Jong-Fast, a contributor to The Atlantic.

Kimberly Murray was recently appointed as special interlocutor to co-ordinate the government's response to unmarked graves at residential schools. She explains how she hopes to help Indigenous communities in their healing process.

Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and journalist Dom Phillips have disappeared in the Amazon rainforest. We discuss their work and Brazil’s broken relationship with Indigenous communities, with Ana Alfinito of the NGO Amazon Watch; and Leonardo Barros Soares, a political science professor at the Federal University of Viçosa in Brazil.

Lhakpa Sherpa is the first woman to climb Mount Everest’s summit 10 times, and James Kagambi is the first Kenyan to summit the mountain. They talk about their accomplishments and how they’re trying to spread the joy of the outdoors to as many people as possible.

Once unmarked burial sites are found at residential school sites, Indigenous communities will work to bring home the remains of the lost children. It’s a long, difficult process — but it’s underway in some parts of the United States. The CBC’s Wawmeesh Hamilton visited one reservation that has brought some remains home: the Rosebud Sioux Tribe in South Dakota. He tells host Matt Galloway more.

As the former head of humanitarian relief for the United Nations, Mark Lowcock has seen the best and worst of humanity. It was his job to coordinate aid and rally international support for people caught in the world's most desperate crises. Now that he's left that post, he's reflecting on what he's learned in a new book called Relief Chief: A Manifesto for Saving Lives in Dire Times.

An Ontario coroner's inquest is shining a light on the issue of domestic violence in rural communities — and the changes advocates and victims' loved ones hope will result from it. Host Matt Galloway discusses these potential changes with JoAnne Brooks, co-ordinator of End Violence Against Women Renfrew County, and Deborah Sinclair, a clinical social worker and founding member of Ontario’s Domestic Violence Staff Review Committee.

Canadian Iman Vellani stars in Disney+’s new TV series Ms. Marvel. Arab Canadian filmmaker Maissa Houri discusses Ms. Marvel’s place as a role model for young Muslim women

A year after fighting for his life during the third wave of COVID-19, drummer Gene Champagne is getting ready to get back behind the drums. He discusses how the music community helped him through his recovery.

The Globe and Mail journalist Mark MacKinnon has won an award for excellence in journalism for the story of Sharif Sharaf’s escape from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. He talks to us about Sharaf’s escape to Canada — and Canada’s slow movement in bringing Afghan refugees here.