Long before Russia faced sanctions for the war in Ukraine, financier Bill Browder found himself in the Kremlin’s crosshairs for his work tracking corruption in the country. He tells us more about the danger he faced, and his new book Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath.

Buyers are paying record prices for lobster, prompting fishers to brave rough seas to cash in. We talk to Gail Atkinson, the captain of the Nellie Row.

Amid a sixth wave of COVID-19 in Canada, could increased access to the antiviral pill Paxlovid help patients? We talk to family physician Dr. Tara Kiran about the pill.

In the midst of war, some Ukrainians are returning to Kyiv and other areas to try to get their country moving again. Matt Galloway talks to four people who are trying to help, from reopening businesses to co-ordinating aid and supplies.

Co-editors David Hassler and Naomi Shihab Nye discuss a new poetry collection about the pandemic, Dear Vaccine: Global Voices Speak to the Pandemic.

The federal government gave the green light to a new deepwater oil development, the Bay du Nord oil project, off the coast of Newfoundland. We discuss the approval and what it means for meeting Canada’s climate targets with Newfoundland and Labrador's Energy Minister Andrew Parsons; pipefitter Steve White; and Angela Carter, a member of the Newfoundland and Labrador government’s Net-Zero Advisory Council.

Russian attacks on eastern Ukraine have forced thousands to flee the area in search of safety. Matt Galloway hears the latest from Ukraine with Oleksiy Sorokin, the political editor for the Kyiv Independent; and discusses calls to hold Russian President Vladimir Putin accountable for alleged war crimes with Carla Del Ponte, who served as chief prosecutor on International Criminal Tribunals for both the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda.

Where do you want to be buried? That's the question author Kamal Al-Solaylee wrestled with in his book, Return: Why We Go Back to Where We Come From. Last year, Al-Solaylee discussed his own feelings around the idea of home, and the desire of different communities to return to their homelands.

Our national affairs panel tackles the federal budget, an affordability crisis, and a new offshore oil development in the middle of the climate emergency. Matt Galloway talks to three political veterans: former Conservative MP Lisa Raitt; former NDP MP Libby Davies; and former Liberal MP Wayne Easter.

Thursday’s budget promised a legislative review of the "digitalization of money and maintaining financial sector stability and security." We discuss the appeal of cryptocurrency in Canada with former Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz; Jelena Djuric, a co-founder of the Canadian Web 3 Council, a cryptocurrency advocacy group; and Jacob Goldstein author of Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing.