Julie Nystrom was so worried that her teenage daughter would die from a drug overdose, she hired a private investigator to track down the man selling her drugs. She wants police to do more to protect teens against dealers and the toxic drug supply.

Anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been nominated as Donald Trump’s health secretary, prompting concerns about rising vaccine hesitancy and misinformation — both in the U.S. and here in Canada. 

The CBC’s Nora Young has been looking at how medical misinformation spreads online, and how influencers have brought fringe ideas into the mainstream. She shares what she found.

A family of orcas wowed a passenger ferry in Vancouver's False Creek this week. We hear why researchers are also delighted by their unusual adventure into the heart of the city.

As a child Bob McKeown dreamed of winning the Grey Cup and being a reporter like his dad — both dreams he achieved. As the Fifth Estate host prepares to retire after 53 years in journalism, he looks back at a career that includes being punched in the face at an interview, bitten by a shark on camera and threatened with prison time for his work.

Tim Rodger fought hard for compensation when his luggage was damaged on a WestJet flight. But when he won and posted about it online, he was told to take the post down. Some experts say there’s a worrying trend where passengers are being silenced by airlines, their lawyers and even the Canadian Transportation Agency.

People don’t think Graham Isador is losing his sight. They think he’s an asshole.

Short Sighted is an attempt to explain what vision loss feels like by exploring how it sounds.

Written and hosted by master storyteller Graham Isador, the show’s mini episodes are an intimate and irreverent look at accessibility and its personal impacts.

Get lost in someone else’s life. From a mysterious childhood spent on the run, to a courageous escape from domestic violence, each season of Personally invites you to explore the human experience in all its complexity, one story — or season — at a time. This is what it sounds like to be human.

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The prime minister held an emergency meeting with provincial premiers Wednesday, to discuss U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s tariffs threat. N.L. Premier Andrew Furey and N.B. Premier Susan Holt tell Matt Galloway what happened at that meeting. 

Filmmaker Lauren Greenfield convinced a bunch of teenagers to give her full access to their phones, where she saw social media’s impact on young minds in real time. She shares what she saw, what teens told her — and what parents should be worried about — in the documentary series Social Studies.

Ricky Garcia struggled with addiction for years, and fought for laws that would allow people in crisis to be forced into involuntary treatment in his home state of Washington. As ideas around involuntary treatment gain traction in Canada, Julia Wong’s documentary Ricky’s Law explores how the approach is working south of the border.