Recent extreme heat ‘cooked’ fruit still on the tree in B.C., as well as forcing farmers in Manitoba to sell their cattle at emergency auctions, due to failed crops and a lack of available feed. To discuss climate change and the impact on Canada’s farmers and food supply, guest host Robyn Bresnahan talks to Kirk Kiesman, a farmer and general manager of the Ashern Auction Mart in Ashern, Man.; Lenore Newman, the Canada Research Chair in food security and environment at the University of the Fraser Valley; and Ian McCreary, a grain and livestock farmer who's active in a group called Farmers for Climate Solutions.

Former Bank of Canada and Bank of England Governor Mark Carney has ruled himself out of running in a potential fall election, due to a commitment to help organize the private financial sector in the run-up to the United Nations climate conference. We revisit his conversation with Matt Galloway from March, about his book Value(s): Building a Better World For All, and ideas about how Canada can come out of the COVID-19 crisis in better shape.

Smoke from hundreds of wildfires is wreaking havoc on communities and businesses across Canada. Guest host Robyn Bresnahan discusses the impact on air quality and people’s health with Anne Hicks, assistant professor of pediatric respiratory medicine at the University of Alberta; and Michael Mehta, professor of geography and environmental studies at Thompson Rivers University, in Kamloops, B.C.

Last year the Tasmanian devil was reintroduced to the Australian mainland for the first time in 3,000 years. In a conversation from October, we discuss the project with Menna Jones, an ecologist at the University of Tasmania who has studied the animals for 30 years.

An investigation by a global media consortium has alleged that a spyware called Pegasus was used to target hundreds of politicians, activists and journalists in countries all over the world. Guest host Robyn Bresnahan talks to Agnès Callamard, secretary general of Amnesty International, which took part in the investigation; Ron Deibert, director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto; and one of the people believed to be targeted by the spyware, Carine Kanimba, daughter of Rwandan activist Paul Rusesabagina.

The upheaval of the pandemic convinced some Canadians that their next career move was clear: tendering their resignation. We talk to Matt McGuire, who used reclaimed commuting time to upskill and upgrade to a new job; former corporate lawyer Samanthea Samuels, who is now pursuing her passion of advocating on diversity and inclusion issues; and Debby Carreau, founder and CEO of Inspired HR and Inspired Workplace.

Canadian author Margaret Atwood shared much with her late partner, the novelist Graeme Gibson, including a love of birds. In a conversation from March, she talks to Matt Galloway about the spring migration, the new edition of Gibson's Bedside Book of Birds and what nature can bring us, especially amid the pandemic.

People have been kept away from their loved ones in hospital through the pandemic. But as more Canadians are vaccinated and COVID case counts drop, there are calls to ease restrictions on visits. Guest host Robyn Bresnahan talks to Ottawa resident Kim Gogo, who waited for hours in a hospital car park as her son had major heart surgery last month; Dr. Fahad Razak, an internist and epidemiologist in Toronto; and Dr. Alex Wong, an infectious disease physician in Regina.

The International Olympic Committee has updated a long-standing rule banning gestures of protest. Olympians now have some leeway, but not at the podium. We discuss athleticism and activism with Waneek Horn-Miller, a water polo player who competed for the Canadian women's team at the 2000 Sydney Games; Angela Whyte, a Canadian hurdler who has competed at three summer Olympics; and Mark Tewksbury, a Canadian swimmer who won multiple medals and is now vice-president of the Canadian Olympic Committee's board of directors.

The Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation released a report identifying 200 potential burial sites near the former Kamloops Indian Residential School Thursday. Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc Kukpi7 (Chief) Rosanne Casimir and Cowessess First Nation Chief Cadmus Delorme join guest host Mark Kelley to discuss how their communities are coping, the painful recovery work that lies ahead, and the need for accountability.