Saskatchewan-born Agnes Woodward created the ribbon skirt Deb Haaland wore last week, as she was sworn in as U.S. secretary of the interior. Woodward tells us why that moment was empowering for all Indigenous women and girls.

Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock was a huge kids TV hit when it aired on CBC in the 1980s. Now it’s getting a reboot, with new episodes being made in Canada. We take a trip through TV history, down in Fraggle Rock.

Eliot Higgins, founder of investigative website Bellingcat, discusses his work with open-source intelligence, and why the truth still matters, even on the internet.

Author Walter Isaacson's new book The Code Breaker looks at the work of Jennifer Doudna, the Nobel Prize-winning pioneer in gene editing. He tells us about what he learned writing the book, the moral questions around gene editing and CRISPR, and why confronting those questions isn't far off.

Russia is sending millions of doses of its Sputnik V vaccine abroad, even though less than two per cent of its own population is fully vaccinated. We discuss the move to share the vaccine, and the international influence it brings, with Moscow-based journalist Dasha Ryzhkova; Aurel Braun, a professor of international relations at the University of Toronto; and Achal Prabhala of the AccessIBSA project, a campaign for global access to medicines.

An RCMP watchdog has concluded that police racially discriminated against Debbie Baptiste, the mother of Colten Boushie, after he was shot and killed in 2016. Matt Galloway discusses the findings with Eleanore Sunchild, one of the lawyers representing Boushie's family, and Heather Bear, vice-chief of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations.

Canada saw an increase in femicide from 2019 to 2020, according to a new report. Women were most likely to be killed by men they knew, and Indigenous women were more at risk of experiencing violence. We speak with Delilah McKeith, whose daughter Nichole Clifford was killed by her estranged husband in 2017. And Amanda Dale, an advisory member with the Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability, and Dawn Lavell-Harvard, president of the Ontario Native Women's Association, weigh in on the report.

Author Namina Forna has always loved fantasy, but she never saw people who look like her included in it. So, she's written her own fantasy novel, The Gilded Ones. She joins us to talk about the book.

The past year has been tough on Canadians' well-being. Outgoing CEO of the Mental Health Commission of Canada Louise Bradley says much more needs to be done to help improve our mental health.

Peter Humphrey can relate to what Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig are going through in China. The former journalist and corporate investigator was arrested along with his wife in Shanghai in 2013 for allegedly illegally acquiring information about a Chinese citizen. He speaks with guest host Rosemary Barton about his imprisonment there, and what might be in store for the two Canadians.