The Rundown

Many recognize Wes Hall as one of the Dragons on "Dragon's Den," the show that gives entrepreneurs a chance to get noticed. But few know about his upbringing - one filled with poverty and neglect - and how he rose to success. In his new book, "No Bootstraps When You're Barefoot," he shares his humble beginnings and his journey to the board rooms of Bay Street, Canada's financial capital.

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Ontario Hubs affordability journalist Kat Eschner reports on what some Windsor organizations are doing to combat food insecurity as inflation continues to affect Ontarians.

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Anand Giridharadas discusses his book, "The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy." Then, Mattea Roach on how to win at Jeopardy! And why is cancer affecting people at a younger age. Finally, what have Canadians learned from the Emergencies Act Inquiry?

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Civic unrest continues in Iran, and it has caught the world's attention. People are showing acts of support for those who are protesting within the country. Hossein Raeesi, adjunct research professor at Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University, and Bessma Momani, senior fellow for the Centre for International Governance Innovation and professor of political science at the University of Waterloo provide an update about what's happening in Iran.

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Six weeks of hearings for the Emergencies Act Inquiry are scheduled to end on Nov. 25. We survey some of the most revealing developments and explore what outcomes would serve Canadians best. Has the question of whether the federal government was justified in invoking the act been answered? We ask: was it a useful public exercise?

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The Group of Seven were perhaps the most glorious collection of Canadian landscape painters ever. But several decades ago, there was quite the conspiracy to forge their works and sell them as the real thing. Jon Dellandrea discusses his book, "The Great Canadian Art Fraud Case: The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson Forgeries," and the scandal that hit the art world.

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Why are soccer clubs the worst businesses in the world? Why was women's soccer banned in several countries, including Canada, for so many years? Will major league soccer in North America ever catch up with its European counterparts? With the 2022 FIFA World Cup now underway, Simon Kuper offers a fresh perspective on the world's most popular game in the latest edition of his bestselling book, "Soccernomics: Why European Men and American Women Win and Billionaire Owners are Destined to Lose."

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We do it all the time: guess what other people are thinking. Especially those on the other side of a computer screen and the political divide. But are we often wrong? Are the flawed ways in which we think about other minds driving political polarization? If we increasingly think of other minds as unbending, immovable, and less thoughtful than our own, what affect does that have on democracy? Juliana Schroeder discusses her research on the psychology of how we read others' minds.

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A new report on the sustainability and resilience of Canada's health-care system has sounded the alarm on the current health care model. For insight, we welcome the lead author for the report Sara Allin, associate professor at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto.

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Is persuasion dead? Does the left have a bigger persuasion problem than the right? What happens to democracy when we stop trying to persuade each other, and only condemn and write each other off? Anand Giridharadas discusses his book, "The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy," the American mid-term elections, and why we actually need to persuade people instead of just yelling at them.

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