This week on an all-new season of The Sunday Magazine with host Piya Chattopadhyay:

• National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations RoseAnne Archibald

• Distinctly-Canadian election language, explained

• The National Arts Centre Orchestra returns to the stage

• ​Writer Omar Mouallem explores how Muslims shaped the Americas

• Reporter Jim DeFede on Gander, N.L.'s legacy of kindness 20 years after 9/11

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This week on The Sunday Magazine with guest host Nora Young:

• Journalist Ahmed Rashid explores what Afghanistan's new government under the Taliban could mean for the country and the world

• Author Jeff VanderMeer on his climate thriller Hummingbird Salamander

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This week on The Sunday Magazine with guest host Nora Young:

• Political psychologist Paul Nesbitt-Larking explores the psychology driving this federal election campaign

• Rising British singer/songwriter Arlo Parks on her acclaimed debut record Collapsed in Sunbeams

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This week on The Sunday Magazine with guest host Rachel Giese:

• The Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini reflects on the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and how decades of conflict have shaped the country and its people

• Three Women author Lisa Taddeo on female anti-heroes, the utility of rage and her new novel Animal

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This week on The Sunday Magazine with guest host Rachel Giese:

• Toronto Star national columnist Susan Delacourt and Winnipeg Free Press columnist Niigaan Sinclair take Canada's political pulse with an election on the horizon

• Television and media scholar Andrew Burke explores the enduring legacy of the 1970s wildlife television spots "Hinterland Who's Who"

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This week on The Sunday Magazine with guest host Rachel Giese:

• Sarnia, Ont. mayor Mike Bradley and Port Huron, Mich. mayor Pauline Repp on the northward reopening of the Canada-U.S. border to fully vaccinated Americans

• Bioethicist and Western University health sciences assistant professor Maxwell Smith considers what role vaccine mandates could play at this stage of the COVID-19 pandemic

• Musician Beverly Glenn-Copeland reflects on being rediscovered and renowned in his 70s

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Art historian Charmaine Nelson on the power of marking the country’s first official Emancipation Day, and how the legacy of slavery is still felt in Canada today. Fans share their thoughts as Blue Jays return to town for the first time since September 2019. And writer Larry Olmstead talks about the power of sports beyond the stadium.

Haitian-American historian Marlene Daut discusses the county's history, tracing a direct line from the Haitian Revolution of 1804 to today's unrest, and asks who bears responsibility for that unrest.

We also revisit our conversation with journalist James Nestor about the science and history of breathing. He shares some simple ways to improve yours — a subject that's become even more relevant in the age of COVID-19.

Guest host Elamin Abdelmahmoud speaks with science journalist Sarah Everts about what our sweat reveals about us -- our culture, our physiology, our sociology, even the way we love. We also revisit our conversation with novelist Omar El Akkad about his new novel What Strange Paradise, what children can see about the world that adults ignore, and why the current global refugee crisis will only intensify as climate change worsens.

Guest host Elamin Abdelmahmoud speaks with poet and culture critic Hanif Abdurraqib about how the long history of Black performance has shaped him, and what it says about race in America today.  We also revisit our conversation with writer Ashley Audrain about motherhood and her debut novel 'The Push' .