Michael's essay (26 secs); Kids and smartphones (5:31); Essay: Eilmer the Flying Monk (36:24); Doc: Undercurrents (44:43); Sir Tony Brenton (59:05); Catherine MacLellan (1:29:21); Doc: Imaginative housing solutions (1:59:55)

Michael's essay (25 sec); Philosopher Onora O'Neill on trust (4:41); Doc on zero-waste grocery (37:18); Doc on refugees at the Peace Bridge (47:12); Mail: Sexual harassment (1:18:58); Methuselah tree essay (1:25:27); Russian Revolution, Part 2 (1:31:45)

Michael's essay (25 secs); The Weinstein effect (4:14); Essay: "Penny for you love" (39:49); Doc: "Our Bookstore, Our Shelves" (47:33); Listener mail (1:03:09); Mackenzie King's secret life (1:09:52); The Russian Revolution - Part 1 (1:33:52)

Michael's essay: Ruining Halloween (25 secs); Martin Luther (4:18); Listener mail (40:12); Doc: Quebec's private schools (45:48); R.H. Thomson (1:10:54); Doc: Salaam B'y (1:33:23); Listener mail (1:46:58); Re-thinking prison terms (1:52:10)

Michael's essay: carnage on Toronto streets (26 secs); Dennis Lee (4:20); Listener mail (47:19); Gordon Ritchie & Chrystia Freeland on Canada and NAFTA (52:01); Listener mail (1:32:49); New Pro-Life Movement (1:38:56); "Manjusha meets her match"(2:08:48)

Michael's essay: saving NAFTA (26 secs); "Grey tsunami" (4:32); The anti-office (29:29); Sitting the Month (38:37); Franklin Foer on big tech (56:55); Dennis Howlett on tax reform (1:34:06); Listener mail (1:55:40); Best way to load an airplane (1:59:49)

Michael's essay on gun violence (25 secs); Myths about North Korea (5:28); Listener mail on cribbage (31:42); Piano quartet (37:19); Hasidic education (1:12:29); Roger Scruton (1:28:46); Listener mail on Hillary Clinton (1:56:50); Anita Majumdar (2:02:41)

Michael's essay on why Hillary lost (26 secs); The US as "Fantasyland" (5:14); A passion for cribbage (39:38); Advances in neurosurgery (51:00); Choral singing improves hearing (1:17:17); Affordable housing (1:38:50); The lightness of being (2:18:32)

Michael's essay on nicknames (26 secs); NDP leadership race (5:05); Listener mail (35:22); Brian Brett's literary executor (43:02); The Essex Serpent (1:01:54); Corks vs screw-caps (1:24:05); Andrew Weaver (1:38:07); Essay on Alzheimer's disease (2:08:24)

Michael's essay on Hassan Diab (26 sec); Former prison guard (5:46); "Excommunicate me from the church of social justice" (38:42); Tech talk doc (47:36); History of whiteness (1:14:53); Housing series part 1 (1:48:20); Magic school bus doc (2:26:40)