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50 per cent U.S. tariffs are on for all kinds of Canadian products - despite all signs pointing to a deal last week. So what happened? Guest host Susan Ormiston speaks to our national affairs panel to make sense of it all.
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What now for Canada-U.S. trade?
How much will these tariffs hurt Canada?
The 50 per cent U.S. tariffs are going to hit Canada hard. But just how hard? Guest host Susan Ormiston speaks to Flavio Volpe, president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers' Association, and Carlo Dade, the Director of International Policy and the New North America Initiative at the University of Calgary's School of Public Policy, to find out.
Neuralink helps Vancouver man with ALS
Lee Marten can control things with his mind -- yes, really. After the former Vancouver police officer was diagnosed with ALS in 2025, he became one of the first Canadians, and just the 26th person in the world, to receive Elon Musk's Neuralink brain implant. It allows him to control a computer using just his brain. We speak with Lee and his wife, Lisa, about what this technology has meant for their family as his disease progresses.
Why David Sedaris hates the word “husband”
David Sedaris wrote many essays that featured his long-time boyfriend, Hugh. But in his new collection of essays "The Land and Its People,” he reveals the couple has been secretly married for a decade. He speaks with Matt Galloway about why he decided to keep it a secret and why now was the right time to tell the world.
American-Palestinian trapped in West Bank amid Israeli settler siege
We hear from Loui Ridi who travelled from Ohio to the village of Qusra in the West Bank to help his brother and nephew who have been trapped in their home, after Israeli settlers surrounded their house last week. Then political analyst, Dahlia Scheindlin, on what this situation means in the larger context of surging Israeli settler violence towards Palestinians in the West Bank, and where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government stands on the issue.
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