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Day 6

Day 6

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Summary

Get caught up on the week without ruining your weekend. Host Brent Bambury delivers an energetic mix of must-hear stories carefully chosen to keep you in the loop and keep you guessing. Ready when you are on Saturday mornings. And heads up — there will be a quiz.

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Politics & Government
Episodes
  • 20 years after its last Child Alert in Darfur, UNICEF is sounding the alarm again
    May 1 2026

    How Sudan became the world's forgotten conflict.

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    • The moment Buffalo Sabres fans stepped up to sing the Canadian national anthem
    • More countries look to move off fossil fuels as the Iran war squeezes fuel supplies
    • In his 19th season with the Stratford Festival Tom McCamus brings two iconic characters to the stage
    • Celebrated operatic tenor Russell Thomas reflects on unrequited love as he returns to the COC
    • Riffed from the Headlines, our weekly musical news quiz.
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    54 mins
  • How the Strait of Hormuz shapes everything from the cost of groceries to the availability of airplane tickets
    Apr 24 2026

    How a tiny dot on the map came to have an outsized influence on the world.

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    • The long-awaited Michael Jackson biopic is here. Should you watch it?
    • Pope Francis helped convert a Popemobile into a mobile clinic for Gazan children. A year after his death, it still can't get in
    • Namesake documents a First Nation’s effort to get a B.C. city to address its colonial roots
    • What King Charles can learn from Queen Elizabeth’s visits with 12 U.S. Presidents
    • Riffed from the Headlines, our weekly musical news quiz.
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    54 mins
  • How ‘surveillance pricing’ uses our personal data to charge us more
    Apr 17 2026

    As we buy more and more things online, companies are using personal data to offer different prices to different people with the goal of finding the maximum price you will pay at that moment.


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    • What’s behind the Trump administration’s feud with the Pope?
    • The case for putting Mariah Carey in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
    • Can community ownership decommodify real estate?
    • Canadian actor Sugith Varughese's one-man play about how he came to play a doctor 26 times
    • Remembering the Kroftt brothers’ weird, trippy vision for kids TV
    • Riffed from the Headlines, our weekly musical news quiz.
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    54 mins
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