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A weekly documentary show for people who love narrative podcasts. These are stories you can’t stop thinking about. That you’ll tell your friends about. And that will help you understand what’s going on in Canada, and why. Every week a journalist follows one story, meets the people at its centre, and...
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In a losing battle for care, she requested MAID. Now she's ready to live
At just 46, Jennifer Brady, a Halifax single mother and professor, made the shocking decision to apply to die. She couldn't get surgery in Nova Scotia...
The bear that divided an island
When a grizzly bear swam to Texada Island, 5 kilometres off the mainland of BC, it arrived in a place that was known to have no predators. The bear, w...
It Ends with Me: breaking the pattern of sexual abuse
Starting when she was two years old, Robin Heald endured years of sexual abuse by her stepfather. As a young teenager, she told police, child protect...
The Best of Planners
It’s Friday prayers at the Masjid Al-Noor mosque in St. John's, Newfoundland and the building is packed. Worshippers squeeze into the basement, they s...
The customs brokers caught in Trump’s trade war
When tariffs on goods from China reached 145 percent, a cargo ship carrying tens of thousands of dollars worth of dog toys arrived in Los Angeles but...
War and Peace
When Arthur Arnold resigned from the Moscow Symphony Orchestra in protest of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, he walked away from one of the world's most...
That's a wrap for this season of Storylines
Storylines is taking a break for the summer but we'll be back in the fall with a brand new season of audio documentaries.
Until t...
A Case of Beer ... and Borders
It’s a little money saving trick Canadians who live near a provincial border know well. They drive to another province to save a bit because products...
Firefighting Goats
In West Sacramento, California, an unlikely team of firefighters is helping save homes from wildfire. They have four legs, love to eat, and bleat when...
The three strangers who rescued refugees trapped in Indonesia
In 2014, Shams Erfan was pulled off a bus by members of the Taliban who accused him of being a traitor. A bystander intervened, saving his life, but S...
The women who fell in love with Catholic priests
For decades, Maria Grazia Filipucci carried on a secret love affair with a Catholic priest. They met as children and became friends, but when he turne...
B.C.'s Sunshine Coast nearly ran out of water. Experts say other Canadian communities could be next
On B.C.'s Sunshine Coast, climate change is changing the region in surprising ways, especially considering it’s nestled in a rainforest.
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In a small Alaskan town, the Canada-U.S. fight feels personal
When a Whitehorse resident wrote a letter to the mayor of a little Alaska border town to say she's boycotting the US and that she's "breaking up with...
Year Zero: Remembering the Khmer Rouge's deadly political experiment
In the countryside across Cambodia, mass graves known as the killing fields, haunt the landscape. They are reminders of the reign of Pol Pot, one of t...
An Innu community's fight against a new cocaine crisis
In the small Innu community of Sheshatshiu, Labrador, 27 people have died from drug-related causes in just two years — a staggering number for a popul...
The longshot candidates who run against the odds
As election signs crowd our streets, leaders hold rallies and our airwaves are full of political advertising, we seldom consider the candidates who ru...
A controversial psychedelic drug some say offers freedom from addiction
Some people struggling with opioid addiction are turning to a powerful psychedelic called ibogaine. The drug is derived from the bark of an African ra...
Surrey’s Peacock Standoff
In Surrey, B.C., a bird renowned for its beauty became the centre of an ugly dispute. In the quiet Sullivan Hights neighbourhood, a group of peafowl d...
The Vienna violinist who changed Chinese classical music
A black-and-white photograph shows 11 young Chinese boys in untucked shirts standing in a row, with a middle-aged Western man in a suit smiling behind...
Practically Mexico Now
In central Mississippi the poultry industry dominates, with massive processing facilities operating around the clock. Employing tens of thousands of w...
A Case of Beer …. and Borders
It’s a little money saving trick Canadians who live near a provincial border know well. They drive to another province to save a bit because products...
Missing in Action: the decades-long effort to get stunt workers their Oscar due
Over the past near-century, Academy Award categories have come and gone. In the silent film era there was an award for Best Title Writing. You know, t...
The irreplaceable Chinook salmon of the Yukon River
The Chinook salmon of the Yukon River are on the brink of extinction. This cultural keystone species has the longest salmon migration in the world, u...
52 Hours Lost at Sea
In July 2024, seven fishermen from around New-Wes-Valley, Newfoundland set out on their fishing boat in search of turbot.
While...
Talking to Undocumented Canadians
The stories of undocumented people living in the United States are well known, especially since President Donald Trump began a major immigration crack...
Inside the extortion rackets targeting South Asian Canadians
Early one August morning, the cameras outside Jas Arora's house in Abbotsford, B.C., recorded someone throwing glass bottles at his home. When Jas ste...
The dangers of rogue waves
A rogue wave is defined as being at least 2.2 times as high as the average waves which have come before. They are described as coming out of nowhere a...
A mom’s mission to stop her daughter’s drug dealer
In Vancouver's Lower Mainland, a dealer known only as "Jay" sold drugs to teens, making drop-offs right next to their high schools and homes, offering...
Can solar geoengineering fix the climate?
In an empty parking lot somewhere in northern California, Andrew Song and Luke Iseman inflate a balloon the size of a small car, full of sulfur dioxid...
Hockey for All
Despite being our national sport, and that most Canadians agree it should be for everyone, hockey remains surprisingly exclusive, especially when it c...
A Woman of No Consequence
Sethu Ramaswamy grew up in a cultured Indian family and it rubbed off on her. She loved books and ideas. By the age of 10 Sethu had read all of Charle...
One Word
Every day, in Hamburg, Germany, Annette Venebrügge wakes up to a single word emailed from her friend Tina Oehmsen-Clark in Toronto. And every evening,...
How forced drug treatment works in Washington state and what Canada could learn from it
In Washington state, a law known as Ricky’s Law, allows authorities to force people with addiction into treatment. The law is named after Ricky Garcia...
The Fake Baby
They needed certainty. They got chaos. For over a decade, countless people from at least five different countries put their trust in a company offerin...
Land of Promise
On this week’s show, an investigation into land, money and power that has gripped the Piapot First Nation in Saskatchewan. For decades, a small group...
The story of Vince Carter
This week on Storylines, the story of Vince Carter, the Toronto Raptors legend who transformed basketball in Canada. From the high of “Vinsanity” to t...
What can a widow be?
For 28 days after her husband’s death, poet Molly Peacock woke up and cried. It was, in her words, a “full moon cycle" of tears.
Then, on the 29...
Hear the soldiers of WW1 speak
This week on Storylines, the voices of Canadian World War One soldiers, sharing their stories of the front lines. You’ll hear these veterans talk abou...
Inside the brain school
In 2013, American psychologist James Hardt made a promise to Indigenous kids in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. He said his brainwave training would tran...
Sitting down with a January 6 protester
On this week's Storylines, we start on January 6, 2021, when the U.S. Capitol was overrun by rioters
A few blocks away, as the dramatic scenes u...