Souvankham Thammavongsa on How to Prounounce Knife, Bahamas on David Goggins' Cant Hurt Me and Ben Philippe on Charming as a Verb, and more.

If these days you answer the question "How are you?" with an emphatic "Not great!", Scaachi Koul hosts just the podcast for you. Scaachi is a culture writer for BuzzFeed and author of the essay collection One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter. She hosts the aptly titled Not Great With Scaachi Koul, a podcast covering politics, culture and society through interviews and comedy. She also happens to be a good pal of of our host Elamin. She recently joined Elamin from her home in New York City to introduce us to her favourite podcasts. These two had such a good chat we couldn't put it all into one show. Part 2 of Scaachi's favourites will be online and on your radio next week! This week we're featuring: Not Great with Scaachi Koul, Swindled, This Matters and Reply All. For more podcast recommendations, check out: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastplaylist

This is the story of how Geoffrey Pyke, a Jewish inventor from the U.K. came up with one of the most mind-boggling plans to win the war. Namely: to build a ship made out of ice. Code name: Habakkuk. Then, what happened when Canada tried to build a test vessel in secrecy, using the labour of conscientious objectors. With special guest, Erin Brandenburg

Fourteen year-old Tai Poole returns with Season 3 of Tai Asks Why to ask: What’s happening in my teen brain? How is the Universe going to end? Why do humans dance? And how much screen time is too much? Join Tai as he boldly goes where no 9th-grader has gone before to find you answers you never knew you needed. His conversations with everyone from NASA experts, to physicists and dancers, to his little brother Kien will expand your mind, no matter how old you are! More episodes are available at http://hyperurl.co/taiaskswhy

Why some health-care workers might refuse or are hesitant to get the vaccine and how we can change that.

New confirmed COVID-19 cases have dipped in Canada this week, but ICUs are still under pressure. We talk to Adalsteinn Brown, one of Ontario's top COVID-19 advisors, about where we're at in the pandemic. And Globe and Mail health columnist André Picard discusses the interruption to shipments of the Pfizer vaccine.

Payette Resigns, Derek Sloan, Saskatoon Chef Lost Smell, New Blue, Baghdad Blast, Inauguration: Democrats and more.

Infectious disease specialist and virologist Dr. Samira Mubareka says the presence of seemingly more infectious coronavirus variants in Canada is a public health emergency and existing public health rules around social distancing, masks, and hygiene may have to be tightened.

This week on The Sunday Magazine with Piya Chattopadhyay: • Joe Biden's monumental task to 'build back better' • The lost science and art of breathing rediscovered • How the 1918 Flu Pandemic gave rise to radiator rage • Postcards from frontline healthcare workers

We regret to inform you that today marks our final episode of the season. So we thought we’d do something a little different. This week, Sidney and Terry sit down to chat about the lessons and the stories from Season One AND answer some of your questions. Like - what are the key differences between the rejections of actors and musicians? Why are so many projects rejected 40 times specifically? And what’s with the robot at the end of each episode? Thanks for tuning in. We’ll see you in April for Season Two.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

How the mRNA technology that drives COVID-19 vaccines could revolutionize medicine, Atlantic City's plan to blow up the Trump Plaza and Hotel, how the Seven Mountain Mandate connects conservative Christians to Trump, crokicurl is Canada's newest winter sport, History of Swear Words is here for 2021 and more.

Long winter nights are perfect for looking up at the stars, and that’s exactly what we’re doing on Unreserved this week. From Indigenous astronomy to the first Indigenous astronaut, find out how Indigenous people are reframing the way we look at the sky.

Season 2, we’re back, rested and here to talk about the big event south of the border and Canada’s links to the event.

Jean Yoon, Alice Moran and Miguel Rivas get quizzed by Gavin Crawford in this round that was cut for time.

With the stroke of a pen Joe Biden cancelled the Keystone XL pipeline, and now calls are growing for a 'just transition' — a shift from fossil fuels to a low carbon economy that doesn’t leave workers behind. We look at the barriers and how it could work.

Stuart tells a story about a forgotten game of hockey that many in Dave’s hometown of Big Narrows, Cape Breton would consider to be the greatest game of hockey every played.

We've come to that point in isolation where naturally everyone starts learning Sea Shanties. Did they have this same problem after the Spanish Flu?

The World this Weekend for 2021/01/17 at 22:00 EDT