The Liberals are potentially on the verge of gaining a majority in the House of Commons that could change how the country is run — and it’s coming down to three by-elections that are happening on April 13. Our Emma Godmere visited one of those ridings, Terrebonne, ahead of Monday's byelection to speak to politicians and voters about what's at stake.

After nearly a year of protests, court fights, and a sprawling online campaign, in November, more than 300 ostriches in the tiny community of Edgewood, B.C. were culled to stop the spread of avian flu. In a new investigation The Fifth Estate looks into the battle between science and conspiracy — and what this saga reveals about the larger political and cultural moment we're in. The Fifth Estate’s co-host Mark Kelley brings us the story of “The Ostrich Con.”

Iran and the U.S. have agreed to a two week ceasefire and Iran has agreed to open up the Strait of Hormuz. After posting “a whole civilization will die tonight,” Donald Trump gave Iran a deadline to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and then a last minute agreement was reached. Gregg Carlstrom, Middle East correspondent for The Economist, joins us from Qatar to talk about the conditions of the ceasefire. And Mehrzad Boroujerdi, Professor of Political Science at Missouri University of Science and Technology, talks about reaction in the Iranian diaspora and the political fallout of the war in the United States.

We’re replaying our conversation with Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen from October. He is one of the four astronauts on the Artemis II mission, currently on a 10-day trip around the moon and back. It’s the first crewed lunar mission in more than 50 years, testing what it really takes for humans and their spacecraft to survive deep space, and setting the stage for the next big leap.

In her book In Fertility: The Story of a Miracle and the Big Business Behind It, Kathryn Blaze Baum, an investigative journalist with the Globe and Mail, is trying to demystify the world of IVF and surrogacy because her experience was not easy.

The idea of public grocery stores is having a moment. Toronto is looking at opening four stores that would sell food at lower prices than the private chains. We’ll talk about how it could work, and why some experts say it’s not the way to solve the cost-of-living crisis.

Fifty years ago, a young Canadian scientist waded into the rainforests of Borneo, Indonesia with a mission in mind. She was there to study orangutans. Little did she know that she would become the world's foremost expert on the great apes, and would spend decades with them. Birute Galdikas became part of a group of well-known women studying our primate cousins -- along with Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey. The anthropologist, primatologist and Simon Fraser University professor died on March 24 at the age of 79. Listen to our conversation with Birute Galdikas in 2021

A growing number of Canadians have given up on the idea of home ownership. Then there are those who bought what they thought was a starter condo, only now they can't unload it with plummeting condo prices. Ontario and the federal government have pledged nearly $9 billion to make building homes cheaper. We’ll talk to Mike Moffat, the Founding Director of the University of Ottawa’s Missing Middle Initiative, and co-host of The Missing Middle Podcast about what it means for the housing crisis.