PLUS: How the Montreal Protocol helped avert an environmental crisis; families of Israeli hostages march for urgent action from their government; the scientist who created a mouse ICU to study the link between respiratory infections and dementia in older adults; reviewing Final Fantasy VII Rebirth; the Oscar-nominated documentary The Last Repair Shop affirms the life-changing power of music; and our weekly news quiz, Riffed from the Headlines.
As pro-Palestinian demonstrations sweep across campuses, Canary Mission seeks to blacklist activists
Day 6 presents What On Earth: “Can Earth Day be badass again?”
New doc says teen fashion giant Brandy Melville built its success on exploitation and abuse
A small business owner resists Momofuku's bid to trademark Chili Crunch
41 years after she topped the charts, Bonnie Tyler still loves singing Total Eclipse of the Heart
A series of scandals and a flood of sports betting risks undermining fans faith in the games they love
What if western intervention is the source of Haiti's problems, not the solution?
An economist makes the case for a limit on personal wealth and a world without billionaires
A hacker's advice to cities hit by ransomware attacks
Oscar-nominated documentary chronicles the first days of war in Ukraine and what's at stake two years later
Documentary maker Daniel Roher reflects on the death of his friend, anti-Putin activist Alexei Navalny
Magic mushrooms are illegal in Canada, but shops selling them openly are popping up everywhere
After Russia invaded Ukraine, a legal scholar fought back with light shows projected on Russian embassies
Palestinian-American stand-up comic Sammy Obeid confronts Israel's siege on Gaza with comedy
What the cancelation of a play about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict says about how we talk about the issue
How resources are driving a new race back to moon, plus the best quotes from Mean Girls and why they endure
How newly released court documents linked to Jeffrey Epstein feed the ongoing QAnon conspiracy theory
Day 6, The Musical! Our favourite musical stories of 2023. (Insert jazz hands here.)
Palestinian Christians prepare for a subdued Christmas in Bethlehem and Die Hard is now a Christmas musical
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