Plus: We reach Michael Jarman…winner of the 2024 Microsoft Excel World Championship -- a huge achievement that comes with an even huger belt.  Also: NDP leader Jagmeet Singh on why he thinks elements of the proposed GST holiday should become permanent ..read more

Plus: We speak to Nathalie Provost, survivor of the mass shooting at Montreal's École Polytechnique, 35 years after the day that changed her life.  Also: We remember Mary McGee -- who shattered gender barriers by becoming the first American woman to race motorcycles. Haley Watson, who directed the ESPN documentary ‘Motorcycle Mary’, tells us she was a force of nature both on and off the track ..read more

Nil Köksal talks to the acclaimed director and the NBC News correspondent about their documentary ‘Separated’.  It chronicles the Trump administration’s migrant family separation policy ..read more

Plus: A retired German Shepherd named Bear springs into action to help rescue an injured man who was hurt and lost in the woods.  Also: New York Times reporter Corey Kilgannon on the epic manhunt underway in Manhattan ..read more

Plus: King Charles samples kava on his trip to Samoa, sparking hopes the South Pacific intoxicant could one day be legalized.  Also: A protester in Seoul describes the energy in the crowd as they call for the resignation of South Korea's president for declaring martial law ..read more

Plus: An Iowa man who melted hearts with his effort to create new Christmas memories of his wife of 53 years.  Also: Rising sea levels on the island of Carriacou have turned a inland cemetery into a shoreline graveyard. Now, Grenada is making its case before the International Court of Justice, demanding for accountability on the climate crisis.  ..read more

Plus: Belgian sex worker Mel Meliciousss on the country’s landmark decision granting health insurance, parental leave and sick pay.  Also: Why “brain rot” is the Oxford University Press Word of the Year ..read more

Plus: A British penguin called ‘Flop’ regains her footing, thanks to the use of an improvised baby bouncer and some help from a Canadian zoo.  Also: Two Irish librarians cook their way through hundreds of years of occasionally-questionable recipes; A Canadian man travelling with medical-use cannabis products is sentenced to life in prison in Dubai; and teenage journalist Leo Puglisi questions Australia’s new social media ban ..read more

Plus: Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Yes! A “Turkey Bomber” tells us about her Thanksgiving tradition of airdropping frozen birds to rural Alaskans.  Also: A new study suggests that a single injection could revolutionize care for asthma and COPD sufferers; and a Newfoundland woman celebrates the Senate’s passage of an intimate partner violence bill bearing her name ..read more

Plus: A 12 year old takes on her Colorado school district, lobbying for the return of a pandemic casualty: snow days.  Also: A doctor tells us how he ended up starting a program to refurbish pacemakers. And why reusing those devices could improve the lives of people who can't afford them otherwise ..read more