Canada Reads 2025: Day Three

The winning Canada Reads panellist and author sit down with Elamin Abdelmahmoud, host of Commotion on CBC Radio, for a victory lap. 

It's the final showdown! Two contenders go head-to-head, and one will be crowned the winner of Canada Reads 2025! 

Four books are still in the running in the great Canadian book debate. Which title will be knocked off the shelf next? 

By ideas, dollars and in personal connections, Republican vice-presidential candidate J.D. Vance is intimately tied to an amorphous ideological movement known as the “New Right.” Some of its major players, which include billionaires and tech elites, want to gut the US’ institutio ... Show More

P.E.I. is getting its first medical school, but critics say staffing it could mean fewer physicians serving the local community. We hear about the plan to invest in young doctors who might make P.E.I. their home — and the impact on an already stretched health-care system. 

Healthcare is a constant concern in America and even more so during the coronavirus pandemic. There's a lot of uncertainty around healthcare right now -- it's a pivotal election year, the fate of the Affordable Care Act is not clear, and now, doctors are speaking out against some ... Show More

First: Tonight in Milwaukee, JD Vance, Donald Trump's VP pick, will introduce himself to both the nation and the world. Vance is expected to focus heavily on his personal story, rising up from a poor family that struggled with addiction in rural Ohio to becoming a graduate of Yal ... Show More

JD Vance emerged as a media darling with “Hillbilly Elegy,” his best-selling 2016 memoir of growing up poor in Ohio, but it's just one of several hats he's worn—Yale-trained lawyer, Silicon Valley venture capitalist, Never Trump pundit, Pro-Trump senator, and Vice President of th ... Show More

The New Yorker staff writers Dexter Filkins and Clare Malone join Tyler Foggatt to examine Donald Trump’s appointments of former congressman Matt Gaetz and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to his Cabinet.Gaetz, who has been nominated for Attorney General, is one of Trump’s most vociferous ... Show More

Les derniers sondages montrent que Kamala Harris et Donald Trump sont au coude-à-coude et surtout quels électeurs ils vont devoir aller chercher pour l'emporter. Cette élection déterminera le futur de l'Amérique et aura aussi des conséquences sur les affaires internationales. Cha ... Show More

The Supreme Court announced that they will be taking up a case next term that will determine the legality of a state's ban on gender-affirming care for minors. The ruling in the case, which originated in Tennessee, could determine whether or not there are constitutional protectio ... Show More

US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s announcement that the Covid-19 vaccine will no longer be recommended for healthy children and pregnant women has sparked concern among many health experts. We hear from one of them who thinks this is just the latest i ... Show More

Dr. Ellen Wiebe has performed hundreds of medical aid in dying (or MAID) procedures and is one of Canada’s most prominent advocates for the practice. David Marchese had questions — medical, legal and philosophical — about when it makes sense for doctors to help people to die, and ... Show More