We explore the early moments in Western culture that hinted at our internet future.

Today on q: Studio K's Gary the Unicorn and puppeteer Jason Hopley, author and mindfulness instructor Tamara Levitt, filmmaker Mostafa Keshvari, actor Nicholas Braun.

Quebec bonspiel organizers and concerns about future of curling, Kelowna B.C. memorializing homeless and Ashleigh McIvor on her 2010 gold medal memories

Quebec couple talk about falling in love when they speak different languages, Me of the deeps perform at Cape Breton high school basketball tourney and renewed campaign to make motorists stop for school buses after death of five year old twenty years ago.

Extreme challenges for young people on economically depressed Cape Breton and veteran journalist Sheila MacVicar on her career and on stuggles with PTSD.

Jewel beetles iridescent camouflage, better talk on climate change and flying west

Does cloud seeding work, and listening to the sounds of the Arctic Ocean

Sports teams can’t always count on winning games. That means marketing becomes the other player on the roster. A lesson the Toronto Raptors took straight to the bank.

Some provinces will begin reopening their economies next week, a move one public health expert described as a delicate experiment — because so little is known about how many people are immune, or how long any immunity to the COVID-19 virus might last.

Bina Venkataraman, author of The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age, studies the art of looking ahead for solutions during dangerous times. It's a skill she honed while working on the Ebola Task Force for former U.S. president Barack Obama.

Monsignor John Armitage talks about Christians in England rededicating their country to Mary; and whenever Talia Lavin sees U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, she sees a zaydie, the Yiddish word for grandfather.

The award-winning British author spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about amplifying the voices of marginalized people through literature.

A personal support worker (PSW), who has worked for a decade in long-term care homes, told White Coat, Black Art the COVID-19 pandemic is a crisis on top of an already existing crisis for PSWs.

Renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar and artist, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson talks about the philosophy and ethics that undergird Anishnaabe worlds in her 2020 Kreisel Lecture entitled, A Short History of the Blockade: Giant Beavers, Diplomacy and Regeneration in Nishnaabewin.

We’re dazzled, and sometimes frazzled, by our encounters with contemporary art. Marc Mayer, former director of the National Gallery of Canada, draws back the curtain to show what’s behind the art that can be so fascinating and yet so confusing.

Seventeen years before the COVID-19 pandemic was declared, another mysterious, virulent respiratory illness suddenly appeared — SARS. On the Enright Files, conversations with public health experts from those unnerving times, as they were assessing what we learned from the SARS and Ebola outbreaks.

(ABM FN-Dow Jones) Tesla mag zijn fabriek in Californi nog niet openen, ondanks dat coronamaatregelen in de Amerikaanse staat iets worden versoepeld. Dit werd vrijdagavond laat bekend.

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Playful, dizzying, cloud-busting and, perhaps more so than ever before, serious.

A fourth album of successful progression from metallers with grander designs than most.

While some parents are sharing picture-perfect posts about their home-schooling skills, others are pulling their hair out as they try to work and get their kids through this sudden introduction to remote learning. What lessons can we take from this crazy situation?

Unusual supergroup delivers a set that’s more sketches than songs proper.

A diplomatic spat between Australia and China appears to be escalating, with accusations of unprofessional conduct and petty games.

The New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will join the Australian National Cabinet Meeting via video link tomorrow to talk about the way through the COVID-19 pandemic.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has announced kinder students, and those in years Prep, One, 11 and 12 will go back to school from May 11.

According to a new model of measuring burnout symptoms, our personality types, along with our at-home juggle, may be impacting our achievement levels.

South Korea has this week further relaxed their social distancing rules, allowing a phased reopening of businesses as the nation has largely managed to get on top of the coronavirus outbreak.

Parliament is set to pass legislation introducing tough penalties for people or agencies who access data from the COVIDSafe app in violation of its stated purpose.

Folk collective reaps quirky rewards from genre-crossing.

A lovely piece of programming, tenderly performed.

The first step on what seems to be a joyous journey for the Norwegian pianist.

The pair exhibits a refined style on these illuminating performances.

This sensitive, dynamic recording is a joy, and may even constitute a revelation.

Weighing up Turnbull’s legacy This week, former Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull published his memoir A Bigger Picture.  In it he settles old scores with colleagues over his 2018 ousting, which he describes as an “act of madness.” What is his legacy, and how will history judge our nation’s twenty ninth Prime Minister? Jacqueline Maley, columnist at The Sydney Morning Herald. Jennifer Oriel, columnist at The Australian   And, the death of a führer April 30th marks seventy-five years since Hitler’s suicide. Cambridge historian Brendan Simms challenges past scholarship on the führer, and argues that Hitler saw Anglo-American global capitalism, not Bolshevism – as Germany’s real enemy. He says this philosophical link reveals worrying connections between Hitler and the rise of populism today. Brendan Simms, Professor in the History of International Relations at Cambridge University, and author of Hitler: Only the World was Enough.  

Winton shines in the new television series, Total Control, starring Deborah Mailman and Rachel Griffiths.

Good government groups are pressing Gov. Asa Hutchinson to act now to encourage absentee voting in the November election.

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Hampton describes himself as "birthed within the state-of-mind forged by Native Americans, Civil War battles, blues and folk music, diamonds and nine students that corner-stoned the spirit of the civil rights movement."

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Another writer has questions about how Asa Hutchinson and four other governors declared victory in their policies of coping with coronavirus.

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Coronavirus today:

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South West farmers accuse Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce of knocking back Wellington Dam desalination funding in favour of cash splashes in the east.

A holiday house in the middle of a beautiful forest may sound wonderful, but what if your favourite isolated retreat became a bushfire death trap?