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Tuesday, April 14, 2020: Norah Jones, Catherine Reitman and more

Today on q: singer-songwriter Norah Jones, stand-up comics Eman El-Husseini and Jess Salomon, singer-songwriter Celeigh Cardinal, Workin' Moms creator and star Catherine Reitman.




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Wednesday, April 15, 2020: Paul Feig, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan and more

Today on q: actor and director Paul Feig, actress Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, chef and television personality Matty Matheson, an oral history of the Beatles' Hey Jude.




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Thursday, April 16, 2020: Saleema Nawaz, Barenaked Ladies and more

Today on q: author Saleema Nawaz, director Richard J. Lewis, Ed Robertson of the Barenaked Ladies, medical illustrator Alissa Eckert.




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The Sunday Edition for April 5, 2020

Listen to this week's episode with host Michael Enright.



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The Sunday Edition for April 12, 2020

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The Sunday Edition for April 19, 2020

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The Sunday Edition for April 26, 2020

Listen to this week's episode with host Michael Enright.



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The Brilliance of the Beaver: Learning from an Anishnaabe World

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.




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The Current for April 1, 2020

Today on The Current: Should you wear a mask?; Teaching kids remotely; Sir Patrick Stewart; Historian Yuval Noah Harari on pandemics past and present



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The Current for April 2, 2020

Today on The Current: Finance Minister Bill Morneau; Conservative leader Andrew Scheer; Prepping rural hospitals for COVID-19; Depopulating prisons during the pandemic, Love and sex in the time of coronavirus; Samin Nosrat on her new home cooking podcast



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The Current for April 3, 2020

Today on The Current: Non-medical frontline workers; Checking in on the pandemic in Italy; COVID-19 and Indigenous communities; China and case counting; Communicating science during a crisis



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The Current for April 6, 2020

Today on The Current: COVID-19 death toll projections; Mark O’Connell on doomsday preppers; Helping kids cope; Paul Salopek’s Out of Eden Walk



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The Current for April 7, 2020

Today on The Current: COVID-19 risk to apes; Romeo Dallaire; Pandemic puts other patients in limbo; Cutting your own hair



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The Current for April 8, 2020

Today on The Current: Your money questions answered; Understanding pandemic data; Moral fatigue; Quarantine Book Club



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The Current for April 9, 2020

Today on The Current: COVID-19 and racial inequality; Brené Brown on vulnerability; Triage decisions; Sharing the sidewalk; Dreams in the time of COVID-19.



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The Current for April 10, 2020

Today on The Current: Faith and COVID-19; Seniors’ perspective on the pandemic; Porch portraits; Vinyl Cafe: Sourdough



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The Current for April 13, 2020

Today on The Current: Quebec care home deaths; Sports withdrawal; Vinyl Cafe; Students providing meals for front-line workers



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The Current for April 14, 2020

Today on The Current: Inside a Toronto hospital; Having a baby during the pandemic; Margaret Atwood; Lessons from Spanish flu



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The Current for April 15, 2020

Today on The Current: Are families of elders in care homes ‘essential workers’?; Balancing pandemic restrictions and civil liberties; Isolation tips for introverts; Grief during the pandemic



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The Current for April 16, 2020

Today on The Current: COVID-19 and staff concerns at elder care facilities; Gender equality in the pandemic; Malcolm Gladwell; Choir! Choir! Choir!



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Full episode: April 4, 2020

This week, Shelagh Rogers speaks with Nancy Lee, Marianne Boucher — and William Gibson again answers our version of the Proust Questionnaire.



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Full episode: April 11, 2020

This week, Shelagh Rogers speaks with Jenny Heijun Wills, Rachel Matlow, Randy Boyagoda and more.



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Extra April 13, 2020

The EU has 'Europeanised' regulations around everything from phone privacy to food safety - and this, the 'Brussels effect' is the source of its real and often under-estimated power.





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Rural news April 11

Backpackers allowed to stay in Australia to work on farms but with restaurants shut and overseas trade stalled work is drying up and fruit is left unpicked





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Cowgirl Riley O'Dell beats the boys to junior bull ride buckle, has Las Vegas rodeo in her sights

Bull riding has always been the cowboy's domain, but young cowgirl Riley O'Dell is bucking the trend and taking home prized buckles in outback Queensland.






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Queensland's road toll calculations 'extraordinarily complicated', police say

Calculating the road toll is "extraordinarily complicated", according to Queensland police as loved ones say the confusion is compounding their grief following a horror few weeks on the state's roads.




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Royal Flying Doctor Service remote landing drill prepares outback community for emergency

When 11-year-old Max Day broke his leg and dislocated his hip coming off a motorbike on a remote station in the far north-west corner of New South Wales, a well-practised network kicked into action.





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John Barilaro could quit as NSW Deputy Premier, run for federal seat

NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro may be on the verge of announcing a switch to federal politics, in an audacious bid that would diminish Labor's parliamentary numbers and put Nationals leader Michael McCormack on notice.



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NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro won't run in Eden-Monaro

NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro has announced he will not run for the federal seat of Eden-Monaro



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Ash Barty's brilliant year continues as the Australian tennis star wins The Don award in Melbourne

The lessons that Ash Barty learned while playing cricket keep paying off for the world tennis number one, who picks up the prestigious The Don award.




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Extinction Rebellion protests strain police resources, but they promise they will be back in April

Climate protesters who brought the streets of Melbourne to a standstill are vowing to make a comeback in autumn as police reveal the cost of overtime for controlling the protests would be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.




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Fire evacuation drill in Victoria prepares entire towns for summer bushfire season

Hundreds of residents from three Victorian towns are told to evacuate from their homes as part of one of the state's biggest-ever fire drills, in preparation for what could be a devastating fire season.




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Local graffiti artists thrilled to have two legal walls to spray paint on

Graffiti artists in Tamworth are now able to legally paint on two walls at the skate park after talks with Tamworth Regional Council deliver 6 month trial.




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COVID-19 pandemic has revealed childcare sector crisis, Weatherill says

The former South Australian Premier said it's now time for states and territories to take control of childcare and treat them more like schools.




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Ride Like a Girl sports a classic underdog tale, but isn't necessarily an instant classic film

Ride Like a Girl's real strength is it never lets anything get in the way of telling the superb true story at its heart.




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'Bugger this for a joke': Constance reveals Barilaro slur played role in by-election U-turn

The NSW Transport Minister says he didn't decide to contest federal politics to be called "that type of smear" by his "mate" John Barilaro as he abandons his bid for pre-selection in the Eden-Monaro by-election.







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Sydney news: Homicide detectives assist in Theo Hayez investigation, Mascot Towers to temporarily reopen

MORNING BRIEFING: The father of missing Belgian backpacker Theo Hayez will front the media today as homicide detectives travel to Byron Bay to assist in the investigation, while some of the residents of Mascot Towers will be permitted to return to their homes to pick up belongings.




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