The Sunday Magazine

If enjoying Enya is wrong, then Grammy-winning Canadian musician Chilly Gonzales doesn’t want to be right. And while his latest book on the Irish artist might mislead people to think he’s a stan, Gonzalez says that’s not why he wrote the book. www.cbc.ca/1.5783448

Piya Chattopadhyay speaks with former U.S. Labour Secretary Robert Reich about how inequality is shaping the upcoming presidential election and the fallout from the COVID-19 crisis. After 40 years of stagnant wages and a widening gap between the rich and the poor, Reich says the U.S. is facing a battle between democracy and oligarchy. www.cbc.ca/1.5783443

This week on The Sunday Magazine with host Piya Chattopadhyay former U.S. Labour Secretary Robert Reich explores the battle between democracy and oligarchy in the 2020 election, shapeshifting musical genius Chilly Gonzales urges people to embrace "unguilty pleasures" without fear, Dr. Michael Ungar of Resilience Research Centre discusses pandemic resiliency, and professor Sally Armour Wotton delves into the power and comfort of storytelling in long-term care homes. www.cbc.ca/1.5783420

In this installment of our recurring segment "Word Processing," The Wall Street Journal language columnist Ben Zimmer explains why North Americans say "fall" while the British say "autumn"... and the surprising histories of the words that might disrupt any notions about the superiority of the Queen's English. For more, visit: www.cbc.ca/1.5735476

Historian Yuval Noah Harari has adapted his international bestseller Sapiens into a graphic novel, complete with superheroes, detectives and nods to reality TV. He joins Piya Chattopadhyay to discuss what it took to adapt the book into comic form, the biggest threats facing humans today and how to counter them and what we are learning about humankind during the pandemic. www.cbc.ca/1.5774412

In dark times, hope can be a life raft. But hope can also set us up to be let down. In this hour, we explore both the benefits and the risks of hope, and how we can all "hope well" in the face of uncertainty and despair. Piya Chattopadhyay's guide is Katie Stockdale, a philosophy assistant professor at the University of Victoria. We also hear from people exploring how the search for hope plays out in their day-to-day lives: in the emergency room, in the climate change movement, in the face of injustice, and beyond. www.cbc.ca/1.5774418

In the wake of news that hundreds of immigrant children are still separated from their parents years after attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border, Maria Hinojosa host of NPR's Latino USA speaks with Chattopadhyay about the long-simmering anti-immigrant sentiment on both sides of the political aisle that's led to this moment, how her own story intersects with that history, and how Latino voters are being engaged in the current U.S. election. www.cbc.ca/1.5774292

This week on The Sunday Magazine with host Piya Chattopadhyay veteran journalist Maria Hinojosa explores the nuances that inform the Latino vote in the U.S. 2020 election, historian Yuval Noah Harari discusses superheroes, detectives and humanity's biggest challenges today, and a look at the power and peril of hope with philosophy professor Katie Stockdale. www.cbc.ca/1.5774281

Back in the '90s, Canadian scientists Ken Otter and Scott Ramsay noticed something odd about the sparrows' song in northern British Columbia... The two-decade research project that followed charts a hit new song's viral spread across the country further and faster than anyone could have imagined. www.cbc.ca/1.5764958

How did ancient Romans know who was running for office? A bright white toga, of course. Douglas Harper of the Online Etymology Dictionary illuminates the history of "candidate" and more election-related words in the latest edition of Word Processing. www.cbc.ca/1.5764940

"To see the audience that night in 1995, and then to see the millions of people watching the parade in 2019 was to see the journey that Canada had taken in those 2.5 decades." Doug Smith has covered the Toronto Raptors for the Toronto Star since the team was founded in 1995. He speaks with Chattopadhyay about his book reflecting on that journey, We the North, how the Canadian expansion team came to be crowned NBA champions and how the Raps have helped shape and reflect contemporary Canada. www.cbc.ca/1.5764932

"If you don't think Donald Trump can get re-elected in November, you need to spend more time on Facebook." New York Times columnist Kevin Roose tracks political content on the world's largest social media platform, and says right wing messaging is still king there. He speaks with Piya Chattopadhyay about why conservative content connects on social, and whether Facebook may be helping deliver Trump another victory.

On this episode, Kevin Roose joins Piya Chattopadhyay to explore why right-wing politics win the day on the social media platform, Doug Smith shares his experience covering the Toronto Raptors beat for 25 years, Douglas Harper illuminates the history of "candidate" and more election-related words, Ken Otter and Scott Ramsay explore what a 'viral' birdsong reveals about animal culture and Minnie Akparook shares her journey to nursing in Nunavik. www.cbc.ca/1.5764900

This season we're introducing you to some of Canada's unsung healthcare heroes, both from today and throughout our history... starting with Minnie Akparook. She was one of the first Inuit nurses working in Nunavik, and has witnessed and experienced six decades of sweeping transformation in northern Canada. She speaks with Piya Chattopadhyay about her extraordinary path, and about what makes nursing in the north so different from nursing in the south. https://www.cbc.ca/1.5764913