What drives the lucrative eel industry; mental health on Love Is Blind; Alexandra Petri re-imagines US history; why E. Jean Carroll's civil trial could harm Donald Trump; rebooting Dead Ringers; and more.

Leaked intelligence documents suggest a challenge for Ukraine's air defense; The Day 6 Twitter account's blue check mark says goodbye; how Brownie Wise turned Tupperware into to a business empire powered by women; activist investors question Scotiabank’s outsized investment in a controversial Israeli weapons company; new podcast helps people support the victims of gender-based violence; Mike Sacks remembers legendary MAD Magazine cartoonist Al Jaffee; and more.

How the ideal qualities to be an astronaut have evolved since Apollo; affection and acclaim for the Paddington movie franchise; trans activists call on the Quebec government to stop funding a group pushing anti-trans rhetoric; 70 years of Bond novels; how repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery could change Canadian law; and more.

Combating violence on public transit; Indigenous playwright Cliff Cardinal on why he hates land acknowledgments; MLB introduces new rules to make baseball faster and more action-packed; psychologist says role playing games like D&D can be a powerful tool in therapy; the changing meaning of status; and more.

Meet the Ukranians trying to stop Russia's alleged abduction of Ukrainian children; the legacy of New Order's Blue Monday at 40; Indigenous communities take the lead on clean energy; Canadian brace for the impact of Xylazine in street drugs; how high-priced eye creams compare to regular moisturizers; how Canadian musician Kevin Hearn accidentally helped uncover the biggest art fraud in history; and more.

As AI chatbots proliferate, prompt engineers become AI whisperers; a petition to grant asylum to trans and non-binary Americans is picking up support; reviewing Ted Lasso, season three; how farm consolidation contributes to rising food prices; why an American Rabbi challenged her congregation to speak out about the future of Israel; brother.do.you.love.me; and more

What we learned as grocery CEOs testified about food prices and profits; how Everything Everywhere All At Once turned the metaverse into a metaphor for Asian American experiences; the Canadian lingerie maker building breast cancer screening tools for Black women into her products; investigating Stew Peters, the conspiracy theorist behind #DiedSuddenly; Tony King looks back on his life with British rock royalty from John Lennon to Freddie Mercury; and more.

A digital rights advocacy group says calls to ban TikTok are a distraction from more pressing privacy concerns; ranking the best Heritage Minutes; Scott Adams and the polling company leveraging white racial insecurity; how weapons industry lobbyists are getting rich of the conflict in Ukraine; uncovering the story of Watergate whistleblower Martha Mitchell; Gordon Pinsent reads from Justin Bieber's teenage memoir; and more.

Indigenous groups say they must lead investigations into former residential school sites; that time Jimmy Carter helped contain a nuclear disaster in Chalk River, Ontario; the ever-growing buzz around the breakout Indian blockbuster RRR; can Hogwarts Legacy stand apart from J.K. Rowling?; how one entrepreneur became the go-to source for tracking tech sector layoffs; how Pentecostal Christianity is shaping global politics; and more.

There are more balloons floating over North America than you ever imagined and that's probably just fine; a comedian's advice for outgoing Toronto Mayor John Tory; Canada’s women’s soccer team plays on despite a bitter equity dispute; after a year of brutal fighting, there is still no end in sight for the conflict in Ukraine; Ethiopian-Canadian artist reimagines the Vancouver Canucks' warm-up jerseys for Black History Month; DJ Kid Koala's live multimedia show The Storyville Mosquito; and more