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.

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.

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

Plane stranded on Shabbat in Halifax and community comes to the rescue, Alberta man has talent calming babies in distress/fosters 88 babies over time, Winnipeg theatre company workshop for aspiring drag queens and St. John police officer deals with a rogue seal

Archery business still thriving after over fifty years, Montreal woman quits law practice to spearfish full time and Ottawa baker dishes on qualities of real sourdough.

Skiing with your dog, how the albatross is helping detect illegal activity on the high seas and a video of opening a bale of hay goes viral.

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

Winnipeg woman celebrates her fortieth birthday with forty acts of kindness,Shane Koyczan at 2010 Olympics,details on bison re-introduction program and Periodic Table of Black Cdn History in Ottawa

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.

Winnipeg neighbourhood with no grocery stores has shuttle to take residents to shop, Ste-Hyacinthe family finds grasshopper in salad mix and Nova Scotia photographers capture Atlantic salmon spawning.

Edmonton father and son describes how son is recovering from vicious random attack, Grade three car lover goes to Auto Show, Sudbury teen pursues acting career and overcomes bullying and Orleans Ontario teen wins 100K Loran prize.

Thunder Bay psychologist and the healing power of forest therapy walks, Torbay Nfld boy gets bravery award for saving a classmate's life, London Ontario cabbie of twenty years talks about what he enjoys and what irks him and remembering 97 year old Sara Sexton of Newfoundland who died last month.

Kamloops family three generations in rock blasting business, man with stage four melanoma does fund raising run across Lake Winnipeg and Ontario Mobile Crisis Response team might lose funding.

St. John's history of pandemics, Calgary kids paint self portraits on utility box near school and Montreal conversation with family whose father/husband works in south Korea.

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

Winnipeg musicial about the Filipino community has Broadway ambitions, St. John's beloved bottle collector loses then finds his custom cart and Winnipeg woman who had heart transplant talks about importance of self isolation

Quebec City store gives away leftover perishables, Lakehead University program helps teachers understand indigenous tradition of wild rice harvest and Bob Keating from CBC Nelson drops by seniors home with some groceries

Toronto area grocery store and COVID-19 seniors shopping, journalism student interviews her cows and Sudbury food bank donation of almost nine thousand cans of food displayed to win world record.

Is water at the foot of Niagara Falls warmer than at the top? Are bioplastics better for the environment? Why are dinosaurs so big? And more

Fossils show ancient parenting, first evidence of cooked vegetables, and why so much poop?

Rattlesnake skin holds raindrops for drinking, science of imagination and quiet snow

Scurvy in modern Canada, snake venom sans snakes and hot food tolerance

An AI knows how you dance and Canada’s newest and youngest astronaut

Splicing damaged nerves, getting astronauts to Mars healthy and sane and smoke on glaciers

Fisheries science with indigenous perspective, slippery surface and seasons on other planets

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

Was the Earth once a waterworld, the fight to be the first female astronaut and composting garbage

Squatting a better way to be sedentary, SmartICE supports northern life

Firing a cannonball at an asteroid and a fossil ‘wonderchicken’

NASA's space salad and Escobar's hippos are restoring an ecosystem

COVID threatens mountain gorillas and these boots were made for running

Birds watch out for rhinos, toads outbreed in hard times, and sports in mesoamerica 3400 years ago.

Sometimes, small brands manage to outsmart their giant counterparts. And this tiny soda brand has done it for over a century. Goliath, meet David.

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 rock 'n' roll groups will go to great heights for an eye-catching record jacket.

Before coming up with the dangling dollar bill, the grunge band had a few other ideas.

The Emmy Award-winning television series Breaking Bad put Albuquerque on the map. But for less-than-desirable reasons.

It may have been the 1700s, but the early days of the classified ads were surprisingly relatable.

Companies often change valuable brand names when expanding to other countries. Sometimes the reason is a language issue. But other times, the reasons are far more interesting.

The world of business is all about growth. To stimulate growth, companies have to win new customers by taking a chance and thinking outside the box. Or the bucket.

The word “airport” is also code for the word “brand.” Believe it or not, airports compete heavily for airlines, passengers and retail sales. As a result, airports have redesigned themselves to become highly competitive brands.

There was a time when the only weddings we saw were the ones we attended. But in today’s social media world, we see thousands of weddings, from every imaginable angle.

From big beer and tobacco companies, to the war effort, to Hollywood, to the smallest mom and pop businesses, matchbook advertising was effective and affordable for everyone. And believe it or not, even the U.S. State Department used matchbook advertising recently to hunt down Osama bin Laden.

ASMR, or Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, is a new phenomenon being embraced by brands everywhere, in an attempt to tingle your senses and open your wallet.

Over 90 per cent of us read online reviews before purchasing a product these days. And those ratings can make or break a company or product.

The famous repeating Meow Mix jingle is one of the most memorable jingles of all time. A fact the CIA uses to their advantage.

The unexpected history of Harlequin romance novels involves a Hudson's Bay fur trader and the Toronto Star.

This week on The House, Liberal House Leader Pablo Rodriguez and the NDP's Rachel Blaney recap the throne speech and talk about the path forward in this minority. Two women who were at Polytechnique on that fateful date in 1989 talk to Chris Hall about gender-based violence and gun control. Finally, we bid farewell to New Zealand's high commissioner in his favourite place in Ottawa.

This week on The House, two Conservatives join us to talk about what's next for the party now that Andrew Scheer has resigned. Bloc MP Stephane Bergeron lays out his party's demands to work co-operatively with the Liberals. Finally, the parents of a soldier who died in Afghanistan talk about media reports saying that the war was a failure.