Most Canadians are secure knowing that they benefit from universal health care. All you have to do is walk into a clinic or hospital and you will be treated. For an estimated 500,000 people who live and work among us, it’s a different reality.

Susie Goulding knows what it's like to have long COVID. She's been dealing with symptoms since March 2020 and has been pushing governments to better recognize long COVID.

As a little girl, Jennifer Fotheringham was shushed for asking about cancer. As a grown woman, she was dismissed for asking about a mammogram. Now as a cancer survivor, she knows not to be silenced.

Iain White’s mother says her son and other dietary aides are unsung health-care heroes of the pandemic because they plate, prep and serve food to residents while offering connection and companionship.

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On his 45th wedding anniversary, Ramesh Karnick was at home with his wife when he appeared to lose consciousness; he died a few weeks later. His daughter and CBC host, Sonali Karnick, has spent years trying to answer the question: how did her father die?

Author and activist Morningstar Mercredi is calling for an end to forced and coerced sterilization, in the hopes that women — especially First Nations, Inuit and Métis women — will never suffer the physical and mental trauma it inflicted upon her.

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To mark the centenary of the birth of Primo Levi, the British writers join Eleanor Wachtel to reflect on the late Italian author's exceptional writing about the Holocaust, science and humanity.

The American author of Pew spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about writing a novel that examines faith, forgiveness and identity politics.

The British novelist spoke with Eleanor Wachtel in 2022 about his book, The Great Passion, a fictional imagining of J.S. Bach as an ambitious, passionate musician and father.

The South Asian author and winner of the 2017 Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival's Grand Prix spoke with Eleanor Wachtel on stage at the festival in Montreal.

The British Jamaican author of poetry collection The Perseverance met with Eleanor Wachtel back in 2019 to discuss race, identity and his experience growing up deaf.

Alice Munro died on May 13, 2024 at the age of 92. To commemorate her stunning legacy, Writers & Company looks back at a memorable conversation between Eleanor Wachtel and Munro back in 2004.

Eleanor Wachtel spoke with Kay in 2007, following the publication of her short story collection Wish I Was Here.

The German writer spoke with Eleanor Wachtel, who chaired the International Booker Prize jury, in 2015.

The academic and author spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about his provocative new novel, Immigrant, Montana.

Listen to O'Brien's conversation from 2009 with Eleanor Wachtel. O'Brien died on July 27, 2024 at the age of 93.

The American novelist spoke to Eleanor Wachtel in 2018 about her book New People.

Eleanor Wachtel spoke with the Scottish author about her novels, Autumn and Winter, in 2018.

Dancing really is all about the bass and is it too late for fusion?

A history of COVID-19 and the neuroscience of religion.

Saving sharks with electricity and cougars and grizzlies return to Manitoba

Constipated scorpions, nature and nurture and why we try to cool fevers.

Climate change and insects, and designing Canada’s lunar rover

Farming fish lose their fertilizer and inoculation against misinformation.

Polar pre-primate, Black in science update and domestication and taming.

Plus: Neanderthal hunt giant elephants; rubble pile asteroid threat and how particle physics helped us understand what was the matter.

Orca sons inhibit mom’s future offspring and more detail on how the first people got to the Americas

A sandwich inspired water filter and 19 ways of looking at consciousness.

Recycled water purity and fears of a fungal future.

Songbirds swarm their predators and seals appreciate a good rhythm

"The Einstein Show" marked 100 years since his publication of four papers that changed the laws of physics

For many of us, summer is the time for things like beaches, bike rides, and BBQs. For some scientists, however, summertime is also when they are at their busiest, travelling to remote locations to get up close and personal with nature.

Millions of people are on the move today, in the biggest forced displacement since the Second World War. And unlike in decades past, new technologies are changing the narratives of their movement — both by reinforcing and extending borders, and acting as a lifeline for those trying to cross them. 

Nearly every powered device we use these days depends on microchips, from cars to electric guitars. A look at the origin of the integrated circuit, its rapid development, and the way this technology has changed the world's geopolitical and economic landscape.

The pandemic has driven consumers online for everything from groceries to outdoor heaters. But e-commerce experts caution that online sellers are netting not just revenue, but a treasure trove of personal data, too.

From the Whole Earth Catalogue to Facebook drag queens: a short history of online counterculture.

Mai Ishikawa Sutton and Alicia Urquidi Díaz discuss the vision behind the movement known as DWeb, and how the decentralized web combines the community aspect of the '90s online experience with today's equity and accessibility principles.

Routine online activities like sharing photos to social media, uploading files to shared drives, or streaming TV shows produce a lot of digital data. And as that data production soars, so does the energy demand for storing and processing it. 

On today's social media platforms, people speak in code to elude algorithmic censors, an example of how improvisation reshapes language.

Today on Q with Tom Power: iconic musician Neil Young and actor Da'Vine Joy Randolph

Today on Q with Tom Power: cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and writer Monica Heisey

Today on Q with Tom Power: lead singer Hayley Williams and actor Emma Mackey

Today on Q with Tom Power: actor Jay Ellis and make-up artist Adrien Morot

Today on Q with Tom Power: saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin and author Lindsay Wong

Today on Q with Tom Power: musician David Harrington and actor Rakhee Morzaria

Today on Q with Tom Power: comedian Ali Hassan and musician SYML