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The Sunday Magazine

The Sunday Magazine

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CBC Radio’s The Sunday Magazine is a lively, wide-ranging mix of topical long-form conversations, engaging ideas and more. Each week, host Piya Chattopadhyay takes time for deep exploration, but also makes space for surprise, delight and fun.

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Episodes
  • Enduring wars, GPS evolution, Online harms, Agent Orange's Canadian legacy
    Jun 14 2026
    • Host Piya Chattopadhyay speaks with The Economist's Middle East correspondent Gregg Carlstrom about the latest in the United States and Israel-Iran war. Then, journalist and historian Linda Kinstler explores why this war and other enduring conflicts have become so difficult to end.


    • Journalist Katherine Dunn traces the evolution of GPS, why it's under threat today, and what lessons its adoption might hold as we face a future infused with AI.


    • Psychiatrist Dr. Shimi Kang and McGill University child development and technology expert Sara Grimes assess Ottawa's long-awaited online harms bill, and whether big tech will just scroll on by Canada’s threats.


    • Andrea Hoang looks back on the history of the United States military's testing of Agent Orange and other chemicals at Canadian Forces Base Gagetown, and how this legacy still touches lives today.
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    1 hr and 35 mins
  • Has sports betting hijacked the beautiful game?
    Jun 10 2026

    The FIFA World Cup kicks off in North America this week. And whatever happens on the field, Darragh McGee says you can bet this tournament will shatter records as the biggest gambling event in history. The author, sociologist and former University of Toronto soccer team captain joins Piya Chattopadhyay to lay out why he believes legal online betting is "hijacking" sports, and why he thinks there's still time to save the beautiful game.

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    24 mins
  • Canada's AI strategy, How tech has shaped the face, Sports betting, That’s Puzzling!
    Jun 7 2026
    • Host Piya Chattopadhyay speaks with University of Ottawa's Michael Geist, tech critic and journalist Paris Marx and Benjamin Bergen from the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association about whether Canada's new artificial intelligence strategy hits the mark.


    • Fay Bound-Alberti, a historian and founder of King’s College London's Centre for Technology and the Body, explains how technology has long shaped our relationship with our face.


    • Author, sociologist and former University of Toronto soccer team captain, Darragh McGee, lays out why he believes legal online betting is "hijacking" sports.


    • Our monthly challenge That’s Puzzling! returns with Chris Glover, the new host of CBC Toronto's morning radio show Metro Morning, and Denman Island, B.C. listener Nairn Stewart.
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    1 hr and 34 mins
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