The Sunday Edition from CBC Radio (Highlights)
Summary: CBC Radio's The Sunday Edition is a lively three-hour program of conversation, documentaries and music. Michael Enright, an accomplished journalist and broadcaster, is the host and tackles everything from politics to pop culture, in Canada and around the world.
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Canada's political culture has been resistant to coalition governments.
A biography by Rosemary Sullivan
Abolishing the Senate; Canada's Iraq mission; Their Own Room; Jealousy; Mail; Inuit children discover their heritage.
Listeners react to Michael's essay from last week about the culture of sexual abuse in Canada's military and the RCMP, and our documentary on Margot Bentley,who has advanced Alzheimer's and is being kept alive - despite her wish to die.
Sophie and Faye, two sisters, 7 and 9, share a bedroom. They both want out, and they've launched a campaign to make it happen.
Canada's Defence Minister Jason Kenney says the West's military strategy against ISIS is working. Andrew Bacevich, a retired Colonel in the United States Army, disagrees.
The problems with the Senate have more to do with the people appointed to it than with the institution.
Culture of sex abuse in RCMP and military; Zukerman and Forsyth; Margot Bentley's Right to Die; Guy Vanderhaeghe
Michael's conversation with the award-winning novelist about "Daddy Lenin" - his first collection of short stories in 23 years.
Margot Bentley was a nurse in BC who made her end of life wishes crystal clear and on paper. Now, 17 years into dementia and many court cases later, she is being kept alive - all because she opens her mouth in the presence of a spoon.
Michael talks to Pinchas Zukerman and Amanda Forsyth of the NAC Orchestra about what it's like to work in the same place as your spouse, and about the music they make together.
Listeners sent in their own grammar pet peeves following last week's interview with New Yorker copy editor Mary Norris, author of "Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen".
To the military leadership of the armed forces and the officer corps of the RCMP, sexual abuse, including sexual assault, seems to constitute a public relations problem.
Truth and reconciliation; Confessions of a comma queen; "I refuse to accept being a cancer patient"; Smashing history; Richard Flanagan's "Death Railway"
Manjusha Pawagi is living in the land of cancer, where the word "acceptance" is often bandied about as a healing tool. Manjusha Pawagi is having none of it.
