All in a Day

As part of a series of interviews with local artists who received commissions to make art for the new LRT stations, All in a Day talks to Don Maynard, whose steel birch trees will be installed at Cyrville Station.

The Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa has appointed its first-ever elder-in-residence. Claudette Commanda explains what she hopes the role will do for the department, and for indigenous reconciliation.

Jaz Dhami, British-born Punjabi singer, is famous for straddling the worlds of Bollywood music and folkhop songs. He chatted before his show at the South Asian Music Festival.

Crews continue to extract bodies from parts of Freetown that are buried in mud. Alan Neal finds out how some members of the local Sierra Leone community are trying to lend a hand from here.

Amal El-Mohtar has just walked away with a Hugo Award for a short story -- a major science fiction literary prize. She talks about the win, fresh from the awards ceremony.

Amy Yee and Amy Zhou started the Chinese Canadian Collective to stare down stereotypes and explore what it means to be Chinese-Canadian in the Capital. They dropped by the studio after their first meeting.

Some big names in Canadian medicine are calling on the government to legally compel pharmaceutical companies to disclose their payments to doctors. Dr. Chris Simpson explains why.

The federal justice minister is considering lowering the criminal limit for how much alcohol in the bloodstream while driving. Alistair gets the latest data on alcohol impaired driving from the CEO of the Traffic Injury Research Foundation.

Ottawa researchers have discovered that a particular protein, Cardiotrophin 1, can trick the heart into behaving as if it was receiving regular exercise. And that could lead to healing from heart failure.

Sean Wilson and Ann Archer share their picks for summer reading.

The second Ottawa Salsa Convention begins this evening. Two dancers from Russia and Nigeria tell us about their different approaches to salsa.

Summer film columnists Di Golding and Vlad Jean-Gilles discuss the controversy over Netflix getting into the feature film business.

It could turn out to be a good year for Monarch butterflies, compared to the past few years of decline. Ottawa biologist Jeremy Kerr explains why.

Artists Marc Adornato and Kristina Watt share their perspectives on the monster spectacular La Machine.

The United States' banning of trans people from the military has grabbed headlines, but what struggles do these people face in other job fields too? A professor studying the issue weighs in.