All in a Day

It's been 40 years since Nick Lowe released the album "Jesus Of Cool". But Lowe has become known for much more than that over his career, a career that is still going. We talk to the nearly 70-year-old Nick Lowe in this episode.

The independence day party is well underway for our neighbours across the border. An American and a Canadian share two 4th of July recipes with us.

From nursing to policing. Call it an uncommon career change, but one new recruit with the Ottawa Police Service did just that. She joins us with an explanation of that big career jump.

Arkells take the stage for the noon and nighttime show on Canada Day. Max Kerman talks about the ten-year journey of the Hamilton band to where they are today.

What does a group portrait of Canada look like? For novelist and artist Doug Coupland, it's a collection of one thousand 3D printed sculptures of Canadians who live across the country. He tells us more about that project before it is unveiled at the Ottawa Art Gallery.

What happens when cyclists don't work well together? Our own cycling expert, Giacomo Panico, brings us into the scandalous world of shoaling.

At one point in Tim Wynne-Jones' new mystery, The Ruinous Sweep, the main character of Bee is reflecting on the death of someone close to her, and finds herself listening to CBC Radio Two, when Arvo Part's requiem for Benjamin Britten comes on. Her reaction and what happens next is one example of how sound is used in a fascinating book by Wynne-Jones, who talks about it in this episode.

After some years of delay, the terrorism trial of Awso Peshdary, an alleged ISIS recruiter and financier, started this week. A former senior intelligence analyst at CSIS gives us a rundown of the case behind the trial and tells us about the current situation with ISIS recruitment in Canada.

Drew Mosley and Andrew Szeto are Ottawa-based artisans and makers. They've teamed up in the past, creating everything from t-shirts, pillows to jack knives. But their latest projec is a cedar canoe made by Szeto and painted by Mosley. They dropped by the studio.

The CN logo, the CBC gem, and the federal watermark. They're all iconic logos that belong to Canadians -- but what do they say about us? We meet the director of a documentary about the golden era of Canadian graphic design.

Di and Vlad give us their takes on two very different films this week: Tag is an over-the-top buddy comedy, while the other film, Hereditary, is a chilling psychological thriller.

A mother and daughter are graduating together from the same program at Carleton University tomorrow. Both equally competitive, their school year, two years ago, started off tense and awkward. They tell us what it's like attend university with your mom.

With an Ottawa municipal election on the way this fall, a business group is hosting a meet-and-greet so voters can know, and get behind black candidates. We meet two of them in this episode.

Julie and Susan discuss tensions at the G7 in Charlevoix, Quebec -- plus, what Ontario's Progressive Conservative majority government will mean on the Hill.

Yesterday, jazz pianist and composer Brian Browne passed away at the age of 81. We spoke with Browne's close friend and musical collaborator Paul Novotny.