All in a Day

The new Chair of Suicide Prevention at the Royal is studying a particular gene, and its affect on suicide risk. Dr Zachary Kaminsky explains.

An independent senator is offering free legal counsel to staffers harassed by members of the Red Chamber. Senator Marilou McPhedran joined Giacomo Panico in studio with the details.

Iain Reid's debut novel I'm Thinking of Ending Things earned much praise in 2017 for its eerie atmosphere and thrilling twist. Now the book's being made into a movie for Netflix, with screenwriter Charlie Kaufman doing the adaptation. Iain chats with us about having his words turned into images.

Harassment and sexual misconduct is still the big story on the Hill this week. Julie van Dusen and Susan Delacourt talk about that, plus how the PM handled himself at a fiery open house in B.C.

For D is for Dinner this week, we visit a new business from Algonquin College's School of Hospitality and Tourism. Honour Roll brings tasty treats to a cafe, including what we focussed on: the cup in a cake.

Fans of the Canadian Women's Olympic curling team will hurry hard over the Ottawa Curling Club tonight. Giacomo gets a preview of the Send-off to South Korea Party from two of the Team Homan's biggest supporters.

Former Conservative MP and Gloucester city councillor Royal Galipeau has died from cancer. His former campaign manager remembers a politician dedicated to his constituents.

National Ballet of Canada principal dancer Guillaume Cote is playing the lead role of Nijinksy, which reflects the life of a brilliant but tortured dancer. Cote talks about channelling Nijinksy, and what he and other dancers bring to the role.

Pianist Angela Hewitt took a tumble down a flight of stairs before her concert in Oxford last night, twisting her ankle. But she still managed to carry on with the show. Giacomo Panico reached her in England for the rest of the story.

Top Chef Canada winner Rene Rodriguez is well known in Ottawa for his Spanish/Mexican restaurant Navarro, which closed last year. Now he's back with Italian cuisine, at Orto Trattoria, and we tasted his burrata appetizer.

Can a city's snow clearing policy be sexist? We speak to the vice-mayor of Stockholm, where sidewalks, bus stops and areas near daycares get cleared before roads, because they're more often used by women.

It's official: after missing the Canadian team the last two times around, Gatineau's aerial skiier Olivier Rochon has made the cut for the Winter Games in Pyeongchang. He shares his excitement.

During the last three Ottawa elections, the number of women on council has dwindled from seven to four. We'll meet a councillor and a school trustee who'll be carrying banners calling for more females at the political table during tomorrow's women's march.

She was a famed opera singer in the early 1900s, from small-town Ontario, who was feted in Poland and Russia. But almost no one these days knows her name. Ottawa author Jane Cooper introduces us to Bertha Crawford.

French authorities dropped the terrorism charges against Hassan Diab today. After spending three years in a maximum security prison outside of Paris, Diab will soon be on his way back home to Ottawa. We speak to Diab's Canadian lawyer.