
Meet the woman offering Alberta conservatives an alternative
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Bonnie Critchley ran as an independent against Pierre Poilievre last year. Now, the retired military veteran has joined the Progressive Tory Party of Alberta — to run against the UCP in the next provincial election.
An overcrowded ferry capsizes in Zimbabwe, killing at least 44 people. A member of the country's parliament tells us how she's consoling family members who lost loved ones in the stormy waters.
When the 2023 earthquakes affected millions in Turkey and Syria, Canada responded with temporary visas. With many of those permits set to expire, we reach a mother walking from Toronto to Ottawa, as she pushes for an extension to keep her family in Canada.
At the ripe old age of eleven, Anderson Taylor of the Cambridge Natural History Museum in Illinois is officially the youngest museum curator in the world.
You've heard of Fat Bear Week. But today an organizer tells us about Fat Marmot Week — a new pre-hibernation competition underway in Colorado.
As It Happens, the Thursday edition, radio that appreciates a good fat-checker.
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