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Eritrean-Swedish journalist Dawit Isaak was imprisoned in 2001 for calling for calling democratic reforms in Eritrea. We'll talk to his daughter — who hasn't seen him since she was seven years old. 

British Columbia's Conservatives have gone through months of infighting, but their new interim leader says yesterday's snap election call has united the party. 

He was paralyzed after heart surgery — and the late activist and wheelchair user Gerry Post spent the rest of his life fighting fiercely for disability rights in Nova Scotia.

The world's most-seasoned Celtic band has played at an Irish pub in New York City for a record-breaking 1,500 weeks and counting. 

An anonymous donor gives 100-million dollars to a Toronto cancer research centre. Our guest says that gift is nothing short of transformational. 

An MIT prof explains how — and why — his team created tiny batteries you can swallow. 

Scientists discover the prima donnas of the primate world — a rare species of lemur that happens to use the same vocal tricks as human opera singers. 

As It Happens, the Wednesday edition. Radio that invites you to listen under falsetto pretenses.