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The Sunday Magazine

The Sunday Magazine

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CBC Radio’s The Sunday Magazine is a lively, wide-ranging mix of topical long-form conversations, engaging ideas and more. Each week, host Piya Chattopadhyay takes time for deep exploration, but also makes space for surprise, delight and fun.

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Episodes
  • How Donald Trump's second term is totally different than his first
    Jul 5 2026

    He's reshaped the United States federal government, executive power and foreign policy... and that's just in his first year-and-a-half back in the White House. Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan from The New York Times take us inside Donald Trump's second term through years of reporting and extraordinary access to the president and his inner circle.


    Plus: The Hub's Falice Chin unpacks Alberta's pipeline proposal, what fans and critics are saying, and the broader tensions and symbolism the project holds.

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    51 mins
  • Your waste is his work. Meet the 'g-man' lifting the lid on our ties to trash
    Jul 1 2026

    Most people spend their lives trying to avoid garbage, but Simon Paré-Poupart has spent the last 20 years immersed in it. The Montreal garbage collector and sociologist joins Piya Chattopadhyay to discuss his memoir, Trash!: A Garbageman's Story, and why he believes our waste reveals a lot about what we value and what we would rather throw away.

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    25 mins
  • CUSMA joint review, Crucial creepy crawlies, What trash says about us, Mother of murdered journalist
    Jun 28 2026
    • Host Piya Chattopadhyay speaks with The Economist's Rob Russo and The Globe and Mail's Shannon Proudfoot about the imminent CUSMA joint review, and other top stories in Canadian politics


    • Zoologist Jo Wimpenny explores the lesser-known merits of animals we often loathe


    • Montreal garbage collector and sociologist Simon Paré-Poupart reflects on what his career as a garbage collector has taught him about what and who we value


    • Diane Foley reflects on meeting one of the ISIS members who killed her journalist son, James Foley
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    1 hr and 38 mins
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