The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge

Less than a month to go now but the race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump remains a toss-up. Why is it so close?

For the last year October 7th has been described as a major intelligence failure by the Israelis and this proves it in very hard detail.

We could be only months away from an election in Canada, so is there anything we need to learn from watching the debate over fact-checking in the US?

Your letters this week on what's on your mind, and then the Ranter takes on J D Vance. Plus, we finally have some time for a few interesting End Bits.

Kathleen Petty joins us from Calgary to talk about Alberta's Premier and Dr Isaac Bogoch calls in from his hospital job to talk about where things really stand on Covid.

A series of remarkable events has changed the face of the Middle East War. Israel is fighting and winning in two fronts but what happens now?

An encore of former Conservative Cabinet Minister James Moore and former Liberal insider Gerald Butts get together for another of their popular conversations.

It's one thing when the Conservatives slam the CBC, threaten to defund it, and raise money from supporters by making the threat. But now they're suggesting there's a conspiracy between CTV and its parent company Bell, to bad mouth and lie about their party.

From coast to coast to coast you wrote in to say what they'd do if they owned a local paper struggling to do business and succeed.

An encore of Woodward's take on everything from Donald Trump to the state of the media.

Former Conservative Cabinet Minister James Moore and former Liberal insider Gerald Butts get together for another of their popular conversations.

With Israel declaring pagers and wallow-talkies as weapons of war, has a new line been crossed leaving civilians vulnerable?

A wild week for Jagmeet Singh from a byelection victory to an apparent challenge to Pierre Poilievre to put up the dukes as we used to say.

Letters from across the country, focuses on everything from climate change to harvest time.

An encore of an important discussion with the CEO of the Halifax Public Libraries, Asa Kachan.

A feature interview with celebrated Canadian military historian Tim Cook about his latest book hitting the shelves today.

The UK and the US are prepared to give long-range missiles to Ukraine for their fight against Russia.

Monday is a huge day for all political parties in Canada. Parliament returns but two key byelections, one in Manitoba and one in Quebec, could impact everything.

The question of the week was this: "If you ran for prime minister what would your first promise be in hopes of gaining support?"  Well, you had lots to say on that one and we'll get as many of your answers in as we can on today's episode. Also, the Random Ranter has his take on Donald Trump's debate performance; let's just say he, the Ranter, was not impressed!

Today an encore presentation of an episode that originally aired on February 13th. Marci Ien made her name as a Canadian television journalist anchoring some of CTV's most important programs. Today she's a federal cabinet minister responsible for women and gender equality. She was born in Toronto of Trinidadian descent. Today a feature interview with Marci Ien about her path as a Black Canadian and how she reflects on Black History month.