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Robert Miniaci is a master of a nearly lost art. He says he one of the few people capable of maintaining and repairing projection equipment in the world, and he's hoping he can pass that knowledge on. 

Many asylum seekers make their way in and out of New York's Port Authority Bus Terminal every day, looking for assistance from the U.S. National Guard with such things as shelter and food. Grassroots organizations are also at the terminal offering help.

The world of inheritance is a murky one, and rarely talked about openly. While it could feel like winning a lottery for some and open the way to philanthropy, it can also bring a host of other circumstances, such as fights with family members or a feeling of entitlement that some people develop as their financial status grows.

Every year, enormous amounts of wealth in Canada pass between hands through inheritances. At the top of the scale are what are called “ultra-high net worth” families – families with so much intergenerational wealth, that inheritances are in the tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars. In this episode, host Acey Rowe and regular Doc Project contributor Craig Desson take a deep dive into financial planning, from the perspective of the very, very rich – asking, how does their world wor...

As a teenager, Samara Bay would speak with a tone lower than her natural voice in an attempt for people around her to take her more seriously. For a time, she said, it worked. But eventually, it caused real damage.

CBC Quebec is looking for digital storytellers from diverse backgrounds to produce original video content to air on our network.

When it comes to Quebec, the French arrived in sailboats in the 16th century, claimed the land as theirs in part by planting a cross, and then set up a colony. The French colonial powers then divided it up into parcels of land that settlers could trade back and forth at the same time the Indigenous claim to the land was not acknowledged by the French settlers.  The idea that the plot of land where my condo now sits could be linked to colonization seemed inconceivable to me, because that era wa...