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This past week, British Columbia began a three-year pilot program that decriminalizes possession of small amounts of four illicit drugs: opioids, cocaine, MDMA, and methamphetamine. Former Vancouver mayor Kennedy Stewart championed the policy while in office. Now, as the entire province takes this step, he joins David Common to discuss how he thinks this could help stem a surge of drug overdose deaths, what its limitations are, and what the country should be watching during this first-in-Canada experiment.

The U.S. Treasury Department this week designated the Wagner Group a significant transnational criminal organization — part of an effort to crack down on an entity responsible for a growing number of atrocities in Ukraine. But what is the Wagner Group and what role does it play in Russia's war plans?

The prepper movement isn’t new, but recent climate disasters, civil unrest and the war in Ukraine have caused it to balloon. CBC’s David Common ventures into the world of prepping and uncovers a once-fringe movement going mainstream.

We've built a world based on science and discovery. So more people need to understand it, for the sake of society – and democracy at large. That's the pitch from Brian Cox. The world-renowned particle physicist and host of several BBC shows joins David Common to discuss his work promoting science literacy, why he's offering Science 101 courses to politicians, and the conundrum that great scientific advancements have been made during the pandemic... while skepticism of science itself has also grown.

Is politicking getting in the way of critical action needed to fix our ailing healthcare system? In a year-end interview, Canada's federal health minister Jean-Yves Duclos speaks with David Common about the ongoing fight between federal and provincial leaders over health-care funding, and how we might reimagine providing health-care in light of the deep cracks the pandemic has exposed.