There is a heartbreaking history of violence against poor communities all over the world by Canadian mining companies (or their proxies, for which they are responsible). Rape, murder and corruption: it's on our hands as Canadians.

This week, because pot legalization is in the news we discuss the magic plant that is hemp!!! No not the smokable part...

We focus on a wide variety of science issues this week, featuring Evan Savage from the March for Science Toronto chapter. But wait, wasn't that just a Stephen Harper thing? We find out... Image Credit: Robert Rigel

Fake news, conspiracies we fell for (and later regretted) and the impact of the internet on the way the world works. We ask the question, does real change only happen when the older generation moves on so the young are in charge? 

Interview with Stephen Szucs, founder of Sustainable Joes. We discuss his documentary look at the sustainability movement asking important self-reflective questions.

Krystyna Henke's interviews Ken Bondy - National Coordinator for Health, Safety, and the Environment at the Canadian union Unifor about the “Climate Change and Our Jobs” labour education program offered by the Unifor Union to its members.

Adil Dhalla and Barnabe Geis from the Centre for Social Innovation join us as our guests for the full program this week to discuss the CSI Agents of Change program which is currently working startups and innovators on climate change issues.

Art and Culture correspondent Geoff Doner interviews Bob Isenberger, Director of Programs at The Ecologos Institute / Water Docs Film Festival. 

Stefan starts us off with an update on the Dakota Access Pipeline and Water Protectors in North Dakota now that the militarized police have finished clearing the camp.

Barbara Erochina an emotional wellness, healthy self-worth councillor joins us again to talk about healing and grief as we round out the first few years, woops I mean month of the Trump presidency

Our interview this week is with Matthew Klippenstein, a chemical engineer turned renewable energy consultant, who chronicles the Canadian electric vehicle market for GreenCarReports.com.

The Prime Minister has no apparent intention to stand up for one of his most critical campaign promises: electoral reform. On the upside, battery power storage which is critical to the renewable revolution is growing rapidly in 2017.

We begin the show this week with a couple of stories that show just how far we've come with renewables over the last few years. So far have we come in fact, that it is predicted that solar energy with surpass coal as the cheapest form of energy on average in the world by 2025.