Airline executive goes nuts - Michael's essay; Antibiotic resistance is becoming a global health crisis; Inside the agony of the Catholic Church's child sexual abuse scandal; The Liberal Party of Canada's vision for the CBC; Doc - Time Will Say Nothing

This week on the Sunday Edition for February 1, 2015

Airline executive goes nuts - Michael's essay: (00:00:25) Michael's favourite news story of 2014 took place on board of a Korean Air Line airplane. It all started with a very small bag of macadamia nuts, followed by a very big public tantrum.

Antibiotic resistance is becoming a world health crisis: (00:04:10) In England, Prime Minister David Cameron has made concerns over antibiotic-resistant bacteria one of his top priorities. The figures are shocking - if nothing is done, drug-resistant microbes could kill as many as 10 million people globally every year, with a cumulative economic cost of $100 trillion by 2050. That's a mere 35 years away. Already, about 50,000 people in Europe and the United States die each year from infections that used to be treatable. Michael's guest is one of the people on the front lines of this fight:  Dame Sally Davies, the U.K.'s Chief Medical Officer.

Inside the agony of the Catholic Church's child sexual abuse scandal: (00:28:43) A new Canadian film called Fall tackles the difficult subject of sexual abuse inside the Catholic Church. Michael moderates a discussion at the Toronto Film Festival Theatre, about the issues raised by the film. Panellists are veteran actor Michael Murphy, Michael Higgins of Sacred Heart University, Deirdre Pike, a Catholic and organizer in the LGBTQ community and Benjamin Williams, a psychologist at a treatment centre for clergy.  Fall is directed by Terrance Odette.

The Liberal Party of Canada's vision for the CBC: (00:42:37) These are not happy days for Canada's public broadcaster, which has been buffeted by scandals and budget cuts. We invited Shelly Glover, the Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, to talk to us about her government's vision for the future of Canada's most important - and most polarizing - cultural institution, but she has declined. Michael talks to the former leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, Stéphane Dion, his party's critic for Canadian Heritage and Official Languages.

Mail - Work/life balance: (01:05:21) Last week's discussion on work/life balance struck a chord with many of our listeners.

How the Beatles, a cockroach and Mahatma Gandhi helped philosophy professor survive solitary confinement - Documentary: (01:10:22) The Iranian philosopher, Ramin Jahanbegloo, was arrested at the Tehran Airport and was taken to Iran's notorious Evin Prison. Although he had never been politically active, he was charged with conspiring to overthrow the state and was thrown into solitary confinement, where he was kept for 125 days. He made notes on the back of a tissue box that he cut into tiny pieces and stashed away. Professor Jahanbegloo, who now teaches at York University in Toronto, took some of those notes and turned them into a book. Our documentary, "Time Will Say Nothing", is produced by Alisa Siegel.