The Sunday Magazine for January 12, 2025
This week on The Sunday Magazine with Piya Chattopadhyay:
Ottawa in limbo as Trump's threats to Canada ratchet up
The week began with Justin Trudeau announcing he'll resign as prime minister and Liberal Party leader, and ends with heightened focus on economic and expansionist threats levied by U.S. president-elect Donald Trump. Chattopadhyay speaks with The Economist's Rob Russo, Le Devoir's Emilie Nicolas, and Ian Austen from the New York Times about the contours of the Liberal leadership race, concerns about foreign interference in it, and how to contend with Trump amid political upheaval in Ottawa.
How the 21st century has changed us, 25 years in
As the 21st century enters its 25th year, The Sunday Magazine's Pete Mitton speaks with a range of big thinkers about what they see as the defining features of the 2000s so far. Historians Margaret MacMillan and Anne Applebaum, political scientist Francis Fukuyama, global affairs expert Janice Stein, and more share their reflections on the century's first quarter to this point, and explore what lessons this period may hold for the next 25 years.
As Joe Biden leaves the White House, what legacy will he leave behind?
He began his time in the White House by reversing several of Donald Trump's policies, and will end it by handing the keys back to his predecessor. As Joe Biden's presidency wraps up, Chattopadhyay speaks with Washington Post White House bureau chief Toluse "Tolu" Olorunnipa and Chris Whipple, a journalist and author of The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden's White House, about the defining highs and lows of Biden's term in office, and how history may look back on the 46th president of the United States.
A Canadian living in Los Angeles shares his story of escaping the wildfires
The worst wildfire in the history of Los Angeles continues to carve its destruction. Several people have been killed and thousands of houses and buildings have been destroyed by the fires that began in early January. Canadian Raymond Francis' home is among them. He has been living and working as a scientist with NASA in Altadena, Calif. for the last 10 years and shares his account of evacuating the fires.
That's Puzzling! for January 2025
In the latest edition of our monthly challenge That's Puzzling!, Chattopadhyay competes against one familiar voice and one clever listener in a battle of brain games devised by puzzle master Peter Brown. Playing along this month are Jayme Poisson, host of the CBC News podcast Front Burner, and Peterborough, Ont. listener Wanda Beatty.