Yogi Berra; Medicare on Life Support; Alice in Wonderland at 150
The Essential Yogi Berra - Michael's essay:
A tribute to one of the few baseball players who was loved equally by fellow players and by fans.
Life Support - Medicare's mid-life crisis: Though it's top of mind for Canadians, you rarely hear politicians talk about it. We will look back and ahead. Meyer Brownstone, one of the architects of medicare, recalls the ambitions, the battles, and the compromises behind Canada's first national health care system. Then health policy analyst Colleen Flood and medical journalist André Picard take its pulse, and give us their prognosis.
Exposing the curious world of Alice in Wonderland: On the 150th anniversary of its publication, we learn about the people and the stories that inspired Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, one of the most powerful and influential works of literature ever written. Michael talks to Vanessa Tait, the great-granddaughter of Alice Liddell who inspired the fictional Alice, and to David Day, the Canadian author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Decoded.