Akilah Richards was concerned about structural racism she saw in public education, which echoed her own experiences growing up as a black girl. So, she made the decision to pull her kids out of school. She tells Piya why she chose to leave the system behind instead of trying to change it from within.

For one, it's an insurance policy while she pursues her career. For another, it's about protecting the health of her future children. Two women speak with Piya about their different motivations for choosing to freeze their eggs in their 20s, a growing trend that's been called 'social egg freezing'.

One pipeline, two starkly different views — Kanahus Manuel and Stephen Buffalo are both passionate about protecting the future of First Nations communities, lands and cultures. But they've come to very different conclusions about how to do that. They share what motivates them to keep up their respective fights.

James Favel is head of the Bear Clan Patrol, an Indigenous-led volunteer group that patrols the streets of Winnipeg as 'goodwill ambassadors' to help people with problems they encounter and act as a liaison with police. He tells Piya what void he sees the group filling, and how Tina Fontaine's death fueled its mission to fight exploitation in the community.

RCMP detachments in Saskatchewan are holding town halls about rural crime. The people in attendance want to know: Did Gerald Stanley have any right to defend himself that night strangers came onto his property, ending in Colten Boushie's death? We listen in on one of these meetings, and the RCMP's Sergeant Colin Sawrenko talks about the tough task of hosting conversations like these.

Captain Paul Bender, a 90-year-old veteran of Canada's Merchant Navy during the Second World War, still remembers the faces of men buried at sea during his service. His passion to honour their memories has motivated him to press government to recognize Canada's sunken naval vessels as 'ocean war graves', in order to protect them from being pillaged by divers.