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The Sunday Magazine

The Sunday Magazine for April 27, 2025

Our Canadian Election Panel looks back on what we've learned in this federal campaign, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson talks about the meaning of water for Indigenous communities, Massimo Faggioli looks at the politics involved in electing a new pope, Vinh Nguyen reflects on the legacy of the Vietnam War for refugee communities, and Laura Stephenson decodes some commonly used election lingo.
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Piya Chattopadhyay is host of The Sunday Magazine. (CBC)

This week on The Sunday Magazine with Piya Chattopadhyay:

What we've learned from this federal election campaign

The parties have made their pitches. Now, it's up to Canadians to decide who will form our next government. On the eve of election day, The Economist's Rob Russo, Le Devoir's Emilie Nicolas and The Hub's Sean Speer join Chattopadhyay to look back at the highs, lows and what we've learned in this federal campaign.

Protecting our water in a time of crisis

Since she was a child, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson has always loved to ski. And it was while out on a cross-country trail that the Mississauga Nishnaabeg writer, musician and academic began thinking deeply about how snow, ice and different forms of water shape our lives. Simpson joins Chattopadhyay to discuss her new book, Theory of Water, and how Indigenous communities are fighting to protect Canada's most pristine sources of water as climate change and political threats from the United States put them at risk.

The politics at play in electing a new pope 

In the days following the funeral of Pope Francis, 135 cardinal electors will gather in a conclave at the Vatican's Sistine Chapel to elect a new leader of the Catholic Church. They'll be choosing not only a faith leader, but a world leader too. And the current global upheaval and uncertainty we face is sure to weigh on their minds. Theologian and Vatican expert Massimo Faggioli joins Chattopadhyay to share his insights on how the church may seek to position itself in the world for the years to come, and just how much influence the institution truly has on the world stage today.

Memories of Vietnam, 50 years after the war

This Wednesday marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. The conflict led to more than one million people fleeing the war-torn countries of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. Canada accepted approximately 200,000 refugees from the region between 1975 and the 1990s. Canadian author Vinh Nguyen was among them. He speaks with Chattopadhyay about retracing his family's journey in his memoir The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse, and how this moment in history resonates with diasporic experiences today.

Decoding our election lexicon, from writs to ridings

If you've ever wondered what a writ is and why we drop it, whether horses have anything to do with ridings, or what a returning officer is, well, returning... Laura Stephenson has you covered. In a Canadian election edition of Word Processing, our ongoing look at language, the Western University political science professor decodes some of the lingo commonly heard come campaign time.