Cross Country Checkup is Canada's only weekly national open-line radio program. It's broadcast live simultaneously through six time zones across the country every Sunday afternoon. Each week host Duncan McCue rolls out the welcome mat to everyone who wants to phone-in or take part through social media in a lively discussion on a topic important to all Canadians. It's a key part of CBC's mandate to reflect Canada to all Canadians, and Cross Country Checkup has become a real meeting place for many.
Episodes
Cross Country Checkup Chinese Canadian student explores Canada's exclusionary immigration history
During a Cross Country Checkup live broadcast from the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Que., the show got feedback from high school students on various exhibits featured in the museum's new Canadian History Hall. Samantha Yee, a Grade 11 student at Lisgar Collegiate Institute, was particularly interested in the exhibit's section on immigration, and how it directly related to her family's ...
- 2017
- 00:03:40
- 13-14
- Added on: 10/04/2017
Cross Country Checkup Art and reconciliation
The Secret Path is a powerful film about an Indigenous boy who dies escaping a residential school. Does art — films, books and music — offer the best path to heal historical wrongs? Guests include Joseph Boyden, award-winning author of Three Day Road, The Orenda and most recently the novella Wenjack; Susan Aglukark, Inuk singer and songwriter; Ry Moran, Director of the National Centre for ...
- 2016
- 01:53:03
- 13-14
- Added on: 11/10/2016
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