NTT: Woman completes 5-year walk across Canada
Melanie Vogel has become the first woman to walk coast-to-coast-to-coast across Canada. She completed her incredible 20,000-kilometre, 26 million-step hike in Victoria on Saturday. Melanie tells guest host Mark Towhey the journey was initially supposed to take two years, but ended up taking five.
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NTT: Hydro-Québec employee charged for alleged espionage with China
The RCMP has arrested a Hydro-Québec employee for allegedly selling trade secrets to the Chinese government. Guest host Mark Towhey speaks with Michel Juneau-Katsuya, former chief of the Asia-Pacific desk at CSIS.
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NTT: Man who inspired ‘The Terminal’ film dies in Paris airport
An Iranian man who called Paris‘ Charles de Gaulle airport home for 18 years and inspired the Steven Spielberg film 'The Terminal' died in the airport on Saturday. Journalist Charles Bremner first met Mehran Karimi Nasseri in 2001, and reflects on his life with guest host Mark Towhey.
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Newstalk Today with Mark Towhey - November 8th, 2022
U.S. President Joe Biden is urging Americans to make their voices heard ahead of tonight’s Mid-Terms. What do these results mean for Canada? We try to get some answers. In 2019, CSIS issued a warning to Prime Minister Trudeau about potential foreign interference from China. They allege that China was funding a clandestine network of at least 11 federal candidates running for federal office in that year’s election. Meantime, a new research hub is aiming to prepare humanity for a scenario that many of us don’t want to think about. That, of course, is a meeting with alien life forms. And finally, we debate why today’s workforce hates meetings so much.
NTT: What do we know about the ‘planet killer’ asteroid that may one day hit Earth?
A team of researchers have spotted three massive asteroids that have been hiding undetected in the Sun’s glare, one of which could potentially pose a risk to Earth one day. Scott Sheppard, an astronomer at the Earth and Planets Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington and the paper’s lead author, chats with host Graham Richardson.
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NTT: How a Newfoundland woman discovered she was switched at birth
NTT: Toronto family moves into 38-room mansion that was once a funeral home
This Halloween, listen to how a Toronto family moved into a 38-room mansion in Dresden, Ontario that was once a funeral home. Mom Heather Blumberg describes to Graham Richardson some of the spooky moments she's experienced in the house. Photo credit: Darren Goldstein, DSG Photography.
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NTT: A B.C. man continues to smash records for his giant pumpkins
A B.C. man has won the province’s largest pumpkin contest two years in a row. Dave Chan started growing pumpkins 40 years ago, and since then, has grown a plethora of giant gourds on his property every year. How does he do it? He chats with Graham Richardson.
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