Despite our progress in genomics, researchers still can’t read a person’s DNA sequence and estimate their height. CTV science and technology specialist Dan Riskin joins host Deb Hutton for the weekly segment 'Riskin it All.'

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Séan McCann, founding member of the Canadian folk rock band Great Big Sea, was invested into the Order of Canada Thursday morning. He joins host Deb Hutton to reflect on the honour and share the work he's done since leaving Great Big Sea.

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Bob Reid, a veteran communications advisor and principal at Broadway Strategy, fills-in for CTV News political commentator Scott Reid. He joins Deb Hutton for Overhyped vs. Underplayed. 

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The Supreme Court of Canada has decided to not hear an appeal by survivors of St. Anne's residential school in northern Ontario who have fought a years-long battle against the federal government to release thousands of records. Evelyn Korkmaz, a survivor, shares her reaction with Deb Hutton.

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There are some calls for a broadening of an exemption to a planned federal handgun freeze to include a wider range of sport shooters—an idea gun-control advocates firmly oppose. Deb Hutton speaks with Wes Winkel, president of the Canadian Sporting Arms and Ammunition Association, and Heidi Rathjen, a member of the gun-control group PolySeSouvient and witness to the 1989 Polytechnique massacre. Then, we take your calls.

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Deb Hutton hosts 'The War Room' political panel discussion with Bob Richardson, senior counsel at National Public Relations and a former Ontario Liberal chief of staff, Tim Powers, chairman of Summa Strategies and managing director of Abacus Data, and Tom Mulcair, CTV political analyst and former NDP leader. 

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Olympic gold medallist Katie Weatherston is questioning Hockey Canada's priorities amid revelations of the governing body's use of its National Equity Fund to pay out sexual assault claims. She tells Deb Hutton when she sustained a traumatic brain injury, Hockey Canada told her it only had $4,000 available to help cover medical expenses. 

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Canada is falling behind in dealing with the increasingly complex needs of a rapidly aging population, a new report from CanAge, Canada’s National Seniors’ Advocacy Organization, has found. Founder and CEO Laura Tamblyn Watts tells Deb Hutton Canada is ill-equipped to deal with rising rates of dementia.

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