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EPISODE · Jul 27, 2026 · 51 MIN

From celebration to sorrow in Berlin

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One person is dead after a van attack at a Pride event in Berlin. A gay off-duty police officer who was there tells us that hate is growing in Germany — and he hopes fear will not win. An Ontario emergency room doctor tells us she and her colleagues are totally drained; in fact, her new study finds the burnout rate for Canadian ER physicians is as high as it was during the worst of the pandemic. A "fire cloud’ threatens to destroy several communities in southwest France; a resident tells us that the day he was forced to evacuate, the sky looked like Pompeii. Chefs love a gas stove — but a scientist tells us that, if you have asthma, you're better off switching to electric. A new study suggests bird songs share certain recognizable motifs, even across species and around the world. One of the researchers tells us he listened to thousands of hours of birdsong to reach this conclusion — and he's still not sick of it. A Polish man spends a record length of time covered head-to-toe in snow — and now his competition is shaking. Although to be fair, so is he.As It Happens, the Monday Edition. Radio that's not sure why he did it — but I'm sure he had a perfectly good freezin'. 

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