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Wednesday, September 17, 2025

A long-haired woman in a white tube top and black pants stands with her back to camera, looking out into an audience of hundreds of people. Text: 'Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery'
 

Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery

 
The untold story of the groundbreaking all-women music festival, started by singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan in the late 1990s.
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A composite image of a white grizzly bear and a West Coast Indigenous hat with a small cutout drawing of a bear stuck to it. Text: ' Keepers of the Land / Cxlax Kinua Qnts Waxvwisqv / Balbaalm Aa Laxuup'
 

Keepers of the Land

 
This small West Coast First Nation is reclaiming its rightful power over resources within its territory, rich with fish, bears, old-growth trees and kelp forests. 
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Illustration of a white-haired man with glasses smoking a cigar in a red armchair. A woman in a turtleneck shines a flashlight over the chair. Behind both is a wall of documents with red yarn overtop. Text: 'Gold Bars'
 

Gold Bars

 
A Montreal lawyer faces a defamation lawsuit after accusing his former business partner of living off stolen Nazi gold.
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A Neanderthal person with long hair, holding something in their hands. Text: 'The Real Neanderthal'

The Real Neanderthal

Neanderthals weren't brutish or dim-witted: new discoveries reveal they were more human than we ever thought.
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Two people in tattered clothes lean over a person lying on the ground.

Evidence shows that Neanderthals cared for the sick and elderly

Ancient bones show impressive medical practices meant to heal and reduce pain.
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Lilith Fair: The story behind the iconic '90s music festival

It was a cultural awakening that celebrated women, brought people together and created a safe space for women and queer people.

If I don't do everything right, they die': Inside a one-woman hummingbird rescue operation

Meet Terry Masear, the woman behind Los Angeles Hummingbird Rescue.

This Montreal lawyer accused his former business partner of profiting off Nazi gold

Gold Bars follows Glenn (Joseph) Feldman's DIY investigation into what he believed was gold stolen from Holocaust victims by the Nazis. 

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