The Cost of Living |Why prepared rotisserie chickens are cheaper than ones you cook yourself

Walk into almost any Canadian grocery store and you smell it. Delicious, juicy, rotisserie chicken. 

It's just sitting there, like a beacon, promising shoppers a hearty meal they don't have to cook or clean up after.

The pre-cooked birds are priced between $8 to $12 at larger grocery chains in Canada, but barring a sale in the meat department, raw chickens can often cost more per bird at those same grocery outlets.

The lower price of rotisserie chickens compared to raw at many stores is despite the additional cost of spices, packaging, labour and energy for the convenient meal.

So, what the peck is going on? CBC Radio's The Cost of Living dove into the henhouse to find out.

Podcast | Nothing is Foreign 

France is electing a new president this weekend — and once again the culture war over Islam is front and centre.

Marine Le Pen, the far-right candidate, has proposed a ban on Muslim women wearing headscarves in public, and she's in striking distance of upsetting Emmanuel Macron, France's current centrist president.
With the debate over French identity and rampant Islamaphobia flaring up again, our guest, Rim-Sarah Alouane, a French legal scholar, says it's "draining" to feel as a French Muslim that "you are never enough."

So what does this moment mean for Western Europe's largest Muslim population? And just how close is France to the brink of a far-right future? 

Canada Listens 2022

Crown Lands' self-titled hard-rock album and Mustafa's inner-city folk record When Smoke Rises have both won Canada Listens 2022.

A tie?! Yes, a tie.

Never before in the short, two-year history of Canada Listens, or the 20-year history of Canada Reads, has either competition ever ended in a tie. Until now. 

Canada Listens is CBC Music's great music debate, the musical cousin of Canada Reads, where five celebrity panellists hash it out each year to decide which album Canada needs to hear. The panellists may choose any Canadian album they wish from any year or era, and are then challenged to make their case for it through four days of passionate debate, airing on CBC Music.