Inuit Singers Elisapie Isaac & Simon Lynge

Reporter Betto Arcos tells us about two different singers of Inuit ancestry, Elisapie Isaac from northern Quebec and Simon Lynge from Greenland.

A border tale of two cities

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A tale of two cities along the US-Canadian border is heading for an unhappy ending. Derby Line, Vermont and Stanstead, Quebec sit right next to each other. In fact, their common library and opera house straddle the border. So far only a black line marked the border, but now a pair of five-foot-tall steel gates are being put up. We speak with Stanstead mayor Raymond Yates. Download MP3

Russia’s national lyricist, Canada’s language laws, and the rehabilitation of a code-breaker

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This week, a look back at the career of the late Sergei Mikhalkov. During World War Two, Mikhalkov wrote the lyrics to the Soviet national anthem. Decades later, he composed the words for Russia’s national anthem– to the same piece of music. Also, a conversation with Keith Spicer on Canada’s 40-year-old language laws. Spicer was the country’s first enforcer of bilingualism. Finally, the British government apologizes for its treatment of Alan Turing, who helped break the Nazis’ war codes.

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