The Current's election special ends with a forward-looking segment we're calling "Dear Prime Minister." A wide variety of Canadians tell us what they'd like to see our next government do. The voices include the First Nations national chief, an oil industry executive, foreign policy gurus, and youth representatives. What they all have in common is a stake in the future, and a message for the Prime Minister of Canada. 
Here's a preview, but you can hear the whole segment at cbc.ca/TheCurrent.

A message for the Prime Minister of Canada

Feeling slighted or remorseful? Either way, artist Adrienne Wong has the tool for you. Hear her ad for a self-serve apology generator — a site that specializes in partly-automated expressions of regret — which she created for q.  For more, visit cbc.ca/qartistinresidence

q Artist in Residence: Adrienne Wong

Madison Powell, 26, started working for The Cuddlery in January 2015. It's one of several paid cuddling agencies that have sprung up in cities across Canada over the last year, bearing names like CuddleCo, Cuddleme.ca, Cuddle up to me and The Snuggle Bunnies. 

Paid cuddling services on rise in cities across Canada

Pat Kelly and Peter Oldring show off some of the characters they play on the satirical news show This is That for Shad on q.

q: Pat Kelly and Peter Oldring show off their This is That characters

The theme song for CBC original podcast Someone Knows Something, written and performed by Bob Wiseman and Mary Margaret O'Hara. 

Someone Knows Something theme song

The Alberta government says schools are ready to welcome students forced out of Fort McMurray. One particular 8-year-old evacuee who spoke to Calgary producer Michael O'Halloran at the Al Rashid Mosque in Edmonton doesn't want to leave. Listen to the full special edition of CBC's The Current in Edmonton: Alberta Under Fire. cbc.ca/1.3573093

'Absolutely No!':  Eight-year-old Fort McMurray evacuee doesn't want to go home

Bernie Krause recorded this at Sugar Loaf State Park on April 15th  2004, 2009, 2014 and 2015. 

How the songs of the wild are turning to silence.

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50 years ago, the World at Six aired for the first time on CBC Radio.
James Murray takes a look back on half a century of CBC Radio's flagship evening news program

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