Canada's food supply chains could use a shot of resilience -- the rise in oil prices is only the latest in a long list of factors that keep driving up food costs. We take questions on what makes our food supply chains so vulnerable to climate and poltical crises and what can be done to curb the costs.

Our guests are Tyler McCann, managing director at the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute, and Lauren Baker, deputy director at the Global Alliance for the Future of Food.

"Unity does not require uniformity" sounds good as a slogan, but what does it say about a party's politics and point of view? Mark Carney's Liberals now form a majority government, but it took opening its doors to MPs that hold disparate views and competing political records. What does that do to a party's core values?

Our guests are Justin Ling, staff columnist at the Toronto Star, and Vandana [VUHN-duh-NAH] Kattar [KAH-tar], a political consultant and former advisor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Prime Minister Carney.

Soon after threatening to wipe out Iranian civilization this week, U.S. President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire. We’re taking all of your questions about this shaky ceasefire, and its likelihood of success.

Our expert panel is: Jennifer Kavanagh, director of military analysis at Defense Priorities; Sabine Nolke, former Canadian ambassador and specialist in international law; and Ben Rowswell, a former Canadian ambassador and consultant with Catalyze4.