If you’re looking for a deep dive on what’s happening in Canadian politics, As It Happens is recommending The House. Catherine Cullen and CBC’s best political journalists cut through the noise and make politics make sense.

In this episode:

Pierre Poilievre is returning to the House of Commons after winning an Alberta byelection this week — and he’s already laid out his priorities for the fall, including tackling crime, increasing affordability and making Canada self-reliant. But despite these goals, the Conservative Party of Canada has lost the last four federal elections — and some party insiders worry it may be difficult to ever win again. Political reporter Kate McKenna covers the Conservative Party for CBC News, and in this special episode of The House, she hears from party insiders who offer their frank analysis of how to move forward if they want to return to government.

Featuring the voices of:

· Melissa Lantsman, deputy leader of the Conservative Party of Canada

· Jason Kenney, former Alberta premier and former Conservative cabinet minister

· Sean Speer, editor-at-large for The Hub and former adviser to Prime Minister Stephen Harper

· Ben Woodfinden, former director of communications for Pierre Poilievre

· Rob Batherson, former president of the Conservative Party of Canada

· Dimitri Soudas, former director of communications to Prime Minister Stephen Harper

· Daniel Allain, former New Brunswick Progressive Conservative MLA

· Shachi Kurl, president of the Angus Reid Institute

· Rob Russo, Canada correspondent for The Economist

· Shannon Proudfoot, feature writer for the Globe and Mail

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Prime Minister Mark Carney drops a lot of Canada's counter-tariffs on American products -- leading to questions about what direction, exactly, his elbows are pointing.

A Toronto psychologist has developed an app he says can help people experiencing hallucinations determine whether what they're hearing is real, or imaginary.

Remembering activist Richard Lee, who died last month after a life spent taking huge risks to make a point most people now take for granted: that cannabis should be legal.

A rapper in Philadelphia looked in the mirror, saw a receding hairline and reacted in the usual way: he organized what he hopes will be an annual Bald Fest at a local skate park.

A retired British physician dove into dinosaur fossil research for fun -- and ended up discovering a whole new species that had a giant sail coming out of its back.

And...on the lookout -- or lack thereof. Former passengers sue United and Delta airlines for boldly stretching the definition of "window seat" to mean "a seat without a window".

As It Happens, the Friday Edition. Radio that guesses their travel experience was relatively pane-less.

We reach a reporter in one of the refugee camps that's preparing to receive thousands of people who no longer have anywhere else to go.

An advisor to embattled New York City mayor Eric Adams pressed an open bag of sour cream and onion chips on a reporter -- who tells us that, inside that bag, she was stunned to find something a lot spicier than she expected.

Entire continents are in bad shape. But the African Union wants to change that -- by replacing the distorted Mercator projection maps with ones that provide a better perspective on our planet.

A bus crash kills dozens of Afghan nationals who were expelled from Iran -- just a few of the thousands forced to face an uncertain future in a country they may not recognize.

When a hike in B.C.'s beautiful Bugaboo Provincial Park goes sideways, our guest ends up on a helicopter, plucking some sixty cornered climbers out of harm's way.

A psychiatrist describes the independent-minded people he has named "otroverts" -- a group that simply refuses to belong to a group.

As It Happens, the Thursday Edition. Radio that's heard -- but not part of the herd.