Highlights from the very first IYG episode, premiering Feb. 26, 2008 on ichannel.

IYG Host Mercedes Stephenson talks about the importance of language.

Pamela Wallin talks about the Canada-US relationship.

Various reporters explain how they do their job of covering a budget.

Join reporter John Robson in the journalist’s lock-up on Budget Day, and endure the silliness of Canada’s annual ‘mission impossible’ for political reporters to turn hundreds of pages of numbers into sound bites and news stories.

Farming communities across the country are shrinking. Meanwhile, government regulations keep growing. It’s a situation that has pushed farmers across Ontario to take to the highway in protest. IYG imagines who might lend a hand. Um. Make that a hoof.

Where do fish keep their money? Try a river bank. But if it’s government money, well, that’s guaranteed to be swallowed up hook, line and sinker.

Voter turnout continues to be a challenge for all Canadian governments. For example, in Alberta’s recent provincial election a mere 41.3 per cent of eligible voters cast ballots. IYG takes a tongue-in-cheek look at this perpetual predicament.

A portrait of Liberal MP Ruby Dhalla.

A brief overview of Ontario’s rural revolution.