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A unique contest tries to find out. As a once-in-a-life-time Van Gogh exhibition comes to the nation's capital.

A panel of leading scientists is calling for the protection of calving grounds used by one of Canada's (and the world's) most significant caribou herds. They've signed a letter of support for an Inuit Land Use Plan for northern Labrador that proposes to make the 14,000 km2 George River herd's calving grounds off limits to industrial development. We talk to one of those scientists, Dr Jim Schaefer, a professor in the department of biology at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario.

Terry Haig is in with a look at what’s making news in sports.

People who are overweight report 20% higher rates of pain. And the more weight they carry, the greater the pain they feel. That’s the finding of a study reported in the journal Obesity. This is of particular importance in Canada where more and more people are becoming overweight. Dr. Arya Sharma is a professor and chair for Obesity Research and Management at the University of Alberta. He spoke with RCI's Lynn Desjardins about why obese people feel more pain and the results of this study.