The Agenda welcomes author Anna Mehler Paperny talks about her personal experience with suicidal thoughts and how she's learned to live with depression. Then, historian Anne Harrington discusses the history of psychiatry's quest to understand the biological basis of mental health.

The Agenda looks at how stricter international laws and policies have led to plummeting foreign adoption rates in Canada. Then, author Jenny Heijun Wills discusses her experience of being raised by a family of a different ethnicity and culture - the subject of her memoir, "Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related."