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A proposal to put polar bears on the endangered species list will be on the table in Doha, Qatar this weekend. It's a more complicated debate than you might think and one that is creating some odd [...]
It's mail day. We hear your thoughts on maternal health in the developing world, money for operating rooms in rural Canada, and re-thinking the decision to re-write our national [...]
A Muslim woman who lives in Quebec has twice been refused access to government-funded French-language classes because she refuses to remove her niqab - a veil that covers her head and face, leaving only her eyes exposed. She has filed a complaint with Quebec's human [...]
Lewis Cohen is a clinical researcher at the Baystate Medical Centre in Springfield, Massachusetts. His new book is No Good Deed: A Story of Medicine, Murder Accusations and the Debate Over How We Die. George Webster is a Clinical Ethicist at St. Boniface General Hospital [...]
Gustavo Gutierrez was a police commander in Juarez, Mexico. He is currently in Toronto, awaiting a decision on the appeal he launched after his initial claim for asylum was [...]
For their thoughts about the possibility that Al-Shabab may be recruiting young Somali-Canadians, host Anna Maria Tremonti was joined by three people. Ahmed Hussen is the National President of the Canadian Somali Congress. Qaasim Farha is a Somali refugee and a PhD student at York [...]
According to documents filed with the Military Police Complaints Commission, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service was involved in interrogating detainees in Kandahar as early as 2006. We ask if the agency gained anything from the [...]
China has no territory in the Arctic. But thanks to global warming and the possibility of new shipping lanes, its Arctic ambitions are on the [...]
Anthropologist Lionel Tiger says the impulse to worship can be found in the wiring of our brains and that God is a neurological imperative. If God didn't exist, our brain chemistry would have to invent [...]
Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he wants the G8 to take up the challenge of improving maternal health in the developing world. We talk to three women about what it would take to deliver on that [...]
Nearly 80 per cent of the world's farmers are women. But throughout the developing world, they often have little or no control over the land they tend. We hear from [...]
Doctors at a hospital in Trail, British Columbia say that because of the cuts to the region's health budget, they'll have to resort to paying operating room nurses out of their own [...]
Across Latin America and the Caribbean, women are enjoying unprecedented political success. But while observers see lessons for us to learn, they also see some pitfalls to [...]
The anthem that is supposed to unite us has sparked a debate about patriotism, patriarchy and whether someone needs to re-write the [...]
References to gay rights were removed from a draft version of a citizenship study guide that was revamped last fall. Gay rights groups say the references should never have been cut because protecting gay rights is part of Canada's social [...]
It's mail day. And we find out what you had to say about defining national moments, journalists as patriots and the separation of church and [...]
Last Saturday's earthquake in Chile released about 500 times as much energy as the one that hit Haiti last month. But the death toll in Chile is no where near as [...]
Stephen Harper said his reason for proroguing Parliament was because they needed to re-calibrate. After nine weeks off, MPs have returned to work. Yesterday, the Governor General presented the Speech from the Throne. Later today, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty will unveil a budget. But whether [...]
Politicians tell stories. No surprise there. But it turns out that constructing a compelling narrative might be a crucial part of making politics work. So we ask ... who's got the best story to tell in this session of [...]
In British Columbia and Ontario, people with Hepatitis C can only get government-funded treatment if their Hep C is bad enough. And so people who don't quite make the cut are deliberately trying to make themselves worse ... in order to get [...]
As Parliament gets set to resume, The Current looks at what's at stake in the next session. We talk to Liberal MP Derek Lee. He has accused the Government of being in contempt of Parliament for refusing to hand over documents related to the alleged [...]
We continue our series, Work In Progress with a documentary about two artists and a remarkable painting partnership that shapes their art and their [...]
Canada's gold-medal victory in men's hockey is being hailed as a defining moment for the country that goes well beyond sports. We convene a panel to discuss what defines a defining moment and how you can tell when a country's course has been fundamentally [...]
Ali Eteraz spent his formative years attending an Islamic school in Pakistan. Then his family moved to the American bible belt. Years later, he still has his faith ... as well as a unique view of both places he has called [...]
As the the number of civilian casualties rises due to coalition airstrikes in Afghanistan, retired U.S. Army Captain Shannon Meehan is speaking up about his own experience and a military strike that cost civilian lives in [...]
Nortel has reached a deal with its former employees. It would extend their benefits until the end of the year. But there's a catch ... one that some former employees say would leave them high and [...]
On Saturday Chile was rocked by an 8.8 magnitude earthquake. With rescue efforts still underway, we look at the precarious shifting of tectonic plates on the Pacific coast of South America and how scientists are turning to Twitter to learn [...]
The Executive Director of the BC Civil Liberties Association says the media has failed to deliver critical coverage of the Vancouver Olympics and that journalists have too often become [...]
The Olympics have brought about 250,000 people to Vancouver. And those people ... they brought their wallets. We take a tour of some suddenly very profitable micro-economies from hot dog vendors to the Royal Canadian [...]
There's widespread speculation that Olympic athletes could be using a new anti-anemia drug as a performance enhancing agent. The catch is that the drug hasn't even been approved for market yet. And that has some anti-doping advocates wondering what they'll have to do to keep [...]
According to Amnesty International, 32 different indigenous groups in Colombia are at grave risk because of armed conflicts in the country. And Amnesty is calling on countries such as Canada, which have sizeable economic stakes in Colombia, to do more to address the [...]
Mykola Makowsky dreamed of Olympic Gold but it was his brother Lucas that qualifed to compete. Now Mykola is cheering for his brother from the sidelines in Vancouver. Also, it's mail day. We get your thoughts on what you've been [...]
For 15 years, Andy Barrie has hosted CBC Radio's local morning show in Toronto. He's retiring today and he's on to other adventures. We talk to him about building community, living with Parkinson's Disease and saying [...]
We wade into the debate over a proposal to give public money to an evangelical religious group in Winnipeg. Supporters say it's about getting a much needed youth centre for a neighbourhood that could really use one. Critics say they'd like to read the fine [...]
*** Due to copyrights issues regarding music in this documentary we can not make this item available as a podcast but you can listen online off our website at: www.cbc.ca/thecurrent -click on past shows and today's date. Sorry for the inconvenience. [...]
In a report released yesterday, Justice Frank Iacobucci says the Canadian Security Intelligence Service "likely contributed indirectly" to the mistreatment of Canadian Ahmad Abou-Elmaati by Egyptian [...]
Twenty-eight years after they went to war over the Falkland Islands, Britain and Argentina are amping up the acrimony again ... this time in a dispute over oil [...]
Nobel-Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz argues in his new book, "Free Fall: America, Free Markets and The Sinking of The World Economy", that the global economic crisis the world is still recovering from could happen [...]
As the world's best athletes push themselves to their peak in Vancouver, we're rediscovering the value of play for its own [...]
For more than 20 years, Anne Mroczkowski has been delivering local news in Toronto. She was one of the first female news anchors and has been on the inside as the industry transformed itself. Now, she is out of a job. We hear her thoughts [...]
Faster, Higher, Stronger and Lonelier. There are seventeen athletes who are their countries one and only representatives at the Olympic Games in Vancouver. We meet two of [...]
Update from a parent and passenger aboard the SV Concordia that capsized and sank in Brazil on Wednesday. Also ... According to new research, athletic achievement has peaked and we are witnessing fewer new world records. The research suggests that trend is likely to [...]
Amidst allegations that commercial considerations were behind the decision to put the Olympic luge track in what some now say is an unsafe location, we ask whether athlete safety has been compromised and who is responsible for the death of Georgian luger Nodar [...]
The Suez Crisis is well-covered territory. But writer Joe Sacco has found a tragic and little-known story that has been buried in the history of the Israeli-Palestinian [...]
Neuroscientists say they have found a way to detect brain activity in people in vegetative states. They say this could have significant implications for some patients. But others worry it's just false [...]
Gita Sahgal, the head of Amnesty International's gender unit has been suspended after criticising the organization's work with Moazzam Begg, a British citizen and former Guantanamo Bay detainee who has been accused of holding extremist views and supporting the [...]
The people at the Pride Houses in Vancouver and Whistler are trying to address what they see as a perennial problem in elite sport. It's a first for any Olympic [...]
Meet the skeleton-sled-maker who gives Melissa Hollingsworth her edge and find out why he's thinking of packing it in even though he's at the top of his [...]
Shareholders, secrecy and the showdown you weren't supposed to know [...]
The deadly politics of homophobia in Uganda. As Uganda's gay community face tough new anti-gay legislation, some are becoming [...]
The Canadian and American women's hockey teams are demolishing the opposition at the Vancouver Olympics. But the lopsided scores have some fans of the sport wondering if poor competition will take the glitter off the [...]
As the frustration with some downhill runs reaches a crescendo at the Olympics, we're backsliding today and tracking the ski. It is older than the wheel: a couple of planks created to travel through the snow, evolving over as many as 5,000 years into a [...]
For so many in B.C.'s lower mainland, these Olympic Games mark a turning point in the discussions over what kind of city Vancouver will or should become. As soon as you mention urban vision, expect sudden division. CBC Host Kathryn Gretsinger takes us through [...]
We're back on the story of Haiti today. Before the earthquake, relatives in Canada and the U.S. were sending close to 2-billion dollars worth of remittances to their loved ones. That amounted to a full quarter of Haiti's GDP. Even so, charities were collecting tens [...]
Jennifer Heil, Canada's first medalist at the Olympic Games was on the [...]
From the opening ceremonies, to the medals, from the torch relay to a high profile pavilion - these Olympic Games have a distinctive aboriginal brand. But some ask whether that is enough representation for Canada's aboriginal [...]
Mental trainer Peter Jensen says the pressures of competiting on home turf and of "owning the podium", heaped onto the inherent stress of Olympic competition, demand some creative and intense mental training by athletes and their [...]
In the wake of the shock over the charges against Colonel Russell Williams, the head of Canadian Forces Base Trenton, we're going to look at the profile of serial killers and ask why we so-often can't seem to spot [...]
If it takes a village to raise a child, then it takes at least a town to raise an ol;ympic Athlete. Dominic Girard explores the sacrifices of others to help a young man reach his, and their dreams of [...]
Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade offered free land and "repatriation" to Haitians affected by the quake because he believes Haitians have a right to come home to Africa. But others are concerned that this Pan Africanism is [...]
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that it is the Federal Government's decision to ask the U.S. for Omar Khadr's return to Canada. We talk to Omar Khadr's lawyer and consider the ramifications of the [...]
The book Rich Dad, Poor Dad is the cornerstone of Robert Kiyosaki's get-rich empire. But now a CBC investigation has raised serious questions about the workshops that carry his empire's name. We go inside one of those [...]
Amidst the devastation and desperation, cruise ships are still docking in Haiti. And you can bet that's sparked a [...] |
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