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Newest Episode: Fri February 03, 2012. 05:00 AM
CBC Radio's The Current is a meeting place of perspectives with a fresh take on issues that affect Canadians today.
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Wed June 01, 2011. 04:00 AM
Yale University this month banned Delta Kappa Epsilon for five years after members of the fraternity chanted sexist obscenities on campus. The incident has reignited an old debate: Do fraternities naturally breed misogyny? And should they have a place on campus?
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Wed June 01, 2011. 04:00 AM
Canadian stand-up comedian Russell Peters has made his name on poking fun at race and racial stereotypes. Why does he do it? Why does it work? Under what circumstances would he censor himself? Is an interview on The Current one of them? And all jokes aside, what are his real thoughts on race? We go deep into the mind of one of this country's top funny men.
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Wed June 01, 2011. 04:00 AM
Tonight it's Game One of the Stanley Cup Finals and the Canucks will be facing off against the Bruins. Hockey-crazed citizens of Vancouver and Boston are unable to work and prone to uncontrollable outbursts. We talk to two people who know the teams and cities quite well to get their thoughts on who will bring home the Stanley Cup?
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Tue May 31, 2011. 04:00 AM
MPs are days away from the beginning of a new Parliament but behind the scenes the work is already underway for Canada's new Majority government. Stephen Harper's Conservatives has plans to strip the Canadian Wheat Board of its monopoly on sales. This means farmers could be selling on an open market in about a year … changing the game for one of Western Canada's largest crops. It is a Bread and Butter issue for farmers and they can be pretty crusty about their Wheat.
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Tue May 31, 2011. 04:00 AM
They call him the real-life Batman. That's because Daniel Kish is blind, and has learned to navigate the world by bouncing sound off the objects around him - much the same way that bats do. Kish is now teaching the technique - known as echolocation - to other blind people, and is attracting a lot of attention from the scientific world along the way.
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Tue May 31, 2011. 04:00 AM
The future of the International Monetary Fund is up in the air after the resignation of Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Khan. And that has a lot of people betting on what's going to happen.
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Mon May 30, 2011. 04:00 AM
Malaria. Malnutrition. HIV/AIDS. The health issues facing Africa are myriad. Last year, Dr. Guerma was named director general of the African Medical and Research Foundation or AMREF - Africa's leading health development organization. She sat down with The Current when she passed through Toronto on her first trip to Canada with AMREF. We aired that interview for you today.
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Mon May 30, 2011. 04:00 AM
Bob Rae is the new leader of the Liberal party. He joined Anna Maria today for a feature interview to discuss his new role in office and his forecast for what lies ahead.
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Mon May 30, 2011. 04:00 AM
In 2010, Canada welcomed two hundred and fifty thousand new immigrants. That's a quarter of a million people who could be taking the oath of Canadian citizenship in 2014. For our project 'Shift', The Current's Naheed Mustafa brought us a docuemntary about the emotional and complex topic of immigration in Canada. Her documentary is called, 'Taking the Oath'.
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Fri May 27, 2011. 04:00 AM
As Mexico's drug wars continue wreaking havoc in that country, the Catholic church is becoming a popular target. Narco bosses are donating to churches even building new ones. They buy the silence of congregations while threatening, even killing priests who resist their "charitable" acts. We explore their tactics and the church's efforts to stop them.
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Fri May 27, 2011. 04:00 AM
Ratko Maldic, the Bosnian Serb Army General was captured alive and is in custody today. Next month, he will face war crimes charges at the International Criminal Court. The capture of Mladic closes a brutal chapter in the wars that tore apart the former Yugoslavia in the 90's. But it also re-opens old wounds. We talk to two people whose lives were changed by Mladic and his henchmen.
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Fri May 27, 2011. 04:00 AM
Forget jewelery or high-priced electronics. In cities across the United States, thieves increasingly are setting their sights on a new target: human hair. We explore the growing black market for human tresses, and the recent rash of hair weave thefts that's supplying it.
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Thu May 26, 2011. 04:00 AM
She's arguably the toughest auditor general this country has ever had - and she's about to leave office. We talk to Sheila Fraser about holding the government's feet to the fire for the last 10 years.
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Thu May 26, 2011. 04:00 AM
What's up with the weather? From drought to catastrophic storms and flooding, extreme events seem to have become the new norm in recent years. The trend, attributed by many scientists to climate change, even has a name: Global Weirding. And it's changing the way the insurance industry does business.
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Thu May 26, 2011. 04:00 AM
We dip into the mailbag as usual on Thursday's. Plus, we continue our conversation about a tragic accident 37 years ago at the military base in Valcartier, Quebec with a man who oversaw the morgue that day. And we'll revisit that story of the 8-year-old who admitted to getting Botox injections on national TV. It turns out the story is more complicated than we thought.
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Wed May 25, 2011. 04:00 AM
If our destiny is in our genes, who has a right to know what that destiny is? That's the crux of a growing debate between the insurance industry and private citizens who feel they're being denied coverage because they might or might not be on track to inherit a disease. We look at the fight to end so-called genetic discrimination.
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Wed May 25, 2011. 04:00 AM
After 25 years, The Oprah Winfrey Show officially comes to an end today. During the show's run, its namesake became one of the richest and most influential women in the world, attracting millions of mostly female devotees along the way. Oprah's fans say she has inspired them to be better people. But critics say she has instead inspired a global cohort of mindless followers. As Oprah's last episode goes to air, we explore her impact on the women of the world.
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Wed May 25, 2011. 04:00 AM
Pt 2: Willful Blindness - Ever wonder why we insist on burying our heads in the sand? What's behind our inclination to willfull blindness, our ability to avoid facing the truth and sometimes even pretend we didn't know it. We talk to the writer of a fascinating new book.
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Tue May 24, 2011. 04:00 AM
Students in the Attawapiskat First Nation -- a remote community on James Bay in Northern Ontario -- have been waiting for a proper school for more than 10 years now. And they're not the only first nations students who say they're facing shortcomings when it comes to the quality of their education.
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Tue May 24, 2011. 04:00 AM
Newfoundlanders are outraged that a man they rejected twice at the polls has been selected twice to sit in the senate. Some voters think Fabian Manning's re-appointment is an insult. Others call it recognition of public service while still more say, it's part of the government's Machiavellian plan to push its senate reform agenda.
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