The Current by CBC Radio

CBC Radio's The Current is a meeting place of perspectives with a fresh take on issues that affect Canadians today.

Radio: CBLA-FM CBC Radio One Toronto

Category: News & Politics

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- Travellers continue to battle wait times and cancellations at airports, but experts say there won’t be relief anytime soon

Wed, 06 Jul 2022
6399
- Enormous wind farm on the Shetland Islands leaves a community divided

Wed, 06 Jul 2022
6398
- Expectations are high ahead of the Pope’s visit to Canada

Tue, 05 Jul 2022
6397
- Examining why smuggling operations such as the one that happened in Texas are so deadly

Tue, 05 Jul 2022
6396
- How the cod moratorium rocked N.L. and what can be done to recover from it three decades later

Mon, 04 Jul 2022
6395
- Bonus | The crisis in Canada's emergency rooms, and how to fix it

Sat, 02 Jul 2022
6394
- Political scientist Yascha Mounk on the challenges facing democracy today — and how to save it

Fri, 01 Jul 2022
6393
- The extraordinary work of four Canadians appointed to the Order of Canada

Fri, 01 Jul 2022
6392
- The fight over established fundamental rights in the U.S.

Thu, 30 Jun 2022
6391
- Marking 25 years since the Hong Kong handover

Thu, 30 Jun 2022
6390
- Eyewitness account of Russian attack on crowded Ukrainian shopping mall

Wed, 29 Jun 2022
6389
- Author Gordon Korman on how 'the power of humour' can help tell serious stories

Wed, 29 Jun 2022
6388
- The crisis in Canada's emergency rooms

Tue, 28 Jun 2022
6387
- Invasive jellyfish making a new home in B.C.

Mon, 27 Jun 2022
6386
- U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v Wade — what does it mean for Canada?

Mon, 27 Jun 2022
6385
- Writer Lyndsie Bourgon on the surprising roots of tree poaching

Fri, 24 Jun 2022
6384
- The importance of small-town Pride parades

Fri, 24 Jun 2022
6383
- Chris Hall on interviewing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

Fri, 24 Jun 2022
6382
- Helping those hit hardest by Afghanistan’s deadly earthquake

Fri, 24 Jun 2022
6381
- A Manitoba teen died by suicide after being sexually extorted online. His parents want other families to know the risks

Thu, 23 Jun 2022
6380
- MPs issued personal panic buttons amid rising anger, vitriol in public life

Thu, 23 Jun 2022
6379
- One Toronto man’s 15-year fight to remove suspected illegal billboards

Thu, 23 Jun 2022
6378
- Concerns that Quebec’s new language law, Bill 96, will hurt province’s tech sector

Thu, 23 Jun 2022
6377
- Beach Smart warning system hopes to track rip tides and save lives

Wed, 22 Jun 2022
6376
- How Switzerland used prescription heroin to fight an opioid crisis — and the lessons for Canada

Wed, 22 Jun 2022
6375
- An engineer claimed a Google chat bot is sentient. Experts say the story prompts wider questions about AI

Wed, 22 Jun 2022
6374
- Russia’s invasion of Ukraine reaches four-month mark, with no end in sight

Wed, 22 Jun 2022
6373
- The Current Introduces: Buffy

Tue, 21 Jun 2022
6372
- What Colombia's first leftist president will mean for global politics

Tue, 21 Jun 2022
6371
- Athletes say efforts to stop abuse in sport must be independent from sporting organizations

Tue, 21 Jun 2022
6370
- Plans to ban some single-use plastics is a ‘tepid’ step forward, says advocate

Tue, 07 Jun 2022
6369
- Canadians taking second jobs, skipping meals to cope with inflation

Mon, 20 Jun 2022
6368
- The fight to eradicate polio in Pakistan

Mon, 20 Jun 2022
6367
- Curbing misinformation and hate speech online

Mon, 20 Jun 2022
6366
- U.S. approves COVID-19 vaccines for kids under 5

Mon, 20 Jun 2022
6365
- Workplace standoffs as reluctant employees are ordered back to the office

Fri, 17 Jun 2022
6364
- Curbing money laundering in Canada

Fri, 17 Jun 2022
6363
- Dr. João Goulão on what Canada can learn from how Portugal tamed its drug crisis

Fri, 17 Jun 2022
6362
- How peanuts were a driving force behind colonial expansion and slavery

Fri, 17 Jun 2022
6361
- Activists call for culture change over racism in policing

Thu, 16 Jun 2022
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- What a human rights complaint by Alberta's only female cardiovascular surgeon says about sexism in surgery

Thu, 16 Jun 2022
6359
- Indigenous sisters hope for exoneration three decades after murder conviction

Wed, 15 Jun 2022
6358
- How to tackle growing belief in conspiracy theories

Wed, 15 Jun 2022
6357
- Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander James Stavridis on what makes a great leader

Wed, 15 Jun 2022
6356
- Journalist, Indigenous expert missing in the Amazon rainforest

Tue, 14 Jun 2022
6355
- Hearings underway into Jan. 6 riot at U.S. Capitol

Tue, 14 Jun 2022
6354
- How classes in agriculture and baseball aim to rejuvenate two rural schools in Alberta

Tue, 14 Jun 2022
6353
- Kimberly Murray on helping Indigenous communities heal

Tue, 14 Jun 2022
6352
- Two climbers are spreading the joy of the outdoors by summitting Mount Everest

Sun, 12 Jun 2022
6351
- How the Rosebud Sioux Tribe brought the remains of its lost children home

Sun, 12 Jun 2022

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