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

6992
- What sheep shearing during the pandemic taught author Peggy Orenstein

Mon, 20 Mar 2023
6991
- Concerns about the Colorado River’s low water levels

Mon, 20 Mar 2023
6990
- Revisiting the Iraq War, 20 years later

Mon, 20 Mar 2023
6989
- International medical students ordered to return to Ukraine for exams

Fri, 17 Mar 2023
6988
- How Credit Suisse reached a crisis point

Fri, 17 Mar 2023
6987
- Canadian libraries grapple with increase in violent incidents

Fri, 17 Mar 2023
6986
- Texas lawsuit seeks to ban access to abortion pill

Fri, 17 Mar 2023
6985
- Sense of ‘protest and turmoil’ as strikes drag on in garbage-strewn Paris

Thu, 16 Mar 2023
6984
- Catholic group using phone data to out gay priests

Thu, 16 Mar 2023
6983
- Renowned Canadian architect Phyllis Lambert on how to build better cities

Thu, 16 Mar 2023
6982
- Cyclone Freddy devastates Malawi

Thu, 16 Mar 2023
6981
- Community left reeling after fatal truck attack in Amqui, Que.

Wed, 15 Mar 2023
6980
- Orca spotted caring for baby pilot whale, surprising experts

Wed, 15 Mar 2023
6979
- Scientists map the entire brain of the fruit fly for first time

Wed, 15 Mar 2023
6978
- Companies adopt 4-day work week after U.K. trial

Wed, 15 Mar 2023
6977
- Millions pledged to tackle airline complaint backlog, but how can root problems be addressed?

Wed, 15 Mar 2023
6976
- ‘Kids aren’t content’: Concerns over ‘sharenting’ and children’s privacy online

Tue, 14 Mar 2023
6975
- Nerve-wracking time for Toronto startup that banked with collapsed Silicon Valley Bank

Tue, 14 Mar 2023
6974
- Environmental impact of the beauty industry’s demand for collagen

Tue, 14 Mar 2023
6973
- New CBC podcast looks at Sam Bankman-Fried and the collapse of FTX

Mon, 13 Mar 2023
6972
- Tackling rising syphilis cases across Canada

Mon, 13 Mar 2023
6971
- What the Oscars tells us about Canada’s film industry

Mon, 13 Mar 2023
6970
- Canadians turn to fee-charging private clinics to access health care

Mon, 13 Mar 2023
6969
- BONUS | A personal plea to expand MAID, and concern over proposed changes

Sun, 12 Mar 2023
6968
- Long COVID patients fear they’ll be forgotten as pandemic fades

Fri, 10 Mar 2023
6967
- How the humble cabbage got this P.E.I. woman a shout out in the New York Times

Fri, 10 Mar 2023
6966
- What historians are learning from the COVID-19 pandemic

Fri, 10 Mar 2023
6965
- Grocery chain CEOs face questions on Parliament Hill

Thu, 09 Mar 2023
6964
- The pitch clock intended to speed up baseball

Thu, 09 Mar 2023
6963
- Rohingya refugee fears the world has forgotten their plight

Thu, 09 Mar 2023
6962
- Graeme Bayliss on mental illness and medical assistance in dying

Thu, 09 Mar 2023
6961
- Concerns over expansion of medical assistance in dying

Wed, 08 Mar 2023
6960
- A new discovery raises questions about the Big Bang

Wed, 08 Mar 2023
6959
- Margaret Atwood on grief, censorship — and whether AI could ever replicate her writing

Wed, 08 Mar 2023
6958
- How 'zombie cells' could be a key to living longer, healthier lives

Tue, 07 Mar 2023
6957
- Suspected poisoning of Iranian schoolgirls

Tue, 07 Mar 2023
6956
- Trudeau announces investigations, special rapporteur to look into election interference claims

Tue, 07 Mar 2023
6955
- Solar geoengineering: the complicated science and ethics of modifying the skies

Tue, 07 Mar 2023
6954
- UN signs global treaty to protect the oceans

Tue, 07 Mar 2023
6953
- Listeners share their views on medical assistance in dying

Mon, 06 Mar 2023
6952
- Preserving the soundscapes of the Earth’s coldest places

Mon, 06 Mar 2023
6951
- Cenovus Energy CEO on carbon capture efforts and reaching net zero

Mon, 06 Mar 2023
6950
- Avalanche survivor urges caution after deadly snowslides in B.C.

Mon, 06 Mar 2023
6949
- BONUS | ‘I don't want to stay stuck in my body … just waiting to die’

Sat, 04 Mar 2023
6948
- An Ontario surgeon travelled to earthquake-stricken Syria. Here’s what he saw

Fri, 03 Mar 2023
6947
- Rethinking and rebranding ‘mommy brain’

Fri, 03 Mar 2023
6946
- The human cost of cobalt, the element that powers our devices

Fri, 03 Mar 2023
6945
- National affairs panel on allegations of Chinese interference in Canadian elections

Thu, 02 Mar 2023
6944
- A new book explore the mysteries of our minds

Thu, 02 Mar 2023
6943
- Migrant children exploited for cheap labour

Thu, 02 Mar 2023

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