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The Current from CBC Radio (Highlights)

Summary: 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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 'We don't have to wait for a national inquiry to start making changes' says Winnipeg police chief | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1030

Chief Danny Smyth of the Winnipeg Police Services and NDP MLA Nahanni Fontaine speak about the broken relationship between MMIW families and police. This is part two of The Current's Winnipeg public forum on MMIW cases.

 'I understood...because I was one of them.' Sheila North Wilson on creating #MMIW | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 276

Grand Chief Sheila North Wilson created the hashtag #MMIW to amplify the grassroots activism being done on the issue to a national level.

 Families of MMIW push police to take cases seriously | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1319

The Current's Winnipeg public forum exploring how police respond to MMIW cases hears from Bernadette Smith, who says police failed to properly investigate her sister's disappearance in 2008 because she's female, Aboriginal, had an addiction and a record.

 Full Episode for December 7, 2016 - A special edition of The Current | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 4465

A special edition of The Current comes to you from Winnipeg with a public forum in front of a live audience focusing on the relationship between families of murdered, missing and Indigenous women, the police and justice system.

 Dec 6: Meet the people living along Kinder Morgan pipeline route | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1428

The Current heads on a road trip along the route of Kinder Morgan's newly-approved pipeline expansion to gauge support for it in communities along the way.

 Dec 6: 'Still a lot of work to do': Despite Standing Rock victory, protesters stay put | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1303

Protesters at Standing Rock are celebrating a fragile victory. But a woman protesting for three months says the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline isn't over until it's over.

 Dec 6: 'I need to know your name': A desperate search for Emad Rozik's killer | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1175

There's a video of a fatal shooting that shows the murderer, two witnesses and a getaway car. But six years on, the police are still looking for the killer. The CBC's Dave Ridgen shares the cold case investigation on the death of Emad Rozik.

 Full Episode for December 6, 2016 - The Current | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 4385

From a cold case investigation and the family of Emad Rozik waiting for justice, to Standing Rock protesters celebrating a fragile victory, to visiting communities along Kinder Morgan's newly-approved pipeline expansion ... This is The Current.

 Full Episode for December 5, 2016 - The Current | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 4354

From Daily Show host Trevor Noah on growing up mixed race and poor in South Africa, to how MDMA — a prescription drug — helped a former firefighter with PTSD to regain control of his life ... This is The Current.

 Dec 5: Trevor Noah on growing up mixed race in South Africa, 'a product of my parents' crime' | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2499

The Daily Show host Trevor Noah's book Born A Crime talks about growing up in apartheid South Africa when the relationship between his black mother and white father was illegal.

 Dec 5: 'I have no doubt it saved my life': MDMA drug helps former firefighter with PTSD | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1389

Researchers say pure MDMA — not the stuff on the street — has the potential to change the brain and create conditions that allow psychotherapy. Ed Thompson who suffers from PTSD says MDMA treatment saved his life.

 Fear of Trump Presidency has the Internet Archive moving to Canada | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 826

Fear of Trump Presidency has the Internet Archive moving to Canada.

 Economist warns insufficient oil demand hinders Trans Mountain pipeline | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 544

With declining global demand for oil, author Jeff Rubin says the pipeline expansion will not be the economic salvation for Alberta.

 Supreme Court hears landmark case on Indigenous religious freedoms | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 996

The Ktunaxa First Nation contests their constitutional rights to religious freedom are being violated by a proposed ski resort.

 Full Episode for December 2, 2016 - The Current | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 4460

From the Internet Archive coming to Canada, to the Supreme Court case testing Indigenous claims to religious freedom, to the elderly women still fighting to get the Japanese government to apologize for abuse they suffered in WWII... This is The Current.

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