The Current from CBC Radio (Highlights)

Meet Anas Al Abdullah. He's among the first privately-sponsored refugees to arrive in Canada this year. He joins us to talk about what he's left behind, and what he and his family hope to build in their new home in Canada.

Friday host Piya Chattopadhyay joins Anna Maria to check in on your thoughts about the stories we've covered over the past week. And Dr. Brian Goldman joins us to look at the anticipated but now delayed, introduction of physician-assisted death in Quebec.

Today we bring you the story of life in the so-called ISIS "caliphate." For one, its remarkably, meticulously planned and organized: from a functioning government bureaucracy with its own separate ministries, to citizenship tests and welfare payments.

On average, football players end up with more head injuries than players in other sports. Injuries that accumulate over time can show up in depression or anger. The problem is severe enough some doctors are calling to end high school football programs.

Winter is coming. How does that make you feel? It could depend on which Northern country you call home. Canadians love to hate the snowy season but not our Nordic neighbours. Today, we hear why Norwegians love winter, and perhaps learn how to embrace it.

Long before Edward Snowden blew the whistle, two notable Canadians were fighting for privacy and government transparency. Tonight, CJFE honours ACLU lawyer Jameel Jaffer and investigative reporter Ken Rubin for their commitment as 'Information Warriors'.

There's an easy way to meet our carbon emission goals: Just cut out meat. Livestock and the process that brings it to market accounts for more emissions than all vehicles combined. So where's the agricultural attention at the Paris climate change talks?

Those tracking Donald Trump's once-entertaining bombast are now concerned, pointing to his xenophobia, ultra-patriotism and vows to expel or monitor identifiable minorities, as examples of something ominous in U.S. politics. Is Donald Trump a fascist?

The debate over the importance of the Monarchy has been re-ignited with a new Canadian citizen Dror Bar-Natan's disavowal of his oath to the Queen after his citizenship ceremony this past Monday. Has the time come to swear off an old swearing-in habit?

Thousands of children are set to enter public schools across this country as refugees of war. We hear from an expert on the integration of refugee children on how teachers feel ill-prepared for the new arrivals.

Don't even think about it! That's how many, including some important decision makers, approach climate change. Author George Marshall discusses the psychology of climate change denial. And author Roy Scranton says we must adapt to where we are at now.

Two degrees Celsius is a deceptively small number but the ripple effect of a small global temperature rise can create waves of climate change. Today, we're concentrating on two degrees, the amount of warming climate scientists find acceptable as a target.

Climate expert Goron McBean says preventing two degrees of warming is a tall order, we better act fast. If Canada is committed to reducing emissions, Mark Jaccard says we should put a price on carbon and introduce legislation to phase out fossil fuel use.

Friday host Piya Chattopadhyay joins Anna Maria to check in your thoughts on stories this week. Plus we talk to Globe and Mail writer Doug Saunders on what Canada can learn from Brussels and a teacher blames smartphones for her student's bad behaviour.

The to-do list is long for Jody Wilson-Raybould. From changes to the anti-terror bill, to doctor-assisted-death, to confronting mandatory minimum sentencing. Her mandate includes undoing a lot of what the Harper government did. She's up for the challenge.