The Current from CBC Radio (Highlights)

New York's attorney general has launched an investigation into the fossil fuel company about whether the company lied to the public about climate change. Some say it's important to call Big Oil to account like Big Tobacco, others say it's scapegoating.

The new film, "50 Feet from Syria", documents the time Dr. Hisham Bismar, a Syrian-American orthopedic surgeon from Portland, Oregon, spent in a Turkish field hospital in Syria to treat victims of the civil war there.

The quest for Truth and Reconciliation encouraged the stories to pour out. But survivors who believed they were promised confidentiality, are now stunned to learn their deeply personal testimony may be archived, and publicly available some day.

The Current's Friday host Kelly Crowe joins Anna Maria to share your listener feedback on stories of the week. Plus we look at Canada's sewage dumping practice and how the Italian mafia is making billions on the refugee crisis.

Neil Strauss was a music journalist when he turned an assignment on pick-up artists into a controversial book. "The Game" was considered a bible for how to pick-up-women-for-sex. But after living The Game, he eventually realized it was Game Over.

Sweden has welcomed an expected 190,000 asylum seekers this year alone. But now Sweden is struggling to cope with the logistics. As Canada prepares to take in 25,000 refugees, we're asking what we can learn from Sweden's experience.

Abu Bakr al Baghdadi was a devout kid in an Iraqi farming community whose marks weren't good enough to get into law school. Instead, he got a PhD in Islamic studies and became the Caliph of the so-called Islamic State and a man with an apocalyptic vision.

Long before Winnie the Pooh was famous, the real bear was the mascot of The Fort Garry Horse Manitoba regiment, traveling across Canada with military veterinarian Harry Colebourn. Now his great-granddaughter honours him with a new children's book.

Fifty-Nine soldiers have taken their own lives after returning to Canada. To those left behind, their deaths are directly related to their military service. Today, families want soldier suicides in Canada to be included among those we honour and remember.

The new Liberal caucus, considered the most diverse of any governing party, is full of individuals whose early lives forced them to shatter stereotypes and confront the odds. Today, we hear from a few of their proud parents.

They may seem like menacing insects to you, but Mark Winston says governments and corporations could learn a lot from the way bees communicate, collaborate and look after each other. He joins Anna Maria today to share his lessons from the hive.

If it turns out that ISIS is responsible for downing the Russian jet over Egypt late last month, it will mark a new chapter in the group's war on the West. We look at the potential consequences in Syria, in Moscow, and airports everywhere.

After a decade of being ridiculed for its dismissiveness on the environment file, Canada has a lot riding on the Paris Minister's meetings leading up to the even bigger UN Climate Change Conference at the end of the month.

It is urban planning Chinese-government style, whole tracts of underdeveloped land used to create move-in ready cities in anticipation of a growing population. But high rises are empty and streets ready to funnel traffic are curiously unclogged.

The anger that erupted over a deadly nightclub fire spilled onto the streets of Bucharest and saw key government leaders resign. It's considered a breaking point in the public anger over corruption inside government and its surrounding institutions.