The Current from CBC Radio (Highlights)

Evan Solomon is now the former host of The House and Power & Politics, after he was fired from CBC yesterday. His dismissal came shortly after Toronto Star's Kevin Donovan broke the story about Solomon's off-air work. Today we look at ethics in the media.

It's one of the most buzzed about media companies of the digital age. BuzzFeed, the internet meme-maker, is setting shop in here. We speak with Craig Silverman, the Canadian journalist who will be running BuzzFeed Canada and making Can Con go viral.

Nothing could be more normal than lapsing into a daydream. But for sufferers of maladaptive daydreaming, it's a waking nightmare. It takes over their lives, feeling trapped. Some are calling for the condition to be recognized as a psychiatric disorder.

PM Stephen Harper said yesterday, Canada has joined the G7 nations in a pledge to "decarbonize" before this century's over. Some say it's the only way out of our climate change jam, but it's not the easiest sell to a carbon-based energy superpower.

He told her he was a warrior, bragged about who he killed. But the woman talking to the ISIS jihadist wasn't an impressionable convert. She was a journalist looking into what lures young women into the embrace of ISIS. When she bolted, things got ugly.

Back in the 50's there were legitimate medical experiments with LSD but psychedelic drugs in the labs were side-swiped by street use. And as a growing counter-culture dropped acid, governments added restrictions, making research impossible. Until now.

The speaker of the Senate Leo Housakos said last week 'There's no room in this institution for deliberate impropriety', just days before being named among those cited for inappropriate spending. Is this a question of vague rules? Or morality and ethics?

We look at a new book, "Disaster Heroes", that tells the stories of the anonymous, ordinary people that help out in times of catastrophe.

They were subject to medical experiments in Liberia for decades, but now, in their golden years, the funds have dried up for their caretaking. We hear from some of the folks who are giving these forgotten chimps a voice.

With new allegations of bribery and corruption and an ongoing investigation into Qatar's winning bid, we're asking whether FIFA should revisit the decision to give Qatar the cup in 2022.

Friday host Piya Chattopadhyay joins Anna Maria in studio to get through a week's worth of your mail. From feedback on futuristic cars that drive themselves to the present-day peril of being stuck waiting on hold.Checking-In on waiting 'on hold', Truth an

He's got more than 60,000 twitter followers. James Rebanks is a shepherd in the Lake District of northwest England. He's Oxford educated but realized early on that his attachment to his family's centuries old profession was his real intellectual calling.

It's called carding. Statistically every man of colour in Toronto has experienced it more than once. Police it intelligence-led policing. Civil liberties advocates call it racial profiling and a prominent group of Torontonians calls it socially corrosive.

There are celebrations over a $15 Billion judgement against three tobacco companies but few are expecting them to roll over. In the U.S., big tobacco argues smoking is a form of free speech. So how do you fight that?

The TRC report lays the groundwork for a relationship but reconciliation depends on all Canadians believing injustices against First Nations have had lasting, profound negative impact. We speak to two residential school survivors on how to move forward.