The Current from CBC Radio (Highlights)

For many Canadian women a few drinks after work has become quite a few drinks. The number of female binge drinkers is increasing. Critics blame liquor marketers for targeting women, possibly setting them up for serious health problems later in life.

Journalism have taken a bashing from the Ford brothers over a video that only three journalists say they have seen which purports to show the Toronto Mayor smoking crack cocaine. Today, we're asking if playing that video for the masses is even necessary.

Syria has nearly two dozen universities but the availability of class space is not the biggest worry of students. Many wonder if they'll live to graduate.

If you want to know how to cook, read a book written by a chef. If you want to know how to silently kill an enemy agent or lay down a honey trap,‘Red Sparrow’ by former spy Jason Matthews.

The former presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich is known for thinking big, but even he admits his party must change its ways if it wants a Republican back in the White House any time soon.

Name-calling, provoking and obfuscating. This week however, there was a change in Question Period with the tone in the daily battle of the benches. We hear what happened and ask whether this shameful civility can continue.

Some of Facebook's least popular pages have been scrubbed from the social media site. Pictures and jokes that encouraged violence against women angered many users. But an advertising boycott soon had Facebook rewriting its policies.

Jacob Barnett was 10 when he tested mathematically at the level of a PhD student in astrophysics. And 8 years after another test concluded he was autistic with little hope of ever speaking or tying his shoes. Today, the story of a boy and his mom.

Dr. Henry Morgentaler died yesterday. He left Canada a much different place than he found it. Today we look at the story of a life and a career that still divides Canadians.

Women in the boardroom. The Ontario government looks to the regulator - the Securities Commission in a push to see more women on the boards of major Canadian firms. We explore this issue when we update and check-in on stories we've been following.

Online home rental websites might make tourists happy. But they've left business owners and government officials seething. We discuss online home rental sites and the 'share economy.'

For decades, Judy Graves has walked the streets of Vancouver seeking out the homeless. Her goal? To help. Judy Graves retired as Vancouver's Homeless Advocate on May 29. We caught up with her.

Genetically modified corn seed was supposed to be resistant to the dreaded rootworm. But in parts of the U.S. Midwest, corn farmers are discovering the very problem that GM crops were supposed to eliminate are back in the corn.

The investigation into the 1985 Air India tragedy will forever be associated with rival intelligence agencies. Officials insist CSIS and the RCMP work together. But a report on the Delisle case asserts the FBI had to tell the RCMP what CSIS already knew.

Distance, terrain, expense -- all challenging hurdles for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. But it's beginning to look as if the most challenging hurdle was barely considered. And now, failure to get public acceptance threatens the whole deal.