The Current from CBC Radio (Highlights)

Just wave a mobile device over a product's tiny barcode and reveal a vast corporate web -- and perhaps a lot more than the manufacturer would prefer to reveal. We look at what consumers can do with the Buycott application.

After a week of political turmoil over the Senate expense scandal, the Prime Minister's chief of staff Nigel Wright has resigned. But questions about the $90,000 cheque he cut continue to swirl.

Guest host Sarah Harmer takes us on a hike through Canada's first urban national park. Rouge Park is 60 square kilometres of wilderness and parklands, surrounded by the GTA.

Guest host Sarah Harmer speaks to Bruce Cockburn and Nathan Lawr, frontman of the Canadian band the Minotaurs, about social justice and music.

With Mike Duffy’s spending and borrowing habits under scrutiny, he quit the conservative party to sit as an independent. We hear about the potential damage of “Duffy-Gate” to the govt and why the Senator is considered so valuable to the Conservatives.

From the Red Chamber to the Red Planet, we find out why so many people want to be part of a one-way mission to Mars. And we hear why one astronaut believes the colonists' hopes to spend their final days on Mars are most likely to be buried on earth.

Are temper tantrums and grief eating psychiatric conditions? According to some psychiatrists, the latest version of their diagnostic manual seems to suggest they are. And that's one of the reasons some believe the DSM has got to go.

Before we dismiss the ubiquitous election campaign polls after BC’s election results, maybe we need to look at this differently. The power of opinion polls may not reside in the ability to predict but rather in their ability to influence voter behaviour.

It's one of the oldest of journalistic angles, pretend to be a homeless person to write about poverty. This month, an Egyptian man dressed up as a woman to experience harassment in Cairo. He got attention alright -- some of it from other journalists.

We are catching up on and updating stories this week from vegan fury and grizzly bear worries … to a man who is literally drawing out the opposition in the upcoming Iranian elections with a fictional character from a popular graphic novel.

When NY Times printed Angelina Jolie's opinion piece outlining her choice of a preventative mastectomy, the public conversation began anew, sparked by the realization that genetic technology offers women informed choice. We pick up on that conversation.

After 13 years as a high profile Vegan, a chef and holistic health counselor, Alex Jamieson made a very public confession … she had begun eating eggs and meat. She wasn't vegan anymore. We speak to Alex Jamieson about the politics of food.

With Stephen Hawking's decision to pull out of a conference at Israel's Hebrew University, the action against Israeli Universities by professors in Canada and the world was back in the news. We look at the ethical dilemmas involving academic boycotts.

Five months after Derek Boogard played the NY Rangers in December 2010, he was dead - an accidental overdose of painkillers and alcohol. His family seeks to hold the NHL responsible for physical trauma, brain damage and his addiction to painkillers.

Gina Roitman's mother had long hinted at the dangers that surrounded her birth in a displaced persons camp in Germany after the Second World War. But it was only when she travelled to Passau, Germany decades later that she learned of the Nazi midwife.