The Current from CBC Radio (Highlights)
Summary: CBC Radio's The Current is a meeting place of perspectives with a fresh take on issues that affect Canadians today.
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After Friday's pipeline spill that saw diluted bitumen gush down streets, Mayflower is the Canadian pipeline debate writ large with one side arguing the spill points up the need for new pipelines and the other pointing to a reason to stop Keystone XL.
Kris Katsiroubas and Ali Medlej are the two Canadians CBC News named last night, the Algerian government identified as members of the terrorist group that attacked a gas plant in the Algerian desert in January. The CBC's Greg Weston tells us more.
We share the story of a man whose fight against racial segregation in Canada in the 50s centred on the small Southern Ontario town of Dresden. Our project Line in the Sand follows the fight that even some Black residents didn't want Hugh Burnett to wage.
When Ontario's public television station put out a cartoon video game about pipelines that included pipeline bombers, the West wanted in. Now the game is out. Is someone too sensitive? Is the game in bad taste? Is it a political pile-on Ontario?
Mary Roach's curiosity has taken her from a cadaver farm to having sex in an MRI machine. The science writer now brings her deep insight into our deep insides with her latest book,'Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal.'
The stains from Argentina's Dirty War continue to surface in unexpected and appalling ways. We hear from a woman who learns a terrifying secret about the people she thought were her parents - and their role in the fate of the people who gave her life.
As Burma undergoes a fragile political transition, many are rushing to offer foreign assistance. But some say a slow and measured approach is in order given that the country is in the middle of immense change.
A new brew called Death Wish has been introduced as a weapon of tasse seduction in Canada's coffee wars. Its attempts to stir up the business come at a time when competition is, forgive us, double-doubling.
The most dangerous drugs in Canada come with a prescription. Canadians are consuming more opiods per capita than people in any other country. Over 1,000 Canadians will pay with their lives every year because of the prescription drugs they will abuse.
Trinity Western University forbids activities such as gossip and drinking but that's not why so many oppose plans for a new law school. They have a covenant that requires students to abstain from sexual intimacy that violates the sacredness of marriage.
After our story on federal changes regarding those Not Criminally Responsible, we heard from Retired Ontario Supreme Court Judge Douglas Carruthers who until last year chaired the Ontario Review Board. He weighs in on changes he says are not needed.
With the US Supreme Court hearing two landmark cases this week, gay activists see both progress and unintended consequences. We explore how the DOMA hearings are seen as both a milestone and a distraction by those most affected.
New reproductive technologies make it possible for women who are old enough to be grandmothers to contemplate motherhood for the first time. We hear why some believe motherhood is not the kind of thing you want to put off.
What are you more likely to read -- travel tips written by a veteran travel journalist or travel tips written by an airline company? You may soon not be able to tell the difference as the need for advertising revenue gets more desperate.
Esmatullah Meherzada is an Afghan man who passed all the security checks the Canadian forces put him through to allow him to work with our soldiers in Kandahar, only to fail the one that could get him to a new life in Canada.