The Current from CBC Radio (Highlights)

Turkish doctors made history yesterday when an embryo was implanted into a transplanted womb. Uterus Transplants are very new and doctors in Turkey and Sweden have plans for many more. But medical ethicists have many questions. Today, as part of our proje

With the Cardinals cloistered in the Sistine Chapel, the debate far from Vatican City among the faithful but skeptical is not Who should be Pope but what change a new Pope might bring. Today, we hear from an activist nun who argues the Cardinals should ta

It was a case of justifiable homicide, the kind of situation that the U.S. gun lobby uses to justify gun ownership. But what happened to Johnny Slaughter after he fatally shot a home intruder never made it into the debates on gun control. Today's document

Fiona Johnstone was a new mother who wanted to and exchange her shift rotation for static hours. When her request was denied, Johnstone fought back. Her legal battle has resulted in a decision that could have far-ranging implications for workers trying to

Forty-two years ago, secessionist fighters took up arms against the Pakistan army in a brutal war that saw the creation of Bangladesh. The slaughter of civilians is considered nothing short of a genocide. Only now are trials underway, a development that's

Correctional Investigator of Canada Howard Sapers presented a rare report to parliament this week about the over-representation of aboriginal people in the justice system. The number of aboriginal people in federal prisons has jumped by more than 50 per c

Syrian human rights activist and blogger Razan Ghazzawi speaks to us about documenting the human rights abuses in her country, facing down the regime of Bashar al-Assad and having to live in exile because of her work.

As the Catholic Church prepares for a new pope, there are the usual calls to relax the rules on celibacy for priests. We hear from three people - not all priests - with their own complicated, conflicted and ultimately rewarding relationships with celibacy

As the body of Hugo Chavez lies in state, the eyes of many in the business world are on the markets specifically world oil prices. Venezuela's massive oil reserves served to both enable and limit Chavez's revolutionary ambitions. And now a Venezuelan oil

When journalist Michael Moss started taste-testing, he wasn't working on just any old food story. He was investigating the science, the marketing, the psychology and the corporate zeal behind addictive junk food. A trail of emails, whistle-blowers and som

Today we take a glimpse inside the complicated world of Shin Dong-hyuk as he continues to confront life outside the North Korean prison camp where he was born. From the price of freedom to his incredulity over Dennis Rodman's enthusiastic embrace of dicta

In a country dominated by a cult of personality where information is not free, the death of the populist and polarizing Hugo Chavez leaves a gaping hole and endless questions. Today, the fallout, the implications and the legacy of Hugo Chavez.

The Ontario's Soccer Association is ready to impose a province-wide ban on scores and standings for leagues for children under 12, arguing less competition now will pay off in more elite soccer stars down the road. Today, we look at the pitch for scoreles

William Stevenson was a WWII British naval pilot working intelligence who ended up as a foreign reporter for The Toronto Star after the war, a reporter who kept taking notes for MI6 - the British spy agency sending them through another agent called Willia

The campaign plan was to offer well-timed apologies for government treatment of certain ethnic minorities. Instead the strategy was leaked forcing a different kind of apology from BC's Christy Clark and raising wider questions of how politicians target vo