The Current from CBC Radio (Highlights)

Few journalists have tracked the stories of girls and women in peril ... in conflict ... in threatening traditional cultures as tirelessly as Sally Armstrong. She was the first to report the plight of women under the Taliban to Canadians, there was initia

It's not easy lifting a 200-pound Rotweiller onto a grooming table. Nor is it easy for a groomer to tell a pet owner that Fido is fat. From cats that are far-more-than-fluffy … to dogs with big bellies, as many as 70-percent of our pets are obese. Cue the

Prime Minister Stephen Harper came to power on a promise of transparency against blatant partisanship and a pledge to handle appointments differently. And now scandals are exposing his choices... from the Senate, to CSIS or SIRC, to his one-time inner cir

A Syrian-born banker in Britain is pushing a universal phonetic alphabet to get us pronouncing perfectly... something he thinks will promote a more harmonious world. But some linguists are not so optimistic.

Kenyans are heading to the polls today. The country's last presidential election sparked brutal violence, leaving 13-hundred people dead and threatening to rip the country apart. Two of the men on the ballot today are facing charges of Crimes Against Huma

Former pro basketball player Dennis Rodman is in North Korea today. His trip has US policy-makers and pundits concerned the visit may undermine the West's policy goals there. We debate whether on the basketball mad Korean Peninsula there's such a thing as

Cell phones, laptops, tablets and all our other wireless gear have made it easy for companies to let their employees work from home. But now Yahoo -- a telecommuting early adopter -- says it needs its employees to come back to the office. We debate the pr

Isaac Vaisberg is a self-described recovering Internet addict. He's getting treatment through a pioneering new program in Washington State. And this spring, Internet Use Disorder will be officially recognized as an area that warrants further study. But no

Head to YouTube and you can watch dozens of scenarios to a problem with older or elderly drivers. Statistically,drivers aged 80-plus almost have the accident rate of the most dangerous driving demographic ... the under 24s. And in Sudbury they are the tar

Houses in Fort McMurrary are in such demand they sell at prices a quarter-of-a-million-dollars more than either Edmonton or Calgary. But it is what new houses could be sitting on that really has Alberta's bitumen capital in a bind. A massive tract of land

Find out what a comedian-turned political powerhouse named Beppe Grillo has in mind for the European Union's third largest economy. And, we'll remember a man who escaped two Nazi concentration camps, helped write the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Ontario's new premier may think there's a rein on payday loan companies but their level of creativity appears to be almost as high as the interest rates they charge. In some Canadian provinces and across the U.S., these so-called lenders of last resort ar

Pope Benedict the 16th stood before tens-of-thousands of the faithful at his final audience in St. Peters Square this morning. As he prepares to step away from the Papacy tomorrow ... we're asking about his legacy. Will he be remembered as an outstanding

Most of us would be hard-pressed to notice a four-millimetre difference in the size of a lobster shell. To put that in perspective, four millimetres is the width of four dimes stacked on top of each other. But lobster fishers in PEI and New Brunswick are

When Robert Mugabe clung to power after Zimbabwe's 2008 election he was quick to wield the power of the law and the authority of the state. But it is precisely the wider legal and moral authority of States that is now being used against him in a South Afr