The Current from CBC Radio (Highlights)

It has not been a great week and a half for the Upper Chamber. Conservative Senator Patrick Brazeau was kicked out of his caucus following his arrest for assault. The NDP's Charlie Angus went after Conservative Senator Mike Duffy over allegations the Sena

The truth in mathematics textbooks is pretty much accepted in schools around the world. But the history books often don't add up. We hear how students often get a skewed perception of their neighbours from the school texts they rely on. A new study sugges

The assassination of a popular opposition leader has some Tunisians wondering if the instability unleashed by their revolution is worth it. We speak to some who believe it is. As Tunisians mourn a popular opposition leader, many wonder what's become of th

The news is surprising and unprecedented in the modern papacy, Pope Benedict the XVI is announcing today that he will step down. Today, we look at the reasons and the implications.

As the Harper government considers a policy and legislative change that would strip a terrorist with dual citizenship of their Canadian citizenship, we’re asking how this would work. Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration, Rick Dykstra takes us through t

The stories of rape and assault coming from women victimized by security guards near a major gold mine site in Papua New Guinea have been persistent and deeply disturbing. Canadian giant Barrick Gold has responded with a program offering medical, psycholo

As France plans to pull forces out of Mali in March, the international community is divided over whether it's too soon and if the country will spiral further into chaos. We look at what is still unresolved and what is still at stake.

If it smells like pine spirit in parts of Greece these days, they have the smoke from home heating fires to thank for it. And not in a good way. Air pollution is the latest fallout from the Greek austerity measures. People are burning trees from the parks

The dictators of the Arab world didn't respond with one voice to the protests of the Arab spring. Some left without much urging. Some continue to fight. We hear from one Libyan Canadian woman who's investigated the sexual violence against women as a weapo

The story of the Syrian conflict is uploaded by courageous citizens but it is also documented by a knot of determined foreign journalists, many of them freelancers. And now a decision by an influential British newspaper to refuse all work out of Syria off

He's been in the Canadian Armed Forces for more than 20 years, the father of five children, a Senior Officer with time in Afghanistan doing a job he loves ... but he's close to broke, a series of mandated moves have left his family deep in debt. Military

Updating, Uploading and Upbraiding. We have your reaction to the stories we've been following from the mom playing The Heavy with her obese 7-year-old ... to the boss at BlackBerry, from the things that were said to the questions we should have asked. Tho

The knives may be out for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a fight gone public with a politician maneuvering to succeed him. It involves secret videos, corruption allegations, the arrest, imprisonment and reported sudden release of one of the Pres

It is called Revenge Porn, intimate pictures - usually of women - uploaded onto sites by angry ex-lovers or someone who has stolen their pictures. Some of the shots are consensual but the sharing of them is not. And once they are out there on sites that c

He's a media darling, the kids love him and face it ... space travel looks pretty appealing with Commander Chris Hadfield checking in, tweeting, floating about and sharing his space chores. But while he's up there, the agency that put him there is out of