The Current from CBC Radio (Highlights)

When BlackBerry's Thorsten Heins stood on a New York stage last week that wasn't just any new smartphone he held up. That device has to turn into a Saviour. So one week on what is Thorsten Heins thinking? We're asking.

She calls herself L. Marie Adeline and her first erotic novel sent her Canadian publishers into 50 Shades of Ecstasy when - even before it was actually finished, the book was snapped up by publishers in more than 30 countries. The author of S.E.C.R.E.T st

If you're gay there is no place for you in the Boy Scouts of America, either as a leader or a youth member. It is a long-held rule supported by sponsoring church groups. But this week the national organization is deciding whether to change. The very fact

The ability to get any food to those displaced and fleeing is a serious problem in Syria. And the food isn't the half of it ... Syria continues a downward spiral while an international community talks ... threatens ... muses ... worries and remains unmov

There are few grains as giving as Quinoa with its high protein content of up to 18-percent. A few years back, few could even pronounce it, let alone buy it, but its growing popularity across North America, Europe and Asia has affected the South American c

When she put her 7-year old on a diet, the child's weight had spiked almost 30 pounds in a year and her appetite was seemingly insatiable. Armed with a specialist-approved eating plan, Dara-Lynn Weiss became an enforcer - in her words, The Heavy. The moth

Canadian police may soon be teaching the Saudis all they know. Both countries are working on a deal to provide investigative training to the petro-Kingdom of many thousand Princes. It's also a country with a checkered human rights history which has some a

After many senseless mass shootings, a new voice of stricken outrage is moved to strike at the very heart of America's free market ethos. The Mayor of Chicago wants banks -- including Canada's Toronto-Dominion bank -- to cut off cash flow to manufacturers

Tens of thousands of delicate, embellished, embossed writings from ancient manuscripts of Timbuktu haven't even been translated, but those that have offer a treasure of information - from the banal to the brilliant ... dating back centuries. Initial repor

The U.S. Sierra Club announced plans for Civil Disobedience for the first time in its history over of the Keystone XL pipeline. Today the board of the Sierra Club of Canada decides whether it will follow suit on the Gateway pipeline, each responding to t

When we invite feedback our listeners don't hold back. We have a proliferation of opinions on stories of the week from E-cigarettes ... to Selfies in cyberspace ... to Women in power.

If Canada's signature tech company RIM, now known as BlackBerry, is to revive its fortunes, it will need to straddle both the business and the consumer market with the BlackBerry 10 to appeal to everyone from teens to bosses. But while there's a lot ridin

Rembrandt painted dozens of self-portraits over a lifetime, but a kid with a smartphone can match that output in an afternoon. And it's not just teenagers feeling the need to paint their masterpiece with camera flash and wall mirror. Today, we look at t

Even covering up doesn't protect women from being harassed or assaulted on the frenzied streets of Egypt's troubled cities these days. And since the police and even bystanders have passively watched far too many Egyptian women targeted and groped and wors

Got a mole? Think it's looking a bit suspicious? Well ... there's a App for that, several specific apps actually ... all with varying functions that purport to detect possible skin cancer. Trouble is, a test of those apps has raised concerns about their a