The Current from CBC Radio (Highlights)

She says she knows it was the wrong thing to do but turned away multiple times by police, feeling increasingly vulnerable and alone. Nicole Doucet - then Ryan - was caught in a sting ready to hire a hitman to kill her abusive husband. Last week .the judge

Remember Barak Obama four years ago? An inaugural moment in history steeped in a new language of Hope and Change and Conciliation. Four years on, it is as if he's borrowed a phrase from one of his best-known critics: "Go ahead, make my day." Despite the i

In yet another disturbing twist, the seeming rise of jihadi activity in Algeria and Mali has spread the stain of conflict from the Middle East to across North Africa. Today, veteran journalist Robert Fisk connects the dots between what you're hearing in t

The attack on the gas facility in Algeria by Islamic militants is just the latest outrage in a decades old bloody conflict between the government and extremists. We look at the continued chaos regarding the hostage drama in North Africa and the many quest

The Colorado movie theatre where 12 were shot dead has just reopened. And so has America's gun debate. New York passed legislation giving it the toughest gun control laws in the US. It requires alerting officials about mental health patients deemed to pos

Reporters can't get anywhere near the natural gas installation in the Algerian desert where a hostage-taking of foreign oil workers has been underway. But the man calling the shots is believed to be Moktar Belmoktar … once a key leader of Al-Qaeda in the

Jeff is a 19 year old high school grad who spends a whole lot of time playing video games in his mom's basement. He is also autistic and that ease with the computer may be just the thing that will allow him to find meaningful work. Today we look at the em

We're talking survival today on Checking-In as we sort through emails, tweets, postings and rants. From surviving North Korean prison camps … to surviving adverse drug reactions from contraceptives … to planetary survival, we share your thoughts on some o

With opposition to the proposed Gateway Pipeline ... with the volume of oil from new wells in the U.S. northwest plugging the pipes already running south, the old way - the railway is looking new again, with a proposal for a rail line between the Alberta

She was 24, she had a blood clot the length of her arm and days later an ER doctor identified another. Today we bring you a documentary about the risks associated with a contraceptive using Third Generation hormones.

The deadline was midnight. And one candidate entered the race just moments before it struck. There are now 9 candidates in the Federal Liberal Leadership Race. Some predict it is a race to nowhere while others see it as a defining chance to renew a batter

The Sea Shepard Society's own website makes it clear that Paul Watson and those who share his vision of saving whales are deadly serious. Today, Paul Watson who jumped bail conditions and left Germany without his Canadian passport is back in the Southern

A senior scientist at a Toronto Cancer Centre who examined 164 drug trials for breast cancer treatment over a 16 year period says as many as two-thirds showed a bias in the way they reported adverse or negative effects and in how they tried to make the st

Comedian Michael Winslow can likely get more sounds out of his vocal chords than anybody else. But even the star of the Police Academy movies can't begin to replicate the full potential of the human voice. And it's that potential - to soothe, to entertai

A rare glimpse into the struggles facing Canada's Inuit people... a population with a rapidly growing drug problem and the highest suicide rate in the world. David Ridgen is an investigative filmmaker who embedded himself in one of Canada's few Inuit-only