The Current from CBC Radio (Highlights)

It's the other aboriginal story of the week. Overshadowed by the Idle No More protests and drama leading up to today's meetings in Ottawa, the Metis are reconsidering their own place in Canadian society. A judge says they should be treated as Indians. Bu

The whispered word for them in hospital circles is "Bed Blockers". People - most times elderly - whose conditions though not acute mean they cannot go home and who must wait for a bed in a long term care facility to open up. Now at the end of October this

If you were watching TV last night, he was starring in the start of the second season of CBC's Arctic Air. From Hollywood to HBO, Adam Beach is an actor in demand but he is also the boy who grew up in and around Dog Creek First Nation. We hear his thought

Remember Rosie the Robot? The Jetsons friendly, efficient fictitious servant? Forget about her and make room for Vomiting Larry - a Real Robot serving to understand the trajectory of what happens to people with Norovirus. Today, we're exploring the creati

From suicide ... to cutting .. to cancer ...the young adult literature flying off bookstore shelves features terminally-ill and depressed teens with titles such as "By the Time You Read This I'll Be Dead" ..."Never Eighteen" ..."Before I Die" ... "Vampire

As Chief Theresa Spence approaches the one month mark in her hunger strike and days before Aboriginal leaders are set to meet with the Prime Minister, the audit of the Attawapiskat band council's spending has raised questions of accountability for the ver

What can you learn from the DNA of a mass murderer? And how will any information you might find affect others? As researchers in Connecticut prepare the study the DNA of the Newtown killer Adam Lanza, there is both excitement and unease among the experts

From Claude Rains in the 1933 film "The Invisible Man" to Harry Potter at a theatre near you, the very idea of cloaking oneself in invisibility is deliciously, tempting, empowering and threatening. But forget about the movies ... let's focus on the milita

From bridges over borders ... to highways and railways … From Moncton ... to the Mirimachi ... from Saskatoon to Salt Spring Island, Idle No More had a busy weekend of demonstrations. We have seen weeks of rallies, actions, blockades and flashmob. Can the

What do you do when you're 14 years old and a warlord takes you as his wife? Of course .. the more relevant term is sex slave. You are victimized and at times strangely protected by someone you both hate and on some level learn to live with. Evelyn Amony

As labour disputes go, this was in a league of its own. A lockout that saw players dig in, hundreds of games cancelled and millions of fans frustrated and infuriated. With a weekend deal in the NHL, it is just a matter of time before favourite players are

For years, the fight against disease in Africa has been synonymous with the fight against two main illnesses: malaria and HIV-AIDS. Now, doctors are battling to save an increasing number of Africans from another killer. Cases of cancer are on the rise. It

Dr. David Suzuki has, for years, brought his own appreciation of the value of nature to Canadians. Now, he's gone on what he's calling an Andean adventure. Suzuki has taken a closer look at what he says are new ideas and new ways to value nature in both E

Today we rebroadcast an interview with a man who survived after being kidnapped and held hostage for 10 days. Robert Croke was held captive my militants in the Niger Delta. The oil rig worker from Newfoundland was captured in the middle of the night, shot

Paul Salopek is going for a walk. A very long walk. The Pulitzer prize winning journalist is about to set off on a seven year long stroll around the world. It's all in pursuit of something he calls "slow journalism":. In this age of blogging and tweeting