The Current from CBC Radio (Highlights)

On the surface, they appear to be a political party on the rise going from point-4-percent of the popular vote to 12-percent support in less than three years. The Golden Dawn party of Greece is populist, religious, increasingly entrenched in poorer neighbourhoods and according to some of those tracking it ... alarmingly Fascist. Its members wear black t-shirts emblazoned with an emblem that has been likened to a Swastika. For about a month, it has had an office in Canada. Today, we're asking about Golden Dawn.

A number of women in at least 5 African countries are reporting that when they have arrived at hospitals to give birth, they have been sterilized against their will, intimidated into signing consent forms they don't fully comprehend while in the midst of labour. The one constant is that they are all HIV-positive. They are now also learning their rights.

Come with us on a journey, through the logic, the musings, and the divergent thoughts of a philosopher with rock star status. Slavoj Zizek examines the Occupy movement, the Arab Spring and everything from HBO's 'The Wire' to Christopher Nolan's 'The Dark Knight Rises'.

Today we bring you a love story. Actually, a few love stories. The 70s and 80s swirled through world politics, war, peace deals, and the push for women's equality. And through it all, Kati Marton, the accomplished foreign correspondent and prolific author, was also the wife of Canadian-born journalist Peter Jennings and later wed legendary diplomat Richard Holbrooke. She shares her story of life, loss, love and Paris.

One couple's overwhelming desire to become parents led to an exploration that raises questions we explore as we re-play Tanya Springer's award-winning documentary. This is the story of surrogacy abroad - specifically in developing countries and the debate over whether surrogates are empowered or exploited.

As XL foods license remains suspended, it's Alberta plant closed and recalls and calls for political resignation expand, Cattle Ranchers wait and wonder when their businesses may return to normal. With this latest E.coli contamination adding to concerns over BSE and the overall safety of our beef. Today we're heading to the ranch to look at what Canadian beef farmers are up against.

Her breakthrough novel explored early on-set Alzheimer's, through the eyes of a 50-year-old woman. A disease author Lisa Genova knew well through years of research as a Neuroscientist. Her new novel explores autism through the eyes of a 10-year-old boy. Today words of love from a child who can't speak.

A British Columbia man has waited decades to get an apology for a horrible slur published in his high school year book. And four decades is hardly the waiting record when it comes to apologies. We hear why sorry is frequently so hard to say and why government, especially, may want to be careful when it comes to apologizing.

Today, we're looking at a kind of family where women with big jobs and little children confront their own personal dilemmas, even as everyone-else weighs in too. After Marrisa Mayer has announced she is taking a week or two off work after the birth of her son, we're talking about Maternity Leave for those who are both New Moms and Big Bosses.

Twenty-five years after the Free Trade Agreement was signed we are looking at the Canada-US Free Trade deal that defined an election campaign and imprinted a nation. From former Prime Minister John Turner ... to Pat Carney, the Tory who carried the deal ... to Ed Broadbent fighting against it for the NDP ... to Ed Fast, our current Minister of International Trade. We hear from all of them.

Quebecers are transfixed by testimony before the Charbonneau Commission of wads of money in socks and equations for kickbacks. Now, a former top cop who tracked organized crime in Ontario says while all eyes are focused on Montreal, crime families are growing larger and more invisible in Ontario. Also we hear your thoughts on Roman Catholic women demanding ordination, Indian farmers demanding land and the less than demanding oversight that allowed E. coli to creep into Canada's beef.

Who needs The Wire? Or the latest blockbuster featuring organized crime? You can be forgiven for thinking you're watching the plot of an epic movie unfolding in Montreal these days as the televised hearings of the Charbonneau Commission hear about kickbacks, meetings with crime bosses and wads of money stuffed in socks.

It's all in the delivery, the right intonation on the right line can slay a political opponent. With the first of the U.S. Presidential debates set for tonight, the creators of campaign commercials are poised to spot poison. But it will be the Voices on those messages that matter. Voicing political ads can be a lucrative business, one where the President or the person who wants to be, knows your name. Today we bring you a documentary about the story of the men and women who trade in Trust in 35-seconds-or-less.

If you want to know what E. coli 0157 - H7 has the potential to do to you, ask Jeff Holliday. He drank the water in Walkerton Ontario in the spring of 2000 ingesting the very same strain of E. coli that has now led to the largest beef recall in Canadian history. Jeff Holliday was sick for years and ended up needing two organ transplants. We bring you his story today.

As Justin Trudeau prepares to announce his candidacy for the leadership of the federal Liberal party, he is dogged by criticism that his name has opened doors, that he hasn't lived-up-to or deserved the attention his political lineage affords him. And yet others cannot contain their excitement at the prospect of Pierre Trudeau's eldest son seeking a leadership role in his party and his country. Today we discuss the conflicting opinions on his future.