The Current from CBC Radio (Highlights)

Remember those family vacations you thought would kill you as a kid? The whole family, crammed into a leaky tent in the rain. Car sickness for days. Punching, kicking and crying in the back seat. We hear from the author of a new book on The Family Vacation about why memories good and bad actually make us better people. If we survive.

We have quite literally seen this kind of movie before. The video of a death of a man in Vancouver, police caught on-camera taking forceful action that ends in the death of a civilian labeled a threat. Investigations into Paul Boyd's death by police weapon 5 years ago before the video surfaced reached conclusions in favour of the police. This week's video has prompted the province to order another. Paul's father David Boyd has endured five years of inquiries and testimonies into his son's death, today David Boyd joins us on what this video may or may not change.

Bad mounties and an arrest that didn't stick. We check in with our listeners' thoughts on some of the stories of the past week from tweets, to calls to e-mails.

A controversy in Ontario is bubbling over a law that would force Catholic Schools to embrace Gay-Straight-Alliance student clubs as part of legislation to combat bullying. That has prompted an outcry from Catholic leaders who say sanctioning the word gay infringes on religious freedoms. But while some are looking at the Charter, others are looking at their calculators. Will this controversy intensify the fight to end a separate school system?

They can create hallucinations, kidney failure, increased heart rate, make someone think extremely violent thoughts and make others act on them in gruesome ways. They are called Bath Salts ... a highly addictive, synthetic drugs growing in popularity. They are illegal in the U.S. but in Canada there are no restrictions.

They learn methods of dissent in Bob Huish's class at Dalhousie University. Quebec students took it to the streets. A lone parliamentary page took it to the floor of the Senate. From Summit protests to Occupy to the Arab Springs, youth around the world are voicing their dissent. Today, we're asking how that resonates in Canada and we speak with two politicized young people … one working inside the party system and the other outside.

It's a sports broadcast that calls itself a kind of Sex and the City meets ESPN-- but for some hockey fans that's a more terrifying mashup than Don Cherry's jackets and ties. There's no violence yet, but a fight's broken out over a new colour commentary designed for women. The BFF gabfest "While The Men Watch" will be livestreamed on CBC during the Stanley Cup Playoffs. We hear from the hosts and from female hockey greats Cassie Campbell-Pascall and Sami Jo Small.

The pictures coming out of Syria from last week, specifically shots of victims of a massacre in the city of Houla are so wrenching they are almost impossible to watch. Along with the shattering grief, there is finger-pointing, international expressions of concern, diplomatic musing. But for some ... None of that is good enough anymore. Can the rest of the world wait any longer to force change?

The police confronted him on a Toronto city bus, the first high-profile arrest of Toronto's still-controversial G-20 summit back in 2010. And when they got to the interrogation, Byron Sonne was unbowed. He was acquitted of all charges, he tested his civil liberties but he also saw his marriage disintegrate and spent a year in jail. We speak with Byron Sonne on what he's won and what he's lost.

Remember The Devil Wears Prada? Now .. the Devil is in the details as a former intern with Harper's Bazaar begins a class action lawsuit, alleging she was exploited in an unpaid internship. The lawsuit comes at a time when internships in Canada and the U.S. are ever-increasing, where an estimated 1 to 2 million people in the U.S. toil for free for the chance to get a foot in the door. Today, we're looking at the implications of a method of free labour that now has the attention of a generation ready to ask tough questions.

As a nation, we are Deep in Debt. As homeowners … are we also Deep in Denial? OSFI is proposing major changes to the way mortgages are refinanced. Today we look at the implications on proposals for higher interest rates and new mortgage rules.

You'd be hard pressed to find Whiteclay Nebraska. And yet tiny Whiteclay sells 4-million cans of beer a year, most of it believed to make its way across the state line to the iconic Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, once home to Sitting Bull and Wounded Knee. Pine Ridge is supposed to be dry. Instead, its population faces rampant alcoholism and addiction. Which is why the Lakota tribe of Pine Ridge is now suing a town and a roster of major brewing companies.

Research in Neuroscience suggests that the physical reactions on trading floors are similar to war zones or elite sports where the pressure to perform and survive is great. And that in such situations, the Visceral trumps the Rational. The man behind that view spent years on the trading floor for the big players on Wall St. before investing in a degree in neuroscience. We speak with John Coates, author of The Hour Between Dog and Wolf to explain his ideas.

What's it take to get fired at the RCMP? That's what some people are asking, after a new case of sexual harassment surfaced this week. A staff sergeant, propositioning female employees, drinking and having sex with them at work...his punishment? We talk to a Mountie with 20 years' experience who quit, after her own nightmare of sexual harassment. And says - time and again - the Mounties don't get their man.

The first European ever to stand on the slopes of Everest would die there. And the mountain has killed hundreds of people since George Mallory. As a Canadian loses her life, we hash out what's being done to make Mount Everest more safe and whether it's time to curb climbers' enthusiasm. Some wonder if Everest's reputation isn't enough to discourage climbers, then perhaps the government of Nepal should.