The Current from CBC Radio (Highlights)

Seems everyone's who's taken a trip by plane has a story to tell about bad customer service. Well, when United Airlines broke Dave Carroll's guitar - and wouldn't compensate him - he wrote a song, threw it on YouTube and watched it take off. Millions of downloads later, Dave Carroll's got a new book out - and he joins us to talk about how one person can make corporations treat customers better.

You'd be forgiven for thinking the Snakehead fish is a Hollywood Horror invention, it prefers swamps and stagnant water. It is a fish that can slither along on land for a bit and with its big mouth and sharp teeth well ... you might want to put the puppy in the house. Snakeheads worried federal officials enough to commission a report on how to keep them away which is why a possible - not even confirmed - sighting of a Snakehead in the wild has the authorities in Burnaby a bit concerned. Today, we're on the trail of an invasive species to avoid.

We're Checking-In on reaction to the stories we've covered in the last week ... From a harrowing chronicle of life in a North Korean prison camp ... to the protocols of motherhood .. to the ongoing strains of the Great Animal Orchestra ..we're sorting through email, voicemail, tweets and yes .. Chirps.

Canada prides itself on a transparent justice system , its courts open to the public. Which is why a Halifax case awaiting a Supreme Court decision is such a lightening rod. At issue .. is the question of whether a teenage girl can sue anonymously for defamation over a case of cyber-bullying on Facebook, even while keeping the actual words written about her also secret. It is a case that has civil libertarians intervening worried about the message this would send.

Is a bad job better than no job? How far would you travel, where would you move to get work? And since workers pay into Employment Insurance, should they have any qualms about accepting EI payments while they search for, wait for ... the right job? Who decides how many times you draw on EI? Who draws the line on what employment is acceptable and what job is not worth pursuing? As Ottawa prepares to tighten eligibility for Employment Insurance, we're debating work everyone needs and jobs many don't want.

Some people can find harmony in the wonders of the wild. Bernie Krause's fascination with sounds in the wild has inspired him to record soundscapes where the wind, the trees and the beasts create their own soundscapes, literally find their own bandwidths for what becomes The Great Animal Orchestra ….a veritable symphony that has influenced what we call music.

There's controversy brewing at BC's Simon Fraser University. The Student Union has earmarked tens-of-thousands of dollars for a Men's centre to offer a safe space for men to discuss issues. The Women's Centre response was curt - suggesting the Men's Centre already exists everywhere else. But the man who runs one of the few Men's Centres in the country says it is time to acknowledge that men need shelter and space to confront everything from spousal abuse to mental health.

The tweets and emails kept popping up yesterday in reaction to the compelling story of Shin Dong Hyuk, his harrowing life and his escape from North Korea's Camp 14. One of the reasons his story is so jarring is that few North Koreans ever talk about the life from which they manage to escape, the fear of retribution keeps them silent even here in Canada. Today, we hear from a North Korean man who managed to come to Canada and the Canadian from South Korea who helps others like him adapt to a life away from the oppressive control of North Korea's unflinching leaders.

It Changed the Game by making the medium social but will all those Likes translate into investor Love for Facebook? As the Social Media juggernaut prepares for an Initial Public Offering Friday, there is speculation that a publicly-traded Facebook could be Bigger than Boeing and more bountiful than the big banks combined.

The joke in the polished halls of Exxon Mobil is that its P.R. strategy is to say "no comment" in 50 languages. It is said to have a system of secrecy akin to an intelligence agency. After four years of journalistic digging, Steve Coll documents the inner workings of one of the most profitable and powerful corporations in the world, one that he says has affected wider foreign policy to the fight over climate change.

Canada is well-known for offering protection to refugee claimants. It's less anxious to offer the same people health care if they get sick. It's the reason doctors occupied federal offices last week. We hear from doctors and a former refugee claimant about a federal change that will restrict health care for refugee claimants and we hear from the Minister responsible.

If you check the news from the weekend, you'll notice that North Korea is back in the headlines as its neighbours China, Japan, South Korea fret over its nuclear program. Its prison camps rarely get attention when leaders of other nations confront the North Korean leadership. The story of the Prison Camps is a hard one to tell which makes the story we bring you today all the more extraordinary. The story of Shin Dong Hyuk. * Note this podcast includes Pt 1 and 2 of today's program *

The federal government's new crime bill changes how long it takes to apply for a pardon. We hear from a Nova Scotia man who says he did the crime but he's done the time and now he wants a clean slate. And why Ottawa says...not so fast.

One explanation why drug addicts are called junkies is that early in the last century, addicts often stole scrap metal to support their habit. But in the 21st century, scrap metal is far too valuable to leave to addicts. We find out what's driving the trade in stolen metal and what's being done to stop crooks from ripping the wiring from the walls.

Just in time for the celebration on Sunday -- the war on Moms. Author Elisabeth Badinter says motherhood chips away at women's hard-fought feminist gains. We find out what she thinks is wrong with 21st century moms, and why many other women find her message so uninspiring.