The Current from CBC Radio (Highlights)

Last week's tale of the Swedish director who fought the fruit bosses in court in Big Boys Gone Bananas struck a chord with a Canadian whose documentary on Guatemalans expelled from the land for a Canadian mining project was discredited by a Canadian Ambassador. Like the first director, Steven Schnoor went to court. We hear from him when we Check-In on your reaction to the stories we've been covering.

It is called The Mosquito and like the insect it emits a high-pitched discomforting whine, except the only people who can hear it are aged 13 to 25. And it's especially popular, because a Mosquito's special sound repels vandals ... adolescent vandals after hours. But the B.C. Civil Liberties Association sees an infringement of rights saying the device targets all children.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has significantly expanded his power on Tuesday with a larger and broader coalition, immune to the threats of any single faction. The move gives him more political freedom on contentious issues but it may not address a parallel politics playing out in the United States, what author Peter Beinart calls The Crisis of Zionism. He argues young, North American Jews are increasingly disturbed by Israel's hard line politics in the West Bank and unwilling to support it.

Today we're talking health and science of a different kind … In a lab in the U.K., researchers believe they've unlocked the mystery around the mechanism that kills neurons in the brain. It is research related to Mad Cow disease or Kreutzfeld Jacob disease but what they're learning could eventually affect how we treat neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzeimer's or Parkinson's.

A new report from the Mental Health Commission of Canada hopes to persuade Ottawa to take a lead role on mental health care. It says, each year, one out of five Canadians experience mental illness -- with a 50 billion dollar cost to the economy.

The U.S. evangelical group behind a series called "Resisting the Green Dragon" considers the environmental also evangelical American Christians whose churches committed to environmental action just last month. We look into what that growing rift means in a country where the evangelical vote can shift policy.

You know the controversy over proposals for the Keystone XL Pipeline and the Gateway Pipeline but Kinder Morgan's B.C. pipeline is already pulsing with Alberta crude where it is shipped from Vancouver's Burrard Inlet. Now, the company wants to twin that pipeline and ship out more oil and Vancouver's Green city council is seeing red.

Today on the anniversary of VE Day, what do we talk about when we talk about war? Noah Richler argues the Harper government and militarists have turned Canada into a Warrior Nation, one where battles are bolstered and a long history of peacekeeping is ignored, pushed away and even discredited. Was a change inevitable in a post 9-11 world or is something else at play?

Canada's north has been transformed in the past decades. As the leader of more than 50 thousand Inuit, Mary Simon knows how much it's transformed the people. She's stepping down from her position as president of the largest Inuit organization. She joins us with her thoughts on what's next for the people of the north.

Quebec students forced the Charest government into a compromise on the incendiary issue of tuition hikes and one of their leaders is insisting their motivation went beyond tuition to wider economic policies across the province. Today, our project Game Changer asks if that 12-week effort has implications beyond the classroom.

It was a fight in Quebec that polarized Canadians when Dr. Henry Morgentaler stood trial for performing an abortion. As MPs confront a private members bill on defining when a fetus becomes a person, we go back to the court fights of the 70s and the role Henry Morgentaler played in influencing the practices around abortion that continue to create debate today.

Europe today is reacting to two big elections, one in France ... ousting Nikola Sarkozy in favour of Socialist Francois Hollande and the the other in Greece, where the far Left and the Neo-Nazi right take on greater importance in a fractured vote. Today, we're asking what this means to the future of the Eurozone.

Hassan Rasouli went in to a Toronto hospital for brain surgery a year and a half ago, contracted an infection and has been in a coma ever since. His doctors wanted to take him off life support. The Rasouli family said no, believing there were signs of possible recovery. But medical professionals feel they should have the final say in end-of-life decisions. Who's life is it?

China is undergoing an upheaval in leadership that some people suggest will be as influential as the suppression following Tiananmen Square. We hear from people inside and outside the country to try and understand what's behind the latest leadership struggle and its significance.

Pablo Picasso was arguably the greatest painter of the twentieth century. He was also known to have said that there are two kinds of women: goddesses and doormats and he treated his many female muses as both. We talk about how that is reflected in his art which is on display at a special exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario. And we talk to a woman who was one of many paramours.