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The Current
Three stories to expand your worldview, delivered daily. Matt Galloway cuts through a sea of choice to bring you stories that transcend the news cycle. Conversations with big thinkers, household names, and people living the news. An antidote to algorithms that cater to what you already know — and a...
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Kick off! Celebrating soccer in Canada
The Current celebrates Canadian soccer in all its diversity in a special show from CBC’s Toronto HQ. Matt Galloway welcomes:
- Team Canada lege...
Can the feds make the internet safe for kids?
Federal Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, Marc Miller on how Canada's government intends to make the internet safe, and if social media giant...
Canada’s decades long forced adoptions
For decades after the Second World War, more than 300,000 unmarried women were sent away to live with relatives or in federal grant-funded maternity h...
What's behind the violence in Belfast
Rioters egged on by far right figures torched vehicles and homes in the Northern Irish city. The chaos followed a stabbing where the accused is a Suda...
The turmoil in Canadian cricket
Steven D'Souza, co-host of CBC’s The Fifth Estate, takes us inside the program's investigation into Cricket Canada — to explain why the sport in Canad...
New York is going WILD for the Knicks
After more than 50 years of losing, the New York Knicks basketball team is back in the NBA finals against the San Antonio Spurs and their super star V...
Why your attention span is trash and what you can do about it
Can't concentrate? What about thinking deeply? Attention spans are shrinking rapidly. Cal Newport, a professor of computer science at Georgetown Unive...
How dementia care in Canada is failing patient
A New Brunswick woman known as "Alice" wandered from her care home 12 times before dying cold and alone. The province's deputy senior advocate tells u...
How streaming is changing the way we listen to music
Canadian musician and author Rollie Pemberton, aka Cadence Weapon, looks at how algorithms on platforms like Spotify and YouTube are changing the way...
On the frontlines of CTE
CBC's Health reporter Lauren Pelley brings you the story of groundbreaking research into CTE, chronic traumatic encephalopathy — and hope for the futu...
Countdown to the World Cup
It's the largest soccer tournament in World Cup history, with 104 matches in 16 host cities in three countries, creating unprecedented security and lo...
Are you obsessed with checking the weather?
You read the alerts about upcoming storms. You might pore over the radar maps to see if it'll be sunny for your school fun fair. These days, many of u...
Meet the 'hit doctor,' assisting drug users across Vancouver
For 10 years now, B.C.’s drug crisis has been a public health emergency. And over that time, we’ve brought you many stories, but this is one you will...
Are we in a recession?
By one definition, Canada is now in a recession. But last week Canada also had a strong jobs report, and posted its first trade surplus in months. So...
The power of kindness and other life lessons from a priest
Father James Martin is known around the world for giving voice to Catholics who are often excluded from their church, including those in the LGBTQ com...
A Winnipeg man shares some neighbourly love
David Balzer of Winnipeg is spending his summer recording people's stories of gratitude. Since 2023, the associate professor of Communications and Med...
Canada's AI strategy
We dig into what the federal government's plan is for Artificial Intelligence in Canada.
Got an idea for a new emoji? What it takes to make the cut
Unicode is taking pitches for emojis. Graphic designer Jennifer Daniel helps decide which ones make it. She says a successful emoji should have multip...
What it will take to move Marineland's belugas
The federal government has greenlit a plan to move the belugas at the shuttered Niagara Falls theme park to aquariums in Spain and the United States....
They celebrate birthdays when it’s not their birthday
Meet people who blow out the candles on a different day than the one they were born on. Some hate the time of year their birthday falls. Others are ce...
"Make Haggis Legal Again"
For the first time in 28 years Scotland is headed to the World Cup. Now a butcher in the small village of Dunning, Scotland is trying to convince the...
Inside the Ebola epicentre
We speak with New York Times reporter Declan Walsh who has just returned from a hospital in Congo where Ebola patients are treated with limited resour...
Why David Sedaris hates the word “husband”
David Sedaris talks about his latest essay collection The Land and Its People. He reveals the news he'd kept from his family, that he secretly married...
Alberta conservatives push back against separatists
A new group of conservative politicians and academics is pushing back against the separatist movement in Alberta. They call themselves Lead Not Leave...
Why Elon Musk is taking SpaceX public
SpaceX is going public with a sky high valuation of over $1 trillion. Max Chafkin, a reporter with Bloomberg, and the co-host of the podcast “Everybod...
Gen Z wants to bring tanning back
Most young people have heard the warnings about cancer and sun damage. Many of them are soaking up the sun anyway. Montreal dermatologist Dr. Ivan Lit...
Do you worry that your job is meaningless?
Is your job all about meetings? And emails? And meetings that should have been an email? Some corporate workers say the pandemic pulled back the curta...
How the Lebanon-Israeli war is affecting civilians
As the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel escalates, we hear from people in Lebanon about how the fighting is affecting their lives. From Israel, p...
A journalist's 365 day AI experiment
At a moment when there's a growing backlash and resistance against the AI that's starting to permeate so many parts of our life — tech journalist Joan...
Should talk therapy be covered by universal healthcare?
In any given year, 1 in 5 Canadians suffer from a mental illness. Now there are growing calls to include counselling and psychotherapy in our publicly...
CUSMA: What does the U.S. want from us?
Canada, the U.S. and Mexico are due to review their three-way trade deal July 1 — but one month out, how are things looking for this country? Former a...
Is 6% milk good for you?
Sealtest’s six per cent milk has hit the dairy aisles in Ontario grocery stores. With nearly twice the fat found in whole milk, it’s a staple in South...
Lesley Chesterman on how to cook like a Montrealer
Montreal is the gourmet capital of Canada, and the cookbook author and former restaurant critic Lesley Chesterman is an evangelist for the food cultur...
Should there be stricter rules for e-bikes?
E-bikes come with a lot of benefits. Zero emissions and a quick convenient way to get around town. But a growing number of critics say they pose serio...
Why grip strength matters more than you think
Grip strength might seem like a small thing, but researchers say it can reveal a lot about how we age. Health and fitness journalist Alyssa Ages expla...
Russian dissident says Moscow's threats come from weakness
Russia is warning foreigners to leave Kyiv in order to avoid a coming assault. But Ukrainian MP Inna Sovsun and Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza...
A historic deal for unionized Uber drivers
The fight for an Uber union in Canada has been years in the making – this week drivers in Victoria, British Columbia ratified a deal, the first of its...
Canadian Epstein survivor's fight for accountability
Sharlene Rochard is an Epstein survivor and the only Canadian to come forward publicly with allegations against him. She says the abuse started when s...
Premier David Eby thinks Canada ‘is working’
Matt Galloway sits down with British Columbia Premier David Eby to discuss pipelines, property rights, and his province’s relationship with Ottawa and...
What's it like to live in Antarctica around Adélie penguins
Adélie penguins are the smallest and most widespread penguin species in the Antarctic, and one place you find them is Cape Royds. Conservation biologi...