• The Current

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The Current

By: CBC
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  • Summary

  • 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 meeting place for diverse perspectives. In its 20 years, the Current has become a go-to place for stories that shape and entertain us. Released daily, Monday to Friday.
    Copyright © CBC 2025
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Episodes
  • ‘Grey-area’ drinking, and asking hard questions about alcohol

    ‘Grey-area’ drinking, and asking hard questions about alcohol
    Jan 10 2025

    In the new season of CBC podcast On Drugs, Geoff Turner examines his own relationship with alcohol, and how a deeply personal tragedy led him to ask who he would be without it.

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    25 mins
  • Prorogation angers father who lost son to online sextortion

    Prorogation angers father who lost son to online sextortion
    Jan 10 2025

    Carl Burke’s teenage son Harry died by suicide shortly after he fell victim to sexual extortion online. But proposed legislation aimed at addressing dangers on social media — the Online Harms Act — may now not become law because parliament has been prorogued until March. Burke tells Matt Galloway that playing politics shouldn’t get in the way of protecting children. For Linda Debassige, grand council chief of the Anishinabek Nation, it’s an embarrassment for Canada that a bill to ensure clean drinking water for First Nations may also not pass.

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    20 mins
  • How a suitcase in Tokyo held the story of a girl killed in Auschwitz

    How a suitcase in Tokyo held the story of a girl killed in Auschwitz
    Jan 10 2025

    Former CBC Radio producer Karen Levine has been named to the Order of Canada for her groundbreaking journalism. We listen to her 2001 documentary Hana's Suitcase. It tells the story of a girl murdered in Auschwitz in 1944, and how her suitcase turned up in Tokyo 57 years later.

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    27 mins

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