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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.
The Current is produced in Toronto, Ontario, Canada — and has recently recorded live shows about the Canadian election in Surrey and Burnaby BC. And shows to come in Oshawa and the 905, Red Deer, Alberta, Quebec City and Halifax.
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Two weeks ago, anti-corruption investigators in Ukraine revealed allegations that men close to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy received $100 million US in kickbacks through a state energy company. The list includes a friend from Zelenskyy's comedian days, who co-owned his production studio. Tim Mak, editor of The Counteroffensive, notes that people are outraged in the country because corruption is the animating force in Ukrainian politics. Simon Shuster, a Zelenskyy biographer, says the president has a history of giving people second chances, but in the middle of a scandal like this, that might come back to bite him.
To stretch or not to stretch and does it even matter. The debate over the importance of stretching is age old - now it seems like everyone is talking about mobility. What's the difference and is one better than the other? David Behm, professor at Memorial University, specializing in human kinetics and sport science breaks it down.
Kyla Scanlon says the economy feels like a gamble right now — one that's built on risk and speculation. We speak with the popular American economic commentator and author of "In This Economy? How Money and Markets Really Work" about how her generation is feeling in this economy, the AI boom, the future of work, and the importance of financial literacy at a time when young people face an uncertain economic future.
The women who survived sexual abuse by Jeffrey Epstein have been demanding accountability. Now Congress is acting, voting to release the government's files on the powerful and connected sex offender. Anti-trafficking advocate Lauren Hersh says that's in part thanks to the women's bravery.
A hydroelectric power plant underway in Nunavut is on Prime Minister Carney's nation-building project list. We speak to people living in Iqaluit about how this will transform the community and why there can be no Arctic security without Inuit sovereignty.
The former CEO of Doctors Without Borders, Avril Benoit, reflects on her twenty years at the medical humanitarian organization, and what it was like to work in some of the most dangerous places in the world. She talks to Matt Galloway about the challenges of leading the organization during a time of great turmoil, and the future of foreign humanitarian aid amid cuts to funding.
A conversation with Dave Zirin, sports editor at The Nation, about how the Clase/Ortiz pitch-fixing scandal exposes the explosive rise of prop betting — and why it threatens the integrity of sports from baseball to hockey, basketball, and football.
As COP30 plays out in Belém, Brazil is trying to present itself as a climate leader while also moving ahead with a new offshore oil project. CBC’s Susan Ormiston has been on the ground in the Amazon and inside the conference halls. She tells us why this decision has hit such a nerve, what she heard from Indigenous leaders who fear what’s coming, and why others in the region see the project as a long-overdue opportunity.
Because of Donald Trump, John Irving, the bestselling author is refusing to go to the United States to promote his latest novel, Queen Esther — but he thinks you should read it so you can understand and empathize with the plight of others
Our national affairs panel breaks down today's big vote in the House of Commons: With the Conservatives, Bloc Quebecois and NDP all finding reasons to vote it down, is there a risk this government falls and the country is thrust into another election? Plus, the Prime Minister will hold a call with Canada's premiers who are pressing for more details about the halted Canada-U.S. trade negotiations. We sift through it all with CBC's Chief Political Correspondent Rosemary Barton, Stephanie Levitz of the Globe and Mail and Ryan Tumilty of the Toronto Star.
We’re in the last week of the climate summit in Brazil, where misinformation and disinformation are a key focus of the conference. It comes against the backdrop of the grim forecast that emissions are not going down quickly enough to avoid climate disaster. We talk to Katharine Hayhoe, Canadian climate scientist and professor in the Department of Political Science at Texas Tech University, about the moment we're in right now in the fight against climate change and whether people are disengaging from the issue.
Oyster farmers on Prince Edward Island are stressed. Many have been pulling up more and more dead oysters in their catches. Two parasites are threatening the species and farmers are calling on the federal government for help. We talk to Justin Palmer, the co-owner of JP Oysters near Tyne Valley, PEI.
As the prime minister unveils Ottawa's second list of “nation-building” projects, he continues to signal the direction he wants Canada to take when it comes to boosting the economy and meeting climate commitments.
The host of Fareed Zakaria GPS has a theory about the MAGA movement — it was probably inevitable. In his book Age of Revolutions, he argues that the kind of rapid technological and social change we’ve been experiencing over the past 30 years almost always leads to backlash. He spoke to Matt Galloway in front of a live audience at the Rotman School of Management.
Children's author Robert Munsch is donating his personal archive to his hometown library because he doesn't want it stored in some dusty room. He wants the public to get their hands on it, says Guelph Public Library CEO Dan Atkins.
After the loss of two MPs, we speak to conservative strategists about Pierre Poilievre's leadership style, and if he should change it. Regan Watts, Erika Barootes, and Ginny Roth, join Matt Galloway.
House Democrats released emails from the convicted sex offender, shining a new light onto the relationship he had with President Donald Trump. The BBC’s North America Correspondent and co-host of the Americast podcast Anthony Zurcher joins Matt Galloway to talk about what’s in the emails and the pressure building on the White House to release the full Epstein files
1Hannah Alper spent much of her teenage and young adult life sharing her location with her friends. But as the years went on, she began to feel it crossed a line and felt more like surveillance than it felt like a kind of care.
Lyse Doucet, Canadian journalist and the BBC's Chief International Correspondent, takes us inside the Intercontinental Hotel in her new book: The Finest Hotel in Kabul, A People's History of Afghanistan. The hotel is an Afghan landmark that has seen every chapter in the country's history, and so has its staff. She explains why their stories matter, what they teach us about the country -- and how she hopes these kinds of narratives can help the rest of the world care about Afghanistan.
Experts are warning the global spread of an evolving H3N2 strain could mean a difficult influenza season at home, with flu cases now on the rise in Canada. We speak with an infectious disease doctor about why it’s important to get the flu shot, despite a possible mismatch, and to a public health official about regaining the public’s trust around vaccines.
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Carney should include both the NDP and PQ into his govt and form a true unity and mandate to govern Canada
Would live to share, Matt. Please share Bluesky link. FB/Twitter not reliable. Thanks.
less then $22 an hour. and your focusing on businesses. you try surviving on $22 an hour.
Matt, let people speak. Asking closed questions,interrupting...sounds like a bad lawyer badgering a witness. Relax.
Oh yeah sure, AI solves everything. 🤦♂️ well, the "Intelligence" of Canadian economists certainly wasn't enough. ~14:00.
Canada is doomed. Young Canadians can't even manage.
BS hahaha 😆 west jet is a bs artist. go ahead cbc, let him blow smoke up everyone's ass.
please help Iranian people. we are being killed easily. help us 😭💔
The questions asked in this interview are annoying. You soften her up with questions about the challenges women face to get to the top level, then you grill her about whether she feels bad about what she has been selling or that she makes 31MM vs a minimum wager??? What do you want from her? Who do you think you're talking to, some environmental, health and equity advocate? She's a capitalist, a successful one, and she did her job well. She wasn't being paid to change the world at PepsiCo, but she did make some improvements. Move on - annoying.
Read "The War on Normal People" by Andrew Yang. and, #HumanityFirst
"everyone's replaceable right?" The psychopathy of our modern Western culture runs deep.
So dissapointed to hear our Polticians lie like this. Prtoesters have been nice and peaceful and thats from someone who lives downtown Ottawa
A very naive appreciation for issues and the interpretation of those issues. My goodness while I appreciate the persistence of CBC to visit the area but an absolute misunderstanding of the history and realities of Eastern Ukraine.
Sweet ending.
This is a horrifically whiny interview.
YouTube "Roger Hallam" and "Facing Future". It gets worse.
no it's a tragic event. but the left wants to make every tragic event into Martyr
Things aren't looking good... YouTube "Roger Hallam"
this guy loved toxicity during the trump years. but under Biden we need to heal..🤣😆