The Current from CBC Radio (Highlights)
CBC Radio's The Current is a meeting place of perspectives with a fresh take on issues that affect Canadians today.
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244 Episodes of this Podcast:
19/11/09: Pt 1 - Malalai Joya
Published: 2009-11-19 03:00:00In 2005, she was the youngest person elected to the new Afghan parliament. But she was suspended from that parliament in 2007 for criticizing Afghanistan's warlords. Despite several assassination attempts, she continues to speak her mind.
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19/11/09: Pt 3 - Climate Change Cover-Up
Published: 2009-11-19 03:00:00In his new book, James Hogan argues that climate change skeptics are using the same tactics that the tobacco industry used to in order to create confusion about the science around climate change. We talk to him and to one of Canada's leading climate change skeptics.
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19/11/09: Pt 2 - Letters
Published: 2009-11-19 03:00:00It's mail day. We hear your thoughts on politics, hunger, science, the Catholic Church and comparing Sudbury, Ontario to the moon.
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18/11/09: Pt 2 - Malcolm Gladwell
Published: 2009-11-18 03:00:00Writer Malcolm Gladwell on ketchup, hair dye, hedge funds, the pill and why we should all be more curious. His latest book is called: "What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures". *** Due to music rights this segment has been edited to make it available as a podast. ***
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18/11/09: Pt 1 - Golden Rice
Published: 2009-11-18 03:00:00The United Nations' World Summit on Food Security wraps up today. And we're asking whatever happened to Golden Rice ... a genetically engineered rice with high levels of Vitamin A that was supposed to save millions of children in the developing world.
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18/11/09: Pt 2 - Vitamin Eh Documentary
Published: 2009-11-18 03:00:00Due to copyrights held against music, this documentary can not be made available as a podcast. You can listen off our website at: www.cbc.ca/thecurrent. Click on Past Shows to your left. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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17/11/09: Pt 3 - Vatican & Alien Life
Published: 2009-11-17 03:00:00Close Encounters of a very different kind. The Catholic Church is sponsoring conferences on alien life and evolution. And an astronomer who works for the Vatican says Galileo was the exception, not the rule.
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17/11/09: Pt 2 - Women of Zimbabwe
Published: 2009-11-17 03:00:00We talk to Jenni Williams and Magodonga Mahlangu, two Zimbabwean women who have been jailed because of their political activity as the co-founders of Women of Zimbabwe Arise, a grassroots movement dedicated to the empowerment of Zimbabwean women.
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17/11/09: Pt 1 - 9/11 Zeitgeist
Published: 2009-11-17 03:00:00The decision to hold the trial of the alleged September 11th conspirators in New York City has alarmed many New Yorkers and re-enforced still raw emotions about the attacks. We debate whether holding the trials in New York City is the right decision.
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16/11/09: Pt 3 - Sudbury Mining Town
Published: 2009-11-16 03:00:00Steelworkers at the Inco mine in Sudbury have been on strike since July. The city has seen strikes before but this time the community support for the workers is showing how divided the community is about the role its past will play in its future.
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