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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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Mexico City’s last migrant camp
Matt Galloway goes to the last migrant camp in Mexico City. With Donald Trump shutting the US border, migrants searching for a better life have been l...
The World Cup is coming!
Mexico City has hosted the World Cup twice before — now they’re sharing the stage with Canada and the United States. Hear how people are getting ready...
Canada and Mexico — new best friends
Canada and Mexico are crafting a new friendship in light of a very different United States. Hear how business leaders in both countries are working to...
The Current in Mexico City: Part Two
Matt Galloway goes to the last migrant camp in Mexico City. With Donald Trump shutting the US border, migrants searching for a better life have been l...
Canada and Mexico’s road towards a new CUSMA
This summer CUSMA gets a reset, and with Donald Trump setting a new tone with Canada and Mexico who knows what the negotiations will hold. Luis Rosend...
Who gets to live in Mexico City?
This is a city in a moment of change. It is the hot new travel spot, tourists are pouring in daily. Expats and digital nomads are also snapping up rea...
What Mexico can teach Canada about Chinese EVs
Chinese EVs are coming to Canada. It is a done deal. Mexico has had them for years. Hear the impact these vehicles have had on not just the automotive...
How Tumbler Ridge is supporting each other
In the wake of the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, a mother from another community is finding ways to honour her neighbours. Plus, political and faith...
Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier’s “starry, starry” Olympic win
Team Canada is gaining momentum after securing their first gold medal at the Olympic Winter Games in Milano Cortina, Italy — but what’s the deal with...
Patti Smith on music, art and navigating loss
The godmother of punk says she never had a choice when it came to being an artist — it was her calling from the moment she first laid eyes on a Picass...
Could Russia return to the Olympics?
Pressure is mounting to allow Russian athletes compete at the Olympics under the Russian flag. Reporter Georgi Kantchev with Wall Street Journal is in...
How one Tumbler Ridge teacher kept his students safe
Mechanical shop teacher Jarbas Noronha told his students to barricade the door and prepare to flee out of the garage, if the shooter made it inside. H...
How these dogs saved their humans' lives
In her new book How My Dog Saved My Life, former CBC producer Cate Cochran tells 30 Canadian stories of dogs who have changed everything for their hum...
Trying to make sense of the tragedy in Tumbler Ridge
More details are emerging about the mass shooting in B.C. that left nine people dead. We get an update on the shooter. And a town resident describes t...
From the Titanic to the North Pole: a life of exploration
Joe MacInnis has spent his life going where very few people ever have — beneath the ice at the North Pole, down to the wreck of the Titanic, and into...
What we know about the deadly shootings in Tumbler Ridge, BC
An 'unimaginable tragedy' in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia. Yesterday afternoon, a shooter entered the local secondary school...
Canadians desperate for information about friends and family in Iran
It's been one month since Iran was rocked by what’s being called the country's deadliest crackdown in modern history. On January 8th and 9th, security...
Throwing shade on those super bright headlights
Recently Vancouver city council passed a unanimous motion calling on Transport Canada to do something about LED headlight glare. Saskatoon optometrist...
Rafah crossing is open but few people are getting through
The Gaza-Egypt border crossing partially opened last week, after the return of the body of the last Israeli hostage. However very few people have been...
How popular is Alberta’s separatism movement?
President of the Angus Reid Institute, Shachi Kurl breaks down new polling data that shows the number of Albertans committed to leaving Canada remains...
Ask Me Anything: Jason Kenney on Alberta Separatism
We've got a special episode today of Cross Country Checkup. It is Canada's only national phone-in show, broadcasting live from coast to coast to coast...
Why men are travelling to Turkey for hair transplants
Turkey has become a top destination for the booming business of hair transplants. But why are so many men opting for the procedure? We talk to John Pa...
Zadie Smith loves Billie Eilish, clubs and third-rate novels
Zadie Smith wonders if she's weird. She pays attention to a lot in an age when our attention has been captured and her phone-free life can be lonely....
A grocery rebate can help, but by how much?
Food prices have climbed for years and for families on fixed incomes, every increase means another trade-off. As the federal government rolls out a ne...
How a four-month-old bird flew non-stop for 11 days
A young bar-tailed godwit code-named B6 flew for more than 13,000 kilometres from Alaska to Tasmania in 2022. That's the longest known sustained fligh...
The politics of Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show
Coming off his Album of the Year win at the Grammys, where he made a statement denouncing ICE, Bad Bunny will take the stage at the Super Bowl half ti...
Canadian Olympic greats on the power of the Games
Clara Hughes. Hayley Wickenheiser. Beckie Scott. Legends of Team Canada with 13 Olympic medals between them. So what do they watch for when Team Canad...
Several Toronto police officers linked to organized crime
Toronto Star Crime Reporter, Jennifer Pagliaro on an investigation by York Regional Police connecting several Toronto police officers to organized cri...
Why Canadian ice cream is a hit in Mexico
Scrap chocolate and vanilla: mango, coconut, and pistachio are the hot new Canadian ice cream flavours… in Mexico, that is. Ice cream is one of many C...
The last US-Russia nuclear treaty just expired
The last remaining US-Russia nuclear treaty that put limits on nuclear arsenals, the New START, expires today. Experts warn that without a new treaty,...
Are you feeling the pinch of the singles 'tax'?
There’s no getting around it - life is more expensive as a single person than it is when you’re in a couple. With singles in Canada now making up almo...
Are you a target of algorithmic pricing?
We know that companies are gathering data on us as we go about our lives online, but that information might also be used to create a personalized pric...
P.K. Subban on the Canada/US heated hockey rivalry
Canadian hockey legend PK Subban is one of the executive producers of a new CBC special, Rivals: the Four-Nations Face-Off -- chronicling that epic ho...
Homelessness in Canada's smaller communities
The number of homeless people in smaller cities, towns and in rural communities is climbing. We hear from two mayors who are grappling with the surge...
Dry January? What's that gonna do for you?
Many of us participate in Dry January — and go right back to drinking during the other eleven months of the year. Sure, Dry January can be a great jum...
CBC exclusive: Grandmother of missing Nova Scotia children
Lily and Jack Sullivan have been missing for nine months. For the first time their maternal grandmother is speaking in a CBC exclusive interview.
How fungi could save the planet
“The future is fungal,” says Toby Kiers. She has won the "green Nobel" for her work studying mycorrhizal fungi — the vast underground network that act...
Latest Epstein files show ties to powerful men
Files released by The U.S. Department of Justice show that many high-profile figures who've tried to distance themselves from Jeffrey Epstein were chu...
More young people being diagnosed with psychotic disorders
New research from the Canadian Medical Association Journal has found that more people aged 14-20 are being diagnosed with psychotic disorders, includi...
China's influence filling the gap of the “American Dream”
From Ne Zha 2, to the video game Black Myth, Labubu, Chinese culture is becoming more aspirational. We hear from Tianyu Fang, a PhD student at Harvard...