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The Current is a meeting place of perspectives with a fresh take on issues that affect Canadians today. Primary Format : Public Broadcasting Language : Unknown Also Listed as: City : Unknown State/Province : Unknown User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of CBC Radio: The Best of The Current Podcasts Methings.com listings of CBC Radio: The Best of The Current Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

View the full archive of CBC Radio: The Best of The Current 24/11/09: Pt 3 - David Plouffe A conversation with Barack Obama's Chief Campaign Manager, David Plouffe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 24/11/09: Pt 2 - Home Inspections A landmark case for anyone who has ever bought or sold a house. A couple in British Columbia has successfully sued a home inspector for not seeing 200-thousand dollars worth of structural flaws. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 24/11/09: Pt 1 - Case Against Canada In the wake of allegations that Afghan detainees were abused and even tortured after they were handed over by Canadian Forces, we look at what it would take to mount a legal case against Canada and how strong that case would be. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 23/11/09: Pt 3 - Teachers Selling Lessons Some teachers have decided it is good business to sell on line the lesson plans and learning techniques they have developed. But critics are saying these educators are cutting corners and killing creativity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 23/11/09: Pt 2 - Child Welfare There are fewer government dollars for child welfare for first nation's children than for other kids. About 1 in 200 non-aboriginal children is under state care compared to 1 in 10 aboriginal children. We ask why the discrepancy in funding? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 23/11/09: Pt 1 - H1N1 Survivors The H1N1 pandemic has reached its peak in various parts of the country, and a number of Canadians have already had their brush with the disease. We talk to some sufferers about their brush with the biggest headline grabbing common illness since SARS. And we found a few of H1N1's most unusual victims. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 20/11/09: Pt 3 - 2012 In his new movie, 2012, Director Roland Emmerich chose to depict the destruction of Vatican City ... not Mecca. And yes, that's raised a few questions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 20/11/09: Pt 2 - Afghan Detainees A Canadian diplomat has testified that all of the Afghan detainees that Canadian forces handed over to Afghan authorities were likely tortured and that officials with the Canadian Forces, Foreign Affairs as well as an official in the Prime Minister's Office were warned about the situation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 20/11/09: Pt 1 - Jim Prentice A conversation with Federal Environment Minister Jim Prentice about where the government stands on controlling greenhouse gas emissions going into the United Nations Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 19/11/09: Pt 3 - Climate Change Cover-Up In 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 19/11/09: Pt 2 - Letters It's mail day. We hear your thoughts on politics, hunger, science, the Catholic Church and comparing Sudbury, Ontario to the moon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 19/11/09: Pt 1 - Malalai Joya In 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 18/11/09: Pt 2 - Malcolm Gladwell Writer 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. *** Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 18/11/09: Pt 2 - Vitamin Eh Documentary Due 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 18/11/09: Pt 1 - Golden Rice The 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 17/11/09: Pt 3 - Vatican & Alien Life Close 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 17/11/09: Pt 2 - Women of Zimbabwe We 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 17/11/09: Pt 1 - 9/11 Zeitgeist The 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 16/11/09: Pt 3 - Sudbury Mining Town Steelworkers 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 16/11/09: Pt 1 & 2 - World Hunger Diplomats, bureaucrats and activists are gathering in Rome for the World Food Summit. And the number of hungry people in the world has topped one billion for the first time. We hear individual stories of people's experiences going hungry and look at the wide variety of causes, effects and potential solutions. We also speak with the UN Special Rapporteur on The Right To Food. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website