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.
416 episodes transcribedU.S. President Donald Trump is looming large over the Canadian election. We hear from three voters — one who intends to vote Liberal, one NDP and one...
We pay a visit to Burnaby South — Jagmeet Singh’s riding — as the NDP falls to a distant third in the polls. Galloway hears from the former NDP member...
The former CEO for Surrey’s Board of Trade says her city doesn’t get the shine or the investment that it deserves. With its booming population, the bu...
Local industries are looking for a leader who will support their business interests. We hear from truckers hauling goods back and forth across the bor...
Lots of men who take finasteride for hair loss notice results and no ill effects — but an investigation by Radio-Canada’s Enquête heard from dozens of...
News that China had executed four Canadian nationals emerged last week, just as the country imposed tariffs on a range of Canadian products. Given tha...
When Phillip Winter found out he had a genetic variant that can cause sudden cardiac events and death, he felt like a “dead man walking.” But new rese...
U.S. officials are making it harder for Canadians to access the iconic Haskell Free Library that straddles the border between Quebec and Vermont, a sh...
The federal election campaign is officially off to the races — and each of the leaders are positioning themselves as the candidate who can bring chang...
Trinity was only 14 years old when she stumbled into the chat room where she would be groomed and abused for three years by online extremists. The gro...
NASA’s new SPHEREx telescope launched earlier this month is set to collect data on more than 450 million galaxies, and some 100 million stars in the M...
Partial remains of two Indigenous women were found at the Prairie Green Landfill near Winnipeg earlier this month, in a search the victim’s families p...
A new study suggests that babies as young as a year old can store memories. One of the study’s authors explains why humans don’t remember being a baby...
Many Tesla drivers are doing everything they can to distance themselves from the company’s controversial CEO, Elon Musk, as the cars become targets fo...
The days are getting longer, snow piles are shorter and the wind's warmer. It can only mean one thing — it’s finally spring. A conservation biologist...
U.S. President Donald Trump has been trying to use telephone diplomacy to end the war in Ukraine — but historian Margaret MacMillan says Russia hasn’t...
Ohio doctor David Sabgir realized that asking his patients to get out and exercise wasn't working. So, he strapped on his running shoes and hit the pa...
Ontario Premier Doug Ford ripped up the province’s deal with Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet service earlier this month, in response to trade...
Matt Galloway asks Minister of Jobs and Families Steven MacKinnon what his government is doing to support the Canadian workers threatened by U.S. Pres...
Israel killed hundreds of people with airstrikes on Gaza this week, shattering the fragile ceasefire reached with Hamas in January. We look at why the...
