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.
401 episodes transcribedU.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...
Former Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams has made explosive allegations against the company in her new memoir Careless People — but she’s been le...
An Alabama woman received a kidney transplant from a genetically modified pig in November, in an experimental surgery that doctors said was her only c...
With looming tariffs, canola farmer Margaret Rigetti says she feels like she’s “being used as a pawn” in a trade war between Canada and her two bigges...
Kay Carter is 101 and lives in a care home that uses the “butterfly” model of dementia care — a resident-centered approach that emphasizes dignity. As...
The liquidation of all Hudson's Bay stores could start as early as Tuesday, bringing about the end of a Canadian icon. We dig into what went wrong, an...
What will matter more to Canadians when they go to the polls next: housing, health care and the cost of living — or threats of tariffs and annexation...
Journalist Chris Hayes says “attention capitalism” demands we pay heed to everything at once, from social media doomscrolling to the 24-hour global ne...
Christopher Lemons was working at the bottom of the North Sea when he was suddenly cut off from his support vessel — leaving him rapidly running out o...
Liberal Leader Mark Carney will be sworn in as prime minister later today, with political observers suggesting he could call a federal election as ear...
Sonya Cywink was found murdered in London, Ont. in 1994, but her killer was never found. The Anishinaabe woman’s sister Meggie has spent decades...
Donald Trump’s return to the White House has strained his country’s alliances with Canada and the EU, while drawing Russia closer. As G7 foreign minis...
Tuberculosis is entirely curable and yet also the deadliest infectious disease in the world. That paradox has fascinated John Green, the popular YouTu...
It’s been five years since COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic, completely upending life as we knew it. We reconnect with some of the people we sp...
Donald Trump’s administration wants to create a new era of “energy dominance” in the U.S., by ramping up energy production to bring cheap power to mor...
Iowa farmer Joshua Manske says the trade war could be “really, really, really harmful” for him and the other farmers who helped U.S. President Donald...
