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.
1005 episodes transcribedKatherine May, author of 'Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times' offers advice on how to embrace this time of year by slowing do...
Scientists with the SuperAging Research Initiative are studying a group of superagers — people 80 and up who have the memory of people half their age...
Inuit in Canada's north share deep cultural ties with Greenlanders. This week, people in Nunavut protested in solidarity against U.S. President Donald...
Teenage boys are going missing across Ontario and families say it’s not random. In this episode, we speak with Mark Kelley, co-host of the Fifth Estat...
Rachel Collishaw is ready for a big change. She wants to leave her secluded rural home for something called cohousing. In an uncertain world, she and...
Prime Minister Mark Carney's speech warning middle powers that "if you are not on the table, you are on the menu," drew a rebuke from U.S. President D...
Teachers and families are struggling to manage complex classrooms, with students of all different needs together. But the research shows inclusive cla...
Could you run seven marathons in seven days? What if those marathons were in drastically different climates, say running in Antarctica, and the next d...
Jane Darville helped create the hospice Casey House and then went on to be its Executive Director. She was there when Princess Diane visited and...
Lisa Banfield was the common-law wife of the Nova Scotia shooter. She has now released a book; The First Survivor: Life With Canada's Deadliest M...
Rassi Nashalik was the first person to ever host the Inuktituk news program Igalaaq. As she receives the Order of Canada, she still works to edu...
Fishing is at the heart of our east coast provinces — but Atlantic Canadians have been struggling for months amidst a global trade war and high tariff...
We'll hear from Oleh Zadoretskyy who came to Canada in 2023 after the war broke out in Ukraine. We'll also hear from Halifax immigration lawyer Elizab...
Autoimmune encephalitis is a condition that causes a person's immune system to mistakenly attack the brain. It’s rare, hard to diagnose and the conseq...
Nova Scotia's Aquakultre is exploring his own family history and the history of Black Nova Scotians in his new album 1783. We talk to him about how th...
The defence alliance's most powerful member is threatening the sovereignty of another. Whether or not the United States actually invades Greenland, th...
Life in Attawapiskat is undeniably hard. But it's where Juno-nominated Cree musician Adrian Sutherland chooses to live and raise his family, even thou...
A new co-op development in Toronto will provide more than 600 new units. It's the first major new co-op built in the city for decades. Across the coun...
There’s a new CBC podcast we think you’ll enjoy. Two Blocks from the White House takes a clear-eyed look at what’s happening in the U.S. right now and...
New research has found the amount of glacier ice lost in western Canada just in 2025 was 30 gigatonnes. That loss of ice isn’t just changing what the...
