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.
1033 episodes transcribedThe 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
