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01/12/2008: The Big Three & the Future of the Auto Industry

Mon, Dec 1 Listen
One way or another, the Big Three automakers will have a huge impact on Windsor's future. But the future of those companies is being decided by forces well beyond this city's borders.

28/11/2008: Greenpeace and the DRC

Fri, Nov 28 Listen
For more than a decade, the Democratic Republic of Congo has seen one humanitarian disaster after another. But there's an environmental catastrophe as well. And Greenpeace thinks it deserves our attention too.

27/11/2008: The Agony of Stephen Harper

Thu, Nov 27 Listen
Stephen Harper got into politics to make government smaller. Now he's facing an economic crisis that seems to cry out for big time public intervention.

26/11/2008: Albino Killings in Tanzania

Wed, Nov 26 Listen
A horrifying story of an underground trade in human body parts, one that allegedly targets albinos in Tanzania and is said to be fueled by witchdoctors.

25/11/2008: Cyber Crime and Bullying

Tue, Nov 25 Listen
Today on the podcast, the tragic story of a young life cut short that shows there's nothing virtual about on-line bullying. Find out how social networking web sites are being used to promote bullying and hate and why some people think our real world laws are failing to keep up with these kinds of cyber crimes.

24/11/2008: The Story of Private Joseph Dwyer

Mon, Nov 24 Listen
Today on the Current podcast, a documentary about an American photo-journalist named Warren Zinn. Back in March of 2003, he snapped a now iconic photo of a U.S. Army medic carrying an injured Iraqi boy in his arms. Earlier this year, the medic killed himself. And Zinn has been trying to piece together what — if any — role his photograph played in what happened.

21/11/2008: Somali Pirates

Fri, Nov 21 Listen
Earlier this week, a giant Saudi oil tanker became the largest vessel ever hijacked by pirates operating with near impunity off the coast of Somalia. Today on the Current podcast, we'll have an interview with the head of one of the pirate groups operating in the area.

20/11/2008: Juice Box Investigation

Thu, Nov 20 Listen
How a tainted juice box led one family on a convoluted quest for answers about their children's health.

19/11/2008: Intimidation by Pharmaceutical Companies

Wed, Nov 19 Listen
Doctors sometimes discover that the drugs they're prescribing can be more harmful to some of their patients than the diseases they treat. But as CBC Radio health reporter Pauline Dakin tells the Current, some doctors say they've been intimidated by pharmaceutical companies into keeping their suspicions and their research quiet.

18/11/2008: The Ascent of Money: Niall Ferguson

Tue, Nov 18 Listen
Author Niall Ferguson forecasts our financial future by checking on the planet's moneyed history in his book, "The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of The World".

17/11/2008: Shuja Nawaz on Pakistan

Mon, Nov 17 Listen
For more than half of its existence as an independent nation, Pakistan has been governed by its military. Author and journalist Shuja Nawaz dissects the Country's military history and provides a perspective on today's political reality.

14/11/2008: Peter C. Newman on Izzy Asper

Fri, Nov 14 Listen
A bold and brassy Prairie man named Izzy created Canada's third national T.V. network. Now, as CanWest Global sheds jobs and cash, we're stepping back, and remembering the life and times of Israel Asper.

13/11/2008: The Full Interview with Mellissa Fung

Thu, Nov 13 Listen
Yesterday, Anna Maria spoke with Mellissa Fung, a CBC journalist who was held captive for a month in Afghanistan. This is the only interview Mellissa Fung will do. Today on the Current podcast, their full conversation.

12/11/2008: Avichay Sharon

Wed, Nov 12 Listen
A former Israeli soldier breaks the silence on what, he says, really happens when the army raids a village in the occupied territories.

11/11/2008: War Artists

Tue, Nov 11 Listen
Canada's military has sent artists to war since WW1. Men and women armed with paintbrushes and celluloid recording the battles as only an artist can. As Canada prepares to send its first ever official war poet to Afghanistan, we pause to reconsider the role that art plays in telling our military history.

10/11/2008: Mellissa Fung Kidnapping

Mon, Nov 10 Listen
CBC reporter Mellissa Fung is on her way home, safe after being kidnapped and held in a hole for four weeks in Afghanistan. It is the story every news organization in the country followed but did not report until she was free. What happened to her raises questions of how we all report from such a conflict zone.

07/11/2008: Ronald Wright and What is America

Fri, Nov 7 Listen
In his new book, author Ronald Wright asks the question, "What Is America." On today's podcast, we'll find out why the answer might mean trouble for Barack Obama.

06/11/2008: 2-4-D and Quebec vs. Dow

Thu, Nov 6 Listen
Two years ago, the Quebec government banned a herbicide called 2-4-D. And now the Canadian Government is facing a two-million-dollar challenge from the U.S. company that makes the product thanks to a controversial chapter in the North American Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA.

05/11/2008: Obama Promises

Wed, Nov 5 Listen
Barack Obama has raised people's hopes and pushed their expectations through the roof. In today's podcast we look at the challenges he faces when it comes to making change mean something.

04/11/2008: The Editorials Influence on Voters

Tue, Nov 4 Listen
The editorials in newspapers across the U.S.have come out overwhelmingly in favour of Barak Obama for president. Have they been influential to the voters or have they been Influenced by the voters? On today's podcast we convened a panel of Canadians whose decisions influence our news coverage and asked about the Obama and the McCain factors.

03/11/2008: Vice Presidents of America

Mon, Nov 3 Listen
On the eve of a US election where the Presidential run is also about the vice-presidential choice, we asked how the current VP has changed the role. Today on the podcast we spoke to Barton Gellman, a Cheney biographer and the former Democratic Vice-President Walter Mondale.

31/10/2008: Broken Dreams

Sat, Nov 1 Listen
New York City -- the place we broadcasted from this morning -- is uniquely vulnerable to the American economic crisis that's wreaking havoc all over the world. The CBC's Deen Karim spent a couple of days in some of the neighbourhoods where foreclosures are on the horizon. And he joined our guest host for The Friday Edition of The Current, Irshad Manji, to tell us about it.

30/10/2008: Voter Purges

Fri, Oct 31 Listen
The mechanics of casting and counting a ballot have loomed large over U.S. elections. Lists of voter rolls are routinely purged in order to keep them accurate and up-to-date. But some say the process of doing that is prone to error and vulnerable to manipulation. In this portion of the current we take a look at the issues surrounding voter monitoring in the American election.

29/10/2008: The Great Depression

Thu, Oct 30 Listen
And just about everyone's who's not old enough to remember the Great Depression is nervously pondering whether we're entering a new one. For more perspective on how the current economic crisis stacks up to the Great Depression, we examined the issue a little closer.

28/10/2008: Paul Martin

Wed, Oct 29 Listen
At a time of economic turmoil, it seems apt that the former Liberal prime minister has just published his memoirs. His book is called "Hell or High Water: My Life In and Out of Politics." And Paul Martin joined Anna Maria from our Montreal studio.

27/10/2008: Deficit Diagnosis

Tue, Oct 28 Listen
The experts all seem to agree that we are in the midst of dark times and can expect them to grow darker still. Hearing the word DEFICIT echo throughout the country as a sign that our revenues aren't what we hoped they would be and we'll have to spend more than we're taking in to keep the economic ship as we know it on an even keel. In this podcast you'll meet three experts who talk through the myths and realities of deficit spending.

24/10/2008: Obama in Washington

Sat, Oct 25 Listen
How would Washington be different if Obama is elected? That's the question we explored in this portion of The Current.

23/10/2008: Monique Lepine

Fri, Oct 24 Listen
It's been nearly 19 years since Marc Lepine walked into the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, sat down on a bench for a couple of hours and then went on a killing rampage. And it's taken nearly 19 years for his mother, Monique Lepine, to come close to coming to terms with what he did that day. Here the interview in this podcast.

22/10/2008: The Trial of Abou-Elmaati, Almalki and Nureddin

Thu, Oct 23 Listen
Ahmad Abou-Elmaati, Abdullah Almalki and Muayyed Nureddin are three Canadian men who were all separately imprisoned and tortured in Syria. All three of them say the Canadian Government is at least partly responsible for what happened to them and that Canadian officials wrongly labeled them as terrorists and fed information about them to Syrian authorities. You can hear how we explored this story further in this podcast.

20/10/2008: Karinna Moskalenko

Tue, Oct 21 Listen
Later today, French Police may say whether they believe a Russian lawyer was poisoned in the French city of Strasbourg last week. But that's just the beginning of the intrigue. In this podcast we explore the death of human rights lawyer, Karinna Moskalenko.

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