Mar 1, 2013 | 21:58The Current The impact of basketball diplomacy on U.S. - North Korean relations AudioThe Current The impact of basketball diplomacy on U.S. - North Korean relations Mar 1, 2013 | 21:58Former pro basketball player Dennis Rodman is in North Korea today. His trip has US policy-makers and pundits concerned the visit may undermine the West's policy goals there. We debate whether on the basketball mad Korean Peninsula there's such a thing as basketball diplomacy. Or is Dennis Rodman just shoring up a regime with little regard for human rights?
Mar 1, 2013 | 24:00The Current Is there a future for working from home? AudioThe Current Is there a future for working from home? Mar 1, 2013 | 24:00Cell phones, laptops, tablets and all our other wireless gear have made it easy for companies to let their employees work from home. But now Yahoo -- a telecommuting early adopter -- says it needs its employees to come back to the office. We debate the pros and cons of telecommuting in 2013.
Mar 1, 2013 | 26:29The Current Why internet addiction is a controversial diagnosis AudioThe Current Why internet addiction is a controversial diagnosis Mar 1, 2013 | 26:29Isaac Vaisberg is a self-described recovering Internet addict. He's getting treatment through a pioneering new program in Washington State. And this spring, Internet Use Disorder will be officially recognized as an area that warrants further study. But not everyone thinks this is progress.
Feb 28, 2013 | 22:00The Current Are police targeting elderly drivers in Sudbury? AudioThe Current Are police targeting elderly drivers in Sudbury? Feb 28, 2013 | 22:00Head to YouTube and you can watch dozens of scenarios to a problem with older or elderly drivers. Statistically,drivers aged 80-plus almost have the accident rate of the most dangerous driving demographic ... the under 24s. And in Sudbury they are the target of a police tip-line urging other drivers to call in to report any seemingly erratic or dangerous elderly driver. Simple public safety in action? Or age discrimination?
Feb 28, 2013 | 24:00The Current Fort McMurray land leases: Homes vs Bitumen AudioThe Current Fort McMurray land leases: Homes vs Bitumen Feb 28, 2013 | 24:00Houses in Fort McMurrary are in such demand they sell at prices a quarter-of-a-million-dollars more than either Edmonton or Calgary. But it is what new houses could be sitting on that really has Alberta's bitumen capital in a bind. A massive tract of land set aside for urban housing development is the same land on which oilsands companies hold mineral rights leases. And the Alberta government has to decide who gets priority.
Feb 28, 2013 | 27:30The Current Checking-In: Listener Response AudioThe Current Checking-In: Listener Response Feb 28, 2013 | 27:30Find out what a comedian-turned political powerhouse named Beppe Grillo has in mind for the European Union's third largest economy. And, we'll remember a man who escaped two Nazi concentration camps, helped write the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and helped inspire the Occupy movement. And as always we hear your thoughts on the stories we've brought you this week in Checking-In.
Feb 27, 2013 | 22:00The Current Cleaning up the payday loan industry AudioThe Current Cleaning up the payday loan industry Feb 27, 2013 | 22:00Ontario's new premier may think there's a rein on payday loan companies but their level of creativity appears to be almost as high as the interest rates they charge. In some Canadian provinces and across the U.S., these so-called lenders of last resort are finding new ways to skirt the rules. Today, calls for reform in what one man calls ...the poverty industry.
Feb 27, 2013 | 24:00The Current The legacy of Pope Benedict XVI AudioThe Current The legacy of Pope Benedict XVI Feb 27, 2013 | 24:00Pope Benedict the 16th stood before tens-of-thousands of the faithful at his final audience in St. Peters Square this morning. As he prepares to step away from the Papacy tomorrow ... we're asking about his legacy. Will he be remembered as an outstanding theologian ... or a man mired in scandal, administrative trouble and an early exit?
Feb 27, 2013 | 27:28The Current The east coast lobster wars AudioThe Current The east coast lobster wars Feb 27, 2013 | 27:28Most of us would be hard-pressed to notice a four-millimetre difference in the size of a lobster shell. To put that in perspective, four millimetres is the width of four dimes stacked on top of each other. But lobster fishers in PEI and New Brunswick are about to go to war with each other over a bid to increase the minimum catch size by exactly that amount.
Feb 26, 2013 | 22:00The Current Investigating reports of Zimbabwe rapes under 'universal jurisdiction' AudioThe Current Investigating reports of Zimbabwe rapes under 'universal jurisdiction' Feb 26, 2013 | 22:00When Robert Mugabe clung to power after Zimbabwe's 2008 election he was quick to wield the power of the law and the authority of the state. But it is precisely the wider legal and moral authority of States that is now being used against him in a South African plan to prosecute Mugabe supporters for engineering the systematic rape of women in that election fight. And behind this bold legal move was a concerted lobby effort by a group begun by Canada's Stephen Lewis.
Feb 26, 2013 | 27:28The Current Growing up in the Church of Scientology: Jenna Miscavige Hill AudioThe Current Growing up in the Church of Scientology: Jenna Miscavige Hill Feb 26, 2013 | 27:28Lots of people have stepped forward to air their grievances with The Church of Scientology over the years. But most of them aren't the niece of the man who runs the church and a former high-level member herself. Jenna Miscavige Hill joins us to tell us about the Church of Scientology, why she left and why that's going to make for some awkward family reunions.
Feb 25, 2013 | 22:00The Current Breach of Trust & the Canadian Military AudioThe Current Breach of Trust & the Canadian Military Feb 25, 2013 | 22:00Today's documentary involves a young woman whose name we cannot share and whose allegations have raised troubling questions about the Canadian military, its recruiting and the implications for its chain of command. Our producer, Howard Goldenthal investigates how a young recruit found her life blown apart on a winter's day while trying to become a member of the armed forces.
Feb 25, 2013 | 23:02The Current The implications of the Italian elections AudioThe Current The implications of the Italian elections Feb 25, 2013 | 23:02Italians are going to the polls today and the austerity-minded E.U. technocrat who was supposed to rescue their economy is running a distant third ... behind Mr. Bunga Bunga himself, Silvio Berlusconi. The stakes for Italy are huge. And the stakes for those trying to manage the E.U. Debt Crisis could be even bigger.
Feb 25, 2013 | 27:30The Current Ethical dilemmas surrounding medical tourism AudioThe Current Ethical dilemmas surrounding medical tourism Feb 25, 2013 | 27:30Not every Canadian heading to Mexico at this time of year
is looking to lie on a beach. Increasingly some are stretching out on operating tables for surgery without a long waiting list, at affordable prices. And for some, the ethical question is not should they be going to another country and paying but rather how can Canada be so unethical to keep them waiting. We look at the conundrum and the consequences of an Operation Vacation.
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