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May 1, 2008

Pt 1: New Brunswick Flooding - Everything changed in the early afternoon of April 30, 2008. That's when emergency workers in Fredericton revised their prediction from bad to -- the worst.

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Pt 2: Letters - We were joined by Friday host Alan Garr for a look at the mail.

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Pt 3: McMafia - For most of us, the term organized crime conjures up scenes from the Godfather movies or newspaper headlines about biker gangs. Either way, we tend to think of it as something safely removed from our daily lives. But in his new book McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Underworld, Misha Glenny paints a starkly different picture. According to Glenny, the collapse of Communism and the rise of globalization have ushered in a new era in which organized crime -- buoyed by complicit governments and consumers alike -- now infiltrates everyday life from the Balkans to British Columbia.

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It's Thursday May 1st.

Albert Hoffman, the swiss chemist who developed LSD died yesterday at 102,

Currently, let that be a lesson, kids. Drugs do kill.... eventually.

This is The Current.


New Brunswick Flooding

Everything changed in the early afternoon of April 30, 2008.

That's when emergency workers in Fredericton revised their prediction from bad to -- the worst.

The St. John River had been rising all week. At first the flooding was supposed to be second only to "the big one" of 1973. But the forecast in 2008 called for a flood that will meet or exceed 1973, when much of Fredericton's downtown was underwater.

CBC Producer Peter Anawati joined us from Fredericton with the latest.


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Letters

We were joined by Friday host Alan Garr for a look at the mail.


Listen to Part Two:

 

McMafia

For most of us, the term organized crime conjures up scenes from the Godfather movies or newspaper headlines about biker gangs. Either way, we tend to think of it as something safely removed from our daily lives. But in his new book McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Underworld, Misha Glenny paints a starkly different picture. According to Glenny, the collapse of Communism and the rise of globalization have ushered in a new era in which organized crime -- buoyed by complicit governments and consumers alike -- now infiltrates everyday life from the Balkans to British Columbia.

Mischa Glenny joined us from Vancouver.


Last Word - Paid To Use Blackberries

They don't call the Blackberry "crackberry" for nothing. And now, the ubiquitous electronic device that keeps its owners tied to their workplaces 24/7 is under scrutiny. At the end of April 2008, the Public Service Alliance of Canada announced plans to make Blackberries a bargaining issue. The union represents government workers and says they should be paid for the work they do out of the office -- and on their Blackberries.

It's a subject that had the phone lines ringing over at CBC Radio in Ottawa. We closed this episode with some of what the callers to Ontario Today had to say about the role Blackberries play in their lives, accompanied by Taking Care of Business by Bachman Turner Overdrive.


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