October 2010
We check in on the UN Biodiversity Conference held in Nagoya, Japan. Today is the deadline for countries to reach an agreement on slowing the...
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Haiti is set to elect a new President in less than a month. But with so many Haitians still homeless, hungry and waiting for the...
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China exports about 95 per cent of the world's rare earth elements ... a crucial feature of the global economy. But for about a week,...
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Thursday, October 28, 2010 | Categories: Shift |
(Mahesh Kumar A/AP) Last week, we heard a lot about the challenges and problems associated with having children later in life. But -- as...
Thursday, October 28, 2010 | Categories: Shift |
(Jonathan Hayward/Canadian Press) Last week we also took a look at climate change from the top of the high Arctic. The cold has been...
Thursday, October 28, 2010 | Categories: |
Harry McQueen AGE: 101 LIVES IN: Toronto, ON ABOUT HARRY: Harry McQueen has lived in Toronto all his life and he is proud to...
We get a lot of mail at The Current. Some compliments, some complaints and best of all, compelling, riveting stories. So instead of devoting...
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We've built an entire program this morning out of your feedback. And a lot of it was about how we handled our discussion about fertility...
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We dig deeper into this week's mail bag and hear your thoughts on the freedom of government scientists and the latest film from Zacharias Kunuk....
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A feature interview with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. In his new book, he outlines some of the major issues that confronted him in...
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Saint Andrew's church in La Tuque, Quebec has stood for a century. But now there aren't enough English-speaking Anglicans to keep it going. We'll have...
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It has been about a-year-and-a-half since the Obama Administration in the U.S. agreed to a multi-billion-dollar-bailout of the auto industry. It's a deal many people...
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010 | Categories: Shift |
St. Andrew Apostle and Martyr La Tuque, Quebec Saint Andrew's church in La Tuque, Quebec has stood for a century. But now there aren't...
The number of people dying from cholera in Haiti appears to be slowing. But new cases are still being reported. And the outbreak still represents...
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Col. Russell Williams pleaded guilty to murder, sexual assault and forcible confinement. The case shocked all of us ... so imagine being his wife? She's...
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Government scientists say Ottawa doesn't listen to them when it makes policy and won't let them talk to anyone else. So now, 23,000 of them...
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Omar Khadr - the Canadian accused of killing a U.S. medic when he was 15 and fighting with the Taliban in Afghanistan - was back...
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Cheap daycare, generous parental leave ... The Quebec Government is pulling out all the stops to get more women to have more babies and to...
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According to Malcolm Beith, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is actually the most wanted drug lord in the entire world and the reason that Mexico...
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Monday, October 25, 2010 | Categories: Shift |
The Quebec Government is pulling out all the stops for parents these days. If you're a working couple with two children in Ottawa, you'll...
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European Austerity - France and Britain are boiling over this week in reaction to austerity measures there, but things are going more smoothly in Germany....
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Karen Patterson is the Canadian wife of a Chinese artist who has been detained by Chinese authorities for five months. His offences against the state...
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Acclaimed filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk explains why the wisdom of Inuit elders has much to tell scientists about climate change. Listen to Part Three: (Pop-up)...
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Thursday, October 21, 2010 | Categories: |
Irene Haugen w/ Janice Robinson, Nursing Home Director AGE: 105LIVES IN: Hampton, NB ABOUT IRENE: Irene Haugen is a retired nurse and 85 years...
Thursday, October 21, 2010 | Categories: Shift |
The average age of women giving birth in Canada was 29.7 years in 2004, a slight increase from 29.6 in 2003. This continues a...
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A group of investors from India has made an offer to buy the Jeffrey Mine, one of Canada's last remaining asbestos mines. The deal could...
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The Canadian Government plans to spend 16-Billion-dollars on state-of-the-art fighter jets. But at least one military analyst says we'd be better off with propeller planes....
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Bill Gates says he thinks Malaria can be wiped off the face of the earth. And the United Nations, as well as most international aid...
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Alex Hundert is accused of helping organize the violent protests at the G-20 Summit in Toronto in June. He was arrested at the protests, released...
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Across Canada, women are waiting longer to have children. The result is older parents and a debate over the consequences for the parents, their children...
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We speak with Naheed Nenshi, the new Mayor-Elect of Calgary. He's a Harvard-educated business professor who used to advise Fortune 500 companies and wrote a...
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Colonel Russell Williams has pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder, as well as two counts of sexual assault and 82 break-ins and attempted...
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Tarek Fatah has picked plenty of fights in his bid to build the kind of Islam he wants to believe in. He has taken...
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A fight over a proposed mining development in Central British Columbia is pitting economic gain against ecological sustainability. And the fate of about 85,000 trout...
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper is facing public criticism from some of his cabinet ministers, as well as rebukes from the United Nations and the United...
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British Columbia's Health Minister says he's found a way to cut waiting times and make hospitals more efficient ... just by changing the way his...
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The jury is still out on Omar Khadr's future. And there's a lot hanging in the balance. We hear from two former child soldiers...
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About a million people attended the funeral of Brother Andre in 1937. He is credited with thousands of miraculous healings. This Sunday, Brother Andre will...
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Last week, five students at Carleton University were arrested for holding a public demonstration in violation of a University order. They're all members of a...
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Meet a member of the so-called DNA Dozen ... a group who wants everybody to find out what's hiding in their genetic profiles and post...
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Thursday, October 14, 2010 | Categories: |
Niece Lailia Houssian, son Wayne Harris, Khanom Zrein Harris....and her cat, Sandra AGE: 101 LIVES IN: Westville (Pictou County), NS ABOUT KHANOM ZREIN: Khanom...
The rescue of 33 Chilean miners has become a huge media event and a good news success story for the Chilean Government. We look at...
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Last week we found out that officials at Veterans Affairs had broken the law by sharing thousands of pages of confidential health records. It went...
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Liberal MP Ujal Dosanjh tells us about his plan to fix the Citizenship Act. And meet Khanom Zrein Harris, a 100-year-old who was born in...
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Swedish author Stieg Larsson died before his wildly popular 'Millennium Trilogy' was published. Under Swedish law, the rights to his books - and the millions they have...
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Stieg Larsson isn't the only author to die before his work was published. Vladimir Nabokov, author of Lolita, left behind an unfinished manuscript. He also...
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Canada withdrew its bid for a coveted spot on the UN security council at the last minute. We ask what it means and whether it...
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010 | Categories: |
BFF: Steven Bickerstaffe & Minnie McCurdy AGE: 103 LIVES IN: Toronto, ON ABOUT MINNIE: Steven Bickerstaffe and Minnie McCurdy have been best friends for...
The purchase of 65 new F-35 fighter jets is the most expensive in history by the Canadian government and worth every penny according to its...
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Minnie McCurdy is 103 years old. Steven Bickerstaffe is half her age - young enough to be her grandson. And they've been best friends...
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