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Cold Case: Confession to Murder

Friday, May 18, 2012 | Categories: Documentaries, Past Episodes |

19 years ago today, 15 year old Christine Harron went missing from Hanover, Ontario. Despite a confession, no one has been charged with her murder.... Read More »

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Laws and Mores: The legal battles of Dr. Morgentaler

Monday, May 7, 2012 | Categories: Documentaries, Gamechanger, News Promo, Past Episodes, Promotion |

It was a fight in Quebec that polarized Canadians when Dr. Henry Morgentaler stood trial for performing an abortion. As MPs confront a private members... Read More »

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Documentary: The Art of War

Thursday, April 19, 2012 | Categories: Documentaries, News Promo, Past Episodes |

When the going gets tough ...the tough play music? That is precisely what the artists of Sarajevo did during the almost-four-year-long siege of the Bosnia... Read More »

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Titanic Anniversary - Titanic Band

Monday, April 9, 2012 | Categories: Books, Documentaries, Interviews, News Promo, Past Episodes |

Today, we explore one of the Titanic's most moving stories - the band that played on dekc as the great ship went down almost a... Read More »

The Boy with the Past (Documentary Repeat)

Monday, April 9, 2012 | Categories: Documentaries, Past Episodes |

We're reprising our documentary about the teenaged father who gave up twins to adoption and has been shut out of their lives ever since. Sad... Read More »

The Unfinished Journey of Rabbi Simes

Friday, April 6, 2012 | Categories: Documentaries, News Promo, Past Episodes |

Rabbi Yehuda Simes of Ottawa was paralyzed after a terrible highway accident. Last year at Passover, we spoke to him about his process of healing... Read More »

Remy's Wake

Thursday, April 5, 2012 | Categories: Documentaries, Past Episodes |

Listen to Part One: (Pop-up) Listen to Part Two: (Pop-up) Two years ago, Remy Beauregard came home after a difficult day, went to bed...

Special: 20 yrs after siege of Sarajevo

Tuesday, April 3, 2012 | Categories: Documentaries, News Promo, Past Episodes |

*** Click here for more photos of Sarajevo - Then and Now ***Twenty years ago, Yugoslavia was disintegrating. Competing claims for territory in Bosnia inflamed...

Commercial Surrogacy in India

Wednesday, March 28, 2012 | Categories: Documentaries, News Promo, Past Episodes |

Driven by an overwhelming desire to have a baby... a Canadian woman hires a surrogate in India. A business transaction that would be illegal in this country - commercial surrogacy in... Read More »

Cyber Warfare: The Electric Fog of War

Tuesday, March 13, 2012 | Categories: Documentaries, News Promo, Past Episodes |

As wars go it was brief and ultimately forgettable unless you were a military strategist. Four years ago, Russia and Georgia fought over South Ossetia... Read More »

From Malware to Warfare: The Stuxnet Virus

Monday, March 12, 2012 | Categories: Documentaries, News Promo, Past Episodes |

As viruses go there has been none more stealthy or sophisticated. The Stuxnet virus wormed its way into untold numbers of computers around the world... Read More »

Inuit Identity (Documentary)

Thursday, March 8, 2012 | Categories: Documentaries, News Promo, Past Episodes |

The Inuit lay claim to one of Canada's oldest cultures in the country's newest territory Nunavut, home to Canada's youngest population. And the Inuit youth... Read More »

Saving Face: Dr. Mohammad Jawad

Friday, March 2, 2012 | Categories: Documentaries, Past Episodes |

The perpetrators are often husbands or jilted suitors who commit a hideous act that leaves their victims disfigured and devastated. We'll meet the plastic surgeon... Read More »

The Hand of Fate (Documentary)

Wednesday, February 29, 2012 | Categories: Documentaries, News Promo, Past Episodes |

In the summer of 2009, Sarah Jones was a pediatric surgeon hanging out with her family at their home in the country when an accident... Read More »

Sext Up Kids - How children are becoming hyper-sexualized

Thursday, February 23, 2012 | Categories: Documentaries, Interviews, News Promo, Past Episodes |

if you think teens are using social media to stay connected, what happens when it creates a disconnect? New studies show teenage exposure to aggressive... Read More »

Left Behind (Documentary)

Monday, February 20, 2012 | Categories: Documentaries, Past Episodes |

An estimated 400 Canadian seniors take their own lives every year. That's 12 per cent of all suicides in the country. As parliament moves toward... Read More »

Ocean Ranger: 30 years after the oil rig sank

Wednesday, February 15, 2012 | Categories: Documentaries, Past Episodes |

It's been thirty years since the Ocean Ranger oil rig listed and sank, taking the lives of everyone on board. A sister of one of... Read More »

The Boy with the Past (Documentary)

Thursday, February 9, 2012 | Categories: Documentaries, News Promo, Past Episodes |

He was 16 years old when his twins were born. A teenage father who'd agreed with his 15 year old girlfriend that the babies would... Read More »

Sleep Paralysis

Wednesday, February 1, 2012 | Categories: Books, Documentaries, News Promo, Past Episodes |

It is an overpowering fear. You feel you are awake but immobile. Millions of people experience a sleep disorder called Sleep Paralysis. And sometimes with... Read More »

Humanitarian aid workers facing uncomfortable compromises

Monday, January 16, 2012 | Categories: Books, Documentaries, Past Episodes |

They are the undisputed heroes in every crisis. From natural disasters, to violent conflict, humanitarian aid workers are often the first in and usually the... Read More »

The story of Pat Marr and his daughter Shenisa

Thursday, January 12, 2012 | Categories: Documentaries, Past Episodes |

The Current and a live audience gathered at the Yukon Arts Centre for a special town hall called: Fathers without Fathers - Aboriginal men...

Absent Aboriginal Fathers (cont'd)

Thursday, January 12, 2012 | Categories: Documentaries, Interviews |

We continue to take about Aboriginal fathers - a demographic that has been called the greatest untapped resource in the lives of aboriginal children. That...

The story of Mohamed Bouazizi, the man who started the Arab Spring

Tuesday, January 3, 2012 | Categories: Documentaries, Past Episodes |

As the Arab League monitors and the Syrian government continues to kill, it is worth noting that it was exactly a year ago a year... Read More »

After the Storm (Documentary Repeat)

Friday, December 30, 2011 | Categories: Documentaries, Past Episodes |

The vast majority of Canadians who have a stroke will survive. But only 10 per cent will make a full recovery. The aftermath of a... Read More »

Beerology

Friday, December 30, 2011 | Categories: Books, Documentaries, Interviews, Past Episodes |

The bubbly is chilling and the corks are ready to be popped. For many-- champagne's in vogue and beer's a bust when ringing in the... Read More »

To Serve With Pride (Documentary Repeat)

Thursday, December 29, 2011 | Categories: Documentaries, Past Episodes |

It was a big battle--but this year--the war was won. The war on Don't Ask Don't Tell, the American military's policy which forced gay soldiers... Read More »

The Invisible Girl (Documentary Repeat)

Wednesday, December 28, 2011 | Categories: Documentaries, Past Episodes |

Even the mention of 9/11 evokes horrendous images for most adults. But imagine the images and memories seared in the minds of children... particularly the... Read More »

Motherhood Interrupted (Documentary Repeat)

Tuesday, December 27, 2011 | Categories: Documentaries, Past Episodes |

We re-broadcast a documentary about a time in Canada when women's work meant getting married, pregnant and raising children at home. But if you were... Read More »

Breathing with Sandra (Documentary Repeat)

Monday, December 26, 2011 | Categories: Documentaries, Past Episodes |

We re-broadcast a documentary about giving and receiving the gift of life. Organ donors and recipients are often strangers who--by law--aren't allowed to get to... Read More »

Prison Libraries: The Prose of Cons

Wednesday, December 14, 2011 | Categories: Documentaries, Past Episodes |

Ask Jean Charbonneau what those who come to his library ask to read and he'll tell you True Crime is the most popular. His readers... Read More »

First Ladies of the RCMP - The history of women in the force

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 | Categories: Documentaries, News Promo, Past Episodes |

The RCMP was one of the last major police forces in the world to admit women to its ranks in 1974. It took another 16... Read More »

Mississippi Reconciliation - Cold Case Murder

Monday, November 21, 2011 | Categories: Documentaries, News Promo, Past Episodes |

Investigative filmmaker David Ridgen is back with an extraordinary story of redemption and forgiveness that began with the violence of the Ku Klux Klan back... Read More »

Canada's soldiers share their stories to remember

Friday, November 11, 2011 | Categories: Documentaries, News Promo, Past Episodes |

Today we commemorate Remembrance Day, with some astonishing stories of survival and some heartbreaking stories of sacrifice. It's been 93 years since the end of... Read More »

Photos from the documentary, Grey Zone

Monday, November 7, 2011 | Categories: Documentaries, Past Episodes |

While safe injection sites are not legal across the country, harm reduction health organizations are coming up with creative ways to get clean needles...

COUNTERfit

Monday, November 7, 2011 | Categories: Documentaries, News Promo, Past Episodes |

In September, the Supreme Court of Canada decided that Insite - the supervised safe injection program in Vancouver - should be allowed to continue operating.... Read More »

After the Storm: Documentary

Wednesday, October 26, 2011 | Categories: Documentaries, News Promo, Past Episodes |

Right now across this country as the weak October light comes through the window, someone who you don't know or someone you know all too... Read More »

Breathing with Sandra

Tuesday, October 18, 2011 | Categories: Documentaries, News Promo, Past Episodes |

(Flickr: Brandon Baunach) Every once in a while you get a glimpse into someone else's life, see them struggle and then triumph, watch their... Read More »

Moose Kill

Monday, October 10, 2011 | Categories: Documentaries, News Promo, Past Episodes |

Hunters in Newfoundland have rarely had a Thanksgiving this good. Starting tomorrow, the province is allowing a huge moose hunt and as many as... Read More »

The Mayor of Mogadishu

Monday, October 3, 2011 | Categories: Documentaries, Past Episodes |

If you're looking to make a difference in politics, there are easier places than the capital of Somalia. Devastated by a decade of insurgency... Read More »

To Serve With Pride

Tuesday, September 20, 2011 | Categories: Documentaries, Past Episodes |

One of the strangest orders ever given a modern military is rescinded today. From now on, gay and lesbians may serve openly in the U.S.... Read More »

Motherhood Interrupted

Monday, September 19, 2011 | Categories: Documentaries, News Promo, Past Episodes |

She was 19 years old, pregnant and unmarried and the world was unforgiving. It was the sixties and Sharon Pederson was literally tossed out... Read More »

What If ... Oil was left in the sand?

Tuesday, September 13, 2011 | Categories: Documentaries, Gamechanger, Past Episodes |

What if there had been no ancient ocean to cover northern Alberta? What if no sea life had died, decomposed in the silt and... Read More »

The Invisible Girl: Helaina Hovitz

Thursday, September 8, 2011 | Categories: Documentaries, News Promo, Past Episodes |

Helaina Hovitz, now 22 yrs old As the 10th anniversary of the attacks of September 11th, 2001 approaches, we meet Helaina Hovitz. She was 12... Read More »

The Anthropocene

Wednesday, September 7, 2011 | Categories: Documentaries, News Promo, Past Episodes |

The Current's new season-long project, Game Changer, will look at the biggest game changer of all: Us. In fact, humans have become such an overwhelming... Read More »

The Anthropocne (cont'd)

Wednesday, September 7, 2011 | Categories: Documentaries, Past Episodes |

We continue our exploration of The Anthropocene with Sylvia Earle about the changes we have made to our oceans and the troubles we have caused.... Read More »

Waiting for the Treatment (Documentary)

Friday, September 2, 2011 | Categories: Documentaries, Past Episodes |

About 30 per cent of inmates in our federal prisons have Hepatitis C. While there have been vast improvements in treating both diseases, those behind... Read More »

The Perfect Martini (Documentary)

Thursday, September 1, 2011 | Categories: Documentaries, News Promo, Past Episodes |

You probably have a friend who's some years older than you. Others who are a few years shy of you. But most of us, don't... Read More »

The Middle Rung (Documentary)

Wednesday, August 31, 2011 | Categories: Documentaries, Past Episodes |

Meet three people who spend their days helping keep the federal government running smoothly. And find out how the demographic shifts that are changing the... Read More »

It's a Steal (Documentary)

Tuesday, August 30, 2011 | Categories: Documentaries, Past Episodes |

Property ain't cheap in Canada, but you can find a bargain in sunny Florida. And many Canadians have. Since the 2008 mortgage crisis, many... Read More »

No Fixed Address (Documentary)

Monday, August 29, 2011 | Categories: Documentaries, Past Episodes |

A troubled Canadian soldier leaving the armed forces can be an extremely difficult person to track. But its seems clear many follow the footsteps of... Read More »

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