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What's it take to get fired at the RCMP? That's what some people are asking, after a new case of sexual harassment surfaced this week....
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The first European ever to stand on the slopes of Everest would die there. And the mountain has killed hundreds of people since George Mallory....
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If you've never received an email from a Nigerian prince asking for a small loan -- then you probably don't have a computer. There are...
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They may live in the shadows of the oldest of civilizations but they are experiencing the newest of democracies and for Egyptians in day two...
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Hers is a story of growing up in what she calls an Honour Culture where girls are valued less than boys ... where they can...
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Today on Checking - In, students out of the classroom and sex in the museum. We check in with our listeners thoughts on what's appropriate...
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Today we bring you a special edition of The Current in Montreal. Where Anna Maria is joined by co-host Montreal Journalist David Gutnick and later...
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We started our special in Montreal to look at the evolution and direction of the Quebec student protest movement and we check in to Montreal's...
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The student protest is hardly a black and white issue-- unless you're the AnarchoPanda. Since the protest's early days, a philosophy professor dressed in a...
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Quebec's Premier may not be popular in general -- but his specific handling of the student protests seemed to have the support of a majority...
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It has worked on everything from Northern Ireland to Oka ... brokered deals between intractable rivals to try to keep the peace. A hundred days...
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Kamal Al-Solaylee and his siblings were born into a world of rapid change, their mother a shepherdess, their father a businessman. His was a life...
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An alleged diamond thief with the intestinal fortitude to hang onto the evidence finally well .. released it in Windsor this past weekend. Of course,...
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Well, finally. Something too sexy for Ottawa. And wouldn't you know it. It's in a museum. And paid for by taxpayers. A truly Canadian controversy....
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The high-flying world of international pageants introduced a Canadian beauty queen to the world's movers and shakers. But when she heard about a 17-year-old girl...
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The world of fair trade farming just got a little more fair for some. Maybe not for others. After all, how do you ensure the...
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They've been talking through the night in Quebec's National Assembly debating legislation to crack down on student protestors, opposed to tuition hikes. We hear the...
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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....
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Seems everyone's who's taken a trip by plane has a story to tell about bad customer service. Well, when United Airlines broke Dave Carroll's guitar...
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You'd be forgiven for thinking the Snakehead fish is a Hollywood Horror invention, it prefers swamps and stagnant water. It is a fish that can...
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We're Checking-In on reaction to the stories we've covered in the last week ... From a harrowing chronicle of life in a North Korean prison...
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Canada prides itself on a transparent justice system, its courts open to the public. Which is why a Halifax case awaiting a Supreme Court decision...
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Is a bad job better than no job? How far would you travel, where would you move to get work? And since workers pay into...
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Some people can find harmony in the wonders of the wild. Bernie Krause's fascination with sounds in the wild has inspired him to record soundscapes...
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There's controversy brewing at BC's Simon Fraser University. The Student Union has earmarked tens-of-thousands of dollars for a Men's centre to offer a safe space...
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The tweets and emails kept popping up yesterday in reaction to the compelling story of Shin Dong-hyuk, his harrowing life and his escape from North...
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It Changed the Game by making the medium social but will all those Likes translate into investor Love for Facebook? As the Social Media juggernaut...
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The joke in the polished halls of Exxon Mobil is that its P.R. strategy is to say "no comment" in 50 languages. It is said...
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If you check the news from the weekend, you'll notice that North Korea is back in the headlines as its neighbours China, Japan, South Korea...
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We continue our conversation with Shin Dong-hyuk and hear why Shin came to the end of his endurance and decided to risk everything to...
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Canada is well-known for offering protection to refugee claimants. It's less anxious to offer the same people health care if they get sick. It's the...
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The federal government's new crime bill changes how long it takes to apply for a pardon. We hear from a Nova Scotia man who says...
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One explanation why drug addicts are called junkies is that early in the last century, addicts often stole scrap metal to support their habit. But...
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Just in time for the celebration on Sunday -- the war on Moms. Author Elisabeth Badinter says motherhood chips away at women's hard-fought feminist gains....
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It is called the Mosquito and like the insect it emits a high-pitched discomforting whine, except the only people who can hear it are aged...
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Last week's tale of the Swedish director who fought the fruit bosses in court in Big Boys Gone Bananas struck a chord with a Canadian...
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has significantly expanded his power on Tuesday with a larger and broader coalition, immune to the threats of any single faction....
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Today we're talking health and science of a different kind ... In a lab in the U.K., researchers believe they've unlocked the mystery around the...
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A new report from the Mental Health Commission of Canada hopes to persuade Ottawa to take a lead role on mental health care. It says,...
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The U.S. evangelical group behind a series called Resisting the Green Dragon considers the environmental also evangelical American Christians whose churches committed to environmental action...
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You know the controversy over proposals for the Keystone XL Pipeline and the Gateway Pipeline but Kinder Morgan's B.C. pipeline is already pulsing with Alberta...
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Today on the anniversary of VE Day, what do we talk about when we talk about war? Noah Richler argues the Harper government and militarists...
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She spent her childhood in the High North, the daughter of nomadic parents. Her Inuit community was little more than a trading post. But in...
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Quebec students forced the Charest government into a compromise on the incendiary issue of tuition hikes and one of their leaders is insisting their motivation...
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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...
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Europe today is reacting to two big elections, one in France ... ousting Nikola Sarkozy in favour of Socialist Francois Hollande and the the other...
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Hassan Rassouli went in to a Toronto hospital for brain surgery a year and a half ago, contracted an infection and has been in a...
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China is undergoing an upheaval in leadership that some people suggest will be as influential as the suppression following Tiananmen Square. We hear from people...
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Pablo Picasso was arguably the greatest painter of the twentieth century. He was also known to have said that there are two kinds of women:...
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Back in 2008, we watched as U.S. neighbourhoods emptied the fallout of a sub-prime mortgage crisis that would bring Billions in Bailouts and see the...
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