With Senator Mike Duffy's spending and borrowing habits under scrutiny, he quite the Conservative party to sit as an independent. We hear about the potential damage of Duffy-Gate to the government and why the Senator's been considered so valuable to the Conservatives, even though he once doubted the value of the Senate himself.

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For more than half a century, psychiatrists have turned to it to help diagnose their patients. But some doctors now hope the newest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders or DSM is the last of its kind. We hear why some are losing faith in the so-called 'bible' of psychiatry.

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Before we dismiss the ubiquitous election campaign polls and the relentless public opinion pollsters after polls in the BC election got it so wrong...perhaps we need to look at this differently. The power of opinion polls may not reside in the ability to predict but rather in their ability to Influence voter behaviour.

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We are catching up and updating lots of stories this week ... from vegan fury and grizzly bear worries ...to a man who is literally drawing out the opposition in the upcoming Iranian elections with a fictional character from a popular graphic novel.

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When The New York Times printed Angelina Jolie's opinion piece outlining her choice of a preventative mastectomy, the public conversation began anew, sparked by her fame and her candor and the realization that genetic technology offers many women informed choice. Today, we pick up on that conversation with three women who made their own choices.

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With Stephen Hawking's controversial decision to pull out of a conference at Israel's Hebrew University, the action against Israeli Universities by some professors in Canada and others around the world was back in the news. As part of our project, Line in the Sand , we look at the ethical dilemmas that have confronted those confronted by academic boycotts.

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Five months after Derek Boogaard's last fight on the ice in Ottawa for the NY Rangers in December of 2010, he was dead ... an accidental overdose of painkillers and alcohol. A posthumous examination of his brain found he suffered from a brain disease caused by blows to the head. His family's wrongful death lawsuit seeks to hold the NHL responsible for physical trauma and brain damage experienced over six seasons as an Enforcer. Today, we're asking about the wider implications for the NHL.

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Gina Roitman's mother had long hinted at the dangers that surrounded her birth in a Displaced Persons camp in Germany after the Second World War. But it was only when she travelled to Passau, Germany decades later that she learned of the Nazi midwife. We hear her story today.

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Senator Doug Finley died this past Saturday from cancer at the age of 66. Here is our interview that originally aired in December 2012 with Senator Doug Finley reflecting on parliament, politics, life and death.

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Today we bring you a special 3-part edition of The Current called: Reset: A New Cold War?

It has been more than two decades since the old Soviet Union collapsed, but there are fears that a new Cold War is brewing between Moscow and the West. From the dark world of espionage, to the gleaming towers of Wall Street, to the cratered killing zones of Syria, it's a war with many battlefields.

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