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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Over the last 28 years, Associated Press reporter Micheal Graczyk has made the trek to tiny Huntsville Texas, home to co-eds, convicts and those on...
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He's been Prime Minister for more than Six years but he's had a Majority government for precisely One year. And it is this past year...
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One of the very few journalists to have ever interviewed Bin Laden or seen the inside of the Pakistan compound where he lived and hid...
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It looks like a dog bone and takes up as much space as New Brunswick. They call it Kleopatra with a K and it is...
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Kingston Penitentiary is older than the country itself but the time has come to lock it down for good. What to do with Canada's famous...
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The West African country hopes to remain peaceful after a long-awaited War Crimes verdict. A Vancouver man -- with fond childhood memories-- is trying to...
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The Federal conservatives are re-shaping how the environment department will respond to catastrophes such as oil-spills. From the Atlantic coast, all the way to Vancouver...
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Newfoundland and Labrador enjoys a new kind of prosperity thanks to oil, but what about oil that comes from seals? Not to mention the pelts,...
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Two years after the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, fishermen say their lives haven't returned to normal. The impact of the BP oil spill is continuing...
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A controversial U.S. Ad in an Indo-Canadian newspaper in Vancouver has sparked discussion around a cultural secret. The notion that certain ethnic communities in Canada...
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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...
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They sit in a safe house, a small group of men, each once accused of unspeakable atrocities, each now acquitted by an International Tribunal and...
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As Game-Changers go, they don't get much bigger or more controversial. Thirty years ago, with the flourish of signatures we got our Canadian Constitution complete...
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For the better part of a week, the idea of paying-as-you-go has been dominated by the buzz over the MintChip, the Canadian Mint's project to...
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This is your chicken. This is your chicken on drugs. Any questions? There are plenty actually around the longtime use of antibiotics in animals to...
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All eyes are on Syria, its dictator feeling the international pressure to back down, its people still vulnerable in an uprising that they have stubbornly...
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It was one of the "Quiet Cuts" of the federal budget, the agency to enforce Canada's reproductive technology laws will be gone within months. In...
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Something odd is afoot in Beijing. The most troublesome bits of Chinese history have disappeared from the bookstores. The month of February has been scrubbed...
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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...
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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...
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From the 1980s to the 1990s and now into the 2010s . successive federal governments have snipped, clipped and sliced the CBC's taxpayer-funded allowance. Now...
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Statistics show 40-percent of working wives in the U.S. and an estimated 30-percent in Canada earn more than their male partners, a shift that is...
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*** Click here for more photos of Sarajevo - Then and Now ***Twenty years ago, Yugoslavia was disintegrating. Competing claims for territory in Bosnia inflamed...
In the U.S., they are fretting over the possibility of gas prices rising to as much as $ 5 a gallon. In Canada most of...
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This morning we dissect the new budget and check in with the government's Minister of State for Finance, and two critics from the other side...
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Finance Minister Jim Flaherty will deliver the federal budget later today. What would happen if your plans were actually included in Flaherty's? There is a...
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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...
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Some people say transgender women should be allowed to compete in beauty pageants because this would better reflect modern life, but others say rules are...
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If Trayvon Martin really did attack George Zimmerman, he did it armed with an iced tea and a bag of Skittles. Martin is dead and...
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France has been gripped by horror this week. The gruesome shooting of three children and a teacher was followed by a tense and ultimately deadly...
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The crisis in Sudan may be obscure to many outsiders. But movie star George Clooney is determined that the desperate plight of tens of thousands...
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Today, Jane Goodall is one of the world's most respected animal scientists. And one of the best-known scientists of any kind. Among her groundbreaking discoveries...
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You likely think it's a good habit to brush your teeth after every meal. Certainly the toothpaste companies do -- that's why they invented the...
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When Canada's Immigration Minister, Jason Kenney, talks about transformational change, he's not engaging in hyperbole. Kenney has either introduced or is planning to introduce a...
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Not since 1962 has Canada exacted the death sentence on anyone. But when a high profile and disturbing murder case makes headlines, the dormant debate...
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