The Current

All summer long, The Current is bringing you the best of CBC podcasts. Here's what we're playing on air, and where to find episodes online.

Today on The Current: New Canadians on coming to Canada, National affairs panel on the year so far, and Dave & Morley take a trip to the cottage: Stuart McLean’s Vinyl Cafe.

Following a run of bad luck, journalist Maria Konnikova wanted to learn more about what humans can and cannot control, so she decided to learn the game of poker.

Today on The Current: Facebook ad boycott, Journalist Maria Konnikova on what poker taught her about life, Global medical oxygen shortages, Andre Picard on migrant workers and COVID-19 spikes in the U.S.

The prevalence of facial recognition systems, which use artificial intelligence to match images of people with images of suspects, is growing in the U.S. and Canada. Recent studies have found that while the systems are fairly accurate when it comes to identifying Caucasian men, it can be faulty for other demographics.

Today on The Current: Facial recognition and race, Government responses to COVID-19, Celebrating Pride at home, and Sask. family pushes for greater anti-racism efforts in schools. Rosemary Barton guest hosts.

President Donald Trump had little interest in the fine-grained details of charges Meng Wanzhou faces for allegedly skirting U.S. sanctions and viewed the case with far-ranging international implications in transactional terms, John Bolton told CBC Radio's The Current in his first interview with Canadian media since the publication of his memoir of his time in the administration.

Today on The Current: Panel of parents on school during the pandemic and beyond, Avoiding a COVID-19 surge this summer, and John Bolton on his new book.

In March, major sports leagues, including the NBA, NHL and MLB, halted their seasons because of the coronavirus outbreak. Now, as efforts to restart economies and life as we know it occur around the world, some of those leagues are looking to get back to playing.

Today on The Current: Mental health and police wellness checks, National Affairs Panel on Canada’s foreign policy, The return of sports during a pandemic, Andre Picard

A March report found that systemic racism was pervasive at Ontario's Peel District School Board. Trustee Kathy McDonald told The Current that the issues highlighted in the report are long-standing — and one researcher says racism in education is prevalent in other parts of the country, too.

A Toronto lawyer says physical distancing restrictions imposed because of the coronavirus pandemic has made life even harder for some of Ontario's most vulnerable children, with foster kids being barred from seeing their biological parents for about three months.

Today on The Current: Racism in education, Freeing the two Michaels, Wil Fundal on new CBC podcast They & Us, COVID-19 and children in care.

The nephew of a 62-year-old man, who was shot by police during a mental health crisis in Mississauga, Ont., is calling for the police officer responsible for the death of his uncle to be fired and brought to trial. 

In at least one state south of the border, public health officials are under attack for what critics say is government overreach, according to Theresa Anselmo, executive director of the Colorado Association of Local Public Health Officials.

On our latest installment of The Fix, we hear from Newfoundland-born Bren Smith. He's growing something special on his regenerative ocean farm, and the process is a promising solution to some of the biggest problems out there today.

Today on The Current: Re-thinking police wellness checks, COVID-19 cases among young Albertans, Threats against public health officials in the U.S., The Fix: Regenerative ocean farming, Mentoring black graduates.

The daughter of a man who died of COVID-19 in an Ontario long-term care home says she is worried potential legal immunity for health-care providers could derail efforts by families to seek accountability.

The University of Alberta has awarded posthumous degrees to five students killed when Iran shot down Flight PS752 in January, while the loved ones of those who died renew demand for answers.

Today on The Current: Families of long-term care residents worried about proposed immunity from COVID-19 lawsuits, Mandatory mask laws, Checking in on coronavirus treatments, Road trips during the pandemic, and commemorating Iranian students.

Author and political analyst Bakari Sellers traces the struggle for Black freedom in his own family — from his father, shot in the Orangeburg Massacre, to his own daughter joining Black Lives Matter marches today.