• Orcas visit downtown Vancouver for an ‘afternoon snack’
    Nov 29 2024

    A family of orcas wowed a passenger ferry in Vancouver's False Creek this week. We hear why researchers are also delighted by their unusual adventure into the heart of the city.

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    10 mins
  • Bob McKeown retires after five decades
    Nov 29 2024

    As a child Bob McKeown dreamed of winning the Grey Cup and being a reporter like his dad — both dreams he achieved. As the Fifth Estate host prepares to retire after 53 years in journalism, he looks back at a career that includes being punched in the face at an interview, bitten by a shark on camera and threatened with prison time for his work.

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    24 mins
  • Air passengers told not to post complaints online
    Nov 29 2024

    Tim Rodger fought hard for compensation when his luggage was damaged on a WestJet flight. But when he won and posted about it online, he was told to take the post down. Some experts say there’s a worrying trend where passengers are being silenced by airlines, their lawyers and even the Canadian Transportation Agency.

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    20 mins
  • Tackling medical misinformation spreading online
    Nov 29 2024

    The CBC’s Nora Young has been looking at how medical misinformation spreads online, and how influencers have brought fringe ideas into the mainstream. She shares what she found.

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    15 mins
  • The Current Introduces | Personally: Short Sighted
    Nov 28 2024

    People don’t think Graham Isador is losing his sight. They think he’s an asshole.


    Short Sighted is an attempt to explain what vision loss feels like by exploring how it sounds.


    Written and hosted by master storyteller Graham Isador, the show’s mini episodes are an intimate and irreverent look at accessibility and its personal impacts.


    Get lost in someone else’s life. From a mysterious childhood spent on the run, to a courageous escape from domestic violence, each season of Personally invites you to explore the human experience in all its complexity, one story — or season — at a time. This is what it sounds like to be human.


    More episodes of Personally are available at: lnk.to/NGDubIQS


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    17 mins
  • How does involuntary treatment work in the U.S.?
    Nov 28 2024

    Ricky Garcia struggled with addiction for years, and fought for laws that would allow people in crisis to be forced into involuntary treatment in his home state of Washington. As ideas around involuntary treatment gain traction in Canada, Julia Wong’s documentary Ricky’s Law explores how the approach is working south of the border.

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    21 mins
  • What teens really think about social media
    Nov 28 2024

    Filmmaker Lauren Greenfield convinced a bunch of teenagers to give her full access to their phones, where she saw social media’s impact on young minds in real time. She shares what she saw, what teens told her — and what parents should be worried about — in the documentary series Social Studies.

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    24 mins
  • Inside the premiers’ emergency summit on Trump tariffs
    Nov 28 2024

    The prime minister held an emergency meeting with provincial premiers Wednesday, to discuss U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s tariffs threat. N.L. Premier Andrew Furey and N.B. Premier Susan Holt tell Matt Galloway what happened at that meeting.

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    20 mins