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    How worried should you be about hantavirus?

    13/05/2026 | 19 min
    Dr Kamran Khan was warning clients in December 2025 that the epidemiology of hantavirus was changing. It was showing up in places it had never been seen before, and fatality rates were higher too. Khan's company, Blue Dot, tracks and analyzes infectious disease data from around the world. Plus, Steven Taylor, professor of psychiatry at the University of British Columbia about how COVID and other public health emergencies are influencing how people are reacting to hantavirus.
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    Unpacking the hype around peptides

    13/05/2026 | 13 min
    Health influencers are selling peptides as a cure-all for everything from building muscle to losing weight and even boosting your libido. While Health Canada warns consumers they pose serious risks, in the U.S., government regulators are talking about loosening restrictions. Jonathan Jarry with McGill's Office for Science and Society on the potential risks and why they've become so popular in spite of a lack of evidence-based research.
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    A horseback journey the length of the Americas

    13/05/2026 | 22 min
    30 year-old Olivia Cazes, from the small town of Armagh, Quebec, started her 26,000 journey from the southern tip of Argentina, to Alaska. She is traveling along the Pan-American highway with her four horses; Caciqué. Bonsaï, Milo and Bigoté. Olivia shares her experience so far, traveling from the "Fin del Mundo", the southern tip of South America, to Buenos Aires.
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    President Trump goes to China

    13/05/2026 | 10 min
    Canada will be watching the U.S.-China summit closely, as it re-thinks and re-works its relationship with the two largest economies in the face of rising inflation and energy costs, the ongoing war in Iran and imperceptibility out of the Whitehouse. Phelim Kine is a Washington-based China correspondent for Politico on what could come from the summit and why more countries are happy to do business with China.
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    Unemployment is up: who is hiring, firing and how to find work

    12/05/2026 | 19 min
    Canadian unemployment has reached a six month high, 18,000 jobs were lost in April alone.
    A look at the realities of trying to find work in the face of economic uncertainty, upcoming CUSMA negotiations, and the war in Iran.
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Three stories to expand your worldview, delivered daily. Matt Galloway cuts through a sea of choice to bring you stories that transcend the news cycle. Conversations with big thinkers, household names, and people living the news. An antidote to algorithms that cater to what you already know — and a meeting place for diverse perspectives. In its 20 years, the Current has become a go-to place for stories that shape and entertain us. Released daily, Monday to Friday.The Current is produced in Toronto, Ontario, Canada — and has recently recorded live shows about the Canadian election in Surrey and Burnaby BC. And shows to come in Oshawa and the 905, Red Deer, Alberta, Quebec City and Halifax.
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