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How the energy crisis is hurting Canadians
2026-04-15 | 19 mins.
From trucking, to farming, to filling up your tank. The blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has sent oil prices skyrocketing. Murray Mullen is the senior executive officer and chairman of Mullen Group, a logistics and trucking company based in Alberta. Plus, Reid Southwick, the Western Bureau Chief for the Financial Post, about the wider pinch this country is feeling.
Former Bank of Canada gov on Canada’s economic outlook
2026-04-15 | 16 mins.
We speak to Stephen Poloz, the former governor of the Bank of Canada, about how the Iran war is making a shaky global economy even worse — and what options governments and ordinary Canadians have to weather the storm.
How powerful is Anthropic's Mythos?
2026-04-15 | 10 mins.
Anthropic has not released its latest AI model "Mythos" to the public, but only to a consortium of 40 companies because it says it's too powerful when it comes to cybersecurity. It has found bugs in some of the most protected systems in the world, and if Mythos falls in the wrong hands, it can leave hundreds of organizations vulnerable. Lily Hay Newman, senior writer at WIRED unpacks it all for us.
Circling back: Corporate BS is driving us crazy
2026-04-15 | 22 mins.
Every workplace has buzzwords and jargon. A new study shows that employees who are most impressed by it tend to be bad at analytical thinking and practical decisions. But before you get too smug, Cornell BS researcher Shane Littrell warns that all of us can fall for BS, depending on the circumstances.
Could readers like AI books more than ones written by humans?
2026-04-14 | 24 mins.
The new thriller novel “Shy Girl” by Mia Ballard has been pulled from shelves over speculation it was written by AI and it's throwing the literary world for a loop. Questions are being raised about what role AI could, and should, have in creative writing in the future. Can it write better than humans? Does it matter? Authors Stephen Marche, Andrea Bartz, and Vauhini Vara join us to talk about it.

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About The Current

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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