The Current

Teresa Andrade says she’s living in limbo after the federal government cancelled immigration programs that helped caregivers secure permanent residency in Canada. Andrade came from the Philippines in 2019 to work as a live-in nanny, but says she and many other caregivers may now need to leave Canada — or take the risk of staying here illegally.

Pornhub has blocked access to its own site in several U.S. states, where new laws require pornography sites to verify the age of their users. We look at whether age verification is an effective way to protect children, and why critics argue those laws infringe on free speech.

Barry Blanchard and Chic Scott are two world-renowned mountaineers who have just been appointed to the Order of Canada. They tell us about feeling like they were put on this earth to climb, and surviving a death-defying ascent with an avalanche that continued for 27 minutes.

Former CBC Radio producer Karen Levine has been named to the Order of Canada for her groundbreaking journalism. We listen to her 2001 documentary Hana's Suitcase. It tells the story of a girl murdered in Auschwitz in 1944, and how her suitcase turned up in Tokyo 57 years later.

In the new season of CBC podcast On Drugs, Geoff Turner examines his own relationship with alcohol, and how a deeply personal tragedy led him to ask who he would be without it.