The Current

Actor Sydney Sweeney is once again facing backlash over an advertisement. Female athletes around the world are responding to a nude sports gambling ad. Culture critic Bee Quamie on why Sweeney is such a lightning rod for controversy and what this ad and response to it can tell us about this moment in women’s sport.

Bestselling author and conflict facilitator Priya Parker says most of us are not very good at fighting: either we avoid it, or we escalate it until it becomes explosive. In her new book, The Art of Fighting, she advocates for something called "healthy heat," what we can learn about conflict from the TV show The Bear, and when a conflict might signal that a relationship should end.

If you're pushing 80 and still walking as fast as your 50-year-old friends, you might be a supermover. New research on 'supermovers' - people 90+ who walk faster than their ageing peers - have a 50 percent lower chance of developing cognitive decline as they age. Plus, their brains are bigger.

Mark Carney and Canadian business heavyweights are wooing international investors in Toronto this week. The Prime Minister wants to attract $1 trillion in investment over the next decade. What's on offer? And who wants to buy Canadian? Matthew Winkler of Bloomberg News and Falice Chin of The Hub give us their take.

Five years after the Taliban retook control of Afghanistan, one young woman says she feels like her home has become her jail. She once went to school and worked with a Canadian NGO, but now says she's afraid to leave her house, and hopes the Canadian government can help.

For more than two years, Canadian Rick Hansen pushed his wheelchair around the world to raise money and awareness for people with disabilities. Now — more than 40 years later — a new documentary at TIFF, "Man in Motion, The Rick Hansen Story," looks back at that tour. Matt Galloway speaks with Rick and his wife Amanda.

Jeanette Gutierrez and Kelly Sceviour would probably have never met if it weren't for the tragedy of 9/11. Jeanette was a survivor of the attacks that day in New York City — and met Kelly when she attended a 9/11 memorial in Gander, Newfoundland, 10 years ago. They talk about how they bonded as Jeanette was being "screeched in" at the local legion, and why being together on the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks means so much to both of them.

Dr. Danielle Ofri was working at Bellevue Hospital in New York as the 9/11 attacks unfolded. Stuart Inglis was a Canadian graphic designer working there too. They remember how the friends and families of the missing started plastering the city with posters, as they desperately tried to find a trace of their loved ones.

Canadian Ron di Francesco and New Yorker Wendy Lanski were both working in the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001 — when, out of the bright, blue New York sky, hijackers crashed two jet planes into the towers, changing the city, and the world in a matter of minutes. They join us on the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks to reflect on their experiences that day, how they have processed what they went through, and the scars it has left on them and the families who lost loved ones.

A sexy new romance novel has been drawing a new generation of fans to Prince Edward Island, and now it's about to become a Netflix series. We go on the set of "This Summer Will Be Different" and talk to the showrunners Linsey Stewart and Dane Clark. Also in this episode: We pay a visit to Mrs Dunster's — an iconic New Brunswick bakery that is becoming a national success story.