The Current (radio program)

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The Current is a current affairs radio program hosted by investigative reporter Anna Maria Tremonti on the CBC. It airs weekdays starting at 8:37 a.m. local time on CBC Radio One.

On Fridays, a guest host is used for the broadcast, who is introduced on the preceding Thursday to read listener correspondance with Tremonti. Guest hosts are usually CBC personalities such as Maureen Taylor, Adrienne Arsenault, Erica Johnson and Anthony Germain, although other Canadian journalists, including Haroon Siddiqui and David Frum, have also appeared. In 2005, the program also did a one-off joint broadcast with the American radio program Democracy Now!, with Amy Goodman acting as the guest host of The Current.

Although primarily a serious news program, The Current has traditionally begun each show with a brief satirical commentary by a character credited only as The Voice. Long thought to be played by a CBC producer, it has recently been revealed that The Voice is in fact played by Canadian actor Stevan Hart.^[1]

The Voice has also announced fictional advertisements for the "Ambiguous Party", a fictional political party. A few campaign ads were created and aired for morning show listeners' amusement in which The Voice tried to persuade listeners to vote for the Ambiguous Party. Comparisons are made between the Ambiguous Party (complete and utter fence-sitters on all issues) and the current parties of the day.

On all weekdays except Monday, one segment from The Current is repeated in the evening on Nighttime Review.