The Current from CBC Radio (Highlights)

Canada has more female premiers now than at any point in the country's history. Kathy Dunderdale is Newfoundland and Labrador's first female premier, and the country's fourth "leading lady" - joining women premiers in Alberta, British Columbia and Nunavut. Kathy Dunderdale knows about hard times growing up in rural Newfoundland in a family of eleven kids. She explains how she plans to manage the province's new and unprecedented prosperity.

Friday host of The Current, Tom Harrington joins guest host Anthony Germain to help share your reaction to a number of stories on the show. From Omar Khadr to Hong Kong Chinese being overwhelmed by their mainland cousins. We also hear about misbehaving nuns the Vatican is trying to control. Then we visit Labrador City.... The mining boom there in what Newfoundlanders call 'The Big Land' is making it one of the most expensive places in Canada to find a place to live.

The West African country hopes to remain peaceful after a long-awaited War Crimes verdict. A Vancouver man -- with fond childhood memories-- is trying to help Liberia re-discover its history through pictures. Jeff Topham and his brother Andrew filmed a documentary there about the destruction of film during a civil war that killed a quarter-of-a-million people. It's a very personal journey that uses old family photos as a starting point for investigating just what happened to his family's friends.

For Alberta voters this week, the bloom came off the Wildrose party and left pollsters blushing the deepest shade of red, in a province that remained PC blue. Poll after poll predicted a wildrose victory in Alberta.... political journalists gobbled up the misleading data, some boldly wrote about the end of a dynasty So how did the science of public opinion get it so wrong?

The Federal conservatives are re-shaping how the environment department will respond to catastrophes such as oil-spills. From the Atlantic coast, all the way to Vancouver --and points in between-- emergency response personnel are being slashed in half, the rest are being relocated to Quebec. Critics say Ottawa is abandoning its environmental responsibility. We hear from some of them, as well as from Environment Minister Peter Kent, who says these cost savings will have no impact on the nation's ability to cope with an oil spill disaster.

Meet Kim Motley, a former American beauty pageant winner who is facing the ugly side of Afghanistan's justice system. She is the only foreign lawyer litigating in the troubled country ... taking on gut-wrenching Human Rights cases, while ignoring death threats and advice from authorities that she should leave the country.