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'''''Global Currents''''' is a Canadian news television series, which aired weekly on [[Global Television Network]]. Hosted by [[Kevin Newman (journalist)|Kevin Newman]], the series airs one documentary film each week.

The series originally launched in 2005, replacing the newsmagazine series ''[[Global Sunday]]''. Initially, there was no umbrella title for the series, with each week's documentary promoted under its own individual title. The title ''Global Currents'' began to be used in 2007.

The series was shown Saturday evenings at 7 p.m., save for the autumn of 2007 when it was shown at 10 p.m.

==Episode list==

===2006===
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 |Title=GREENPEACE: Making a Stand
 |OriginalAirDate={{start date|2006|9|23|df=y}}
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 |Title=Health Care 911: The Plight of Immigrant Medical Doctors
 |OriginalAirDate={{start date|2006|9|30|df=y}}
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 |EpisodeNumber=3
 |Title=Breaking Ranks
 |OriginalAirDate={{start date|2006|10|07|df=y}}
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 |EpisodeNumber=4
 |Title=Dads Who Fought Back
 |OriginalAirDate={{start date|2006|10|14|df=y}}
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 |EpisodeNumber=5
 |Title=Polygamy’s Lost Boys
 |OriginalAirDate={{start date|2006|10|21|df=y}}
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 |EpisodeNumber=6
 |Title=The Stamp Fishery: Loss of a Dream
 |OriginalAirDate={{start date|2006|10|28|df=y}}
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 |EpisodeNumber=7
 |Title=Somba K’e – The Money Place
 |OriginalAirDate={{start date|2006|11|04|df=y}}
 |ShortSummary=A journey to the arctic and into mine from whence came the uranium that was used to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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 |EpisodeNumber=8
 |Title=DecAIDS: Anything is Possible
 |OriginalAirDate={{start date|2006|11|11|df=y}}
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 |EpisodeNumber=9
 |Title=100 Days of Freedom
 |OriginalAirDate={{start date|2006|11|25|df=y}}
 |ShortSummary=After many years in prison three ex-cons try to make their lives better than what they were that lead to their incarceration. 
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 |EpisodeNumber=10
 |Title=Damage Done: The Drug War Odyssey
 |OriginalAirDate={{start date|2006|12|9|df=y}}
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 |EpisodeNumber=11
 |Title=Rich Nation
 |OriginalAirDate={{start date|2006|12|16|df=y}}
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===2007===
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 |EpisodeNumber=12
 |Title=Homefront
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 |OriginalAirDate={{start date|2007|03|10|df=y}}
 |ShortSummary=Five military families and the sacrifices they make while their loved ones are at war in Afghanistan.
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{{Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=13
 |Title=Thin Ice
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 |OriginalAirDate={{start date|2007|03|17|df=y}}
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 |EpisodeNumber=14
 |Title=Shattered Dreams
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 |OriginalAirDate={{start date|2007|3|31|df=y}}
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 |EpisodeNumber=15
 |Title=Corporations in the Classroom
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 |OriginalAirDate={{start date|2007|4|7|df=y}}
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 |EpisodeNumber=16
 |Title=Big Business, Big Union, Small Town
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 |OriginalAirDate={{start date|2007|5|5|df=y}}
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{{Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=17
 |Title=Death In The Forest
 |DirectedBy=Gordon McLennan
 |OriginalAirDate={{start date|2007|10|13|df=y}}
 |ShortSummary=British Columbia's logging industry is viewed from the perspective of 'tree fallers'. While it is one of the most profitable industries the relaxed safety standards, cutbacks, and deregulation have left it quite deadly.
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{{Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=18
 |Title=Stolen Sisters
 |DirectedBy=Antonio Hrynchuk
 |OriginalAirDate={{start date|2007|10|20|df=y}}
 |ShortSummary=The disappearance and murder of Aboriginal women in Canada has been increasing with as many as 500 women in the past two decades being victims. The difficulties and the hope that the families of the missing women experience in attempting to find their sisters, daughters, mothers, and cousins.
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{{Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=19
 |Title=The Bully’s Mark
 |DirectedBy=Helen Slinger
 |OriginalAirDate={{start date|2007|10|27|df=y}}
 |ShortSummary=The long-term psychological effects of youthful bullying and how it is spreading into the digital world with advent of social networking websites. 
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{{Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=20
 |Title=Sabrina’s Law
 |DirectedBy=Barry Lank
 |OriginalAirDate={{start date|2007|11|03|df=y}}
 |ShortSummary=Sabrina Shannon died from anaphylactic shock at a young age and now her mother is raising awareness.
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{{Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=21
 |Title=Time Bombs
 |DirectedBy=Guylaine Maroist and Eric Ruel
 |OriginalAirDate={{start date|2007|11|10|df=y}}
 |ShortSummary=Canadian war veterans who are fighting the government for compensation and recognition after being intentionally exposed to radiation as human test subjects during the Cold War in the 1950s.
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 |EpisodeNumber=22
 |Title=Fatherhood Dreams
 |DirectedBy=[[Julia Ivanova (filmmaker)|Julia Ivanova]]
 |OriginalAirDate={{start date|2007|11|17|df=y}}
 |ShortSummary=Profiles several gay men who, in the wake of ''[[Halpern v. Canada]]'' and the ''[[Civil Marriage Act]]'' of 2005, are pursuing their long-abandoned dream of becoming fathers through adoption, surrogacy or co-parenting, profiling both their efforts and the ways in which society can make it harder for the children of homosexual couples.<ref>Chantal Eustace, "The 'Gayby Boomers'; Vancouver couple Drew Ryan and Randy Simpson are among a growing segment of gay men who, despite obstacles, are adopting children to become fathers". ''[[Vancouver Sun]]'', November 21, 2007.</ref> The film was released internationally on DVD;<ref>Brent Hartinger, [https://www.logotv.com/news/gz1gvk/review-gay-fatherhood-dreams-sometimes-come-true "Review: Gay "Fatherhood Dreams" Sometimes Come True"]. ''[[Logo (TV channel)|Logo]]'', November 18, 2009.</ref> in 2019, Ivanova released the theatrical documentary ''[[My Dads, My Moms and Me]]'', which revisited the families she had profiled in the original film.<ref>Zosia Bielski, [https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/relationships/article-the-documentary-my-dads-my-moms-and-me-catches-up-with-lgbtq-parents/ "The documentary My Dads, My Moms and Me catches up with LGBTQ parents and their grown-up kids"]. ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', September 30, 2019.</ref>
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===2008===
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 |EpisodeNumber=23
 |Title=Hijacked Future
 |OriginalAirDate={{start date|2008|3|22|df=y}}
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{{Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=24
 |Title=Branded: Saving Our Town
 |OriginalAirDate={{start date|2008|3|29|df=y}}
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{{Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=25
 |Title=Debt Trap
 |OriginalAirDate={{start date|2008|4|5|df=y}}
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{{Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=26
 |Title=The Cure For Love
 |OriginalAirDate={{start date|2008|4|12|df=y}}
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{{Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=27
 |Title=Arctic Hip Hop
 |OriginalAirDate={{start date|2008|4|19|df=y}}
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{{Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=28
 |Title=Real Fight Club
 |OriginalAirDate={{start date|2008|5|17|df=y}}
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{{Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=29
 |Title=Warrior Boyz
 |OriginalAirDate={{start date|2008|5|31|df=y}}
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==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070601225648/http://www.canada.com/globaltv/globalshows/globalcurrents/index.html ''Global Currents'']

[[Category:2000s Canadian documentary television series]]
[[Category:Global Television Network original programming]]
[[Category:2005 Canadian television series debuts]]
[[Category:2008 Canadian television series endings]]
[[Category:Television series by Corus Entertainment]]


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