Padraig Moran

Journalist

Padraig Moran is a writer and digital producer for CBC Radio’s The Current, taking great stories from the airwaves to our online audience. He started his journalism career in Ireland primarily covering arts and entertainment, then spent five years at The Times of London in the U.K., before joining the CBC when he moved to Toronto in 2017. You can reach him at [email protected].

Latest from Padraig Moran

Mental health program that brings Palestinian and Israeli students together 'a beacon of hope'

The Bi National School of Psychotherapy brings together and trains Palestinian, Arab-Israeli and Jewish-Israeli mental health professionals, in the hopes of improving care and building bridges between communities.
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You know Chris Hadfield the astronaut. His new novel draws on his days as a Cold War fighter pilot

During the Cold War, Hadfield would intercept Soviet bombers practicing for a potential attack on North America.
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Costco now sells gold bars. Are they a good investment?

Costco is selling 24-carat gold bars for $2,679.99 each — and the company says they're selling out within hours of being replenished.

One of Toronto's last affordable neighbourhoods is no longer affordable for many long-term residents

As housing costs skyrocket across Canada, some communities fear gentrification will price them out of the neighbourhoods they love, and leave them with nowhere to go.

Sikh community no longer feels safe after claim India had role in B.C. killing: Singh

NDP leader Jagmeet Singh says accusations that India’s government was involved in the killing of a Canadian Sikh community leader are "shocking' but 'sadly not surprising."

Put politics aside to solve housing crisis, or your kids might never own a home: Raitt

Climate change and housing are two of the biggest issues facing Canadians today. Now, a new group is aiming to tackle both — and put partisan politics aside.

Many Inuit must fly south to give birth. Inuk midwives brought maternity care back home

For decades, Inuit women in northern Quebec had to travel south, far from family and support, to give birth. That started to change in 1986 when the North’s first midwifery clinic opened in Puvirnituq.

A year after Fiona hit Newfoundland, people grapple with fears about life near the ocean

It’s been a year since post-tropical storm Fiona ripped entire homes into the sea in Channel-Port aux Basques, N.L. Some residents are still picking up the pieces and grappling with whether they can ever feel safe again, living so close to the ocean.

N.W.T. premier says she's done 'begging' for infrastructure help as wildfires rage

Fighting the wildfires in the Northwest Territories has been complicated by gaps in travel and communication infrastructure — problems that Premier Caroline Cochrane says the federal government should have fixed years ago.

He poured 'blood, sweat and tears' into his dream home. Wildfires just destroyed it

Spi7uwe Sqalemc put everything into building his family’s dream home in B.C.’s Interior — only to watch it burn up last week in the wildfires ravaging the province.

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