DCHP-2

current affairs DCHP-2 (November 2016)

• n. & adj. — plural, Politics

  current news of public interest, usually of a political nature.

  As Charts 1 and 2 shows, the term has no Canadian dimension from a frequency perspective. While it has a long history in the country (see the quotations), current affairs has no Canadian dimension in our framework (see Dollinger 2015c).
  See also COD-2, s.v. "current affairs", which is marked "esp. Cdn & Brit".