The Current for April 1, 2022
Today on The Current:
A class-action lawsuit in Quebec accuses Canada's largest beef packers of collusion and price-fixing. Matt Galloway discusses the allegations with Sylvain Charlebois, a professor in food distribution and policy at Dalhousie University; and Ambarish Chandra, an associate professor of economics at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management.
Then, Dr. Stefanie Green was one of the first doctors to offer medical assistance in dying (MAID) after it was legalized in 2016. She explores the last six years in her new book This is Assisted Dying: A Doctor's Story of Empowering Patients at the End of Life.
And Pope Francis has apologized to Indigenous delegates in Rome, for "deplorable" abuses at residential schools. We discuss what the apology means with Phil Fontaine, former Chief of the Assembly of First Nations; and look at the impact of previous papal apologies with Colm O'Gorman, executive director of Amnesty International in Ireland.
