The Current for Aug. 11, 2021
Today on The Current:
Testing has been the cornerstone of the fight against the spread of COVID-19, but Alberta will soon offer it only to those with a doctor's referral, or those with symptoms severe enough to require hospitalization. Guest host Laura Lynch discusses the implications with Colin Furness, an epidemiologist at the University of Toronto, and Krista Li, a parent of two school-aged children in Calgary.
Plus, climate change is contributing to bigger, stronger, more common wildfires around the world. We talk to Panos Agiannitis, a tourism operator on the Greek island of Evia, about the devastation he's seeing there. And weather expert Claire Martin tells us about efforts to stay safe in wildfire season where she lives in Vernon, B.C.
And this summer we're bringing you a few of the best original CBC podcasts. Today it's the conclusion of Brainwashed, a disturbing tale of CIA experiments in mind control, what happened at a Montreal hospital, and the lives ruined because of it all.