The Current for Aug. 19, 2021
Today on The Current:
Where do the Conservatives, Liberals and NDP stand on the key election issue of childcare? Guest host Nora Young talks to Ontario candidates Eric Duncan, Conservative candidate for Stormont–Dundas–South Glengarry; Chrystia Freeland, Liberal candidate for University-Rosedale; and Lindsay Mathyssen, NDP candidate for London-Fanshawe.
Plus, what kind of regime will the Taliban establish in Afghanistan, and how will neighbouring powers react, and interact? We discuss the geopolitical fallout of the Taliban's resurgence with Obaidullah Baheer, a lecturer at the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul; Madiha Afzal, the David M. Rubenstein fellow for foreign policy at the Brookings Institute in Washington, D.C.; and Bessma Momani, a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation in Waterloo, Ont.
And food writer Mark Bittman says our modern food system has evolved into something that's feeding us unhealthy foods, wrecking the environment, and reinforcing inequality. In a conversation with Matt Galloway from May, he explains why changing that model is urgent, and talks about his book, Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal.
