The Current for Aug. 23, 2021
Today on The Current:
Climate change is set to be a hot topic in the federal election this fall. Guest host Anthony Germain talks to Christopher Ragan, an economist and director of the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University and former chair of the EcoFiscal Commission, and Kathryn Harrison, a political science professor at the University of British Columbia who specializes in climate policy. They discuss what parties are proposing, and what their plans might mean for Canadians.
And Vicki Laveau-Harvie became a literary star in her 70s with her incredible story of growing up in rural Alberta in a family with an ailing father and a narcissistic mother. In a conversation with Matt Galloway in November, she discusses why her memoir, The Erratics, seems to connect so much with readers — and why writing it wasn't the catharsis people assume.
