The Current for June 25, 2021
Today on The Current:
The Cowessess First Nation announced a preliminary finding Thursday of 751 unmarked graves at a cemetery near the former Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan. Heather Bear, vice-chief with the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations, discusses what needs to happen next, beyond words of support. And Kisha Supernant, director of the Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology at the University of Alberta, talks about locating these burial sites, and why she thinks it's the most important work she'll ever do.
Then, Canada's tick seasons are getting worse, and recent years have seen an increase in the number of people diagnosed with Lyme disease. Vett Lloyd, a biology professor at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, discusses the increase in the insects on Canadian soil and how to protect yourself; and we hear about clinical trials for an injection that could prevent Lyme disease in humans from John Sullivan-Bolyai, deputy director of clinical and regulatory affairs at MassBiologics, a non-profit manufacturer of biologics and vaccines overseen by the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
And Canadians with long-haul COVID-19 are still struggling with symptoms, months after their initial infection, while researchers try to learn more about the problem. We talk to Amber Spence, a PhD candidate in Guelph, Ont., who is struggling with brain fog; Dr. S. Andrew Josephson, chair of neurology at the University of California at San Francisco; and Inez Jabalpurwala, global director of Viral Neuro Exploration, which examines how viruses affect the central nervous system.