The Current for June 9, 2022
Today on The Current:
The RCMP in Nova Scotia has been criticized for the way communications were handled during the mass shootings of April 2020. This week, the Mass Casualty Commission looks at how the RCMP failed to adequately warn the public about a loose gunman. CBC reporter Elizabeth McMillan tells host Matt Galloway more; and emergency alert expert Michael Hallowes explains how a better emergency alert system could have saved lives during the shooting.
Then, Ukraine is one of the world's top suppliers of wheat, sunflower and corn oil. But those goods are now stranded by war — and there's a risk of a global food crisis. CBC reporter Margaret Evans explains what Ukrainian farmers are feeling; and Hassan Khannenje, the director of Kenyan think-tank HORN International Institute for Strategic Studies, tells us more about how these shortages affect Africa. We also hear from Harry Nedclu, the policy director of Rasmussen Global and the head of its Free Ukraine Task Force.
And Youssef Sherif and Nehal Ezz tell us why they are gathering cultural sounds from Cairo; and Stuart Fowkes, the founder of Cities and Memory, explains why preserving what our world sounds like is as important as protecting what it looks like.
