The Current for March 8, 2019
Today on The Current: The prime minister is apologizing to Inuit communities for mistreatment during the tuberculosis epidemics of the last century, but what action is needed to fight the problem today?; plus, we look at why millennials are embracing socialism in the U.S.; and we speak to Gina Parvaneh Cody, the first woman in Canada to have an engineering building and faculty named after her.
Today on The Current:
- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Iqaluit Friday, to apologize for the mistreatment of Inuit during the tuberculosis epidemics of the 1940s, 50s and 60s. But while Indigenous leaders welcome the apology, they say action is needed to tackle the tuberculosis problem, which still blights northern communities today.
- Millennials in the U.S. are embracing brands of democratic socialism espoused by politicians like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. We discuss what's driving their disenchantment with the status quo.
- Gina Parvaneh Cody graduated from Concordia University with her PhD in engineering the same year as the École Polytechnique massacre. We revisit her conversation with Anna Maria Tremonti about how she donated $15 million to her alma mater to "make a future where women are allowed in engineering."