The Current for May 15, 2019
Today on The Current: Our political panel weighs in on the fallout from the Mark Norman case; plus, we speak with an author who wants us to pay more attention to people with mental illness; and we look back at the Winnipeg General Strike, 100 years on.
Today on The Current:
- Our political panel weighs in on the fallout from the Mark Norman case, discussing it in light of the SNC-Lavalin affair. Could the consecutive controversies have an impact on the fall election?
- Writer Susan Doherty has spent the last decade volunteering with patients with severe mental illness, and has written about it in her new book, The Ghost Garden: Inside the Lives of Schizophrenia's Feared and Forgotten. She tells Anna Maria Tremonti about why she wants every one of us to do a better job helping people who are living in the shadows.
- On the 100th anniversary of what has become known as the Winnipeg General Strike, we take a look back at the milestone moment in the history of labour relations and politics for Canada.