The Current for May 26, 2021
Today on The Current:
Manitoba's health-care system is struggling under the weight of a third wave of COVID-19, prompting calls for stricter public health measures and greater efforts to curb the outbreak. Matt Galloway talks to Dr. Eric Jacobsohn, an ICU physician at Winnipeg Health Services Centre and the St. Boniface Hospital in Manitoba; Melanie MacKinnon, head of the Indigenous Institute of Health and Healing at the University of Manitoba; and Christopher Adams, an adjunct professor in the political studies department at the University of Manitoba.
Then, author Salman Rushdie has released a new book, Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020. He joins us to reflect on his bout with COVID-19, his despair over the crisis in India, and his great friendship with the late actress Carrie Fisher.
Plus in our interview on Tuesday, top officials said the Canadian military can be reformed, despite a crisis of sexual harassment and assault. But women's rights advocate and public educator Julie Lalonde isn't so sure. She tells us more about what real change might require.
And there has been an international outcry about the detention of journalist Roman Protasevich in Belarus, after the plane carrying the government critic was redirected over an alleged bomb threat, which observers have called false pretenses. Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism, joins us to discuss the political fallout, and why dictators around the world may be watching the case closely.