The Current for Nov. 6, 2020
Today on The Current:
We discuss the spike in COVID-19 cases across Canada with Dr. Birinder Narang, a family physician in Burnaby, B.C.; Dr. Anand Kumar, an intensive care physician in Winnipeg, Man.; and infectious disease specialist Amy Greer, Canada research chair in population disease modeling at the University of Guelph.
Plus, we talk to Allan Rock, Canada's former ambassador to the United Nations, about what the U.S. election means for Canada and the world. And our national affairs panel — Marie Vastel, Washington correspondent for Le Devoir, and Althia Raj, Ottawa bureau chief for HuffPost Canada — discusses how Ottawa is handling relations with Washington right now.
Then, as Canada passes 250,000 cases of COVID-19, the Globe and Mail's health columnist, André Picard, discusses the grim milestone and the latest efforts to curb the spread.
And protesters in Thailand, Taiwan and Hong Kong have banded together online, demanding democratic reform. We take a look inside the Milk Tea Alliance with Thai pro-democracy activist Warin Patrick McBlain in Bangkok; Hong Kong lawmaker Ted Hui; and political scientist Janjira Sombatpoonsiri in Taipei.