The Current for Oct. 28, 2021
Today on The Current:
The Vatican says Pope Francis has agreed to visit Canada and meet with Indigenous leaders, but it's not clear if he will offer an apology for the church's role in residential schools. Matt Galloway talks to Evelyn Korkmaz, a survivor of the St. Anne's Indian Residential School in Fort Albany, Ont.; and Lynne Groulx, CEO of the Native Women's Association of Canada.
Plus, federal officials were being warned about the situation in Afghanistan many months before the crisis unfolded, according to leaked emails obtained by The Fifth Estate. Gillian Findlay tells us more.
And despite a global push to phase out coal, people like German farmer Norbert Winzen are being asked to leave their homes to make room for more coal production. He tells us what that's like. We also discuss the stumbling blocks to moving away from coal with Binnu Jeyakumar, director of clean energy at the Pembina Institute; and talk about the 'energy crunch' happening worldwide with Raad Alkadiri, the managing director of energy, climate and resources at the Eurasia Group.