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The Current from CBC Radio (Highlights)
Summary: CBC Radio's The Current is a meeting place of perspectives with a fresh take on issues that affect Canadians today.
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Chief Danny Smyth of the Winnipeg Police Services and NDP MLA Nahanni Fontaine speak about the broken relationship between MMIW families and police. This is part two of The Current's Winnipeg public forum on MMIW cases.
Grand Chief Sheila North Wilson created the hashtag #MMIW to amplify the grassroots activism being done on the issue to a national level.
The Current's Winnipeg public forum exploring how police respond to MMIW cases hears from Bernadette Smith, who says police failed to properly investigate her sister's disappearance in 2008 because she's female, Aboriginal, had an addiction and a record.
A special edition of The Current comes to you from Winnipeg with a public forum in front of a live audience focusing on the relationship between families of murdered, missing and Indigenous women, the police and justice system.
The Current heads on a road trip along the route of Kinder Morgan's newly-approved pipeline expansion to gauge support for it in communities along the way.
Protesters at Standing Rock are celebrating a fragile victory. But a woman protesting for three months says the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline isn't over until it's over.
There's a video of a fatal shooting that shows the murderer, two witnesses and a getaway car. But six years on, the police are still looking for the killer. The CBC's Dave Ridgen shares the cold case investigation on the death of Emad Rozik.
From a cold case investigation and the family of Emad Rozik waiting for justice, to Standing Rock protesters celebrating a fragile victory, to visiting communities along Kinder Morgan's newly-approved pipeline expansion ... This is The Current.
From Daily Show host Trevor Noah on growing up mixed race and poor in South Africa, to how MDMA — a prescription drug — helped a former firefighter with PTSD to regain control of his life ... This is The Current.
The Daily Show host Trevor Noah's book Born A Crime talks about growing up in apartheid South Africa when the relationship between his black mother and white father was illegal.
Researchers say pure MDMA — not the stuff on the street — has the potential to change the brain and create conditions that allow psychotherapy. Ed Thompson who suffers from PTSD says MDMA treatment saved his life.
Fear of Trump Presidency has the Internet Archive moving to Canada.
With declining global demand for oil, author Jeff Rubin says the pipeline expansion will not be the economic salvation for Alberta.
The Ktunaxa First Nation contests their constitutional rights to religious freedom are being violated by a proposed ski resort.
From the Internet Archive coming to Canada, to the Supreme Court case testing Indigenous claims to religious freedom, to the elderly women still fighting to get the Japanese government to apologize for abuse they suffered in WWII... This is The Current.