The Current

The Current for March 10, 2021

Today on The Current: Canada’s Road Ahead: How a radio broadcast is keeping people together in Arviat, Nunavut; B.C. woman still sick after contracting COVID-19 a year ago; the role of vaccines in this pandemic, and preparing for the next one; and Connie Walker on her new podcast, Stolen: The Search for Jermain.
Matt Galloway is the host of CBC Radio's The Current. (CBC)

Episode Transcript

Today on The Current

Our virtual road trip, Canada's Road Ahead, lands in Arviat, Nunavut, where a local radio broadcast has been helping keep the community together through lockdown. We hear about how people are keeping spirits up with everything from live music, to game shows, to traditional teachings and messages from elders.

Plus, we check in with Lorraine Graves, a science journalist in B.C. who contracted COVID-19 in March 2020. We first spoke with Graves in July, but as the pandemic reaches the one-year milestone, she says she's still suffering with "long-haul" symptoms.

Then, as vaccines are slowly reaching Canadians, could an end to the pandemic be in sight? Harvard professor Bill Hanage warns that variants and anti-vaccination movements could mean the end is not as near as you might hope. And why stop at a COVID-19 vaccine when the next global pandemic could be just around the corner? Human Vaccines Project founder and adjunct professor at Harvard Wayne Koff discusses work to create a universal coronavirus vaccine.

And former CBC journalist Connie Walker discusses her new podcast, Stolen: The Search for Jermain — which looks into the disappearance of Indigenous woman Jermain Charlo — and Walker's quest to be a storyteller, not a story taker.