The Current

The Current for March 11, 2021

Today on The Current: Loneliness, sadness and optimism inside a long-term care home; Canadians at a crossroads make big life changes in the pandemic; and our national call-in show: How are you doing, and what are you looking forward to?
Matt Galloway is the host of CBC Radio's The Current. (CBC)

Episode Transcript

Today on The Current:

With her documentary There'll be Bluebirds, the CBC's Julie Ireton takes us inside a long-term care home, where she found residents desperate for interaction, sad about what's been lost — and yet optimistic.

Then, we hear from three Canadians who've made major changes to their lives in the past year — from divorce, to a career pivot, to an expanded household — thanks in part to COVID-19.

And on the one-year anniversary of the pandemic being declared, we open the phone lines to ask: How are you doing? And when this is all over, what are you looking forward to? We talked to listeners across Canada, you can hear what they had to say on the CBC Listen app, or choose a time zone with these links: Atlantic time zone, Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific.