The Current

Throughout the month of June, CBC celebrates the Class of 2020.

Today on The Current: Toronto city councillors call to cut police budget; Social bubbles to reduce spread of COVID-19; André Picard on lifting long-term care lockdowns, The New Yorker’s Jill Lepore on her new podcast.

For Black Americans, making space to grieve the loss of a community member has particular significance, both for celebrating lives lived and in the broader fight for equality, says Nyle Fort, a minister, activist and PhD candidate studying Black mourning traditions at Princeton University.

Politicians and officers taking a knee at recent protests are obscuring police violence and failing to offer concrete ways to address it, a Canadian academic says.

Today on The Current: Mourning in the Black community, Richard Haass on making history, The problem with taking a knee, COVID-19 and child abuse, Breaking down barriers with bhangra dance.

Despite doomsday-like warnings of ​​​​​​​COVID-19 outbreaks in Africa, Dr. Ahmed Ogwell Ouma, deputy director of Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, says that prevention efforts have kept the numbers of coronavirus cases low in many countries.

Advocates and legal experts say there are systemic issues behind a series of violent interactions between police and members of the Indigenous community.

Today on The Current: Indigenous communities and police violence; Marc-Andre Blanchard on Canada’s bid for a security council seat; Slow COVID-19 infection rates across Africa; Sona Mohapatra’s boundary-pushing career

Director Ariel Nasr's documentary The Forbidden Reel explores a secret effort to conceal an archive of Afghan films from the Taliban, who were destroying cultural artifacts in the late 1990s.

Today on The Current: Farm workers and COVID-19; Accusations of inaction after MMIWG inquiry; Disabled people feel left behind in pandemic supports; The Afghan films that survived the Taliban

Ottawa Police Chief Peter Sloly says he's open to conversations about how police funding is spent, and how the service operates.

As widespread protests over anti-black racism and police brutality continue, some are calling on demonstrators to get out and vote in the upcoming U.S. presidential election — and one historian says both approaches need to co-exist.

Today on The Current: Democracy and protests in U.S.; Ottawa Police Chief Peter Sloly; Vancouver Island man grieves brother and cousin killed in Chicago; National affairs panel on political response to anti-racism protests; Disinformation online about the unrest

We can always do better in the representation of diversity on our staff and in how we approach and treat stories, but we want to share some background on how we’ve done things these past two weeks.

Suzanne Crocker's new film, First We Eat, explores her year-long experiment in eating only food produced locally in the Yukon — and how she got her family on board.

Today on The Current: Are U.S. protests a turning point in black lives? André Picard on COVID-19 and anti-racism protests; Preserving the pandemic for future generations; Suzanne Crocker’s film First We Eat; Legacy of Silver Donald Cameron

Journalist and activist Desmond Cole says it's time to disarm and defund the police and switch funding to care and prevention.

COVID-19 has forced Twitter's hands to respond to misinformation spread by U.S. President Donald Trump who has long tweeted with impunity, says a media scholar.

Today on The Current: Racism in Canada and the U.S.; Trump versus social media companies; Open letter calls on Quebec Premier to join frontlines in long-term care homes

Ricky L. Jones, a professor of Pan-African Studies, says repeated killings of black people are not individual incidents, but show U.S. must face up to "overall system of white supremacy."

Canada and four other countries are still trying to pressure Iran to release the flight recorders from the Ukrainian passenger plane its forces shot down on Jan. 8, Transport Minister Marc Garneau said today.

Being unable to meet in person has been a particularly unique challenge for Voices In Motion, a group of choirs for people with dementia. But according to artistic director Erica Phare-Bergh, the choir has risen to the challenge.