The Currentwith Anna Maria Tremonti

We hear updates and reaction on the attacks in Sri Lanka, including what the massacre could mean for an already fractured community.

How do we build a consensus in order to move forward? We look at the deep divide in perspectives, and how to bridge them.

Today on The Current: We hear updates and reaction on the attacks in Sri Lanka, including what the massacre could mean for an already fractured community; then, it's been a year since the deadly van attack on Toronto's Yonge St, and community efforts are ongoing to help the families of the victims recover; also, there's no planet B. We examine the various efforts across the world to address our changing climate.

As part of The Current's special edition on climate change, we talk to two experts about the level of commitment needed to tackle the problem — and why that action isn't taking place.

What can environmentalists learn from the civil rights movement? We talk to Rev. Dr. Gerald Durley, a civil rights worker turned climate justice activist.

As industries change around plans to cut greenhouse emissions, will the "green jobs" that replace them match the pay and benefits of the fossil fuel sector?

After much anticipation, U.S. special counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election has finally been made public — except for the redacted parts, that is. But what we do know about the report's contents is plenty to talk about. A panel of experts talk us through it.

Reading to children out loud isn't just a source of warm feelings and lovely memories; research shows it can also help developing brains. Journalist Meghan Cox Gurdon, the children's book critic for the Wall Street Journal, tells us about the miraculous power of story time.

Today on The Current: What do we know about the contents of Robert Mueller’s report?; plus, reading is fundamental — even more so than you might think.

On Monday, we heard the stories of mothers who suffered the isolation and agony of postpartum depression. We continue the discussion with a doctor who specializes in the condition, and ask what needs to be done to help new parents receive the treatment they need.

A CBC News investigation has examined data going back decades and found that the number of patients who successfully sue doctors over medical mistakes is small — and getting smaller. We ask why it's so hard to sue doctors in Canada, even in cases of patient death.

Today on The Current: Why is it so hard — and getting harder — to sue your doctor in Canada?; then, the power of citizen science and why user-generated data is actually very reliable; plus, we discuss the Mueller report, as U.S. Congress finally gets a look at it; and finally, a doctor who specializes in postpartum depression explains how the system can fail the people who need it most.

The fire that ravaged Notre-Dame prompted an outpouring of sadness — as well as billions in funding pledged to restore the iconic structure. We speak to a medievalist about the life cycles of iconic monuments, and the idea that they are never destroyed, but live and change with the ages.

United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney won big in Alberta's provincial election Tuesday, seizing a majority and ending the province's first-ever NDP government. Our national affairs panel discusses what his premiership might mean for the election battle coming this fall.

Author Marq de Villiers speaks about how different cultures and different religions have approached the idea of damnation, and why he wanted to write a sinner's guide to eternal torment.

Today on The Current: Our national affairs panel looks at Alberta’s provincial election; plus, we speak to a medievalist about the Notre-Dame fire, and the idea that centuries-old churches are never destroyed, but live and change with the ages; and an author talks us through some things you might not know about hell, in his sinner’s guide to eternal torment.

The world watched in horror Monday as fire ravaged Notre-Dame in Paris, an international landmark that has withstood war and disaster for centuries. We speak to an eyewitness and a prominent French intellectual about the loss felt both in France and around the globe.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford takes his fight over the federal carbon tax to a Toronto courtroom this week, in a bid to have the measure ruled unconstitutional. We weigh up the arguments about provincial authority, and national health and the fight against climate change.

More than five years after a New Zealand nurse was captured by ISIS, her story is finally being told, as efforts to rescue her go public. We speak to two experts about why authorities fought to keep Louisa Akavi's name out of the headlines, and what's changed.

Today on The Current: We discuss a loss felt around the world, after fire ravaged Notre-Dame in Paris; plus, Ontario Premier Doug Ford takes his fight over the so-called federal carbon tax to court; and why authorities are finally going public with the search for a New Zealand nurse kidnapped by ISIS five years ago.

Netflix nature documentary Our Planet has provoked an angry response from people caught off-guard by a graphic scene of walruses falling from a cliff to their deaths. But the program's makers say the scene has an important message about climate change.

Teresa Wong and Amanda Munday both struggled with postpartum depression, a condition reported to affect as many as 20 per cent of Canadian mothers. Both women have written books about their experiences, from their feelings of inadequacy, to difficulties breastfeeding, and even being admitted to a psychiatric ward.