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Today at The Current: Fisheries dispute in Nova Scotia turns violent, Yotam Ottolenghi and Ixta Belfrage make the case for a fusion cuisine comeback, Long lineups to vote in the U.S., Kirk Makin on the long road to find Christine Jessop’s killer.

The Current's series Road to November is a virtual trip down the Mississippi River from Minnesota to Louisiana, to meet some of the people whose lives will be shaped by the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

A U.S. proposal that calls for an end to lockdowns and for people to try to achieve herd immunity is raising alarm bells among health experts who say such a move would have devastating consequences.

Convicted killer Christopher Havens taught himself advanced math from behind bars. He's now sharing his love of numbers with other inmates and says prisoners need opportunities to better themselves so they can be rehabilitated.

Today on The Current: The Great Barrington Declaration calls for an end to COVID-19 lockdowns, Road to November: Kentucky, the Derby, and protests over the killing of Breonna Taylor, Christopher Havens found meaning in math while in prison for murder

Saskatoon author Adam Pottle has just published his first children’s book, but he’s urging people not to buy it because it contains an illustration that he says is offensive — but the publisher won’t change it.

The first Indigenous lawyer to become head of the Canadian Bar Association says reconciliation will be difficult to achieve unless we have uncomfortable conversations about how the justice system impacts Indigenous people in Canada.

Today on The Current: Indigenous communities and COVID-19’s second wave, Row over sexist ‘joke’ hits B.C. election, Window Swap and other pandemic distractions, Author Adam Pottle does not want you to buy his book, Brad Regehr on his priorities as first Indigenous president of the Canadian Bar Association

Raptors head coach Nick Nurse says he hopes the anti-racism protests that followed the death of George Floyd have made everybody more political, and more aware of racism.

Today on The Current: Raptors head coach Nick Nurse on leadership on and off the court, The future of Canada’s relationship with China, Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller on racism in the health-care system, Ethan Lou on his new book Field Notes From A Pandemic: A Journey Through A World Suspended.

A Halifax-based street outreach worker says that since the pandemic started, he’s met more and more people who have become homeless for the first time. But for other homeless individuals, the pandemic has meant getting a roof over their head for the first time in years.

The pandemic means many of us can’t gather as we’d like on this Thanksgiving Monday, so instead we’re spending some time with an old friend: Stuart McLean’s Vinyl Cafe. We join Morley in the garden as summer gives way to fall, and she unearths some memories as she tills the soil.

In Transcendent Kingdom, Yaa Gyasi says both religion and science "are attempting to ask really big transcendent questions, attempting to kind of reconcile things that seem irreconcilable."

Canadians who grew their own gardens this pandemic summer and are looking to try pickling their bounty for the first time should start small, says an Edmonton woman who has been canning for years.

Today on The Current: How COVID-19 has affected homelessness in Canada, Yaa Gyasi on her new book Transcendent Kingdom, Stuart McLean’s Vinyl Cafe: Morley’s Garden, Canadians turn to canning to save fruits of summer pandemic gardens

The Current's series Road to November is a virtual trip down the Mississippi River from Minnesota to Louisiana, to meet some of the people whose lives will be shaped by the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

The man who delivered Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s impassioned wedding sermon in 2018 says the fact that his message resonated not only in the church, but around the world, is a testament to our hunger for love.

Today on The Current: Road to November: Missouri and making politics work for the people, Bishop Michael Curry on the power of love, New documentary looks at GM closure in Oshawa, Tasmanian devil returns to Australian mainland.

Alberta is planning to become the plastic recycling hub for Western Canada, but investigative journalist Laura Sullivan says despite decades of publicity, the majority of plastic still can't be recycled effectively.