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Today on The Current: Gun-related suicides in rural men, Canada’s booming pandemic real estate market; American satirist P.J. O’Rourke on his new book; Trick-or-treating safety amid COVID-19.

Calgary gamer Jade Ade-Yusuf says the current options for Black players of The Sims to recreate their own diverse skin tones and hair styles "fall short of the mark."

A Canadian privacy expert warns that there are risks involved in using genetic genealogy as a tool for investigating crimes, despite its ability to help solve cold cases like the 1984 murder of nine-year-old Christine Jessop.

Today on The Current: Privacy concerns over genetic genealogy, Nova Scotia fisheries dispute draws calls for government intervention, The Sims creators agree to make video game more diverse, COVID-19 resurgence in Europe.

Yotam Ottolenghi and Ixta Belfrage discuss their new cookbook, Flavour, and argue that fusion cooking may have fallen out of fashion, but still has a lot to offer.

Thursday’s announcement that police have identified nine-year-old Christine Jessop’s true killer leaves many unanswered questions, says a veteran justice reporter who wrote a book about the case.

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.