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The Current for March 24, 2021

Today on The Current: Third wave of COVID-19 gathering pace in Canada; Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins on why the truth still matters, even on the internet; Agnes Woodward on the ribbon skirt she created for Deb Haaland, U.S. secretary of the interior; Fraggle Rock makes a comeback
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Matt Galloway is the host of CBC Radio's The Current. (CBC)
The Current1:14:29Third wave of COVID-19 gathering pace in Canada; Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins on crowd-sourced investigations; Agnes Woodward on the ribbon skirt she created for Deb Haaland, U.S. secretary of the interior; Fraggle Rock makes a comeback

Episode Transcript

Today on The Current:

A third wave of COVID-19 has started in parts of Canada, and young people are being hit harder. Matt Galloway discusses what lies ahead, and what needs to be done, with Kashif Pirzada, an emergency physician in Toronto; Alex Wong, an infectious disease doctor in Regina; and Craig Jenne, an infectious disease researcher at the University of Calgary.

Plus, Eliot Higgins, founder of investigative website Bellingcat, discusses his work with open-source intelligence, and why the truth still matters, even on the internet.

Then, Saskatchewan-born Agnes Woodward created the ribbon skirt Deb Haaland wore last week, as she was sworn in as U.S. secretary of the interior. Woodward tells us why that moment was empowering for all Indigenous women and girls.

And Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock was a huge kids TV hit when it aired on CBC in the 1980s. Now it's getting a reboot, with new episodes being made in Canada. We take a trip through TV history, down in Fraggle Rock.

 

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