The Current for Nov. 2, 2020
Today on The Current:
Our Road to November series on the U.S. election concludes in New Orleans, La. today, where tourism has been hit hard by COVID-19 — and we talk to Washington Post reporter Chelsea Janes about how the presidential candidates spent the last weekend of the campaign.
Then, in the middle of a pandemic, Alberta's health-care system is in crisis. We discuss cost-cutting measures, recent strike action and why some doctors are leaving the province with Guy Smith, president of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees; Trevor Tombe, associate professor of economics at the University of Calgary; and Lorian Hardcastle, associate professor researching health-care policy and law, also at the University of Calgary.
Plus, we received a large response to last week's interview with three residents in long-term care homes. We'll share some of your letters today, and hear from Breanne Klassen, a therapeutic recreationist at a home in Ontario, about how her work with residents has changed.
And we turn to France, where two terror attacks in quick succession have been followed by a new COVID-19 lockdown. We discuss the mood in the country with freelance journalist Gilli Alexis, and Rim-Sarah Alouane, legal scholar at the University of Toulouse Capitole.