The Current

Ontario has been dealing with record rainfall over the past few weeks, flooding homes and businesses and wreaking havoc on local farms. We check in with a local vegetable farmer just south of Ottawa and a winegrower in Niagara about what the floods have meant for their crops and what can be salvaged.

Calling all Canadian singles! Netflix has just announced casting is now open for Love is Blind Canada. The hit reality dating TV sees singles date -- and some, even go on to get engaged -- all without ever knowing what the other person looks like. We speak with the Globe and Mail's television critic, J. Kelly Nestruck, about what the upcoming Canadian spin-off means following the success of Heated Rivalry, whether Canada is having a pop culture moment, and why this isn't necessarily a good thing for the Canadian film and TV industry.

The federal government is mapping out news deserts across Canada to find the gaps in local news coverage. We speak to a panel of journalists from across the country who are working hard to deliver community news to discuss the challenge of delivering high quality content in a time of algorithms and misinformation.

The Mile Zero Murders investigates the baffling wave of disappearances and murders in the small town of Dawson Creek, B.C., a community struggling with a deadly local drug trade. Host Timothy Sawa explores missing person cases like that of Cole Hosack and Renee Didier, pursuing leads from grieving families, reluctant authorities and the drug dealers themselves. The question that drives this series is the same one that haunts this community: where is the justice?

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Punishing American tariffs will kick in on August 19, unless Prime Minister Mark Carney's team strikes a trade compromise with Washington. Our National Affairs Panel -- The Globe and Mail's Stephanie Levitz and the Toronto Star's Ryan Tumilty -- on what's at stake.