‘Queen of Canada’ cult threatens public executions in Sask. village; confusion over when aid will reach Gaza; child psychologists tackling the trauma of Israel-Hamas war; and author Waubgeshig Rice on telling truth in fiction
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Far-right QAnon conspiracy theorist Romana Didulo and her followers have set up camp in the small village of Richmound, Sask. They’re threatening to publicly execute elected officials and community members who want them to leave. The CBC’s Sam Samson went there to meet residents worried about the woman who calls herself “The Queen of Canada.”
Plus, CBC foreign correspondent Chris Brown joins us from Jerusalem with the latest from the Israel-Hamas conflict, including the question of when humanitarian aid will be allowed into Gaza.
Then, two child psychologists — one Israeli, one a Palestinian-Israeli citizen — are working together to help children affected by war, and train the next generation of Palestinian, Arab-Israeli and Jewish-Israeli mental health professionals. Dr. Esti Galili-Weisstub and Dr. Shafiq Masalha tell Matt Galloway about their efforts to build trust between their communities.
And Waubgeshig Rice’s new novel Moon of the Turning Leaves is a sequel to his 2018 bestseller, about an Anishinaabe community reconnecting with the land and traditional knowledge after the collapse of wider society He tells Galloway about telling truth in fiction, and why it shouldn’t take a cataclysm to liberate Indigenous people from oppression.