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CBC Radio's As It Happens' listening experience is like taking a trip around the world. From the complex headlines of the day to the weird and wacky, As It Happens brings you the story behind the story and now we're podcasting the whole show!
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As It Happens for Friday, May 25, 2012 * St. Thomas Plant Closure * Peter McKay * Email and TB: EI Changes * Alternative Chelse | Pulling up a plant by the roots. Yet another manufacturer yanks its operations from the Ontario city of St. Thomas. Scot-free. The referendum is two years away -- but campaigners for Scottish independence are already driving their message home. EI, EI, oh. Last night's interviews on the effects of Employment Insurance reform had Talkback working overtime. | 5/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Thursday, May 24, 2012 * EI Changes Seasonal Worker and Diane Finley * Clinton Party * Etan Patz Mother * Mis | Take this job and drive to it. Human Resources Minister Diane Finley talks about Ottawa's new EI rules -- including one that requires people to take jobs within a commute, or more. Labour pains. The new regulations target seasonal workers in particular -- which, our guest tells us, will wreak havoc on the lives of fishermen. Shrinking inside the box. More than five hundred protesters are arrested in Montreal, after police use the widely-discredited containment method called "kettling". | 5/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Wednesday, May 23, 2012 * CP Strike * David Wilks * Facebook IPO Lawsuit * Outhouse Bear * Egypt Elections * | Detraining day. Nearly five thousand CP Rail workers go on strike -- raising questions about how both management and government will respond. The fruits of the Arab Spring. Fifteen months after the resignation of Hosni Mubarak, Egyptians vote in their first free presidential election. First they got IPO-ed -- now they're just PO-ed. Facebook's much-heralded stock offering proves over-heralded -- and now, angry investors, and the S.E.C., want answers. | 5/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Tuesday, May 22, 2012 * Quebec Protest * Pro Bill 78 *Labour Minister on CP * Everest Death Folo * Gay Superh | They doth protest too much. The Montreal streets are once again jammed with demonstrators -- but a Quebec MNA explains why he still supports Bill 78. The tension is building. Quebec gets set to launch the Charbonneau Commission -- which will look at charges of corruption in the province's construction industry. Striking a dissident note. Six exiled Tiananmen Square protesters publish an open letter asking to be allowed to return to China. | 5/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Monday, May 21, 2012 * Yemen Attack * Everest Climber * Quebec Law Students * Paul The Octopus Doc * American | Brought together, torn apart. A rehearsal for a military parade to celebrate Yemen's National Unity Day is brutally ended by a suicide bomber. Surprise: anti-protest bill sparks protest. Quebec's Bill 78 backfires colossally -- and now, student and legal groups line up to challenge it in court. When pitchfork-wielding strangers approach her home, Beth Howard doesn't panic. That's because she lives in the house that stands in the background of the classic painting "American Gothic". | 5/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Friday, May 18, 2012 * Etobicoke Election Ruling * Jeans Politician * Tripoli Violence * Harper Nude * TB: Fi | Null and void. An Ontario judge rules last year's election results in the riding of Etobicoke-Centre should be thrown out because of voting irregularities. Wage war. Buried in the government's epic budget bill is a section that would end the Fair Wages and Hours of Labour Act -- which is either terrible or fine, depending on which of our guests you believe. Right next door to disaster. Lebanon's Prime Minister warns that the violence in neighbouring Syria is spilling over the border. | 5/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Thursday, May 17, 2012 * Quebec Students * TB and Email: UN Food Rep * CP Board Resignations * Fist Pumper Re | Extra-curricular activity. Quebec's National Assembly prepares an emergency law to end the tuition strikes -- but one student leader says the law could cause an emergency. An explosive story. In southwestern China, the details surrounding a suicide bombing are revealed, retracted, changed, and debated. End of the line. Several members of CP Rail's board -- including the company's CEO -- resign, allowing an activist shareholder to fast-track his plans to remake the railway. | 5/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Wednesday, May 16, 2012 * Mladic Trial: Lawyer * Quebec Classrooms Raided * UN Rapp on Food * Irish Pound * I | Ratko Mladic on trial. The former commander-in-chief of the Bosnian Serb Army goes on trial for war crimes -- including the massacre at Srebrenica. From badge to worse. The latest report on the G20 summit in Toronto finds that the police provided as much chaos as order. Clearing the Table. The National Roundtable was set up to help us have a sustainable economy -- but now the government has announced it won't be sustaining the National Roundtable. | 5/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Tuesday, May 15, 2012 * Greece Talks Fail * Slaughter House Changes * G20 Activist Acquitted * Sandwich Anniv | Greeks bearing grudges. An anti-austerity party does its part to make sure coalition talks fall through in Greece -- and that party may just win the upcoming election. Rising from the ashes. It's been a year since the fire that laid waste to one-third of the town of Slave Lake -- and residents are still struggling to rebuild. Dead on arrival. The federal government wants to allow slaughterhouses to process dead animals -- which critics say could contaminate the food supply. | 5/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Monday, May 14, 2012 * JP Morgan: Senator * FTR: Jean Charest * G20: RCMP Cleared * Random Acts of Kindness * | A Colossus's losses. Financial firm JP Morgan is hemorrhaging money after some risky trading -- and one U.S. Senator takes the opportunity to push for greater oversight. He's been workin' on the railroad. Peter talks with Bill Ackman, the activist shareholder who's trying to use his clout to restructure the management of Canadian Pacific Railway. Uniformly blameless. Toronto's G20 summit had some serious problems -- but according to a new report, the RCMP wasn't one of them. | 5/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Friday May 11* Tamil Cdn Murdered * TB: Montreal Students * Picasso Print * Libya Mission Costs * FTR: Cdn Fr | Killed in his birthplace. A Tamil Canadian man is murdered after returning to Sri Lanka to reclaim family land lost during the war. Well, someone's guilty of "abuse of power". That's the charge that put former Ukrainian PM Yulia Tymoshenko in prison, where she says she's being abused -- and tonight, a government spokesperson responds. Your contribution to Canada's contribution. The Department of National Defence reveals that the total cost of the Libyan mission is double what Peter MacKay said it would be. | 5/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Thursday, May 10, 2012 * Damascus Attack * Quebec Students * Italy Soccer Match Fixing * Prince Charles Weath | So much for peace. Two bombs kill dozens of people in Damascus -- and shatter any remaining illusion that the violence has stopped. Relatively dangerous. Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng says the government is exacting retribution for his very public escape -- by going after his family. Class struggle. When smoke bombs shut down the Montreal Métro, the public blames student protests -- and calls for the protesters to knock it off. | 5/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for May 9, 2012 * Obama Endorses Same Sex Marriage * Obit: Vidal Sasson * Quebec Credit Card Bust * A Knight's Ta | He decided to speak now, rather than forever hold his peace. Under pressure, U.S. President Barack Obama endorses same-sex marriage. Taking all the credit. Police in Quebec bust a credit and debit card cloning ring -- one with tentacles that reach across the country and around the world. The war of the War of 1812. We've heard from an opponent to a military celebration in Stouffville, Ontario -- now we'll hear from a local MP who opposes the opponents. | 5/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Tuesday, May 8, 2012 * Langridge Case: Mother * Ontario Doctors * Environment Report Card * Science Student W | A mother's battle. Sheila Fynes continues to push the Canadian military to explain its mishandling of her son's death by suicide. Well, someone's trying to clear the air. But, as Canada's Environmental Commissioner points out, it's not the federal government. Growth misconduct. Economist Jeff Rubin joins Carol for a feature interview about his latest book, The End of Growth. | 5/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Monday, May 7, 2012 * Ontario Doctors Cuts * Iran Hiker Wedding * Greek Election MP * Senator Smith * Ronnie | Cut fees -- and cut the conversation. The Ontario government says negotiations with the province's doctors have failed -- so they're chopping away at medical fees. It wasn't a battleground back then -- but it is now. The town of Stouffville is scheduled to host a War of 1812 commemorative celebration -- but some of its peace-loving residents are fighting back. Politely. A disunity government. Greeks vote against austerity -- but the mishmash of politicians they vote for can't form a coalition. | 5/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Friday, May 4, 2012 * David Smith * Tim Hortons Update * Romeo Dallaire Suicides * Hobo Cops * Lost Budgie * | A Dave that will live in infamy. Someone named David Smith is on the No-Fly List -- which is causing problems for Senator David Smith. Small cuts, but deep. Senator Romeo Dallaire says that, for soldiers suffering Post Traumatic Stress, the positions being eliminated at the Defence Department are anything but redundant. Investigating a "sexual suspect". A feature interview with John Irving, whose new novel In One Person is the story of a man coming to terms with his bisexuality. | 5/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Thursday, May 3, 2012 * Chen Advisor * SNC Lavalin * Electronic Retina * Squid Competition * F-35 Committee * | Can't get here from there. Six days after a daring escape from house arrest, blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng is still in China, and still in limbo. The wing cycle. Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page gets out the spreadsheets and explains his accounting of the price of the F-35s. Eye tech. Two blind men are given partial sight, thanks to a remarkable clinical trial involving electronic retinas. | 5/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Wednesday May 2 * Flaherty on IMF * Woman Marathoner * FTR: Ron Smith Invu * Ronald Smith Hearing * Obit: Dai | An enormous, complicated do-it-yourself project. Finance Minister Jim Flaherty explains why Canada won't be helping out the Eurozone. A league of her own. Daisy Junor, an All-Star outfielder with the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, dies in Regina at the age of ninety-two. Not the man he used to be. Pleading for his death sentence to be commuted, lawyers for a Canadian man tell a Montana parole board he's changed. | 5/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Tuesday, May 1, 2012 * Conrad Black is Back * Waterloo Gay Teens * Vet Benefits Decision * Stephen King Tax * | If you're the gambling type, bet on the Black. In a development that's proven a bête noire for the Immigration Department, Conrad Black may be on his way back to Canada. Murdoch, they wrote. A British parliamentary committee issues its report on phone hacking. But not everyone agrees Rupert Murdoch is unfit to run his News Corporation. Service charges. Veterans take the federal government to court over clawbacks to their disability benefits -- and win. | 4/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Monday, April 30, 2012 * Cluster Bomb Legislation * Chen Guangcheng Escape * Earprint Arrest * Charles Bradle | Lacklustre on the cluster. A Canadian who helped negotiate an international ban on cluster bombs says the government's new legislation on the weapons is an utter failure. Crime and punishment and crime. The murder of a B.C. gang member in Mexico raises fears of increased cross-border violence. The mysterious escape of Chen Guangcheng. A blind Chinese activist who was under house arrest somehow avoids capture and makes his way to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. | 4/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Friday, April 27, 2012 * Eugenia Tymoshenko * CSIS Oversight Changed * France Metro Driver * Reef Shark Decli | The daughter's dilemma. Former Ukranian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is languishing in prison -- and her daughter Eugenia is speaking out. The element of no chance. Three major partners in Alberta's carbon-capture plan withdraw -- leaving the project in jeopardy. Putting down the watchdog. The body that oversees Canada's spy agency is a victim of budget cuts -- and some question the intelligence of the move. | 4/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Thursday, April 26, 2012 * Charles Taylor Prosecutor and Journalist * Tim Horton's * Montreal Students Protes | Guilty. Charles Taylor, the former president of Liberia, is convicted in The Hague for his role in arming and supporting a rebel army that committed atrocities in Sierra Leone. A major and minor issue. Student protests in Montreal again turn violent -- and one professor tells us why we should agree with their cause. Prose without cons. If you've been frustrated when certain books can't be read on your particular e-book reader, the world's biggest science-fiction publisher has good news. | 4/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Wednesday, April 25, 2012 * Sawmill Folo * Rupert Murdoch and David Cameron * Free Range Burger King * F-35 C | Aftershock and oversight. In B.C., people want to know what caused the Prince George sawmill explosion -- and how to prevent it from ever happening again. Fleet of clay. A retired Canadian colonel has looked at the capability of the F-35 fighter jet -- and strongly suggests we bail out of the deal. Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. So, in a display of corporate conscience, Burger King announces it will use cage-free eggs and pork. | 4/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Tuesday, April 24, 2012 * Prince George Explosion * Burma Sanctions Lifted * Michael Ignatieff * Dull and Bor | Up in flames. A sawmill in Prince George, B.C. explodes. Now, one worker is dead, and the town is shaken to the core. Next-door nightmare. How a Georgia homeowner's helpful parents wound up being held at gunpoint by his hypervigilant neighbours. No stick, just carrot. Canada lifts its sanctions against Burma -- and opens the door to trade. | 4/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Monday, April 23, 2012 * Billy Bryans Obit * Icelandic PM Verdict * Arctic Commercial Fishing * Bev Oda Expen | The life of Bryans. Lorraine Segato remembers her late bandmate, and musical force of nature, Billy Bryans. Right side up. Carol talks with a member of Marine Le Pen's far-right Front National party -- which had its best-ever showing in the first round of the French election. Fallen on Haarde times. An Icelandic court finds the country's former prime minister, Geir Haarde, guilty of negligence, for not doing enough to prevent an economic crisis. | 4/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Friday, April 20, 2012 * Quebec Protests * US Nun Crackdown * VCR Opera Footballer * Bahrain F1 Supporter * D | The true love of courses never did run smooth. Student protests over tuition hikes in Quebec reach a new pitch. Laps of judgment. While angry discussion of this weekend's Formula One race in Bahrain goes in circles, one supporter explains the country's need for speed. Bar nuns. After the Vatican reprimands her and her colleagues for untoward behaviour, Sister Simone Campbell responds. | 4/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Thursday, April 19, 2012 * Prison Announcement Government and Union * Randy Starkman Funeral * F35 Committee | Changes on a cellular level. The government says its crime strategy is working -- which is why it's closing two federal prisons. A matter of wife and death. After the spouses of two U.N. ambassadors make a video directed at the First Lady of Syria -- not much has changed. A spot on the podium. Olympic gold medalist Marnie McBean remembers a remarkable journalist who shone a light on Canadian amateur sports: the late Randy Starkman. | 4/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Wednesday, April 18, 2012 * Beating Death Folo * Dick Clark Obit * New Enviro Rules Folo * Alberta Missing Co | Charity ends at home. To circumvent new federal rules, the environmental group ForestEthics gives up its charitable status. First Nations, second opinion. Canada's Human Rights Tribunal is ordered to take another look at a complaint that alleges children's welfare services on reserves are drastically underfunded. Look back in sorrow. After the beating death of Raymond Taavel in Halifax, authorities plan to find out why his alleged assailant had been released from care. | 4/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Tuesday, April 17th, 2012 * New Environmental Rules: Minister * New Environmental Rules: Lawyer * Pentagon Po | Haste assessing waste. The Minister of Natural Resources tells us the government's plans for speeding up environmental reviews. Built-in controversy. A Quebec construction magnate is arrested as part of a major operation by the province's anti-corruption squad. A life of compassion brutally ended. Raymond Taavel, a dedicated gay-rights activist, is murdered in Halifax. And...he was framed, I tell you! Framed! It takes months for Pentagon officials to realize a portrait in the hall was hung there as a prank -- and that its subject is not a long-dead Navy hero, but a guy who's very much alive. | 4/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Monday, April 16, 2012 * Breivik Trial Survivor and Reporter * Newpage Vote * New World Bank Prez * Afghanist | Pariah on trial. Norway revisits one of its darkest hours, as Anders Behring Breivik appears in court, charged with terrorism and murder. Siege mentality. The Taliban subjects Kabul to an eighteen-hour attack -- hitting high-profile targets in a show of strength. He's something of a loaner. Despite some opposition, Jim Yong Kim -- the American candidate -- is named president of the World Bank. | 4/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Friday, April 13, 2012 *SCC Wiretap Powers * Fire Rescue Mayor * NK Rocket Failure * Chretien Exhibit * Posta | Taking a bug out of your ear. The Supreme Court strikes down a law that allowed police to conduct emergency wire taps, without a warrant. Code shoulder. Canada Post claims it has the copyright on our postal codes -- and pushes back against a company it says is violating that copyright. There's no such thing as a free launch. North Korea's much-vaunted rocket winds up in the ocean -- but the U.N. still has harsh words for the Hermit Kingdom. | 4/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Thursday, April 12, 2012 * Cyndy Vanier * US Soldier Kidnapped * Roger Caron Obit * Magnetic Hamster * Immigr | Chessmaster, or pawn? I'll talk with Cyndy Vanier -- a Canadian woman in a Mexican prison, suspected of conspiring to smuggle members of Moammar Gadhafi's family out of Libya. He finds it unsettling. Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger is furious with the feds for trying to take over an immigrant settlement program administered in his province. The forgotten captive. Three years ago, American soldier Bowe Berghdahl was kidnapped in Afghanistan -- and his family is fighting for his release. | 4/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Wednesday, April 11, 2012 * Hans Island Settlement * Bagpiper Ban * Bob Rae * Penis Museum Doc * Mitt Romney | Hans across the water. After decades of bickering, it looks like Canada and Denmark agree to share the remote, uninhabited rock called Hans Island. The GOP needs a GPS. Now that Rick Santorum has dropped out, presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney has to decide whether to keep tacking right -- or turn toward the middle. Here's your parachute. Interim Liberal Leader Bob Rae says the Prime Minister should resign over the F-35 fighter jet debacle. | 4/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Tuesday, April 10, 2012 * Bahrain Hunger Striker * Alberta Election Analyst * New Blowfish Regulations * Wieb | Situation critical. Human rights activist Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja is on hunger strike in a Bahraini prison -- and his daughter fears he's on the verge of death. The controversial legacy of Wiebo Ludwig. The late activist considered his cause and methods righteous -- but our guest considered them anything but. The party line forms on the right. The surge of support for the Wildrose Alliance in Alberta shows the Progressive Conservatives may not be conservative enough. | 4/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Monday, April 9, 2012 * Syria Turkey * MacKay F35 Accounting * Mali NGO * Book: Soccer in Juarez | Spreading violence. Syrian troops fire shots across the border into a Turkish refugee camp, turning a national crisis into an international incident. The new math. After admitting he knew the price tag for proposed F-35 fighter jets was ten-billion dollars higher than the public had been led to believe, Defense Minister, Peter McKay, says it's all a matter of accounting. Soccer City. Sportswriter, Robert Andrew Powell ,spent a year following soccer fans in Cuidad Juarez with a single goal: to detail how sport brings hope to people in one of the most dangerous cities on earth. | 4/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Friday, April 6, 2012 * Viktor Boot * Sarajevo Red Line * Gun Registry Quote * First Woman Marathon * Bosnia | Up in arms. International weapons dealer Viktor Bout is sentenced in an American court -- and a furious Russia gives the U.S. both barrels. Empty gesture. A line of unoccupied red chairs -- one for each of the people killed in the Siege of Sarajevo -- stretches through Sarajevo. History repeats itself. Retired general Philippe Morillon led the U.N.'s forces in Bosnia -- and he sees a disturbingly similar tragedy taking shape in Syria. | 4/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Thursday, April 5, 2012 * Greece Suicide * Sarajevo Film Director * Feather Dinosaur * Sarajevo: City of Ligh | Home is where the art is -- or it's supposed to be. During the Bosnian war, artists defied the violence to create their works -- but their situation hasn't improved much in peacetime. Where are the "Snow"s of yesteryear? Aida Begic -- whose 2008 film "Snow" took Cannes by storm -- reflects on the state of the arts in a divided Bosnia. Greek tragedy. The suicide of a seventy-seven-year-old retiree in Athens sparks anti-austerity protests. | 4/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Wednesday, April 4, 2012 * CBC Budget Cuts * F 35 Follow * UK Surveillance Update * Preserved Wolly Mammoth * | The ten per cent solution. CBC President Hubert Lacroix explains how the Corporation plans to cope with the latest round of budget cuts. Is there an ejection seat in this thing? We know the F-35 fighter jet has become an albatross to the Canadian government -- but the same thing's true south of the border. Witnesses to the persecution. Our weeklong series on the Siege of Sarajevo continues -- with an examination of what the international community didn't do to stop ethnic cleansing in Bosnia. | 4/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Tuesday, April 3, 2012 * Auditor General * Rights and Democracy Killed * Sparrows Are Getting Louder * Tony B | Them's fighter words. Canada's Auditor General slams the government's plan for purchasing F-35 jets, and says the feds misled Canadians. A series of bangs -- and then a whimper. The agency Rights and Democracy is officially shut down after explosive turmoil -- and Ed Broadbent explains what we've lost. Truth, strangers, and fiction. Booker Prize-winning novelist Ian McEwan describes his first awkward introduction to former British PM Tony Blair. | 4/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Monday, April 2, 2012 * NB Potato Farmer * UK Electronic Surveillance * Heritage Sheep Scarpie * Iowa Whiskey | Hot potato. After a year in a Lebanese prison, a New Brunswick potato farmer is released -- and now Henk Tepper wants to know what the Canadian government did on his behalf. "What did you mean by "OMG LOL", old chap?" The British government is considering a surveillance plan that would give it authorities access to every message sent by every one of its citizens. Ewes-less knowledge. An Ontario farmer's sheep were set to be slaughtered, because of scrapie -- but now they've vanished. | 4/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Friday, March 30, 2012 * Budget Update - Diplomacy * Sapin Strikes And Job Losses * Church Roof Theft * For T | Cutting diplomatic tithes. A former Canadian diplomat fears yesterday's federal budget will result in a serious rollback of Canada's international presence. A body in motion tends to stay in motion. Unfortunately for Canadian tech company Research in Motion, that motion continues to be a downward spiral. The loss generation. As the Spanish establishment announces its latest--and most severe--austerity budget, the country's youth worry they'll never be able to get established. Hot, off the presses. A Calgary-area newspaper editor resigns after allegations he plagiarized dozens of columns from other writers. Overhead costs. A church in England has trouble keeping a roof on God's house because thieves keep making off with it. And, Rad vuh-suhs Blew. A prominent linguist says the way Americans in the Northeastern states pronounce their vowels may have something to do with the country's political divide. | 3/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Thursday, March 29, 2012 * Budget – Flaherty * Budget – Brison – Liberal * Budget – Julian – NDP * | Mass austeria. Finance Minister Jim Flaherty unveils the new federal budget -- in which the public sector is in for a pounding, and no one's in for a penny. Cutting remarks. The opposition parties say the budget is shallow -- and its cuts are far too deep. Safety behind numbers. From Syria, there are reports that government forces are using civilians as human shields. When he lived there, he was a pre-Post-Impressionist. We'll tour a property in London, once occupied by a struggling artist named Vincent Van Gogh. The grass was always bluer on his side of the fence. Remembering the remarkable Earl Scruggs -- who reinvented the banjo. And...the Satanic Ursus. A Newfoundland family gets a rude awakening, when a polar bear breaks into their home in the wee hours. | 3/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Wednesday, March 28, 2012 * RCMP Harrassment Suit * Leaking North Sea Gas * For The Record: Pastygate * Obit: | A toxic environment. A hundred-and-fifty female RCMP officers file a class-action lawsuit against the force -- alleging a culture of harassment. Targeting the innocent. The U.N.'s human rights chief says that the Syrian regime is systematically rounding up and torturing children. Rig over troubled water. It's been four days since gas started leaking from an oil rig in the North Sea -- and there's no end in sight. And...sometimes you don't get over being the ugly duckling. A swan named Tyson impresses people with his graceful movements and elegant neck, before savagely attacking them. | 3/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Tuesday, March 27, 2012 * Council of Canadians Robocall Lawsuit * For The Record: Nova Scotia Yacht Rescue * | A game of phone tag intensifies. Citing irregularities -- including robocalls -- the Council of Canadians files a lawsuit, demanding the election results in seven ridings be annulled. The Big Dipper. Thomas Mulcair, the brand-new leader of the Opposition, tells us how he'll handle politics and politesse. Doctor-patient-gas company confidentiality. Physicians in Pennsylvania can treat their patients for fracking-related ailments -- but they can't reveal what chemicals may have caused the ailment. And...terrier incognita. A Connecticut couple's dog has been missing since New Year's Eve -- so naturally, they've mounted more than a dozen night-vision cameras around their property, and printed up ten thousand flyers. As It Happens, the Tuesday Edition. Radio that figures in this case the suspect has already been collared. | 3/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Monday, March 26, 2012 * Ontario Prostitution Decision * Trayvon Martin Vigil * From Our Archive: Cuban Baseb | The newest decision on the oldest profession. The Ontario Court of Appeal rules aspects of Canada's prostitution laws unconstitutional. Coming together to say things are coming apart. Thousands of people gather in Sanford, Florida, to demand action on the murder of a black teenager. If Jeff Langley's grumpy, it's because he got up on the wrong side of the state. The South Carolina resident may soon be a North Carolina resident -- and he didn't even have to hire movers. And...look what the cat dragged in. Trudi Wells is driving home when a female bighorn and a cougar fall off a cliff and land right in front of her car. As It Happens, the Monday Edition. Radio that goes down with the sheep. | 3/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Friday, March 23, 2012 * Dutch Castration Canadian Folo * South Sudan Journalist * Birdman Hoax * Obit Lincol | Dangerous import. A Dutch Catholic brother, who left the Netherlands in the 'fifties after one of his abuse victims was ordered castrated by the church, received a new post in Nova Scotia. Thinking outside the box. A group of Virginia legislators want the state's correctional system to stop putting mentally ill inmates in segregation. Starved for attention. There are multiple humanitarian crises in south Sudan -- and the one in the state of Blue Nile is far more critical than its lack of media coverage would suggest. | 3/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Thursday, March 22, 2012 * French Killer Lawyer * Quebec Dying with Dignity * Winnipeg Homeless Donation * Ki | Perplexed and horrified. A French lawyer tell us his former client, Mohamed Merah -- the man who killed seven people in Toulouse - was "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." A means to the end. Quebec's Dying with Dignity committee urges the provincial government to approve doctor-assisted suicide. At the mercy of the state. A Canadian man on death row in Montana for killing two men is hoping he'll be granted clemency. | 3/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Wednesday, March 21, 2012 * France Killer Folo * Making MMA Legal * Bosnia: Carol with Soldier * Vibrating Ta | A chilling conversation. A journalist tells us about getting a phone call from Mohamed Merah -- the man suspected of killing seven people in France. Backing a united front. At the urging of envoy Kofi Annan, the members of the UN Security Council finally come together to issue a statement on a proposed peace plan for Syria. Old soldiers never die -- they just get fired. In Sarajevo, Carol speaks with a soldier who is protesting against a government decision to deny soldiers their pensions. | 3/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Tuesday, March 20, 2012 * Zimbabwe Film Sentencing * Florida Shooting * Graham James Sentencing * Newspaper P | Captive audience. For watching a video of last year's protests in Tahrir Square, six Zimbabwean activists are facing ten years in jail. He went to the store for Skittles and an iced tea -- and never went home. Since the shooting death of seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin in Florida, the calls for justice are getting more urgent. Darkness brought to light. The Netherlands is in shock after revelations that young victims of abuse in Catholic institutions were forcibly castrated. | 3/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Monday, March 19, 2012 * Toulouse School Shooting * Aveos Shutdown * Afghan Translator Accepted * Utah Sex Re | Murder in Toulouse. A gunman kills four people at a Jewish school -- three of them children. The suffering doesn't stop at the border. The story of two young Syrian refugees who made it out of the country -- but whose injuries are life-threatening. It couldn't even maintain the status quo. Aveos, a company that performs maintenance on Air Canada planes, shuts down operations -- leaving hundreds of people without work. | 3/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Friday March 16 * Azerbaijan Journo * FTR: Montreal Riot * Crossword Puzzle Computer * Hockey Learned From Yo | Sex, lies, and videotape. A journalist in Azerbaijan suspects the government is behind a sex tape used to try to blackmail her. Secrets and allies. Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he believes the U.S. is withholding information about the massacre committed by an American soldier. | 3/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Thursday, March 15, 2012 * Assad Family Emails * Brit MP on Subs * Knoy 2012 In Norther Uganda * Christy Clar | -- | 3/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Broom Day Debunk | One magic day, every few decades, it is said that brooms magically stand straight. It is said that this is due to the allignment of the Earth's magnetic fields. We say,'Hogwash'! | 3/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Wednesday, March 14, 2012 * Lubanga ICC Conviction * Kahnawake Police Help * Winnipeg Drivers * Salamander Ro | A conviction, at last. Ten years after the International Criminal Court was launched, it has its first verdict: Thomas Lubanga, who turned kidnapped children into an army, is guilty. Man's inhumanity to Manning. Bradley Manning hasn't been tried yet -- but the U.N. says the American soldier accused of leaking state secrets has been treated inhumanely. Calling for back-up. Despite longstanding misgivings about the Quebec police, the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake is now asking for their help. | 3/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Tuesday, March 13, 2012 * Afghanistan Shooting Fallout * Sherwood Roland * SYRIA HRW * Lucy Maud Montgomery B | Things fall apart. According to the former head of the U.N. mission in Afghanistan, the fallout from an American soldier's massacre of civilians shows just how futile the mission is. Thou shalt kill. Please. A British court rules that a man suffering from "locked-in syndrome" can go to court to fight for the right to die. Impossible to stay, nearly impossible to leave. Syrian refugees hoping to flee face a new and deadly obstacle: minefields along the border. | 3/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Monday, March 12, 2012 * Afghanistan Shooting * Egyptian Doctor Acquitted * Herb Carnegie Obit * Qubec Tobacc | Murder in Kandahar. An American soldier massacres sixteen Afghan civilians -- and his crime may be the last straw for the NATO mission. Smoke and lawyers. In Quebec, a group of smokers takes Canada's three biggest tobacco companies to court. Violators may be prosecuted, but not convicted. A doctor accused of performing "virginity tests" during a demonstration in Egypt is acquitted by a military court. | 3/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Friday, March 9, 2012 * Elections Canada Powers * MSF - Syria Doctor * French Masculine Plurals * Florida May | Went to see 'Chronicle' the movie yesterday, and the best thing about it - it was original. The doctor's dilemma. The co-founder of Médecins Sans Frontières describes his harrowing experience treating the wounded in the Syrian city of Homs. Remorselessly nurseless. Faced with a strike, the government of Kenya makes a wide-ranging, if short-sighted decision -- and fires every nurse in the country. | 3/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Thursday March 8 * Missing Women Inquiry Folo * Deep Water Horizon Oil * FTR: Cons. Fundraisers * Caribou Poa | Whose inquiry is it, anyway? The integrity of the Missing Women Commission is cast into serious doubt. Politics makes strange bedfellows -- so he's changing out of his pyjamas. Former Liberal MP Glen Pearson tells us why he definitely won't be running again. Politics makes strange bedfellows -- so he's changing out of his pyjamas. Former Liberal MP Glen Pearson tells us why he definitely won't be running again. | 3/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Wednesday, March 7, 2012 * Male Impotence Legislator * Missing Women Lawyer Quits * Newspaper Kid * God Parti | Members only. Tired of the one-sided public discourse about women's reproductive rights in the U.S., an Ohio state senator introduces a law to protect men from the risk of impotence medication. Proto-robo-call. Elections Canada expands its probe of robo-calls before the 2011 election -- but our guest says the scheme may have been tested during the election in 2008. Righteous resignation. Lawyer Robyn Gervais withdraws from the Missing Women Inquiry -- saying that First Nations people are being ignored. | 3/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Tuesday, March 6, 2012 * Robocalls - Voter Card * Spider Silk Violin * Plane Lands in Mogadishu *Pat Robertso | Wish you were there. An Ontario man says he got a card in the mail before the 2011 election, allegedly from Elections Canada -- directing him to the wrong polling station. The Russian winter is no Arab Spring. The anti-Putin demonstration in Moscow fizzles out -- and those who oppose the president face a chilly reception. A runway success. For the first time in two decades, an international airline offers flights to Mogadishu, Somalia. | 3/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Monday, March 5, 2012 * Russian Election Protests * Medak Pocket Arrests * NFL Bounty * Congo Munitions Dump | Third time lacks a charm. Vladimir Putin is now the thrice-elected President of Russia -- but thousands show up in Moscow to demonstrate their disgust with the vote. Chaos in Congo. Hundreds of people are killed when a munitions dump explodes near Brazzaville -- and officials are still searching for more bodies. Rooted out. Nearly twenty years after a series of horrific acts in Croatia, five suspects are arrested for war crimes. | 3/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Friday, March 2, 2012 * ICRC on Syria * Paul Conroy on Homs * NZ Christchurch Cathedral Teardown * Super Tues | In Homs -- and in harm's way. The Red Cross and the Red Crescent arrive in a Syrian city under siege -- and their aid mission is a dangerous one. Comedy equals tragedy plus tragedy. One of Burma's most incisive critics, a comedian named Zarganar, reflects on the changes in his country. Permanently out of service. After more than a hundred-and-thirty years -- and a series of damaging earthquakes -- Christchurch, New Zealand's famous cathedral will be torn down. | 3/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Thursday, March 1, 2012 | A ringing endorsement. When it comes to robo-calls, the former head of Elections Canada says the agency has the situation firmly under control. The grim facts, after the fact. After investigating the deaths of three young children, BC's Representative for Children and Youth says more needs to be done to protect families from domestic violence. Signal lost. A Somali journalist who was just about to re-launch his Mogadishu radio station is murdered outside his home. | 2/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Wednesday, February 29, 2012 * RoboCalling: Democracy Watch * Oxycontin Gone * Costa Concordia * Iceman Genom | Sure, it oversees -- but it also overlooks. According to the watchdog group Democracy Watch, Elections Canada isn't doing enough to deal with election fraud. Fire and ice. A Red Cross aid shipment arrives in Iqaluit, to help dozens of people left homeless by a fire that utterly destroyed their housing complex. They're observant -- but the schedulers aren't. After a long dry spell, a Jewish school's basketball team makes the playoffs in Texas -- only to find the game is scheduled on the Sabbath. | 2/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Tuesday, February 28, 2012 * Alison Redford * Habs - Latest Geofrion * FTR: QP Robocalls * Obit: Oldest Sheep | ...And never the twain shall meet. Alberta Premier Alison Redford clarifies her position in her ongoing argument with Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty. Rebels with multiple causes. Various factions of the Syrian opposition are united in their hatred of the regime -- and divided on everything else. The currency of their convictions. Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page crunches the numbers on how much the government's conditional sentencing changes will cost the country. | 2/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As It Happens for Monday, February 27, 2012 * Robocalling Thunder Bay Call Centre and Robo Call Bill * Rae on Vikileaks * Pak-C | Crossing the robo-con. I'll speak with a woman who worked in a call centre during the last election -- but blew the whistle when the robo-calls it orchestrated took a nasty turn. First humming along -- then screaming. A passenger on the VIA train that derailed yesterday tells us what it was like inside her car. Documentary eminence. Canadian-Pakistani filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy's Academy Award is the first for her -- and the for any Pakistani filmmaker ever. | 2/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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I love As It Happens and always have. What those accustomed to superficial coverage call a "left leaning bias" is actually thorough journalism -- interviews are rigorous and difficult questions are asked and answered. Whenever possible, AIH gives both sides of an issue a chance to voice their opinion. If all journalists were as balanced and ethical, the world might not be in its present troubled state.
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The stories on this podcast are a great mix of fun and informative stories. The hosts are funny and as another reviewer mentioned, the bad puns just add to the experience!
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Well this is a great radio news show. Sadly the podcast is just a very small part of the full show. To get the full show you have to go to website and it's in WMA format. I don't think the CBC will every get it.
