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As It Happens for Wednesday, December 21, 2011 * HAMA Activist * Loma Linda McDonalds * Betty Unger * Elizabeth May * Repeat: Wade Davis Deprivation and defiance. He has no electricity or heat -- but a member of the Hama Rebels Council in Syria refuses to believe he has no power. To May, whom it concerns. Green Party leader Elizabeth May tells us about what's happened since she won a seat in Parliament. A fit of peak. Wade Davis tells the story of George Mallory -- whose assaults on Everest were both fêted and futile. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, December 20, 2011 * Egypt - Women * Senator Tommy Banks * Repeat: The Hungry Word Rage in Cairo. In response to an incendiary video, thousands of women take to the streets, protesting against Egypt's military rule. Dietary restrictions. An encore presentation of Carol's interview with Nick Cullather -- whose book The Hungry World examines the failures of American food policy in Asia during the Cold War. And...we make a run on the Banks. Former Senator Tommy Banks, specifically -- a multi-talented gentleman who has just retired after eleven years in the Red Chamber. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, December 19, 2011 * Kim Jong Il Obit * Face Maze Program * Cesaria Evora Obit * Vaclav Havel Obit * Uninformed Individuals * Algorithm for Pop Music The Kim is dead, long live the Kim. North Korea's diminutive leader, Kim Jong-Il, dies -- and the world waits to see what his successor and son, Kim Jong-Un, will do. All the president's manuscripts. Vaclav Havel was a writer before he was a head of state -- and his translator and friend, Paul Wilson, remembers his art and his politics. About-face. It looks like a video game -- but a program called FaceMaze actually helps train autistic people to recognize facial expressions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, December 16 * FOA: Christopher Hitchens Obit * Obit: Christopher Hitchens * Tofino Tsunami Debris * NFLD Funeral* SOD: Rapping Minister * Russian Journo Killed * FTR: McGill Report - Dean * McGill Riots Report * Fukushima On the contrarian. Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter remembers his friend, the ever-fascinating, ever-defiant Christopher Hitchens. Chronicle of a death foretold. The reporter at a newspaper in Russia's Dagestan region suspected he'd be targeted -- and last night, he was. Intercontinental drift. A British Columbia mayor has a haunting problem on his hands: what to do with debris from the Japanese tsunami that's arrived on Canada's West Coast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, December 15, 2011 * Iraq War End with Soldier and Blogger * FTR: Mahjoub in Court * Gaelic College Bagpiping Fight * First Nations Property Ownership * Goose Mystery * Obit: George Whitman Not with a bang but a whimper. The United States officially ends its mission in Iraq -- but a Marine who served four tours there thinks it might be too soon. Left in limbo. As "The Baghdad Blogger", Salam Pax gave the world an Iraqi view of the war -- and tonight, he'll tell us how he sees the end of the war. Getting real about real estate. As the federal government ponders allowing private property on reserves, we'll visit a First Nation that already does just that. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, December 14, 2011 * Syria Defected Diplomat * Willaim Hall Statue * Goose-Killing Mystery * Obit: Bert Schneider * Talkback Canada's National Bird * How Hummingbirds Fly Cause and defection. Mohammed Bassam Imadi explains why he left his post as a Syrian diplomat, and renounced the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Making a monumental difference. A Canadian Senator tells us why it's time a statue of a black war hero take its place in Ottawa. Take a wild guess about what's taking the wild geese. London's River Lea is home to a mysterious goose murderer, which attacks from underneath -- and pulls the birds into the depths. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, December 13, 2011 * Kyoto: Lord John Prescott * Belgium Grenade Attack * Canadian Bird * Turin Roma Camp Burned * Seal and Sheep Rescue * Sheldon Kennedy in US * Island Rescue Story Striking a chord by striking an accord. Among those furious with Canada's decision to withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol is John Prescott -- one of the people who helped frame it. Fire under fire. A serious accusation sparks an arson attack on a Roma camp in Italy -- but the accusation turns out to have been a lie. An attack on the heart of a city. A busy afternoon in the centre of Liège, Belgium turns deadly, when one man unleashes an explosive assault. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, December 12, 2011 * Metis Land Claim Case * Eurozone Deal - Tory MP * Kenney on Face Coverings * DA: Fake Obit Excuse * Tubas Stolen * Syria Weapons * El Salvador Massacre Putting Sir John A. on trial. The Métis say the first Prime Minister reneged on an 1870 deal -- and they're taking their case to the Supreme Court. From peaceful uprising to armed insurgency. A reporter finds that Syria's resistance forces are taking advantage of a flood of smuggled weapons. It's not EU, it's me. British Tory MP Bill Cash says the U.K.'s falling out with its neighbours is a good thing -- because it's time to review his country's relationship with the rest of the Europea ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, December 9, 2011 * Eurozone Deal: Britain * India Hospital Fire * Number 39 in Afghanistan * DB Cooper Case Closed * Ray Polk Update * School Bus Hero Cameron obscura. The British Prime Minister is left in the dark, when a European treaty all but excludes his country altogether. Saying uncle. Authorities had all but given up on solving the case of D.B. Cooper -- until a woman came forward with information about a member of her family. An infirmary turned inferno. A private hospital catches fire in Calcutta -- killing dozens of patients who are trapped inside. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, December 8, 2011 * Anti Bullying Ontario Reaction and Minister * McIntosh Convictions Overturned * Leaping Cockroach * Graham James: Gilhooly * New Gingrich's Sister Pushing back. Ontario's Education Minister defends new anti-bullying legislation from charges that it violates religious freedoms. He feels bad -- but it's for the greater good. Greg Gilhooly is glad his former hockey coach is going to prison -- but disappointed all abuse charges relating to his own case were dropped. Free on a technicality. Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh was charged with seventeen counts of sexual abusing boys -- but a Nova Scotia court is forced to let him walk. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, December 7, 2011 * Anti-Bullying FTR and Religious Opposition * Graham James Guilty * Blago Sentence * Cons. Influence * Goldfish Marketing * Gadhafi to Mexico Coup * Ray Polk Sanctuary * Pablo Neruda Oppressing issues. Ontario introduces an anti-bullying law -- but some religious leaders complain it violates their religious freedom. Refusing to spare the Rod. An Illinois judge hands the state's former governor, Rod Blagojevich, a harsh sentence for corruption. They lost the plot. Four people -- including a Canadian mastermind -- allegedly schemed to smuggle one of Moammar Gadhafi's sons to Mexico -- but they were found out. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, December 6, 2011 * First Nations Power Outage * Russia Protests * Attawapiskat: Grand Chief * Ski Helmets Email * Montreal Massacre Anniversary - Muslim Organizations * Joe Arpaio * Jane Austen Portrait Powerless against the cold. After a day without heat or electricity, and facing dangerously frigid temperatures, two Quebec First Nations declare a state of emergency. The Kremlin's gremlins. In Moscow, protesters refuse to cooperate with a ban on unapproved rallies -- taking to the streets after an election allegedly fraught with fraud A united front. In the midst of the crisis in Attawapiskat, First Nations leaders from across Canada say it's time to hold the federal government accoun ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, December 5, 2011 * NASA Other Planet * Russia Elections * Whale Sound Project * Helmets for Skiers * Italian Minister Sacrifice * Saudi Driving *Bill Tapia Well, we were running out of places to put Starbucks. NASA announces the discovery of an Earth-like planet that could sustain life -- although it's a few hundred light years away. The proof is in the Putin. But so far, the Russian Prime Minister isn't acknowledging allegations of electoral fraud, after a surprisingly narrow vote returns his party to power. A cautionary tale. After a young Edmonton skier dies of a head injury, his grieving peers urge people to put on their helmets. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, December 2, 2011 * Gulnaz Folo * Attawapiskat: Richard Wagamese * Francesco Braga Italian Minister * Bobby Valentine Invents Wrap * Alta Child Advocate * The Optimist * Violin X-Rays A cruel kind of freedom. An Afgan woman who was imprisoned after being raped is being released but may be forced to marry her rapist. The shame game. When it comes to Attawapiskat, it's not just the federal government that's at fault. One First Nations writer says Aboriginal leadership deserves its fair share of the blame. And...The billy club. For the twenty-eighth time in the past forty-five years, the town of Gavle, Sweden, sees its giant straw Christmas goat go up in flames. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, December 1 * Gbagbo at ICC * Attawapiskat - Funding Explainer * Deer Cull Cranbrook BC * H5N1 Research * FTR: Gaspe Teen Suicide * Obit: Christa Wolf Justice for some. The former president of Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo, is now in the Hague, but others accused of orchestrating killings after last year's election are still at large. Death in a test tube. A researcher creates an extremely lethal strain of the avian flu virus in his Rotterdam lab, alarming his colleagues in the scientific community. Following the money. A Metis blogger tracks the ninety million dollars that Ottawa sent to Attawapiskat -- and finds that kind of cash doesn' ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday November 30, 2011 * Kyoto: South Africa High Commissioner * For The Record: QP Attawapiskat * Pikangikum Update: Rickford * FTR: Minnie Dean Brown-Trickey * Elvis Costello Album * Manitoba Baby Dies * US Horsemeat * Turtle Eggs Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, November 29, 2011 * G20 Complainant and Police * Breivik Declaration * Email: Synesthesia * Rich Lottery Winners * Morinville Civil Liberties Award * A More Perfect Heaven Accessory to a crime. A Toronto man who was arrested for wearing a bandana around his neck during last summer's G20, has settled a lawsuit against the city's police force. He is insane. Psychiatrists in Norway have determined that mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik has paranoid schizophrenia. And...A Ptolemaic polemic. A new biography of Copernicus straddles the space between fiction and non-fiction in order to examine how and why he published his Earth-shattering theory. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, November 28, 2011 * Attawapiskat - Charlie Angus * Egypt Election * Synesthesia Study * South Korea Innovations * Death of Kyoto * UK Lobby Oil Sands * NFLD Rescue * Svetlana Stalin With funds like this, who needs enemies? A month after declaring a housing emergency, the First Nations community of Attawapiskat is still out in the cold. Dis-accord. Canada signals that it may pull out of the Kyoto Protocol as new climate talks in Durban, South Africa, get underway Present, tense and imperfect. An Egyptian revolutionary says the country's elections - which got underway today -- are flawed, but he wants people to vote anyway. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, November 25, 2011 * Attawapiskat Folo * Val Cartier Psychs Needed * Obit Ruth Stone * Snowblower Ad * Egypt - View From the Square * Boxing Girls of Kabul The winter of their discontent. Nearly a month ago the First Nation Community of Attawapiskat declared a housing emergency, government representatives finally agree to check it out. Last chance Friday. On Monday, Egyptians are supposed to head to the polls, but while thousands remain in the streets to demand an end to military rule, it's unclear if they'll show up to vote. Hers were Iridescent Times. We'll remember the award-winning American poet and writer, Ruth Stone, who has died at ni ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, November 24, 2011 * Egypt Muslim Brotherhood * Mexican Couple Deported * 51-Year-Old Goalie * Nickelback Responds * Occupy Vendetta Illustrator * EU Film Update * Media Inquiry: JK Rowling * Solar System App Poll position. The Muslim Brotherhood stands to win Egypt's upcoming election but says it's not in it for the power but for the sake of democracy. The masked man. We speak with the creator of the Vendetta mask, a central symbol of the Occupy movement. Home turfed. We check in on a Mexican couple, who was deported from Canada, despite their claims that a Mexican drug cartel wants them dead. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, November 23 * Cairo Field Clinic * BC Poligamy Ruling * Ann Patchett Book Store * Bahrain Royal Family Report * Saratoga Iodine Couple * Juarez Angels Mean streets. Doctors treating protestors in Cairo are concerned that Egypt's security forces are resorting to cruel and unusual punishment. A foregone conclusion. Bahrain's king commissions an independent report that finds authorities killed and tortured Arab Spring protestors. Law of attractions. B.C.'s Supreme court upholds Canada's law that makes polygamy illegal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, November 22, 2011 * Occupy Calgary * Iran IAEA Ambassador * Musical House * Edmonton Imam * Banned Texting Words * Syria - Homs * Locked in Pilot Showdown in Cowtown. Calgary ain't big enough for the Occupy movement, so the city closed the camp down. A Pilgrim's Protest. An Edmonton Imam who was jailed while visiting Mecca wants the Canadian government to do more to protect religious visitors. Stalwart denial. Despite growing international sanctions, Iran's ambassador to the IAEA tells us his country is not pursuing a nuclear weapons program. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, November 21, 2011 * Egypt Protest Military * Chris Alexander on Iran * Obit: John Neville * Occupy Roundup Toronto and Vancouver * Delaware Amabassador To Mars * US Congress Deficit Deal * Email: Pizza Not Vegetable Tahrir Squared. Police in Egypt crack down on protesters, who returned to the square in Cairo to demand the country's military leaders relinquish power. This isn't what they meant by "movement." Occupy protestors in Canadian cities are told to pack it in and head out. The new take on Tehran. Ottawa takes a new stand against Iran, issuing sanctions designed to quell the country's nuclear ambitions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, November 18, 2011 * Afghanistan Drought * Attawapiskat Housing * Pizza Vegetable * Deep Sea Worm * Wade Davis A looming catastrophe. Aid groups warn that, without immediate action, the drought in Afghanistan will become a famine. The verdict: guilty. Again. Matthew Wilcox gets a second trial for the shooting death of a fellow soldier -- and is convicted a second time. Pleading for a shift from the makeshift. In Northern Ontario, some members of the Attawapiskat First Nation are facing winter with only tents for shelter. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, November 17, 2011 * Free Syrian Army * Pat Martin * Broken Ferry Orchestra * Japanese Honourary Degrees * Fraser Mustard Obit * Soccer Track Suit * Spider Gifts Army of shadows. We reach the commander of an opposition force that's both mysterious and increasingly powerful: the Free Syrian Army. Seventy-six degrees after separation. Dozens of Japanese Canadian students who were interned during the Second World War will finally get their degrees from the University of British Columbia. First the effs -- now the ands and buts. After a series of profane tweets, NDP MP Pat Martin explains his frustration with the government -- with no apologies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, November 16 * Syria Folo * Occupy NY Councillor * Rat Pollinator * Afghan Translator * NBA Lockout * FTR: New RCMP Commish The surging insurgents. First they defected -- and now the members of the Free Syrian Army have become a force for President Assad to reckon with. Communication breakdown. Carol talks with Sayed Shah Sharifi -- an Afghan translator for the Canadian Forces who's been denied a Canadian visa. Occupational hazards. A New York city councillor goes to observe the raid on the "Occupy Wall Street" camp -- and gets taken down by police. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, November 15, 2011 * New Pipeline Route * Jerry Sandusky * CRTC Internet Decision * Rio Favela Occupation * Free Syrian Army * Diane Keaton Undeterred, they detoured. A U.S. State Department decision threatened the Keystone XL pipeline -- but the company behind it has come up with a new plan. Resistance is fertile. We'll reach a member of Syria's underground network of activists -- who continue to fight back against a violent crackdown. Maternal flame. I'll talk with the great Diane Keaton about her new memoir -- and find out why she was burning to write about her mother. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, November 14, 2011 * Hockey Death * Afghan Interpreter * Deep Voice Study * Breivik in Court * FTR: Wedding on Fire * Quote Unquote: Salman Rushdie * Mexico Helicopter Crash Struck down. An Edmonton teenager dies after a puck hits him in the neck -- and his coach tells us how his heartbroken teammates are coping. A nation confronts its demon. The man who's confessed to killing seventy-seven people in Norway makes his first public appearance in court. Lost after translation. He worked as an interpreter for the Canadian Forces -- but Sayed Shah Sharifi has been denied permission to move to Canada. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, November 11, 2011 * Remembrance Day: Selby * FTR: Vet Lunches * Wildlife Conservation Survey * Cuba Property Sales *Book: For Your Tomorrow The honorary Selebians. Why Canadian veterans have a special place in the hearts of the citizens of a small British town called Selby. Unnatural selection. A survey shows efforts to save endangered species aren't working -- so it may be time to pick the species we can save, and forget the rest. The good soldier. Author Melanie Murray tells the story of her nephew -- a Canadian Ph.D. candidate-turned-soldier who died in Afghanistan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, November 8, 2011 * Italy Vote - Journalist, Italy Vote - Reaction, For The Record: Occupy Montreal, Obit: Joe Frazier, Economic Update EI, Syria Documentary, Christo Over The River Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday November 7, 2011 * Syria Doc * Occupy Victoria * FTR: Apt. Fire Samaritans * Leela Gilday Wins* Italy Eurozone * Margaret Atwood * FTR: Grande Prairie Student * Lennon Tooth An urban battlefield. The Syrian government continues a violent crackdown on protestors in the city of Homs. Not with a bunga bunga but a whimper. He's stayed in office throughout a series of lurid scandals -- but the economy may finally mark the end of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Time to be otherwise occupied. Victoria City Council issues an eviction notice to protesters occupying Centennial Square. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday November 4 * Mars Trip Ends * Norway Energy Minister * Stop Nickelback Petition * BC First Nations Side Deal * FTR: Neepawa Hockey Player * Chicken Consultation 2011: A Limited-Space Odyssey. After five-hundred-and-twenty days, six astronauts are back from a simulated mission to Mars -- in which they never left the earthbound capsule. Let's make a deal. Tired of drawn-out treaty negotiations, BC Premier Christy Clark starts making non-treaty pacts with the province's First Nations. A Norwegian would. That is, Norway's Energy Minister would say yay to the oilsands, possibly because his country is heavily invested in Alberta. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday November 3, 2011 * FTR: Neepawa Dad * Neepawa Natives Troubles * Libya Journo Jailer * SOD: Soyinka on Fame * Georgia Town Bomb Plot * Oldest Xmas Pudding * FOA: NYC Honking Honku Saving face-off. After a series of hazing incidents, a Manitoba junior hockey team faces an uncertain future. It blew up in their faces. In the U.S., four elderly Georgia men are accused of planning a wave of attacks in the state -- including a bomb plot Back to confront. A Libyan journalist who was arrested during the uprising goes back to get some answers from his captors. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, November 2 * UNESCO Director General * Greece: Euro Gone? * TB/EMAIL: Long Johns * Concussion Collar * Libya Lt-Gen Bouchard * CBC 75th: AIH Archives 2 Membership has its lost privileges. The U.S. withdraws funding after UNESCO approves a Palestinian membership bid -- and the organization's Director-General explains how she hopes to get that funding back. We stayed the course -- but was it the right course? The Canadian commander of NATO's Libya mission declares victory, in spite of criticism. In this case, the slope is slippery because of Greece. And a Greek economist believes it's only a matter of time before the Eurozone slips away ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, November 1 * Occupy: Adbusters * FTR: Egyptian Blogger Protest * Egyptian Blogger Arrested * Long John Index * Crack Sentences * CBC 75th - AIH Archives 1 * FTR: Afghan Vets Sledge Hockey Occupational therapist. The editor of "Adbusters" magazine is credited with fomenting the "Occupy" movement -- and he'll tell us what he hopes will happen next. The end of a double standard. As of today, the U.S. will no longer hand crack offenders vastly longer sentences than cocaine offenders. When he spoke truth to power, power shut him up. An Egyptian blogger is detained after criticizing the army for the deaths of protesters. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, October 31, 2011 * Canadian Imam in Saudi Arabia * Vancouver Riots Charges * Libya: British MP * Hagfish Videotaped * Veracruz Threats * Sterile Mosquito Research * Cosmic Cukes * Perfect Bobbing Apple A pilgrim's rudely interrupted progress. A Canadian imam on his way to Mecca is violently arrested by Saudi religious police -- and a witness tells us what happened. Antagonist: Anonymous. A high-stakes stand-off between one of Mexico's most notorious drug cartels, and a network of hackers. Apparently, the Riot Act takes a long time to read. Vancouver's police chief explains why it took so long to lay charges against those involved in June's riots. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, October 28, 2011 * Cosell Prankster * Jennifer Stoddart - Privacy * FTR: Grande Prairie T-Shirts * Cambodia Students Collapsing * Somalia-Kenya Analysis * Treadmill Reindeer * Beaver Bashing * The Big East The greatest story of "The Greatest" ever told. Thirty-seven years ago, a Canadian man convinced Howard Cosell he was Muhammad Ali -- and tonight, he'll tell the tale. The worst may be yet to come. Kenya faces violent retaliation after sending soldiers into Somalia -- and al-Shabaab threatens that the attacks will escalate. Out of line online. Canada's Privacy Commissioner explains why she's speaking out against proposed legislation that would expand digital surveillance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, October 27, 2011 * Tunisia Election * Edmonton Funding: Mayor * Indiana Crows * Slave Lake Doctors * EU Deal * Bat Fungus * Email: Shatner Music Arab Autumn. A conservative party called Ennahda has won the most votes in Tunisia's election. A party spokesperson tells us what's next. Prognosis: negative. Five of Slave Lake, Alberta's thirteen doctors are leaving town -- and leaving patients concerned about their futures. It's not being given a sporting chance. In Edmonton, a new hockey arena looks like a go -- but now that the federal government has pulled its funding, a planned museum is a stop. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, October 26, 2011 * Kandahar Mayor: Daughter * Missing Women Inquiry * PAN AM Baseball * EU Deal: Rome * Montana Fortune Teller * Charles Foran Departing disillusioned. Rangina Hamidi went to Afghanistan to advocate for women's rights -- but she leaves having lost her father, and her sense of hope. Italian dressing-down. Frustrated EU leaders demand that Italy's government get serious about dealing with its faltering economy. A diamond is forever. And for the Canadian baseball team at the Pan Am Games, one diamond in particular is the site of a historic victory. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, October 25, 2011 * Syria Torture - Amnesty * Turkey Earthquake - Villages * Turkey Earthquake - Reporter * For The Record: Edmonton Arena * Largest Pumpkin Tour * Libya Executions * EU Fuel - Minister * For The Record: Aid Dog * Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, October 24, 2011 * Tunisia Election: Blogger * Lockerbie Father * FTR: Sask Organ Donor * Whiskey Bible Winner * Eurozone Politics * New Orleans Filmmaker * Otter Can't Swim Tunisia's next chapter. First they drove out President Ben Ali -- and now Tunisians have cast their ballots in a historic election. Labour of lost love. Four years after filmmaker Helen Hill was murdered in New Orleans, her husband ushers her last work to completion. Questions left unanswered. The father of a woman killed in the Lockerbie bombing laments the lost opportunity to get the truth from Moammar Gadhafi. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, October 21, 2011 * Tripoli Resident * Lockerbie Families * Tunisia Ex-Pat Vote * Celebrity Hunter Banned * Bollywood Song Prof * Baby Gorillas * Lemony Snicket Permission to speak freely. When we last spoke with Kadija Ali from Libya, we couldn't tell you her name -- but the death of Moammar Gadhafi means she's safe to be herself. The heartless is a lonely hunter. For making videos in which he abuses ducks, a famous American hunter is banned from pursuing prey in Canada. From Thunder Bay to Bombay. Students at a Lakehead University don't know that their chemical-engineering teacher is also a Bollywood songwriter. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, October 20, 2011 * Gadhafi - Libya Sounds, Body Seen, Celebration, Bengahzi Resident, NTC, UN, Interpreter * Maple Leaf Kitchener * Keystone Farmer Death of a dictator. Libyans celebrate the killing of Moammar Gadhafi -- who ruled with an iron fist for more than four decades. The end of one era, the beginning of another. While residents celebrate, the National Transitional Council considers what's next. Cold cuts. Maple Leaf trims its meat-processing operations -- and more than fifteen hundred employees lose their jobs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, October 19, 2011 * Shipbuilding Contract Winner * US Congressman On Oilsands * Montana Indian Activist * Greek Strike * FOA Corwin Obit * Herman Cain Profile And the winners is... After a tense bidding competition between three Canadian cities, the government awards shipbuilding contracts to two of them. Nothing's rolling in the Isles. Furious about austerity measures, Greeks stage a forty-eight hour general strike. A conduit attitude. To convince three American Congressman that the Keystone pipeline is a good idea, Alberta gives them a tour of the oil sands. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, October 18, 2011 * Shalit Father * Prisoner's Relative * Greece Suicide Rise * Wheat Board Farmer * Envoy Tweet * Golfer's Cemetery * Criminal Penguins Foreign exchange. In a historic deal, one Israeli soldier is swapped for more than a thousand Palestinian prisoners. Beating the re-tweet. After a Palestinian envoy to Canada posts a controversial link on Twitter, she is packing her bags. Financially and emotionally overdrawn. With its economy in a downward spiral, Greece's suicide rate rises dramatically. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, October 17, 2011 * Wheldon Family and Indy Car Crash * Gerry Ritz Anti-CWB Farmer and CWB Response * Greece Suicides * SCOC Appointments * Bufflehead Ducks * Prince George Murders * Peanut Butter * Dale Farm Folo * Occupy Signs * The track of their tears. The death of Indy Car driver Dan Wheldon plunges the racing world into mourning -- and raises questions about safety. Four dead women -- one accused. While a Prince George man awaits trial for the killing of a teenage girl, police charge him with three more murders. Bench marks. After six months of deliberation, the federal government announces two new appointees to Canada's Supreme Court. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, October 14, 2011 * Obit: Reg Alcock with Paul Martin * Occupy Artist * UK Sensitive Docs * Irish Bull * Casino Scam * NS TRC Folo * Peanut Butter Dispute * Tutu at Memorial A man among Manitobans. Former Prime Minister Paul Martin pays tribute to his late Liberal colleague Reg Alcock -- who has died at the age of sixty-three. The collapse of a house of cards. A quartet of swindlers tried bilking a casino using invisible ink and special contact lenses -- but French police saw through the scam. Art versus commerce. Canadian Joel Richardson took his stencil works to the Occupy Wall Street protests -- and soon his art will Occupy Toronto. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, October 13, 2011 * Occupy Wall Street * No Gulf Shrimp * Quote Unquote: Fukushima Cafe * FTR: Boobie Bracelets * BC Unisex Washroom * Arrest George Bush * Heroin Trials What preoccupies the occupiers. For more than a month, Occupy Wall Street protesters have made a home in New York's Liberty Plaza -- but now they may face eviction. Siding against The Decider. When former American president George W. Bush comes to Canada, the head of Human Rights Watch wants him arrested. They've hit bottom -- and there's nothing there. Midway through what's supposed to be their busy season, Louisiana shrimpers are hauling in meagre catches. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for October 12th, 2011 *Underpants Bomber Guilty * Shalit Family * TB: Robert Buckman Obit * Old Hockey Stick * For The Record: Nova Scotia Truth and Reconciliation Commission * Postie Challenge * Air Canada: Industry* Dateline: Hussein Bottom Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, October 11, 2011 * Inquiry Protest and Missing Women: Atleo * Air Canada: Prof * Biggest Rutabaga Grower Folo *Remaining Positive * New Zealand Oil Spill * Robert Buckman Obit * EU Refugee Law * Email: Jumping Fish Correction First Nations' second thoughts. National Chief Shawn Atleo explains why the AFN is withdrawing from the inquiry into B.C.'s missing women. The bleakest leak. An oil spill off the coast of New Zealand is already being called the worst maritime disaster in the country's history -- and it's expected to get worse. Counterstrike. The government says it will intervene if Air Canada flight attendants vote to walk off the job -- raising questions about its approach to labour relations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, October 10, 2011 * Egypt Riots * FTR: Porridge Champion * The Greatest Challenge * Shell Silverstein Book Chaos in Cairo. An investigation begins into last night's riot in the Egyptian capital, that left at least two dozens Coptic Christians killed and hundreds more injured. World of difference. In a new book, two Canadian doctors outline their efforts to bridge the health care chasm, between the world's have and have-not nations. Out from under a Shel. Every Thing On It, a collection of never-before-released poems and drawings by the late Shel Silverstein, has been posthumously published by ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, October 7, 2011 * FTR: Don Cherry * NHL Enforcer * FOA: Sirleaf Johnson * 13 Year Old Island Rescue * TB and Email: Eggs * Prostate Test * FTR: Lesbian Beaten * Tunisians Can’t Vote Old school dropout. A former NHL enforcer goes toe-to-toe with Don Cherry's assertion that hockey fights are just part of the game. Arab Spring, meet Canadian fall. Canada's Tunisian community reacts as Ottawa moves to block people from voting in that country's big election. The Women of change. This year's Nobel Peace Prize goes to three prominent female political figures, including Africa's only female head-of-state, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, October 6, 2011 * Steve Wozniak * Steve Jobs Obit * Air Canada Winnipeg Folo * FOA: Double Rainbow Guy * Email: Perfect Egg * Soldier Postcards Artist * FOA: Sadat Assassination * Hottest Curry Folo He was Apple's core. Steve Jobs, Apple' former head and co-founder has died of pancreatic cancer. Dam versus Nation. Members of the Carrier First Nation are forced to move the graves of their ancestors as waters from a nearby dam threaten to flood them. A surgical strike. Aid workers in Libya are concerned that Moammar Gadhafi's forces have taken over a hospital in the city of Sirte and are using it as a military base. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As it Happens for Wednesday, October 5, 2011 * Bahrain Doctors Appeal * Oilsands Meeting * Perfect Boiled Egg * NWT Plane Crash * FTR: AB LG Mental Health * DA: Duchess of Alba * Hungry Muppet * Huntsville Mayor * FTR: Amanda Know Father Re-trial and tribulations. A group doctors found guilty by a military court of aiding the uprising in Bahrain are being re-tried in a civilian court. Or so it seems. Disaster in the north. A fatal plane crash leaves people in the Lutsel K'e community in shock -- it's the second in the North West Territories in two weeks. A word from the pros. Both sides of the Keystone XL pipeline debate ramp up their campaigns before Friday's final hearing in Washington. We'll hear from the yay-sayers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, October 4, 2011 * Greece Debt Part II * Denmark Butter Tax * Iran Bank Fraud * Snoop Dog and Biggest Rutabaga Grower * Federal Environment Report * British Airways *Royal Watcher Found * Amnesty: Syria Intimidation Shock and austerity. Greece is set to cut thirty-thousand public sector jobs and people in Athens are taking to the streets. Lowering the bar. Canada's Environment Commissioner says many oilsands projects are approved despite a shortage of information and a lack of proper environmental monitoring. Fat chance! People in Denmark are having trouble swallowing the country's newly imposed tax on butter and other olacious edibles. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, October 3, 2011 * Nobel Medicine Winner * Air Canada: Mayor Sam Katz * Beethoven First Draft *Amanda Knox Released * TB and Email: Border Fence * Greece Debt * Alison Redford Celebrating his life's work and his life. A Canadian scientist who died last week has been co-awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Medicine. Release and relief. Amanda Knox, the American student convicted of killing her roommate in Italy, has been set free. They're in for a little turbulence. Air Canada says hotels in downtown Winnipeg are unsafe for its staff, but some question the reasons, after the airline cites "rural displaced people" as part of their concern. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, September 30, 2011 * SCOC: Insite Win * CDA Border Fence * FTR: New Coal * Ig Nobels * Mademoiselle Ban * Concordia Report * Ig Nobel: Beetles and Bottles A shot in the arm. A huge victory for supporters of safe-injection sites, as the Supreme Court rules Vancouver's Insite clinic can stay open. Not to be "Missed". French feminists launch a determined effort to see the word "Mademoiselle" -- which denotes an unmarried woman -- stricken from the record. Good fences make good neighbours. Former Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo makes the case for sealing the Canadian border with the U.S. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, September 29, 2011 * Bahrain Doctors Sentence * Information Ministry * Email: Mount Allison * Climate Change Costs * SCR: Red Sox Loss * Saudi Driving Lashes * FTR: NFLD Lottery Winners * Wrestler Rescue First, do no harm. Second, go to prison. While she waits for the police to arrive, I'll speak with a Bahraini doctor who will spend years behind bars for treating wounded protesters. Backlash. After much international pressure, King Abdullah calls off the punishment of a Saudi woman sentenced to ten lashes for driving. Our heating bill is coming due -- and it's a thick envelope. A new report warns Canadians to prepare themselves for sticker shock, if we do nothing about climate change. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, September 28, 2011 * Nebraska Pipeline Opposition * Mt. Allison Folo * Quote Unquote: Micheal Moore Books * Grizzly Tree Climber * BC RCMP Contracts * FTR: Canada Flag Bill * Mexico Teachers Conduit? Shouldn't do it. A Nebraska state senator speaks out against the Keystone XL pipeline. A Mountie dismount. The federal government tells B.C. to sign a contract with the RCMP -- or the RCMP will leave the province. In loving memory of a memorial. A vice-president of Mount Allison University explains why its war memorial will be replaced by a performing arts centre. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, September 27, 2011 * Greece Economy: Prof * Daughter Found * Message in a Bottle * Plummer Award * Death Row Chef * TB and Email: Pipeline * Irish Travellers Folo Spartan parcel. Will a new package of austerity measures save Greece's moribund economy -- or is that just Greek mythology? Food for final thoughts. When special last meals for criminals facing execution are cancelled in Texas, one former Death Row chef offers to make and fund them himself. Girl, interrupted. In 2008, Pearl Da Massa vanished from her daycare in England -- and now the seven-year-old has been reunited with her father. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, September 26, 2011 * Ottawa Protestor * Keystone Spokesperson * Maude Barlow * FTR: Eurozone Trader * Yvonne Fletcher Folo * Saudi Women Vote * FOA: Wangari Maathai Obit * Canadian Mural Saved One person's pipe dream is another's pipe nightmare. The company behind the Keystone pipeline says protesters are "manufacturing fear" -- but protesters say the company is manufacturing a disaster. Allowance of Arabia. There's Hope for female politicians in Saudi Arabia, with King Abdullah's announcement that women will be allowed to vote and run for office. Keeping a posthumous promise. For nearly thirty years, former police officer John Murray has sought justice for a murdered collea ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, September 23, 2011 * Yellowknife Airplane Crash * Yemen: Saleh Returns * Yemen: Canadian Freed * Windsor Shakes Folo * John Newman Exhibit * FOA: Microbes and Mozart * Cambodia Faintings Out of the sky. A restaurant owner in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, tells us what she saw when a float-plane crashed across the street from her. Hello, I must be staying. Yemen's President, Ali Abdullah Saleh returns from exile, and declares a ceasefire. Lost and found. He was detained in Yemen for his political affiliations -- and today, Canadian economist Mohamed al Qahiri tells us what he went through. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, September 22, 2011 * Oxfam Tree Credits Carbon * UN Palestinian Question * FTR: Chinese Murder Case Lawyer * FOA: Obit: Tom Daly * Pipe Organ Rescue * Yemen Analysis * Eritrean Journo This land is our land. The New Forests Company is proud to be the biggest tree planter in Uganda -- but a new report alleges it has forcibly evicted thousands of people in the process. Tug of war. In Yemen, there's a high-stakes power struggle going on -- and protestors are getting caught in the middle. Would-be state of confusion. The Palestinian Authority's application to become a member state at the U.N. creates diplomatic chaos. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, September 21, 2011 * Iran Hikers Freed * Yemen Mass Funeral * Africville Folo: Carol Nixed Fired * DA: Renting Guinea Pigs * Somalia PM *NB Boy Bullied * Save the Poe Museum Hot-footing it out of there. More than two years after they were arrested while hiking in Iran, two American men have been freed. Presiding over catastrophe. The Prime Minister of Somalia makes an appeal for help for his famine-stricken country. Mourning is broken. In the middle of a funeral for protesters killed in Yemen, government forces open fire once again. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, September 20, 2011 * Afghan Peacemaker Killed * Vic Toews * SC/FOA: Falling Satellite * Ozone Monitoring * Peter Kent * MacArthur Award Winner * Lock-Picking Champ A brutal rebuke. Burhanuddin Rabbani, who sought peace with the Taliban on behalf of the Afghan government, is killed by a suicide bomber. Science friction. Hundreds of Environment Canada scientists may lose their jobs, but Environment Minister Peter Kent insists programs won't affected. The long, multiple arms of the law. Justice Minister Vic Toews says the government's wide-ranging omnibus crime bill will be money well spent. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, September 19, 2011 * Strauss-Kahn Analysis * Travellers’ Camp Evicted * Omnibus Crime Bill * Talkback: Ottawa Fashion * Obama Defecit: Buffett Rule * Welsh Poet: Mine Deaths * Yemen Deaths * Erotic Poem Found * A Kahn-didn't-do attitude. He admits to a "moral fault" -- but Dominique Strauss-Kahn denies any sex crime, in his first interview since charges against him were dropped. The head of a victims' support group worries the government's crime bill focuses too much on offenders, and not enough on the offended-against. Richly deserved -- or poorly planned? American President Barack Obama denies his plan to tax the wealthy is "class warfare". They're called "travellers" -- but a group of Irish no ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, September 16, 2011 * Ozone Monitoring * Welsh Miners Trapped * FTR: U of Montreal Blackface * Duane Buck’s Attorney * Ottawa Fashion * Somalia Famine Analysis * Palestinian Explainer * Return Trip Shorter Atmospheric pressure. Deep cuts to Environment Canada may mean there's no one left to monitor holes in our ozone layer. Apocalypse imminent. The famine in Somalia is about to get much worse -- and one expert says we're too late to do anything about it. A town grieves. After a night spent hoping for good news, a Welsh community learns that four miners have died in a flooded tunnel. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, September 15 * Palestinian Statehood * St. Thomas Ford Closure * Wikileaks Journo Targeted * SC: Wade Mainer * TB/EMAL: Man Drowns * FOA: Chris Berthorson * Greenpeace Anniversary * Africfille Hire Uncharted territories. We have the Palestinian Authority on its plans to take its case for statehood to the United Nations. Greenpeace de resistance. Forty years since its inception, one of the original members of the activist organization remembers the early days. End of the line. When Ford shuts down its assembly plant in St. Thomas, Ontario, more than twelve-hundred people lose their jobs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, September 14, 2011 * Duane Buck Sentence * Accident Rescuers * Geothermal Energy Report * HP Sauce Changes * Cluster Bomb Clearance and Conference * Email: Man Drowns * Residence Schools Payments * FOA: Obit: Maxine Tynes Profiles in profiling. A Texas man faces execution -- but critics say his race played an unacceptable role in his being sentenced to death. Looking to expand an anti-ordnance ordinance. In Beirut, officials from around the world gather to seek the elimination of cluster bombs. An uplifting story. In the aftermath of an accident in Utah, strangers gather to heave a burning car off a motorcyclist. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, September 13, 2011 * Kabul Embassy Attack * Regina Man Drowns * TB/Email: Wheat Board Vote * Gypsy Moth Virus * Libya: NTC Dissent * Iraq Bus Attack *SC: Update – Penguin Missing * FOA: Iran Hikers A siege in Kabul. Insurgents stage a lengthy attack on the U.S. Embassy -- casting doubt on the Afghan government's ability to handle its own security. Starting over. The leader of the National Transitional Council outlines his vision for a post-Gadhafi Libya. Rebuffed and bereft. A Regina man asks passersby for help to save his friend's life -- but by the time one woman responds, it's too late. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, September 12, 2011 * FTR: CWB Newser * Canadian Wheat Board Vote * FTR: Returned BC Boy * Nairobi Pipeline Fire * Script: Modem Dial-Up * UK Slavery Case * FOA: Litvinenko Widow * Port Hawkesbury * Email: Street Racing * Wheat nothings. Western farmers vote to maintain the Canadian Wheat Board's monopoly -- but the government dismisses the results as "inconsequential". Forced work force. In England, police discover twenty-four men being held against their will -- and it appears to be a case of modern-day slavery. Inferno in Nairobi. An oil pipeline fire kills dozens and burns more than a hundred people in one of the Kenyan capital's poorest areas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, September 9, 2011 * FOA: Congressman on War * 9/11 Anniversary: McPeak * FTR: Gander Mayor * Book: Decade of Fear *Syria: Security Force Defections * TWRTW: Naked Marijuana Method A measured response. I'll speak with retired American general Merrill McPeak -- who warned against rash military retaliation after September eleventh. The repercussion sections. A feature interview with Michelle Shephard, whose new book on the global effects of nine-eleven took her to hotspots around the world. Call of duty. Rather than fire on unarmed fellow citizens, some Syrian soldiers have opted to defect -- at great personal risk. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BUrns Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, September 8, 2011 * Military Family Suicide * Gage Report * 911 Staircase Survivor * Gibsons Café Contest * 9/11: Ric Burns * 9/11: Daniel Libeskind *Scr: Colombia Biz School * Misrule Britannia. An inquiry into the death of an Iraqi detainee in British custody finds "a very serious breach of discipline". Documentary evidence. A conversation with Ric Burns -- who was midway through making an eight-part doc on New York City when the towers fell. From the Ground Zero up. Architect Daniel Libeskind describes his work as "master planner" of the project being built at the World Trade Center site. And...some folks at a B.C. café / Have decided they don't want to stay ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, September 7, 2011 * Russia Plane Crash * Post 9/11 Sec. Costs * FTR: Maher Arar * Acadia Student Drinking * NATO Halts Detainee Transfers * Eurozone Collapse: Rogoff *Plant Attracts Bird Sudden death. A plane crash outside Moscow kills almost every member of a Russian hockey team -- including its Canadian coach. Handover fists. With a U.N. report about to be released on abuse in Afghan jails, NATO orders a halt to prisoner transfers. Expansive powers, expensive proposition. A Canadian economist tallies up the cost of the security programs instituted since nine-eleven -- and it's an eleven-digit number. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, September 6, 2011 * Clip: 9/11 Mohawk Steelworkers * 9/11 Mohawk Steelworkers * Flamingos Breed * SC: Birth Month Jobs * Texas Fires * Haiti: Boy Abuse * Libya/Anger Convoy Tragedy repeats itself. A twenty-three-year-old woman is shot to death in Hobbema, Alberta -- just two months after her five-year-old nephew was killed in a drive-by shooting. Texas tinderbox. Drought conditions and high winds feed wildfires that have consumed hundreds of homes in the Lone Star State. An iron will. Mohawk ironworker John McGowan was driven to Ground Zero ten years ago -- and now, despite health problems, he's working on a new tower in the same place. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, September 5, 2011 * Libya Rendition * Mexican Tweeters Jailed * Castle Grafitti * Smithsonian Tropical Audio * Irene: Vermont Cleanup * Obama Protestors * Berlusconi Update * Japan Typhoon Partnered with a pariah. Newly discovered documents reveal that the CIA and MI-6 were working with Moammar Gadhafi to send Libyan terror suspects home -- where they faced torture. Beating the re-tweets. Two Mexicans are facing serious prison time, after using Twitter to post false reports of gunmen attacking schools. Hurricane Irene wreaked havoc in Vermont -- and one dairy farmer tells us about the clean-up. The United Apostates of America. Among those arrested for protesting the Keystone ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens For Friday, September 2nd, 2011 * Pikangikum Suicides * *UN Floitlla Report: New York Times * UN Flotilla Report : Expert * Wikileaks Release Critic * Vanuatu Child Swap * Sea Eagle Attacks * Dateline: Libya "Sick Vacation" One crisis -- a hundred ways to help solve it. Ontario's Pikangikum Reserve has one of the highest rates of suicide on Earth -- and the province's Deputy Chief Coroner has dozens of recommendations for what to do about it. Ready, aim, files. First Wikileaks targets The Guardian for irresponsible leaking -- and then goes ahead and leaks everything. The violent treatment begets the silent treatment. When a leaked U.N. report accuses Israel of excessive force in blocking a flotilla from Tur ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, September 1, 2011 * Clip: Wade Belak * Wade Belak Obit * Rendition Flight Profits * FTR: Ned Kelly ID’d * Yvonne Found * Pikangikum Suicides * 9/11 Colouring Book * Wikileaks – Guardian Spat * DA: Another Lost iPhone A tough guy goes down. Remembering former NHL enforcer Wade Belak -- who was found dead yesterday at the age of thirty-five. A cry for help. After a series of suicides, a former chief of the Northern Ontario community of Pikangikum issues an open letter begging for assistance. For services -- and people -- rendered. Two airlines squabble over money owed to them by the U.S. government for extraordinary rendition. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, August 31, 2011 * FTR: Jack Tobin * Jack Tobin Sentence * Amnesty Syria Report * Hurricane Bee Rescue * DA: Worst Grossing Movie * Texas Sonogram Legislation * FTR: South Sudan Currency * Iraq Wasted Spending A sentence with a question mark. The son of a former Newfoundland premier is going to prison for a driving offence -- but some don't believe he's going for long enough. A small picture prompts a look at the big picture. A Texas law that would have forced a woman seeking an abortion to view a sonogram first is struck down. Brutal abuse of power. An Amnesty International report reveals the horrifying torture and death suffered by detainees in Syria. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, August 30, 2011 * HRW: Haiti Women * Vermont Flood: Grafton * BC Mill Rescue * Yvonne the Cow Update * Guatemala STD Commission * Yvonne Fletcher Investigation Forgotten, but not gone. Eighteen months after the earthquake, Haitian women are subject to sexual violence, and abominable health care. Infernal medicine. Disturbing new details about medical research conducted by American doctors in Guatemala in the nineteen-forties -- without the consent of a single subject. Water over the bridge. A Vermont artist tells us about the flooding that's submerged his state -- and done untold damage. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, August 29, 2011 * Libya Doctor * FTR: Lockerbie Folo * Abolish Women’s Records * Hotel Fake Reviews * DA: Prosthetic Leg * Clip: Gov. Christie * Hurricane Irene Folo * Blackfire Mining * McIntosh Apple Tree * SC: Ai Wei Wei The leader and the damage done. Moammar Gadhafi's family have left Libya -- and the scale of his regime's violence and destruction is slowly being revealed. The calm during the storm. Their governor asked them to get out of the path of Hurricane Irene -- but a hundred residents of a New Jersey seniors' complex chose to stay put. Kicks and kickbacks. A Canadian mining company is being investigated for allegedly bribing a Mexican mayor -- whose demands became more and more ridiculous. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, August 26, 2011 * Obama on Irene * Hurricane Irene Prep * HST: Vander Zalm * FTR: Lockerbie Bomber * Clip: Kurosawa Yojimbo * Kurosawa Film Deal * DA: Nasa Robot * Libya Dirty Bomb * Mexico Casino Shooting * Clip: Edinburgh Nick The ire of the storm. An angry Hurricane Irene descends upon the Eastern United States as residents decide whether to flee or hunker down and wait it out An unstable situation. As Libya slips out of Moammar Gadhafi's control, international experts are worried about what's happened to the spent uranium at a nuclear reactor on the outskirts of Tripoli Dis-harmony. It was a close vote but today the results are clear: the people of British Columbia have decided to get rid of the harmonized sa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, August 25th, 2011 * Canadian in Libya * Libya: Rebel Executions * Email: Tripoli Doctor * FTR: Atwood on Libraries * Clip: Jobs Speech * Steve Jobs Steps Down * Clip: Fry on Jobs * War/Climate Change Report * Ikea Founder Nazi Canadian blood on Libyan soil. Nader Benrewin quit his job in Ottawa to join the resistance against Moammar Gadhafi -- he is the first Canadian killed in the uprising. And more Libyan blood too. Reporters in Tripoli discover evidence of summary executions committed by both sides of the conflict. Temperature gauge. A new report suggests that weather disturbances caused by climate change may contribute to the outbreak of war. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happense for Wednesday, August 24, 2011 * Tripoli Nurse * FTR: Tripoli Hotel Journo * FOA: Man in Motion Tour * DSK Goes Home * TB/Email: Favourite Numbers * Layton in State * FTR: Hillsborough Petition * FOA: Hillsborough Disaster * NYPD Intelligen Grace under fire. A nurse tending the wounded at a Tripoli hospital remains defiantly at her post amid fierce fighting in the Libyan capital. Check out time. Dozens of journalists held captive in a Tripoli hotel are set free. His final journey to Ottawa. Jack Layton now lies in state on Parliament Hill where dignitaries and members of the public have gathered to pay their respects. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, August 23, 2011 * Libyan Poet * FTR: Rebel Leader * Paper Mill Closure * FTR: Boy Delivers Brother * Google Street Amazon * Favourite Number Guy * South Sudan Violence * Cowboy Monk * The Revolution will be eulogized. Libyan poet and rebel leader, Idris Tayeb Lamin, is celebrating victory as rebel forces take over Moammar Ghadafi's Tripoli headquarters. New country, old problem. Ethnic violence in South Sudan has left hundreds of people dead -- and the United Nations fears things may only get worse. Paper cut. Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia loses its single-largest employer when the town's paper mill announces it will close indefinitely. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, August 22, 2011 * Jack Layton on AIH * Anne McGrath * Clips: Reynold, Davies, Douglas * David Miller * FTR: Norway MP * Original Reading * Quebec Layton Streeter * Jack Layton Politics * FTR: Resolute Plane Crash * Clip: Tripoli Jack of hearts. Jack Layton's final message to Canadians was to be loving, hopeful and optimistic. That's how those who knew Mr. Layton will remember him. Comrades In Arms. One of those people is former Mayor David Miller, a longtime friend who also fought hard for the people of Toronto. The personal is the political. Jack Layton's death is a blow for the NDP in Quebec, which owes much of its recent success in la belle province to Mr. Layton's personal charm. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, August 19th, 2011 * West Memphsis Three * FOA: Soviet Coup * Palestinain Show Cancelled * The Windsor Shakes * DA: Blackberry Stamp * Everest Quest Family * FOA: Iceberg Helps Drought * The Republican Race Free, but not clear. They've been in prison since 1993 -- but now, thanks to a belated plea deal, the West Memphis Three have been released. They won't assent to the ascent. The family of a man who disappeared climbing Mount Everest in 1924 does not support an expedition to find his body. Birth of the coup. We'll go back in time twenty years to the "August Putsch" -- when a group of Soviet bigwigs set out to oust Mikhail Gorbachev. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, August 18, 2011 * Somalia Former PM * Berlin Car Fires * Skeleton House * Black Death Rats * Capybara Sighting * FTR: Christine O’Donnell * Fringe Artist Bike Theft * Quote/Unquote: Ohio Statehouse Bar From a twenty-four-seven onslaught to a nine-to-five desk job. Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed is back working in the public sector in Buffalo, New York -- after nine months as the Prime Minister of Somalia. The burning question. Residents of Berlin want to know who's behind a sudden surge in arson attacks on cars. Chain of events. At the Edmonton Fringe Festival, an audience member attempts to steal the show -- or part of it -- from an Australian performer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, August 17, 2011 * Grassy Narrows Decision * India Hunger Striker: Lawyer * FTR: NZ Miner Survives * Yvonne The Cow Update * Email: Ukraine Soccer * Cameroon Homosexuality Trial * Bowhead Whale Hunt * FTR: David Cameron * Londo A clear-cut decision. After a ten-year fight, the Grassy Narrows First Nation scores a victory that could mean the protection of its land -- and the end of damaging logging practices there. Out of the closet and into a cell. Two gay men are caught together outside a club in Cameroon -- and now face some serious prison time. A hunger for change. The strange saga of a would-be Indian hunger striker, whose incarceration has triggered widespread demonstrations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, August 16, 2011 * Syria: Palestinian Refugees Flee * Ontario Health Minister: Niagara Hospital * Quote/Unquote: Botox * KYIV Soccer Fracas * DA: Wiener War * SF – FCC Investigation * Syria Sanctions * India Hunger Striker Danger in numbers. Ten thousand Palestinian refugees are on the run, after their camp in the Syrian port of Latakia comes under attack. Refining: his argument. An Ottawa engineer who was tortured in Syria wants Canadian oil and gas companies to quit doing business with the Assad government. Lowering the bars. When San Francisco's transit authority shuts down passengers' cellphone service, the FCC steps in to investigate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, August 15, 2011 * G8 Funds: Charlie Angus * Kelowna Gang Violence * German Anti-Fascist T-Shirts * Obesity Study * Asbestos Widow * Japan Radiation Monitors * Nauru Island Shopping Trip * Kyiv Soccer Fracas * Putin Finds Urns * The NDP claims that the Conservatives operated a G-8 slush fund to keep Parliament from knowing what was being spent where. Death in the afternoon. The bold daytime murder of a gang member in Kelowna, B.C. raises fears of escalating violence. Falling in to test fall-out. Inside a group of Japanese volunteers who have taken it upon themselves to measure radiation. It'll all come out in the wash. A new study shows that obesity may not affect longevity -- and that the body mass index may be ma ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, August 12, 2011 * G-20 Protester Acquitted * FTR: Wrigley Enbridge Oil Spill * Broken Canoe * Roman Centurion Gangs * FTR: Kathleen Petty * France Debt * Arlington No Wave Zone * 98 Year Old Black Belt * A judge clears a G20 protester of all charges relating to his arrest and detainment, and rules it was police who acted aggressively. Sacré blah! France crumples into an uneasy economic malaise, stoking fears that a global recession may be just around the corner. On this, her final day as host of CBC Radio's Ottawa Morning, Kathleen Petty's colleagues and friends bid her farewell, in song. After his canoe is destroyed in transit, Canada's whitewater canoe champion seeks a rapid replacement ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday August 11, 2011 * England Police Officer * MS Study * FOA: Wendy Babcock * SOD: Cannon Lady * No Workplace Kissing * Syria Hama Visit * FOA: Columbia Free Trade * Quote/Unquote: Bert and Ernie * Book Ending Study * Email: Yvonne Making a stand. A police officer, who was outnumbered on the streets of London, reflects on this week's violent riots. Scenes from the Ramadan Massacre. Earlier this month, Syrian forces attacked the residents of Hama, now we're beginning to get a sense of just how bloody it was. She worked for the streets. Wendy Babcock, the Toronto advocate for sex-workers has died at the age of thirty-two. Spoiler alert. A new study finds that knowing how a book ends before you begin to read it doesn't m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, August 10, 2011 * Riot Shop Owner * FTR: Looters and Vigilantes * The Riot’s Root Causes * Lost Tribe Drug Trafficking * Chilliwack Pink Shop * Pressure On Syria * Pickton Inquiry Problems * Stockbroker Banner * Iceland Cham The streets of London are quieter tonight but small business owners have only begun to pick up the pieces. Pushing back at Bashar. The diplomatic pressure on Syria is mounting as the government of Bashar al-Assad continues to kill civilian protesters. The lost tribe. Brazilian government officials worry that a remote community of Amazonian natives may have been slaughtered by Peruvian drug runners. We're not sure what colour they're tickled. But Chilliwack's business association is seeing r ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, August 10, 2011 * Riot Shop Owner * FTR: Looters * FTR: Vigilantes * The Riot’s Root Causes * Lost Tribe Drug Trafficking * Chilliwack Pink Shop * Pressure On Syria * Pickton Inquiry Problems * Stockbroker Banner * Iceland Cha The streets of London are quieter tonight but small business owners have only begun to pick up the pieces. Pushing back at Bashar. The diplomatic pressure on Syria is mounting as the government of Bashar al-Assad continues to kill civilian protesters. The lost tribe. Brazilian government officials worry that a remote community of Amazonian natives may have been slaughtered by Peruvian drug runners. We're not sure what colour they're tickled. But Chilliwack's business association is seeing r ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, August 9, 2011 * London Riots: MP * Ex-Rioter * FTR: Yvonne Jones Steps Down * Courtroom Dog Controversy * FTR: Edra OC * Economic Collapse: Ted Menzies and John Manley * FTR: Black Hawk Pilot * Yvonne The Cow Update * DA: UFC S Anarchy across the UK. As the rioting spreads from city to city, people in England are trying to understand the underlying causes. Kids those days. A former rioter and current youth worker remembers the violence 30 years ago in Liverpool, in light of today's looting. Home Economics: a look at what Canada should be doing to help end the the global financial crisis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, August 8th *Economic Collapse: Europe * Standad And Poor’s * NDP* Sod: Economic Rap * BC Coastal Village Discovered * London Riots – Why? * Zimbabwe Torture * Wong Coat of Arms * FOA: Nixon Resigns Quaking on the continent. Europe tries desperately to stabilize a shaky economy after markets plunge. The violence in England between police and rioters spreads outside the British capital. An investigation by the BBC finds that miners in Zimbabwe's government-run diamond fields are being tortured. The Canadian government approves an official coat of arms for Chinese-Canadians with the last name "Wong." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, August 5, 2011 * Nigeria Oil Pollution * Clip: Guardian Article Reading * Guardian Hacks Phones * Bavarian Cow * Syria Protests * FTR: Kitchen Nuclear Reactor * Bat/Leaf: Symbiosis * Greek Blackshirts * Email: Magic Trip Doc A poisoned legacy. The United Nations finds international oil companies operating in Nigeria are responsible for creating one of the worst environmental catastrophes in the world. A hard line to hold. As the Syrian military continues to kill protesters, residents in the town of Hama remain firm in their stand against the government of Bashar al Assad. The boomerang effect. The British newspaper The Guardian first broke the U.K. phone hacking scandal. Now it appears to have done some hacki ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, August 4, 2011 * Market Drops * SFX: Piers Morgan Show * Phone Hacking: Tom Watson * Ogden Grain Elevator Demo’d * Idaho Bunny Suit * Wigger Lawsuit * Contractor Sues Rumsfeld * Ken Kesey Movie * FOA: Ken Kesey Crash course. Fears of a U.S. market slump and concerns over the European debt crisis send world financial markets into a precipitous plunge. Innappropriate appropriation. An African-American woman sues her former high school after a racially-themed homecoming event called "Wigger Day." He has some Piers-ing questions to answer. British MPs call for former Mirror editor and CNN talk-show host, Piers Morgan, to return to the U.K. and face questions about illegal phone hacking. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, August 3, 2011 * Mubarak Trial * Turmel: View From Quebec * Update: Juarez Prison Riot * Helium Island * TB/Email: Canada Scent * SOD: Slow Clap for Congress * NATO General: Libya * FTR: Nunavut Hiker * Chile Torture Ship * Mi He took it lying down. Despite severe illness, former Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak, is wheeled into a Cairo courtroom on a gurney so he can face charges of corruption and complicity in murder. Soldiering on...and on. The Canadian in charge of NATO's mission in Libya explains why it's taking so long to get rid of Moammar Gadhafi. A laissez-faire attitude. The fact that newly-appointed interim NDP leader, Nycole Turmel, is a former member of the Bloc Québécois got tongues wagging thro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, August 2, 2011 US Debt: Tea Party, HIV Dangerous Offender, Norway: Breivik Classmate, Lithuania Scent, Somalia Famine: Al Shabab Camps, Rescued Canadian Sailor, Sea Turtle Rescue, D.B. Cooper, Artificial Mosquito Plague Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, August 1, 2011 * US Debt Ceiling * Blood Card Test * Edra's Order of Canada * South Carolina Moonshine * Juarez Prison Massacre * Rolls Royce Phantom Auction * El Bulli Closes * Rosa Parks Historian The ceiling may be raised -- but the foundation is crumbling. While the crisis seems to be over, there's concern that the solution to the American debt-ceiling dilemma may make things worse. Uno step forward, dos steps back. In Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, an especially nasty character is arrested -- but that glimmer of hope is eclipsed by other disastrous developments. Trump card. It can help diagnose diseases in a fraction of the time of standard tests -- and the so-called mCard costs less ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, July 29, 2011 * Egypt: Tahrir Square Islamists * Ireland Chruch Abuse Folo * DA: Drunk DARE Trailer * Boris the Pig * SOD: 3 Little Pigs * Libyan Leader Death * Edra Fergusion * SCOC: Tobacco Decision * Mushroom Death Suit Back to the square they won. It was supposed to be a show of unity but today's rally in Cairo's Tahrir Square is taken over by the Muslim Brotherhood. Cutting off its own head. Libyan rebel leaders say the murder of General Abdel-Fattah Younis was committed by rebels themselves. The other side of the Cloyne Report. The Catholic Church wants what's said in the confessional to stay in the confessional, even in the case of child sexual abuse. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, July 28, 2011 * Nycole Turmel * Libya General Killed * FTR: DSK Newser * NZ Earthquake Goldfish * SCR: Bookstores Order Anonymous Book * War Criminals Arrested * FTR: City Hall Cuts * DA: NYC Drill * Arkansas Valedictorian New kid on the east block. The NDP appoints rookie MP, Nycole Turmel as its interim leader while Jack Layton steps down to battle cancer. Served and turfed. Federal authorities arrest a fifth suspected war criminal but the Canadian head of Amnesty International worries justice isn't being done. Ambush on the eastern front. Libya's National Transitional goverment confirms that rebel leader and former Gaddaffi General, Abdul Fatah Younis, has been killed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, July 27, 2011 * Norway Police * Archeopteryx * DFO Scientist * SC: Grand Prix Winner * Ecuador Libel Money * Star Wars Designer Wins * Email: Correction Blake vs. Milton * FTR: Winnipeg Flood Camp *FOA: Utah Land Buyer Update A singular force of evil. Norwegian Police declare that Anders Behring Breivik acted alone in last week's twin attacks. What's black and white and in the red? An Ecuadorian newspaper that's been ordered to pay forty-million dollars for publishing an anti-government op-ed. Hook, line and sink her findings. Before a Department of Fisheries scientist gets a chance to speak publicly about her research, Ottawa officials reel her in. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, July 26, 2011 * US Debt Crisis * Kalamazoo Spill Anniversary * Grandmother Border Story * SC: Bulwer-Lytton Winners * Norway Attacks: Muslims * DA: Waking up in the Morge *NYC Revenge Story * Rogers Cup Poem Neither side is eager to budge it. A Republican congressman tells us about the U.S. debt crisis and the deadlock in Washington. Exaggerated tensions. Despite the horror of last week's attacks, the Islamic council of Norway finds little evidence of religious or ethnic friction. It runs through a river. A year ago, three million litres of oil spilled into Michigan's Kalamazoo River. Residents are still dealing with the mess. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, July 25, 2011 * FTR: Jack Layton * Jack Layton: Brian Topp * Norway: Philosopher * Norway: Journo * NY Post Headline Writer * Somalia Famine: Children * 1940 Plane Found * Diana Nyad Swims Time out. NDP leader Jack Layton announces he's taking a temporary leave from political life after being diagnosed a second time with cancer. Suffer the little children. Aid agencies struggle to get food into Somalia as children die before they're able to reach refugee camps. Online insight. We speak with a Norwegian academic who argued on a website with Anders Behring Breivik before last week's bombing and gun attacks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, July 22, 2011 * Norway Explosions Witness and Wrap * Fire Evacuees * SCR: Correction * Obit: Elwy Yost * N. Ireland Sham Wedding * Lord Monckton * Missouri Jail Rooms * FOA: Obit Lucian Freud * WOD: Haboob * Terror in Norway. In what appear to be linked attacks, a deadly blast tears through downtown Oslo while a gunman goes on a homicidal shooting spree at a youth camp. They vow it will never happen again. Police in Northern Ireland arrest a bride and groom after receiving an erroneous tip the wedding was a sham. Taking the heat. Some residents of the Cat Lake First Nation are staying put to maintain their community's water and sewage systems, despite being surrounded by raging forest fires. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, July 21, 2011 * FTR: Fire Evacuees * Northern Ontario Fires * Clip: Rais Bhuiyan * Mark Stroman Execution * Rudolph Hess Exhumed * Script: Lions and Full Moon * Somalia Famine – MSF * Medieval Armour Study * Texas Adverse Pos Fire flight. The Canadian military helps evacuate residents of Northern Ontario as forest fires continue to ravage the region. Their healing hands are tied. Doctors with Médécins-sans-Frontières are hampered in their efforts to treat victims of the famine in Somalia. Compassion for a killer. Mark Stroman is executed for going on a shooting spree after the 9/11 attacks. We speak with one of his victims, who campaigned to save his life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, July 20, 2011 * Somalia: Al Shabab * Hadzic Arrest * Great White Shark on Boat * Obit: Ketzel The Composer Cat * Allende Suicide Report * Saline Tampering * NFLD Iceberg * FTR: McLuhan Anniversary The politics of starvation. The United Nations declares a famine in Somalia - and contends with the difficulty of getting aid into a country in the midst of a civil war. By his own hand. A new autopsy report confirms that Chilean President, Salvador Allende, killed himself during the country's 1973 coup. Serbia's most wanted. Police arrest Goran Hadzic, the last suspect sought by the Hague for crimes against humanity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, July 19, 2011 * FTR: Murdoch Testifies * News of the World: Murdoch Testifies * Russian Med School Corruption * Baby Coming! Ticket! * DA: UFO Sightings * FTR: Mary Robinson in Somalia * Quote Unquote: Pigeon Rides Ferry * A cross examination. Rupert Murdoch testifies before a U.K. Parliamentary committee that he knew nothing about the phone-hacking scandal. Famine in Somalia. Former Irish President, Mary Robinson, is on an aid mission in the Horn of Africa as the U.N. prepares to declare a famine. In a class of their own. Medical students in Russia are paying their professors for passing grades, putting their body of knowledge of bodies in doubt. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, July 19, 2011 * FTR: Murdoch Testifies * News of the World: Murdoch Testifies * Russian Med School Corruption * Baby Coming! Ticket! * DA: UFO Sightings * FTR: Mary Robinson in Somalia * Quote Unquote: Pigeon Rides Ferry * Cambr A cross examination. Rupert Murdoch testifies before a U.K. Parliamentary committee that he knew nothing about the phone-hacking scandal. Famine in Somalia. Former Irish President, Mary Robinson, is on an aid mission in the Horn of Africa as the U.N. prepares to declare a famine. In a class of their own. Medical students in Russia are paying their professors for passing grades, putting their body of knowledge of bodies in doubt. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, July 18, 2011 * Russian Lawyer Report * NOTW: Alistair Campbell * Ottawa Stage Collapse * FOA: Zahi Hawass * FTR: Romeo Tybalt Murder Trial * Somalia Drought: UN * North Carolina Town No Mayor * Winnipeg Pool Payout * SC: Taiwane "Deliberate neglect and torture." An independent medical report implicates Moscow prison authorities in the death of a Russian lawyer who accused the police of corruption. A state of crisis. The United Nations struggles to get aid flowing into drought-stricken Somalia to slow the deluge of refugees from spilling over into Kenya. Cop outs. The heads of Scotland Yard and the London Metropolitan Police Service have resigned in the wake of the U.K. phone-hacking scandal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, July 15, 2011 * FTR: Obama on Debt * US Debt Debacle * FTR: Rebekah Brooks Resignation * Kenya Empty Camp Folo * TB: Oak Park Gardener * World Cup Elephant * Tape: POW Memories * Manitoba POW Camp * Spain Flash Mobs * Dutch Bugs Tea and lack of sympathy. President Obama seeks a deal with Republicans on raising the debt ceiling -- but Tea Party activists refuse to compromise. Notes on camp, Part One: the Kenyan government finally opens a brand-new camp that was standing empty, to take in Somali refugees. Notes on camp, Part Two: an American archaeologist digs into the history of a Second World War P.O.W. camp in Manitoba -- where German inmates had a surprisingly good time. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, July 14, 2011 * Irish Catholic Church Report * News of The World – David Leigh * FOA: Guergis Conflict Report * FTR: Carmageddon PSA * Ginger Chan * Mumbai Bombing Folo * BC Fish Pedicures * Tape: Frackasaurus Comic * Sparrow A mortal sin. In Ireland, a new report finds one diocese failed to tell police about allegations of abuse. Putting their minds at unease. After yesterday's deadly bombings, the shaken citizens of Mumbai return to work. Murdoch, they wrote. British parliamentarians issue a summons to the embattled media mogul -- and he reluctantly accepts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, July 13, 2011 * Kenya Empty Camp * NS Family Reunion * FTR: Murdoch Drops Bid * Foot Odour Mosquitoes * FTR: SASK Dad Sentencing * Gardener Faces Jail * FTR: Michele Bachmann * India Sex Changes Their camp runneth over. In Kenya, aid workers urge authorities to send Somali refugees to a brand-new, unused camp, rather than the one that's strained past capacity. What a long, estranged trip it's been. A Nova Scotia man celebrates his hundredth birthday -- and a reunion with a son he hasn't seen in thirty years. Sins of the father. A Saskatchewan man is sentenced for killing his daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend -- a crime he freely admitted to. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, July 12, 2011 * Karzai Tape * Karzai Brother Killed * Hobbema Death * FTR: Shawn Atleo * Little Bay NFLD * FTR: NOTW – John Yates * FTR: NOTW – Andy Harman * Israel Boycott Law * Valkryie Skipper * Michelangelo Painting Foun Brotherly hate. Ahmed Wali Karzai -- the sibling of Afghanistan's President, and the man who ran Kandahar -- is shot dead in his home. Hoping to keep themselves at Bay. Residents of Little Bay Islands, Newfoundland, face relocation when the community's only industry pulls up stakes. A town called malice. A closer look at Hobbema, Alberta -- where the latest victim of violence is a five-year-old boy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, July 11, 2011 * Afghan Translator Gets Visa * Russian Boat Sinks * US Debt Negotiations * US Cuts Aid to Pakistan * Sexy Worms * Obit: Facundo Cabral Murdered A matter of interpretation. After more than a year of increasingly anxious waiting, an Afghan translator finally gets his Canadian visa. A fate worse than debt. Amid domestic political tension over the so-called debt ceiling, the United States faces another economic crisis. Shooting the messenger. Argentinian protest singer Facundo Cabral lived as an ambassador of peace -- but died in a hail of bullets. And...if I told you you had a segmented body, would you hold it against me? A new stu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, July 8, 2011 * CLIP: Sudan Split * Sudan Split * Mobile Homelessness * Spider Nose Feet * FOA: Nasa Ham Radio * Stem Cell Transplant * Chimp Language Recognition * Sydney Crosby Artist *DA: Free Car Sterilization It's not all Juba-lation. The Nuba people helped fight for South Sudanese independence but now find themselves on the wrong side of the new country's border. Creating a win-Winnebago situation. In Oregon, business owners offer their parking lots to the mobile-homeless in exchange for security duty. He might be the only one who's not speechless. A man in Sweden receives the world's the first synthetic organ transplant -- specifically, a new windpipe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, July 7, 2011 * CLIP: NOTW Reaction * News Of The World Shuts Down * Andy Coulson Arrest * Clip: Reporter on AIH * BC College of Teachers Folo * Poet Phone Reading * Clip: Anthem SFX * Clip: Translator on AIH * Afghan Translator Paper cut. The News of the World will perminently stop its presses in the wake of its phone-hacking scandal. Caught in the press. Andy Coulson, a former editor at the paper and the British Prime Minister's communications head is called in by the police. Brothers in Arms. As Canada pulls out of its combat mission in Afghanistan, one soldier is urging the Canadian government to fast-track visas for Afghan translators left behind. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, July 6, 2011 * Afghan Translator * Jason Kenney * SOD: Wikileaks Spoof * FTR: Phone Hacking Victim * Phone Hacking Inquiry * Syria Amnest Report * Obit: Gordon Tootoosis * Dateline: Uganda Bomb School Bell * Lost Dog Lost in Translation: former Afghan translators for the Canadian Military are facing death threats while they wait to come to Canada. Putting the "muck" in muckraking. New allegations against the U.K. tabloid, News of the World suggest it hacked the phones of victims of the 2005 London bombing attack. Saved, despite the bell. A school in Uganda was unwittingly calling its students in from recess by banging away on a live bomb. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, July 5, 2011 * Saleem Shahzad New Docs * Climate Change Plateau Study * BC College of Teachers Complaints * Pipeline Safety Folo * FTR: Const. Styles Funeral * Iceland Cigarette Ban * FOA: Obit: Last of Habsburgs * FTR: Orange L "Barbaric and unacceptable." That's the charge from the Obama administration against Pakistan after evidence surfaces that Pakistani officials ordered the death of journalist Saleem Shahzad. A look at what's coming down the pipe. The oil leak in the Yellowstone River is just one of several recent spills, raising the question: just how reliable are North America's pipelines? Change is in the air. A new study shows a surge in Chinese coal-power first helped cool the atmosphere but may soon ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, July 4, 2011 * Yellowstone Spill: Governor * Yellowstone River Spill * Niagara C. Difficile Outbreak * Script: Dr. Robert: Whining * DA: Robotic Armpits * Thai Election * FOA: Lydia Cacho Threatened * Last Company Town * Rickshaw A river runs through it. Unfortunately that river is full of Exxon oil. Montana's Governor and a local farmer on the state of the now-contaminated Yellowstone River. The streets run red -- with victory. Backed by Thailand's Red Shirt movement, the country elects its first-ever female leader -- the sister of exiled premier, Thaksin Shinawatra. Outbreak and outrage. Three hospitals in Ontario's Niagara region have declared an outbreak of the deadly bacterium, C. difficile. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, July 1, 2011 * DSK Case Falters * Nortel Patent Sale * Manzur Colleague * FTR: Canada Day in Kandahar * Premature Aging Study * Fly Fisherman Feathers * Script: Man Impersonates Police A crack in the case. New revelations by the woman who accused Dominique Strauss Kahn of sexual assault have cast the whole prosecution in doubt. Something useful for the youthless. A rare disease called progeria causes rapid aging in children -- and now, there may be hope for treatment. Copper wiring. To get into a concert by his favourite band, a British man impersonates a police officer -- and finds he has a surprising aptitude for serving and protecting. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, June 30, 2011 * Washington No Tourism * Hayley Wickenheiser Order of Canada * Really Loud Singing Penis * Obit: Weedeater Inventor * Script: German Vulture * US Costs of War * NYC Piano Missing * FTR: Maternal Health * Tape: Ca From now on, the only ad you'll see for Washington will be in an atlas. Facing budget problems, the western state shuts down its tourism agency. Fortunes of war. Some careful number-crunching reveals that the cost of America's involvement in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan is more exorbitant than the President says. O captain, our captain. Hockey legend Hayley Wickenheiser adds an Order of Canada to her groaning trophy case. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, June 29, 2011 * Post 9/11 Muslim Attack * Cumberland House Food Update * Bay of Funday 7 Wonders * Toe Wrestler Winner * Kabul Hotel Attack * BC Right to Die * Rinderpest Eradicated * Seeking resolution through absolution. Rais Bhuiyan was shot in the face for being Muslim after nine-eleven -- and now he's fighting to save the life of the man who shot him. An explosive show of defiance. Taliban suicide attackers kill nine at a Kabul hotel, sending the message that they're still a force to be reckoned with. Mission: impassable. When the only road into Cumberland House, Saskatchewan, is flooded, the community is effectively cut off from the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, June 28, 2011 * Greece Economy * Bell Fined * FTR: Hockey Marry Me Sign * Ice Cream Truck Town * FTR: Double Yolk Egg * Sask. Loggerhead Shrike * Refugees in Afghan. Report * Androgel Bad * Greece lightning. Prime Minister George Papandreou's proposed austerity measures unleash a storm of protest in the streets of Athens. Seek and ye shall fine. The federal Competition Bureau penalizes Bell for charging higher prices than advertised. Left to their own device-less-ness. As American and Canadian troops pull out of Afghanistan, the number of homeless Afghans is on the rise. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, June 27, 2011 * Toronto Police Officer Recognized * Gadhafi Charges * Wild Turkey’s Attack * FOA: Obit: Sidney Radner * Southern Sudan * North Carolina Eugenics * Email: G20 Bill Blair * Climate Change Stinks Beyond the call of duty. A Toronto police officer is honoured with an award, after she fought for justice for a woman who was raped in Texas. Retribution from the top. In the state of South Kordofan, the Sudanese government launches vicious attacks on ethnic populations. Indictments and excitement. Rebel groups in Libya celebrate when the International Criminal Court charges Moammar Gadhafi with crimes against humanity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, June 24, 2011 * G20 Bill Blair * Chief of Defence Staff * Script: Camel’s Nose * New Fungus Discovered * Georgia Anti-Immigration Law * Rwanda Genocide * Women Recognize Mates Study * Email: Layton Asbestos The changing of the guard. General Walt Natynczyk reflects on the end of the mission in Afghanistan -- and the evolution of the Canadian military. The peaches of wrath. Georgia's new immigration law hasn't even taken effect yet -- but the state's farmers are already furious about it. The cop calling the kettling back. Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair responds to a new report that's critical of security at the city's G-20 Summit. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, June 23, 2011 * Minot and Floods * CLIP: Goal Call * Canada Soccer Goal * Cornwallis Name Change * Quote Unquote: Camel's Nose * Afghanistan Special A river runs through it -- and then over it. Flooding forces ten thousand residents of Minot, North Dakota, from their homes. She couldn't believe her ice. How a California woman went for a run, plunged through a thawing ice bridge -- and survived. The tie that binds. Canada's under-seventeen soccer team plays to a draw against England -- and makes history in the process. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, June 22, 2011 * Detainee Doc: Jack Harris * Book Burning Folo * Saskatchewan Flooding Farmer * Script: California New School Empty * FOA: Bahrain Hunger Strike * Bahrain Man Life Sentence * One Dollar Robbery * Gladiator Hates Transferring blame. A report says Canadian soldiers did nothing wrong in handing over Taliban detainees to Afghan prisons that allegedly used torture. But the opposition wants to know more. Sentenced to life for living with conviction. In Bahrain, eight Shi'a activists receive life sentences for championing human rights and democracy. A little alight reading. A member of the Dutch group that staged a burning of the cover of "The Book of Negroes" explains what got him all fired up. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, June 21st * Galbraith on Afghanistan * Tunisia Trial Criticism * Lawrence Hill Book Burning * FTR: Hit By Lightning * Wal-Mart Class Action Lawyer * TB:Portland Reservoir * Psychology Study: What We See * SC: Palin Trademark Leaving a mess. Peter Galbraith -- a former senior U.N. official in Afghanistan -- says Canadian officials are misrepresenting the chaos in Kandahar. Thinking inside the big-box. The United States Supreme Court throws out a sex-discrimination lawsuit filed by more than one-and-a-half million female Walmart employees. Haste makes case. In a single day, a Tunisian court tries, convicts, and sentences its former leader in absentia -- but not everyone thinks the speed trial was wise. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, June 20 *Libya-NATO Strike: John Burns * Kandahar Withdrawl * Craigslist For Stolen Credit Cards * FTR/SC Portland Reservoir * Shipwreck Survivor * Quote/Unquote: Arizona Fires * Syria: Assad Speech * FTR: Sask Flooding With deadly inaccuracy. In Libya, NATO airstrikes kill twenty civilians -- and do serious damage to an already-beleaguered war effort. Between some rocks and a wet place. A Newfoundland man tells Carol what happened after his boat's engine died in treacherous waters. The state of the state. As Canadian troops prepare to leave, Canada's senior general in Afghanistan describes the situation in Kandahar. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, June 17, 2011 * Flooding In China * Phil Campbell: Pastor * Japan Cleanup By Crime * CLIP: Isner Mahut Match Final * FOA: Longest Wimbledon Match * Whistleblower Book When it rains, it pours. First it was drought -- and now extreme rainfall is threatening to make China's crop failures even worse. A syndicated effort. The Japanese Yakuza -- or mafia -- are getting government contracts to clean up areas devastated by the tsunami. The time has come to get their Phil. And Phil, and Phil... The town of Phil Campbell, Alabama hosts its international reunion for people named... Phil Campbell. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, June 16, 2011 * Vancouver Police Riot * Robert Fisk on Bahrain * Talkback: Manitoba Soldier Sues * Cicada Ice Cream * Bill Graber * Al Qaeda Profile * SOD: Dreyfuss User Agreement * Disappointment and rage at the loss of the Stanley Cup runneth over into the streets of Vancouver. Frailty, thy name is man pretending to be woman. Carol gets some answers from Bill Graber -- who posed as a lesbian named "Paula Brooks". For a repressive regime, it's pretty sensitive. Bahrain takes time out from a brutal crackdown on protesters to sue British journalist Robert Fisk for defamation. A profile of Al Qaeda’s Ayman al-Zawahiri. And...come into my parlour, said the ice-cream ve ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, June 15, 2011 * Elrick Tape * Manitoba Soldier Sues * Manitoba Wheat Flooded * Rare Ptarmigan Spotted * FTR: Montreal Driver * Montreal Terrible Driver * SCR: Ashley Smith Award * FTR: Abdel Razik * Contempt on FB So much for esprit de corps. Corporal Ryan Elrick lost his legs in Afghanistan, and then his job with the Canadian Forces -- and now, he's suing. They can't cross that bridge when they come to it. Montrealers awaken to find that their notoriously awful traffic is about to get awfuller. Grain check. While the price of wheat skyrockets, Manitoba farmers can only stare helplessly at their flooded land. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, June 14, 2011 * Libya Mission: Dewar * Bahrain Doctor * Lez Get Real Fake * Email: Wildcat Café * Iraq Missing Cash Café * Kenya Refugee Camp * FOA: Brian the Snail Mission creep. The government is set to extend Canada's involvement in Libya -- but exactly what that involvement will involve is unclear. Not just a quagmire -- a money pit. The story of how six-point-six billion American dollars disappeared in Iraq. Adding indictment to injury. First they treated wounded civilians, then they were tortured -- and now Bahraini doctors are on trial for treason. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, June 13, 2011 * FTR: Syrian Blogger Hoax * Syrian Blogger Hoax * Young Pequistes * FTR: Obit Brian Lenihan * The Wildcat Rebuilds * Japan Camp Update * Chauncey Bailey Project * Email: New Elements Names * WWI Tunnel Excavation He said she said. The woman behind a much-visited blog called "Gay Girl in Damascus" turns out not to be a woman at all. A struggle to stop struggling. In Japan, evacuation centres are still full of displaced people -- and one aid worker tells us about evacuees' attempts to find stability. Minding their P and Q. A dozen young members of the Parti Quebecois ask the old guard to step aside. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, June 10, 2011 * G20 Charges: Dorian Barton * G20 Charges: Lawyer * CUSO 50th Reunion * FTR: Plane Ashes * Colin Firth Brain Study * FTR: Colin Firth * Syria Border * NYC Bike Lanes An officer and ungentle man. Almost a year after an assault at the G-20, a Toronto constable is charged. Go, Firth, and multiply. Colin Firth's accomplishments continue to pile up: this time, he's the co-author of a scientific study. Blood, sweat and volunteers. On the fiftieth anniversary of CUSO, a Nigerian diplomat tells us how the organization changed his life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, June 9 * AG G20 Spending * Calif. Prisons State * Toad Fish * Clip: Iqaluit Victims * Iqaluit Murder Suicide * Syria Leaders Profile * Obit: Clara Luper How they spent on their summit vacation. An Auditor-General's report finds that, when it came to G8 and G20 spending, the government did a lousy job of following its own policies. Grief and disbelief. Residents of Iqaluit are in shock and mourning after a man apparently kills his daughters, his wife, and himself. Getting inmates out. California has a serious problem with overcrowded prisons -- and now it's issued a plan to make some room. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, June 8, 2011 * Quebec Med Residents Ruling * NWT Oil Spill Worse * FTR: Enbridge Oil Spill * Dateline: Sea Lion Hazing * Old Fingerpints * Book Interview: For Your Tomorrow A wake-up call. In Quebec, an arbitrator rules that twenty-four-hour hospital shifts violate the Charter rights of medical residents. The big seep. Enbridge admits it underestimated the size of an oil spill in the Northwest Territories -- by as much as fifteen hundred barrels. The good soldier. A feature interview with Melanie Murray -- whose new book, For Your Tomorrow, tells the story of one extraordinary Canadian who died in Afghanistan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, June 7, 2011 * FTR and Another PQ MNA Quits * FTR: Marquardt Wrongful Conviction * Syria Town Braces * Weiner’s Fate * FOA: Shrek Obit * Conan Doyle’s First Novel * Dateline: France Journo No Tweeting * SOD: Theatre Voice Ma Separation anxiety. A fourth member of the Parti Quebecois defects -- saying leader Pauline Marois can't win independence for Quebec. Well, we knew he leaned left politically. But now that scandalous photos have revealed a lot more about Congressman Anthony Weiner, his future in politics is in doubt. Something to write Holmes about. Nearly a hundred-and-thirty years after it was written, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's unpublished first novel is about to make it to bookstores. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, June 6, 2011 * Syria: More Violence * PQ MNAs Quit * TB/Email: Saggy Pants * Utah Costume Dad * Golan Heights: Israel * SC: Madoff Auction * Yemen: President Away * Blowing back the winds of change. Syrian forces kill at least forty protesters -- and show once again that the government refuses to yield to demonstrations. The Heights of tension. Israel defends the shooting of pro-Palestinian demonstrators in the Golan Heights. The path of Pequiste resistance. Three high-profile members of the Parti Quebecois say "Au revoir" to the party -- and blame its leader. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, June 3, 2011 * FOA: Jack Kevorkian * Obit: Jack Kevorkian * Iran Hikers: Shourd * FTR: Bahrain Decision * Saggy Pants Ban * John Edwards Indictment * FOA: Obit Sisulu * Bridgetown Resignations * Bridgetown Minister In the midst of life, he was in death. Dr. Jack Kevorkian, who fought to give the terminally ill the right to assisted suicide, dies at eighty-three. A golden boy corrodes. Former presidential candidate John Edwards is indicted for using campaign money to cover up an affair. Still strangers in a strange land. Sarah Shourd was freed from Iran's Evin Prison last year -- and now she's speaking out on behalf of her friend and her fiancé who are still there. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, June 2, 2011 * FTR: Saskatchewan Fire Evacuations * Sask Fire Evacuations * Tape: Sask Flooding 1st Anniversary * Syria Boy Folo * Herpes Stick Horses * Devil Worms * The Old Leatherman * Canadian Tango Dancer They've left, and he's left. With a forest fire threatening his Saskatchewan town, the manager of the general store is one of the only people who hasn't been airlifted out. Grief and disbelief. While Syrians mourn, the father and uncle of a murdered 13-year appear on state TV to praise the country's president. He wore hide in plain sight. A researcher tries to get the dirt on a nineteenth-century nomad called "The Old Leatherman" -- by exhuming his grave. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, June 1, 2011 * Spain E. Coli Effects * Syrian Boy Tortured Video * Haida Gwaii Hospital * Lake Winnipeg Algae Report * Holocaust Report * Cell Phone Threats Reaping what they didn't sow. It turns out Spanish farmers weren't responsible for an outbreak of E. coli -- but the initial accusation has done its damage. To cut algae in Lake Winnipeg, the province wants to cut phosphorus use in half. The body of a 13 year old Syrian boy is returned to his parents -- and a video shows he was beaten and tortured. The W.H.O. says mobile phones are "possibly carcinogenic" -- but don't revert to semaphore just yet. And … a new alarm clock adds terror to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, May 31, 2011 * Winnipeg Jets Back * Afghanistan Is No Threat * Pakistan Journo Killed * Senate Reform: Liberal * Michigan School Superintendent * FOA: Deep Throat Anniversary After fifteen years, Winnipeg is giddy at the official return of a professional NHL team. A Liberal senator provides her two cents on the government's plans to renovate the Red Chamber. Mission accomplished? During a visit to Kandahar, Prime Minister Harper announces that Afghanistan no longer poses a threat to the world. Facing serious budget cuts, a Michigan education official suggests his school be turned into a prison. And...a thoroughly unfair thoroughfare. A British street that allows ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, May 30, 2011 * German Nuke Shutdown * Nigerian Couple Folo * Code Breaker Machine * Ontario Nanny Complaints * Fifa Scandal Folo * FOA: Sheila Fraser * Talkback: Cicadas Germany says "Auf wiedersehen" to nuclear power -- which it plans to eliminate within a mere eleven years. After two years of immigration goof-ups, a Nigerian man living in Canada may soon be reunited with his spouse. FIFA is rocked by a series of corruption scandals -- but its recently exonerated president remains defiant. Talkback buzzes on cicadas. And, a team of British scientists rebuilds a legendary Second World War code-breaking machine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, May 27, 2011 * Tunisia at G8 * Slave Lake Returnee * Peru: Canadian Mine Protest * NDP Tamil MP * Italian Earthquake Trial * Urban Outfitter Necklace Largesse from the largest economies. Tunisia and Egypt walk away from the G8 summit with thirty billion dollars in aid pledges. Love and smouldering remains. Some Slave Lake residents begin to return home, while others have no home to return to. Mining controversy. A Canadian company's project on the Peru/Bolivia border causes large protests. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, May 26, 2011 * FOA: Srebrenica * Mladic Arrest * G20: Clayton Ruby * Caribou UV Vision * Football Sectarian Law * TB/Email: Teachers/Libraries * Yemen: Saleh * DA: Tajikistan A fugitive no longer. Ratko Mladic, the Serbian general behind the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica, is taken into custody. Take three? The Toronto Police Service's Special Investigations Unit decides to re-examine the case of Dorian Barton -- after closing it twice before without charges. Please step down, before you're sent down the steps. Following violent clashes in the streets, Yemen's dictator faces increased pressure to quit. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, May 25, 2011 * Sudan Town Fighting * Clip: SIU on AIH * G20: Evidence * FTR: Liberal Interim Leader * Dateline: Denmark Bans Marmite * Dr. Who Clothing * California Teacher Librarians * FTR: Alan Bennett * UK Lawn Bowling Read An uncivil act after a civil war. Residents of a town in Southern Sudan flee after it's attacked from the north - just weeks before the south is to become an independent country. A Rae of hope. The Federal Liberals offer a former New Democrat the reigns of their struggling party. If you're a time-traveler, how do you know whether your clothes are in fashion? Scots are outraged that replicas of Doctor Who's tweed jacket are to be made in Newfoundland. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, May 24, 2011 * Clip: Police on Metro Morning * G20: Photographer * Saudi Woman Driving * Good Samaritan Jumps * SOD: Contraband Jasmine * FTR: Super Injunctions * UK Super Injunctions * India Gender Selection * Richelieu Quebec He took the photos. He says he's got the evidence. Now a Toronto photographer can't understand why no charges were laid against the Toronto police. Flouting, and filming. A pair of women in Saudi Arabia protest their country's ban of female drivers -- by getting behind the wheel with a camera. Let a hundred flowers blossom - as long as jasmine isn't one of them. The Chinese government brands its national flower contraband -- after it becomes a symbol for revolution in Tunisia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, May 23, 2011 * Joplin Missouri Tornado * FTR: It’s Ok To Be Takei * George Takei * Election Study * Nick Cullather Book * Twisting the story around. A veteran tornado reporter recounts his own experience hiding from the deadly storm in Joplin, Missouri. War, and peas. A new book takes on the politics of food aid -- and the way that aid fuels global conflict. Poll fault. A professor examines the results of this month's federal election -- and the incorrect media analysis that preceded it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, May 20, 2011 * FTR: Thrashers To Winnipeg * Thrashers To Winnipeg * TB/Email: G20 SIU Reaction * G20 Toronto Police * Dateline: Venezuela License Suspects * KG Equals KG * Bionic Hand * Gossip Study * Obama Speech: Bahrain Leaving on a Jets plane. Winnipeg hockey fans go berserk at the news that the Atlanta Thrashers may be on their way to the Manitoba capital. Bahrain damage. President Obama's Middle East speech disheartens Bahrainis -- who think it's past time their plight got some American attention. To serve and protest. The Toronto Police say they cooperated fully with an investigation into the identity of an officer who allegedly assaulted a bystander at the G-20 Summit. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, May 19, 2011 * TB/Email: G20 No Charges * G20 Photo Folo: SIU * SK: France Reaction * Scab at Museum * W. Virginia Mine Blast Report * Christmas Island Inquest * SCOC: Religion and Ethics * BC Paternity Decision Identity crisis. We still don't know the name of the officer who may have assaulted a bystander at the G-20 Summit -- but apparently the Toronto Police and the Ontario SIU do. Making the parents apparent. A B.C. court strikes down a provincial law protecting the anonymity of sperm donors. The French disconnection. The former head of the IMF is indicted on sex charges -- and much of France feels he's the one who's been wronged. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday May 18, 2011 * G20: Dorian Barton * G20: SIU * G20: Lawyer * Elaine’s Closes * FTR: Doreen Lawrence * Stephen Lawrence Retrial * FTR: Slave Lake Fire * TB: Slave Lake Fire * Electric Car Sounds A picture is worth a thousand words -- and zero charges. Ontario's police watchdog says it can't identify the officer in a photo of a violent G-20 takedown -- so it's closing the case. Retrial and tribulations. Eighteen years after the racially motivated murder of a British teenager, a new trial is set to begin -- and one of the suspects has stood trial for the crime before. The place to be becomes the place to have been. A.E. Hotchner waxes eloquent about Elaine's -- the New York restaur ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, May 17, 2011 * Slave Lake Fire Folo * Jack Layton * London Marathon Snail * SC: Exploding Watermelons * Koch Pay For Profs * Iran Eye For An Eye * Fukushima Tepco Plan He can't go home again. Lee Tanghe is ready to go back to Slave Lake, Alberta, but the fires that forced him to leave are still raging. Koch-ing the books. The ultra-conservative Koch brothers make a strings-attached donation to a public university in Florida -- raising questions about the strings. Better Layton than never. We'll talk with the newly minted Leader of the Opposition about how his party will handle a Conservative majority. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, May 16 * FTR: Slave Lake Evacuees * Slave Lake Wild Fires * IMF Charges * Santana on Civil Rights* Guatemala Massacre * Mississippi Mayor * Eurovision Winner Radio silenced. Forest fires ravage Slave Lake, Alberta -- and reduce the community's radio station to ashes. Dead on arrival. A Mexican drug gang crosses the border into Guatemala -- and commits a horrific massacre. The would-be president as predator? The head of the IMF -- and the man many expected to win the next French election -- is jailed in New York on sex charges. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, May 13, 2011 * Pakistan Bombing * HIV Research * FTR: Quebec Floods * Loud Roosters * DA/Clip: Bad Rome Driver * Ukraine Pain Management * FTR: Ron Paul Announces * Laptop Twitter * Stephane Dion An explosive act of vengeance. In Pakistan, the Taliban claims a bombing that killed at least eighty people was a reprisal for the killing of Osama bin Laden. Follow the ex-leader. Stephane Dion isn't heading the Liberal Party any more -- but, unlike Michael Ignatieff, he was, at least, re-elected. Start and stop. Researchers find that HIV patients who begin antiretrovirals immediately dramatically lessen their chances of spreading the disease. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, May 12, 2011 * MB Flood: High Ground * Arctic Council Agreement * FOA: Demjanjuk Guilty * Texas Lying Laws * Scotland Sectarian Violence * Assisted Living Suit * FTR: NS Gov’t On Howard Hyde * Canada Geese Nest * SC: The Dude Holding their breath. If a dike is breached in Manitoba, Stephen Burdy's land will likely be spared -- but that doesn't mean he's relieved. Field of nightmares. Sports and religion are uneasy teammates -- as evidenced by sectarian violence in the world of Scottish football. Will the Arctic Circle be unbroken? At a conference in Greenland, the Arctic nations unite to discuss the issues that divide them. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, May 11, 2011 * MB Premier Flood * Libya: UN Response * FTR: Insite * Dress Code Skirt For Boys * SC: Desk Covers * Scottish National Party * Arizona Immigration Fight * DA: Derby Prison Break * Black Bear Report A run on the banks. With the Assiniboine River threatening to burst, Manitoba Premier Greg Sellinger explains the desperate measures his province is considering. Hello, we must be going. The first day of the Scottish National Party's majority government may mark the beginning of the end for the United Kingdom. Supplies and demand. A U.N. official asks for a ceasefire in Libya, so relief agencies can provide aid to those who are running out of food and water. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, May 10, 2011 * MB Flooded Flats * US/PAK Agreement * Email: Osama Bin Laden – Alston * New Scrabble Dictionary * SOD: Underwater Opera * Max Mosley * FTR: Bloc MP * Methane Water Study * Dateline: Samoa Time Change Après ça, le déluge. A Manitoba farmer waits to see whether officials will breach a nearby dike -- flooding his land to save homes elsewhere. A public battle for privacy. The former head of Formula One racing, Max Mosley, reaches a roadblock in his quest to change Britain's privacy laws. Caught in the act. The spirited back-and-forth between the U.S. and Pakistan regarding the killing of Osama bin Laden may be little more than a scripted drama. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, May 9, 2011 * Imams Kicked Off Flight * Lampedusa Controversy * FTR: Lawrence Cannon * Paul Simon Singer * Osama Bin Laden: UN * FOA: Willard Boyle Obit * SC: Bilbo Regrets the Error * SOD: Smokey the Cat’s Purr Clerical error. Two imams seek justice, after an American pilot refuses to fly with them on board. A matter of execution. The United Nations asks for more information, to determine whether the killing of Osama bin Laden was legal. An unfathomable tragedy. New evidence that, when a boatload of Libyan migrants sank in March, its plight was ignored by potential rescuers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, May 6, 2011 * UK Election Results * Syria Day Of Protest * French Election Suicide * Squids and Noise * Hisham Matar Book Hemorrhaging-heart liberals. British voters deliver some critical wounds to the country's Liberal Democrats. A novel approach. A feature interview with Libyan author Hisham Matar -- whose real-life ordeals informed his latest work of fiction. Squid vicious. Man-made noise isn't just damaging to whales and dolphins -- turns out it can kill giant squids as well. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, May 5, 2011 * Lahey Guilty Folo * TB/Email: Lahey Guilty * Osama Bin Laden Torture * From Our Archives: Bobby Sands * Turkish Gangs * Mexican Teen Back in Canada * Quarry Folo: Mayor * Shakespeare On Subway Successor to failure. The man who took over from disgraced Bishop Raymond Lahey tells us what the church is doing to win back the trust of Nova Scotia Catholics. Long circuit. After being deported, a Mexican teenager undertakes a daring escape through three countries to return to Canada. Back to the waterboard. New evidence that torture played a role in locating Osama bin Laden creates headaches for the Obama Administration. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, May 4, 2011 * Lahey Guilty Plea * FOA: Lahey Guilty Plea * Quebec Missing Girl Found * Script: Flowers and Romance * Bin Laden: Pakistan Official * Sound of the Day: Obama/Osama Mashup * Iqaluit Rescue * Liberal Party – Tom He took confession -- and today, he gave his own. Roman Catholic Bishop Raymond Lahey pleads guilty to importing child pornography. Hiding in plain sight. Despite troubling new evidence, the Pakistani government insists it had no idea where Osama bin Laden was. Lost and found and lost. Twelve years after her disappearance, the body of a ten-year-old girl is found in Quebec. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, May 3, 2011 * Election: Conservatives * FTR: Quebec Winner * Election: NDP * FTR: Michael Ignatieff * Election: Liberal * Child Surgery Wait Times * TB: Basketball Floor * Phil Campbell Pastor Clip * TB: Phil Campbell * Phil Cam Just so Tories. The Conservatives score a decisive victory -- and James Moore joins me to talk about what's next for his party's majority government. Jumping Jack. NDP Leader Jack Layton carries his party to Official Opposition status -- surprising even some of his own party's candidates. Loose Libs sink themselves. In one fell swoop, the Liberals lose forty-three seats, and confront a dubious future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, May 2, 2011 * Bin Laden: Pakistan Writer * Bin Laden: Pakistan Former Official * Bin Laden: Former CIA Official * Bin Laden: US Reaction * Tornado Facebook Page * NB Basketball Floor The public death of a public enemy. Almost ten years after the attacks of September eleventh, 2001, American forces kill Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan. Compound interest. Residents of Abbottabad, Pakistan, are stunned to find the leader of Al Qaeda was living in a bunker in their community. In the dark. According to a Pakistani official, his country's intelligence agency played no role at all in the operation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, April 29, 2011 * Sovereigntists Vote NDP * TB+Email: Mad Melvin * Palestinian Pact: Regev * JFK Falcons Fired * SCR: Bird Tweets * Flaherty CPC * Election Sound of the Day: Biking To The Polls * Cuban Baseball Pension Sovereignty disassociation. Two party members of the BQ say the Bloc is passé -- and Quebeckers should vote for the NDP. It seemed like a breeze -- but now the winds have changed. With the campaign nearly over, Conservative Jim Flaherty gives us his take on his party's shifting fortunes. The pact, unpacked. Israeli spokesman Mark Regev explains his country's chilly response to the agreement between Hamas and Fatah. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens, Podcast for Thursday, April 28, 2011 Alabama Tornadoes, Patrick Chan, Palestinian Pact- Barghouti, Syria- UN, Libby Davies, Stephen Leacock Winner, For the Record: Tom Durkin, From Our Archives: Larry Collins Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens Podcast for Thursday, April 28, 2011 Alabama Tornadoes, Patrick Chan, Palestinian Pact- Barghouti, Syria- UN, Libby Davies, Stephen Leacock Winner, For the Record: Tom Durkin, From Our Archives: Larry Collins Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, April 27, 2011 * Alberta Fracking * Syria – Activist * Road Kill Milliner * FTR: Emmy Lou Harris * Elizabeth May * SCR: Movie Polls * Playstation Hack She wants to stop the home fires burning. When an Alberta woman finds she can set her tapwater alight, she sues the company that's been extracting natural gas near her house. May in April. With less than a week before the election, Green Party leader Elizabeth May assesses the political environment. Syria nears a breaking point. The brutal crackdown on protesters continues -- but there are rumblings of dissension within the Syrian army. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, April 26, 2011 Victims Ombudsman * Rob Nicholson * IQ Tests Stupid *Michael Ignatieff * FTR: Quarry Protest * Meancthon Quarry Folo Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, April 25, 2011 * Syria: Human Rights Watch * Jack Layton Surge * Munching Beetle * Zombie Book * Atwood Interview The crackdown continues. A rights group documents a vicious attack on civilians in the Syrian town of Daraa. Northrop Frye, and a lack of espresso. We air an interview between Carol and Margaret Atwood -- about life as a Toronto student in the 'Sixties. When the bite is worsening the bark. A tiny, hungry beetle is killing the tamarisk tree -- and ruining the habitat of an endangered bird. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, April 22, 2011 * Bahrain Docs Threatened * Canadian iPhone Tracker * Al Purdy Privy * Mulroney Opera * Frontier Justice Life-threatening. An investigation shows that authorities in Bahrain have been waging a campaign of abuse and intimidation against doctors there. Displaced persons, misplaced fears. A feature interview with the author of Frontier Justice -- Andy Lamey says we are failing the refugees who need us most. Taking it on the chin. An opera-style film of the life of La Bri-an -- Mulroney that is -- depicts his career as a tragi-comic fall from grace. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As it Happens for Thursday, April 21, 2011 * Bahrain Hunger Strike Family * Mayor O’Reilly on Pastor Jones * Stanley Cup Gets Lost * Pakistan Rape Trial * Libya Safe Haven * Email: House of Lords * Election Sound of the Day: Lonely Liberal * FTR: PEI Wa A case of the disappearing case: In Bahrain, the family of a jailed human rights activist shows up for his court appearance only to find out authorities have no record of him * A step backwards for women's rights in Pakistan. Five of the six men originally convicted of raping social activist, Mukhtar Mai, have now been set free * Law and ardour. The Koran-burning Pastor Terry Jones wants to protest in a city he believes is under the reign of Shari'a law. That town: Dearborn, Michigan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, April 20, 2011 * House of Lords Full * Misrata on the Groud * FTR: Tim Hetherington Obit * Vintage Voter * FOA: Damon McKnight * Gulf Fisherman Update * Mekong River Dam * Teaching Sharks They can't get a Lord in edgewise. Thanks to British Prime Minister David Cameron, the U.K.'s House of Lords is alarmingly overfilled. Once more into the Gulf. One year after the start of the BP spill, we'll catch up with a Louisiana charter-boat captain who has just re-started his business. A city under siege. Misrata is being pummeled by Moammar Gadhafi -- and a volunteer at a local hospital describes the desperate conditions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, April 19, 2011 * BP Claims Process * Migrant Workers Report * Election Sound of the Day: Psychics * 1920s Protest Songs * Key Ridings: First Nations * Syria Violence There's a catch -- but it's not the one they want. Gulf Coast fishermen want a piece of a fund set up by BP -- but many are told they can't have one. First Nations, last priority. Why Aboriginal issues seem to be nowhere in this election campaign -- and how Aboriginal communities are responding. Far from healthy far from home. A new report finds that migrant workers in Canada are pushed to the brink -- and their health suffers as a result. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, April 18, 2011 * NATO: Libya * Misrata Nurse * Election Sound of the Day: Calgary Signs * Sc: Anti-Piracy Bill * Clip: Blakeney on Political Life * Obit: Allan Blakeney * Hungary Child Votes * Boston Marathoner Defending the defense. NATO is criticized for not doing enough in Libya -- and Canadian Lieutenant-General Charles Bouchard responds. The flight-from-fight instinct. Getting the injured from Libya to Tunisia is fraught -- and a nurse with Doctors Without Borders tells us about the trip. Remembering a Prairie titan. Former Saskatchewan Premier Roy Romanow pays tribute to his precedessor and mentor, the late Allan Blakeney. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, April 15, 2011 * Guergis Letter * Croatian War Crimes * Yuri Gagarin Photos * SC: Vegan Scandal * University of Guelph Student Vote * Obit: Vittorio Arrigoni * Miami-Dade Poetry Independent's day. Helena Guergis isn't running as a Conservative in this election -- and she has some harsh words about her treatment at the hands of her former party. Battle stations. Voting stations, that is. A "vote mob" at the University of Guelph students becomes a mob scene. Two sentences in an unfinished story. A pair of Croatian military leaders are sent to prison for war crimes -- and the Croatian government is incensed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, April 14, 2011 * Gbagbo Crimes * Wrongful Conviction * Money for Libya * Script: Cap Controls Movie Ending * Biofuels Report * FTR: French Debate Questioner * FTR: Transplant List Death * Males Spider Eat Females Partner in crime. The President of Ivory Coast says Laurent Gbagbo will face justice -- but Ivorians say Mr. Gbagbo's wife should be charged as well. These bio-fuel-ish things. According to a new report, the European Union's targets for biofuel use aren't just unsound -- they're unethical. Clearing his name -- and thirteen million dollars. A Quebec man wins the biggest wrongful-conviction settlement in Canadian history. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, April 13, 2011, Part * Kucinich on Obama * Egypt Charges * Election Sound of the Day: Calgary Flash Mob * Cowboy Poetry * FTR: Debate – Immigration * Immigration Election Issue * Mafia Crime Boss Testimony * NS Radio Bracele Reducing debt by a thousand cuts. Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich tells us why he thinks President Obama's deficit-cutting plan won't work. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, April 12, 2011 * Bahrain Hunger Strike * Japan Nuclear Threat Up * Bee Station * FOA: Penis Museum * Salman Rushdie Starving for attention. After her father and husband are arrested, a Bahraini woman goes on hunger strike, demanding their release. Maximum insecurity. One month after the tsunami, Japan acknowledges that the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant is as bad as possible. A fantasy about reality. An encore presentation of Carol's interview with Salman Rushdie -- about a book that's both fantastical and allegorical. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, April 11, 2011 * AG – Report Leaked * FTR: John Baird * Bahrain Activist Deaths * TB/Email: Tourette’s Hero * Dateline: Tamil Nadu Freebies * Script: Lost Springs Census * FTR: Gordon Brown Speech * Gordon Brown Summit thing's gotta give. According to a leaked Auditor-General's draft report, the Conservatives didn't just spend lavishly during the G-8 Summit -- they may have spent lavishly and illegally. A Gordon opportunity. Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown shares his ideas on how to shake the world of its economic slump. A visit to Lost Springs, Wyoming, where it took ten years for the census to correctly register that the town didn't have just one resident - it has four. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, April 8 * Mexico Violence Protests * More Bruce Carson * Wishbone Chandelier * No Hockey-Talking Docs * Cons/Lib Platforms * Robertson Davies Book Find * Paper Folding Record An anti-blood drive. Across Mexico, thousands join demonstrations demanding the government put an end to drug-war violence. Promises, promises. How the Conservatives' newly-released platform, stirringly titled "Here For Canada", stacks up against the Liberal platform, inspiringly titled "Your Family. Your Future. Your Canada". Cuts and Bruces. Mid-election campaign, the Conservatives are confronted with more scandalous news about Bruce Carson -- a former advisor to Stephen Harper. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, April 7, 2011 * Portugal Bailout * Libya Refugees: Lampedusa * Election Sound of the Day: Newfoundland Jerries * DA: Armenia’s Internet * FTR: Beck on Obama * Glenn Beck Leaves Fox * SOD: MB Flood Boat * Election: Stogran Dem Down and out in Porto and Lisbon. A broke and nearly broken Portugal becomes the latest country to ask the European Union for a bailout. A matter of a better life -- and death. A boat fleeing Libya capsizes in the Mediterranean -- and dozens of would-be migrants are presumed drowned. Depending on your viewpoint, he either cried "Havoc" or "Wolf". Regardless, he certainly cried -- but there will be no more tears on Fox News now that Glenn Beck is leaving. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, April 6, 2011 * Ivory Coast: Liberia Refugees * Estrogen Study * Women’s Ski Jumping * FOA: Gary Hyland Obit * Ivory Coast: France * News Of The World Arrests * Meltwater Research He won't leave, and they won't stay. As Laurent Gbagbo lingers in Ivory Coast, tens of thousands of people stream over the border into Liberia. Sugaring the pills. Years after the medical establishment soured on hormone replacement therapy, new research shows it may reduce the risk of breast cancer for some women. Not so much beat reporters as beep reporters. Two journalists from the British tabloid News of the World are arrested for accessing people's private phone messages. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, April 12, 2011 * Bahrain Hunger Strike * Japan Nuclear Threat Up * Bee Station * FOA: Penis Museum * Salman Rushdie Starving for attention. After her father and husband are arrested, a Bahraini woman goes on hunger strike, demanding their release. Maximum insecurity. One month after the tsunami, Japan acknowledges that the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant is as bad as possible. A fantasy about reality. An encore presentation of Carol's interview with Salman Rushdie -- about a book that's both fantastical and allegorical. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, April 11, 2011 * AG – Report Leaked * FTR: John Baird * Bahrain Activist Deaths * TB/Email: Tourette’s Hero * Dateline: Tamil Nadu Freebies * Script: Lost Springs Census * FTR: Gordon Brown Speech * Gordon Brown Summit thing's gotta give. According to a leaked Auditor-General's draft report, the Conservatives didn't just spend lavishly during the G-8 Summit -- they may have spent lavishly and illegally. A Gordon opportunity. Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown shares his ideas on how to shake the world of its economic slump. A visit to Lost Springs, Wyoming, where it took ten years for the census to correctly register that the town didn't have just one resident - it has four. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, April 8 * Mexico Violence Protests * More Bruce Carson * Wishbone Chandelier * No Hockey-Talking Docs * Cons/Lib Platforms * Robertson Davies Book Find * Paper Folding Record An anti-blood drive. Across Mexico, thousands join demonstrations demanding the government put an end to drug-war violence. Promises, promises. How the Conservatives' newly-released platform, stirringly titled "Here For Canada", stacks up against the Liberal platform, inspiringly titled "Your Family. Your Future. Your Canada". Cuts and Bruces. Mid-election campaign, the Conservatives are confronted with more scandalous news about Bruce Carson -- a former advisor to Stephen Harper. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, April 7, 2011 * Portugal Bailout * Libya Refugees: Lampedusa * Election Sound of the Day: Newfoundland Jerries * DA: Armenia’s Internet * FTR: Beck on Obama * Glenn Beck Leaves Fox * SOD: MB Flood Boat * Election: Stogran Dem Down and out in Porto and Lisbon. A broke and nearly broken Portugal becomes the latest country to ask the European Union for a bailout. A matter of a better life -- and death. A boat fleeing Libya capsizes in the Mediterranean -- and dozens of would-be migrants are presumed drowned. Depending on your viewpoint, he either cried "Havoc" or "Wolf". Regardless, he certainly cried -- but there will be no more tears on Fox News now that Glenn Beck is leaving. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, April 6, 2011 * Ivory Coast: Liberia Refugees * Estrogen Study * Women’s Ski Jumping * FOA: Gary Hyland Obit * Ivory Coast: France * News Of The World Arrests * Meltwater Research He won't leave, and they won't stay. As Laurent Gbagbo lingers in Ivory Coast, tens of thousands of people stream over the border into Liberia. Sugaring the pills. Years after the medical establishment soured on hormone replacement therapy, new research shows it may reduce the risk of breast cancer for some women. Not so much beat reporters as beep reporters. Two journalists from the British tabloid News of the World are arrested for accessing people's private phone messages. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, April 5, 2011 * Ivory Coast - UN * Sheik Mohammed Trial * Election Sound of the Day * RANDI Science Awards * Ozone Depletion Study * NY Bodies * St. John's City Council Pesticides * Engineers w/o Borders * Honesty Debate Apology Is he finally giving up the Coast? After French and U.N. airstrikes, Laurent Gbagbo does an abrupt about-face -- saying he'll negotiate the terms of his departure. The hole truth. If you were running short on things to worry about, good news: ozone depletion over the Arctic is at record levels. You can't spell "fraud" without "Ph. D". Well, you should -- but as this year's Pigasus Awards for bad science demonstrate, not everyone does. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, April 4, 2011 * Libya Bargaining * Japan Sea Water Radiation * TB/Email: Poutine + Calvin Trillin * Ivory Coast Mass Killings * Key Ridings: Sask * FTR: Northern Ireland Police Officer Deaths * TB/Email: Chicken Sex Change The frontline and the back rooms. While the violence continues in Libya, negotiations about Moammar Gadhafi's future are underway far away. A power vacuum corrupts. In the Ivory Coast town of Dukou, supporters of the man who would be president are suspected to have massacred hundreds of people. Between the devil and the deep blue sea. Faced with a surplus of radioactive water, the Japanese government is forced to pump some of it back into the ocean. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, April 2, 2011 * Linda Keen * Japan: Nuke Workers Journalist * Calvin Trillin * SC: Unhyphenated Email * Ivory Coast: Analysis * Ivory Coast: Ambassador * Doctors Podcast * Chicken Sex Change Keen for Green. The former head of Canada's Nuclear Safety Commission, Linda Keen, endorses Elizabeth May -- the anti-nuclear leader of Canada's Green Party. Emergency workers at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant are being called heroes for putting themselves in danger's. As the fighting continues in Ivory Coast, forces loyal to Alassane Ouattara are confident they will wrest power from Laurent Gbagbo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, March 31, 2011 * Ivory Coast Update * Moussa Koussa Defects * FTR: Winnipeg Alexander Family * Chicago Safe Passage * Ireland Bank Bailout * Key Ridings: Yukon * Biodegradable Golf Balls A Sea change in Ivory Coast. After months of hanging onto illegitimate power, Laurent Gbgabo and his supporters are poised to fall. Those pots of gold would come in handy right about now. Ireland's banking system is in dire straits and in need of a twenty-four billion Euro fix. Diplomatic maneuver. Libya's foreign minister -- known as "the envoy of death" -- defects to Britain. We hear from the son of one of Moussa Koussa's victims about why he should go to jail. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As it Happens for Wednesday, March 30 * Cricket Match * Arming Libyan Rebels * Wales Abandoned Car * Ontario NDP Candidate * FOA: Reagan Shot: Witness * SMU: Women's Hockey-Coach * SMU: Women's Hockey-University * Japan:Red Cross * Helsinki 240-hr movie A passage for India. One of the most-watched cricket games in history ends with a defeat for Pakistan's team -- and a trip to the final for India's * The only relief is temporary. Thousands in northern Japan who were left homeless by the tsunami continue to rely on aid and emergency shelters * And...to misquote Shakespeare, "Out of the damned spot!" A Welsh town reels in confusion and fury, after a car remains parked in a forty-minute spot for five months...and counting. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, March 29, 2011 * Libya Conference: Analyst * Ashley Smith Lawsuit * Artificial Leaf * DA: Willie Nelson Sings in Court * Japan IAEA * Edmonton-Strathcona Campaign Worker * FOA: Guatemala Experiments * Retirement party. World leaders meet in London to plan for a Libya without Moammar Gadhafi. But how -- and if -- they'll get him to go is still unclear. Sea of despair. The radioactive leak at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant has experts worried about a partial meltdown and has the country on "maximum alert." Trying to get the full picture. Ashley Smith's family fights back after a coroner rules the inquest into Ashley Smith's death won't include video evidence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, March 28, 2011 * Japan: Fukushima Water Leak * BC: Radiation * DA: Qatar Fake Cloud * FOA: Obit Roger Abbot * Cuckoo Arms Race * Manitoba Trading Post Found * FTR: Neil Young Junos Fukushima's spreading disaster. Radioactive water has breeched the confines of the damaged nuclear power plant, contaminating the surrounding soil and threatening the sea water. The fallout at home: extremely low levels of radioactive material from the Fukushima plant show up in B.C.'s rainwater. He was a farce to be reckoned with. Remembering Roger Abbott, Canadian comedian and co-founder of the Royal Canadian Air Farce. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, March 25, 2011 * FTR: Confidence Vote * Ralph Goodale * Japan: PM Radiation Update * Japan: US Nuclear Expert * WOD: Millisievert * FTR: So Long, Mr. Speaker * Slow Loris Trade * Libya: NATO Takes Over * Newspaper Ad Reading The fall guys. Stephen Harper's minority government takes a tumble after being found in contempt by all three opposition parties. Seeing red. Deputy Liberal leader, Ralph Goodale, explains what was behind the Grit's decision to force an election. Generating more anxiety. After increased radiation levels, the Japanese government urges a wider evacuation area around the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, March 24, 2011 * F-35s US Real Costs * Ivory Coast Folo * Phil Campbell Revival * SC: Let Me Be Clear * Benghazi Council * Katrina Hospital Suit * Water Prize Winner Fly away costs. The government and parliamentary budget officer continue to spar about the costs of new fighter jets, but a U.S. defence analyst says they've both got their heads in the clouds. An uneasy alliance. Libya's Transitional National Council says its happy with the coalition Air Strikes targetting Moammar Gadhafi's forces -- but the council says opposition forces could use more help. Uncivil war. Louise Arbour, the on the Ivory Coast Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, April 5, 2011 * Ivory Coast - UN * Sheik Mohammed Trial * Election Sound of the Day * RANDI Science Awards * Ozone Depletion Study * NY Bodies * St. John's City Council Pesticides * Engineers w/o Borders * Honesty Debate Apology Is he finally giving up the Coast? After French and U.N. airstrikes, Laurent Gbagbo does an abrupt about-face -- saying he'll negotiate the terms of his departure. The hole truth. If you were running short on things to worry about, good news: ozone depletion over the Arctic is at record levels. You can't spell "fraud" without "Ph. D". Well, you should -- but as this year's Pigasus Awards for bad science demonstrate, not everyone does. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, April 4, 2011 * Libya Bargaining * Japan Sea Water Radiation * TB/Email: Poutine + Calvin Trillin * Ivory Coast Mass Killings * Key Ridings: Sask * FTR: Northern Ireland Police Officer Deaths * TB/Email: Chicken Sex Change The frontline and the back rooms. While the violence continues in Libya, negotiations about Moammar Gadhafi's future are underway far away. A power vacuum corrupts. In the Ivory Coast town of Duékoué, supporters of the man who would be president are suspected to have massacred hundreds of people. Between the devil and the deep blue sea. Faced with a surplus of radioactive water, the Japanese government is forced to pump some of it back into the ocean. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, April 2, 2011 * Linda Keen * Japan: Nuke Workers – Journalist * Calvin Trillin * SC: Unhyphenated Email * Ivory Coast: Analysis * Ivory Coast: Ambassador * Doctor’s Podcast * Chicken Sex Change Keen for Green. The former head of Canada's Nuclear Safety Commission, Linda Keen, endorses Elizabeth May -- the anti-nuclear leader of Canada's Green Party. Emergency workers at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant are being called heroes for putting themselves in danger's. As the fighting continues in Ivory Coast, forces loyal to Alassane Ouattara are confident they will wrest power from Laurent Gbagbo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, March 31, 2011 * Ivory Coast Update * Moussa Koussa Defects * FTR: Winnipeg Alexander Family * Chicago Safe Passage * Ireland Bank Bailout * Key Ridings: Yukon * Biodegradable Golf Balls A Sea change in Ivory Coast. After months of hanging onto illegitimate power, Laurent Gbgabo and his supporters are poised to fall. Those pots of gold would come in handy right about now. Ireland's banking system is in dire straits and in need of a twenty-four billion Euro fix. Diplomatic maneuver. Libya's foreign minister -- known as "the envoy of death" -- defects to Britain. We hear from the son of one of Moussa Koussa's victims about why he should go to jail. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As it Happens for Wednesday, March 30 * Cricket Match * Arming Libyan Rebels * Wales Abandoned Car * Ontario NDP Candidate * FOA: Reagan Shot: Witness * SMU: Women's Hockey - Coach * SMU: Women's Hockey - University * Japan: Red Cross * Helsinki 240-hr mo A passage for India. One of the most-watched cricket games in history ends with a defeat for Pakistan's team -- and a trip to the final for India's * The only relief is temporary. Thousands in northern Japan who were left homeless by the tsunami continue to rely on aid and emergency shelters * And...to misquote Shakespeare, "Out of the damned spot!" A Welsh town reels in confusion and fury, after a car remains parked in a forty-minute spot for five months...and counting. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, March 29, 2011 * Libya Conference: Analyst * Ashley Smith Lawsuit * Artificial Leaf * DA: Willie Nelson Sings in Court * Japan IAEA * Edmonton-Strathcona Campaign Worker * FOA: Guatemala Experiments * Retirement party. World leaders meet in London to plan for a Libya without Moammar Gadhafi. But how -- and if -- they'll get him to go is still unclear. Sea of despair. The radioactive leak at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant has experts worried about a partial meltdown and has the country on "maximum alert." Trying to get the full picture. Ashley Smith's family fights back after a coroner rules the inquest into Ashley Smith's death won't include video evidence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, March 28, 2011 * Japan: Fukushima Water Leak * BC: Radiation * DA: Qatar Fake Cloud * FOA: Obit Roger Abbot * Cuckoo Arms Race * Manitoba Trading Post Found * FTR: Neil Young Junos Fukushima's spreading disaster. Radioactive water has breeched the confines of the damaged nuclear power plant, contaminating the surrounding soil and threatening the sea water. The fallout at home: extremely low levels of radioactive material from the Fukushima plant show up in B.C.'s rainwater. He was a farce to be reckoned with. Remembering Roger Abbott, Canadian comedian and co-founder of the Royal Canadian Air Farce. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, March 25, 2011 * FTR: Confidence Vote * Ralph Goodale * Japan: PM Radiation Update * Japan: US Nuclear Expert * WOD: Millisievert * FTR: So Long, Mr. Speaker * Slow Loris Trade * Libya: NATO Takes Over * Newspaper Ad Reading The fall guys. Stephen Harper's minority government takes a tumble after being found in contempt by all three opposition parties. Seeing red. Deputy Liberal leader, Ralph Goodale, explains what was behind the Grit's decision to force an election. Generating more anxiety. After increased radiation levels, the Japanese government urges a wider evacuation area around the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, March 24, 2011 * F-35s US Real Costs * Ivory Coast Folo * Phil Campbell Revival * SC: Let Me Be Clear * Benghazi Council * Katrina Hospital Suit * Water Prize Winner Fly away costs. The government and parliamentary budget officer continue to spar about the costs of new fighter jets, but a U.S. defence analyst says they've both got their heads in the clouds. An uneasy alliance. Libya's Transitional National Council says its happy with the coalition Air Strikes targetting Moammar Gadhafi's forces -- but the council says opposition forces could use more help. Uncivil war. Louise Arbour, the on the Ivory Coast Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, March 23, 2011 * Syria Violence * Pro-Gadhafi Human Shields * Lake Ontario Eagles * FOA: Obit Elizabeth Taylor * Libya-Egypt * FTR: Winnipeg Abuse Victim * North Wales Hills Forts * DA: Yale Therapy Dog A searing crackdown in Syria. Government Forces kill at least twenty civilian protestors in the city of Daraa. The Agony and the Exodus. People trying to escape the violence in Libya are finding they're not welcome in neighbouring Egypt. The original wireless signal. Reseachers in the UK recruit members of the public to shed light on a twenty-five-hundred-year-old instant messaging system. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, March the 22nd * Budget: Flaherty * Budget: Layton * Misrata: On the Ground * Libya: Analysis * Ivory Coast Horrors * FTR: Hiroshima Demo * Email: Feral Pigs * FTR: Que. Iron Chef Budgeting for the polls. Finance Minister, Jim Flaherty, tables his fiscal plan and prepares for an election. Agony in Ivory. As Ivory Coast descends into civil war, human rights activists denounce the mounting civilian death toll. Fighting the power. Demonstrators in the Japanese city of Hiroshima protest a planned nuclear power plant in the wake of the Fukushima disaster. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, March 21, 2011 * Libya: Canadian Response * SOD: Libya Journalist Wife * Yemen Violence * SMU Hockey Team Cancelled * Japan: Tepco * Japan: North * FTR: Firetruck to MB * Sarnia Curling Trophy * B.C. Feral Pigs The cost of freedom, part one. Parliament debates exactly what Canada's role is in the international mission in Libya. The cost of freedom, part two. We remember a citizen journalist from the Libyan city of Benghazi who was killed this weekend by a sniper. Trying to keep its cool. Despite serious international concerns, the Tokyo Electric Power Company assures us that emergency workers have everything under control at the the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens Podcast For March 18, 2011 * No-Fly Zone: MP * No-Fly Zone: Benghazi * Japan Doctor * SC: Ferlin Husky Obit * Aristide Return * FTR: Bev Oda Hearing * Bev Oda Hearing Zone defence. Now that the U.N. Security Council has voted for a no-fly zone, a British MP says it's time to take every necessary step to stop Moammar Gadhafi. On the ground. With the no-fly zone as yet unenforced, the head of mission for the International Committee of the Red Cross tells us about his team's efforts in Benghazi. The exile becomes an ex-exile. Seven years after his unceremonious exit, Jean-Bertrand Aristide returns to Haiti just in time to complicate the election. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens Podcast For March 17, 2011 * Libya: UN Resolution * Libya: No Fly – International Crisis Group ** Leaving Japan * Japan: Atami Resident * SC: Birgit Nilsson Prize * Chicago Torture Case * Libya/Tunisia Border * Camden Police Rehired The flights stop here. With Moammar Gadhafi closing in on Benghazi, the UN votes to impose a no-fly zone, and to take, all necessary measures short of an invasion. In-flight safety. We'll talk to a woman whose fear of the Fukushima disaster impelled her to leave Tokyo for Kyoto -- and now, has impelled her to leave Japan for France. Home is where the harm is. A Japanese woman who's staying behind tells us about her anxiety and sorrow, as the struggle to prevent a meltdown continues. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens Podcast For March 16, 2011 * For The Record: Jaczko Nuclear Risk * Japan – US Nuclear Update * Japan: Tokyo Nuclear Fears * Bahrain Violence * Script: New Brunswick Slogan * Raymond Davis Freed * Japan Aid Fears * For The Record: Libya – Come hell and low water. The American nuclear watchdog says a spent-fuel pool at the Fukushima plant has dried up -- increasing the risk of a meltdown. Tokyo storm warning. With conflicting reports over the dangers of radiation, residents of the Japanese capital may soon be in a state of panic -- and rage. Crime and reimbursement. Just hours after a CIA contractor in Pakistan is indicted for murder, he's acquitted -- because someone paid the relatives of his victims an enormous sum. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens Podcast For March 15, 2011 * Japan: Nuclear Workers * Japan: Leaving Sendai * Script:Edano/Kan * Measuring Musical Pleasure * Japan: Red Cross * Japan:Iaea Inspectors * Ross River Hockey * Dateline:Pizza/Lasagna Criminals Courageous to the core. A brave crew of workers struggles to contain the crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant -- and one expert tells us what they're facing. Point of departure. While Japan's government urges people near the reactors to keep calm and carry on, foreigners are urged to get as far away as possible. While some get out, aid can't get in. An International Red Cross worker tells us about the devastation that's interfering with relief efforts on Japan's north-east coast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens Podcast for March 14, 2011 *Sendai Resident/Japan Nuclear Dangers * Women in Solitary * Resigning Tory MPs * Fat Swans * Obit: Joe Morello Japan's nuclear winter. A resident of Sendai tells us about the aftermath of the tsunami -- and the fear of a possible nuclear meltdown. Power, corrupted. As engineers struggle to cool damaged reactors at the Fukukshima nuclear plant, a Canadian physicist gives us the best- and worst-case scenarios. Falling silent on the Western front. Three Conservative British Columbia MPs -- including Stockwell Day and Chuck Strahl -- announce they won't stand for re-election. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, March 11, 2011 * Earthquake: Sendai Shelter * Japan Reporter * Earthquake: Nuclear Reactor * Benghzir Update * Rodney Crowell * Egypt: Presidential Race Aftershock. First, one of the largest earthquakes in Japan's history, then a massive tsunami. And it's not over yet. Trying to keep cool. Japanese authorities struggle to deal with an overheating nuclear reactor damaged by the earthquake. All the presidential men. As the dust of the Egypt's revolution settles, an acclaimed Egyptian author reveals who he plans to vote for. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, March 10, 2011 * FTR: US Muslim Hearings – King * US Muslim Hearings * Access to Medicine Bill Passes * Tar Sands Review * SC: Spider-Man Update * Afghan Death Toll * FTR: Libya Beaten Journos * By The Numbers: Billionaires * It's a radical approach. The hearings into Islamic radicalization, which began today, have some Americans concerned the U.S. is ushering in a new era of McCarthyism. News of their deaths can't be exaggerated enough. Two new reports on the number of civilian deaths in Afghanistan point to the same alarming trend: more and more innocent people are dying. After dying more than once, a bill passes in the House of Commons that will make it easier for Canada to export affordable drugs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, March 9, 2011 * Speaker’s Ruling * Banks on TSX/LSE * California Sardine Cleanup * FTR: K’Naan Generic Drugs *NPR CEO Quits * Iceland/UK Banks * FTR: Phil Collins Retires Into the breach. The Speaker of the House of Commons rules that the Harper Government is in "breach of privilege".. twice. Video canned the radio star. The head of NPR resigns after her chief fundraiser is caught on tape calling the Tea Party "racist." They would prefer a withdrawal. Several major Canadian banks have drafted a letter opposing the proposed merger of the Toronto and London Stock Exchanges. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, March 8, 2011 * Libya: No-Fly Zone * Libya: Lawyer * Jeanne Mance Co-Founder * DA: Alabama Sharia Law * Guantanamo Trials Resume * CPR Survivor * FOA: International Women’s Day * Mad Cow-Sparrow Link The question in the air. Former Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy talks to us about NATO's responsibility to protect the citizens of Libya. On the ground: Carol speaks with a member of Libya's newly-formed opposition group -- and the man credited with starting the revolution. Lost conviction: U.S. President Barack Obama re-negs on his promise to close down the military trials in Guantanamo Bay. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, March 7th, 2011 * FTR: HOC MI6 * Libya: MI6 * FTR: Islamic Event Video * Islamic Event Folo * Ralph The Pelican Trip *Cricket Canada Wins * FTR: Montreal Victim’s Mom * DA: Kenya MP Dress * King James Bible Found * Obit: Albert "Ill-conceived and poorly planned." A secret British reconnaisance mission to Libya goes wrong, embarrassing the UK government. Over but not out. Canada beats Kenya at the World Cup of Cricket with five wickets to spare. Although -- I'm still not sure exactly what a wicket is. The view behind her vitriol. Deborah Pauly, the local politician from Southern California who joined rowdy protesters outside a Muslim charity event, explains herself. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, March 4 * Freezing Assets - Minister * Libya LSE Resignation * NZ Earthquake Folo * FOA: Harper Gov't * Food Convention * IRB Bias Study * TB/EMAIL: Newsreader Hiccups * Mazda Spider Recall * Flash Freeze: Ottawa works quickly to pass a bill that would allow the Federal government to freeze the Canadian assets of deposed dictators. Accounting 101: the head of The London School of Economics resigns for his role in accepting a donation to the university from an alumnus -- who happens to be the son of a certain Libyan dictator. Providing thought for food: food-aid experts are concerned a closed-door meeting in London may end up leaving the world's poor with even greater hunger pang ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, March 3 * Nato No Fly Debate * Ivory Coast Crackdown * SOD: Newsreader hiccups/FOA: It's The Orange * New Bradley Manning Charges * Ohio Labour Bill-Union * Obit: James Travers * Chernobyl Budget Up in the air: NATO deliberates about the possiblity and the consquences of imposing a no-fly zone over Libya. The trial of a lifetime: new charges -- including "aiding the enemy" -- brought against Private Bradley Manning mean he may face a life sentence for his alleged part in the Wilileaks affair. Putting a lid on it -- or at least trying to. The Ukrainian agency responsible for sealing off Chernobyl's increasingly ineffective radiation shield is running out of money. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, March 2 *Libya Refugees Border Update * Libya Anti-Government Leader * Dateline: Ioc Iran Design * UBC Sea Turtles Science * SCR: Stink Bugs Counter Attack * Shelter Sex Assaults * Pakistan: Christian Minister Killed * FTR: Pa Bordering on disastrous. Where Libya meets Tunisia, an outpouring of refugees is threatening to become a humanitarian crisis. Rebels with a cause. Carol speaks with a man who's working with rebel forces inside Libya, about their ongoing struggles with Moammar Gadhafi's soldiers. He fought for tolerance -- and lost. For the second time this year, a minister who supported the abolition of blasphemy laws in Pakistan is assassinated. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, March 1 * Libya: Peter MacKay * NB Facebook Order * St. Pirin's Day * Daffodil Trumpets * FOA: Indian Train Fire* German Plagiarism Folo * SCR: Food Terrorism By Mice The shipping news. Defence Minister Peter MacKay tells us about Canada's response to the crisis in Libya -- which includes sending a military warship. An open-Facebook exam. A New Brunswick judge wanted access to some online photos, as evidence -- and he resorted to subterfuge to get it. Is that an oversized hypanthium, or are you just glad it's springtime? Scientists finally prove that a daffodil's fancy trumpet is actually a unique new organ. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, February 28 *Libya Tripoli Voice * Libya Refugee Crisis * Scr: Iran Boycotts Olympics * Journal de MTL Settlement * Toronto Housing Authority * Homeless Man Finds Daughter * Biblical Blue * FOA: Swedish PM Assassination * Swedish No movement at the top. A Tripoli resident says the best Libyans can hope for is that one of Moammar Gadhafi's sons will kill him. Out of the frying pan, and into the cold. The U.N. struggles to cope with a mass exodus of Libyan refugees fleeing their country for somewhere safer. Don't shoot the massager. An audit of the Toronto Community Housing Corporation reveals tens of thousands of dollars in spending on banquets and backrubs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, February 25, 2011 * Libya Update – Tripoli Resident * Libya – International Response * FTR: Libya UN * FTR: MB Rape Ruling * WWI Soldier I.D. * Bountiful Evidence * Mexico Migrant Report * FTR: Whitehorse Dog Sled * Guinness Moammar the merciless. From Tripoli, a woman who's afraid to leave her home tells us about the despot's desperate crackdown. Methinks we doth protest too little. While Libya's leader mows down demonstrators, the international community hems and haws. The revolution should not have been televised. In Zimbabwe, dozens of people are arrested and charged with treason, for watching footage of the Egyptian protests. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, February 24 * Wisconsin Republican * FTR: Wis. Gov.Prank Phone Call * Wisconsin Pizza Place * Stampede New Animal Rules * Scr: Sexy Monkeys * FTR: Libyan Resident * Libyan Border * FTR: Feb 7th Clips * Assange Hearing * TB: She The Dairy State is curdling. The protests in Wisconsin continue to rage -- and the governor continues to insist he won't budge on his "budget repair bill". Blessed are the cheese takers. People from all over the world want to show their support for Wisconsin's protesters -- and they're doing it with the help of one Madison pizzeria. Doing what he can from where he can. He can't join the protests from Dubai -- so instead, a Libyan man is helping get medical supplies into the country. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, February 23, 2011 * Christchurch Rescue Folo * Gadhafi Interpreter * TB & Email: Cornish Pasties * Dateline: Russian Beer * Seagull Team Sleeping * G20 Kettling Policy * Non-Violent Action * Dateline: Arizona State Gun Shaken to the core. Today, the CTV building in Christchurch, New Zealand, is rubble -- and I'll talk with a reporter who was on assignment when it collapsed. It contains multitudes. But according to the RCMP, "kettling" isn't part of their officers' training -- so why was the tactic used at the G20 Summit? I remember Moammar. Abubaker Saad served as Gadhafi's interpreter for five years -- and he'll tell us what he knows about Libya's embattled leader. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, February 22, 2011 * Christchurch Earthquake * FTR: Gaddafi * Libya – On The Ground * Email: Quebec Prosecutors * Abbotsford Pigeon * Script: Monkees Reunion * Yukon First National Justice * Egypt/Libya Doctors * FTR: Kelowna P The ground shakes, again. Residents of Christchurch, New Zealand endure their second deadly earthquake in less than six months. A small victory in Libya, part one: We speak to a resident of Benghazi as the town celebrates the departure of Moammar Ghaddafi's forces. A small victory in Libya, part two: Egypti an doctors begin to transfer much-needed medical aid into the country. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, February 21, 2001 * Libya: Analyst * Quebec Prosecutor Vote * Wisconsin Democrat In Hiding * Script: Pet Owner Risk * NS MLA: February Holiday * DRC Rape Conviction * 1971 Northern Ireland Bombing Cut off, and cut down. After phone and internet connections are severed, protesters in Libya are reportedly attacked by the country's own army and air force. Off the case. As Quebec's National Assembly prepares to legislate crown attorneys back to work, some senior prosecutors say they'll simply resign. Out of state, but not out of mind. Wisconsin's Democratic senators hide out in Illinois -- to prevent Republicans from holding an anti-union vote. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, February 18, 2011 * Canadian Man In Missouri Hospital * Bahrain Security * Show Tree Torn Down * German Children * Wisconsin Protests * Nazi 3D films * Klepto Cat * Koala Mating Call Far from well, far from home. A Canadian man has been languishing in a Missouri hospital since December -- despite his wife's efforts to have him brought home. JD: Here's something I don't say every day: chaos in Wisconsin. As thousands protest in Madison, state Republicans defend their budget plan -- and state Democrats have flown the coop. And...time to clean out the looter box. In San Mateo, California, a master cat burglar is finally identified Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, February 17 * Bahrain Opposition * Libya Cyber Activist Jailed * For the Record: Latimer * Talkback/Email: Bev Oda T-Shirts * British Birder * For the Record: Vic Toews * Scott Brison - Crime * US Pakistan Shooting Trial * Anna Bahrain check. Protesters in the island nation are the latest to press for government reforms -- and Bahraini police press back, hard. Crash course. In Libya, an activist is jailed for a hit-and-run -- but Amnesty International believes the timing of his so-called accident was no accident. And...when the going gets dove, the dove doesn't get going. So the man whose garden has become home to an Oriental turtle dove charges birders admission to see his rare guest. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, February 16th 2011 * BC Radiologists – Accountability * Syrian Blogger Sentenced * Philadelphia Bank Loses * DA: Clarence Thomas * Jail Vs Prison Fight * FTR: Alta Manure Win * Email: Bev Oda Kairos * Superbowl T-Shirts * FT Catch as catch scan. B.C. kicks off an investigation into why unqualified radiologists were reading CT scans -- and medical authorities are waiting for answers as well. Parsing sentences. Facing tough-on-crime legislation that will fill their jails, the provinces want to make inmates with shorter sentences a federal responsibility. Bank Notes, Part One: a Nova Scotia man tackles a photocopier problem at an Amherst bank -- and then tackles the guy who tried to rob it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, February 15, 2011 * B.C. Radiologist Personal Story * Berlusconi Charged * Bev Oda Kairos Folo * DA: Speeder Video * FTR: Iran MPs * Iran Protests * Sign Language Dog * ISS-Rocket Cargo A diagnosis missed, a father lost. British Columbia investigates bungled readings of CT scans -- and one woman tells us how such an error may have contributed to her father's death. Counterpoint counterpoint. After a violent protest in Tehran in support of the Egyptian revolution, some Iranian MPs call for the execution of prominent opposition leaders. Pecking Oda. The International Cooperation Minister reveals she made a crucial addition to a CIDA document. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, February 14, 2011 * Mubarak Wealth * Egypt: Labour Strikes * Deaf Games Cancelled * Calgary Police Chief – Safe Jails * World’s Smallest Engraver * World Press Award He can't take it with him. At least, that's what Egyptians are hoping -- as various authorities move to freeze ex-President Hosni Mubarak's substantial assets. Labour pains. Despite a military order to knock it off, Egyptian strikers continue to demonstrate for better wages and the right to unionize. The soft cell approach. Calgary's police chief proposes "safe jails" -- where people who've committed crimes to feed their habits can detox. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, February 11, 2011 * Ayman Nour * Voices From Tahrir Square * Kairos Not Inserted * TSX: View From London * New Dashell Hammett * Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak finally steps down. Ayman Nour, an opposition leader who was jailed by the now-former President, reflects on the resignation he never thought he'd see. As in N-O-T -- a one-word addition to a government document that meant a seven million-dollar funding cut to a Canadian aid group. And... a tough-as-nails magazine editor tracks down unpublished short stories by the great Dashiell Hammett -- and when we tighten the screws, the literary shamus spits out the go ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, February 10, 2011 * Egypt: Abdel Nour * Egypt: Protester * Egypt: Doctor * Juarez Doctor * Crime Statistics Report * Looking at Pain * De Nile is not just a river in Egypt. It's also the state in which the country's president lives -- Hosni Mubarak refuses to leave. State of emergency. A doctor in Ciudad Juarez tells us about the dangers of working the late shift in one of the crime capitals of the world. a former Crown prosecutor says he's got Statistics Canada's number when it comes to crime data. Apparently, looking directly at a painful wound will make it less painful -- and not just because you'll faint. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, February 9, 2011 * TSX Sale * Luge Report Folo * Language and Numbers Study * Egypt Youth Coalition * Tortured Protester * Charlottetown Stop Signs * There's outrage in Georgia, after it's disclosed that there were serious concerns about the luge track on which a Georgian athlete died. Reaction to a proposed merger between the Toronto and London stock exchanges. An Egyptian protester claims he was tortured by security forces. Charlottetown officials get tired of seeing red and decide to take down a bunch of stop signs. And, you may think that understanding language and digits are two different things, but no -- a hundred times no! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, February 8, 2011 * Egypt: Day 15 Protester * Suleiman Profile * C. Difficile Death Folo * FTR: Rumsfeld/Sawyer * Quebec Prosecutors Strike * Email: Iran Hikers * Dateline: Confession App * Meat-Eating Furniture * Talkback: VANOC Despite promises of government reform, more protesters than ever gathered today in Cairo's Tehrir Square. A profile of Vice President Omar Suleiman. The president of a Hamilton, Ontario hospital tells us what they're doing to stop an outbreak of C. difficile. Quebec's straining justice system is about to be pushed to the brink -- as crown prosecutors and government lawyers go on strike. Talkback on the VANOC luge emails. And, meat-eating furniture. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, February 7th, 2011 * Luge Report * Iran Hikers Trial * Wolverines In Peril * CIDA Teachers Abroad * Dateline: Japan Hole Digging Contest * Rwandan Journalists Sentenced * Isabella Rossellini * Emails show that organizers of the Vancouver Olympics were worried that the luge run was dangerous before the Games started. Court proceedings begin for two Americans accused of espionage after straying across the Iranian border. The Canadian International Development Agency stops funding teachers who want to volunteer abroad. Isabella Rossellini talks about her films on animal sex, and how they ended up in a natural history museum. Also, a report from Japan's annual hole-digging competitio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, February 4th, 2011 * Egypt – Tahrir Squ. Dr. * Global Live Decision * Cyclist Police Comp * Scr: Crazy Ant Inbreeding * Rico Suave Bandit * FTR: Mayerthorpe Parents * Amazon Drought * Maine Dessert Fight * Taking care of their own. A Cairo doctor talks about how protesters are looking after one another -- and their city -- on the tenth day of the uprising in Tahrir Square. Taking the sales out of their wind. The federal court rules that the government went too far in forcing the CRTC to give a licence to the owners of Wind Mobile. He's smooth, well dressed -- and busted. Australian police capture the man believed to be the "Rico Suave" bandit. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, February 3rd, 2011 * Egypt – Opp Folo * Dog Sled – Panel * TB/Email: Arizona Senator * FOA: White Stripes * Sudan Folo * Que Anti-Corruption * Bangladesh Lashing Death * Canada Reads #4 * FTR: Zach Wahls Better the devil you know. Opposition leader Monir Abdel Nour says that if President Mubarak goes, Egyptians may not like whomever steps in to fill the power vacuum. While Egypt cracks up, Sudan cracks down. In Khartoum, anti-government protesters struggle to organize in the face of an anti-protester government. Dogged determination. I'll speak with the B.C. politician heading up an inquiry into the killings of dozens of sled dogs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011 * Egypt – Mubarak Clashes * Egypt – Opp Leader * TB/Email: Egypt - Cohen * Arizona Immigration Senator * Jordan – Prince Hassan * Clement on CRTC * 1st Celebrity Stalker Protest counter-protest. More than a thousand people are injured when a heretofore unheard-of group of pro-Mubarak demonstrators joins the melée in Cairo. Be careful what you wish for. Egyptian opposition leader Monir Abdel Nour urges protesters to stop asking the President to leave -- because he still has work to do before he leaves. Royal with the changes. Prince Hassan talks about why Jordan dismissed its parliament -- and what the unrest in the region means. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, February 1st, 2011 * Egypt – Millon man Protest * FTR: Spoken Tweets * Egypt – US Analyst * Sled Dog Folo * HRW: Barrick Report * FOA: Charles Smith * Haiti – Aristide’s Lawyer * WOD: Leaken * The concessions can't stop the processions. Cairo swells with protesters -- who aren't moved when President Mubarak announces he won't run again. Matter over mine. Human Rights Watch alleges that security guards took part in gang rapes at a mine owned by Canada's Barrick Gold. The start of his comeback tour. When Haiti agrees to issue him a passport, the stage is set for the triumphant, possibly destabilizing, return of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, January 31st, 2011 * Egypt – Newspaper Reporter * Sled Dogs Killed * Botswana Bushmen * DA: Wife Watch-List * Sudan Student Protest * FOA: Lenin’s Body * FTR: Canada Reads * Chicken Hotel Tomorrow's protests in Cairo are expected to be bigger than ever -- but as one Egyptian reporter tells us, what will come of the unrest is far from clear. Inflamed by the demonstrations that have swept through Tunisia, Yemen, and Egypt, Sudanese protesters express their discontent -- and are punished for it. British Columbia's SPCA begins an investigation into the killings of one hundred sled dogs -- the victims of a drop in tourism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, January 28, 2011 * Clip: Sounds of Protest * Egypt Protest Folo * FTR: ElBaradei’s Wife * Return to Tunisia * Clip: Airport Hologram * SFX: Challenger * Challenger Anniversary * Uganda Gay Deportation * Ice Cream Guy The defiant ones. A curfew, a communications black-out, and a flood of soldiers can't stop Egyptian protesters from demanding President Mubarak step down. Empty space. A former NASA flight controller reflects on the quarter-century since the Challenger explosion -- and its effects on the soon-to-be-defunct shuttle program. Homeward, un-bound. In the wake of President Ben Ali's abrupt departure, a Tunisian living in Montreal books his one-way ticket home. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, January 27, 2011 * Clip: Yemen Protests * Yemen Protest: Journo * Winnipeg Welfare Hotel * Nabakov Butterfly Theory * Churches on Justice * DA: Official State Gun * Egypt-US Relations * FOA: Ant Farm Saying no to Yemen's yes-men. In the streets of Sana'a, thousands gather to demand improvements to their quality of life -- and the removal of President Saleh. Religious differences. A coalition of Canadian churches says that the Harper government's justice agenda is unjust to taxpayers. We'll check your cheques -- or you'll check out. A Winnipeg welfare recipient is abruptly evicted from his hotel -- when he refuses to let the front desk open his mail. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, January 26, 2011 * Egypt Protester * Clip: Al-Jazeera Caller * Clip: Reporter Arrest * FTR: Adams * SCR: Baron Gerry Adams * Lincoln Letter * FTR: Ben Cahoon Retires * Quebec Pharmacists * Railway Apology * Soldier Phone Propo Rebels with a cause. Ordered to disperse, Egyptian demonstrators return to the streets, for a second consecutive day of anti-Mubarak protest. Saying no to drugs. Quebec pharmacists refuse to comply with a program to provide refugee claimants with free medication. No longer covering their tracks. The head of a French railway company issues an abject apology for its role in the Holocaust. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, January 25, 2011 * FTR: Ed Stelmach * Stelmach Resigns * Egypt Protests * New Lebanon PM * SC: Dubai Islands * Keiths Opera * Ivory Coast Cocoa * FTR: Oldest Canadian Obit * Cynthia Phaneuf * Joanne Mitchell Obit Uneasy lies the Ed that wears a crown. So today, Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach alleviated his uneasiness -- by announcing he won't be running again. Upon this blasted Keith. A new Canadian opera relates the tragic tale of Sandy Keith, Junior -- the nephew of the man behind the beer. Their simple message: change. At least three protesters are killed in Egypt, during demonstrations demanding political reform. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, January 24, 2011 * Moscow Bombing Witness * Moscow Bombing Analyst * FTR: Jack Lalanne * Jack Lalanne Obit * FOA: TS Eliot Poetry Prize * Ireland Crisis * Execution Drug Shortage * Ralph The Pelican Fatal blast. A witness describes what it was like to see an exposion rip through the arrivals level of Moscow's busiest airport. Emerald ire. As the Prime Minister quits the leadership of his party, anger and chaos reign in Irish politics. Trouble in the execution. Sodium Thiopental supplies dry up -- over ethical issues around lethal injection. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, January 21, 2011 * Duvalier Victim * Bradley Manning Conditions * Quebec Dog Neutered * Script: Alphabet Name Research * Brit Pm Press Secretary Resigns * Voice Transplant * Video Game Obesity Study * Bubble Ball Creator * Swiss Solitary Manning. A friend alleges that Private Bradley Manning -- the soldier accused of providing thousands of documents to WikiLeaks -- is being held in intolerable conditions by the American military. England's chattering classes insist a one-time tabloid editor hacked into journalists' phones -- so he resigns as the PM's head of communications. His past catches up with him. "Baby Doc" Duvalier faces a whole new slate of charges -- including imprisonment and torture. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, January 20, 2011 * Daniel Pearl Project * FTR: Obama on Guantanamo * Guantanamo Back * No Crimestoppers Award * Columbia Mule Pigeon * FTR: Jose Kusugak * Obit: Jose Kusugak * Haiti: Aristide Filmmaker * Sound of the Day: Music No sense of closure. The Obama Administration prepares for a new round of military tribunals -- and apparently gives up on shutting down Guantanamo Bay. He gave all of it to Nunavut. Remembering Jose Kusugak, the man who helped established Canada's newest, biggest territory. And...a bird in the hand has a surprisingly high street value. Colombian drug-runners enlist a bird to carry some product -- but their flight of fancy comes crashing down. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, January 19th, 2011 * Bastarache Report * Duvalier Legal Charges * FTR: Mexico Shooting Victim * Low-selling albums * Bell Telemarketing Bad * NY Hawk Missing * U.S. Credit Card Regs * FOA: Poe Toaster * Classic Album Sundays Michel Bastarache concludes that Quebec's former justice minister was not pressured into appointing three judges. When Canadians signed on to the National Do Not Call Registry, apparently we should also have signed on to the Do Not Call Me A Jerk Registry. Baby Doc on the docket. Reviewing the charges against Haiti's former dictator, who is accused of theft, after his bewildering return home. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, January 18, 2011 * Haiti - Baby Doc Returns * Haiti - Duvalier History * For the Record: Police Funeral * Stolen Hockey Gear * Phthalates Rules * For the Record: NB Ambulance Bill * Fairy Wren Mating Hasta la vista, Baby Doc. Two days after his surprising, confusing return to Haiti, former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier is charged with corruption and theft. A history of violence. To explain those charges -- and his other crimes -- we'll look back at the cruel reigns of the Duvaliers, father and son. And...the call is coming from inside the birdhouse. The male Australian fairy wren scares would-be mates before seducing them -- making it both a fascinating bird, and a total creep. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, January 17th, 2011 * Tunisia: Latest * Tunileaks * Obit: Kieth Davey * China Bans Stats Book * Wikileaks: Swiss Bank * Illinois Death Penalty FTR: Conservatives Ad * Human Breast Milk * Starting over -- but not from scratch. Tunisia forms a new government -- which divides power between the opposition parties, and the beleaguered ruling party. Accentuating the deposit-ive. Thanks to a rogue banker, WikiLeaks is in possession of first-hand accounts of hundreds of Swiss accounts. Davey was Goliath. Remembering Liberal strategist Keith Davey -- whose ability to mastermind election victories made him a giant in Canadian politics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, January 14th, 2011 * Tunisia: More Protests * Tunisia: Opposition * Brazil Mudslide – Analyst * SCR: Belgian Beards * Dire Straits Song Folo Email: War On Drugs * SOD: Robocall Revenge * Golden Globes Lawsuit Tunisia in turmoil. The north African country declares a state of emergency -- and its president of twenty-three years abruptly steps down. The worst-laid plans. Hundreds are killed by mudslides in Brazil -- and critics say it's not just the rain to blame, it's negligent development. The envelope, please. If bribery allegations are true, it's not just Golden Globe Award presenters who use that phrase -- it's the judges as well. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, January 13, 2010 * Tunisia Unrest * Aussie Flood Receding * BC Sturgeon Caviar Farm * SC: Money For Nothing Obscene * Roving US Border Patrols * DA: New Delhi Superbug * War On Drug Stats Urging restraint by exercising it. In an effort to calm his turbulent country, Tunisia's president announces that, after twenty-three years in office, he won't seek re-election. Bordering on excessive. Hours after they crossed from Canada into the U.S., travellers are being pulled over at surprise checkpoints by roving border patrols. What's leaving, and what's left behind. In Brisbane, the floodwaters are beginning to recede -- revealing a wasteland of putrid sludge. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, January 12, 2010 * Iceland MP Twitter * FTR Sarah Palin * Palin Commentator * Canada/China Seal Deal * Lebanon Govt Collapses * FTR Snow Plow x2 * Daniel Libeskind * Blazers Reporter Reinstated They want her data -- toute de tweet. An Icelandic MP and former Wikileaks volunteer avoids travelling to the U.S. -- because authorities there have demanded access to her Twitter account. The government falls, the tension mounts. Hezbollah pulls out of the Lebanese cabinet -- destroying the coalition and creating a crisis. Sealing: the deal. Canada can't give away seal products in Europe -- but a new deal with China provides a boost to an ailing industry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, January 11, 2010 * Gun Shop Owner * TB/Email Arizona Gun Laws * Judy Clarke Profile * Foie Gras Chef * SC: Lizzie Borden Museum * Ivory Coast - Liberia Opp. Leader * FTR: Moose Collision Suit * UK Stag Beetle Count Jumping the gun. In the aftermath of the shooting in Tucson, sales of the weapon used by Jared Loughner skyrocket. The best defence for an unspeakable offence. We look at the remarkable career of lawyer Judy Clarke, who'll represent the accused Arizona shooter. Neighbourhood watch. A Liberian politician tells us why the crisis in Ivory Coast has repercussions for his country, and the entire west African region. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, January 10, 2010 * Arizona Gun Laws * Queensland Flooding * FOA: OBIT Peter Donaldson * Dentist Drill Replacement * Salmaan Taseer Daughter * DA: Italy Northern League * Tunisia Protests The shots heard 'round the world. In the wake of a shocking shooting spree in Arizona, the state's gun laws are under attack. He lived and died for Pakistan. The daughter of Salmaan Taseer, the murdered Governor of Punjab, tells us about her father's legacy. Come hell of high water. Flash flooding has left several people dead, and others awaiting rescue, in the stricken state of Queensland, Australia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, December 23rd, 2010 * Mayerthorpe Inqu - Father * U of GA 1st Black Student * Kittiwakes Migrate * Penguin vs Lion * Parkinson’s Cycling Folo * Hungary Media Crackdown * Email: 2013 * Scar Exhibit He can't go back in time -- but he's going to. A new inquiry into the police murders at Mayerthorpe will re-open old wounds for a man whose son is in prison for failing to stop James Roszko. If it's not music to their ears, they replace it with music. Hungarian officials enact a strict new media law -- which allows them to monitor, and censor, anything they don't like. Charlayne Hunter-Gault was one of the first two black students to enroll at the University of Georgia, almost 50 years Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, January 6, 2011 * BP Oil Shares Rise * Vaccine Autism Study * Kamloops Blazers Reporter * SC: NASA on Science Movies Authorities call bull -- but BP's still bullish. An official American commission into the oil spill finds a "failure of management" -- but share prices continue to rise. Poor sports. When it comes to the disappointing local hockey team, a Kamloops sports reporter tells it like it is -- for which the team bans him from the locker room. An injection of common sense. The British Medical Journal reports that an influential study linking autism to vaccines wasn't just wrong - it was fraudulent ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, January 5, 2011 * Pak: Dawn Editor * FTR: Glen Race's Parents * Uganda Paper Folo * Sea Lamprey Research * Dream Act: Hector's Story * Iraq Gov't The agony and the ecstasy. While most of Pakistan grieves after the murder of the governor of Punjab, conservatives and clerics celebrate his death. Requiem for a DREAM Act. After a proposed immigration law is rejected by the U.S. Senate, a man named Hector Lopez must find another way to make his way home. And...there's a sucker born every minute. And since those suckers are lampreys, which are invasive parasites in the Great Lakes, scientists are working hard to create a suction reductio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, January 4, 2011 * Pak. Governor Killed * Ivory Coast - Gbagbo Camp * Australia Snake Wrangler * SC: Caterpillar Parasite * Arrival City Repeat You can't stop progress -- but you can stop progressives. Salman Taseer, the liberal governor of Pakistan's Punjab province, is shot to death by his own bodyguard.The writhing tide. When an Australian flood brings a plague of snakes, an expert snake-wrangler's phone rings off the hook.When it comes to standing down, he's standoffish. In Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo claims he wants a peaceful solution -- but still refuses to leave the presidential palace. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, January 3, 2011 * Australia Floods * OBIT: Pete Postlethwaite * SOD: No Honking * Art Stock Exchange * N. Korea Repeat In deep, Down Under. The town of Rockhampton in the Australian state of Queensland suffers the worst of torrential flooding -- and fears the worst is still to come. For the love of Pete. Canadian actor Gordon Pinsent shares fond memories of his friend and colleague, Pete Postlethwaite, who died yesterday at the age of sixty-four. Prisoners at home, pariahs abroad. a repeat of Carol's interview with author Mike Kim about his work with North Korean refugees escaping into China. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As it Happens for Friday, December 31 * Obit: Tony Proudfoot * Zimbabweans in South Africa * John Wilkes Booth DNA Test * Obit: Rosie the Riveter A hero on and off the field. We pay tribute to the celebrated Montreal Alouette Tony Proudfoot -- who used his platform to raise awareness of ALS * Sign up or ship out. Today is the deadline for Zimbaweans in South Africa to apply for visas -- without which, they'll be deported * Her story is riveting. How the late Geraldine Doyle inspired an iconic Second World War poster that inspired women to join the war effort. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As it Happens for Thursday, December 30 * Ivory Coast Genocide * Wikileaks Haiku * Belarus Opposition Charged * Dr. Robert #1 * Obit: Bobby Farrell * Shelagh Rogers O. of C. * Egyptian Facebook Case * Norway House Design * Dr. Robert #2 Sounding the alarm in Ivory Coast. The country's ambassador to the U.N. warns the world that a genocide may be looming * Shelagh of approval. We've known for a long time that the CBC's Shelagh Rogers is a Canadian of the first order -- and now she's an Officer of the Order of Canada * There are worse things than being un-friended. An Egyptian man gets six months in prison for starting a Facebook group in favour of enlisting in the army. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As it Happens for Wednesday, December 29 * Iraq Suicide Bombing Death * Obit: Denis Dutton * NEJM Sleep-Deprived Docs * Reindeer Reflectors * FOA: Obit – Naomi Bronstein * 3D Food Printer * DA: Buenos Aires Loud * Reading: The Hockey Sweater He seemed invincible. But after five previous attempts to kill Iraqi police commander Shamel Ahmed al-Jabouri, suicide bombers finally, and tragically, succeed * He broke arts stories -- and now he's broken hearts. Author Steven Pinker tells us about his friend, the late Denis Dutton -- the philosophy professor behind one of the world's best arts websites * And...he nearly died in the wool. Author Roch Carrier reads his own story of a kid who was no pushover when it came to an unwanted pull ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As it Happens for Tuesday, December 28 * Guadalupe Police Kidnapping * FTR: Sugarloaf Lift Accident * SOD: Colin Firth Research * NYT Found Poetry * Chechen Defamation Trial * Neanderthal Cousin DNA * Indian Activist Sentenced * Spiderman Woes Officer down. Erika Gándara was the last police officer in the increasingly dangerous town of Guadalupe, Mexico -- and now, she's been abducted * A president takes precedence. When a human-rights worker accuses Chechnya's leader of assassinating his colleague, Natalya Estemirova, he finds himself in court -- facing three years in prison * And...in a seemingly straightforward story about winter weather, one New York Times reporter unleashes a blizzard of of poetic language. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As it Happens for Monday, December 27 * Khodorkovsky Guilty * Saharan Cheetah * FTR: Regina Explosion * FOA: Amelia Earhart * Obit: Teena Marie * British Wildlife Doing Well * Larry Harvey* Of oil barons and greased palms. Former Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky is found guilty of fraud, but were the charges trumped up? * Puffin along just fine. A report says many threatened species of British wildlife are thriving this year now that proper 'seasonal' weather has returned to the UK * He was one of Nashville's brightest lights -- in 1955. A replay of our intervew with Larry Harvey, who returned to the stage some five decades after he gave it up. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, December 24th, 2010 * CHRISTMAS SPECIAL * The Shepherd * We'll join a lost pilot who gets some timely help -- in our annual presentation of Frederick Forsyth's "The Shepherd", as read by the late Alan Maitland. As It Happens, the Christmas Eve edition. Radio that brings you a Christmas classic in plain English -- and in an English plane. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, December 23rd, 2010 * Ivory Coast Gen * Rwandan Journalist * Community Radio Act * Scr: Redheads * Round Ireland With A Fridge* From Ivory Coast, one of Laurent Gbagbo's top lieutenants tells us how far he'll go to protect the man who refuses to concede that he's no longer president. When a Rwandan journalist expresses concerns about his government's oppression of the press, he quickly becomes the subject of a government smear campaign. Thanks to the freshly passed Community Radio Act, the American airwaves will soon be chock a-block with new FM stations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, December 22nd, 2010 * Ivory Coast Journos * Vancouver Island Goose Culls * Cheese Fondue Study * Flash Mob Closes Mall * Juarez Pak * Instead of bylines, he wants goodbye lines. Laurent Gbagbo insists he's still the president of Ivory Coast -- and his supporters are pressuring foreign journalists to get out. The city that destroyed itself. 2010 was a lethal year for Mexico's Ciudad Juarez -- and we'll look back at how we covered the Murder Capital of the World. Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat. So one Vancouver biologist thinks it's time to stop their gorging -- and wipe out pretty much the whole gaggle. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, December 21st, 2010 * G-20 Police Officer Charged * Oil Sands Monitoring * Oldest Red-Tailed Hawk* FOA: Steve Landesberg * Klingon Xmas Carol * Dream Act Folo * Ah Pan * Apprehended -- despite previous apprehensions. Six months after a protester was beaten by police at the G-20 Summit, a Toronto police officer is charged with assault. According to an expert panel, you couldn't really call the Alberta oilsands monitoring system a "system" at all. A New York bird expert is reacquainted with what may be the oldest red-tailed hawk on the continent. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, December 20th, 2010 * Ivory Coast - UN * Peterborough Coach Update * DADT Gone * Year in Food Pak * The Coast of Christmas present. Ivory Coast's former president refuses to leave -- and so do U.N. forces Winning a face-off. The Ontario Minor Hockey Association lifts its suspension of a coach who pulled his team from the ice after an opponent's racial slur. The few, the out, the proud, the Marines. After the United States Senate repeals "Don't Ask, Don't Tell", one gay soldier who was given the boot -- still hopes to re-enlist. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, December 17, 2010 * Pinochet Collaborators Trial * Buy American Ohio * Faro Gas-Pumping Councillor * Gorilla Census * Reading: Upon A Midnight Clear Absence and malice. Thirteen former Chilean officials are convicted in absentia in the deaths of four French men during the Pinochet era. Mass transit hysteria. The Japanese city of Toride is shaken, after a man attacks two buses full of schoolchildren. Chair and chair dislike. When a Canadian furniture company loses a contract because of a "Buy American" policy, one of our consuls general joins the décor-us against the decision. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website READING: THE SLOW DESTRUCTION There are traditions, and then there are traditions. You've got your Christmas trees and your figgy puddings, sure. But, as you are about to hear, some traditions are best approached with caution. This is "The Slow Destruction of Harvey J. Grebe," written by Pierre Berton and read by Bill Dow. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, December 16, 2010 * FTR: Julian Assange * Assange Bail * Pipeline Decision * Banff Rescue * DA: Cuba Wikipedia * Former Detroit Mayor Indicted * Credit Card Crackdown * Year in Science Springing a leaker. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is out on bail and headed for a British country estate -- and we'll speak with the man who owns the manse. The Motor City's dishonest mechanic. Former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is conveniently already in prison when he's indicted on multiple new charges -- including fraud. Unfrozen in time. A B.C. man is alive today because of two brothers who refused to believe he couldn't be rescued from an icy demise. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, December 15, 2010 * Christmas Island Disaster * British High Commissioner * FTR: I am Canadian * Jeff Douglas * SOD: Rugby Player * Kenya ICC Suspects Named * TB/Email: Penny Angst * Dakota Native Pardon * FTR: Obit John Josep Island of lost souls. Dozens of asylum seekers are killed when their boat capsizes off Australia's Christmas Island. Power corrupts. The International Criminal Court pursues cases against six high-profile politicians in Kenya for their roles in the post-election violence of 2008. He doesn't want to look back at his time here warmly. The outgoing British High Commissioner to Canada takes some parting shots at our failure to address climate change. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, December 14, 2010 * FTR: Holbrooke on AIH * Obit: Richard Holbrooke * Khartoum Demo Arrests * FTR: Assange Lawyer * OpenLeaks * FTR: Earl Jones Demo * Penny Angst * Reading: To Every Thing He spoke for his country. American diplomat Richard Holbrooke, whose stock-in-trade was tough negotiations, dies at the age of sixty-nine. Strengths and leaknesses, Part One. Julian Assange has problems besides jail: his former colleagues are starting up a website to rival WikiLeaks. Strengths and leaknesses, Part Two. When an MP's aide shared a confidential report, he was trying to look cool -- but he may have left Parliament out the in cold. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, December 13, 2010 * Vancouver Gang Shootout * FTR: Bay Bulls Standoff RCMP * Swedish Bomber * Candle Auction * African Research Treatments * DA: Old Soup Pot * Runner Jogger Google Alert The storm amid the calm. An ongoing turf war in Vancouver spreads into a residential neighbourhood -- where a gunfight leaves two critically injured. Continental divide. Just like in the West, African researchers are coming up with important health research -- but the difference is, in Africa, that research goes undeveloped. Stockholm in shock. No one but the suicide bomber is killed in a weekend detonation -- but the blast ignites a debate over Sweden's immigration policy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, December 10th, 2010 * Ashtiani TV Folo (extended interview) * John Ralston Saul: Nobel * Glastonbury Tree * Holiday Reading: "A Coyote Solstice Tale" * For a while there, it seemed that condemned Iranian woman Sakineh Ashtiani had been freed - but according to Iran, nothing could be further from the truth. Thomas King's story of a trickster introduced to a shopping mall is a seasonal tale about seasonal retail. The absent Liu Xiaobo gets a standing ovation at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony -- and a chorus of boos from China. The much-celebrated Holy Thorn tree of Glastonbury is much mourned, after vandals perform a catastrophic hatchet job ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, December 9th, 2010 * Public Integrity Commissioner * Iranian Blogger Released * Taiwan Bills Shredded * Hair Fly * Assange Extradition * Antarctic High Seas Adventure * According to the Auditor-General, Canada's former Public Integrity Commissioner was iffy on the meaning of "Public" and "Integrity". Sweden wants the founder of WikiLeaks extradited -- but that may prove extra-difficult. A Canadian-Iranian blogger imprisoned in Iran receives a discharge -- that will last an all-too-brief forty-eight hours. When you hear about science's re-discovery of the "Terrible Hairy Fly", you'll wish science would lose it again. Also, an Arctic high seas adventure. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, December 8th, 2010 * Haiti Election Results * WikiLeaks Cyber War * Giant Stork * Homeland Securtity Walmart * B.C. Abalone Fishery * Cop Catches Repeat Speeder * Jackie Robinson Story * After the disputed election, frustrated Haitians wreak havoc across the country. Despite its selflessness toward shellfish, a First Nations community in B.C. prepares to say goodbye to the abalone. A story about a giant stork that may have eaten ‘hobbit’ people. When Mastercard, Visa, and other companies disallow donations to WikiLeaks, hackers take down their websites. Finally, a story of a man, a police officer and two speeding tickets ...and that's all we're going to tell you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, December 7th, 2010 * G20 New Videographer * Andre Marin * Banff Snails * Wikileaks: Assange * Gerry Adams * Arm Wrestling Twins * Another video of Toronto police beating G-20 protester Adam Nobody is released - and we'll talk to the man who shot it. One of Julian Assange's lawyers explains why the WikiLeaks founder handed himself over to British authorities. Gerry Adams, the leader of Sinn Fein, reacts to Ireland's budget. Banff's snails are at risk of drying up. And, we'll introduce you to the twin titans of Canadian arm-wrestling: actual twins Ralphie and Randy Bayers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, December 6th, 2010 * Iranian Canadian Web Designer * Climate Conference: No Kyoto * Hottest Chili * Obit: David French * Ivory Coast Official * Turner Prize Sound Artist * An Iranian-born web developer living in Canada travels to Iran to visit his parents - where he's arrested and sentenced to death. Actor Albert Schultz remembers one of Canada's greatest playwrights: the late David French. From Cancun, Green Party leader Elizabeth May tells us why Canada's getting the cold shoulder at the U.N. Climate Change Summit. It may seem tough to swallow that the world's hottest pepper comes from England, but it's true -- and it's tough to swallow. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, December 3rd, 2010 * Wikileaks – Canada Follow * FOA: Blair G20 Apology * Hockey Coach Susp’d * Major League Dreidel * Ivory Coast Election * Pavlova Inventor * Cancer Centre Fraudster * Wilkins Clarification * FTR: Snowman 9 WikiLeak-ed revelations about unscrupulous leadership in Afghanistan raise serious questions about what we're doing there. When no one wins, everyone loses. According to the U.N. and Ivory Coast's official electoral commission, the opposition won the election -- but the current president refuses to admit defeat. When one of his players is subjected to a racial slur, a hockey coach yanks his team off the ice and now he's been barred from coaching. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010 * Galbraith on Wikileaks * DND Ombudsman - Families * Que MD Bribes * DA: Bees War in House * G-20 Abuse Hearings * FTR: US Grenade Kills Aid Workers * Almanac Weather Predictor Ally oops. A Canadian envoy to Afghanistan speaks frankly about the American relationship with President Karzai -- and then offers to resign when that frank assessment is leaked.Manic repression. An Ontario lawyer says that police were targeting would-be protesters well before the G-20 Summit even happened in Toronto.We regret to inform you that we won't inform you. Canada's military ombudsman excoriates our military for withholding information about fallen soldiers from their families. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010 * Ottawa Police Video * DADT Marine * Robbie Burns Museum * DA: R.I. Stop Signs * Guatemala Mining Lawsuit * SC: Wikileaks - Cdn. TV * Actor Sees Her Film * SOD Malaysia Gay Film The long harm of the law. A judge releases another video of police brutality in Ottawa -- and one of the offending officers looks suspiciously familiar. Seeking long-distance justice. When a Guatemalan man is killed for speaking out against a Canadian mining company, his wife files a lawsuit against that company in Toronto. An out-and-out vindication. Kicked out of the Marines for coming out, Justin Elzie says a new Pentagon report shows it's time for the U.S. military to reject DADT. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, November 30, 2010 * BC Doc on Drunk Driving * Fantino Wins Elxn * Dead Iran Scientist * SC: Power Pose * Haiti Elxn: Mtl * Email: Sun Ownership * Conn. Gay Couple A wasted opportunity. A B.C. doctor tells us how drunk drivers use hospitals as "safe havens" after accidents -- and why their blood samples can't always be shared with police. Disdain from a distance. The head of the Haitian Council of Montreal vigorously disagrees with the official line that Sunday's election was fraught but fair. His chief attributes. Former Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner Julian Fantino wins an Ontario by-election -- and tells us about his new beat. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, November 29, 2010 * Haiti Election * Aging Mice Reversed * SC: Wikileak Leader Insults * Afghan Child Detainees * FOA: OBIT Leslie Nielsen * Juarez Journo Najera * DA: Sun's Owner From natural disaster to political disaster. Haiti's general election is a shambles -- and one of the presidential candidates tells us why he's boycotting the results.Juvenile delinquency. Canadian forces didn't just detain Afghan children they suspected of collaborating with the Taliban -- they handed them over to people who'd been accused of torture.Mice versa. When Harvard scientists reverse the aging process in test animals, they find a way to make the rodent less travelled. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, November 26, 2010 * Haiti Elections * Dentists Spot Abuse * Rio Violence * The Most Boring Day * Cameroon Journo Awards * Mammal Boom * Obit: Inuit Artist Limping toward democracy. Cholera, communities in ruins, and deep-seated voter skepticism are three enormous problems facing Haiti as its citizens go to the polls. Death in pursuit of truth. Last night, the late Bibi Ngota of Cameroon won an International Press Freedom Award -- and today, his sister joined Carol to talk about his dedication to journalism. Face first. A Scottish charity trains dentists to recognizes the signs of domestic abuse in the mouths of their patients. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, November 25 * Danny Williams Resigns * New Zealand Rescue * Talback: Dogs and Cats * Korea - Food Shakedown * Manitoba Memorial Service * Crime Solving Study * Coleman on Miller Stepping off his pedestal. The wildly popular Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, Danny Williams, tells us why he's calling it a day -- a very successful day. Explosions and extortion. North Korea's recent attack on the South may be part of an attempt to get more food aid to its starving citizens. Three boys, one boat, fifty days at sea. The first mate on a tuna-fishing vessel tells us how he and his colleagues rescued three drifting teenagers from certain death. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, November 24, 2010 * NZ Mine Pastor * Ireland Political Fallout * Inuk Pilot * Faint hope, extinguished. After another explosion at a New Zealand coal mine, a vigil for twenty-nine trapped miners ends in mourning. Opposite numbers with opposite numbers. El Paso is named the safest city in America -- while right across the Mexican border, Ciudad Juarez has the highest murder rate on Earth. The return of the fabulous fabulist. I'll sit down with Salman Rushdie, to talk about his new book, "Luka and the Fire of Life". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, November 23, 2010 * Lebanon UN Tribunal * Cambodia Stampede * Criminal Pardons * Korea Artillery * TB/Email Kilts * HIV Prevention Pill * SOD Conch Shells Pointed fingers, clenched fists. If any members of Hezbollah are indicted for the assassination of Rafik Hariri, the militant group vows severe reprisals. Dangerous neighbour-hood. Violence erupts between North and South Korea -- and the world waits to see what happens next. And...twenty tooters self-tutored to toot. For the first time, scientists have a swell time casting a spell with seldom-blown, ancient conch shells. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, November 22 * US Ambassador to NATO * Lebanon Assassination - CBC Documentary * FTR: Alberta Health CEO * Scottish Kilt Advice * Polygamy Trial Starts * Tigers in Trouble * Stuttering Study Definitely maybe. The United States' ambassador to NATO discusses the plan to have troops out of Afghanistan by 2014 -- and all of its various caveats. Way more than a three-ring circus. B.C.'s Supreme Court prepares for a long, fraught process, as it addresses the constitutionality of polygamy. Tiger, tiger, fading fast. At a conference in Russia, conservationists address the rapidly dwindling number of big cats. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, November 19 * New Zealand Mine Explosion * Hotel Doormen Arrests * Irish Banks - Kilkenomics * Dateline: Google Mao Border Hoax * Redfern Inquiry * S.A. Rape Case * Quebec Debt Load All they can do is wait. After an explosion at a New Zealand coal mine, dozens of workers are trapped underground -- and the local mayor describes his town's ordeal.Frankenstein-ian monsters. How British doctors performed post-mortem medical tests on dozens of dead British nuclear workers, without anyone's consent.In Montreal, nothing was certain but debt and taxis. Police break up a shakedown scheme involving one hotel's doormen, and the city's cab-drivers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, November 18 * Oympic Village Receivership * Haiti Cholera: Politics * British Office Breakfasts Bad * Biggest Maple Leaf * Irish Banks - Brian Lucey * Email: Senate Kills Bill * Concrete-Filling Bacteria * Third Eye Project Montreal has "The Big O" -- and now Vancouver has "The Big Oh, Good Grief". The Olympic village goes into receivership -- with the city still owed hundreds of millions of dollars. A loan at last. With the country's economy teetering on the brink, the head of Ireland's central bank says he's expecting an influx of E.U. cash. Government in the time of cholera. With an epidemic gripping Haiti, experts question whether it's the right time for the country's imminent general election. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, November 17th * Climate Bill Killed * FTR: QP Climate Bill * Ottawa Woman Stripsearched * DA: Prison Bad Translation * London Roman Settlement* Mt. Marapi Update * Vitor Bout Extradited * Restored Sask. Murals He loaded the chamber -- and now, it has fired. The Prime Minister has filled the Senate with fellow Conservatives -- who have used their power to defeat a climate change bill. Under the volcano. Indonesians start heading home -- even though many of their homes were destroyed by a still-threatening Mt. Merapi. To the spoilers goes Viktor. After a long diplomatic squabble between two former Cold War rivals, Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout is extradited to the United States. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, November 16 * Afghan Extension: Mackay * Afghan Extension: Rae * Guantanamo Detainees Compensation * Marijuana Bookstore Owner * Irish Banks - EU Folo * FTR: Vaillancourt * Que. Bribe Scandal * GG Fiction Winner Tension begets extension. Citing an unprepared Afghan military, the government announces Canadian soldiers will stay in Afghanistan until 2014. Time is money. The U.K.'s government agrees to pay an undisclosed sum to British citizens detained at Guantanamo Bay -- but offers no apology. Pushing the envelope. Two Quebec politicians claim the long-serving mayor of Laval attempted to bribe them -- a charge he vehemently denies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, November 15 * Mexico Explosion Witness * Arctic Security Report * Pterosaur Dino Report * Rodeo Hero * Irsih Banks * Poppyseed Drug Call * Obit: Noah Augustine From idyllic to deadly. We'll talk with a Saskatchewan woman who's vacationing at the Mexican resort where seven people were killed by an explosion. Celtic Tiger turned paper tiger. Ireland's economy is sinking fast -- but so far, the country's government is stubbornly refusing to ask for a bailout. Tundra enlightening. When it comes to Arctic security, a new report says the most important issue isn't military might -- it's providing basic needs to northern residents. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, November 12, 2010 * Abandoned Girl * Afghan Canada Withdrawal * NS Justice Minister * UK Workfare * Australian Tamil Refugees * Vietnamese Female Lizards Her mother's keeper. A B.C. man is furious, after his fifteen-year-old sister with Down Syndrome is left alone for more than a week with their dead mother. Will more people be doleful about being dole-less? The British government says no one will be hurt by its welfare reforms -- but critics say that's rich. Lack of curiosity killed the chat. MPs can argue all they want about Canadian military trainers staying in Afghanistan past 2011 -- but the Prime Minister has made up his mind. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, November 11, 2010 * Rizzuto Murder * Florida House Guy * TedTalks Ryerson Guy * We Were Freedom * Turkish Village Moves * Dick Van Dyke Saved By Porpoises * Textbook Fair Dealing Death of a don. The reputed godfather of the Canadian mafia, eighty-six-year old Nicolo Rizzuto, is gunned down in his Montreal home.Fair play, or stealing home? The doors may be shut on thousands of Florida homes slated for foreclosure, but some investors find wide-open windows of opportunity.Lest we forget. Our conversation with a Canadian World War II veteran, whose story is one of several featured in a new book by The Memory Project. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, November 10, 2010 * UN Women Ambassador * UN Stephen Lewis * FTR Iranian Ambassador * Giller Winner * Legalize Drugs Judge * FTR Home Invasion * West Memphis Three Hearing * Obit Al Johnson * It wasn't just the tension that was oppressive. After a vote, Iran fails to secure a seat with a new U.N. agency for women. Rights and wrongs. Stephen Lewis is relieved that Iran has lost its bid -- but concerned about the other newly-elected members of the U.N. Women agency. Put your nose out of joints. An American judge says it's time to wave the white flag in the War on Drugs -- at least where marijuana is concerned. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, November 8, 2010 * Burma Elections* Iran Women UN * 9/11 Compensation * Miss Teen Nova Scotia * Virgin Birth Boa * Star Sound With agencies like these, who needs enemies? Disbelief gives way to outrage, as Iran and Saudi Arabia are poised to be elected members of a United Nations group devoted to women's rights. He can't even breathe a sigh of relief. A former New York police detective tells us about the health problems he developed after his time at Ground Zero -- and his part of an expected compensation package. Fraudulent election, real unrest. The vote in Burma returns an unsurprising result. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, November 9, 2010 * SA School rape * Anti-Semitism: Cotler * Belin Sculpture Exhibit * Russia Journos Attacks Folo * Unmarked Aboriginal Graves * Yukon Coffins * FTR Wheel of Fortune The student body. No students are punished for an alleged gang-rape at a South African school -- which leads to outrage across the country. Anti-battery acid. In Russia, where reporters are regularly assaulted and even killed, the beating of one journalist incites a groundswell of bitter protest. Redefining intolerance. A conference in Ottawa seeks to combat anti-Semitism -- but some critics say there are those who want to make it a crime to criticize Israel. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, November 5, 2010 * Prisons Report * Haiti: Thomas * Haiti: Permanent Housing * FTR: Danny Williams * NFLD docs quit * Food Writer - Cooks source * Russian Sailors Home * FTR: Skibsrud Detention mounts -- while detention centres fall apart. Overcrowding, collapsing infrastructure, and lack of mental-health resources are among the problems cited by Canada's prison ombudsman. Good night, nurse. Thirteen medical professionals in Newfoundland and Labrador submit their resignations, fed up with too much work and not enough support. Shortly, Farley. My conversation with a man who is simultaneously the enfant terrible and eminence grise of Canadian literature: Farley Mowat. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, November 4, 2010 * Tijuana/California Tunnel * Don Martin on Jim Prentice * American Ballet in Cuba * FTR: Giller -- Bergen * Yemen Folof: poverty * Oxford Street Sidewalks * FTR: Giller - Selecky * Dr. Robert: Problems&Sle Tunnel vision. American agents uncover a tunnel between Tijuana and San Diego -- with nearly thirty tonnes of marijuana inside.The money flows in -- but none trickles down. The U.S. is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to support Yemen's military -- while the country is mired in poverty and unemployment.And...multi-stop shopping. Frustrated by the glacial pace of gawking walkers, business owners on London's Oxford Street contemplate a sidewalk with a slow lane and a fast lane. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, November 3, 2010 * US Election: Republican * US Election: Politico * Gordon Campbell Resigns * FTR: Andy Irons Obit * Email: English Language Evolution * Tony Clement Potash * Ashtiani Watcher * Computer by Brain Control * Dro The Battle Hymn of the Republicans. Former Congressman Tom Davis talks about his party's historic victory -- and what the G.O.P. will do with its new power. Campbell in the wind. B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell was flickering -- and now, with his surprise resignation, he's gone out entirely. And...inconspicuous consumption. An African bird called the "drongo" pretends to be warning meerkats of danger -- when all it really wants is to steal and eat their lizards. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, November 2, 2010 * Ashtiani Execution * Haiti Cholera: UN Base * FTR: Jaques Rougeau Retires * English Language Evolution * US Campaign Spending * TB/email: Khadr Sentence * Greece Letter Bombs * FTR: Gillers - MacLeod Her time may have run out. According to reports, Iranian authorities have abruptly ordered the execution of Sakineh Ashtiani for tomorrow morning. Checks and balances and cheques and more cheques. How this year's mid-terms became the most expensive elections in American history. And...you say "tom-ay-toe", I say "tom-ah-toe" -- let's call the whole thing awfully interesting. A new British exhibit explores the EX-kwi-zit -- and ex-KWI-zit -- variations in the way English is spoken. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, November 1st, 2010 * Khadr Sentence: Prosecutor * Ashley Smith Documents * TB: Mallory/Malloy * Hockey Concussion Study * Romeo Dallaire* Crime and punishment - The Chief of Prosecutions at Guantanamo Bay tells us that justice has been done in the case of Omar Khadr. The solitary death of Ashley Smith. An internal Correctional Services report concluded the nineteen-year-old did not commit suicide in prison -- and her family wants that report to be made public. The fight to save childhood. A feature interview with General Romeo Dallaire about his efforts to stop the use of child soldiers around the world Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As it Happens for Friday, October 29 * Citizen's Arrest Verdict * Biodiversity Pact * Sc: Mt. Everest Phones * SCOC Statute of Limitation * Carbon Trading Island * Email: Shooting Gallery * DA: Support the Troops Taking a proprietor-y interest. Toronto storeowner David Chen became a national story when he was arrested for apprehending a shoplifter -- and today, that story is over. A worst-case scenario with no best-before date. Over the Catholic Church's protestations, the Supreme Court rules the statute of limitations doesn't apply to a Quebec woman's abuse case. Hoping they'll play their cards right. With the goal of reducing emissions, a South Pacific island issues "carbon cards" to its residents ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As it Happens for Thursday, October 28, 2010 * Hotel Rwanda Accusations * Swedish Race Shootings * TB/Email: AIH/Rob Ford * Laughing Contest * Haiti - Cholera MSF * Le Journal Lockout Newspaper * Shooting Game Photos Casting a Paul. During the genocide, Paul Rusesabagina provided sanctuary to Tutsis-and now the Rwandan government is accusing him of providing money to a Hutu rebel group. A terrible disease and its disastrous side effects. Fear of a cholera epidemic in Haiti leads to violence - and Doctors Without Borders is on the receiving end. Death imitates art. In Sweden, a series of shootings that appear to be racially motivated bears a striking similarity to a Henning Mankell crime novel. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, October 27, 2010 * Ivan Henry Acquitted * TB/EMAIL: Rob Ford * Cross-country Runners * Biodiversity - Prentice * Biodiversity - Innu * Gairdner - Malaria Research One day in the life of Ivan Henry. A B.C. man is acquitted after twenty-six years in prison -- and he tells us what he plans to do with his freedom. Setting out our stall tactics. Environment Minister Jim Prentice explains why Canada hasn't exactly been a team player at the U.N. Convention on Biodiversity. Birds of a feather die together. Hundreds more ducks perish after landing on a toxic pond full of waste from Alberta's oil sands. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, October, 26, 2010 * Rob Ford, Hazel McCallion, Naheed Nenshi Ceremony, Tariq Aziz Sentence, Jane Austin's Editor, Paul the Octopus Obit, Brad Wall, Indonesia Tsunami, CSIS Foreign Spies, Chupacabra Lightning Rob. The new mayor of Canada's largest city, Rob Ford, is too busy for an interview -- but he gives us part of one anyway. Up against a Wall. If the government wants to sell Saskatchewan's Potash Corporation, it will have to contend with the province's premier, Brad Wall. He always saw it coming. If we had paid closer attention to Paul the prognosticating octopus, we'd know he was saying, "Spain will win the World Cup -- and I'm totally going to die in October." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, October 25, 2010 * Khadr Plea Trial Deal * Wikileaks - Torture Allegations * Romanian Children Slaves * SCR: Belly Button Lint * Biodiversity conference * S.D. Priest Abuse Records * Obese Children Heart Disease Turnabout and foul play. Omar Khadr once vowed he wouldn't accept a plea deal -- but today, he did just that, pleading guilty to war-crimes charges.Creature discomforts. When it comes to protecting biodiversity, Canada is accused of operating at a snail's pace -- but not for a snail's benefit.Burying their heads in the sand. Among the hundreds of thousands of Wikileaks documents on Iraq, evidence that the U.S. military turned a blind eye to torture. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, October 22 * Haiti Cholera * SCOC: Daniel LeBlanc * Inuit Dog Slaughter Report * SC: Abramoff Facebook * New Wikileaks Leak * U of A Hazing * FOA: Syncrude Fine * Zurich Door Adding infection to injury. Ten months after the earthquake, Haiti is struggling to contain an outbreak of cholera that has already killed more than a hundred-and-forty people. Not so much a Wikileak as a Wiki-deluge. The controversial organization plans to release more than four-hundred thousand classified Iraq War documents. The ruling: somebody else make a ruling. The Supreme Court of Canada says it's up to a lower court to decide whether a reporter should reveal his sources. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, October 21 * Human Smuggling: Kenney * Human Smuggling: Hathaway * CFB Trenton: Q&A * CFB Trenton: Speech * BP Spill – Gannets * China Minerals Embargo * FTR: Cooper vs. Gohmert * Art Director Fired * After Heels Are we punishing criminals -- or refugees? The government's new anti-human-smuggling legislation is tough -- but some say it's too tough on those being smuggled. The elements of style. Our fancy TVs and cellphones rely on rare-earth elements, for which the world relies on China -- which is getting stingy with the stuff. A birds-oil view. New research shows that nearly a third of Newfoundland and Labrador's northern gannet population may be threatened by the BP spill. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, October 20 * Don’t Ask Enlisting * Charles Smith-Lockyer * Robert Burns Desk * Burns Poem * SC: Apocalypse Date Wrong * NAACP Report on Tea Party * FOA: Anita Hill * Wind Slows Down * Japan Poetry Boxing We ask, he tells. A former Marine who was discharged for being gay explains why he's decided to re-enlist now that "don't ask, don't tell" has been struck down. A Tea Party steeped in intolerance? Well, that's the claim of a new report alleging ties between the upstart political movement and white supremacist groups. The second opinions keep coming. Dr. Charles Smith's fraudulent testimony led to a lot of wrongful convictions -- and today, two more were quashed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, October 19 * French Strikes – Canadian * French Pensions Folo * Calgary Mayor * FTR: Pinera Miners * Cape Dorset Violence * HRW: Ethiopia Funding *Ipad Art They're not shy about retiring. More rioting in Paris and Lyon, as French strikers express their disgust at new pension and retirement laws. Cape of little hope. Another teenager is arrested -- the latest development in an ongoing firearms crisis in the small northern community of Cape Dorset. Putting our money where our mouth isn't. A new report shows that Ethiopia's government is abusing foreign aid -- despite Canada's insistence on "accountability". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, October 18 * Col. Williams Guilty Plea * Congo Rape Report * Easy Latrine * Scr: Squirrel Criminals * Alaska Journo Arrested * Obit: Mendelbrot * Email: Yale U. March * Wojtek The Bear Home is where the heart of darkness is. The town of Tweed, Ontario -- where convicted murderer Russell Williams lived -- struggles to cope with lurid new revelations. He created order from chaos. Author James Gleick remembers mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot -- a giant of fractal geometry and chaos theory. A recurring nightmare. Weeks ago, hundreds were raped by Rwandan rebels in Congo -- and now, a U.N. envoy says the same crime was commited again, this time by Congolese soldiers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, October 15 * Veterans Affairs ALS * FTR: Cape Dorset RCMP * NB Black Apology * Bland Airplane Food * Talkback: Conkers * Salvadoran in BC * Archives: Ronald Smith Execution Yale March * The federal government agrees to provide benefits and treatment to veterans with ALS. The Canadian government orders José Figueroa deported -- for helping his countrymen fight El Salvador's brutal, U.S.-backed death squads. Aspiring frat boys at Yale inspire outrage when they march across campus chanting misogynist slogans. Sometimes you don't know whether you want a napkin or a parachute. Science finally solves one of life's most confounding mysteries: why airplane food is terminally blan ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, October 14 * Cape Breton Sex Abuse * Roman Helmet Sold * Conkers Winner * Vaughan Williams Piece * Nelson Mandela Book * One of the victims of a convicted Canadian pedophile tells us about his horrific abuse -- and the botched handling of his tormentor's case. The man in charge of Nelson Mandela's archives tells us about an intimate new portrait of the South African legend -- made up of his own private letters and diaries. A British farmer goes to an auction house, cap in hand -- and leaves a millionaire, thanks to that very expensive, ancient cap. And, the 2010 World Conkers Championship. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, October 13 * Chile Miners Family * Graham James Warrant * Talkback: Security Council * Phone Box Art Gallery * Niqab Trial Decision * Transgendered Homecoming Queen * Slower Starbucks Baristas * Long Distance Humpback * The uncle of two trapped Chilean miners shares his joy at the ongoing rescue. An Ontario court announces its decision on whether women can wear the niqab while testifying -- and the decision is, "Depends." A transgendered Texas student fights to be nominated homecoming queen at her high school -- but officials deny her shot at the crown. The British town of Prickwillow converts a telephone box into a tiny gallery. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, October 12 * Security Council * Geordie Translators * Ashtiani: More Arrests * FTR: Schwarzenegger in Russia * FTR: Queen Mary Rescue * Purdy's Privy * When it becomes clear that Canada can't win, the government abruptly withdraws its bid for a seat on the U.N. Security Council -- Tonight, both Peter Kent and Bob Rae weigh-in. In the middle of an interview, the son of condemned Iranian woman Sakineh Ashtiani is apparently arrested -- along with his interviewers. A stranger in Moscow: Arnold Schwarzenegger travels to Russia. And, a story about refurbishing Al Purdy's Privy. Also, Jurga Zilinskiene thinks she can translate the Geordie accent ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, October 11 * British Aid Worker * Hungary: Environment Official * Robotic Swan * 7/7 Inquiry * Not a Da Vinci? * Dateline: Gandhi No More * FOA: Solomon Burke Obit Hungary's environment minister takes aim at the company responsible for spilling toxic ooze into the country's river system. A public inquiry into the 7/7 suicide bombings begins in London. India's prime minister asks people to stop naming things after members of the Ghandi clan. A Calgary art historian can't decide whether a painting said to be by Leonardo Da Vinci is, in fact, a forgery. A Swedish production of Tschaikovsky's famous ballet makes its debut -- with a robotic swan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, October 8 * SCOC: Right to Lawyer * Nobel Prize: Liu Xiaobo * TB: Sun Chips * Vivaldi Found * Russian Ship Folo * * SOD: Brit Library Poet Cummings * The Nobel causes a ringing controversy. China is furious when one of its imprisoned dissidents earns this year's Peace prize. Lawyering down. The Supreme Court rules you may not necessarily have the right to an attorney during police interrogations. The concerto for flute and haggis? A long-lost score by Italian Baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi turns up -- in Scotland. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, October 7 * FTR: Bruyea * Privacy Commissioner * Russ Williams Guilty Plea * SOD: Brit. Library Poet – Ogden Nash * NS Bell Found * SC: Sun Chips * WPG Alzheimer’s Inmate * Welsh Hitchhiker * FOA: Mario Vargas Llosa * Cornw Too big for their breaches. Canada's Privacy Commissioner slams Veterans Affairs for sharing a veteran's private health information. A crime he's unaware of having committed. A Winnipeg Alzheimer's patient is held for assaulting his wife, after he panicked because he didn't recognize her. His double life may mean a life sentence. Colonel Russell Williams says he will plead guilty to murder, sexual assault and breaking-and-entering. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, October 6 * Hungary Sludge Disaster – Activist * Panama Tycoon Fight * FTR: Paramedics Story * C. David – Priscilla * Holocaust Diary * NS Bell Stolen * DA: Italian Sculpture * FOA: Obit S. Africa Chimp * SC: Dr. Robert � It couldn't be contained -- and now they can barely contain themselves. A Hungarian environmental group warned the government repeatedly that toxic red sludge could breach a reservoir -- and now it has. Private thoughts, public battle. An Israeli woman fights for ownership of her father's Holocaust diary -- but Polish officials are going by the book. A quest for a bequest. An American businessman left fifty million dollars to Panama's poor children -- the Supreme Court ruled he didn't Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, October 5 * Hungary Sludge Disaster * James Hanson * FTR: Larry O’Brien * FTR: Christine O’Donnell Ad * Compassionate Neanderthal * French Trader Guilty * Jonathan Franzen Glasses * Clown Protest Seeing red. Hungary declares a state of emergency after a dam bursts -- and floods villages with toxic crimson sludge. Crime pays...and pays, and pays. A French trader's prison sentence is the least of his problems; a judge's insistence that he pay back billions of Euros is the most. Assault of the Earth. A pioneering climate-change scientist says a new tar-sands project shouldn't go ahead has planned. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, October 4 * Afghan Taliban Infiltration * TB/Email: Online Comments * Tom Thomson * Space Beer * Message in a Bottle * SOD: Brazil Clown Winner * FOA: Nobel Winner Edwards * Lost Cohen Doc Subversion from within. A retired U.N. official says that theTaliban has infiltrated Afghanistan's security forces. Not exactly the buoy next door. A Florida student's message in a bottle bobs its way to an Irish fishing village. Canvassing the neighbourhood. Author Roy MacGregor has spent decades researching the mysterious death of Tom Thomson -- and his new book provides some long-sought answers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, October 1, 2010 * US Guatemala Experiments * Pakistan NATO Trucks * Anna Porter * St. Petersburg Hit and Run * Slave Ships * Babylonian Archive Infection and contrition. Seventy years ago, American researchers deliberately exposed hundreds of Guatemalans to STDs -- and today, the U.S. Secretary of State apologized. Still together -- but facing irreconcilable differences. American airstrikes and Pakistani retribution expose and increasingly fractious relationship between the allied countries. Babylonian is still a dead language -- but a British scholar is attempting to resuscitate on the Web. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, September 30, 2010 * Iceland Follow * Irish Bank Bailout * Tennis Trophy Found * Mtl. Racism Report * George Galloway * Canso Dissolves A nervous Reykjavik. With his country's economy still ice-cold, an Iceland MP tells us why he voted to indict former Prime Minister Gair Haarde. Erin go blah. The Irish government announces its bank bailout will be billions of Euros more expensive than expected. And...low-overhead smash. A Toronto woman buys a secondhand serving platter -- and discovers it's actually a valuable, lost tennis trophy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, September 28, 2010 * Prostitution Ruling * New NB Premier * Alaska Walrus Research * SCR: Stegosaurus Name * Doug Saunders Book The newest concession to the oldest profession. An Ontario judge strikes down the province's prostitution law -- saying it puts sex workers in jeopardy. He writes of passage. A feature interview with author Doug Saunders, whose new book is about unprecedented global migration -- and its effect on cities. And...the writing is on the walruses. Thousands of the bulky marine mammals are crowding the beaches of Alaska, after global warming melts their ice floes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, September 29, 2010 * Iceland PM Indicted * World River Crisis * Igor Fish Plant * Text Ban Accidents * Prostitution Ruling Follow * North Korea New Leader A country hits bottom -- and blames the top. Iceland's parliament votes to indict the former Prime Minister for bungling the country's financial affairs -- but the PM tells us that's absurd.Losing money hand over fish. Hurricane Igor wreaked such havoc on an East Coast fish plant that it was forced to close -- and worse yet, it may never re-open.If we go with the flow, we might not come back. A new global survey reveals that the world's rivers are terribly unhealthy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, September 27, 2010 * BC Flooding * Igor Follow * Settlement Ban Lifted * Ed Miliband * Dung Seeds * Georgia Signs Stolen The life aquatic. After torrential rains, parts of British Columbia are evacuated -- and parts are isolated by severe flooding.A home away from homelessness. A Newfoundland woman's house becomes a shelter for people suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Igor.Building tension. When Israel's Prime Minister lifts a freeze on settlement construction, he risks the destruction of the Middle East peace process. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, September 24th, 2010 * Igor: Victim * Igor: Accountability * Texas School Books * FOA: Famous Commonwealth Toilet * “It Gets Better” Project * October Crisis Doc Maker * Height & Age * SOD: Columbia Drug Bust Parrot * Igor to get out. After running out of food and being stranded for four days, a nonagenarian on the Bonavista peninsula is finally flown to safety in St. John's. Putting the Christ in curriculum. A fight erupts in the Texas School Board over whether books deemed 'anti-Christian' should be banned. Unregistering their support. The Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations seeks exemption from the federal long-gun registry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, September 23rd, 2010 * Asthma Gene Study * Cdn. In US Detention * Knit Bridge Cover * SCR: Milton Dirty Rhyme * Internet Virus * Jackie Burroughs Obit * Lip Sync Record Attempt * The wizards of asthma. After a wide-ranging study, scientists reach a surprising verdict: allergies are a consequence of asthma, not the cause. Farewell to a force of nature. Carol talks with Gordon Pinsent about one of Canada's most magnetic and multi-talented performers: the late Jackie Burroughs. The Public Safety Minister denies a criminal's request to return home -- because of crimes he might commit in the future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, September 22nd, 2010 * Commonwealth Games: Official * Commonwealth Games: Reporter * Iranian Blogger * Igor Folo * Vet Affairs FOI Request * SOD: Anti Mosque Ad * FTR: Wombat Donation * Parting of the Red Sea * FTR: Obit: Sindi H In the spirit of unhealthy competition. Some athletes are cancelling their trips to the Commonwealth Games in Delhi -- although one Indian official says all will be well. He shall fight them on the breaches. An outspoken critic of Veterans Affairs finds that some of his private information ended up in inappropriate hands. A life online puts his life on the line. According to his family, Iran's "Blogfather" may face the death penalty for his Internet writing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, September 21st, 2010 * Commonwealth Games Problems * Russian Gay Activist * FTR: Combine Farmer * Lasker Award * FTR: Polaris Prize * Security Council Lobbying * FTR: Apology Chinese-Cdns * FOA: Toonie Anniversary * War Enemy Reu The most dangerous Games. With only two weeks before the opening ceremonies, Delhi is woefully unprepared to host the Commonwealth Games. Security and insecurity. The Prime Minister is campaigning for a seat on the U.N.'s Security Council -- but some say his government is spoiling his chances. Pride and prejudice. Moscow's most prominent gay-rights activist is arrested yet again -- in what he says is an ongoing effort to shut him up. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, September 20th, 2010 * Vets Funding - Stogran * Juarez Paper cartel Plea * FTR: Charest On Bastarache * Most Dismal Place * Kissing Record * Gideon Levy Retracing insult from injury. The government finally agrees to improve benefits for wounded soldiers -- but the Veterans Ombudsman says there's much more to be done. How un-freezing could create a deep freeze. A feature interview with Israeli journalist Gideon Levy -- who tells us what will happen to Mid-East peace talks if Israel's freeze on settlements is lifted. Two gay men establish a new pecking order -- breaking a world record by kissing stop for thirty-three hours Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, September 17, 2010 * Afghan Election * Facebook Rape Charge * Leadership Summit * Snail Experiment Follow * Prison Farm Protester * Spray-on Clothing * GPS Walking App Ballots will be marked -- and some candidates already are. In advance of tomorrow's Afghan parliamentary election, the Taliban is targeting politicians. Protesters should be seen and not herded. But at an Ontario prison farm protest this summer they were herded -- and this week in court, they were heard. A terrible crime made exponentially worse. A sixteen-year-old girl is allegedly raped --then images of the assault are posted on Facebook. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, September 16, 2010 * NDP Gun Registry * Sask 911 Call * Haiti Reunification Update * Talkback Tony Blair * Facebook Plant Dies * Portland Newspaper 9/11 * Tamil Camp Conditions * Elizabeth 1 Portraits Locked and loaded. The NDP secures enough votes to save the long-gun registry -- and one rural MP explains why she decided to join the club. Front page challenge. When some readers of a Maine newspaper saw the above-the-fold photo on 9/11, they thought it was below-the-belt. Not reunited, and it feels so bad. After the earthquake, Quebec promised to help Haitians in the province bring their families close -- but that's proven far from true. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, September 15, 2010 * Fighter Jet Purchase * Delaware Primary Win * Bastarache Hearings * Toaster Inventor * Tony Blair Blair with me. In a feature interview with the former British Prime Minister, we'll find out why he supported -- and continues to support -- the war in Iraq. The best is jets to come. At least, that's the contention of a parade of Tories, defending the purchase of dozens of fancy fighter planes today. You wouldn't think a Tea Party would give you a hangover. But after two more primary victories for fringe candidates, the Republican Party is developing a splitting headache. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, September 14, 2010 * Shark Finning Ban * FTR: EU France Roma * US Detention Centres * TB Roadkill Mapping * Trump Golf Arrests Folo * Food Crisis Conference * FTR Japanese Journo Hostages * Stittsville Addresses In enemies like these, he found friends. Mike Coots appeals to the U.N. to protect sharks -- despite the fact that no one protected him from a shark attack that cost him his foot. It's always darkest after The Donald. When Donald Trump sets out to build his dream club in the home of golf, Scots present him with an obstacle course. Vexation without representation. The American dream turns nightmarish for detained illegal immigrants -- many of whom have no access to lawyers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, September 13, 2010 * Nfld Health Minister * Amnesty on Iraqi Detainees * Roadkill Mapping * Turkish Referendum * Preeclampsia Study * Obit Senior Law Lord A single-minded approach to multiple sclerosis. Newfoundland and Labrador announces it will fund a study on the MS treatment called "liberation therapy". Turkish delight -- and distress. A divisive referendum in Turkey results in a victory for the ruling party -- a victory some fear gives the party too much control. Custody battle. Amnesty International comes out swinging after the U.S. military transfers tens of thousands of untried detainees into the infamous Iraqi prison system. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happen`s for September 10th * Don't Ask Don't Tell Ruiling * UK Phone Hacking Scandal * FTR: Obit Mary Richard * Nude Gardener * Human Trafficking Case * Human Trafficking: CDA * FOA: Nunavik Health Centre A telling reversal. An American judge rules that the U.S. military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy is unconstitutional. Traffic jammed. Executives with a company called Global Horizons are indicted in the biggest human-trafficking case in American history -- and the company also maintains a Canadian branch. He's in beep trouble. The British PM's head of communications is accused of being a smooth operator -- as the newspaper he used to edit is accused of phone hacking. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, September 9th * Ashtiani Folo * Dawson College Study * Atlanta Gorilla Haiku * Koran Burning Canc'd * Afghan Kill Team * FTR: Ed Stelmach Escaping her certain fate -- to face an uncertain one. Despite an Iranian announcement that his mother won't be stoned to death, the son of Sakineh Ashtiani remains deeply uneasy. Rogue elements. Five American soldiers are charged with the murder of three Afghan men -- and it's alleged they're part of a "kill team" that deliberately targeted civilians. Shots echo. A study of staff and students at Dawson College reveals the extent of the trauma caused by the 2006 shooting. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, September 8 * Ashley Smith Folo: Ombudsman * Ashley Smith Folo: Mother * Obit: Claude Bechard * Pastor Reads the Koran * Afghan Bank Collapse An overdue corrective for correctional services. Three years after the suicide of Ashley Smith, Canada's prison watchdog says that institutions need to do much more to prevent deaths in custody. Losing a daughter, still looking for answers. Ashley Smith's mother reflects on Howard Sapers' report -- and her child's ordeal. Playing with fire. A Florida pastor plans a public burning of Korans on September eleventh -- while a fellow cleric hopes cooler heads prevail. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, September 7, 2010 * OLD MAN FOUND * PAKISTAN FLOODS: SENATOR * SYRIA DROUGHTS * FTR: OBIT: LITTLE ROCK STUDENT * WIKILEAKS HEAD CHARGES * EMAIL: PHOEBE PRICE TRIAL * SPACEMAN PITCHES Will wanders never cease? An eighty-six-year-old hiker lives to ramble another day -- when an RCMP officer experiences a fortuitous breakdown.No rest for the Wiki. The founder of Wikileaks insists he's innocent of rape allegations -- but his colleagues urge him to step aside nonetheless.Adding injury to injury. A series of deadly bombings hinder the Pakistani government's already-challenging efforts to provide aid to flood victims. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, September 6 * ALTA GENDER DISCRIMINATION * ETA CEASEFIRE * NYC YIDDISH BOOKSTORE * DA: CHIMPS DEACTIVATE TRAPS * PHOEBE PRINCE TRIAL * SCR: UFO LANDING PAD Cheque and imbalances. An Alberta woman gets her award for winning a discrimination case -- nineteen years after that case began. Intimidation tactics. The trial of six students accused of bullying a fifteen-year-old to death is set to begin in Massachusettts. The truce sets no one free. The Basque separatist group ETA announces another ceasefire -- the latest in an unconvincing series. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, September 3 * BP Payout Conditions * Mozambique Food Riots * Locked In Man Unlocked * Sound of the Day: Jan Brewer * Australia First Aboriginal MP * Sound Light Research * Kenya Corn Toxin * Dr. Robert's Old Beer Drill pickle. Under proposed American rules, BP can no longer drill where it wants to -- which means, according to BP, that it can't afford to pay the victims of BP. A first people's first. From Australia's post-election chaos emerges the remarkable story of a pioneering aboriginal MP. And crack open an old one. There's nothing better than the beer at the bottom of the cooler -- unless it's one that's been chilling for two hundred years at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, September 2 * Pakistan Floods: Dentist * Pakistan Floods: Ambassador * Chimp Research * Niger Flooding * New Bee * FTR: Commissioner on Cricket * Golf Course Fire Starter * Script: Alcohol and Glass Size Wheels of misfortune. Faced with insufficient aid and government inaction, a Pakistani dentist jumps in his Jeep to deliver supplies to victims of flooding. Plan of the apes. In New Mexico, a community of chimps retired from the medical-testing game may soon be subjected to further experimentation. And...when you are en-golfed in flames. The members of a California club nearly become the embers of a California club, when a golfer's swing ignites an inferno. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, September 1 * Enbridge Spill: Congressman * Enbridge Spill: Company Response * Michael Ignatieff * Pakistan Flooding: Bev Oda * Victoria Tent Cities * Script: Glenn Beck Rally * State Fair Fried Beer * FOA: Mooing Kid Forfeiting rights in the wake of a wrong. After an oil spill, an American Congressman claims Enbridge has pressured Michigan residents into giving up their right to sue. First the flood, then the drought. Facing a dearth of donations to Pakistan, the Minister of International Cooperation urges Canadians to give. And ry me to the moon. You'll always remember where you were when I said the following: a Texan genius has found a way to deep-fry beer -- including Guinness. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, August 31, 2010 * FTR: Gates on Iraq * Iraq Pullout * Anti-Putin Protests * FTR: Greenpeace On Greenland * BC Bunnies * Jack Layton * American Oskar Shindler * FOA: Jesse Owens * SCR: Mozart Death Theories Farewell to armed combat. As the United States declares an end to the fighting, an Iraqi diplomat despairs for the future of his troubled nation. Loaded questions. NDP leader Jack Layton heads into the next Parliamentary session caught between his beliefs and his caucus over the long-gun registry. Putin his security forces where his mouth is. Russia's prime minister follows through on a promise to crack down on protestors. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, August 30 * Pakistan Cricket Scandal * Schindler On Athabasca * Congo Genocide: Minister * Bog Snorkelling * South Africa Strikes * Script: And Vinyly * Dormice Bridge * Obit: Martin Dannenberg Overs, and out. As Pakistan continues to suffer from devastating floods, a betting scandal engulfs cricket, the country's national sport. Mercury rising. A new report shows that, despite claims to the opposite, extraction from the tar sands is increasing the amount of downstream toxins in the Athabasca River. And a fen time was had by everyone. A new swimming record is set at the world bog-snorkeling championships. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, August 27th, 2010 * UN: DRC Genocide * Ottawa Terrorism - Radicalization * DA: Cuba Cigarettes * Carnegie Residents Out * Last Amazonian Man * Scarlett O’Hara Dresses * DA: Partying Bison A draft U.N. report alleges that tens of thousands of Hutus were killed by Tutsis in the DRC -- starting two years after the Rwandan genocide. Extreme makeover: home edition. The founder of the Muslim Canadian Congress says radicalization in the domestic Islamic community is a very real phenomenon. She was over the Hall, until the overhaul. Carnegie Hall, that is -- above which a soon-to-be-evicted ninety-eighty-year-old Editta Sherman has lived for more than six decades. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, August 26th, 2010 * Congo Rapes Folo * Iranian Sues Nokia * Kenya Smuggled Ivory * Email: NASA Wakeup Song Thurs * Ice Man Burial * FOA: Nate’s Deli * Swedish Drug Testing * Unknown Famous Painter * DA: Oldest Sock From worse to worse. Doctors treating rape victims in the Democratic Republic of Congo find the scale of the violence was more terrible than they thought.Blaming one cell on another. An imprisoned Iranian journalist sues Nokia -- claiming the phone company's technology helped authorities track him down.Tusks redux. An enormous cache of ivory is seized at a Kenyan airport -- proving the international trade in dead animal parts isn't just alive, but flourishing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 * Congo Rapes * Chilean Miners - Family * Prison farm Auction * Email: NASA Wakeup Song * Big Sockeye Salmon Run * SCR: Florida Primaries * UK/Iceland Mackerel Fight * Darwin Diversification * FTR: Caster Sem Heart of darkness. Rwandan rebels subject villagers in the Democratic Republic of Congo to a horrific campaign of systematic rape. A light in the darkness. The uncle of two men trapped in a Chilean mine collapse tells us about his relief at finding out they're alive. In the pink. Well, the pinkish-orange. Experts in B.C. predict the return of salmon in near-record numbers -- and the Fraser River is about to sockeye it to 'em. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 * Stem Cell Ruling * Chilean Mining - Psych * Somalia Bombing * Email: NASA Wakeup Song * N. Ireland Priest * Australian Election * Obit: Claire Baker * Bats Vs. Moths Stemmed. An American judge blocks federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research -- and his ruling may mark the beginning of the end for all such publicly-funded projects. The sins of the father. A new report on bombings in a Northern Irish village in 1972 finds that a local priest's involvement was covered up by the government and the Catholic Church. An inconclusive election Down Under leaves party leaders frantically courting an unusual trio of independent politicians Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, August 23rd, 2010 * Russian Arms Dealer Extradited * Anne Frank Tree Dead * Kobayashi Pizza Win * Pakistan Floods - Disabilities * FTR: Samantha Found * BC Sockeye Salmon Back * Nevada Pronouncer * Aggressive Essex Swan * A farewell to arms -- and the guy who sold them. Thailand extradites Russia's infamous "Merchant of Death" to the United States. An uphill battle against the effects of a downpour. In Pakistan, the flooding is disastrous for everyone -- but especially for people with disabilities. A summer fall. The chestnut tree that provided solace to Anne Frank is brought down by a storm in Amsterdam. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, August 20 * Pickton Internal Report * HST Petition Ruling * South Africa General Strike * Oldest Mechanical Clock * Pakistan Floods - Foreign Minister * Miss Pakistan Pageant * NZ Pilot Whales Hesitation and lost lives. An internal police report concludes that investigators should have set their sights on serial killer Robert Pickton sooner.Signature statement. A high court in British Columbia gives a boost to those fighting against the province's harmonized sales tax.And . . . Minute man. For generations, his family has cranked one of the world's oldest mechanical clocks by hand, but now it's finally time for Paul Fisher to unwind. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, August 19, 2010 * Seal Ban Injunction * BP Oil Study * Serengeti Road Debate * Ma Turns in Burglar * Pakistan Flood: Indus Expert * Moose Arthritis Study * Cloned Trees Fail Failing to seal the deal. The European Union's ban on seal products is put on ice after a court agrees to hear Inuit arguments against it. A dam-ing indictment. A geographer says the floods in Pakistan were bound to happen, after decades of mismanagement of the Indus River. And . . . Perhaps loving yourself isn't the greatest love of all. Tree experts discover that aspens may be able to clone themselves for generations, but they can't live forever without sex. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, August 18, 2010 * Vets Ombudsman Folo * Missing Daughter * Tamil: Tougher Laws? * No Part, No Pants * Pakistan Floods: Opposition Politician * American Ballet in Cuba * West Bengal Woman Abuse * Farms into Wetlands * First Fem The vetting process. A Gulf War veteran explains why former soldiers need a strong, independent advocate -- and why, thanks to Ottawa, they don't have one. Tour of duty. A Pakistani politician returns from the country's flood zone and calls on her fellow citizens to step up and help those in need. And . . . Putting the odd in audition. An actor shows up to a New York casting call without his pants and finds out the role is not exactly tailor-made for him. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, August 17, 2010 * Pakistan Interior Minister * Iraq Bombing Pullout * Veteran Ombudsman * North Korea Joins Twitter * Tamil Nadu Refugees * War of 1812 Heroes Reaching out. Pakistan's interior minister calls for more flood relief from abroad, as his government struggles to keep its head above water. Calculated risks. Why some Tamils are heading for Canada's shores, while others risk being shot dead crossing the narrow strait between Sri Lanka and India. And . . . Pariah's leap. North Korea makes an exception to its hermit-like ways and begins using YouTube and Twitter -- to lash out against its enemies Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, August 16, 2010 * Pakistan Relief Singer * Fort McMurray Shelter * Ansel Adams Photos Part 3 * World Pipe Band Champions * Super Hero Study * Ulimate Fighting Ban * Polar Bear Punch * Ancient Arctic Goo * Grammar Fixer Pitching in. A Pakistani-born musician chimes in to help out those struggling to survive the devastating floods in his motherland. Give me shelter -- or give me nothing. A woman who works with domestic abuse victims in Fort McMurray stages a hunger strike to push for more beds. And . . . Rock of ages. Scientists discover a stone formed from ancient, primordial slime that's been around for almost as long as the Earth itself Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, August 13, 2010 * Pakistan Floods Update * Revenue Canada Tax Avoidance * Greenland Communit