As It Happen: Friday Edition
Part One
Alberta sentence reduced
A judge cuts an Alberta sex offender's twelve-year sentence in half -- because the man was abused by guards and fellow inmates while waiting for trial.
CBC online ads
The publisher of the site iPolitics says that the CBC is an online predator, stealing the ads he needs to make money, and the journalists he needs to make journalism.
Boston molasses flood
The Great Molasses Flood of 1919 killed twenty-one people -- and now, aerospace engineer Nicole Sharp has figured out how that sea of black stuff moved so much faster than molasses in January...in January.
Part Two
Cyde River seismic testing
A hamlet in Nunavut goes to the Supreme Court to stop companies from seismic testing in the Arctic -- and we'll speak with the local man who spearheaded the case.
Part Three
Residential schools
A report says Indigenous students in northern Ontario need schools where they can be residents. Paul Bennett, author of the report "After the Healing", explains how these "student living centres" would work.
***Correction: An earlier audio version of this interview referred to the deaths of seven students in Thunder Bay as suicides. But a coroner's inquest has determined that the cause of death is undetermined in four cases, and ruled three of the deaths accidental.***
Israel fires
An Israeli journalist brings us up to date on the the wildfires that have forced people from their homes -- and which some officials believe could have been deliberately set.
BC cattlemen's fences
B.C. ranchers have fallen victim to wood rustling -- as thieves run off with lumber from weathered fences and then sell it to home owners seeking rustic home decor.
Jeanne Armstrong
Imogen Birchard
Sam Colbert
Katie Geleff
Chris Harbord
John McGill
Arielle Piat-Sauve
Kevin Robertson
Pedro Sanchez
Earvin Solitario
and Kate Swoger.
Our technicians this week were Reynold Gonsalves and Jennifer Rowley.
The show director is Kevin Ball. Chris Howden is our writer.
John Perry is the Senior Producer. And the Executive Producer of As It Happens is Robin Smythe.
We'd also like to thank some other people who helped us out this week:
Mike Rossiter in St. John's
Susan McKenzie in Montreal
Kristin Nelson in Ottawa
Keith Hart at Radio Archives in Toronto, Jody Porter in Thunder Bay, Suzanne Dufresne in Winnipeg
Kim Trynacity in Edmonton,
Michael O'Halloran in Calgary
Anne Penman in Vancouver
and Nil Koksal in Istanbul, Turkey.
As It Happens will be back again on Monday. Good night, and good weekend.