As It Happens: Friday Edition
Part One
Kabul mosque bombing
All but one of them were there to worship. That one was a suicide bomber. Today, during Friday prayers at a busy mosque in Kabul, he detonated his explosives -- killing dozens of people.
Amazon critic
Several Canadian cities, and the Prime Minister himself, cordially invite Amazon to set up its new headquarters up here -- but our guest says Canada should be careful what it wishes for.
Bed bugs on a plane family
It's annoying when other passengers won't leave you alone on a nine-hour flight -- but, as Eric Neilson knows first-hand, it's downright disgusting when those passengers are bedbugs, and they won't stop biting you.
Part Two
Madagascar plague
In Madagascar, an outbreak of the plague has so far killed 94 people. Mamoudou Harouna Djingarey is a doctor with the World Health Organization. He'll tell us why it's spreading so fast -- and what his organization is doing to stop it.
Beer & foreign languages
New research indicates that if you speak a second language, alcohol may actually make you better at speaking it. Nota bene, however: it does not necessarily make you better at deciding what you should or shouldn't say.
Part Three
Rozon assault allegations: journalist
Thirty-four years after founding Just for Laughs, Gilbert Rozon steps down as its president, after women come forward to accuse him of sexual harassment, and sexual assault.
Bigfoot taxidermist
Alberta taxidermist Ken Walker -- one of the best in the world -- explains his decision to recreate the elusive sasquatch, based on images recorded fifty years ago this week.