As It Happens

As It Happens: Friday Edition

July 19, 2019

Full Episode Transcript

Part One

Military Settlement
After Canada's military agrees to pay almost a billion dollars to members who've been subjected to sexual misconduct and assaults, one of the plaintiffs says it still isn't safe for Canadian women to wear their country's uniform.

Srebrenica Dutch Ruling
A Dutch court finds its military ten percent responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Muslim men and boys in the most notorious massacre of the war in the former Yugoslavia.

"Pumpsie" Green Obit
"Pumpsie" Green was the first  black baseball player to play on the last  Major League team to break the colour line. Tonight, his daughter remembers the reluctant Red Sox revolutionary who just wanted to play ball. 

Part Two

Hawaii Telescope
An Indigenous professor says she understands why astronomers want to build a telescope on Hawaii's highest mountain but it doesn't belong on her people's most sacred place.

Roosevelt Statue
The statue outside a New York museum is meant to honour the U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt by seating him high on a horse. But now a curator explains why a new exhibit focuses on two unnamed figures below.

Somali Medical Records
He didn't have a medical degree, or any experience in computer science, but that didn't stop an Edmonton man from developing an award-winning app to improve medical care in his family's home country of Somalia. 


As It Happens was produced this week by:

Jeanne Armstrong
Sarah-Joyce Battersby 
Sarah Cooper 
Katie Geleff 
Sheena Goodyear 
Sarah Jackson
Morgan Passi 
Richard Raycraft
Chloe Shantz-Hilkes
  

Our technician this week is Oronde Williams. The show directors this week are John McGill and Reynold Gonsalves. The writer was Kevin Robertson.

John Perry is our 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:
 
Mary-Catherine McIntosh in Halifax 
Keith Hart at Radio Archives, Amara McLaughlin, Jonathan Ore, Olsy Sorokina, Varad Mehta, Luke Williams, all in Toronto
Suzanne Dufresne in Winnipeg
and Anne Penman in Vancouver.

As It Happens will be back again on Monday. Good night, and good weekend.