As It Happens: Friday Edition
Part One
Stampede Fine
Don't spare the horses. So far at this year's Calgary Stampede, three horses have died — but 12-time chuckwagon-racing world champion Kelly "The King" Sutherland remains a staunch defender of his controversial sport.
Glen Assoun Case
He served 17 years for murder; then a court order prevented him from talking about what the government called a miscarriage of justice — but tonight, Glen Assoun is free to speak.
Police Dog
An off-duty police officer explains how his pet, a Great Dane named Lewis, helped save the day and send two escaped convicts back to jail — essentially just by being remarkably huge.
Part Two
Sitka Spruce Trees
Sprucing things up doesn't mean improving them. We love Sitka spruces here in Canada — but a rural councillor in Ireland is doing a real hatchet job on the program that's planting thousands of them in his country.
Roxodus
After the abrupt cancellation of the multi-day Roxodus festival in Ontario, disgruntled ticket holders hit rock bottom — before getting their own bottoms in gear to organize an event called "Roxobust."
As It Happens was produced this week by:
Sarah-Joyce Battersby
Chris Harbord
Katie Geleff
Sheena Goodyear
Sarah Jackson
Morgan Passi
Chloe Shantz-Hilkes
Kate Swoger
Kevin Robertson
and Donya Ziaee.
Our technician is Reynold Gonsalves. The show director this week is John McGill. The writer is Chris Howden.
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
Chris Rands in Ottawa
Keith Hart at Radio Archives, Kirsten Fenn, Amara McLaughlin, Varad Mehta and Luke Williams — all in Toronto,
Suzanne Dufresne in Winnipeg
Michael O'Halloran in Calgary
and Anne Penman in Vancouver.
As It Happens will be back again on Monday. Good night, and good weekend.