As It Happens

As It Happens: Friday Edition

Sept. 4, 2020

Episode Transcript

Part One

Quebec Covid Schools 
They were plodding, so he started plotting. A Montreal dad has launched a map showing all the Quebec schools with confirmed cases of COVID. He did it because the Quebec government simply wasn't releasing the data, but the Premier says that's about to change.

Caledonia Journalist Arrest 
Land Back. An Indigenous journalist covering a land dispute in Ontario was arrested this week, and told not to return to the camp. But Karl Dockstader says he has no choice but to continue doing this job. 

Wingham Trucks into Cottage 
Hit machine. A British man tells us what it's like to live in a house that's been struck by passing trucks as many as twenty times -- and eight this year alone. 

Part Two 

Alaska Runway Lights
Pathfinders. In a remote Alaska town, residents had to improvise to light the way for a medical evacuation plane after the runway lights failed. One resident, Ida Nelson, tells us how they did it. 

Megaladon Study
Size matters. We knew it was the biggest shark, but now researchers have determined just how giant the megalodon actually was. And the answer even surprised the scientists.