As It Happens: Friday Full Episode
Part One
Conservatives India Trip
After the Conservatives stage an all-night delay in the House, MPs probably have aching backs and heads — and tonight, one Tory explains why her party will continue to be a pain the Liberals' neck.
Kashmir Poet
A thousand pages. A pile of ashes. For almost 30 years, a much-admired poet in Kashmir carefully handwrote his poetry — and during a battle between militants and Indian security forces, all of it was destroyed in one night.
Juneau Wreck
Seventy-six years ago, the five Sullivan brothers were among hundreds of sailors who went down with the USS Juneau. Now, the wreck has been found — and a Sullivan tells us what that means to her family.
Part Two
Marie-Maude Denis
Even after a Quebec court orders her to reveal her sources, investigative journalist Marie-Maude Denis says she'll do everything she can to protect them — even if the fight goes to the Supreme Court.
CDC Gun Research
For more than two decades, the Centres for Disease Control hasn't researched gun violence in the U.S.; now, one sentence in the new spending bill may finally change that.
Part Three
Canada Reads: Omar El Akkad "American War"
An encore presentation of Carol's conversation with award-winning journalist Omar El Akkad about his dystopian vision of the future — and how dystopian he finds the present.
As It Happens was produced this week by:
Jeanne Armstrong
Imogen Birchard
Chris Harbord
Katie Geleff
Sarah Jackson
Sheena Goodyear
Nick McCabe-Lokos
Mary Newman
Kate Swoger
Julian Uzielli
and Jason Vermes.
Our technician is Reynold Gonsalves. The show director this week is John McGill. Chris Howden is our writer. And our intern is Anna Cianni.
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:
Sherry Banfield in St. John's
Mary-Catherine McIntosh in Halifax
Laurene Jardin in Montreal
Kristin Nelson in Ottawa
Ashly July, Rodrigo Toromoreno, Chloe Shantz-Hilkes and Luke Williams in Toronto
Suzanne Dufresne in Winnipeg
Michael O'Halloran in Calgary
Anne Penman in Vancouver
and Alexandra Byers in Whitehorse.
As It Happens will be back again on Monday. Good night, and good weekend.