As It Happens: Monday Edition
Part One
Colten Boushie: Family
After Gerald Stanley is acquitted of killing Colten Boushie, his family demands justice — and Ottawa reviews the rules that allowed a jury with no visibly Indigenous members to deliberate.
Colten Boushie: Lawyer
A criminal defence lawyer says there are obvious changes to make the justice system more just for Indigenous people — so the government should stop talking change, and start making it.
Mystery Portrait
Seeking a good judge of character of judge. What can you say about the 18th-century justice whose portrait hangs in the highest court in Massachusetts? Like, can you say his name? Because officials would really like to know it.
Part Two
Kavous Seyed-Emami Death
After a renowned Canadian-Iranian academic dies in prison in Tehran, authorities say it was suicide — but his friends and family have their doubts.
Exoneree Rings
Kirk Bloodsworth spent time on death row for a crime he didn't commit — and now, as a free man and a silversmith, he's making commemorative rings for others like him.
Part Three
Oxfam Resignation
Oxfam was supposed to be in Haiti to help after the 2010 earthquake. But according to allegations, some members of the Oxfam mission paid for sex while they were there — including with minors. And Haiti's ambassador to the U.K. says resignations and apologies aren't enough.
Ethics Commissioner
Parliament's new ethics commissioner asks for sweeping new powers — but the part about keeping journalists from telling Canadians about his investigations into their MPs has news outlets unified against him.