As It Happens

As It Happens: Monday Edition

Sept. 2, 2019

Episode Transcript

Part One

Hurricane Dorian hits Bahamas
Keith Cooper is a tour boat operator in the Bahamas who's watching from a relative's house as Hurricane Dorian's full force is unleashed on the islands  — while fearing for his own home.

Denver jail birth
A new lawsuit claims Denver officials violated a woman's right to medical care after she gave birth to a baby boy in a jail cell — alone, with no help whatsoever. 

Alberta man discovers dino bones
While hiking back from one of his favourite fishing spots, an Edmonton man finds a nifty-looking piece of petrified wood — that turns out to actually  be a dinosaur bone that's millions of years old. 

Part Two

California boat fire
Dozens of passengers on a scuba-diving cruise around California's Channel Islands are missing, after their boat catches fire in the middle of the night. 

Glacier film
Scientists have just digitized film of ice-penetrating radar records from the 1970s. And it reveals that Antarctica's most important glacier is thawing faster than they thought. 

Part Three

Lee Maracle
A feature interview with Indigenous writer Lee Maracle, whose work unpacking the effects of settler colonialism has gone unrecognized by the people who give out the big prizes — until now.