As It Happens: Monday Edition
Part One
Catalan leaders jailed
Catalan separatists swamp the streets in what our guest calls an unprecedented display of outrage over a Spanish court's decision to jail the leaders of a referendum on separation.
Danny Ramadan
When Danny Ramadan first spoke with As it Happens, he was a refugee fleeing persecution in Syria. Now he's celebrating his right — as a newly-minted Canadian — to vote in next week's federal election.
Norman the Lamb
Outer Hebridean crofter Melanie MacLean made a more than 400 km trip to recover a lamb that's she'd raised for sale — only to regret having given him up.
Part Two
Syria: Galbraith
Former US ambassador Peter Galbraith says that, after being abandoned by Donald Trump, Syria's Kurds have little choice but to team up with the dictator Bashar al-Assad.
Iowa newspaper lawsuit
A small town newspaper in Iowa successfully fights a libel suit launched by an ex-police officer, but still may have to cut down on operations.
Part Three
Feature: Susan Sontag biography
As a writer and public thinker, Susan Sontag seemed to pierce old assumptions with nothing more than the clarity of her mind. But biographer Benjamin Moser says that her ability to question everything was rooted in a belief in the power of the simple word, "but."