As It Happens: The Friday Edition
Part One
Deb Haaland friend
The U.S. Secretary of the Interior could soon be an Indigenous woman. Her longtime friend, poet laureate Joy Harjo, tells us that's good news for Native Americans — and all Americans.
U.S. hack
A cyber security expert says the hack of U.S. government computers is on a scale never before seen. And we might never know how much was stolen.
Encore: Welsh town goats
We revisit a 2020 favourite — about that time a herd of goats took over a Welsh town, while its human occupants were laying low due to the pandemic.
Part Two
Old Egyptian wood
The Egyptian curator who managed to locate long-lost fragments from the Great Pyramid of Giza in an Scottish museum tells us about making a major archaeological find — in a cigar box.
Reading: The Hockey Sweater
As gifts go, it's a must-Hab. We bring you another classic holiday reading, Roch Carrier's The Hockey Sweater — about a boy whose Christmas present makes it hard for him to be a team player.
Part Three
Encore: Shaena Lambert
We revisit our feature conversation with author Shaena Lambert — who tells us why she was inspired to write a novel about German Green Party co-founder Petra Kelly. Lambert paints a portrait of a woman who transformed politics forever — and whose party lost every seat in the process.
As It Happens was produced this week by:
Jeanne Armstrong
Katie Geleff
Chris Harbord
Sheena Goodyear
Sarah Jackson
Mehek Mazhar
Matt Meuse
Kevin Robertson
Chloe Shantz-Hilkes
and Kate Swoger.
Our technicians this week are Brittany Amodeo and Reynold Gonsalves. The show director is John McGill.
The writers this week are my co-host, Chris Howden and Lisa Bryn-Rundle. Austin Webb is our 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:
Mary-Catherine McIntosh in Halifax
Susan McKenzie in Montreal
Paul MacInnis in Ottawa
Sinisa Jolic, Varad Mehta, Jonathan Ore, Brandie Weikle and Luke Williams in Toronto
Suzanne Dufresne in Winnipeg
Jennifer Keene in Calgary
and Anne Penman in Vancouver.
As It Happens will be back again on Monday. Good night, and good weekend.