As It Happens

As It Happens: The Wednesday Edition

Sept. 25, 2019

Full Episode Transcript 

Part One

Impeach Trump memo
A White House memo details that phone call between U.S. President Donald Trump and the president of Ukraine. Mr. Trump says it's clearly innocent — but our guest says it's a clear abuse of power. 

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) water report
The latest major report on climate change focuses on the effects of warming waters on the humans who rely on them — which, it turns out, is all of us. 

Cimabue painting
A painting that was just hanging in a French woman's kitchen turns out to be more than 700 years old, and painted by an Italian master. 

Part Two

Pipelines Quebec
Andrew Scheer says the next Prime Minister should assert the national interest in building a pipeline through Quebec — and our guest says that's why Quebec has no provincial interest in Mr. Scheer. 

Al Alvarez obit
The late Al Alvarez moved from a career as an influential poet and critic to a career as an author who dealt with everything from poker to mountaineering to suicide. 

Part Three

Placido Domingo accusations
After accusations of sexual harassment, Plácido Domingo bows out of future performances at New York's Metropolitan Opera — but Met employees say his curtain call is overdue.  

Raoul Wallenberg trip
He has been called "Sweden's Schindler". And now the niece of Raoul Wallenberg has travelled to Stockholm to put pressure on the government to help her family get answers about how her uncle died.