As It Happens: Tuesday Edition

Part One

ISIS Mission: Question Period/Bezan/Heinbecker
Prime Minister Stephen Harper laid out his case to seek parliamentary approval for extending Canada's role in Iraq. The government now also wants to expand airstrikes to Syria. Canada's former ambassador to the UN argues that the PM's plans serve Bashar al-Assad's purposes. 

Imitation Fish Study
Damselfish be warned: that guy who looks like you is in disguise. He's really a tropical dottyback who's changed colour in order to hide from predators and eat your children. 

Part Two

Louisiana Prosecutor Apology
When a Louisiana prisoner is released after thirty years on death row, the man who put him there issues a heartfelt public apology.  

France Plane Crash
One hundred-and-fifty people are killed when a German airliner crashes in a remote area of the French Alps. 

Part Three

Blood Tribe Doctor
In Alberta, a knock-off drug containing something called fentanyl is responsible for a series of fatal overdoses. And one of the worst-hit areas is the Blood Tribe First Nation where, last Friday, four people overdoses within twenty-four hours. 

Egypt Mom Award
Sisa Abu Daooh has been a very supportive single mother. Egypt's president personally gave her an award for being the best mother in the entire city of Luxor. Her secret, which is no longer a secret, is that, for the past forty years, Ms. Daooh has lived as a man. 

London Bomb Removal
British army engineers has succeeded in defusing an unexploded Second World War bomb discovered yesterday in London's Southwark neighbourhood.