As It Happens

As It Happens: Tuesday Edition

Tuesday, June 22, 2015

Part One

Confederate flag: South Carolina state representative
South Carolina's governor says it's time for the Confederate flag to be removed from the grounds of the capitol -- but a state representative says those who take down history are doomed to repeat it. 

Rwanda arrest
To the other, it's overstepping. The arrest of Rwanda's intelligence chief based on a Spanish judge's indictment is greeted with relief and outrage. 

Alberni didgeridoo alarm
A Grade 11 class in Port Alberni, B.C., fulfills its pipe dream -- by changing the city's monthly tsunami warning to the sound of a cylindrical Australian instrument. 

Part Two

From Our Archives/
Air India 30th anniversary: Lata Pada

Thirty years ago today, her family died in the Air India bombing -- and tonight, dancer and choreographer Lata Pada tells us how she redefined her life, after their deaths. 

Part Three

Raisin ruling
For nearly seventy years, raisin farmers in the United States had to give up part of their crop when the government asked -- but thanks to one California man, that wrinkle has been removed. 

Manitoba aboriginal curriculum
Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger says the students in his province will be among the first to learn about the legacy of residential schools. A First Nations graphic novelist reveals whether or not he thinks the province can make that curriculum change stick.

Birmingham pastor
The congregation at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama knows better than most how the congregation at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston is feeling: in 1963, four girls were killed there in an KKK bombing. We speak with the church's current pastor, Reverend Arthur Price Jr.