As It Happens

As It Happens: Tuesday Edition

Tuesday, January 31, 2017

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Part One

QC mosque killings: victim's friend
A Quebec professor remembers a colleague shot dead in the attack on a mosque as a father, a husband, a teacher and a friend — and vows not to allow the killings to destroy his faith in humanity.

QC mosque killings: reporter
Quebec City police originally arrested a member of the mosque as a suspect in the attack but, as we hear from a reporter who spoke to the man, he was actually trying to save people's lives.

QC mosque killings: witness
Mohamed Labidi is the former president of the Quebec Islamic Cultural Centre. He was among the first to hear that one of the mosques members was a suspect — and then that he had been cleared. 

Part Two

US ban: senator
Democractic Senator Ben Cardin tells us what he and other Democrats are trying to do to end the travel ban on people from seven predominantly Muslim countries imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump. 

Roger Curry update
Last year, we told you about a disoriented man with a North American accent who was living in a British care home. Now a BBC journalist has uncovered the dark story of how he wound up in England.
 
Orangutan tinder
When a Dutch zoo sets a female orangutan up with a tablet that will ask her to swipe right on an attractive male, she gets so impatient she smashes the screen.

Part Three

Idaho moose rescue
Julie Emerick describes her recent houseguest as "the most polite moose you could have in our home." She describes the considerable challenges of getting the moose that wound up in her basement up the stairs and out the door.

New Brunswick power outages
Jim Lebreton says he's living in a shelter with his family because they've had no heat or light in their home for days — as New Brunswick struggles to recover from its worst-ever power outage. 

Teens' app
Three teenagers have developed an app that can connect to the internet — without actually connecting to the internet.