As It Happens: Tuesday Edition
Part One
Facebook & Russia
According to Facebook, 126 million people saw posts written by Russian agents before the U.S. election — and our guest says it's time the social network took some responsibility.
Senators on the Indian Act
The Trudeau government may have rejected Indigenous senators' plan to enshrine equal rights for women in the so-called "Indian Act" — but one of those senators says the upper chamber won't give up.
A.I.-generated Hallowe'en costumes
An artificial intelligence program comes up with some creative, new Halloween costumes ranging from "Punk Tree" to "Disco Monster" — and reveals a strange fixation with sharks.
Part Two
"Little" Doug Nickerson obit
Armed with a Naloxone kit, Doug Nickerson saved nearly 150 people from dying of overdoses on the streets of Surrey, B.C. — but now, the city's "guardian angel" is gone.
New York City attack
As an Uber passenger, Dmitry Metlitsky witnessed today's attack in lower Manhattan — in which someone drove a truck down a bike path, striking pedestrians and cyclists, near the site of the World Trade Centre memorial.
Distracted walking
We have common-sense rules about watching where we're going, but one Ontario politician is taking things to the text level. He wants to make it illegal to cross the street while looking at your phone.
Part Three
Gerrymander run
If you find the path of the upcoming Gerrymander Run in Asheville, North Carolina peculiar, good: the whole point is to show the absurdity of the city's carefully manipulated electoral districts.
Dog walker rules
A new four-dogs-per-person cap in one northern British community have dog walkers at the end of their leash.
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