As It Happens

As It Happens: Tuesday Edition

Dec. 22, 2020

Full Episode Transcript

Part One

Ontario COVID workplaces
An advocate says Ontario's new COVID-19 lockdown doesn't help one of the province's worst-hit groups — the people who work in warehouses sending out all our holiday packages. 

Greenpeace lost case
A young climate activist in Norway says he's feeling angry after his country's top court ruled in favour of oil exploration in the Arctic. 

TikTok height guesser
A teen on TikTok is racking up fans for his ability to accurately guess a person's height using only a few photos and lots of equations.

Part Two

Reading: To Every Thing There is a Season
We bring you another classic holiday reading, Alistair MacLeod's To Every Thing There is a Season — about a Cape Breton boy who yearns for his older brother to come home so Christmas can truly begin. 

Octopus punches fish
A researcher tells us he was excited to find he'd captured an odd octopus behaviour on video, even though the behaviour in question makes his favourite cephalopods seem a bit slimy.

Part Three

Encore: As It Happened: Eureka Moments 
We travel to the murky depths of the As It Happens archives and unearth a whole lot of light bulb moments — some brighter than others. You'll meet the inventor of the steel pan drum, a scientist who solved the mystery of wombat poop — and a mailbox that sounds like a tuba.