As It Happens

As It Happens: Wednesday Edition

Jan. 27, 2020

Full Episode Transcript

Part One

Hassan Diab court: lawyer
A French court orders Hassan Diab to stand trial for a 1980 bombing — but the Ottawa man's lawyer says their case is even weaker than it was before, when he was eventually released for lack of evidence. 

England flooded home
A British woman's home is routinely flooded with raw sewage — and she says when she reached out for help, the water company responsible for fixing it advised her to use the bathroom less.

Jasper Bachelorette booked
A lodge in Alberta was mysteriously booked solid this winter. Turns out it'll be home to the reality show "The Bachelorette" — and one local worries that might not be a bed of roses.

Part Two

Feature: Atwood Gibson Prize
The Writers' Trust rebrands its annual fiction prize to honour one of Canada's most celebrated writerly duos — and Margaret Atwood tells us why her late partner Graeme Gibson championed other writers above all.

Part Three

London PPE recycling
A small company in London, Ontario, comes up with a novel solution for all those discarded masks and PPE. 

Archive: cicada cycle 
There's nothing people in the eastern U.S. can do to stop billions of screeching cicadas set to emerge in the spring. We'll go back 17 years in our archives to find out more.