Friday: Bangladesh Pregnant Workers, CFB Farmer, Ireland Senate, Juggling Marathoner, and more...
Tonight:What you shouldn't expect when you're expecting. A new report on a factory in Bangladesh that supplies The Gap alleges a record of shocking abuse -- including beatings, and the dismissal of pregnant workers. A downer for the Upper House. In a story with no resonance for Canadians, Ireland holds a referendum to determine the future of the Senate, which...
Tonight:
What you shouldn't expect when you're expecting. A new report on a factory in Bangladesh that supplies The Gap alleges a record of shocking abuse -- including beatings, and the dismissal of pregnant workers.
A downer for the Upper House. In a story with no resonance for Canadians, Ireland holds a referendum to determine the future of the Senate, which opponents decry as ineffective and undemocratic.
The ache and the acreage. Eighty-five-year-old Frank Meyers has been fighting to keep his land since 2006 -- but now, his farm belongs to the Canadian military, and Mr. Meyers is out of options.
Songs of the South. A new documentary tells the story of an out-of-the-way studio in the unhip state of Alabama, that somehow produced some of the great R & B classics of all time.
Time a at step one. That's "one step at a time" backwards -- which is how Joe Salter recently attempted to set a world record: running a marathon in reverse. Oh, and also he was juggling because why not, I guess.
And...hoot enough for you? Well, it was enough for ornithologist Magnus Robb -- who was tipped off that he'd discovered a new species of owl in Oman when he heard a sound that made him ask, "What is that 'who'?"
As It Happens, the Friday edition. Radio that concludes, "That's owl, folks."
What you shouldn't expect when you're expecting. A new report on a factory in Bangladesh that supplies The Gap alleges a record of shocking abuse -- including beatings, and the dismissal of pregnant workers.
A downer for the Upper House. In a story with no resonance for Canadians, Ireland holds a referendum to determine the future of the Senate, which opponents decry as ineffective and undemocratic.
The ache and the acreage. Eighty-five-year-old Frank Meyers has been fighting to keep his land since 2006 -- but now, his farm belongs to the Canadian military, and Mr. Meyers is out of options.
Songs of the South. A new documentary tells the story of an out-of-the-way studio in the unhip state of Alabama, that somehow produced some of the great R & B classics of all time.
Time a at step one. That's "one step at a time" backwards -- which is how Joe Salter recently attempted to set a world record: running a marathon in reverse. Oh, and also he was juggling because why not, I guess.
And...hoot enough for you? Well, it was enough for ornithologist Magnus Robb -- who was tipped off that he'd discovered a new species of owl in Oman when he heard a sound that made him ask, "What is that 'who'?"
As It Happens, the Friday edition. Radio that concludes, "That's owl, folks."