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  • It's conversational and friendly. It's thought-provoking and incisive. It's the international news magazine from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that adds freshness and diversity to your evening listening. Hosts Barbara Budd and Mary Lou Finlay probe the major stories of the day, mixing interviews with coverage in an informative and often irreverent style.
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As It Happens for Monday, December 7 * Copenhagen Climate Conference* Carbo

Mon, Dec 7 Listen
Tonight: The Not-so-great Black North. As the Copenhagen Climate Summit kicks off, environmentalist George Monbiot has some choice words about Canada's tarnished record. Street fighting mandate. Protestors in Iran face off against police -- who have been charged with stopping demonstrations at all costs. Outstanding at being out standing in their fields. After a year of tremendous personal growth, a Manitoba couple are named two of 2009's best young farmers.

As It Happens for Friday, December 4 * Rawalpindi Bombing * Email: Tricky R

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The revengers' tragedy. More than a hundred people are killed and wounded by militants, in an attack on a mosque in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Inflated expectations. The American defence budget balloons -- sorry, that's "budgets for balloons" -- and DARPA wants you to track them down. And to tell the tooth. If you've ever wondered whether a Great White or a tiger shark chomped down on your torso, a new forensics system will have you champing at the bit.

As It Happens *Special Podcast* - Montreal Massacre, Dec 4 2009

Fri, Dec 4 Listen
One day in December. Unedited conversations with a survivor of the Montreal Massacre -- and with the mother of the gunman, to mark the twentieth anniversary of the tragedy.

As It Happens for Thursday, December 3 * Somali Bombing * Newfoundland Apt

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A commencement of violence. In Mogadishu, a suicide bomber turns a triumphant graduation ceremony tragic. All mod cons -- emphasis on "cons". A landlord in Newfoundland is surprised to see strangers attempting to rent out his property online. And the flabulists. A story from Peru's police about gangsters harvesting peasants' fat turns out to be lean on facts.

As It Happens for Wednesday, December 2 * Afghan Surge: Rashid * Colvin Com

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First, the influx -- and then it's in flux. An Afghanistan expert explains the impact of President Obama's "everybody in, almost everybody out" troop surge. Puttin' off the Fritz. General Motors appoints its third C.E.O. in a year -- and leaves Fritz Henderson by the side of the road. And Mississippi not burning. Along the southern river, Louisianans usually light bonfires to guide Santa Claus -- but this year, St. Nick may have to fly blind.

As It Happens for Tuesday, December 1 * Minaret Ban * Iraq Suicide * Bad Lu

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Points of no return. A former president of the Swiss League of Muslims says a ban on minarets is rooted in fear. Worthy of note. The family of an American soldier who died by suicide in Iraq seeks a simple letter of condolence from the President. And speak softly and carry one-and-a-half million little sticks. An American spends fifteen years building a full-sized stagecoach in his garage -- out of toothpicks.

As It Happens for Monday, November 30 * Swiss Minaret Ban * Talkback: Amy G

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The de-towering inferno. Switzerland's decision to ban minarets on mosques ignites fiery debate inside and outside the country. A surge of emotion. As President Obama prepares to announce his Afghanistan strategy, we'll talk with a mother whose son may be sent back into action. Uneasy lies the head that wears the helmet. How the NFL, and its players, are dealing with growing concern about concussions.

As It Happens for Friday, November 27, 2009 * Amy Goodman * Philippines Mas

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For a while there, a Goodman was hard to find. On her way to speak in Canada, American radio host Amy Goodman gets some static from Canadian border officials. Obstructive criticism. Canada's stubbornness at a Trinidad climate summit has some countries demanding we get the boot from the Commonwealth. A town called malice. Horrific details emerge about the massacre of fifty-seven people in the community of Ampatuan, the Phillipines.

As It Happens for Thursday, November 26, 2009 * Harper in Copenhagen * FTR:

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Deigning to join the Danes. Two weeks ago, the Prime Minister was chilly about the Copenhagen climate-change summit -- but he's warmed to the idea. Changing the channels. The CRTC gives a Canadian broadcasting licence to the Middle Eastern news network Al Jazeera. Rain of terror. A feature interview with the author of Fire and Fury, which re-examines the Second World War bombing of civilian targets in Germany.

As It Happens for Wednesday, November 25, 2009 * Afghan Torture Committee *

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The generals get specific. And what three military men had to say today on Parliament Hill was this: Richard Colvin's testimony was "ludicrous". All hands on decks. By distributing playing cards to convicts eaturing unsolved murders, police hope to deal with a backlog of cold cases. Dear World: what's yours is mines. Senator Patrick Leahy tells us why he thinks the Obama Administration made a mistake by refusing to sign on to a ban on land mines.

As It Happens for Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 * Crack/Crystal Meth Study *

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A meth-y business. A ten-year study of the drug trade in Vancouver finds that users can score crack or crystal meth in a matter of minutes. Pharma in the dell. When a Pfizer exec is given a position on a body that funds Canadian medical research, it's greeted with a dose of skepticism. Little orphan anomaly. A new study reveals that, worldwide, four out of five so-called orphans have at least one living parent.

As It Happens for Monday, November 23, 2009 * Philippines Massacre * FTR: C

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Rights and wrongs. Richard Colvin said that torture was rampant in Afghan prisons -- and a Human Rights Watch report confirms his testimony. The man who ran Tuol Sleng. After months of testimony, closing arguments begin in the trial of the man in charge of Cambodia's worst prison. The parentlessness trap. The Canadian Medical Association warns that, if kids from child welfare agencies aren't adopted, they tend to adopt dangerous habits.

As It Happens for Friday, November 20, 2009 * FTR: Military Judge Advocate

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The outcome of whats come out. If Richard Colvin's testimony is accurate, one expert tells us, then Canada violated international humanitarian law. Building consensus? Not a chance. A member of a Jewish group against settlements in the occupied territories gives us a window into her thinking. Herman on the mount. The European Union's first permanent president may not be a firebrand -- but he's no Belgian waffler.

As It Happens for Thursday, November 19, 2009 * FTR: Afghan Torture QP * Af

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Capturing a lightning rod in a bottle. We'll find out more about Richard Colvin -- the Canadian diplomat whose testimony about torture in Afghanistan has shocked the country. Close encounters of the fourth-estate kind. A feature interview with Lydia Cacho -- a Mexican journalist who defied beatings and death threats to tell her stories. Once more unto the breach. An American judge finds The Army Corps of Engineers responsible for levee failures during Hurricane Katrina.

As It Happens for Wednesday, November 18, 2009 * FTR: Richard Colvin * Afgh

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Bearing unbearable witness. A Canadian intelligence officer says it's likely that all detainees transferred to Afghan prisons by Canadians were tortured. Necessity puts the mother in detention. An American soldier refuses to go to Afghanistan because she can't find a babysitter -- and is promptly arrested. Keep terrorism suspects at Bay. American officials are seeking a new home for Guantanamo detainees -- but one Congressman says, "Not in my back yard."

As It Happens for Tuesday, November 17, 2009 * Clayton Willey Case * Mammog

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What's wrong with these pictures. A B.C. Grand Chief demands the RCMP release video footage showing the death of Clayton Willey in custody. Sore luger. A back-and-forth with the man who's carrying all of India's Winter Olympic hopes on his slender shoulders. What's a woman to do? Officials with American Preventive Services cause an uproar with their conclusions on mammograms

As it Happens for Monday, November 16, 2009 * New Greenpeace Head * CRTC He

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Greenpeace de resistance. The new head of the conservation group makes saving humanity from itself his top priority. Two sorry situations. Australia apologies to its mistreated British "home children" -- but Canada has no plans to do the same. The truth will set your fees. The CRTC prepares to decide who's right in the battle between cable providers and broadcast networks.

As It Happens for Monday, November 13, 2009 * Khadr Trial * German Killers

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No trial by jury. The U.S. rules that Omar Khadr will face a military commission, rather than a trial in a civilian court. The loot of all evil. At long last, British museums prepare to return artifacts stolen by the Nazis to their rightful owners. And...out of the belly of a whale. At one point, the future looked black for killer whales near B.C. -- but thanks to a surprise birth, it's now looking black and white.

As It Happens for Thursday, November 12, 2009 * Priest Released * Medvedev

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Tonight:No longer a voice crying in the wilderness. After thirty-two days in captivity in the Philippines, a seventy-nine-year-old Irish priest is freed. The oyster was their world. The American Food and Drug Administration bans Gulf Coast oysters -- leaving the people who farm them high and dry. Putin, his feet to the fire. Russian President Dmitri Medvedev goes ballistic about his country's "primitive economy" -- right in front of its former president.

As It Happens for Wednesday, November 11, 2009 * NB Cenotaph on Remembrance

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A monumental victory. Despite a devastating act of vandalism on a cenotaph, veterans and citizens turn out en masse for Remembrance Day. Stream of consciousness. A feature interview with John Irving about his reflections on his country, our country, and his new novel Last Night in Twisted River. And...most stories, we're not married to. But in this case, we're espousing more than the Giller-winning book The Bishop's Man -- Carol has espoused its author, Linden MacIntyre.

As It Happens for Tuesday, November 10, 2009 * Ice Floe Rescue * Emma Thomp

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The guys who came in from the cold. We'll talk to one of three men who leaped from a plane to rescue a teenager trapped on an ice floe in Nunavut. A defendant's defiance. In The Hague, the prosecution begins its cross-examination of Charles Taylor -- who stands accused of war crimes. And...Hitting below the pelt. An infestation leads the government of Saskatchewan to put a bounty on the head of every wild canine in the province.

As It Happens for Monday, November 9, 2009 * Destroyed Cenotaph * El Salvad

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Service and disservice. Just before Remembrance Day, vandals inflict heartbreaking damage on a cenotaph in Fredericton. For good and ill. President Obama's health care bill passes after a close vote -- but the legislation is compromised by some pre-existing conditions. A flood of tears. Hurricane Ida unleashes torrential rains and mudslides on El Salvador -- killing more than a hundred-and-twenty people.

As It Happens for Friday, November 6, 2009 * Fort Hood: Soldier * FTR: Gord

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They were preparing to take fire overseas -- but not at home. An American soldier opens fire on his colleagues at Fort Hood -- and we'll talk to a soldier who was on the base when it happened. Casting their net wide to shrink yours. An international anti-counterfeiting conference may turn your computer use upside-download. De Soto voce. We hear from an American archaeologist who's found evidence of the travels of sixteenth-century explorer Hernando de Soto.

As It Happens for Thursday, November 5 * Fort Hood Shooting * BC Salmon Inq

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One of their own. A shooting a Fort Hood Military Base in Texas leaves several soldiers dead. Sole survivor. The only man to live through a Newfoundland helicopter crash finally tells his story. And...where the gills are. If you think sharks don't cruise around near public beaches -- well, nothing could be closer to the tooth.

As It Happens for Wednesday, November 4, 2009 * H1N1: First Nations * TB -

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As It Happens for Tuesday, November 3, 2009 * Fletcher on Euthanasia * Euth

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The right to die. MP Steven Fletcher -- who was paralyzed in a car accident -- tells us why he'll abstain from a Parliamentary vote on legalizing euthanasia. Reaching a conclusion about reaching conclusions. After years of discussion, the Quebec College of Physicians conditionally endorses euthanasia. It is the best of times, it is the Worcestershire of times. A list of the mystery ingredients in the popular brown sauce proves it is, in part, a labour of cloves.

As It Happens for Monday, November 2, 2009 * Afghan Election Reaction * Afg

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Still Karzai after all these years. When a run-off election is cancelled in Afghanistan, the West has to cope with a controversial run-on presidency. Mob vaccine. A shortage of shots causes health officials in Winnipeg to close clinics completely. Taking their words for it. Thousands of languages are endangered -- but a team of linguists works to keep the dialects from dying.

As it Happens for Friday, October 30, 2009 * FTR: Daphne Coffin * Breast Ca

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Resolution of a testing issue. Victims of Newfoundland and Labrador's breast cancer exam scandal accept a multi-million-dollar settlement. In charge again? Ousted president Manuel Zelaya may just get his job back -- as negotiations to return him to power conclude. And this proves it's the principal that counts. For nineteen years, a headmaster in Scotland presides over a school -- without a single pupil.

As It Happens for Thursday, October 29 * Nowak Deported * NB Power Sale * F

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A guest gets second-guessed. U.N. torture investigator Manfred Nowak arrives for an assignment in Zimbabwe -- and is promptly given the boot. Life after deaths. A Quebec Superior Court judge hands Desire Munyaneza the maximum sentence possible for his role in the Rwandan genocide. Do unto otters as you would have them do unto you. An animal behaviourist explains his theory that animals are capable of "moral intelligence".

As it Happens for Wednesday, October 28, 2009 * UN Kabul Attack * Zimbabwe

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Anarchy in Afghanistan. A Taliban attack on a U.N. guesthouse, the death of another Canadian soldier -- and ten days until Afghanistan's run-off election. Thinking better of a look at their worst. The Zimbabwean government invites an expert to investigate torture claims -- and then abruptly rescinds the invitation. And...we've all seen cats on rugs. But thanks to the efforts of feline wigmaker Julie Jackson, we can now see rugs on cats.

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