As It Happens: Friday Edition
Part One
Khadr gets bail
A judge grants Omar Khadr bail, pending appeal -- and we hear from the man who intends to give him a place to stay: his lawyer, Dennis Edney.
Armenia genocide
One hundred-and-fifty orphaned children came to Canada a century ago -- their parents among the hundreds of thousands killed in the Armenian genocide.
Nashville swingers
After a public backlash, a group of Nashville swingers announce their planned private sex club will actually be a regular old-fashioned church.
Part Two
Alberta election
Alberta's Progressive Conservatives called an election assuming they were a shoo-in. Now it looks like they may be wearing their shoes out -- because the race is much closer than they obviously assumed it would be.
Drone program defender
The CIA's former Pakistan chief says the U.S. drone program is working -- despite various fatal errors in targeting -- including, most recently, the killing of two Western hostages.
Part Three
California drought
The subject matter is dry -- or rather, dryness. With California now four years into a drought, the state has enacted restrictions on water usage. Our guest explains where the real problems lie.
BC town water
Speaking of water, you can now speak of water to the people living in the town of Robson, B.C. -- because their eighteen-year boil-water advisory has just been lifted.
Show Credits
As it Happens was produced this week by:
Laurie Allan
Robert Ballantyne
John Chipman
Sarah Cooper
Dawna Dingwall..
Katie Geleff
Chris Harbord
Julia Pagel
Kevin Robertson and
Kate Swoger.
Our technician is Reynold Gonsalves. The show director is Kevin Ball. Chris Howden is the show writer.
John Perry is the Senior Producer, and the Executive Producer of As It Happens is Robin Smythe.
We'd also like to thank some other people who helped out this week:
Stephen Puddicombe in Halifax
Jaime Little in Montreal
Davorin Cikovic, Keith Hart, and Wayne Henning at Radio Archives in Toronto
Dean Ples, also in Toronto
Cate Friesen in Winnipeg
Michael O'Halloran in Calgary, and
Anne Penman in Vancouver.
As It Happens will be back again on Monday. Have a great weekend, and good night.