As It Happens: Friday Edition
Part One
Christie Pits: Jose Vivar
Ex-convict Jose Vivar was leading a fitness class in a Toronto park this summer when someone shot him five times -- and tonight, he tells us what happened that day.
Natalie Achonwa
More and more American athletes are kneeling during the national anthem -- and tonight, a Canadian WNBA player tells us why she and her teammates joined that protest this week.
Royal fan
When he came to Canada in 1998, a teenage Taryn Stephenson thought Prince William was "gorgeous" -- but she won't be swooning when he shows up this time.
Part Two
Robert Hall: sister
Robert Hall was executed by a terrorist group in the Philippines in June -- and his sister wants to know why the Canadian government did so little to save him.
New Zealand cat purse
A New Zealand artist finds a way to turn a common tragedy into triumph -- or a weirder tragedy -- by making a handbag out of a ginger tomcat she found dead on the side of the road.
Part Three
Richard McLaren
Hackers reveal still more about the drugs Canadian athletes took during the Olympics. But the leader of the investigation that revealed Russia's state-sponsored doping program says those hackers have no ethics, and their revelations hold no surprises.
Churchill film house
Britons are furious when Hollywood filmmakers pick the worst possible building to turn into Adolf Hitler's headquarters for a movie: the home of Winston Churchill.
As it Happens was produced this week by:
Jeanne Armstrong
Imogen Birchard
Sam Colbert
Chris Harbord
Samantha Lui
John McGill
Arielle Piat-Sauvé
Kevin Robertson
Pedro Sanchez and
Kate Swoger.
Our intern is Ebyan Abdigir.
Our technician is Reynold Gonsalves. The show director is Kevin Ball. Chris Howden is our 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 us out this week:
Mary Lynk in Halifax
Susan McKenzie in Montreal
Kristin Nelson in Ottawa
Davorin Cikovic at Radio Archives in Toronto
Andrew Gregg, Michael D-Souza, and Jennifer Rowley -- also all in Toronto
Jody Porter in Thunder Bay
Michael O'Halloran in Calgary and
Bob Keating in Nelson.
As It Happens will be back again on Monday. Good night, and good weekend.