As It Happens: Friday Edition
Part One
Polygamy verdict
Two members of a polygamous church are found guilty in a B.C. court after taking a thirteen-year-old girl across the U.S. border to marry a church leader in his 40s.
No electoral reform: Liberal MP apologizes
If you wanted long-term change, you got short-changed. And Liberal MP for Beaches East-York Nathaniel Erskine-Smith shares your pain — and has voted to share his own disappointment that his government bailed on electoral reform.
Pom pom crabs
It's called the "pom pom crab" because it's always clutching colourful blobs — but the weird part is, those blobs are sea anemones, and the crabs refuse to let them go.
Part Two
Bowling Green facts
To bolster the case for U.S. President Trump's immigration ban, Kellyanne Conway brings up the "Bowling Green Massacre" — which never happened.
Glasgow artist
To raise money to rebuild after a disastrous fire, the Glasgow School of Art sends pieces of the charred ruins to artists — and asks them to make something from the debris.
Part Three
Thunder Bay woman injured
Last week, someone threw a trailer hitch at an Indigenous woman in Thunder Bay. And while she recovers in hospital, her sister tells us why she sees it as a hate crime.
Ukraine fighting
Don't tell civilians in Eastern Ukraine there's supposed to be a ceasefire. Thousands of them are caught in the middle of fighting between government forces and separatists backed by Russia.
AI Philippines report
Ever since Rodrigo Duterte became president of the Philippines, his "war on drugs" has killed more than 7,000 people — deaths which Amnesty International labels illegal executions.
As it Happens was produced this week by:
Jeanne Armstrong
Imogen Birchard
Karen Chen
Katie Geleff
Chris Harbord
Samantha Lui
John McGill...
Kevin Robertson
Pedro Sanchez
Earvin Solitario
and Kate Swoger.
Our technician this week were Reynold Gonsalves and Evan Kelly.
The show director is Kevin Ball.
Chris Howden is our writer. And our intern is Sarah Jackson.
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 put the show together this week:
Jack Julian in Halifax
Kristin Nelson in Ottawa
Keith Hart, Naheed Mustafa, Jess Shane and Luke Williams — all in Toronto
Jody Porter in Thunder Bay,
Suzanne Dufresne in Winnipeg
Michael O'Halloran in Calgary
and Anne Penman in Vancouver.
And a special thank you to Susan McKenzie in Montreal, along with Peter Tardiff in Quebec City and all our colleagues in Quebec who have worked so hard to help us to cover the difficult news out of that province this week.
As It Happens will be back again on Monday. Good night, and good weekend.