As It Happens: Friday Edition
Part One
US health care vote
The House vote on U.S. President Donald Trump's first major legislative push — the repeal and replacement of "Obamacare" — is pulled at the last minute, when it becomes clear that it's DOA.
Keystone decision
President Trump did make progress on another promise, though, giving the go-ahead to the Keystone XL pipeline — although a Nebraska farmer says that progress will come to a screeching halt at his property line.
Andrew Saxton
Andrew Saxton is running for the leadership of the Conservative Party, but he's nowhere near the lead — so he's decided to change that by presenting himself as the chairman of the boredom.
Part Two
Mubarak free
Former Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak is released from prison — and one of the activists who helped bring him down reflects on what that means to her — and to the revolution.
New Sesame Street character
Julia is the first-ever Muppet on "Sesame Street" with autism.
Part Three
Nazi church fire
When a church burns down in North Dakota, the man next door has mixed feelings: on one hand, it was a historic building, but on the other, it had just been bought by a notorious white supremacist.
Philadelphia motel lawsuit
A Philadelphia teenager is suing the hotel where she was confined to a room and forced to perform sexual acts on dozens of men when she was just 14.
As it Happens was produced this week by:
Marc Apollonio
Jeanne Armstrong
Imogen Birchard
Karen Chen
Katie Geleff
Sheena Goodyear
Chris Harbord
Samantha Lui
Pedro Sanchez
Kate Swoger
and Julian Uzielli
Our technician is Reynold Gonsalves. The show director is Kevin Ball. Chris Howden is our writer.
Our intern is Melisha Ratnarajah.
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:
Mary-Catherine MacIntosh in Halifax
Susan McKenzie in Montreal
Kristin Nelson in Ottawa
Keith Hart in Toronto
Jody Porter in Thunder Bay
Suzanne Dufresne in Winnipeg
Michael O'Halloran in Calgary
Anne Penman in Vancouver
and Angela Naus in London.
As It Happens will be back again on Monday. Good night, and good weekend.