As It Happens: Friday Edition
Part One
Omar Khadr: lawyer
There are congratulations and consternation after the government apologizes to Omar Khadr, and pays him millions in compensation — and his lawyer says it's a fair deal for Canada's role in his ordeal.
Liu Xiaobo latest
Friends of the long-imprisoned democracy activist and Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo say he's close to death — and they're pleading with the Chinese government to meet with him before it's too late.
Iceberg swimmer
Our guest describes the numb feeling he had watching a man swim into the cold waters off Newfoundland to sit on an iceberg — but you'll have to imagine the numb feeling he had.
Part Two
Turkey march
Tens of thousands of people march across Turkey, demanding the president stop his crackdown on dissent — and they've walked four hundred kilometres to Istanbul to make their point.
Christie beach house
Throwing down the towel. When Governor Chris Christie infuriates residents of New Jersey by lounging on the beach, after he'd closed the shore to everyone else, a state assemblyman introduces a bill that would allow people to rent out Christie's beach house.
As It Happens was produced this week by:
Marc Appolonio
Jeanne Armstrong
Imogen Birchard
Karen Chen
Sarah Jackson
Josh Fleer
Katie Geleff
Sheena Goodyear
Chris Harbord
Samantha Lui
Kevin Robertson
and Donya Ziaee.
Our technicians were Reynold Gonsalves, Jennifer Rowley and Mitchell Stuart. The show director was John McGill.
Chris Howden is our writer. Kate Swoger was the Senior Producer. And the Acting Executive Producer of As It Happens is John Perry.
We'd also like to thank some other people who helped us out this week:
Mary-Catherine MacIntosh in Halifax
Susan McKenzie in Montreal
Kristin Nelson in Ottawa
Penny Cadrain, Gary Francis and Wayne Henning in Toronto
Suzanne Dufresne in Winnipeg
Boonie Allen in Regina
Alicia Bridges and Victoria Dinh in Saskatoon
Michael O'Halloran in Calgary
and Anne Penman in Vancouver.
As It Happens will be back again on Monday. Good night, and good weekend.