As It Happens: Friday Edition
Part One
Huawei: Senator
Two U.S. Senators, one from each party, have sent a letter to Prime Minister Trudeau, urging him not to let the Chinese telecom giant Huawei build new high-tech infrastructure — but will that letter be returned to Senators?
Deciem lawsuit
More than cosmetic changes are afoot at the hugely successful Toronto beauty brand Deciem: the founder has been ousted for his wildly erratic behaviour on social media.
Tree kangaroo
It's been 100 years since the last human saw — and shot — a tree kangaroo — so amateur botanist Michael Smith was astonished to catch sight of a creature everyone thought was extinct, while he was on vacation.
Part Two
Norway Satanic Verses
Twenty-five years after he was shot, the Norwegian publisher of "The Satanic Verses" welcomes the news that someone's finally been charged in his case.
Clam microplastics
University of New Brunswick biology grad student Krista Beardy finds humans guilty of polluting the water of the Bay of Fundy — after finding microplastics in hundreds of clams.
Part Three
Nauru refugees
Doctors Without Borders says staff were providing "critically-needed mental helath care" to refugees on the island of Nauru. The government of Nauru says the NGO's workers were actually practising political activism — and now it's ordered all those workers to leave the island.
Banting Lab painting
A rare painting by Nobel Prize-winning medical scientist Frederick Banting depicting his U of T laboratory is up for auction.
As It Happens was produced this week by:
Jeanne Armstrong
Imogen Birchard
Alison Broverman
Katie Geleff
Sheena Goodyear
Chris Harbord
Sarah Jackson...
Samantha Lui
Ashley Mak
Richard Raycraft
Kevin Robertson
Nathan Swinn and
Kate Swoger.
Our technician is Reynold Gonsalves.
The show director is Kevin Ball, and our Assistant Director is John McGill.
Chris Howden is our writer.
John Perry is our 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-Catherine McIntosh in Halifax
Steven Webb in Saint John
Susan McKenzie in Montreal, Kristin Nelson in Ottawa, Keith Hart at Radio Archives, Allan Morris at the Music Library, Ashly July, Kevin Risk, and Luke Williams — all in Toronto
Suzanne Dufresne in Winnipeg
Michael O'Halloran in Calgary and
Anne Penman in Vancouver.
As It Happens will be back again on Monday. Good night, and good weekend.