As It Happens: Friday Edition
Part One
Soldiers of Odin: Legion
The president of the Royal Canadian Legion promises to take action after a North Alberta Branch plays host to the alt-right group the Soldiers of Odin.
Lancet: HIV drugs
An amazing new study shows that antiretroviral drugs aren't just suppressing HIV — they're stopping its transmission between partners completely.
Rugby ban reversed
Nova Scotia's School Athletic Federation stunned the province's rugby players and coaches by cancelling all public school rugby games, effective yesterday. Then today, the education minister reversed the ban.
Part Two
First Nation house fire
When a house caught fire in a Northwestern Ontario First Nation, with a family inside, all anyone could do was watch — because the community has no proper fire-fighting equipment.
North Korea food shortage
Harvests have been so bad in North Korea that 10 million people don't have enough food — and the UN says help is needed immediately.
Part Three
India cyclone
At least eight are dead, and more than a million have fled India's eastern coast, seeking shelter from the country's biggest storm in two decades.
This week, a Canadian university student fell head-over-heels, and asleep, in the French museum — after winning a contest that allowed her to sleep among some of the world's greatest works of art. She'll shares how cool (or terrifying) it was.
As It Happens was produced this week by:
Jeanne Armstrong
Sarah-Joyce Battersby
Chris Harbord
Sheena Goodyear
Sarah Jackson
Allie Jaynes
John McGill
Morgan Passi
Richard Raycraft
Kevin Robertson
and Kate Swoger.
Our technicians this week are Laura Antonelli and Reynold Gonsalves.
The writer is Chris Howden. Menaka Raman-Wilms is our intern.
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
Susan McKenzie in Montreal
Chris Rands in Ottawa
Keith Hart, Sinisa Jolic, Varad Mehta, Jonathan Ore, Lorenda Reddekopp and Luke Williams — all in Toronto
Suzanne Dufresne in Winnipeg
Michael O'Halloran in Calgary, and Anne Penman in Vancouver.