As It Happens: Friday Edition
Part One
Hurricane Laura
We reach a man in Lake Charles, Louisiana, whose home suffered severe damage from Hurricane Laura. But, he says the hardest part isn't what he has personally lost, it's the extent of the destruction to his city.
Tariff brewery
After Canada announces counter-measures to new U-S aluminium tariffs, a Canadian brewery owner decided to impose some counter-measures of his own — against the Trump administration.
Scottish dinosaur
We reach a Scottish palaeontologist who was running to catch up with her research team when she stumbled on a huge fossilized find of her own.
Part Two
Spain COVID
COVID-19 is back with a vengeance in Spain, where seven-thousand cases are being recorded daily. According to one epidemiologist, the influx of tourists is partly to blame.
Germany library book
Centuries after Augustus the Younger tried and failed to acquire a rare treasure for a library named for him, the institution finally gets its hands on the remarkable book — and pays more than 4-million dollars for the honour.
As It Happens was produced this week by:
Jeanne Armstrong
Katie Geleff
Sheena Goodyear
Chloe Shantz-Hilkes
Sarah Jackson
Mehek Mazhar
Susan McReynolds
Morgan Passi
Menaka Raman-Wilms
and Kate Swoger.
Our technician is Reynold Gonsalves. The show director this week is John McGill. The writer this week is Lisa Bryn-Rundle.
Chris Harbord is our senior producer this week. 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:
Susan McKenzie in Montreal
Paul MacInnis in Ottawa
Laura Antonelli, Andrea Bellemare, Kirsten Fenn, Alison Masemann, Varad Mehta, Jonathan Ore, Eric Van, Olsy Sorokina, Oliver Thompson, Brandie Weikle, Julia Wittman, and Luke Williams — all in Toronto
Jessie Anton in Saskatoon
Jennifer Keene in Calgary
and Anne Penman in Vancouver.
As It Happens will be back again on Monday. Good night, and good weekend.