As It Happens: Friday Full Episode
Part One
Ambassador bridge
A Detroit billionaire pays for an ad saying his bridge between Canada and the U.S. should go ahead, and another cancelled. That ad has an intended audience of one: Donald Trump.
Newfoundland coat of arms
Newfoundland and Labrador's coat of arms is odd -- it has unicorns on it -- but our guest says it's also offensive -- and he's convinced the government to redesign it.
World Cup: Mexico
This week, Mexico scored a surprising win over Germany at the World Cup, and some say a video proves our guest's mother is responsible -- because it shows her blessing the Mexican players, on her TV.
Part Two
Drug relapse case
A Massachusetts woman argues it's cruel and unusual to punish an addict --- her client -- for violating her probation by using drugs.
Hot dog injury
A baseball mascot didn't even see our guest while he was firing hot dogs into the crowd with his hot dog cannon -- which is how he inadvertently hit her in the eye.
Part Three
Encore: 'The Optician of Lampedusa'
An encore presentation of our interview last year with BBC journalist Emma Jane Kirby, author of "The Optician of Lampedusa'. It is the true-life story of an Italian optician who, on October 3rd, 2013, rescued dozens of shipwrecked migrants off the coast of the tiny Italian island.
As It Happens was produced this week by:
Jeanne Armstrong
Imogen Birchard
Sarah Cooper
Chris Harbord
Katie Geleff
Sheena Goodyear
Kate McGillvray
Sarah Jackson
Chloe Shantz-Hilkes
Samantha Lui
Kevin Robertson
Earvin Solitario and
Kate Swoger.
Our technician is Reynold Gonsalves. The show director is Kevin Ball.
Chris Howden is our writer.
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 us out this week:
Mary-Catherine McIntosh in Halifax
Susan McKenzie in Montreal, Kristin Nelson and Chris Rands in Ottawa
Keith Hart at Radio Archives, Ashly July, Mandy Sham and Luke Williams 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.