As It Happens

As It Happens: Monday Edition

Sept. 28, 2020

Episode Transcript

Part One

COVID Spike Doctor
Ontario's Premier says the province has entered the 2nd wave of COVID-19 and our guest is among the doctors saying it's time to shut some things down. 

Debate Trump Player
As Joe Biden and Donald Trump get ready to go head-to-head in their first presidential debate, the man who played Trump for Hillary Clinton's debate prep tells us what he expects.

Black Barrister Racism
A Black barrister in the U.K. speaks out after being mistaken for a defendant multiple times in a single day and discovers she's not the only one.

Part Two

Alaska to Alberta Train
With a new railroad between Alaska and Alberta's oilsands in the pipeline, the railway's president tells us how he plans to address environmental concerns that have tanked other attempts to get crude from A to B.

SCOTUS Religious Women
Donald Trump's nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court has Conservative Christian women celebrating a new icon, made in their image.

Part Three

Turkey Arrest
Omer Ongun says he's barely slept or eaten since his partner was arrested in Turkey on Friday. The Carleton University graduate student is in prison, detained, it seems, for a letter he wrote six years ago in support of Kurds in Syria.

Stakeholder Capitalism Study
Corporations make ambitious pledges for social good all the time. But a new study finds the bottom line is still the bottom line.

Rating Benches
We reach a man who's made it his mission to rate the public benches in his U-K town, and he's not afraid of a little sit talking.