As It Happens: The Friday Edition
Part One
BC agriculture minister
BC's agriculture minister tells us help is on the way for farmers struggling to find food and water for their animals after the province's historic floods.
Pfizer kids vaccine approval
Health Canada approves the COVID vaccine for children aged 5 to 11 — and an infectious diseases specialist in Regina that for parents like him, it's a real injection of optimism.
Benches calendar
A British man has a surprise hit with calendar featuring monthly pictures of benches around his English town — and he'll explain why it'll have you on the edge of 12 different seats.
Part Two
Rittenhouse verdict
A jury acquits the teenager who shot and killed two men during protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin last year — a verdict our guest calls troubling but not unexpected.
New Brunswick graveyard statue
A New Brunswick woman doesn't know why someone stole a key part from a distant relative's monument decades ago — but now that the head is back, hers feels clearer.
Part Three
Merritt BC home lost
A BC family that was forced to flee twice in one night says they have nothing to return to — and out-of-pocket stays in hotels are becoming untenable.
Climate emergency language study
New research suggests climate-change reporters who are eager for citizens to see planetary warming as the emergency it is may be better off avoiding the word "emergency" altogether.
As It Happens was produced this week by:
Andrea Bellemare
Kate Cornick
Katie Geleff
Sheena Goodyear
Chris Harbord
Sarah Jackson
Mehek Mazhar
Kevin Robertson
Kate Swoger
Chloe Shantz-Hilkes
and Chris Trowbridge.
Our technician is Reynold Gonsalves. The show director is John McGill.
The writers are Lisa Bryn-Rundle and Chris Howden. Austin Webb is our senior producer. And the Executive Producer of As It Happens is Robin Smythe.
We'd also like to thank some other people:
Mary-Catherine MacIntosh in Halifax
Susan McKenzie in Montreal
Jonathan Ore, Alex Redekopp, Eric Van, and Luke Williams — all in Toronto
Suzanne Dufresne in Winnipeg
Allison Dempster in Calgary
Anne Penman in Vancouver
George Jamieson in Victoria
and Meagan Deuling in Iqaluit .
As It Happens will be back again on Monday. Good night, and good weekend.