As It Happens

As It Happens: Thursday Edition

Thursday, July 15, 2021

Episode Transcript

Part One

Kamloops Report 
A tribal chief tells us he thought of his mother as Kamloops residential school survivors shared their stories today -- because she too was forced to attend the school where so many children were lost.

Camera Flash Cancer 
Picture imperfect. When she saw something odd in a photo of her infant son, a Georgia woman took action -- and now, she's being credited with saving his life.

Tahitian Snails
A researcher finally pieces together how one snail species in Tahiti survived an invasion that wiped out so many others -- by putting a tiny computer on their backs.


Part Two

Dundas Street to be renamed
Putting the "done" in "Dundas". The city of Toronto votes to rename a street named for a Scottish politician who helped prolong the slave trade.

FOA: Occupy Ten Years 
Ten years ago this week, Adbusters put out a call for a peaceful occupation of Wall Street. Tonight, we revisit a conversation with the magazine's co-founder about the movement's staying power.