As It Happens

As It Happens: Tuesday Edition

Tuesday, September 29th 2015

Part One

Abbotsford protests
When an ex-convict with a long history of preying on young girls moves into Abbotsford, BC, residents go to great lengths to make him unwelcome. 

Saudi airstrike
More than a hundred-and-thirty civilians attending a wedding in Yemen are dead -- victims, according to Yemeni and UN officials, of a Saudi air strike. 

Skier found
Thirty-five years ago, Gregory Barnes made a wrong turn while skiing -- and was never seen again. Now, though, global warming has melted a glacier, and uncovered his long-lost body. 

Part Two

Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): dairy farmer
With a trans-Pacific trade deal possibly just days away, we'll hear from one dairy farmer who's worried his industry is about to be sold out to satisfy the American farm lobby.

Cape Breton dances
When a Nova Scotia school board cancels all middle-school dances, one mother thinks it's a load of jive -- and gets up a petition so the kids can get down to some corny pop tunes. 
     
Part Three

Jamaica reparations
David Cameron makes his first-ever official trip to Jamaica -- and is confronted by demands for slavery reparations. 

Gun range homes
Some residents of Parkland County, Alberta are confronted with the possibility that a local gun range will get a permit to operate forever -- which they do not want.

NDP sign guy 
An NDP candidate in Stephen Harper's riding offers his campaign signs to anyone who wants to send a message to the Conservative leader -- until one voter confronts him with an unexpected challenge.