As It Happens

As It Happens, Tuesday Edition

Tuesday, February 9th, 2016

Part One

Imposter victim
Police say Jeremy Wilson had 27 aliases — pretending to be everything from a DJ to a professor. An Edmonton man tells us why he believed Wilson was a Jewish soldier seeking asylum in Canada.

Stéphane Dion
Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion explains why engagement is better than isolation when it comes to Canada's difficult relationship with countries like Russia, Iran and Saudi Arabia.

Oil clean up
Saskatchewan's premier is embracing an idea from one petroleum producer to put unemployed oil workers back to work: paying them to clean up decommissioned drilling sites.

Part Two

Pop-up classrooms
Refugee children living in a Toronto hotel start school, even though they don't meet the usual requirement: a permanent home. A teacher tells us how her new students are doing.

Dublin drug lord profile 
Another gangster has been killed in Dublin, seemingly in retaliation for a shooting at a boxing-match weigh in on Friday. That's leading some to suspect a gang war and not, as it was claimed, a political act by a paramilitary Republican group.

Part Three

Vancouver real estate
Shadow flipping. It's a practice that some realtors in Vancouver are using to pocket extra cash and the NDP housing critic for British Columbia is accusing the provincial government of failing to address the issue. 

Detroit teachers 
Teachers in Detroit are sick of working in schools that are so under-funded some classrooms have mushrooms growing on the walls. They can't strike, so, instead, they're calling in sick.