As It Happens

As It Happens, Tuesday Edition

Tuesday, April 19th, 2016

Part One

Drug conference: parent
Four years after the death of her daughter, a Toronto woman travels to New York with a message for the UN: call off the war on drugs, because everyone's losing. 

Windsor hum
The so-called "Windsor Hum" is back, and louder than ever, and our guest-- okay, Carol, please stop now.  Sorry. Thanks. And unlike Carol, it won't listen when residents beg for it to quit. 

'Game of Thrones' Freedom of Information journalist
"Winter is coming." You've told us like a thousand times. But the U.S. President is one of only a handful of people who know what else  is coming this season -- so one journalist has filed a request for his advance copies of Game of Thrones.

Part Two

Kabul attack
The coordinator of a hospital in Kabul tells us about the aftermath of a brazen Taliban attack today -- the latest example of a troubling rise in violence across Afghanistan. 

Thyroid cancer 
For years, people with a type of small thyroid tumor have been treated aggressively -- but now, experts say it's time doctors spared their patients the unnecessary stress. 

Part Three

Magdalene laundries
For years, women at a convent in Ireland packaged Hasbro board games, for little to no pay. We'll speak with a Dublin journalist who set out to investigate, after discovering his great-aunt was one of those women. 

Turo in Canada
The CEO of Turo says that, starting today, his company will make it easy for Canadians to make money, by renting out their unused cars. What could go wrong? Well, we'll ask him what happens when something does.    

CBC short story winner
We'll hear Ontario writer David Huebert read his CBC Short Story Prize winning-story, about a woman and her last days with her beloved horse, Enigma.