As It Happens

As It Happens: Wednesday Edition

Dec. 18, 2019

Full Episode Transcript

Part One

Jesuit abuse names
The Jesuits in Canada are the first Catholic order in the country to agree to release the names of priests credibly accused of sexual abuse. 

Impeachment vote
While world leaders gather in Geneva to discuss "rebooting" how to deal with refugees, a psychologist describes the crushing emotional toll on children in a camp in Greece. 

Memorizing Finnegans Wake
Neal Kosaly-Meyer isn't just reciting all the tongue-twisting language in Finnigans Wake by James Joyce — he's memorizing it. 

Part Two

United Nations refugee children
While world leaders gather in Geneva to discuss "rebooting" how to deal with refugees, a psychologist describes the crushing emotional toll on children in a camp in Greece. 

SNC-Lavalin plea
Construction giant SNC Lavalin will pay more than a quarter-billion dollars after pleading guilty to fraud — and we'll ask whether we should be fine with that fine. 

Part Three

Encore: As it Happened archives - "The evolution of AIH"
As part of a trip back in time to the days when "As It Happens" was young, hear about the people who were there when its voice changed.