As It Happens

Wednesday: Oath of Allegiance challenge, Egypt: Human Rights Watch report, whisky caretaker, and more...

The Ontario Court of Appeal says if you want to become a Canadian citizen, you have to swear allegiance to the Queen, and the lawyer who wanted that changed says it's a royal pain...Human Rights Watch says the Egyptian government may be guilty of crimes against humanity -- and now the group is barred from entering the country to deliver its report...and...

The Ontario Court of Appeal says if you want to become a Canadian citizen, you have to swear allegiance to the Queen, and the lawyer who wanted that changed says it's a royal pain...Human Rights Watch says the Egyptian government may be guilty of crimes against humanity -- and now the group is barred from entering the country to deliver its report...and apparently, the owner of a Pennsylvania mansion chose the wrong guy to guard more than a hundred-thousand dollars' worth of century-old whiskey.

Part One

Oath of Allegiance challenge
Ontario's appeal court denies a Charter challenge by three immigrants, who say the citizenship oath violates their rights by forcing them to swear allegiance to the Queen.

Egypt: Human Rights Watch report
Last summer, in Egypt, hundreds of supporters of the deposed president, Mohamed Morsi, were killed in a Cairo square. Human Rights Watch says that could constitute a crime against humanity. But one key group refuses to listen to that conclusion: the Egyptian government, which has banned HRW from entering the country to present its report.

Salmon cannon
The Vice-President of Whooshh Innovations explains an invention dubbed the "salmon cannon", which facilitates the migration of the fish by shooting them upwards through a tube.

Part Two

PTSD flight study
Thirteen years ago, a Canadian psychologist was on a plane that ran out of fuel -- and her subsequent study of her fellow passengers reveals a lot about the nature of PTSD and memory.

Whiskey caretaker
The former caretaker of a mansion in Pennsylvania had one important job: to guard some incredibly valuable, hundred-year-old whiskey. You can see how he might have been tempted to drink a little bit of it. But apparently, he drank almost all of it.