As It Happens: Friday Edition
Part One
National Energy Board: pipeline orca effect
The National Energy Board renews its approval of the Trans Mountain Pipeline — but our guest says the effects on the local orca population could be worse than the Board has acknowledged.
R. Kelly charges
Two years ago, Oronike Odeleye started the hashtag "Mute R. Kelly" — and tonight, she'll tell us why she thinks it took so long for the R & B singer to face charges of criminal sexual abuse.
Elliot Lake collapse
Our guest flees the dress rehearsal of the play he's directing when the theatre's ceiling starts caving in — nearly seven years after he survived the deadly cave-in of a mall roof, in the same Ontario city.
Part Two
Venezuela: malaria
In Venezuela, economic collapse and a lack of medicine have caused a resurgence of infectious disease — and researchers worry that could lead to a continent-wide outbreak of diseases like malaria.
Oldest Canadian man obit
The late Dr. Robert Wiener wasn't just Canada's oldest man: he devoted much of his 110-year-long life to improving the lives of others.
Part Three
SNC-Lavalin: Dosanjh
The Prime Minister insists Jody Wilson-Raybould was never pressured. And his top bureaucrat agrees. But former Liberal cabinet minister and BC attorney general Ujjal Dosanjh isn't quite so sure.
Pinochet Aide detained
In Sydney, Australia, she was known as a nanny and house cleaner. But in Chile, Adriana Rivas had a more fearsome reputation: as a kidnapper and torturer for Augusto Pinochet's secret police.
As It Happens was produced this week by:
Jeanne Armstrong
Sarah-Joyce Battersby
Allison Broverman
Sheena Goodyear
Chris Harbord
Sarah Jackson
Allie Jaynes
Samantha Lui
Ashley Mak
John McGill
Richard Raycraft
Kevin Robertson and
Kate Swoger.
Our technician is Reynold Gonsalves. The show director is Kevin Ball. Our writers this week were Kevin Ball and Chris Howden.
John Perry is our senior producer. And the Executive Producer of As It Happens is Robin Smythe.
We'd also like to thank some other people who helped us out this week:
Mary-Catherine McIntosh in Halifax
Nick Murray in Iqaluit
Susan McKenzie in Montreal
Else Skura and Chris Rands in Ottawa
Keith Hart at Radio Archives and Patrick Mooney at the Reference Library in Toronto
Luke Williams, Varad Mehta Amara McLaughlin, Ben Shannon, William Wolfe-Wylie, Sylvène Gilchrist and Laura Stone in Toronto
Suzanne Dufresne, Tessa Venderhartt and Aviva Jacob in Winnipeg
Michael O'Halloran in Calgary, and
Anne Penman in Vancouver.
As It Happens will be back again on Monday. Good night, and good weekend.