As It Happens

As It Happens, Monday Edition

Monday, February 15th, 2016

Part One

Syria hospital
After airstrikes hit medical facilities in northern Syria, including four hospitals, one of the region's few remaining general surgeons tells us about the devastating effects on civilians. 

Kentucky abortions
Fed up with a new state law further restricting access to abortion, a Kentucky representative introduces a bill that would similarly restrict men's access to erectile-dysfunction drugs. 

Stolen vest guy
A Portland musician loses his beloved denim vest, with patches of his favourite heavy metal bands — only to find it in the window of Macy's department store in New York. 

Part Two

Scalia: Primus
Constitutional law professor Richard Primus says the U.S. Supreme Court could make a political shift to the left for the first time in more than 40 years, now that Justice Antonin Scalia has died.

Scalia: Whelan
Former Antonin Scalia clerk and conservative Ed Whelan says the Republicans are right to block an attempt to replace the U.S. Supreme Court justice before November's election.

Oil well landowner 
Farmer Kelly Nelson says the Alberta government should call on the federal government to provide money for abandoned well cleanup, like Saskatchewan did, because it's not the responsibility of the Alberta taxpayer to pay for the mess left by the oil and gas companies. 

Part Three

Sally Mann encore presentation 
American photographer Sally Mann became famous for a book Immediate Family. But she also became a lightning rod for criticism that the photos of her children in that book were exploitative —or outright pornographic. Last year, Sally Mann published a memoir called Hold Still. She writes about that controversy, and about her mind-boggling family history — and she talks about all of the above and more, in an encore presentation of her interview with Carol.