As It Happens: Friday Edition
Part One
Paris shootings
Amid reports of explosions, shootings, and deaths, we hear from witnesses who experienced the chaos firsthand as it unfolded in Paris.
Russia doping
After a report revealed widespread doping among Russian track-and-field athletes -- and a high-level cover-up -- the sport's governing body suspends the team indefinitely.
Switched at birth
For 40 years, people in a Manitoba First Nations community commented that two men could have been switched at birth -- and after a DNA test, they discover that they actually were.
Part Two
Ghana attack
Four sisters see news photos of a naked woman being taunted by a mob in Ghana -- and when they realize the woman is their mother, they set out to bring her to Canada.
PTSD police chief
Jean-Michel Blais was deeply affected by his experiences in Haiti -- and now, the chief of the Halifax Police is talking publicly about being diagnosed with PTSD.
Part Three
Refugees: Cogeco CEO
COGECO Cable CEO Louis Audet says Canada could do a lot to restore its role as both a moral leader and a money maker, by radically boosting the number of Syrians it's willing to take in.
Submerged car
From the top of the Christmas tree he was decorating, a Michigan man sees a car submerged in a nearby pond -- and helps to solve a nine-year-old missing persons case.
Jack Yufe obit
Twins Jack and Oskar Yufe were separated at birth. Jack was raised Jewish. Oskar grew up in Nazi Germany. Jack died this week at eighty-two. His daughter tells us about the striking similiarities between her father and his twin brother -- and the stark differences.
Halifax drunk tank case
Donald Smith says what happened to him was degrading and inhumane. He says his being stripped naked and left to sit in his own urine in a Halifax cell shows police need better training on how to deal with people with mental health issues.
As it Happens was produced this week by:
Laurie Allan
Jeanne Armstrong
Imogen Birchard
John Chipman
Katie Geleff
Chris Harbord
John McGill
Kevin Robertson
Pedro Sanchez
and Kate Swoger.
Our technician is Reynold Gonsalves. The show director is Kevin Ball.
Chris Howden is our writer.
John Perry is the 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:
Susan McKenzie in Montreal
Matthew Kupfer in Ottawa
Keith Hart at Radio Archives in Toronto
Michael O'Halloran in Calgary
and Anne Penman in Vancouver.
As It Happens will be back again on Monday. Good night.