As It Happens: The Monday Edition
Part One
Global Vaccine Divide
New research suggests that some vaccines are better than others at combating Omicron — and our guest says it's no coincidence that the world's least affluent countries were stuck with the ineffective ones.
Scotland Witch Bill
There's no magic to it. A lawyer in Edinburgh explains why she's pressing the Scottish parliament to issue legal pardons to thousands of women convicted of witchcraft centuries ago — and often burned at the stake.
Viral Obit
putting the "edgy" in "elegy". A New York man says his late mother had respect and reverence for pretty much nothing — which inspired his hilarious viral obituary to the "plus-sized Jewish lady redneck" he loved.
Kangol Kid Obit
Fight club. We remember pioneering hip hop artist Kangol Kid of UTFO, whose song Roxanne, Roxanne spawned dozens of answer records, and at least one ongoing beef — which in turn kickstarted its own rap tradition.
Part Two
Faroe Islands Early Inhabitants
It's all been said in dung. We reach a geologist who says the ancient sheep feces found at the bottom of a lake in the Faroe Islands is proof that people were living there hundreds of years before the Vikings arrived.
Reading: Who Has Seen the Wind
The best blade plans. Tonight's holiday reading transports us to the Prairies in the 1930s — where a boy named Brian O'Connal gives his terrible new skates an icy reception.