As It Happens

As It Happens: Tuesday Edition

As It Happens: Tuesday Edition

Episode transcript

Part One

Trump Pakistan
After the U.S. President rings in the New Year by accusing an ally of harbouring terrorists, Pakistan's High Commissioner to Canada advises Trump to think before he tweets.

YouTube Suicide Video
A hugely popular YouTube personality posts a video in which he discovers someone's remains in Japan's so-called "suicide forest" — and takes it down after it's met with widespread disgust. 

Mosque Fine Paid
He painted himself into a corner. But when a man who vandalized an Arkansas mosque with hateful graffiti is facing jail time for not paying a fine, the mosque itself steps in to save him, by covering his debt. 

Part Two

Yukon Alcohol Labels
An experiment in putting warning labels on bottles of booze in Yukon is put on hold, maybe permanently — and one of the researchers tells us about the pressure they're getting from Big Alcohol. 

Old Arrowhead
A woman turns in a pointed stone she found as a child in Toronto in the 1930s — and our guest discovers it's an Indigenous arrowhead that may be 6000 years old. 

Part Three

Encore: As It Happened Archive Edition: Neighbours
We visited the archives, and returned with tonight's episode of As it Happened, which is all about neighbours — including an old interview with a U.S. politician who wanted a barrier along the Canadian border.