As It Happens

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As It Happens for Friday, November 20, 2009 * FTR: Military Judge Advocate * Afghan Torture: Int’l Law * FTR: Soldier Gets Vimy Awards * TAPE: Jeanne-Claude Obit * Best Utensil * New EU President * France vs. Ireland Soccer * FOA: The Taking of Pelham 123 * Settlements Folo * SCR: Stupid Killer Bees

The outcome of whats come out. If Richard Colvin's testimony is accurate, one expert tells us, then Canada violated international humanitarian law. Building consensus? Not a chance. A member of a Jewish group against settlements in the occupied ter...

As It Happens for Thursday, November 19, 2009 * FTR: Afghan Torture QP * Afghan Torture: Colvin Profile * SCR/EMAIL * FTR: Abdullah Abdullah * Katrina US Army Corps * TAPE: Burnt Church Mother * Pen One Humanity Award

Capturing a lightning rod in a bottle. We'll find out more about Richard Colvin -- the Canadian diplomat whose testimony about torture in Afghanistan has shocked the country. Close encounters of the fourth-estate kind. A feature interview with Lydia...

As It Happens for Wednesday, November 18, 2009 * FTR: Richard Colvin * Afghan Torture Testimony * FTR: Obama GITMO Closes * GITMO Closes * SCR: Cenotaph Correction * FDLR Arrests * Dateline: Tortoise Mix-Up * Army Mother Detained

Bearing unbearable witness. A Canadian intelligence officer says it's likely that all detainees transferred to Afghan prisons by Canadians were tortured. Necessity puts the mother in detention. An American soldier refuses to go to Afghanistan becau...

As It Happens for Tuesday, November 17, 2009 * Clayton Willey Case * Mammogram Study * SCR: By the Numbers * Hamster Hotel * NS Tuna Fine * Indian Luger * GG Fiction Winner

What's wrong with these pictures. A B.C. Grand Chief demands the RCMP release video footage showing the death of Clayton Willey in custody. Sore luger. A back-and-forth with the man who's carrying all of India's Winter Olympic hopes on his slender s...

As it Happens for Monday, November 16, 2009 * New Greenpeace Head * CRTC Hearing * FOA: Enid Blyton Ban * FTR: Forgotten Australian * Home Children Apology * SCR: RLS Archive * 9/11 Cancers

Greenpeace de resistance. The new head of the conservation group makes saving humanity from itself his top priority. Two sorry situations. Australia apologies to its mistreated British "home children" -- but Canada has no plans to do the same. T...