As it Happens
with Carol Off & Jeff Douglas

PART ONE

CSIS + TORTURE. The torture memos, True North style? A directive from the Minister of Public Security to Canada's spy agency has one Windsor law professor warning that the government might be intentionally violating the laws banning torture.

INSTRUMENTS TO ZAMBIA. Tugging at the harp strings. Dozens of musical instruments are on their way to a modest musical academy in Lusaka, Zambia -- and it's all thanks to Vancouver harpist, Heidi Krutzen.

PART TWO

RUSSIA ON SYRIA. Russia's Foreign Minister and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad put their heads together to find a solution to the violence in Syria.

NORWAY ARTIST N. KOREA. Pop music strikes accordion in North Korea. Musicians from the Hermit kingdom cover A-ha's take on me - and become a viral sensation.

PART THREE

CHATTANOOGA FONT. What's in a font? A city, by any other font, would seem as sweet. Or would it? Typeface designers in Chattanooga think not, which is why they're trying to capture the soul of their town with a new font prototype, called Chatype.

NEW MEXICO CONFINEMENT. A victim of the system. Residents from New Mexico want answers after a man was left to languish in solitary confinement for nearly two years after he was arrested. The county was recently ordered to pay Stephen Slevin 22 million dollars for his bad treatment at the Dona Ana Detention Centre.

PART ONE

CATERPILLAR FOLO: NDP. Hit the breaks! Caterpillar's decision to close its London locomotive plant has one local MP looking for ways to stop that train in its tracks.

MEASHA BRUEGGERGOSMAN. Swapping opera glasses for beer glasses. Soprano Measha Brueggergosman begins a series of concerts at the gritty Halifax pub, the Seahorse Tavern.

PART TWO

BORIS NEMTSOV. Putin up no longer. Tens of thousands of Russians put up with frigid temperatures on the weekend to say they're fed up with Vladimir Putin. We'll have a feature intervew with Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov.

PART THREE

EQUALIZATION REPORT. Equal, but not. A new report suggests that Canada's system for calculating equalization payments among the provinces falls short of being constitutional.

FOA: OBIT - JOYCE BARKHOUSE. Saying goodbye to children's author Joyce Barkhouse. She was most famous for her novel Pit Pony, but the famous Nova Scotian also worked to make Canadian history accessible to kids.

PART ONE

ELECTRO-MOTIVE LEAVES TOWN. Whistle-stop boss. A worker at Caterpillar's locomotive plant in London, Ontario, responds to today's decision by the company to shut down operations all together. The jobs are expected to go to Indiana, a state that has just passed anti-union legislation.

ELECTRO-MOTIVE ANALYSIS. An Economics and International Business Prof explains the rationale behind Caterpillar's decision to shut down London's locomotive plant, less than two years after purchasing it.

PART TWO

KILLER WHALES MOVE NORTH. Inuit knowledge and science collaborate to provide a better understanding of the new hunting patterns of killer whales.

CANADIAN SOCCER PLAYER. A kick in the pants for professional women's soccer. Owners in the WPS pro league vote to suspend the entire 2012 season, leaving some Canadian national team players without a club for pre-Olympic practice.

PART THREE

CANADA READS - AGUIRRE. Fierce competition. Playwright and author Carmen Aguirre reads from her Canada Reads contending memoir, entitled Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter.