That's what it sounded like in Ottawa today as protesters gathered on Parliament Hill to voice their opposition to the TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline. Similar protests in Washington, DC, last month resulted in hundreds of arrests.

The proposed pipeline would send seven hundred thousand barrels of Alberta oilsands bitumen through the U.S. to its final stop at refinery in Texas. Right now the project is still under review in the United States. A decision on its approval is expected by the end of the year.

Maude Barlow of the Council of Canadians was one of the protesters in Ottawa today and we'll speak with her in just a minute.

But first, Shawn Howard is a spokesperson for TransCanada, the corporation building the Keystone pipelines. We reached him at the airport in Calgary.

Maude Barlow is the National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians. She was arrested at today's protest in Ottawa, but has since been released by police.

If you were hopeful that the International Monetary Fund would help solve the Eurozone crisis, you won't be in three minutes or so.

On Saturday, the IMF annual meeting took place in Washington, where officials sketched out the elements of a Eurozone rescue deal. Those elements reportedly include a restructuring of Greece's debt, an increase to the EU's bail-out fund, and a recapitalization of the Eurozone's banks. All of which one might think would stave off an especially nightmarish collapse.

But according to independent market trader Alessio Rastani, one is wrong. This morning, on the BBC, Mr. Rastani gave his remarkably frank take on the situation. For the record, here is BBC host Martine Croxall in conversation with Mr. Rastani.

John Murray has been waiting for justice for twenty-seven years. Now he believes he is close to getting it.

On April 17th, 1984, Mr. Murray was on patrol at a protest outside the Libyan Embassy in London, with fellow police officer Yvonne Fletcher. While they were working, shots rang out from the building. Ms. Fletcher was hit, and died from her wounds.

To this day, no one has ever been charged with her murder.

A few weeks ago, John Murray told "As It Happens" that he was going to Libya to speak with the National Transitional Council about Yvonne Fletcher's case.

Mr. Murray has now returned. We reached him at his home in London, England.

It's a remarkable change -- but it's not clear yet whether or not it will actually change things.

Yesterday, in Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah granted women in his country the right to vote. They'll also be able to stand as candidates in municipal elections, and in the national Shura -- the highest political office in the country. However, power ultimately rests in the hands of country's autocratic monarchy.

Nadia Bakhurji is an architect. She tried running for political office in 2005 but was rejected as a candidate because she's a woman. We reached Ms. Bakhurji at her office in Riyadh.

When a tree fell in the forest, she made sure you heard about it.

Wangari Maathai was a Kenyan activist. She was also the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize, for her mission to save Africa's forests. She died on Sunday of cancer at the age of seventy-one.

Ms. Maathai's reforestation plan worked by paying poor women a few shillings to plant trees. Thanks to her, thirty million trees have been planted in Africa, and almost nine hundred thousand women were involved -- making Ms. Maathai much more than an environmentalist.

In 1971, she became the first woman in east and central Africa to earn a doctorate. She was a professor, feminist, politician, human rights advocate and the head of the Green Belt Movement which she founded in 1977.

She was beaten, jailed, and abused -- but never broken -- by the brutal politicians who disagreed with her movement, and she kept the fight going for nearly forty years.

On October 8th, 2004, Ms. Maathai received a phone call from the Nobel Peace Prize committee letting her know she was going to receive the prize for her work. We reached her that day in Nairobi, and this is part of former host Mary-Lou Finlay's conversation with her from our archives.

After nearly forty years, it is faded -- but not forgotten.

Today, an iconic 1972 mural by Canadian artist Arnold Belkin, in the middle of what was once Hell's Kitchen, New York, is badly in need of repair -- seventy-thousand dollars worth, according to the latest estimate. But the Manhattan residents who have grown up with the artist's only American mural want it restored.

Kristen Laise is the director of the Rescue Public Murals program at the U.S. Heritage Preservation. We reached her in Washington, DC.

Dateline, Armenia.Garry Kasparov once said, "chess is mental torture". And now, the former chess champion wants that torture to be included in school curriculums across Europe. And he's not alone. This fall in Armemia, four-hundred thousand school children -- six years old and up -- are lugging their new chess textbooks home after school.

It may sound weird in the West, where we're more likely to put "Angry Birds" on the curriculum. But in Armenia, people really like chess. For instance: Serzh Sarkisian is the president of Armenia. He is also the president of Armenia's Chess Academy and the president of the Chess Federation. Also, thirty of the world's top chess players are Armenian.

So starting this year, school children will be receiving two lessons a week. Twelve hundred teachers were specially trained for this new, mandatory class.

And they might be on to something: One Armenian Grandmaster behind the new curriculum says that chess helps kids think independently, and map out strategies.

Whereas I can only think of one strategy I would map out: I'm sorry, Grandmaster, the dog ate my little horsey guy. I mean "knight".

Montrealer Imy Nemenoff-Gellert turns ninety-seven today. And while she may have received some gifts, the gift she gave was more important.

Mrs. Nemenoff Gellert is a survivor of Auschwitz. And for more than sixty years, she has kept a reminder of her time in the concentration camp in her dresser drawer, next to her nightgowns: the blue-and-grey striped uniform the Nazis forced her to wear while she was in the camp. It is one of last few in existence.

Today, she donated it to Montreal's Holocaust Memorial centre.

CBC reporter Shawn Apel recently met with Mrs. Nemenoff Gellert. She explained to him why she decided to give the uniform away, and why she held on to it for so long. Here's part of what she said, for the record.

It wasn't supposed to be this way...or was it?

When Russians left communism behind twenty years ago, a new era of change and regular transitions of leadership was to be ushered in. But Russia's Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, seems reluctant to let someone else take charge.

Putting an end to months of speculation, over the weekend Mr. Putin announced he would be running for the Russian presidency again next year. It's a post Putin held for eight years before -- but Russia's constitution demanded he take a break for four years.

Masha Gessen is a journalist and author of a forthcoming book on Vladimir Putin. We reached her in Moscow.

It has been called a "resurrection of dreams".

In Halifax yesterday, the first major part of the Africville Church Museum was officially opened. The building is a replica of the original church that stood in the heart of Africville in the 1960s. It's been built as a memorial to the African Nova Scotian community that was forcibly removed from the land during that time.

Many former residents of the community showed up to celebrate the new Church Museum, and to share their memories of the original Africville church.

Here are some of those voices.

And now, Quote/Unquote."The customer is always right". Now there's a quote -- but I'm here to showcase another.

It is, in fact, a refutation of that idea -- a manifesto of sorts, left by a retreating army of Borders employees. Borders is the American bookstore chain that shut down the last of its nationwide stores earlier this month.

And at one store, now-former employees felt liberated enough to leave behind a flip chart full of grievances, which they titled "Things We Never Told You: Ode to a Bookstore Death".

It's not an ode exactly, but judging by its tone, its authors couldn't care less. Here's a taste:

Quote:

"We hate when a book becomes popular simply because it was turned into a movie.

"We greatly dislike the phrase 'Quick question'. It's never true. And everyone seems to have one.

"Your summer reading list was our summer reading NIGHTMARE. Also, it's called summer reading, not 'Three-days-before-school-starts' reading.

"Most of the time when you returned books you read them already. And we were onto you.

"When you walked in and immediately said, 'I'm looking for a book' what you really meant to say is, 'I would like you to find me a book.' You never looked. It's fine, it's our job, but let's be correct about what's really happening here.

"Oprah was not the 'final say' on what is awesome. We really didn't care what was on her show or what her latest book club book was. Really."

Unquote.

Apparently, more is less. Or at least, more leads to less.

By less, I mean less sex. And by more, I mean more autonomy.

There's a new study involving more than twenty-three thousand women in six countries across sub-Saharan Africa. And that study found that the more autonomy women in sub-Saharan Africa have, the less sex they have. And that can be a good thing.

Michelle Hindin is the lead author of that study, and we reached her in Geneva.

Before answering questions in front of a National Assembly committee on corruption in Quebec, he addressed the nation itself.

Jacques Duchesneau is the head of an anti-collusion squad in Quebec. The findings of his report were leaked earlier this month shedding light on the extent of the corruption in the province's construction industry.

Last night, Mr. Duschesneau appeared on the popular talk-show, "Tout le monde en parle" --- a rare interview before he speaks before the provincial government tomorrow.

For the record, here's is some of what he told host Guy A. Lepage on last night's program, in translation, about what he learned about the bidding process for Transport Quebec --- as well as his own personal safety.

Every superhero has an origin story, and here's Arch West's.

In the early 'sixties, Arch Clark West -- which is the perfect name for a superhero's alter ego -- was travelling in Southern California with his family. And he came upon a roadside stand selling fried tortilla chips. Seems innocuous. But for Mr. West, it was the equivalent of the moment in which Peter Parker was bitten by a radioactive spider, or Dr. Bruce Banner was caught in the explosion of a gamma bomb.

In this moment, Arch West was transformed from a mild-mannered Frito-Lay executive into a superhuman force of snack creation. Although not everyone recognized the transformation at first: when he presented his new plan for mass-produced tortilla chips to the bigwigs, they didn't bite. So he undertook some market research on his own -- and the response was extremely positive. In 1964, Mr. West's triangular brainchildren hit the shelves. They were called "Doritos", and they were, and remain, delicious.

Mr. West died last Tuesday, at the age of ninety-seven. He is survived by four children, and twenty-three flavours of Doritos. He has been cremated, and will be interred on Saturday. And his superheroic contribution will be acknowledged during his burial: his daughter Jana told the Dallas Morning News, "We are tossing Doritos chips in before they put the dirt over the urn. He'll love it."

You've all heard of the infinite monkey theorem, right?

The idea is that if you were to stick an infinite number of monkeys in front of an infinite number of typewriters for an infinite period of time, eventually one of those monkeys would randomly type out the entire works of William Shakespeare. Obviously it's only a thought experiment. An infinite number of monkeys is hard to come by. Also, they're infinitely filthy. Which is why Jesse Anderson has employed virtual monkeys.

Mr. Anderson is a computer programmer. He's created a computer simulation which has several million virtual monkeys all banging away randomly on virtual typewriters.

So far, Mr. Anderson's e-monkeys are doing pretty well. Really well, actually. Freakishly well. Mr. Anderson got his program up and running just over a month ago and apparently it has already completed more than ninety-nine percent of Shakespeare's complete works. Plays, sonnets -- everything. The first complete piece Mr. Anderson's program produced was the poem, "A Lover's Complaint." And this inspired us to create our own computer program -- the As It Happens Virtual Bard, or A.I.H.V.B for short, to read part of that poem.

Here is the A.I.H.V.B. reading the final stanza of A Lover's Complaint -- our sound of the day.