Tonight:

All was not fair and square on the oval. American speedskater Simon Cho admits to tampering with a Canadian competitor's skates -- and tonight, he'll explain why.

Pipe dream. Some of his colleagues on the other side of the country are against an oilsands pipeline -- but New Brunswick Premier David Alward (ALL-werd) is all for it.

Adult situations. In a unanimous decision, Canada's Supreme Court redefines the legal obligations regarding sex and people who are HIV-positive.

Ducks redux. No oil companies will be charged in the deaths of more than five hundred waterfowl who died after landing in a tailings pond.

She's in a blue orc state of mind. Well, technically, a candidate for the State Senate in Maine is a green orc in the online game "World of Warcraft" -- but she's blue because her opponent is making her virtual life an issue.

And...Stallone again, naturally. Thirty years ago, a monosyllabic Vietnam vet was introduced to the world -- and this weekend, the B.C. town where "First Blood" was shot will celebrate every grunt and explosion.

As It Happens, the Friday edition. Radio that listens as a town revisits its gory days.

He did it. And he's sorry.

Today in Utah, U.S. short track speedskater Simon Cho admitted that he damaged the skates of his Canadian competitor at the World Team Championships in Poland early last year. Quebec skater Olivier Jean was forced to withdraw from the team relay final because of a problem with his skates. And because of that, the Canadians came in last in that race.

Mr. Cho says his coach asked him to tamper with the skates.

If you recall, last month we told you about a group of fourteen American speedskaters who filed documents to have that coach, Jae Su Chun, fired, because he has been abusive. It was in those court documents that Simon Cho's skate-tampering came to light.

We reached Simon Cho in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The Supreme Court has changed the dating rules for people with HIV.

This morning, the nine justices handed down a unanimous decision involving two cases of people convicted of aggravated assault after failing to inform their sexual partners of their HIV-positive status.

Amanda Sansregret is the lawyer for one of those people, a former Manitoba resident named Clato Mabior.

We reached Ms. Sansregret in Winnipeg.

If I could travel back in time, I would find my younger self and give him some advice. And that advice would be: "Don't time travel. It's really confusing. I have such a headache right now."

The migraine-inducing aspects of time-travel plots may be scaring off moviegoers from the recently released film "Looper" -- which was still the Number Two movie in North America on its opening weekend. "Looper" is about an assassin named Joe who has to kill an older version of himself, who is sent back from the future.

By all accounts, the movie does a good job of explaining all this complex chronological to-ing and fro-ing. But it's still a bit bemusing to some -- like Manohla Dargis, who reviewed "Looper" for the New York Times. Apparently she had a little logistical trouble -- which led to this correction in today's paper. It reads as follows:

"A film review on Friday about 'Looper' misstated the year in which the movie is set. It is 2044, not 2074. Thus the young Joe works for an outfit that exists thirty years beyond 2044, not beyond 2074, and it is the 2044 Joe, not the 2074 Joe, who stares down his middle-aged counterpart."

Here comes the migraine.

It may not be everybody's cup of tea -- it's more like a cup of blood and sweat -- but for a loyal and fairly huge following, the movie "First Blood" is a classic.

Nobody knows that better than the people of Hope, B.C. -- where the movie was filmed.

For better or for worse, the Sylvester Stallone movie about a disenfranchised Vietnam War vet who is pushed too far is a defining part of the town's identity. So much so that this weekend, Hope is hosting a celebration of the movie's thirtieth anniversary.

Riley Foreman is one of the organizers, and a long-time Rambo aficionado. We reached Mr. Foreman in Hope.

The beauty of a pipeline appears to be in the eye of the office holder.

B.C. Premier Christy Clark just can't seem to see the attraction of Enbridge's Northern Gateway proposal. David Alward, by contrast, has glimped a future with an oilsands pipeline to his province, and found it easy on the eyes.

We reached the New Brunswick Premier in Riceville, New Brunswick.

It's never too late to say you're sorry. Even after forty-two years.

That, apparently, is the conclusion of the North Vancouver School District. Its Superintendent has agreed to offer a face-to-face apology to Robin Tomlin. And the school board is also working on bringing Mr. Tomlin and his daughter to North Vancouver.

On last night's show, we told you Mr. Tomlin's story: in 1970, he opened the freshly printed yearbook of Argyle Senior Secondary School to discover a homophobic slur beside his photograph. And nothing else. At the end of a high-school career in which he had been repeatedly bullied, it felt like a final insult. But it wasn't: his tormentors told him he better not show up for grad night. So he didn't. Instead, he spent the night drinking with a friend.

Now, Robin Tomlin is getting an apology. The offensive homophobic slur will also be removed. A revised entry written by Mr. Tomlin will be printed and inserted in all existing copies of the annual that are still available at the North Vancouver School District. Copies of the revised yearbook will be sent to the North Vancouver museum and archives. And the school board will also provide Mr. Tomlin with twenty new copies for his personal use.

After all this was announced, Robin Tomlin spoke with Stephen Quinn, host of the CBC radio show, "On the Coast", in British Columbia. Here is what he had to say.

By her own admission, a Democratic candidate for Maine's State Senate likes to stab things. A lot.

But only while playing the wildly popular online fantasy game, "World of Warcraft".

In the game, Colleen Lachowicz goes by the name "Santiaga" -- an orc assassin rogue. Which means sense if you're a gamer. And if not, well, who cares.

But that's the thing: her Republican opponents care. And they want voters to care, too. They're publically criticizing Ms. Lachowicz's gaming activities -- or at least those of her avatar, Santiaga.

For her take on the ever-blurring line between fantasy and politics, we reached Colleen Lachowicz in Waterville, Maine.

Looks like we opened up a can of worms with this whole beans-in-chili debate. Incidentally, I'm not endorsing worms in chili either.

Earlier this week, we let you know that, for the first time, the World Chili Championship would allow entrants to put beans in their chili. Which was controversial, because apparently, purists believe putting beans in chili is like putting raspberries in your tomato sauce: superfluous and kind of dumb.

But last night, we read emails from people who believe a chili without beans is like a pea-soup without peas.

Well, tonight we'll share a couple of emails that explain the greater context of the great chili-bean-divide.

Ben Fishman from BC sent us this email:

"Just to be clear, chili is of Mexican origin, but was adopted by Texans one-hundred-and-fifty years ago. Texas is traditionally ranch country: if it's not ninety per cent beef, it's not food. Mexico, on the other hand, has a three-thousand-year history of farming corn and beans.

"The modern version is a cross-border mélange of Chili con Carne, or chili with meat."

And Bartley Kives in Winnipeg wrote:

"Canadians don't get it -- what we call chili is not what Americans call chile, which is actually a southwestern U.S. version of the Mexican dish, Chile Colorado.

"Chile Colorado is a stew of pork in a sauce made from dried chile peppers, garlic and herbs. There are no tomatoes in this dish; the red colour comes from the chiles. The southwestern U.S. chile is a similar dish, made from cubed beef, usually chuck. The recipe varies from Texas through New Mexico to Arizona.

"What Canadians and residents of northern U.S. states call chili is a quite different dish that usually includes beans and tomatoes.

"The bean debate is therefore lost on the majority of Canadians, who have never had the Mexican or southwestern U.S. dish."

Thank you Ben and Bartley for those emails. And if you'd like to beef up this debate or any discussion here on "As It Happens", you can call Talkback at 1-866-481-5718. You can email us at aih@cbc.ca. You can post on our Facebook page -- CBC As It Happens. Or you can follow us on Twitter: @cbcasithappens.

They picked the wrong place to land -- and apparently, it's no one's fault but their own.

Yesterday, the government of Alberta announced it will not lay any charges against Syncrude and Suncor for a 2010 incident in which five-hundred-and-fifty-one birds died or were euthanized -- after landing on oilsands tailings ponds.

You may recall that in 2008, more than sixteen hundred birds died in a similar tailings pond incident. For that, Syncrude was fined three million dollars. Three days after that fine was handed down, this second set of birds met the same fate -- despite the use of various deterrents to keep the waterfowl away from the ponds.

The government's decision was based, in part, on the work of Colleen Cassady St. Clair. She's a biology professor at the University of Alberta. We reached her in Edmonton.

To overcome the boredom of long summer days in his father's East L-A auto parts shop, nine-year-old Caine Monroy built an arcade entirely out of discarded cardboard boxes.

That was just over a year ago. Today, that arcade funds a foundation that encourages children to explore their creativity and entrepreneurship.

And tomorrow, all around the world, community centres will be hosting the "Cardboard Challenge", where kids will be hard at work with scissors and tape.

Nirvan Mullick is a filmmaker who brought Caine's story to the world. We reached him in Los Angeles.

The event had to be planned in secret.

Pulling off a three-day-long alternative music festival in a country where music used to be outlawed is a feat all by itself. But to hold a women-and-girls-only rock concert in the heart of Afghanistan is something else altogether.

Ariana Delawari -- an Afghan-American musician from Los Angeles -- was the star attraction at the Sound Central music festival. We reached her in Kabul.

We are almost at the end of As It Happens for this Friday, October 5th.The show was produced this week by Laurie Allen, Natasha Fatah, Adam Killick, Sarah Martin, David McDougall, Loren McGinnis,Brielle Morgan, Lyne-Francoise Pelletier, Kevin Robertson, Pedro Sanchez, and Kate Swoger. Our technician is Reynold Gonsalves. The show director is Kevin Ball. Chris Howden is our writer.

And, our intern is Virginia McConchie.John Perry is the Senior Producer. And the Executive Producer of As It Happens is Robin Smythe.We'd also like to thank some other people who helped us out: Zdravko Jlubas (zeh-DRAV-ko LYUH-bas) in Sarajevo, Yvonne Gall in Vancouver, Suzanne Dufresne in Winnipeg, Keith Hart, Ken Puley, Davorin Cikovich and Brent Michaluk at Radio Archives, Gillian Rutherford in Edmonton, Michael O'Haloran in Calgary and Sean Prpick in Regina. As It Happens will be back again on Thanksgiving Monday. And, if after dinner, you still have room for some great radio, make sure you tune-in to As It Happens again that night. Carol has a feature studio interview British novelist Martin Amis. I'm JD. Good night.And, I'm CO. Have a great Thanksgiving weekend.