Features: July 2011 Archives

Friday July 29, 2011

Ireland Church Abuse (extended version)

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There are some secrets the government of Ireland says shouldn't be kept - even if they are given in the confession box.

Legally speaking, priests in Ireland enjoy "privileged communications" - meaning they don't have to disclose information told in confession to courts. Even if it's relevant to a case about a serious offence. But following the recent Cloyne report into child abuse by priests in Ireland, the Irish Government is calling for that privilege to be lifted.

This week, the Vatican reacted angrily to the Government's plans, calling the proposed changes to the law "absurd".

Father P.J. Madden is a spokesperson for the Association of Catholic Priests in Ireland. We reached him in Carlow, Ireland earlier today.

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Friday July 1, 2011

Afghanistan Archive Feature

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Canada's soldiers are finally coming home.

The first wave of combat troops withdrawing from Afghanistan arrived at CFB Val Cartier near Quebec City this week. By the end of July, all nineteen hundred will have returned to their home bases.

In their place, several hundred soldiers will be deployed to train and assist the Afghans as they take back control of the country. But those Canadian troops won't be fighting.

It's been almost a decade since the war in Afghanistan began. And it has been five-and-a-half years since Canada took on the tough and deadly job of wresting control of Kandahar province from insurgents.

In this special feature, we look back at the Kandahar mission through the As It Happens archives. We'll hear from the soldiers who did the fighting, and their families -- and from regular Afghans living through the war.

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• December 2011
  • Thu., 15 – Hummingbird Mystery Solved
     
  • Thu., 1 – A Whale of an Accent
     
• November 2011
  • Thu., 24 – Ann Patchett - Parnassus Books
     
  • Tue., 22 – Return to Tahrir
     
  • Wed., 16 – Featured Audio: New "Marcel the Shell" Video
     
• October 2011
  • Mon., 10 – Jim Thomson responds to Don Cherry
     
  • Fri., 7 – Swede meets weed
     
• September 2011
  • Wed., 28 – Mount Allison Memorial Library
     
  • Wed., 21 – Africville Heritage Trust
     
  • Wed., 21 – Canadian Air and Space Museum Closure
     
  • Tue., 20 – Omnibus Crime Bill: The View from Victim's Services 9/19/2011
     
  • Thu., 15 – Minister of Agriculture Gerry Ritz
     
• August 2011
  • Thu., 25 – Interview With Nurse Karen Graham In Tripoli
     
• July 2011
  • Fri., 29 – Ireland Church Abuse (extended version)
     
  • Fri., 1 – Afghanistan Archive Feature
     
• June 2011
  • Fri., 24 – G-20 Bill Blair (Extended Version)
     
  • Fri., 17 – Botswana Ambassador (extended version)
     
• March 2011
  • Fri., 25 – For the Record: Photocopier Transcript - An "As it Happens" Dramatization
     
• February 2011
  • Wed., 23 – Gene Sharp on Non-Violent Revolution
     
• January 2011
  • Wed., 19 – Word of the Day: "Bicimaquina"
     
  • Thu., 13 – Sarah Palin's "Blood Libel" Video - full response by Rabbi Brad Hirschfield
     
• December 2010
  • Fri., 24 – Al Maitland Reads Frederick Forsyth's "The Shepherd"
     
• October 2010
  • Fri., 29 – As It Happens interview with Rob Ford, Toronto's Mayor Elect
     
• July 2010
  • Wed., 14 – Vermontasaurus
     
• October 2009
  • Wed., 21 – Brian Jungen
     
  • Wed., 14 – World's Hottest Curry
     
  • Thu., 8 – Pothole Art
     
• June 2009
  • Mon., 22 – Fastest Hummingbird
     
  • Mon., 1 – Iran's Election Crisis
     
• April 2009
  • Thu., 30 – Inside Hana's Suitcase - the story about Hana and George Brady
     
  • Tue., 21 – Farmer brings Nazi-bred cows back to Britain after 2,000 years
     
• March 2001
  • Thu., 29 – AIH pays respect to the man behind our theme song