Highlights Include:

Part One:

* NB Lobstermen deaths. Families in Tabusintac are mourning the deaths of three men, whose boat capsized.
* Chelsea Show Gnomes. Britain's Royal Horticultural Society is lifting a 100-year ban to allow garden gnomes at the Chelsea Garden Show.

Part Two:

* NYC Anti-Gay Murder. New York's gay community says anti-gay hostility is on the rise, after the shooting death of Mark Carson.
* Eurovision. The winner of 2013 Eurovision Song Contest is Danish singer Emmelie de Forest with "Only Teardrops."

Part Three:

* Chechnya Novel. A feature interview with Anthony Marra, the author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena.
* Victoria Day Reading. Two special holiday diary readings by former As It Happens host Al Maitland.

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Carol speaks with American writer Anthony Marra. His first novel is called A Constellation of Vital Phenomena. In the book, he traces the stories of those caught in the middle of the ruthless fighting between Russian federal forces and rebel insurgents in Chechnya and how each of them struggles to survive without sacrificing their own humanity.

Anthony Marra then reads from the opening pages of his book.

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Elijah Harper, a symbol of strength and a role model for Aboriginal Canadians, died of cardiac failure due to complications from diabetes. at the age of sixty-four.

In June, 1990, as a Manitoba politician, Harper made a gesture in the provincial legislature that has made Canadian history. Sitting with an eagle feather, he calmly said "No" to the Meech Lake Accord.

Jennifer Wood heads intergovernmental relations at the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs. She was Elijah Harper's assistant when he as a Manitoba MLA. She was also his good friend.

We reached Jennifer Wood in Winnipeg.

Then, from our archives, here is Elijah Harper speaking with "As It Happens" guest host Dale Goldhawk, days before Mr. Harper said no to the Meech Lake Accord in the Manitoba Legislature in June 1990.

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For four-and-a-half decades, Marina Abramović has been drawing audiences to participate in her own, very public, agonies and ecstasies. Now the performance art superstar is set to teach Toronto how to savour a little bit of suffering.

At next month's Luminato Festival, she will turn a huge city park into the Marina Abramović Institute - Prototype. She promises to teach her students how to condition themselves for performances like hers. She also promises to train audiences to enjoy them.

We reached Marina Abramović in New York City.

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All the residents of the Adirondack town of Thurman want to do is put their mountain on a map. But it turns out the town has inadvertently picked a fight with the a little known government department called the 'Domestic Names Committee of the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.' Carol spoke with the town supervisor in Thurman, New York.

And then, back in March, we told you about district in the U.K. which had reversed a decision to drop the apostrophe from its street signs. Carol spoke to John Richards, who is founder of the Apostrophe Protection Society.

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Highlights Include:

Part One:

*Senate Latest. Journalist Jennifer Ditchburn on how it seems Senator Mike Duffy was double dipping on his expenses.
*Apostrophe Place Names. A small town in New York goes up against the feds to defend the lowly apostrophe.
 
Part Two:

*Cambodia Collapse. A shoe factory making sneakers for Western consumers collapses, killing two workers.  
*Twitter Hate Map. A professor and her students create a map of where bigoted and hateful tweets originate in the US.

Part Three:

*Mukesh Kapila. In a new book, the UN's former head in Sudan recounts how the world failed to stop the 21st century's first genocide.

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This century is young, but already it has been stained with the blood of mass murder.

The world has stood by, unable -- or unwilling -- to stop the killing in Syria. Meanwhile, the genocidal legacy of Darfur continues unchecked in parts of Sudan. And still, the world remains silent.

Few people understand this better than Mukesh Kapila.

In March, 2003, he arrived in Khartoum as the new head of the United Nations in Sudan. At forty-eight, he was one of the youngest-ever to lead a prominent UN mission. And by all indications, his two-year tenure would preside over a historic and peaceful chapter in the country's history. The government was then close to signing a peace deal with rebels in Sudan's south that would finally end a decades-old civil war.

For some reading material, Mr. Kapila packed two reports into his luggage: one on the UN's failure in Rwanda, the other on Srebrenica. He was determined not to repeat the mistakes he witnessed in the past.

There was no way he could have known that in the coming year, he would be given a front-row seat to the first genocide of the twenty-first century. And that as head of the UN in Sudan, he would be powerless to stop it.

Mukesh Kapila's new book, Against a Tide of Evil, is published in Canada by Pegasus.

He joined us in our Calgary studio.

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A Calgary City council committee today approved a new policy mandating clear and simple communication. Alderwoman Druh Farrell brought forward the plain language policy because she's sick of bureaucratic and jargon-y language, for example, referring to "fenestration" instead of "windows" and calling swimming pools "a flat water amenity."

She thinks that politicians fall into this bad habit and fail as public servants if they can't communicate clearly with the public. We reached her in Calgary.

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