As it Happens
with Carol Off & Jeff Douglas

Coming up on As It Happens ... Radio that is always subject to a change or two.

PART ONE

OCEAN RESCUE ATLANTIC. Kissing the ground they walk on. A scallop fisherman and his crew are rescued off the coast of Grand Manan island, in the Bay of Fundy.

HOMS VIOLENCE UPDATE. Surrounded and besieged. For six days, the Syrian city of Homs has been under constant bombardment from a regime bent on crushing an eleven-month-old uprising.

PART TWO

THE CLOCK. Herculean feat of art appreciation! One man watched the award winning art work "the clock" all twenty four hours of it. And they said it couldn't be done.

FRANCE ILL-GOTTEN GAINS. Yves Saint Laurent, Louis Vuitton, the wines of Bordeaux. When only the best will do, corrupt African leaders go to France to spend. But that may be changing.

PART THREE

ZEBRA STRIPES. A black-and-white answer to an age-old question. A team of Hungarian and Swedish researchers believe they've solved why the zebra has its stripes.

SASKATCHEWAN LAWYER. A Saskatoon lawyer is donating one-third of her fees from residential school abuse cases to set up a fund for victims in northern Saskatchewan.

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PART ONE

Gunplay at an Alberta farmhouse has left a small community on edge tonight. As you've heard on the news, two Mounties from the Killam, RCMP detachment are in hospital with gunshot wounds. A local man is dead. The officers were shot yesterday afternoon near Killam, southeast of Edmonton.

PART TWO

It started with a simple university assignment: use the school's archives to dig up something interesting -- anything interesting -- and write a story about it. So Brown University student Malcolm Burnley went digging. And he found the kind of interesting thing that guarantees you an A-plus -- and makes headlines. He discovered a speech by Malcolm X that had been lost for fifty years.

PART THREE

Desperate times call for desperate measures. And yet, the Greek government seems to have put off implementing such measures, for as long as possible.The coalition of the three governing parties convened late into the evening today, to try to agree on a new austerity deal. But the deal won't go over well with a debt-weary public that blames its politicians for the crippled economy.

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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.

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