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    Q | Feb 28, 2013

    Giorgi Gogia, from Human Rights Watch, on how a novel about a friendship between two Azerbaijani men and their Armenian neighbours made the author a target in his own country. Legendary Canadian comedian Martin Short on his life, career and unique role promoting Canadian talent. Writer Peter Frase on defending rude service.

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    The Current | Feb 28, 2013

    Head to YouTube and you can watch dozens of scenarios to a problem with older or elderly drivers. Statistically,drivers aged 80-plus almost have the accident rate of the most dangerous driving demographic ... the under 24s. And in Sudbury they are the target of a police tip-line urging other drivers to call in to report any seemingly erratic or dangerous elderly driver. Simple public safety in action? Or age discrimination?

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    The Debaters | Mar 2, 2013

    Alan Park and Ali Hassan debate whether Canada needs jet fighters.

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    Mainstreet NS | Mar 1, 2013

    A team led by our oceans guy, Boris Worm, has found that about 100 million sharks die every year, and the biggest preventable culprit is fishing. He explains the significance of his finding.

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    And the Winner Is | Feb 26, 2013

    As a boy in pre-war Austria, Georg Tintner played the piano, sang with the Vienna Boys Choir, and composed his own music. By the time World War Two broke out, he was also a conductor. But Georg Tintner was a conductor with Jewish roots. And so, after the Anschluss in 1938, he was fired. By 1942, Mr. Tintner made his way to New Zealand, and for the better part of the next forty-five years of his life, he served as a conductor across New Zealand, Australia and South Africa. But in 1987, he moved to Halifax, where he would leave his mark as the conductor of Symphony Nova Scotia. He died in Halifax on October 2, 1999.

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    Tapestry | Feb 22, 2013

    We take a look at how doubt and skepticism can be essential ingredients to faith. Mary meets Rabbi Rami Shapiro - a rabbi who says he isn't religious, but rather a curious, holy rascal. She also talks to Michael Shermer, the founder of Skeptic Magazine. He's held his own against Deepak Chopra in a go round on consciousness and quantum physics.

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As It Happens - Author Sylvia Smith: 1945 -2013Mar 1, 2013 | 8:23As It Happens Author Sylvia Smith: 1945 -2013 Audio
As It Happens Author Sylvia Smith: 1945 -2013 Mar 1, 2013 | 8:23A review of the late Sylvia Smith's first memoir, "Misadventures", described her prose as "a cross between a police officer giving evidence in court and a slightly demented grandmother intent on telling you everything over a cup of tea." Sylvia Smith died on Saturday, in London. She was sixty-seven. Caroline Dawnay was Sylvia Smith's first agent.
As It Happens - Anonymous CommentsFeb 27, 2013 | 7:15As It Happens Anonymous Comments Audio
As It Happens Anonymous Comments Feb 27, 2013 | 7:15We speak to op-ed columnist and former editor of Halifax's Chronicle Herald, Dan Leger on the content and merit of the infamous, online, anonymous comment.
As It Happens - Captain Bob Pearson, pilot of the soon-to-be auctioned Gimli GliderFeb 27, 2013 | 7:59As It Happens Captain Bob Pearson, pilot of the soon-to-be auctioned Gimli Glider Audio
As It Happens Captain Bob Pearson, pilot of the soon-to-be auctioned Gimli Glider Feb 27, 2013 | 7:59It's the plane with the priceless tale. Nearly thirty years after it came down, the Gimli Glider is going up -- for auction. The Boeing 767 passenger jet got its nickname after it ran out of fuel, en route from Montreal to Edmonton. Against all odds, Captain Robert Pearson and his first officer, Maurice Quintal, managed to land the plane without engine power.
As It Happens - Controversial free-speech lawyer Doug ChristieFeb 26, 2013 | 6:39As It Happens Controversial free-speech lawyer Doug Christie Audio
As It Happens Controversial free-speech lawyer Doug Christie Feb 26, 2013 | 6:39Doug Christie has made a career of defending people many find indefensible; including racists, Nazis and Holocaust-deniers. For decades, Mr. Christie has represented people like Ernst Zundel and Jim Keegstra, on the grounds of freedom of expression. But he won't be able to for much longer. Mr. Christie has advanced liver cancer. And he fears that no other lawyer is willing to fill the void he'll leave behind.
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As It Happens Monterrey's fortress church. Feb 26, 2013 | 6:24We speak with Father Scott Miguel McDermott Eichhorst, priest at Santa Teresa de Avila in Monterrey.
As It Happens - US CEO angers French by questioning work ethicFeb 25, 2013 | 9:12As It Happens US CEO angers French by questioning work ethic Audio
As It Happens US CEO angers French by questioning work ethic Feb 25, 2013 | 9:12Maurice Taylor tells us why he's trashing France's work ethic, then he accuses As It Happens of being biased and French Canadian.
As It Happens - Hattie Moo, the Cow Who Thinks She's a PonyFeb 25, 2013 | 6:23As It Happens Hattie Moo, the Cow Who Thinks She's a Pony Audio
As It Happens Hattie Moo, the Cow Who Thinks She's a Pony Feb 25, 2013 | 6:23When it comes to jumping and pulling a carriage, she's been an udder success. Hattie Moo is a Belted Galloway heifer who is an unlikely -- but integral -- part of the "Chariots of Fire" pony display team in Scotland. Amanda Saville is her owner and trainer, and we reached her in Lockerbie.
As It Happens - Iqaluit's UndertakerFeb 25, 2013 | 5:42As It Happens Iqaluit's Undertaker Audio
As It Happens Iqaluit's Undertaker Feb 25, 2013 | 5:42For 20 years, Bryan Pearson has been Iqaluit's only undertaker. And it's still only a part-time job. Even so, undertaking on Baffin Island is demanding -- there's constant worry about where to store bodies, about coffins to be flown up from the south, and about graves to dig in Iqaluit's sometimes-frozen cemetery. Now, Mr. Pearson is threatening to quit, saying the city is making moving and burying bodies even harder.
As It Happens - Shane Koyczan Anti-Bullying VideoFeb 22, 2013 | 9:23As It Happens Shane Koyczan Anti-Bullying Video Audio
As It Happens Shane Koyczan Anti-Bullying Video Feb 22, 2013 | 9:23He's taken on the Olympics, poverty, and the spoken word. And now Vancouver poet Shane Koyczan is taking on bullies. This week, he released a poem on video entitled "To This Day," which has already gone viral. The video is an anti-bullying message meant to help to spread a message of hope. Koyczan talks to Rick MacInnes-Rae about dealing with bullies while growing up with his grandparents in Yellowknife and later on, being a bully himself.
As It Happens - Woods Harbour fatherFeb 22, 2013 | 7:37As It Happens Woods Harbour father Audio
As It Happens Woods Harbour father Feb 22, 2013 | 7:37George Hopkins' son Joel is one of the five Nova Scotia men missing at sea.
As It Happens - Maple MethFeb 21, 2013 | 7:03As It Happens Maple Meth Audio
As It Happens Maple Meth Feb 21, 2013 | 7:03Here in Canada, spotting a tree tapped with a hose dripping its succulent sap into a bucket, is definitely not a cause for concern. That wasn't the case down in Anna, Illinois. When neighbours noticed large buckets, hoses, and metal taps on Laura Benson's property, they called the cops. Drug enforcement agents appeared at her house looking for a suspected meth lab. Turns out she was making maple syrup and her neighbours had reported her, thinking she was a meth cook.
As It Happens - Biden foot in mouthFeb 21, 2013 | 1:57As It Happens Biden foot in mouth Audio
As It Happens Biden foot in mouth Feb 21, 2013 | 1:57Joe Biden angered people on both sides of gun control debate with this answer to a question on high capacity magazines and home protection
As It Happens - Zen Scandal FoloFeb 20, 2013 | 12:20As It Happens Zen Scandal Folo Audio
As It Happens Zen Scandal Folo Feb 20, 2013 | 12:20Nikki Stubbs had high hopes when she arrived at the Rinzai-Ji Zen Centre in Mount Baldy, outside Los Angeles. The Vancouver woman had travelled to Mount Baldy to work and study with Joshu Sasaki, the 105-year-old master of the international Rinzai-Ji community. In her conversation with Carol, the former student and employee of global Zen master Joshu Sasaki describes how the Rinzai-ji community has reacted to her coming forward with charges that he groped and demanded sexual services from her in the guise of zen teaching.
As It Happens - Irish Government apologizes to Magdalene WomenFeb 20, 2013 | 11:22As It Happens Irish Government apologizes to Magdalene Women Audio
As It Happens Irish Government apologizes to Magdalene Women Feb 20, 2013 | 11:22Irish PM's apology and Amnesty International's program director for Northern Ireland, Patrick Corrigan on the need for acknowledgement in the Six Counties, as well.
As It Happens - Banksy Mural For SaleFeb 19, 2013 | 6:57As It Happens Banksy Mural For Sale Audio
As It Happens Banksy Mural For Sale Feb 19, 2013 | 6:57A Banksy mural put up in north London last spring has been removed and is now up for sale on a U.S. auction site for up to $450,000. The community had protected the mural by placing Plexiglas over it and it was attracting many tourists. Now many are up in arms. Alan Strickland led the charge to protect the mural and is now fighting to get it back.

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