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Good evening. I'm Barbara Budd.

This is As It Happens.

Tonight:

Yanking part of his chain. A federal judge loosens house-arrest restrictions on terror suspect Mohamed Harkat.

The aftershocks go on. The Braidwood Inquiry was supposed to be over by now -- but instead, it's about to start up again.

Faster, higher, stingier. Winter Olympians from outside Canada complain the host country is giving them a chilly reception.

Turns out failure is an option. According to NATO's Commander in Afghanistan, mission-as-usual means mission impossible.

Re-verse order. Leonard Cohen goes back to high school -- in the form of a poet-in-residence program in his name.

And...All Day I Dream About Sects. For the first time in six decades, feuding shoe companies Adidas and Puma get together to let the heeling begin.

As It Happens, the Monday edition. Radio that follows the path of laced resistance.

Mohamed Harkat is not a free man. But today, he is enjoying more freedom than he has known in seven years.

Canada's spy agency, CSIS, says that Mr. Harkat is a sleeper agent for al-Qaeda. He is one of five Canadians being held without trial under a national security certificate. Since 2006, he has been living under house arrest with some of the strictest conditions ever imposed by a Canadian court. But today, a federal court judge loosened those restrictions.

Norman Boxall is Mohamed Harkat's lawyer. He is in Ottawa.

Some might call it home-ice advantage -- the edge our Canadian athletes are expected to gain from competing in their own backyard at the Vancouver Olympics.

But others are calling it taking advantage. Athletes and coaches from other countries say Canada is unfairly shutting them out of the Olympic sites as they train for the Games.

Catherine Raney is one of those crying foul. We reached the American speed skater in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Cathy Priestner-Allinger is the executive vice-president of sport and games operations with the Vancouver Organizing Committee -- the group charged with overseeing the 2010 Games. We reached her in Vancouver.

This past weekend, the British Columbia government said that it was working on a law that would give the police and other authorities the power to force homeless people into shelters. The idea, according to Rich Coleman, BC's Minister of Housing, is to protect people from the bitter cold during the winter.

But "bitter" and "cold" could also be used to describe some people's reaction to the proposed law. Some argue that forcing people off the street and into shelters would contravene the Charter of Rights. Others are suspicious that the law is being proposed so close to the Winter Olympics -- and might just be used to conveniently clear the streets of perceived riff-raff.

Judy Graves is a homelessness advocate for Vancouver City Hall. We reached her on her cell phone.

And we're about to take a break so that you can hear the news. But we're not done -- there's much more As It Happens to come. When we return:

Following the current. The first phase of the Braidwood Inquiry is over -- but the second is just about to begin.

Liar, liar, France on fire. Accusations of dishonesty fly, as a high-profile trial pits the French president against a former prime minister.

His life ain't worth a plugged nipple. On Friday, we heard about a farmer's trouble milking his camels -- and today, Talkback adds its two per cent.

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Pride and prejudice: Belgrade puts the kibosh on a gay-rights parade, after ultra-right-wing groups plan a simultaneous march.

In this game, both teams are a shoe-in: the staffs of Adidas and Puma put aside a sixty-year feud to kick a ball around together.

Those stories are still to come on As It Happens.

We have so many public inquiries in Canada, they can start to seem pretty dull. The Braidwood Inquiry, however, is anything but.

The Government of British Columbia asked the Honourable Thomas Braidwood to examine two things: the safety of Tasers, also known as conducted energy weapons; and the death of Robert Dziekanski, the Polish immigrant who died at Vancouver International Airport after RCMP officers shot him with a Taser.

Justice Braidwood has completed the first phrase of his investigation. And the second phase was supposed to wrap up in the spring. But, somewhat dramatically, it didn't. And so, tomorrow, the Braidwood Inquiry will be back in session.

Ian Mulgrew is a columnist who's been following the proceedings for The Vancouver Sun.

No one likes to be told they're failing. And it's possibly even more disturbing to be told that you're probably going to fail. So the people fighting the war against the Taliban are probably a little rattled today -- because NATO's Commander in Afghanistan is using the "F" word in his assessment of the conflict.

In a leaked report by the American general Stanley McChrystal, the commander says that the coalition's strategy has to be revised, and the number of troops on the ground increased within the year. Otherwise, it may no longer be possible for the allies to defeat the insurgents.

Liberal Senator Colin Kenny is the chair of Canada's Senate Committee on National Security and Defence. He has an equally grim assessment of the war. Last week, he said that the conflict is hurtling toward a Vietnam-style ending, and suggested that Canada consider retreat. We reached Colin Kenny in Ottawa.

It was a football match during which more eyes were on the shoes than were on the ball.

Today, employees of Adidas and Puma got together for a game of football -- the first joint activity between the two rival shoe companies in sixty years. That's because of the decades-long feud that began between two shoemaking brothers in a small German town -- and became one of the most infamous family feuds in corporate history. The feud divided the town, which is nicknamed the "town of bent necks" -- because locals wouldn't strike up a conversation until they looked down to check out what shoes were on your feet.

Barbara Smit is the author of Sneaker Wars, which delves into the story of the enemy brothers behind Adidas and Puma. She's in Nîmes, France.

And with that statement to journalists, Dominique de Villepin, the former French Prime Minister, entered a Paris courtroom this morning to face trial.

Translated, Monsieur de Villepain said, "I am here because of one man's will and dogged determination: Nicolas Sarkozy - the president of the French Republic. I will come out of this a free man and exonerated. I know that truth will prevail."

It's not the kind of entrance one might expect from an ordinary defendant -- but then, this isn't an ordinary trial. Court cases don't usually pit former Prime Ministers against standing Presidents. Nor do they usually involve arms sales, secret bank accounts, and accusations of political dirty tricks. Clearly the so-called "Clearstream Affair" is neither politics nor justice as usual -- which is why all of France is watching what's already being called the "trial of the decade".

Pierre Haski is the co-founder of the French journalism website Rue89.com. We reached him in Paris.

You can try to milk something for all its worth, but it's not always easy. And in this case, I'm speaking specifically of milking camels.

On Friday, we brought you the story of the sole camel framer in Denmark -- who told us all about the art involved in procuring milk from the stubborn desert steed. Well, that segment encouraged Gerry Burger-Martindale from Calgary to send us this e-mail:"Since I've recently returned from spending some time with nomads in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia, I feel compelled to comment. Now, I don't know what type of camels he has, but my nomads, of course had Bactrians -- two-hump camels.

"The woman's daily work was to round-up and milk -- by hand, of course -- one-hundred-and-twenty sheep and goats, and then milk the twenty-odd camels. By late August the sheep were no longer being milked, but I can say that milking the camels appeared to be a lot easier than milking the goats.

The goats were separated overnight from the kids, who would otherwise take all the milk. The kids were penned and made a dreadful row! The nanny goats all had to be wrestled into line and none appeared pleased with the daily performance.

"The camels, on the other hand were allowed to roam on long lead-ropes. The herdswoman staked each camel in turn, allowed the calf to nurse to get the milk flowing, then, standing on one leg with the other bent and balancing her bucket, she would milk the relatively calm camel. In the evening, as well as rounding up the grazing animals, she also milked the camels again."During the day, she turned milk into all sorts of yogurt and cheese products to last them through the winter. My favourite was fermented camel yogurt - to die for, and difficult to find in Calgary!"That e-mail was sent to us by Gerry Burger-Martindale from Calgary, Alberta. If you've got a line on a steady supply of camel yogourt, please let Mr. Burger-Martindale know.

In the meantime, we'd appreciate it if you squeezed in some time to contact us. Send your e-mails to aih@cbc.ca, or call Talkback at 1.866.481.5718.

"Human lives come before human rights."

That's how the Serbian Minister of the Interior put it, when he explained why he was cancelling the 2009 Pride Parade in Belgrade. The parade was supposed to take place in the Serbian capital on Sunday, but it was banned at the last moment for security reasons.

For years, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender -- or L.G.B.T. -- community has been trying to organize such an event, without success. The very first parade, in 2001, provided some pretty clear signs of the tough road ahead: participants in the march, and Serbian police, were attacked by a huge crowd of hooligans. Dozens were injured.And this year, two ultra-right-wing groups threatened to disrupt the event -- by planning their own march for the same time and location.

Milica Djordjevic is a member of the organizing committee of Belgrade's 2009 Pride Parade.

In a poem called "The Pro", Leonard Cohen once wrote: "To those few high school girls/ who preferred my work to Dylan's/ I leave my stone ear/ and my disposable Franciscan ambitions".

Today, forty years on, on his seventy-fifth birthday, the old pro is leaving a couple of other things to the young women -- and men -- of his alma mater, Montreal's Westmount High. For one, he's lent his name to a unique new program that will establish a poet-in-residence position at the school. And for another, he's donated a self-portrait, to be auctioned this evening at a fundraiser for the project.

It's all the brainchild of Montreal poet Jack Locke, who is making final preparations for the gala this evening.