As it Happenswith Carol Off

Nov. 13, 2019

Despite a government that's firmly opposed, the Netherlands has been ordered by a Dutch court to repatriate 56 children living in difficult circumstances in Kurdish-run camps in Syria.

Jenny Jeanes with Action Réfugiés Montréal says that Canada is not 'living up to the commitment' to limit family separations and the detention or housing of minors in immigration detention centres.

For the first time in nearly three decades, a conservation group has sighted a tiny two-tone mouse deer, called the silver-backed chevrotain, in Vietnam.

As It Happens: Tuesday Edition

When Sunaya Sapurji wrote an article titled "It's Time To Say Goodbye To Don Cherry And His Xenophobic Ways," she never thought it would actually happen.

When a wildfire burned Ellen Johnson's home to the ground last year, she felt like she had lost everything in the Camp Fire. But one year later, she says she can't believe how lucky she is.

Robin Robertson's The Long Take: A Noir Narrative chronicles the post-war journey of a traumatized soldier from Cape Breton, losing himself in the big cities of America, in the form of an elegy.

Nov. 11, 2019

Holocaust survivor and Italian senator-for-life, Liliana Segre, has been given a police escort after receiving anti-Semitic messages and threats.

Amir Sahragard is the first of two Manus Island refugees coming to Canada through a private sponsorship by the Australian-Canadian organization Ads-Up Canada.

When the Berlin Wall cracked open in November, 1989, Jens Reich was not there to see it. Which is striking, because the physician and molecular biologist was a leading activist in East Germany's civil rights movement.

Nov. 8, 2019

The prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda says Harvard isn't doing enough to acknowledge its ties to slavery. He is calling on the American university to pay reparations for building itself up on the "blood, sweat and tears" of his people.

The Mona Lisa has become more of a "holy icon" than a work of art, and it needs its own pavilion outside the museum, argues Jason Farago.

Residents in Wandiligong, Australia, found what they thought was a stray dog or fox in their backyard garden in August. But a DNA test shows it's actually a rare alpine dingo.

Nov. 7, 2019

An Indigenous land defender who protected the Amazon in Brazil has been killed by suspected illegal loggers. His death comes during a year marked by violence and devastation in the Amazon rainforest.

A decade after Nell Scovell wrote about the "hostile, sexually charged atmosphere" behind the scenes at Late Night with David Letterman, she finally got an apology from the comedy host.

Ruth Wariner says the attack that killed nine of her relatives on Monday has sent shockwaves through the entire Mormon community, and raised new fears for a family that has lived in the country for more than a century.

John O'Connor says he was just doing his job when he rescued a man from an oncoming train at a California transit station.