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As It Happens with Mary Lou Finlay and Barbara Budd
 

The Best of As It Happens Podcast

Listening to As It Happens is like taking a trip around the world. From the complex headlines of the day to the weird and wacky, As It Happens brings you the story behind the story.

The Best of As It Happens podcast is updated Fridays.

2007-12-21: As It Happens Daily

A Christmas tradition continued. Barbara brings us her holiday reading of An Arrow for the Heart.

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[mp3 file: runs 12:05]

Edit 2007-12-21 The Best of As it Happens

Vladimir Putin is set to continue his rule over Russia, but as prime minister instead of president. After years of taking his Christmas trees to New York City to sell, a Quebecker pines after finding himself turned back at the border. An Ottawa school edits the lyrics to Silver Bells to remove references to Christmas, and sets off alarm bells.

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[mp3 file: runs 24:51]

2007-12-20: As It Happens Daily

When critters take to the air. We bring you enough animal stories to make you Christmas crackers

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[mp3 file: runs 22:17]

2007-12-19: As It Happens Daily

Shutting the house door after the defaulters have gone? The U.S. Federal reserve sets new guidlines for mortgage lenders.

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[mp3 file: runs 10:27]

2007-12-17: As It Happens Daily

And life on the lamb. At a listener's request, we replay an interview featuring the world's only known attack sheep.

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[mp3 file: runs 7:44]

2007-12-18: As It Happens Daily

Buddy, can you spare a quadrillion dimes? The world's largest federal reserves loan commercial banks billions and billions to stave off a global economic meltdown.

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[mp3 file: runs 9:25]

2007-12-14 The Best of As it Happens

The span of their anger. Bridgewater, Nova Scotia smokers light up in the only place in town where it's legal: the bridge over the LeHave river. Knocked up, but never knocked down. A study explains why pregnant women are so hard to tip over. Loft behind. A condo renovation reveals a vintage piece of graffiti by iconic artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Isotope, you's-a-tope, we's-all-a-tope. The debate over the re-opening of the Chalk River Nuclear Facility is proving to have a long half-life.

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[mp3 file: runs 46:04]

As It Happens Daily: 2007-12-14

Genocide in the classroom. The Toronto District School Board introduces a high-school course about racial extermination, that includes the Armenian massacre.

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[mp3 file: runs 12:18]

As It Happens Daily: 2007-12-13

Drugs and sluggers: Former U-S Senator George Mitchell reports that the use of performance enhancing drugs in major league baseball is widespread.

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[mp3 file: runs 8:49]

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