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It's been a week of hell on earth in Haiti. Tens of thousands are dead. Even more are sick Full Episodes: RSS | iTunes
and suffering. And the world is watching, and trying to help. But the hospitals are crowded More CBC Podcasts Help
-- and supplies aren't getting to the areas that need them most.

Sue Montgomery is a reporter with The Montreal Gazette. She's in Cité Soleil, one of the
poorest areas of Port-au-Prince. OWEB> Air Times
Network Times

FTR: MTL: IMMIGRATION CENTRE Duration: 00:00:57 Weekdays at 6:30 p.m.

(7:00 NT)

Meanwhile, in Montreal, thousands of other ex-pat Haitians are desperate to bring their The Midnight Edition
loved ones to Canada. And they don't want to wait for the government to help them. Weekdays at 12 a.m.
Hundreds of Haitian Montrealers showed up outside the offices of an immigration (12:30 NT)
consultant this morning, hoping to get information, and to have their families' applications
fast-tracked. The crowd was drawn by an ad placed by the firm over the weekend, which
Weekdays 5:30 p.m. (ET)
said it offered counseling services to the Haitian community. Word of mouth did the rest.

Among those waiting outside on the cold, snowy sidewalk was Style Leon. She showed As it Happens is broadcast
up early this morning, and by the time she spoke with CBC reporter Steve Rukavina, she in select US cities by Public
Radio International. Our
already been waiting five hours. Here she is, for the record. OWEB>
American listeners can
check their local listings

IN THE COUNTENANCE OF KINGS Duration: 00:00:30

Album: BQE, SOUNDTRACK/STEVENS, SUFJAN
Categories
Label: ASTHMATIC KITTY, AKR 278
Persons/Roles: SUFJAN STEVENS - COMPOSER Announcements | Features | Past
Episodes
SUFJAN STEVENS - INSTRUMENTAL

MCGARRIGLE OBIT: RONSTADT Duration: 00:01:31

Kate McGarrigle first made her mark in music as a sister. By the time of her death
yesterday at the age of sixty-three, her musical and familial legacy had expanded far
beyond The McGarrigle Sisters -- the duo she formed with sibling Anna. Not only did she

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leave behind a catalogue of stunningly beautiful songs, but her children, Martha and
Rufus Wainwright, have both become highly accomplished musicians in their own right.

A message on Kate and Anna's website today read: "She departed in a haze of song and
love surrounded by family and good friends. She is irreplaceable and we are broken-
hearted. 'Til we meet again dear sister."

Even before The McGarrigle Sisters had recorded an album, their music was making
waves around the world. In 1974, Linda Ronstadt landed a hit with her cover of "Heart
Like a Wheel", a song written by Anna. The success of her album of the same name led
to a record deal for the sisters a year later, resulting in the first of several acclaimed
albums. Meanwhile, artists like Emmylou Harris, Billy Bragg, and the operatic soprano
Anne Sofie von Otter recorded their own renditions of McGarrigle songs. Join the conversation

For some of her memories of Kate, we reached Linda Ronstadt in Tucson, Arizona.

CLOSING

RETURN BILLS Duration: 00:00:50

HAITI: MOM + DAUGHTER Duration: 00:00:49

Earlier in tonight's program, Carol spoke with Canadian reporter Sue Montgomery. She
told us about a Canadian woman who left Montreal, traveled to the Dominican Republic,
and then made her way by bus to Haiti to find her family.

When Marie-Nicole Antoine, who goes by the name Nicole, arrived in Port-au-Prince, she
found her mother outside their wrecked home, and her two sisters dead, crushed
underneath the rubble. Now, Nicole is trying to bring her mother back to Canada, but that
process has not been easy. We reached Nicole earlier today, outside the Canadian
Embassy in Port-au-Prince.

And a warning, some of the details in this interview are disturbing.

LITTLE GIRL Duration: 00:00:20

Album: BILL FRISELL: DISFARMER
Label: NONESUCH, 478524-2
Persons/Roles: BILL FRISELL - COMPOSER
BILL FRISELL - GUITARS
VIKTOR KRAUSS - CONTRABASS
GREG LEISZ - MANDOLIN
GREG LEISZ - STEEL GUITAR
JENNY SCHEINMAN - VIOLIN

GITMO SUICIDE INVESTIGATIONS Duration: 00:01:07

On June 10, 2006, the U.S. military reported that three men held in Guantanamo had
been found dead in their cells the day before.

These men --- Salah Al-Salami; Mani Al-Utaybi; and Yasser Al-Zahrani -- were the first to
have died at the detention centre. Camp authorities said they had carried out a suicide
pact. The commander of the Guantanamo facility, Rear Admiral Harry Harris, even went
so far as to say that it was not an act of desperation, but "an act of asymmetrical warfare"
waged against the U.S.

Now, evidence is emerging that it may have been neither of the above.

Scott Horton is a contributing editor at Harper's Magazine. He has pieced together an

account of what might have really happened. We've reached him in New York. And I'll
warn you that there are graphic details in this interview that might upset some listeners.

THE STORM Duration: 00:00:20

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Album: PATRICK WATSON: CLOSE TO PARADISE

Label: SECRET CITY, SCR 002
Persons/Roles: PATRICK WATSON - COMPOSER
PATRICK WATSON - ENS IN-V

EMAIL ASHLEY SMITH Duration: 00:03:43

Ashley Smith was nineteen years old when she strangled herself in a federal prison. She
took her own life after spending two years being transferred in and out of nine different
institutions. There were seventeen transfers in all.

There was a lot of response to Carol's interview on Friday about the Ashley Smith case
with the Minister of Public Safety, Peter Van Loan.

Josette Wier of Smithers, British Columbia was one of the people who wrote to us about
this story. She wrote:

"How low is low when one hears a story like that, happening in our own Canada, within
our own institutions? What indifference does it take to watch a young woman kill herself,
notice her gasping and change of colour, and stand by while the camera records it all?

"Mr. Van Loan was quick to say the custodians were fired, but he never addressed the
fact that they said they were just following orders. Who, higher in the hierarchy, gave
such orders?

"Mr. Van Loan was also quick to deny the broadening of the Coroner's Inquest requested
by her parents, to include the nine institutions she was moved to, on the grounds those
were under provincial jurisdiction. This is an easy way out.

"The Minister of Public Safety should face up to his mistakes and do all he can to ensure
this will never happen again.

That's from Josette Wier of Smithers, B.C.

Our second letter is also from British Columbia, from Tina Rader.

"I have worked with youth in the criminal justice system in B.C. for more than eighteen
years. I have witnessed the system consistently abuse youth in its care. Without
exception, the youth I have worked with who have mental health issues or disorders
(including those who have attempted suicide) are sent to custody. They are rarely, if
ever, admitted to hospital. In fact, when a youth who has attempted self-harm is taken to
the local hospital, that youth has his or her acute medical needs attended to, and the
Police are called to take the youth to city cells.

"B.C. has one of the best mental health services, Youth Forensic Psychiatric Services, in
the country. Yet we continue to see the courts place youth in custody because there is no
alternative, and the community's safety is compromised.

There is no political will to consider more appropriate treatment alternatives, such as

mental health hospitals where children and youth are held safely for the time necessary
for the treatment to be effective.

"You asked in your interview with Mr. Van Loan if there were other teens in custody right
now experiencing similar treatment as young Ashley. I think Mr. Van Loen was reluctant
to respond to that because the answer is yes. Every day, youth as young as twelve are
placed in solitary due to their so-called 'out of control' behaviour.

"There is widespread belief in Canada that youth who commit crimes are 'bad kids' and
more punishment is needed. We have been punishing people for hundreds of years, and
we continue to have violence and crime in our communities. Clearly, there needs to be a
more appropriate and effective response to young people who enter the criminal justice
system with mental health issues."

That letter was signed Tina Rader, Retired from Youth Forensic Psychiatric Services in
B.C.

EITAN Duration: 00:01:37

Album: JOHN ZORN - THE CIRCLE MAKER
Label: TZADIK, TZ 7122
Persons/Roles: JOHN ZORN - COMPOSER

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BAR KOKHBA SEXT - ENS INSTR

PROROGATION POETRY Duration: 00:00:33

Stephen Harper has been called a lot of things since he decided over the Christmas
holidays to prorogue Parliament -- many of which I cannot repeat on the radio. But now
some Canadians are calling him something a bit more family-friendly -- their muse.

A pair of poets have teamed up to create an anthology of verse inspired by the Prime
Minister's latest political maneuver. We reached one of the book's editors, Stephen
Brockwell, in Ottawa.

STUMPTOWN Duration: 00:00:19

Album: WHY SHOULD THE FIRE DIE?/NICKEL CREEK
Label: SUGAR HILL, SUG-CD-3990
Persons/Roles: CHRIS THILE - COMPOSER
TONY BERG - PRODUCER
NICKEL CREEK - POP GROUP
ERIC VALENTINE - PRODUCER

GOOGLE CHINA FOLO Duration: 00:00:52

Exit the Dragon? Well, maybe.

The battle between the search engine Google and China continued today, with Google
announcing it was postponing the launch of mobile phones using its email and web
services. That launch would undoubtedly mean lucrative deals for the company within
China's growing mobile phone market.

Today's announcement followed Google's statement that it was prepared to leave China
over censorship issues. That position has earned the company kudos globally -- but the
stance will also affect the company economically.

Richard Waters is the Western Editor for the Financial Times, and a long-time reporter
on Google. We reached him at his office in San Francisco.

SECOND TO NUMB Duration: 00:00:19

Album: DECLARATION OF DEPENDENCE/KINGS OF CONVENIENCE
Label: VIRGIN, 50999 3 06840 2 7
Persons/Roles: ERIK GLAMBEK BOE - COMPOSER
ERLEND OYE - COMPOSER
DAVIDE BERTOLINI - PRODUCER
ROBERT JONNUM - PRODUCER
KINGS OF CONVENIENCE - POP GROUP
KINGS OF CONVENIENCE - PRODUCER

EMAIL SELF-HARM Duration: 00:03:07

Swallowing a knife seems unimaginable. But that's what a sixteen-year-old girl in

Newfoundland has been doing repeatedly: swallowing knives and other sharp objects, to
harm herself.

The question of whether she's competent to make decisions about her own health care is
now making its way through the legal system. Yesterday, we heard from the lawyer
representing her mother and from the lawyer appointed by the court to represent the best
interests of the girl herself. Then we heard from you.

This email is from Iris Kairow of Etobicoke, Ontario, who signs herself "a mom in a similar
situation":

"Change our law -- so that patients who have demonstrated psychosis, suicidal
intentions, or schizophrenia may receive standard medicines. The competency rulings
are based on outdated mental status exams, geared for dementia patients.

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"Change our law -- so that mental patients jointly share in their own decision-making for
treatment plans, with a next-of-kin or a guardian the patient selects to help them on a
graduated schedule.

"Change our law -- so that this child does not succumb to her own hand, as many, too
many, have done before."

"Change our law -- so that patient choice would be to select their preference for which
type of treatment -- not to refuse all medical advice."

That's from Iris Kairow of Etobicoke, Ontario.

We also received this letter from a young woman who signed herself "Jennie".

"When I was thirteen, I was taken to a secure treatment center in Alberta for harming
myself. It started the same for me as for the girl on the other side of the country:
swallowing large amounts of over-the-counter pills. I spent a year in a treatment center
and was then released back into my family; but the psychological damage I received from
the treatment center itself, on top of my problems I had before, combined to form such a
destructive state in my mind that I spent the following three years in and out of hard drug
abuse. Perhaps this is the same reason why the young girl swallows knives?

"I am nineteen now, and living happily with my mother, without the need of doctors and
centres anymore. I have been for two years. I believe it is still possible to save this girl,
but institutionalizing her is probably the worst thing you could do. It sounded like she
wasn't crazy, she was desperate for something: friends? A normal life?

"Maybe swallowing knives is her way of dealing with the pain she feels inside. As a fellow
swallower of many things I know that's why I did it.

"If I could say something to the girl and her mother, I'd tell them that she is not alone and
that my love goes out to them."

That email was signed "Jennie".OWEB>

DARK WAS THE NIGHT/DARK WAS THE NIGHT Duration: 00:00:20

Album: PARIS, TEXAS, SOUNDTRACK
Label: WARNER BROS, 9 25270
Persons/Roles: BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON - COMPOSER
RY COODER - GUITAR
RY COODER - PRODUCER
RY COODER - ARRANGER

BUS ATTACKS FOLO Duration: 00:01:08

This evening, in Angola, two teams -- Togo and Ivory Coast -- were supposed to meet in
the first round of the Africa Cup of Nations. But that game never took place.

As you heard last week on As It Happens, Togo pulled out of the competition after its
team's bus was attacked en route to the tournament. Two Togolese officials and an
Angolan bus driver were killed, and several players were injured. Shortly after, two
people were arrested in connection with the attack, and a separatist group claimed
responsibility.

However, since we told you that story, another five men have been arrested, causing
human rights activists to cry foul. According to them, these men were arrested not for
any involvement in this month's attack, but for being critical of the government.

Raul Danda is an Angolan Member of Parliament and Vice-President of its Human Rights
Committee. We reached him in Luanda, Angola.

TRIBUHUWAN Duration: 00:00:18

Album: CARBURANT DU CERVEAU
Label: CUP OF TEA RECORDS, 77876-51031-2
Persons/Roles: B. P DUBUISSON - COMPOSER
DENISE BENSON - COMPILER
PURPLE PENGUIN - POP GROUP

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SC/MUSIC: TEXAS EXPLOSION Duration: 00:02:39

Sometimes people have terrific ideas. Sometimes, those terrific ideas blow up in their
faces. And sometimes, the whole point of a terrific idea is that it blows up in people's
faces.

That's the kind of idea they've cooked up in Irving, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. It's the site
of Texas Stadium, which was the home of the Dallas Cowboys from 1971 to 2008. This
season, the Cowboys have moved on to a brand-new facility in Arlington, and Texas
Stadium is home only to tumbleweeds. So Irving City Council decided it was time to
demolish it, and develop the site.

That's a pretty good idea. But here's where the idea gets whey better -- as in "curds
and". Kraft Foods has signed on as the official sponsor of the demolition -- and the
demolition itself has been dubbed "Cheddar Explosion".

If that seems weird to you, perhaps you're unaware of Kraft's new Macaroni and Cheese
product, which is called "Cheddar Explosion". If it still seems weird to you, well, then --
fair enough, actually.

For its part, Kraft is very excited. In a statement, a spokesperson said -- and I quote --
"We are looking forward to celebrating the historical significance and explosion of Texas
Stadium."

It gets even more terrific, too -- or more weird. Kraft is currently holding a contest to
determine which American nine- to twelve-year-old will get to help blow up the disused
complex. All the child has to do is write an essay explaining the "positive, explosive
impact" he or she has made to better his or her community. The prize is a trip to Irving,
and -- in the words of the Kraft website -- "the opportunity to push the detonation button
that explodes Texas Stadium in Spring 2010."

The whole thing is so terrific it hardly seems to matter that the stadium will really be
imploding, rather than exploding. But since "Cheddar Implosion" sounds more like a
condition afflicting the lactose-intolerant, "Cheddar Explosion" it is. Either way, April 10th
will be the eve of cheese-struction -- and the greatest, or most confusing, day of some
nine- to twelve-year-old's life.

Here's a song By Divine Right did not write in honour of the event. This is called "Soul
Explosion".

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