Repairing Canada’s ‘dilapidated’ military

As It Happens

The federal government says it will quickly ramp up military spending. A former Conservative defence minister tells us there's no time to waste because the country is facing a security emergency.

The U.S. Department of Justice cuts a deal that allows Boeing to avoid a trial over two deadly crashes in exchange for a billion dollar payout. But a lawyer for families of victims says there's much more than money at stake.

A 96-year-old Nova Scotia woman was so frustrated about not having a family doctor that she took out an ad pleading her case in the local newspaper.

Nearly 40 years after a marble bust vanished from Jim Morrison's grave, one of music’s strangest cold cases gets busted wide open.

A PhD candidate in California tells us about her team's efforts to remove invasive bullfrogs from Yosemite waterways, one at a time, by hand. And about the encouraging impact it's had on native turtle species.

And, Spain proposes legislation to help prevent the sewer blocking monsters made of fat and wet wipes known as fatbergs, so we revisit our interview with a man who would really appreciate that effort.

As It Happens, the Wednesday Edition. Radio that guesses they're all feeling pretty wiped out.