Posted: January 2nd, 2012, 11:00pm CST
The unkindest cut. Workers at a London, Ontario locomotive plant reject having their wages sliced in half -- so the company locks them out.
Change for sure, or for show? With the Burmese regime taking tentative steps toward greater openness, we'll ask the country's ambassador to Canada a few questions.
Reservations about observation. The Arab League sends a Sudanese general to head up its observer mission in Syria -- but his resumé makes him a spectacularly bad choice.
And...if you go to a New Year's Eve party at Bobbi Jo Ketcheson's house, don't take champagne -- take hot water and towels. Because, for the second year running, Ms. Ketcheson had the first baby of the New Year in her community.
As It Happens, the Tuesday edition. Radio that usually just buys its noisemakers.