As It Happens: Friday edition
Part One
Tied feet student
An eight-year-old First Nations student is tied at the ankle to another student as punishment — and now, two years later, his great-aunt wants the school board to review its decision to do nothing about it.
Siegfried Park lawsuit
This week, New York Attorney-General Eric Schneiderman ordered the community of Siegfried Park to end its, quote "race-based housing discrimination." The Long Island enclave is home to about 100 people and was founded by Nazi sympathizers in the 1930s. But residents insist they in no subscribe to its racist past.
Face App gallery
Noticing how glum everyone looks in the works of art at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, a British designer uses a smartphone app to turn those centuries-old frowns upside-down.
Part Two
Thunder Bay deaths
Another Indigenous child is missing, another body is pulled from the waters around Thunder Bay, Ontario — and Regional Chief Isadore Day says this is the moment for the community to take action.
General Hospital cancer drug
A character on the soap is diagnosed with a rare cancer. Common enough plotline — except the story is a collaboration with the real company that makes one of the few drugs that treats the cancer.
Part Three
Mexican journalist killed
He knew he was a marked man. After all, Javier Valdez had covered the drug cartels — which is a dangerous job for a Mexican journalist. But he never stopped working — and then, this week, he was shot dead outside his newpaper's office in Sinaloa.
Whale heart
Preserving the 400-pound heart of a dead blue whale meant first extracting it from the corpse, which was messy; then wrapping it in several hundred feet of bubble wrap for a trip to Germany. It finally went on display this week at the Royal Ontario Museum.