As it Happens: Thursday Edition

Part One

France Crash Expert
After the apparently deliberate crash of a German airliner in the French Alps, our guest is one of many calling for a minimum of two crew members in a commercial plane's cockpit.

BC Treaty Commissioner
The BC Treaty Commission is left leaderless and fearing for its future, after the BC government vetoes the very person it recruited. 

NYC Streetlights
When the sun sets in Brooklyn, New York, the boroughs's streetlamps are now the LED kind, pumping out a harsh white light that's drawing comparisons to a prison yard, a construction site, or an alien spaceship landing zone. 

Part Two

Indiana Doctor: HIV Outbreak
A combination of poverty and drug addiction has led to an outbreak of HIV in southern Indiana which the governor is calling a public health emergency. 

Mercedes Painting
When it comes to a 1980 Mercedes, visitors to the Beaverbrook Art Gallery are more interested in what's over the hood: its owner's beautiful bumper-to-bumper painting of the seasons.

FTR: Goat-Lynx Fight
What do you do when a lynx attacks your goat, and then the goat runs into your house with the lynx clinging to its back? A northwestern Ontario man tells the tale.     

Part Three

Vancouver Police Ruling
Angela Dawson, a transgender woman, has won fifteen thousand dollars from the Vancouver Police after its officers refused to acknowledge that Ms. Dawson is a woman. They refused her medical treatment and repeatedly referred to her as a man.

The Guardian vs Prince Charles
Ten years after first requesting Prince Charles's letters to various British ministers, the Guardian newspaper has won its fight to publish them. 

Purple Heart Returned
The story of a dog named Smuckers that loved to dig and a long-lost medal now to be returned years after it was lost.