As It Happens: Thursday Edition

Part One

Syria bombings
There's much international debate over who's being targeted by Russian airstrikes in Syria -- but our guest is there, and she says civilians are suffering worst. 

Former Alberta envoy
After Alberta's government gives its U.S. envoy the axe, he does a hatchet job on the NDP over its handling of the Keystone XL pipeline -- among other things. 

Bald man swim cap
When a Quebec man's local pool enforces a rule making swim caps mandatory, he's forced to towel off -- because he's bald. 

Part Two

Catherine Coulson obit
The late actor Catherine Coulson was a woman of many talents, but she was best known for Twin Peaks, where she held her own -- and her own log. 

Disabled Everest climber
Mark Inglis was the first double-amputee to ever summit Mount Everest. But now Nepalese officials are planning to place new restrictions on disabled climbers. 

Part Three

Cab driver tent
A Yellowknife cab driver has been left to sleep in a tent, after the city's only emergency shelter for women enforces its rule that prevents her from staying there during the day -- and the nights are getting colder quickly.

Crow study
A PhD student shares how her research team dressed up like movie serial killers and approached flocks of crows with a fake dead bird -- all in the name of science. 

Marijuana resort 
Now that marijuana is legal on the Flandreau Santee Sioux reservation in South Dakota, the community plans to grow its own, and sell it as a way to generate income.