AS It Happens, Thursday Edition

Part One

Right-to-die follow
Writer Susan Musgrave explains her conflicted feelings, after learning her friend — the poet Al Purdy — died by assisted suicide. 

Preston, Nova Scotia land
If a provincial plan works, black Nova Scotians may finally be given legal title to the properties their families have lived on for two hundred years. 

Cycleangelo 
A British Columbia man's city is one giant artist's pad — on which he draws complex images, using a GPS tracking app, and his bicycle. 

Part Two

Greece refugee crisis
After the EU promises more than a billion dollars to check the flow of refugees, a Greek parliamentarian fears his country will become a warehouse for the continent's unwanted.  

Quebec flooding house
After severe flooding, a Quebec man develops a fraught relationship with his own front door: last week, he couldn't leave his house through it, and now, he's not allowed to go back in to stay.  

Part Three

Thunder Bay inquest
Seven deaths, few answers and one consistent theme: racism. We check in on an inquest into the deaths of seven First Nations students taking place in Thunder Bay.

Monarch butterflies up
For a long time now, the news about monarch butterfly populations has been beyond discouraging. They're not out of the woods, they are out on the Mexican mountains — in stunningly robust numbers. 

NASA engineer petition
He told them the Challenger would blow up. And in the thirty years since it did, an engineer has been racked with guilt. But since he told his story in January, his guilt has been lifted by support from public radio listeners.