AS It Happens, Thursday Edition

Part One

PEI abortion
PEI Premier Wade MacLauchlan says he's allowing abortions to be performed on the island because otherwise the Supreme Court would have left him with no choice. 

Yemen children: UNICEF
As the war in Yemen passes its one-year mark, UNICEF says children are by far paying the highest price.

St-Hubert/Swiss Chalet
Quebeckers cry fowl as their beloved St. Hubert chicken restaurants are bought out by English Canadian bbq behemoth Swiss Chalet. And our source says it's all about the gravy.  

Part Two

Dame Zaha Hadid obit
British architects mourn the passing of one of their greats, Dame Zaha Hadid, remembered for her curvy creations and her knack for cracking through the glass ceilling. 

Access changes
Treasury Board President Scott Brison says his government will boost the powers of Parliament's transparency watchdog but a full review of the Access to Information Act is still years away . 

Part Three

Pikangikum update
The president of the Ontario Native Firefighters Society says this week's deaths in Pikangikum is just the latest evidence of the failure to fund fire services in First Nations communities.

Saskatoon police Wiki
A BC student notices that someone in Saskatoon's police station was deleting chilling Wikipedia entries about officers forcing aboriginal men and women to take so-called "starlight tours."

Assisted dying drug
A Canadian drug company is accused of hiking the price of a drug used for assisted death in the US. 

'Not Face'
Scientists in Ohio unveil one of the universal building blocks of human communication. And it's that look people give you when they don't like what you've said.