As It Happens

As It Happens: Thursday Edition

As It Happens: Thursday Edition

Full episode transcript

Part One

Netflix announcement
The federal government announces a deal that will see Netflix spend half a billion on Canadian TV and film — but our guest says the streaming service will get all the binge benefits. 

Flames stadium
As the municipal election in Calgary approaches next month, a feud between the mayor and the National Hockey League over a new arena for the Calgary Flames is heating up. 

El Capitan rock
Yesterday, one climber was killed and another injured when a massive piece of granite fell in Yosemite National Park — and tonight, a witness tells us what he saw.  

Part Two

Neonatal unit
The BC Women's Hospital unveils a new neo-natal intensive care unit that allow mothers to share a room with their premature babies — and it's being called the first of its kind in North America. 

Poo donor
To treat people suffering from C. difficile, members of a Toronto medical team perform transplants using something we all produce — and now that donors are running short, they're coming forward to ask for your poop. 

Part Three

FOI: Government
An audit finds the Trudeau government's access-to-information record is worse even than that of Stephen Harper's PMO. But Treasury Board President Scott Brison tells us he's got a plan to get things moving again. 

Homeless trip
It's hard enough pushing most shopping carts through a supermarket, with those wheels. Joe Roberts has spent a year-and-a-half pushing one all the way across the country, from east to west — to draw attention to youth homelessness. Which is a subject he knows a great deal about.