As It Happens: Thursday Edition
Part One
India gay law overturned
It took more than two decades, but LGBTQ campaigners in India have finally won: the country's highest court has overturned a 160-year-old law that claimed gay sex was "against the order of nature". Thanks, in part, to lawyer Menaka Guruswami.
Museum artefacts follow-up
The loss of Brazil's National Museum has global consequences -- because relics from all over the world went up in flames, including items that originated in BC's Haida Gwaii territory.
Detroit school water
As students in Detroit return to school, their thirst for knowledge is eclipsed by their actual thirst -- because the drinking water has been shut off to every public school in the city.
Part Two
Sara Mardini arrest
A Syrian refugee became a hero for swimming a lifeboat to safety in Greece, but now, she's been charged with people-smuggling -- which the founder of her school's scholarship program says is ludicrous.
Scooter rescue
Don't complain about Facebook to Mike Lythcott -- a timely post saved his life, after a nasty spill on a scooter sent him plunging 100 metres down a hill, in Indonesia.
Part Three
Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women (MMIW): Laurie Odjick
It's been ten years since the disappearance of Laurie Odjick's teenage daughter, and her friend. And still, Ms. Odjick has no answers, and no justice. As part of our fiftieth-anniversary coverage, Carol got back in touch with her
NY Times op-ed: forensic linguist
In that op-ed about the Donald Trump White House, the anonymous writer used the word "lodestar" to describe respect for the late John McCain. Forensic linguist Robert Leonard says that may unlock the writer's identity.