As It Happens: Thursday Edition

Part One

Vaccine hack
Russian hackers are accused of targeting research into a vaccine for COVID-19 — and according to our guest, they're not the only ones trying to steal science right now.

B.C. social worker settlement
Court documents filed this week reveal the extent of the alleged damage done by a Kelowna, B.C. social worker to dozens foster children — clients he was meant to be looking out for.

Hot dog eating study
A physiology professor calculates the maximum number of hot dogs a human being can eat in ten minutes. And despite years of dogged pursuit on the part of competitive eaters — it's several dogs higher than the current record.

Part Two

B.C. farm workers
British Columbia has done better at containing COVID-19 on farms than other parts of the country. The province's agriculture minister tells us what went right — and what the rest of the country can learn.

Joanna Cole obit 
Her insatiable curiosity was contagious. The author behind the beloved Magic School Bus series has died. Her daughter tells us how the stories infused her childhood with its own kind of magic.