As It Happens

As It Happens: Thursday Edition

Thursday, July 14, 2022

Episode Transcript

Part One

Malik Shooting
Bloodshed in British Columbia. 17 years after he was acquitted of all charges related to the 1985 Air India bombing, Ripudaman Singh Malik meets a violent end in Surrey, BC. 

Hockey Canada Allegations
Hockey plight in Canada. Facing funding cuts and outrage, Hockey Canada promise to reopen an investigation into a 2018 sexual assault allegation -- but a sports writer says it's too little, too late. 

Van Gogh Self Portrait Discovery
seeing the bigger picture. While performing a routine scan of a Van Gogh painting, a Scottish museum finds a secret self-portrait of the artist, hidden on the back of the canvas. 


Part Two

NB ER Death
Dying in wait. As wait times grow longer in Canadian hospitals, a support worker tells us he witnessed a man die alone in his wheelchair, after spending hours waiting in a Fredericton emergency room.

Gopher Agriculture
Animal Farm: A new study argues that, when gophers graze on the roots that poke into their tunnels, they're actually practicing a kind of agriculture. 

Woolly Mammoth
The perfect storm: It was pure serendipity that led a Yukon miner to discover the remains of an almost perfectly preserved baby woolly mammoth. And it was a ferocious storm more than 30-thousand years ago that kept it in such good shape.