As It Happens: Wednesday Edition
Part One
Barkley Marathoner
Superhuman Canadian runner Gary Robbins tells us how he almost became the sixteenth person ever to complete the gruelling, hundred-mile Barkley Marathons.
Budget office changes
After promising to do away with giant bills overstuffed with unrelated proposals, the Liberals table a giant, 300-page budget bill overstuffed with unrelated proposals.
United Airlines scorpion
Almost no one is preyed upon. A scorpion falls out of an overhead bin, into a passenger's hair, and then stings him — and it's only the second-worst thing to happen on a United Airlines flight this week.
Part Two
Missouri ordinance
A woman in Maplewood, Missouri launches a lawsuit against the city — after she was found in violation of a nuisance ordinance for calling the police about her abusive boyfriend.
Movie villain skin
A dermatologist finds that movie villains are frequently identifiable by skin conditions — and he says that's offensive on the face of it.
Part Three
Refugee camp
Hundreds of migrants are missing after an enormous fire at a refugee camp in northern France — and its former residents have now been told that the camp will not re-open.
Saskatchewan budget email
A Saskatoon resident who sent an email to her MLA about the province's latest library cuts expected a generic response. Instead, the politician ordered his staff do a background check on her — while mistakenly including her in the email.