As It Happens: Wednesday Edition
Part One
Montreal asylum seekers
After the earthquake in 2010, people fled Haiti for the U.S. -- and now so many Haitians are fleeing the U.S. for Quebec that Montreal has opened Olympic Stadium to asylum seekers.
Oslo bus
A Norwegian anti-immigrant group expresses deep-seated fear and hatred over a picture of women in burqas on a bus -- not realizing it's actually a picture of empty seats.
Exploding caterpillars
In the UK, caterpillars are going viral. We mean, they're so hot right now, they're blowing up. We mean all that literally: they're being taken over by a virus, which orders them to sit in the sun until they explode.
Part Two
Gene editing study
In groundbreaking research, American scientists have corrected a mutation linked to a fatal heart condition from the DNA of human embryos.
Judith Jones obit
Over her remarkable career in books, the late Judith Jones edited authors who needed no introduction, and two who did, at the time: Julia Child, and Anne Frank.