As It Happens: Wednesday Edition
Part One
Highway 400 crash
It ended with a wall of fire that enveloped 14 vehicles — including two fuel tankers. Our guest describes what she saw last night on Ontario's busy Highway 400.
Manus Island detainees
After Australia cuts off electricity and water to the Manus Island Detention Centre, hundreds of detained refugees refuse orders to leave — because they have nowhere to go.
Governor General Award winning-author David Robertson
Author David A. Robertson wins the Governor General's Award for an illustrated children's book about a young girl and her grandmother — and the pain of residential schools.
Part Two
Northwest Territories premier
The Premier of the North West Territories has a message for politicians down south, when it comes to Arctic drilling: you're not the boss of us.
Anne Frank investigation
Seventy-three years after someone gave away the hiding place of Anne Frank and her family and friends, a retired FBI agent sets out to discover who exactly betrayed them.
Part Three
Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls (MMIWG) report: commissioner
A report on the inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls says red tape is responsible for the delays — but Brian Eyolfson, one of the inquiry's commissioners, still believes he and his colleagues can deliver real results.
Cabaret law
After 91 years, the city of New York has repealed a law that prohibits dancing in most of New York City's clubs, bars, and restaurants.
Dennis Banks obit
The late Dennis Banks co-founded the influential American Indian Movement — and confronted his country with the cruelty, mistreatment, and murder Indigenous people had suffered after the settlers arrived.