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Thursday: Alberta child advocate, Garcia Marquez archive, South-African puppet ungagged, and more...

After investigating the suicide of a teenage boy, Alberta's Child and Youth Advocate says more needs to be done to keep aboriginal youth in touch with their culture while they're under provincial care...The complete archive of Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- letters, manuscripts, and other documents finds a safe permanent home in Texas...and a South African court removes a gag order against...

After investigating the suicide of a teenage boy, Alberta's Child and Youth Advocate says more needs to be done to keep aboriginal youth in touch with their culture while they're under provincial care...The complete archive of Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- letters, manuscripts, and other documents finds a safe permanent home in Texas...and a South African court removes a gag order against a puppet named Chester Missing -- and the human who always seems to follow him around.

Part One

Alberta child advocate
Alberta's Child and Youth Advocate wraps up his investigation into the suicide of a teenage aboriginal boy -- and concludes more needs to be done to keep aboriginal youth in touch with their culture while under provincial care.

P.D. James obit
The late P.D. James turned genre fiction into high art -- and tonight, author Peter Robinson remembers the woman behind dozens of enduring mysteries.

Congregation giveaway
A Chicago minister tells us what happened when she gave five hundred dollars to everyone in her congregation.

Part Two

Garcia Marquez archive
The University of Texas has amassed one of the most astonishing collections of literary archives in the world. And their latest acquisition is especially astonishing: the archive of the late Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

South-African puppet ungagged
Chester Missing might say he went to court armed with the truth. He was also armed with an arm, of course, because he's a puppet -- and today, that South African court cancelled a gag order against him, and the guy with the arm.

Part Three

Harassment follow-up
As the Hill struggles with a sexual misconduct scandal, two former female journalists join Carol for a feature interview, telling their own stories of shocking harassment: and in the case of one of them, a sexual assault in the 1980S.