As It Happens

Wednesday: Calgary stabbings, NYPD demographics unit, Saturn new moon, and more

This summer, Jordan Segura was set to go back to work at a funeral home. Tonight, his former boss remembers Jordan, one of five students stabbed to death in Calgary... Our series on the world's largest refugee crisis continues, and tonight we'll find out what Canada is doing about its promise to accept thirteen hundred Syrians... It was hard...
This summer, Jordan Segura was set to go back to work at a funeral home. Tonight, his former boss remembers Jordan, one of five students stabbed to death in Calgary... Our series on the world's largest refugee crisis continues, and tonight we'll find out what Canada is doing about its promise to accept thirteen hundred Syrians... It was hard to tell from its title what exactly the NYPD's now-defunct "Demographics Unit" was doing, but eventually Muslim groups learned it was spying on them.

Part One

Calgary stabbing
The city of Calgary struggles to cope with the murder of five university students.

NYPD demographics unit
The New York Police are shutting down a controversal program that spied on the Muslim community.

Saturn new moon
Saturn prepares to "give birth" to a new moon - it's 63rd.

Part Two

Syria feature: Canadian sponsor
Refugees struggling to navigate Canada's refugee commitment to Syrians find roadblocks and empty promises.

DRC park director shot
The director of Virunga National Park, a wildlife and nature reserve in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is ambushed and shot by gunmen outside the city of Goma.

Script: Tom of Finland
Homoerotic stamps celebrate the gay Finnish artist

Part Three

Nigel Wright not charged
After the RCMP announces it won't be laying criminal charges against Nigel Wright, a former top cop tells us why and where the investigation into the Senate scandal goes from here.

Tape: Jim Flaherty funeral
We hear some of Quinn Flaherty's eulogy to his father

David Suchet
The Poirot actor tells us about his new Toronto production "The Last Confession"