As It Happens

As It Happens: The Wednesday Edition

July 14, 2021

Episode Transcript

Part One

Quebec Nursing Shortage 
A Montreal doctor warns Quebec's minister of health that his hospital is hemorrhaging staff -- who are overworked and burned out.

Texas Hospital Baby Boom
Push comes to shove. Staff at a Texas hospital were stunned to find themselves delivering 107 babies over 91 hours. We ask the nursing director what's behind the mini-baby boom -- you know, other than the obvious.

Bruce Trail Hiker 
Despite sleep deprivation, swollen joints and a lot of rain, an Ontario man who just completed the 900-kilometre Bruce Trail in record time took it all in strides.


Part Two

MB Vax-a-thon
Manitoba holds a walk-ins-welcome marathon at its vaccination supersites -- and the co-lead of the province's vaccine task force says he's got more tricks up his sleeve to get Canadians to roll up theirs.

FOA: Zsa Zsa Gabor's Ashes 
The late Zsa Zsa Gabor's ninth and final husband has flown her ashes to Hungary first class -- a gesture that prompted us to revisit a conversation from the year the two were married.