As It Happens: The Wednesday Edition
Part One
Patrick Brown
Patrick Brown has been disqualified from the Conservative Party's leadership race. He tells us why he believes he's the target of a political conspiracy.
Highland Park update
A gunman killed seven people in Illinois on July 4th. A red flag law was in place that could have stopped him from buying a gun in the first place -- but it didn't.
Giant water lily
Scientists identify a new species of giant water lily -- a spectacular green circle strong enough to hold up a small child. And it now also holds the record for the world's largest.
Part Two
Ontario ER shutdown
An emergency room in eastern Ontario has been temporarily shut down because of a lack of nurses. A doctor at that hospital worries about who might suffer because of those closed doors.
Rouyn-Noranda air quality
Doctors in one Quebec city are fed up with the threat to their patients health posed by arsenic -- and they want the local smelter forced to clean up its act.