As It Happens

As It Happens: Thursday Edition

Thursday, August 27th 2015

Part One

Austria migrants
Travelling to a summit on the migrant crisis in Vienna, a reporter drives right up to a truck packed with the bodies of dozens of bodies of would-be refugees.

Sandra Bland Street
The mayor of Prairie View, Texas hopes to spark a conversation by renaming a street after Sandra Bland, who died after police stopped her there and took her into custody. 

Neon fish 
A Yellowknife fisherman reels in a monster from Great Slave Lake that's lit up from the lips on down with a tinge that's described as nuclear-neon green. You can read more about it here.
        
Part Two

Abbotsford sex offender
Residents of Abbotsford, BC protest the arrival of a convicted sex offender and the mayor says that local bylaws might force the man to relocate. 

Sleepy doctors study
An Ontario physician studies the impact of dead-tired doctoring and says that patients seem to do just as well as when treated by well-rested surgeons.