As It Happens: Thursday Edition
Part One
Tony Clement Riding
After Conservative MP Tony Clement admits to yet another sextortion attempt against him, a newspaper in his riding gauges the reaction of his constituents to the scandal.
Bombardier Layoffs
Bombardier insists the layoff of 5,000 employees is strictly a measure to streamline the company — but a wealth manager suspects serious trouble in the company's economic engines.
Bitcoin Utopia
It might look good on paper. But who needs paper? A millionaire is determined to build a utopia in the middle of the desert, and run his future metropolis entirely with the virtual marketplace called blockchain.
Part Two
Jim Acosta Press
The White House says it stripped a CNN reporter of his accreditation because he manhandled an aide — but our guest, who was there, says it's the president who is responsible for any wrongdoing.
Iqaluit Fire
The Northmart grocery was a lifeline that housed the bulk of Iqaluit's shipments of food and supplies — and its destruction in an overnight blaze presents serious challenges to the city as winter deepens.
Part Three
Drowned Buffalo
Hundreds of buffalo are discovered drowned in a river in Africa, and the owner of a nearby lodge tells us they were likely chased into the water by a group of hunting lions.
Kitty O'Neil Obit
As a TV stuntwoman, she stood in for Wonder Woman and the Bionic Woman. But in real life, Kitty O'Neil became the world's fastest — after breaking a land-speed record in her rocket-propelled car, dubbed the Motivator.