As It Happens

As It Happens: Thursday Edition

Nov. 8, 2018

Episode transcript

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.