As It Happens: The Thursday Edition
Part One
Mariupol UK fighter
A British man fighting in Mariupol told his friends and family his unit was surrounded, and would surrender to the Russians — but his friend is holding out hope he won't be held forever.
Ohio reading cancelled
School officials in Ohio cancel a reading by a children's author — and he tells us it's because parents complained his book about a lonely unicorn was an attempt to "recruit kids to become gay".
Blind golfers
A group in the UK wants volunteer guides to help blind golfers hit the links — which our guest says would go a fair way toward getting them on the fairway.
Part Two
Syria widow camps
All Syrian refugee camps are bad — but a new report says the situation in so-called "widow camps" is unimaginably worse. And that the thousands of women and children trapped in them desperately need a way out.
Alberta swifts endangered
Black swifts fly fast — which makes it tough to study the endangered birds. But scientists in Banff National Park are hoping the birds' poop holds some answers as to why the species is under stress.
Part Three
Laurentian auditor report
Ontario's Auditor General delivers a scathing report on financial mismanagement at Laurentian University. A professor there tells us his laid-off colleagues, and students, are still paying the price.
Bitch magazine shuts down
Devoted readers and writers alike are still digesting the news that Bitch Media's days of publishing feminist pop culture criticism are over. And one of the magazine's co-founders says she's not quite over it herself.