As It Happens

As It Happens: Thursday Edition

Thursday, August 6th 2015

Part One

Abortion flyer follow-up
After a Saskatchewan postal worker refuses to deliver graffic anti-abortion election flyers, we put her concerns to one of the pamphlet's purveyors. 

Campaign security
The absence of the RCMP and their sniffer dogs, leaves one reporter unable to cover one of the Conservative leader's campaign events. 

Returned violin
Thirty-five years after her father's Stradivarius was stolen, the FBI returns the instrument to his very grateful daughters.

Part Two

WikiLeaks: Ecuador politician
An Ecuadorian politician says Wikileaks has detailed the spying of his government, but Julian Assange hasn't raised the matter with his hosts at the embassy in London. 

Secret bookstore closes
In-the-know New Yorkers mourn the closure of Brazenhead, Manhattan's boozy covert bookstore.