As It Happens: Thursday Edition

Part One

Tagaq filmmaker
A Montreal filmmaker removes Tanya Tagaq's music from his documentary on the Canadian North, after her objections that the film is racist -- but he still defends his work.

Inuit parka follow-up
An Inuit family is in shock after a European fashion label copies a sacred design for an eight-hundred-dollar sweater -- and our guest says, legally speaking, there's very little that family can do. 

Piecaken
Charles Phoenix invented a version of the "piecaken" (that's a cake with a pie baked in it), called the "cherpumple" (a cake with three pies baked in it).

Part Two

Single men refugees
Omar Farzat fled Syria for Canada -- and he says the federal government's policy on single, male Syrian refugees leaves them at risk of arrest by Assad, or recruitment by ISIS. 

Miss World follow-up 
Miss World Canada Anastasia Lin isn't surprised she won't be allowed into China for the international pageant -- but she won't be silenced. 

Part Three

Syrian refugee Guelph sponsor
Ontario businessman Jim Estill is not going to let the logistical challenges or the expense to prevent him from bringing 50 families to Canada.

Alberta farm death
In the wake of the deaths of five children on Alberta farms this year, the province says it will make changes to make them safer for kids. But won't yet say what -- if any -- age limits it will put on work they can do. And now some farmers are pushing back.

Old Keith's bottle
A scuba diver won't likely drink the beer he found on the floor of Halifax's Northwest Ar , becauseeven though it was really cold, it's also somewhere around a 120 years old.