As It Happens, Thursday Edition

Part One

Anti-ISIS volunteer detained
Robert Somerville describes his journey from fighting for Canada — to joining the Kurds in their battle against ISIS — to being locked up in the Australian detention centre where we tracked him down.  

Julian Assange lawyer
A United Nations panel is about to announce that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been arbitrarily detained — which he hopes will finally allow him to leave an embassy in London.

Mouse trap
What's the distance from Reading to heaven? Of course, we don't know where a mouse's soul went after it stepped into a hundred-and-fifty-year-old mousetrap in a Reading museum — but we know its body never made it out. 

Part Two

Blind astronomer
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Thing is, though, we'll never see them as well as Tim Doucette, an amateur astronomer who happens to be legally blind. 

Chinese menu collection
Univeristy of Toronto has accumulated the largest collection of Chinese restaurant menus on Earth. 

Part Three

Lac-Mégantic heatlh
Two-and-a-half years after a horrific rail disaster, the people of Lac-Mégantic continue to suffer psychologically — and a health official says that suffering is getting worse. 

Paul Haggis
We'll speak with a man who's pressuring the federal government to help free a Canadian resident from imprisonment in Iran — a man who happens to be Oscar-winning writer/director Paul Haggis.

Iceland wrong turn 
When you're on a roadtrip, taking the wrong turn can be a big setback. Especially when you're on vacation, and following an itinerary for the day. And especially when that wrong turn leads you six hours in the wrong direction.