As It Happens: Thursday Edition

Part One

Journalist Alain Gravel on being surveilled by police
Quebec police confirm they got warrants to monitor the phones of six journalists — and tonight, Alain Gravel tells us what's it like to know he was being tracked. 

Brexit ruling
A British court has some discouraging news for the British government: it can't just go ahead and Brexit until Parliament offers its Brexpert opinion. 

$66 collard greens 
Plenty of people find it tasteless that Neiman Marcus was offering frozen collard greens for opposite-of-a-bargain price of nearly 90 bucks Canadian. Food critic and author Nicole Taylor is among them.

Part Two

"Guantanamo Diary" author
Mohamedou Ould Slahi, author of "Guantanamo Diary," is finally allowed to return home to Mauritania — after being held at the U.S. military prison for 14 years. 

Chicago Cubs win World Series
Laurie Holmes was right there when Steve Bartman interfered with a foul ball at a Chicago Cubs game in 2003. They went on to lose that playoff series. Last night, despite Cleveland's attempts to interfere, the Cubs won their first World Series in more than a century — and Laurie Holmes was there again.

Part Three

Radio-Canada journalist Marie Maude Denis investigation
Radio Canada's Marie-Maude Denis uncovers an investigation into kickbacks that were allegedly paid to provincial Liberal fundraisers and the head of a provincial real estate body.

Syria family visas
Belgium's immigration tribunal says a Syrian family trying to escape Aleppo is welcome. But Belgium's immigration minister is refusing to issue them visas. Olivier Stein, a lawyer for the family, explains what's happening to them in Syria while the officials bicker. 

Writer's Trust Award for fiction winner
Yasuko Thanh, winner of this year's Writer's Trust Award for fiction, shares how she manages to write between her gigs with a psychobilly band and a punk band.