As It Happens: Thursday Edition

Part One

Climate change: Trump
Unfortunately, it's a word he also applies to climate change — and a prominent scientist says the president-elect's environmental agenda could be disastrous. 

ROM apology
Twenty-seven years after a controversial exhibit on Africa, the Royal Ontario Museum admits the controversy was deserved — because the exhibit was racist.

Calexit
California is wondering about being a state of America. And considering not being one — with talk of secession, and the invention of the word "Calexit." 

Part Two

Toronto attack: father
A Maryland man visiting Toronto for a bachelor party is viciously beaten outside a club and later dies — and tonight, his father tells us about the late Julian Jones. 

Paralyzed monkey
A Swiss scientists explains how she and her team helped a paralyzed monkey walk again — by wirelessly connnecting a chip in its brain to a gizmo in its leg. 

Part Three

Sandra Jansen rally
When the only two women running for the leadership of Alberta's Conservative Party drop out, you want to know why. You also want to know who's responsible. Nirmala Naidoo ran as a Liberal federally in 2015. She's also a former CBC journalist. And she organized today's rally against the harassment of female politicians in Calgary. 

South Korea crisis
The crisis in South Korea threatens to prematurely end the tenure of the country's first ever woman president — after she allows a woman known for her connection to a shadowy religious cult to become her closest aide.