As It Happens: Thursday Edition
PART 1
Real estate changes
If you can't stand the heat, you won't get a kitchen. So Ontario's government is stepping in to cool down Toronto's uncomfortably hot housing market -- but one economist warns the intervention could give buyers and sellers a nasty cold.
Garment transparency
Clothes-minded. Four years after the deadly fire at a factory in Bangladesh, a new report says some Canadian retailers need to provide more disclosure about where exactly the garments they sell are coming from.
Titanic submarine
Diving a hard bargain. An American company will soon let you board a submarine and descend to the most famous shipwreck of all, the Titanic -- but you face a big obstacle that might sink your chances: the 140 thousand-dollar price tag.
PART 2
Syria doctor
Doing their best to prepare for the worst. After being woefully unprepared for the deadly chemical attack earlier this month, Syrian doctors are no longer leaving anything to chance.
Cooper's treasure
He has it on the highest authority. And now, our guest is searching for the shipwrecks that that authority -- the late NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper -- discovered while he was on a space expedition.
PART 3
Kashmir violence
The video is terrifying: a young man in Kashmir named Farooq Dar, tied to the front of an Indian Army vehicle -- a human shield to stop protesters from attacking the military convoy.
Lost wallet
Tim Burrows went to the Reading Festival in England. He drank a little too much. And, in the process, he lost his wallet. But that was really just the beginning of the story.