As It Happens

As It Happens: Wednesday Edition

Wednesday, September 2nd 2015

Part One

Refugee crisis: Chunnel passenger
A passenger  tells us what it was like to spend sixteen hours stuck outside Calais on a Eurostar train -- while police worked to remove refugees desperately trying to climb aboard. 
 
Manitoba First Nations child services
Manitoba's First Nations child advocate says that's the average number of babies taken from their parents by Child and Family Services -- without any real assessment of the family's situation. 

Kentucky clerk couple
A Kentucky woman describes her frustration with the county clerk who refuses to issue her a license to do something that's now perfectly legal: marry the woman she loves. 
    
Part Two

Slain journalist's father
A week after the murder of his daughter on live TV, the father of reporter Alison Parker tells us about his quest to strengthen gun control laws. 

Garbage patch mission
A 21-year-old Dutch man is feeling buoyant about his plan to clean up the enormous floating dump known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.