As It Happens: Wednesday Edition

Part One

Fahmy pardon
No more trials or retrials, no more threat of prison -- for the first time since his initial arrest, Mohamed Fahmy talks to us as a free man, whose struggles with the Egyptian justice system are over. 

Triple murder
After a day of horror and tension, and the arrest of a suspect with a criminal history, Wilno, Ontario struggles to cope with three murders. 

Beard historian
A British researcher's subject matter has been written all over lots of men's faces throughout history -- because he's working to answer the profound question "do beards matter?" 

Part Two

Abbotsford care death
In B.C., an 18-year-old falls to his death, at a hotel where he was supposed to living under provincial care -- after the province shut down his group home. 

Pope sainthood 
On his visit to the United States, Pope Francis canonizes Junipero Serra -- but to a community of indigenous people in California, he was anything but saintly. 

Part Three

Liberal Communications Director Kate Purchase
With the election approaching, the Liberal Party's Director of Communications wants you to know that things have changed, and in her words, Justin Trudeau heads up a new, "less arrogant" party.  

EU refugee meeting: German politician
The German Chair of the European Parliament's foreign affairs committee shares his thoughts on the ongoing refugee crisis, as an emergency summit gets underway in Brussels. 

Danish pedestrian signals
It can be hard to know exactly when someone's going to step off the curb, and in what direction -- which is why the Danish Pedestrian Society wants Danish pedestrians to adopt a set of helpful hand signals.