As It Happens - Wednesday Edition

Part One

MMIW inquiry
Bernadette Smith says the inquiry into murdered and missing indigenous women must offer real answers before more women vanish, like her sister Claudette. 

Vancouver real estate
A Vancouver homebuyer says he's having panic attacks after the city's new foreign buyer tax leaves him with a shocking bill and a date in court. 

Marianne Ihlen obit
A friend remembers Marianne Islen, the muse behind Leonard Cohen's famous farewell, and the letter he sent her as she died. 

Part Two

Thomas the Tank Engine's Arc Studio
Arc Productions, the Canadian company that made "Thomas and Friends," pulls out of Toronto, leaving its art director without a ticket. 

Politician bail 
Arc Productions, the Canadian company that made "Thomas and Friends," pulls out of Toronto, leaving its art director without a ticket.