As It Happens: Wednesday Edition

Part One

Calais refugee centre
The Calais camp is empty, and its residents are heading to communities across France — and while our guest has volunteered to welcome refugees to her village, some of her neighbours aren't so receptive.  

Muskrat Falls activist ends hunger strike
When Newfoundland and Labrador agrees to further study of the massive Muskrat Falls hydro project, an Inuk activist ends his twelve-day hungry strike. 

Jack Chick obit
In his lurid cartoon booklets, the late Jack Chick expressed his belief that the road to hell was paved with bad intentions — and we are all going there. 

Part Two

Chicago shooting: family
She was driving home when a random bullet punched through her side window. Now, twenty-six-year-old Precious Land is paralyzed — one of thousands of Chicago residents who were shot, but survived. 

Fir resin heist
A Quebec man harvested nearly five hundred kilos of gooey resin from fir trees — and then, someone steals all of it out of his garage. 

Part Three

Nelson House child welfare
A Manitoba First Nations community set out to reduce the number of kids being taken from homes. It worked. And the province is rewarding that success by cutting funding for the child welfare service there.

International Criminal Court (ICC): Gambia
Gambia becomes the third country in Africa to announce it is withdrawing from the International Criminal Court. Tonight, an ICC representative explains why she rejects the charge that the tribunal unfairly persecutes African nations. 

Nickel economist
Officials have been beavering away at a report on the possible extinction of the five-cent piece — and our guest says that would be a positive change for change.