As It Happens: Wednesday Full Episode

Part One

China tariffs
As the United States and China exchange tariff threats, an Iowa farmer worries that soybean producers like him could wind up victims of President Trump's trade war. 

Poop train
Dozens of train cars full of human waste are stalled in the town of Parrish, Alabama — and residents are eager to get them moving, but they're not holding their breath. Well, they are, but — you know what I mean. 

'g' study
That phrase describes you if you can identify and write both kinds of lower-case G — because it turns out most guys and gals don't have a good grasp on one, which I guess is not good. 

Part Two

Senators & Sessions: marijuana
Conservative senators say Canadians need answers about what legal weed means if they're heading to the border. So they visited the attorney general in Washington to get some answers.

Falcon Lake memorial coin
A Manitoba man was just sitting down for some food and drink when the spacecraft arrived — and now, a new coin official commemorates that day in 1967 when his lunch was spoiled by aliens. 

Part Three

Miguna Miguna update
Miguna Miguna is back in Canada — after the Kenyan-Canadian opposition activist was beaten, drugged, and deported to Dubai. We ask him why he's hell-bent on heading back to Nairobi, despite the risks.

Central American caravan
The leader of more than 1,000 Central American migrants and asylum seekers heading for the U.S. border discusses why they're making the journey. 

Newfoundland fire
An author and historian on Newfoundland's North Peninsula watched helplessly as his house burned. And everything inside — including unpublished works, and journals — burned with it.