Wednesday: Communism monument follow-up, Angelina Jolie Effect, squirrel whisperer, and more...
An Ottawa architect shares his concerns about the location of a planned Memorial to the Victims of Communism -- smack-dab in the middle of one of Canada's most significant pieces of land...A Toronto hospital takes a look at the effect of Angelina Jolie's double mastectomy -- and draws surprising conclusions...and an American college student known as the "squirrel whisperer" befriends the bushy-tailed animals and snaps photos of them wearing tiny hats.
Part One
Victims of Communism monument follow-up
An Ottawa architect warns the Prime Minister that a planned memorial to the victims of communism will undermine a decades-in-the-making design for Canada's most powerful stretch of real estate.
Estonian Foreign Minister on Ukraine
Barack Obama has more stern warnings for Vladimir Putin -- but Estonia's Foreign Minister says NATO members should put their money where their mouths are.
Squirrel whisperer
It's pretty common for lifelong friendships to begin at university. But rarely are those friendships as adorable, or as food-based, as the one between Mary Krupa, a student at Penn State, and "Sneezy", a squirrel.
Part Two
"Angelina Jolie Effect": breast cancer study
When Angelina Jolie had a prophylactic double mastectomy, she raised awareness of the genetic risk of breast cancer -- and the number of women requesting genetic testing skyrocketed. Now, a new Toronto study shows that the response to Ms. Jolie's procedure was both enormous and enormously helpful.
Iraq: Paul Dewar
Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird has some surprise guests with him on his surprise visit to Iraq -- and one of them, the NDP's Paul Dewar, explains what the trip is all about.
Mt. Polley lodge owner
You may have forgotten the tailings pond breach in British Columbia, which spilled billions of gallons of waste water into the ecosystem by now. But Skeed Borkowski can't forget it -- because that breach has damaged his efforts to sell his fishing lodge -- and his planned retirement.
Part Three
Steven Sotloff: fixer
The video is authentic. As news of Steven Sotloff's brutal execution is confirmed, the Syrian translator he was working with when they were abducted by ISIS last year explains what happened.
Sacred Cree boulder
When he was a teenager, Steven Thair saw a photo of a giant rock -- one sacred to the Cree -- being blown up to make way for a man-made lake. Almost forty years later, he's found that rock under Lake Diefenbaker in Saskatchewan.
Millionaire migrant boat
Thousands of migrants are drowning in desperation as they try to reach Europe. Now a wealth family in Malta have launched their own migrant rescue vessel in the Mediterranean.