As It Happens: The Wednesday Edition

Episode Transcript

Part One

BC Heat Paramedics
A B-C paramedic describes the helplessness he felt working through the extreme heat as calls went unanswered -- and people died.

Stolen Picasso Found
9 years after the mysterious theft of two masterpieces from a Greek museum, the thief is caught, and the paintings recovered -- in the woods near his home where he'd hidden them.

C6 Bill
Conservative opposition may have killed a bill banning conversion therapy -- but one senator says that, as the parent of a child who was subject to the practice, she isn't about to give up.

Part Two

Canada Day Cancel
In Ottawa, some business owners won't open on Canada Day out of respect for Indigenous people...and an Indigenous bartender says she's glad her employer is among them.

Miami Search and Rescue
The effects of their personal effects. A rescuer at the site of the condo building collapse in Florida tells us about the haunting relics he's found -- including passports, photos, and teddy bears.