As It Happens: Wednesday Edition

Part One

NDP on economy
NDP candidate, and former Saskatchewan Finance Minister, Andrew Thomson explains why his party is responding to economic turmoil with the promise of a balanced budget. 

Poland river finds
A drought has caused the waters of Poland's Vistula River to recede -- revealing a heartbreaking collection of artifacts. 

Windsor hum music 
A graduate student's latest musical project is built around a sound some people are already intimately, irritably familiar with: the low-pitched racket known as the "Windsor Hum". 
    
Part Two

Victoria sewage boycott
A Seattle newspaper revives calls for a tourism boycott of Victoria, B.C. -- because the picturesque Canadian city's raw sewage keeps washing up in Puget Sound. 

New Yorker study
Researchers track trends in parenting over the decades by examining 80 years' worth of cartoons from the New Yorker.