As It Happens
CBC Podcasts & Radio On-Demand
Nightly news that’s not afraid of fun. Every weeknight hosts Nil Köksal and Chris Howden bring you the people at the centre of the day’s most hard-hitting, hilarious and heartbreaking stories: powerful leaders, proud eccentrics and ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. And plenty of puns too. Find out why As It Happens is one of Canada’s longest-running and most beloved shows.
Location:
Canada, ON
Networks:
CBC Podcasts & Radio On-Demand
Description:
Nightly news that’s not afraid of fun. Every weeknight hosts Nil Köksal and Chris Howden bring you the people at the centre of the day’s most hard-hitting, hilarious and heartbreaking stories: powerful leaders, proud eccentrics and ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. And plenty of puns too. Find out why As It Happens is one of Canada’s longest-running and most beloved shows.
Twitter:
@cbcasithappens
Language:
English
Contact:
CBC Audience Relations P.O. Box 500, Station A Toronto, ON Canada M5W 1E6 866-481-5718
Website:
http://www.cbc.ca/asithappens/
Email:
aih@cbc.ca
Episodes
Burundi under strain after 40,000+ flee violence in Congo
2/21/2025
Plus: Five hockey fans drive from Winnipeg to Boston for the 4 Nations Face-Off final, to cheer on Team Canada and their friend, player Seth Jarvis.
Also: The earliest known cookbook by a Black American woman gets a new edition; paleontologists discover the 30-million-year-old skull of "the king of the ancient Egyptian forest”; why one public health expert thinks changes to BC’s safer supply program could mean the its effective demise; and how snow in Montreal has kept one wheelchair user stuck at home.
Duration:01:00:33
Heritage minister: CBC funding a matter of national security
2/20/2025
Plus: An Italian tour guide shares his concerns as visitors get an up close, and potentially dangerous, look at an erupting Mount Etna.
Also: A hockey fan on the Canadian/US matchup at the 4 Nations final; Nova Scotia’s auditor general on new legislation that would let the Province fire her without cause; and a historic ocean liner that once regularly crossed the Atlantic, takes its final voyage.
Duration:01:03:31
She was on reality TV in Sierra Leone. Now she’s in jail.
2/19/2025
Plus: Former Olympian Christina Lustenberger describes what it was like to reach the highest point of the Rocky Mountains, and then ski back down.
Also: What happens when a moose shows up at your door; a Ukrainian reflects on her country’s prospects for peace and its relationship with the US; and a reporter breaks down the charges against Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, and the allegations he took part in a coup and plot to kill his political rivals.
Duration:00:59:37
Ukraine on the outside as Americans and Russians negotiate
2/18/2025
Plus: Facundo Iglesia from the Buenos Aires Herald on a crypto scandal and Argentina’s leader.
Also: We revisit the “Giga Pearl”. It holds the Guinness World Record as the largest authenticated natural pearl. The massive, iridescent gemstone has traveled from the Philippines to Mississauga, then to the U.S. for appraisal, and now it’s back in the Greater Toronto Area for an exclusive luxury art exhibit.
Duration:00:54:21
Surviving a Cape Breton snowmobile nightmare
2/17/2025
Plus: A surprising discovery about how shockingly vicious hummingbirds seem to be learning to get along.
Also: We reach a woman in the hardest hit part of Eastern Kentucky who says despite her small business flooding, she's most worried for those who just recovered from the deadly 2022 floods.
Duration:01:09:31
The view from Ukraine on Trump, Vance and Putin
2/14/2025
Plus: We speak with a researcher who’s discovered that different groups of chimps use different gestures to request what she calls "sneaky copulation".
Also: As Donald Trump reshapes the Kennedy Center, Michael Kooman says a tour of his musical has been cancelled out of the blue. And he suspects the president's aversion to drag performance had something to do with it.
Duration:01:12:10
Special Episode: Black Box Diaries
2/14/2025
Nil Köksal in conversation with Shiori Ito, director, producer and subject of the Oscar-nominated documentary.
Black Box Diaries begins with a trigger warning: "Close your eyes and take a deep breath if you need to," Ms. Ito tells viewers. "That has helped me many times." It goes on to detail her story of sexual assault and the pursuit of justice in Japan.
Duration:00:28:27
Anita Anand on whether internal trade is really the answer
2/13/2025
Plus: TikTok helps drain global Guinness supplies. We reach a St. John’s pub owner who’s got problems ahead of Saint Patrick’s Day.
Also: This week, only six of the 46 people who attempted an especially treacherous Yukon Arctic Ultra race crossed the finish line. Our guest tells us how she managed to stick it out, and why she's already gearing up for her next trek.
Duration:00:42:59
Malphine Fogel on her son’s long wait for freedom
2/12/2025
Plus: A superfan makes a sprint through Manhattan to snag a coveted ticket to Paul McCartney’s ultra rare club show.
Also: We reach Ahmad Muna, whose decades-old bookshop was raided by Israeli police in Jerusalem.
Duration:01:01:52
Canada’s Industry Minister on Trump’s tariffs
2/11/2025
Plus: Christie’s goes all in on AI art. We reach a (human) artist who’s part of the first auction of its kind.
Also: A town in northern England finds hundreds of Second World War bombs under a children's playground.
Duration:01:00:55
A Canadian company prepares for U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum
2/10/2025
Plus: How one Canadian distillery is trying to create a liqueur similar to chartreuse because of a shortage of the green alcohol.
Also: After Sweden’s deadliest mass shooting last week, we speak to a family member of one of the survivors.
Duration:01:04:03
Special Episode: The Only Girl in the Orchestra
2/7/2025
Nil Köksal speaks with Molly O’Brien, producer and director of the Oscar-nominated documentary, and with the film’s subject: her aunt Orin O’Brien.
Duration:00:30:02
Donald Trump’s threat to “absorb” Canada gets real
2/7/2025
We speak to Liberal MP and leadership candidate Karina Gould and Goldy Hyder of the Business Council of Canada.
Also: A film history student tells us about the moment he discovered a silent film about Lincoln...believed to be lost to time...in the final hours of his internship with a historic film archive.
Duration:00:58:44
Buyouts, or a war on Washington’s workforce?
2/6/2025
Plus: Jeff Douglas on the meaning of “I Am Canadian” then…and now.
Also: Scientist David Kring on what we can learn from massive canyons on the moon.
Duration:00:40:10
Disbelief over Trump’s plan for “Riviera of the Middle East”
2/5/2025
Plus: A cave explorer finds a fungus that turns spiders into zombies…so it can kill them.
Also: An Ottawa furniture store owner on why sourcing Canadian products is easier said than done.
Duration:00:57:56
Canada and Mexico at odds over the cartels and terrorism
2/4/2025
Plus: New research on bonobos shows the unique human ability to guess what's going on in the minds of others isn't so unique.
Also: . A site on the North Saskatchewan River is revealed to be one of the oldest examples of Indigenous civilization in North America. A Métis archaeologist tells us he could feel that history the first time he saw it.
Duration:00:57:49
What a 30 day tariff reprieve means for Canada
2/3/2025
Plus: When a teenager fell into icy water, Indiana's David Fisher grabbed his double Dutch ropes and jumped into action.
Also: After a Canadian father comes forward to say his child is purchasing illicit drugs on Snapchat, we'll hear from an American dad about his ongoing fight to hold the social platform accountable for the death of his son.
Duration:01:00:33
How tariffs look from the Michigan side of the border
1/31/2025
Plus: The story of a “Pistol Packin’ Mama” who spent decades wanted for murder, undetected in Taber, Alberta.
Also: Liz Pelly, author of Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist.
Duration:01:00:20
Skating coach Elin Schran on an unimaginable loss
1/30/2025
She worked with Spencer Lane, a 16 year old victim of the DC plane crash.
Also: How Newfoundland and Labrador’s snow crab fishery is preparing for the prospect of devastating US tariffs; and we reach former Bernie Sanders campaign manager Faiz Shakir, who’s running to lead the Democratic National Committee
Duration:01:00:03
A reporter on the ground for a tragedy in India
1/29/2025
Plus: The Danish scientists who thought they’d found some fossilized plants…which turned out to be something much more interesting: ancient vomit.
Also: Casey Katims of the U.S. Climate Alliance on trying to forge a path ahead with states, after Trump pulls the U.S. out of a key international agreement.
Duration:00:58:15