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.
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Canada, ON
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CBC Podcasts & Radio On-Demand
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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
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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
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Episodes
The former auto worker who stood side by side with Trump
4/3/2025
Plus: We'll hear from a pair of nonagenarians who have been exchanging the same birthday card with one another twice a year for eight decades.
Also: Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey takes us inside the Canadian decision making on a tariff response.
Duration:00:59:47
The CBC’s Paul Hunter on another chaotic tariff rollout
4/2/2025
Plus: Hooters declares bankruptcy, prompting a writer to remember an awkward…but ultimately sweet…experience.
Also: The Norwegian Refugee Council's Secretary General Jan Egeland calls on the international community to end its "chronic neglect" of displaced people in eastern Congo.
Duration:01:03:53
Why everyone’s watching a Wisconsin judicial election
4/1/2025
Plus: Canadian-born author Jonathan Stanley on the overwhelming response to a stranger’s viral Tiktok of him alone at a table, trying to sell his book.
Also: A Norwegian football club draws attention with it’s – apparently not April Fool’s related – stunt of offering its Man of the Match a whole bunch of eggs.
Duration:01:01:47
The humanitarian struggle after Myanmar’s earthquake
3/31/2025
Plus: Yet another aging McDonald’s causes a stir…this time in Leeds. We meet the man obsessed with the imperfection of its sign.
Also: A conversation with Turkey's Enes Hocaoğulları. The activist and organizer is one of the young people central to the anti-government uprising happening in the streets.
Duration:01:00:15
Reporting from the ground on a deadly earthquake
3/28/2025
Plus: The Neal Brothers challenging journey to produce an all-Canadian corn chip.
Also: A conversation with Democratic Congresswoman Julie Johnson. She's introducing legislation to condemn the use of an unsecured communications app by Trump administration officials - even if it's unlikely to have the votes to pass.
Duration:00:58:59
What Canadian auto workers see coming down the road
3/27/2025
Plus: Mixed feelings in BC as the “McBarge”, a relic of Expo 86, begins sinking into the Fraser River.
Also: Just a few months after opening, the demand for a Halal Food Bank in London, Ontario is already outpacing expectations. The director of the food bank tells us he's playing catch up.
Duration:01:04:27
A conversation with Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew
3/26/2025
Plus: A historian investigates thousands of missing Scottish archival documents…and finds a suspect in Canada.
Also: The first woman to be the curator of mycology at the New York State Museum says it's emotional to work on an exhibit about 19th century mycologist Mary Elizabeth Banning ... and give her some of the recognition she deserved when she was alive.
Duration:01:04:11
The federal campaign shifts to interference and clearance
3/25/2025
Plus: The founder and former captain of Afghanistan’s women's soccer team says it's past time FIFA let them back on the pitch.
Also: One of the filmmakers of the Oscar winning documentary No Other Land is beaten and detained in the West Bank...and an activist there tells us about witnessing the moments before his arrest.
Duration:00:52:23
What polls can (and can’t) tell us about the election
3/24/2025
Plus: A shark in New Zealand had an octopus on its head. That’s it. That’s the story.
Also: We take a closer look at anti-government protests in Turkey, and Toronto food blogger Aashim Aggarwal is using the current tensions between the U.S. and Canada as a way to highlight examples of Canadian cuisine. He defends the donair and Hawaiian pizza.
Duration:01:09:12
The border library that was once a symbol of friendship
3/21/2025
Plus: As Heathrow Airport goes down, a British teacher scrambles to bring students home from Spain.
Also: A journalist in Khartoum tells us what the army's retaking of the presidential palace could mean for the deadly civil war in Sudan that's approaching the two year mark.
Duration:01:03:54
A new trade war victim: Canada’s geoduck harvest
3/20/2025
Plus: A conversation with the man who listed his Washington DC townhouse…with the help of a perfectly scaled LEGO recreation.
Also: Kenneth Stern helped craft an internationally recognized definition of antisemitism. Now he’s concerned with how it’s being applied.
Duration:00:57:45
Tesla curbed at the Vancouver International Auto Show
3/19/2025
Plus: Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are back on earth after nine months. A former astronaut takes us inside that kind of extended stay.
Also: Vermont Senator Peter Welch on how tariffs and uncertainty are hurting his state.
Duration:01:00:28
Chaos and devastation at a Gaza City hospital
3/18/2025
Plus: Canadian soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan joins Queen and Herbie Hancock at this year’s prestigious Polar Music Prize.
Also: As Mark Carney begins his time as Prime Minister - the Conservative shadow minister for ethics Michael Barrett says he's being anything but transparent about his financial holdings.
Duration:00:59:04
Toronto’s mayor wades into the trade war
3/17/2025
Plus: Satirical news site The Beaverton celebrates 15 years during a fertile and fraught time for news satire.
Also: A US federal judge orders the Trump administration to halt deportations under the Alien Enemies Act -- including flights that had already left the country. But those planes did not turn back -- and Washington is unapologetic. Georgetown law professor David Super weighs in.
Duration:00:59:36
Meet Mark Carney's new cabinet
3/14/2025
Plus: An Indiana dad says he's grateful his daughter is alive after she spent nearly a week trapped and badly injured in her car.
Also: A Saskatoon fire fighter fears burnout as he and his colleagues respond to 15 to 20 overdose calls a day; and animal lovers in Michigan try to solve the mystery of a snowy owl that’s inexplicably bright orange.
Duration:01:09:04
Canola farmers fearful of U.S. tariffs…and Chinese ones too
3/13/2025
Plus: New York Times fashion critic Vanessa Friedman on Donatella Versace’s remarkable tenure as chief creative officer at the iconic fashion house.
Also: Canada’s labour minister Steven MacKinnon promises protections for workers; Yukoners mourn the loss of a beloved community hub to fire; and Christians and Muslims alike celebrate the conversion of a St. John’s church into a much-needed mosque.
Duration:01:03:31
B.C. recruiting American healthcare workers amidst trade war
3/12/2025
Plus: A Columbia professor says the detention of student activist Mahmoud Khalil sets a terrifying precedent — and educators have a duty to speak out.
Also: A Ukrainian government advisor anxiously awaits Russia's response to a U.S. brokered ceasefire; a friend remembers South African anti-apartheid playwright Athol Fugard; and Saturn solidifies its status as the Moon King of our solar system.
Duration:01:05:17
A Quebec metal manufacturer on the toll of Trump’s trade war
3/11/2025
Plus: The Canadian women’s rugby team makes the pitch for better funding — and says it could be a game changer when it comes to winning the world cup.
Also: A lawyer representing victims of the Philippines drug war reacts to former president Rodrigo Duterte’s arrest; an ancient canoe unearthed in New Zealand could hold the answers Moriori people have been looking for; and the owner of an Alberta newspaper mourns its closure and celebrates more than a century in print.
Duration:01:02:22
A Trudeau critic on the Liberals’ future with Mark Carney
3/10/2025
“Closure”: After 80 years, an Ontario woman shares her relief after learning where her great uncle, who went missing in action during WW2, was buried.
Irish street busker, Tilly Cripwell, describes her fight to stop passersby from touching the breasts of a statue of Molly Malone; a Severance fan -- facing stage-4 cancer -- meets the show’s cast; and what recent fighting in Syria means for the country’s prospects for peace.
Duration:01:00:14
The “relief” of the Liberals finally choosing a new leader
3/7/2025
Hockey Night in Canada - in Inuktitut. Pujjuut Kusugak on making history this weekend when he’ll provide colour commentary in his mother tongue.
The head of the U.S. trade association for distilled spirits on Canadian provinces pulling American booze from their shelves; the Vegetable Orchestra sets a new record; a journalist in Lesotho on Donald Trump’s suggestion that no one’s ever heard of the African nation; and why there can only be one “Captain Clutch.”
Duration:01:02:30