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
Catherine McKenna on Carney, Trump and the “51st state”
4/24/2025
Plus: After scientists created "olo" -- a colour they say no one else can see, artist Stuart Semple created "yolo". And he says it can be yours for a small price.
Also: We remember tireless B.C. drug and addiction advocate Trey Helton.
Duration:00:59:05
A trial gets underway, but could it really change hockey?
4/23/2025
Plus: Nil reaches Nardwuar the Human Serviette, who’s snagged more interviews with Canadian political leaders during this campaign than anyone.
Also: Up until 2015, academics at Oxford drank wine out of a chalice made from the human skull -- likely that of an enslaved woman. Archeologist Dan Hicks uncovered that history and says it's now his goal to make sure this woman is given back her dignity and humanity.
Duration:00:59:35
Intrigue builds ahead of a historic conclave
4/22/2025
Plus: How getting stuck in quicksand led to a rom-com worthy love story for a Michigan couple.
Also: Canadian author Robin Stevenson’s book Pride Puppy is at the centre of a Supreme Court decision on 2SLGTBQ+ books in schools. She says she was shocked to hear a Justice repeat the false claim that her alphabet book -- about a puppy at a Pride parade -- included a mention of bondage.
Duration:01:02:04
Phil Fontaine on the meaning of a Pope’s apology
4/21/2025
Plus: Did the search for extraterrestrial life just take a huge leap? We reach Cambridge University’s Nikku Madhusudhan to explore the possibility.
Also: As spring struggles to break through, we bring you the late, great Fireside Al Maitland’s reading of Oscar Wilde’s The Selfish Giant.
Duration:01:04:11
The challenge ahead for Pierre Poilievre
4/18/2025
Plus: Game, Set and Match medieval style. We hear about Australian efforts to revive Real Tennis, a move to bring the sport back to it’s Henry VIII roots.
Also: A special edition of As It Happened, diving into the archives for some “new discoveries”.
Duration:01:16:08
Green Party co-Leader Elizabeth May makes her case
4/17/2025
Plus: At the San Diego zoo, elephants go viral when video captures their touching and fascinating reaction to an earthquake.
Also: Filmmaker Sepideh Farsi on the death of her new documentary’s subject: 25 year old Gazan photojournalist Fatima Hassouna, reported killed in an Israeli airstrike.
Duration:00:43:21
Scott Reid on Green Party’s exclusion from debates
4/16/2025
Plus: A Michigan bookstore gets a lot of unexpected help moving its entire inventory.
Also: Ahead of the inaugural game of the new Northern Super League, founder and soccer star Diana Matheson tells Nil it's been years in the making to get to the first professional women's soccer game ever played on Canadian soil. But now that we're here, she knows Canada is ready.
Duration:01:11:26
The White House versus Harvard University
4/15/2025
Plus: Boston Globe reporter Billy Baker investigates a shockingly violent woodpecker terrorizing Rockport, Mass.
Also: It was no surprise that Paige Beuckers was picked first overall at last night's WNBA draft -- least of all to Gary Knox, a dad who just happened to be at the right place at the right time and predict her stardom way back in 2013, when she was in the sixth grade.
Duration:00:58:25
The White House doubles down on a deportation mistake
4/14/2025
Plus: CBC's Kate McKenna tells us about stumbling onto a story of campaign “dirty tricks” in an Ottawa bar.
Also: Speaking of watering holes, An Edinburgh man embarks on an ambitious project: creating miniature versions of some 300 pubs across the city. And he says attention to detail is the key to his success.
Duration:00:59:31
What Canadian mayors say is missing from the campaign
4/11/2025
Plus: Canadian Will Nediger writes his name in the history books -- in pen -- by taking second-place at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament.
Also: Nil talks to Paul Wells about what the veteran political journalist thinks of the campaign so far, and what he’s looking for in the weeks ahead.
Duration:01:03:48
An investigation gets underway in the Dominican Republic
4/10/2025
Plus: A French presidential hopeful says migrants could be deported to Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, islands off the coast of Newfoundland.
Also: Alasdair Spark says he’s solved the mystery of that deeply creepy (and conspiracy theory-provoking) final scene in The Shining.
Duration:01:07:52
Tariffs put China and its business partners in a tough spot
4/9/2025
Plus: We follow up with the starting pitcher for one of two absolutely terrible teams who both ended epic losing streaks this week.
Also: The mother of an Indigenous woman killed by police in New Brunswick tells us about her efforts to effect change in policing -- and about how one police chief on the other side of the country has responded.
Duration:01:03:06
Can a former Prime Minister give the Conservatives a boost?
4/8/2025
Plus: A conversation with Fred Armisen about the late, great Blondie Drummer Clem Burke.
Also: The editor of a low German newspaper tells us about his visit to a measles-afflicted Mennonite community in Texas... and about his efforts to get through to its residents.
Duration:01:04:29
Nobel Prize laureate Joseph Stiglitz on Trump’s tariffs
4/7/2025
Plus: Baseball YouTuber Dan Sarmiento of Enjoy The Show breaks down an epic match up between two of the worst teams ever.
Also: Drumheller, Alberta is home to the world's largest replica dinosaur. And its owners say they plan to take it down. But a local food truck owner is launching a rebellion, hoping to save Tyra.
Duration:01:01:08
A view from Bay Street on this week’s huge market losses
4/4/2025
On the other hand: It's boom time for the maker of Louisville Slugger baseball bats, thanks to a fad that’s taking the sport by storm.
Also: With Jordan's Principle funding up in the air, the Council for Yukon First Nations is forced to halt crucial community services. And the executive director tells us it's heartbreaking for the people she serves.
Duration:01:03:26
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