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
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
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Episodes
Why a Canada Post strike is more than inconvenient for many
12/4/2024
Plus: King Charles samples kava on his trip to Samoa, sparking hopes the South Pacific intoxicant could one day be legalized.
Also: A protester in Seoul describes the energy in the crowd as they call for the resignation of South Korea's president for declaring martial law.
Duration:00:50:43
The political crisis behind a shocking move in South Korea
12/3/2024
Plus: An Iowa man who melted hearts with his effort to create new Christmas memories of his wife of 53 years.
Also: Rising sea levels on the island of Carriacou have turned a inland cemetery into a shoreline graveyard. Now, Grenada is making its case before the International Court of Justice, demanding for accountability on the climate crisis.
Duration:00:59:14
Canada’s Auditor General on those pandemic business loans
12/2/2024
Plus: Belgian sex worker Mel Meliciousss on the country’s landmark decision granting health insurance, parental leave and sick pay.
Also: Why “brain rot” is the Oxford University Press Word of the Year.
Duration:00:59:11
Small business owner paying a price for Liberals’ GST break
11/29/2024
Plus: A British penguin called ‘Flop’ regains her footing, thanks to the use of an improvised baby bouncer and some help from a Canadian zoo.
Also: Two Irish librarians cook their way through hundreds of years of occasionally-questionable recipes; A Canadian man travelling with medical-use cannabis products is sentenced to life in prison in Dubai; and teenage journalist Leo Puglisi questions Australia’s new social media ban.
Duration:00:59:33
A Lebanese MP on finding hope in an already shaky ceasefire
11/28/2024
Plus: Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Yes! A “Turkey Bomber” tells us about her Thanksgiving tradition of airdropping frozen birds to rural Alaskans.
Also: A new study suggests that a single injection could revolutionize care for asthma and COPD sufferers; and a Newfoundland woman celebrates the Senate’s passage of an intimate partner violence bill bearing her name.
Duration:00:59:33
Mexico takes a different tone with Trump, and Canada
11/27/2024
Plus: A 12 year old takes on her Colorado school district, lobbying for the return of a pandemic casualty: snow days.
Also: A doctor tells us how he ended up starting a program to refurbish pacemakers. And why reusing those devices could improve the lives of people who can't afford them otherwise.
Duration:01:00:44
A former Deputy Prime Minister on responding to Trump
11/26/2024
Plus: The “selfie bear” went viral for all the wrong reasons. But now she’s finally been released back into the wild.
Also: Aaron David Miller on the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hezbollah.
Duration:01:04:09
COP29 climate conference ends in disagreement over financing
11/25/2024
Plus: Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya on what another Trump presidency means for the world — and what democracy means to her.
Also: HarperCollins strikes a deal allowing its authors’ work to be used to train artificial intelligence; a doctor makes a pitch for CPR mannequins with breasts; and an archaeologist challenges widespread beliefs about when alphabetic writing first emerged.
Duration:01:03:43
What a “Freedom Convoy” conviction means for protest rights
11/22/2024
Plus: An anti-monarchist weighs in on the price tag of King Charles III’s £72 million coronation.
Also: A Los Angeles school district promises to be a sanctuary for students facing the threat of deportation; and why the appearance of multiple “doomsday” fish on U.S. shores is actually good news.
Duration:01:12:49
What the Israeli PM’s arrest warrant does & doesn’t change
11/21/2024
Plus: “Words I never thought I’d say.” Maurizio Cattelan’s banana duct-taped to a wall fetches $6.2 million USD at auction.
Also: Police are encircling an abandoned South African gold mine, hoping to arrest an untold number of illegal miners currently inside. And their tactics have advocates worried for the Zama zamas’ safety.
Duration:01:04:56
A BC mayor on the “bomb cyclone” and climate change
11/20/2024
Plus: A new study determines exactly where in the UK and Ireland a phoney accent is most likely to be found out.
Also: Lloyd Axworthy helped lead the push to ban landmines. We reach him now that the US has given the go ahead for their use in Ukraine.
Duration:01:08:53
A surgeon in Kyiv on 1000 days (or more) of war
11/19/2024
Plus: A Kansas man tells us why he created a page to share terrifying and potentially deadly stairwells, and what makes for a “good” death stair.
Also: New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt on why the province is now launching a scientific inquiry into the mysterious brain disease plaguing dozens – and possibly many more – in her province.
Duration:01:06:37
How the Maori rights movement grabbed the world’s attention
11/18/2024
Plus: What’s behind the string of cheese heists bubbling up pretty much everywhere.
Also: The Verge’s David Pierce on Bluesky’s big week.
Duration:01:00:08
A strike shows how much small business counts on the mail
11/15/2024
Plus: LOL hell breaks loose. A new study suggests people who text using abbreviations are perceived as less sincere.
Also: Tom Forrestall’s paintings may have a realistic approach, but a friend and curator tells us the late Canadian artist wasn’t afraid of bending the rules -- including using canvases of all shapes and sizes.
Duration:01:10:14
An ex-prosecutor on the “absurd” choice of Matt Gaetz for AG
11/14/2024
Plus: A Scottish town learns a marble head being used as a doorstop in a shed, is actually a bust of their founder that's worth millions.
Also: Ottawa says a decades-old report about Second World War criminals who came to Canada is still too hot to release, but the founder of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network says we all deserve to see the Nazi secrets of decades past
Duration:00:53:25
Catherine McKenna from COP29: “I’m not gonna sugarcoat it”
11/13/2024
Plus: An enormous diamond necklace that may have played a role in the downfall of Marie Antoinette sells for a commensurately enormous price.
Also: Médecins Sans Frontières says a recent attack against an ambulance and patients in Haiti raises serious questions about their ability to provide care in the country.
Duration:01:00:46
Ontario gets in early on Trump-style trade rhetoric
11/12/2024
Plus: Scientists reappraise a 1986 NASA flyby of Uranus…and come up with new theories about possible life there.
Also: A month after warning Israel to increase aid to Gaza or risk losing military support, US officials say they won’t limit arms transfers because progress is being made. But a former state department official calls that decision shameless.
Duration:00:52:39
A doctor in Beirut on the unfolding crisis in his hospital
11/11/2024
Plus: Neuroscientist Michael Brecht’s fascinating findings about a Berlin Zoo elephant who loves to shower…and her roommate who has other ideas.
Also: A high flying doctor from Yukon with a penchant for paragliding narrowly survives a storm in the Himalayas…and lives to tell us the tale.
Duration:01:00:13
Remembering Sergeant Tyson Bowen
11/10/2024
Sergeant Tyson Bowen was a frequent guest on Mainstreet over the years.
He gave fourteen years of his life to the Canadian Armed Forces, including two combat tours of Afghanistan. He was a champion and an advocate who fell prey to his inner demons and died on September 3, 2022.
Lest We Forget
Duration:00:24:57
As the lights go out in Cuba, a farmer wonders what’s next
11/8/2024
Plus: The sole-baring story of Anton Nootenboom, who walked – barefoot – from Los Angeles to New York.
Also: John Bolton -- former advisor to the current U-S President-elect -- tells us what a second Trump administration might mean for Ukraine, NATO, and Canada.
Duration:01:00:02