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
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
Why kicking TikTok out of Canada may do more harm than good
11/7/2024
Plus: A researcher tries to crack the mysterious recipe of “baseball mud”.
Also: Potential gubernatorial candidate Jon Bramnick sees an opening in Trump’s surprisingly close result in New Jersey.
Duration:00:51:40
Kamala Harris concedes, and what’s next for Canada
11/6/2024
Plus: A Welsh art gallery doubles down on nudes after getting a warning about “pornography” on display.
Also: Canada’s Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne; newly reelected Montana state legislator Zooey Zephyr and more
Duration:01:04:22
Checking in on the PA city that “picks the President”
11/5/2024
Plus: “One vote, one beer”. We reach a A New York bar that’s one of many businesses across the country with an election day reward for voters.
Also: By means ferret or foul... A cloned black-footed ferret has given birth -- bringing back a bloodline that had gone extinct and sparking hope for the future of the critically endangered species.
Duration:00:59:56
Tanya Talaga on what Murray Sinclair leaves behind
11/4/2024
Plus: A Wales man on why he chose to promote men’s health…not by growing a moustache…but by creating a giant “phallus” map using the Strava app.
Also: On election night, Kamala Harris will watch the results roll in at her alma mater: Howard University. And the student newspaper's editor-in-chief tells us there's a palpable energy on campus today.
Duration:01:01:24
A Pennsylvania pastor gets ready for a divisive day
11/1/2024
Plus: A retired Scottish police officer’s quest to find a home for his collection of thousands and thousands of bricks.
Also: Why giant rats (wearing tiny backpacks) may be the next frontier in sniffing out smuggled goods.
Duration:00:49:06
How the conflict in Sudan escalated to horrific proportions
10/31/2024
Plus: The strange saga of Quasi, a giant hand-shaped sculpture that divided Wellington, New Zealand…and is now on its way out of town.
Also: Beloved Montreal political cartoonist Terry Mosher pays tribute to John Little – the painter who immortalized Quebec winter streetscapes.
Duration:00:57:25
Caught in Spain’s deadly and devastating floods
10/30/2024
Plus: A Calgary man manages to up the ante on Halloween, challenging his own home’s structural integrity by giving away thousands of 2L pop bottles.
And: New York officially legalizes jaywalking, a term Gersh Kuntzman of Streetsblog NYC says you shouldn’t even use.
Duration:01:03:34
What Israel’s move to ban UNRWA means for Gaza
10/29/2024
Plus: It’s a nay from them. A new crop of British MPs challenge “bobbing” and other (frankly strange) parliamentary traditions.
And: A petition filed to Ecuador's copyright office makes an unprecedented request to recognize one of the country's forests as the co-creator of a newly released song. Writer Robert Macfarlane tells us it's only natural.
Duration:01:02:24
Former Washington Post Executive Editor Marty Baron
10/28/2024
Plus: A short piece of music written on a tiny card appears to be a lost work by Frédéric Chopin.
And: In Lebanon, displaced people find shelter and support in the country's historic old movie theatres; and with Georgians on the streets of Tblisi a politician who led a team of EU observers tells us about the “democratic backsliding” taking place.
Duration:00:58:50
Marc Miller defends Canada’s new immigration targets
10/25/2024
Plus: A team of Belgian ultrarunners set a truly punishing record by running a 6.7 kilometre loop every hour ... until they just can't anymore.
And: Samar Abu Elouf sits down with Nil in studio. The Palestinian photojournalist and New York Times contributor was honoured this week by Canadian Journalists for Free Expression.
Duration:01:08:20
A critic weighs in on Canada’s new immigration targets
10/24/2024
Plus: A Tory MP is fighting to have the classic Cockney dish “pie and mash” given protected status (but you can hold the eel).
Also: A Canadian artist debuts his giant biodiversity jenga tower sculpture at the UN's COP16 climate conference.
Duration:00:57:12
MPs confront Justin Trudeau behind closed doors
10/23/2024
Plus: A researcher was so frustrated by the lack of data on women that she scanned her own brain 75 times.
Also: Two years after a foiled attempt on Masih Alinejad’s life, US prosecutors charge a senior official in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard in the plot. The activist tells us threats to her life won’t stop her from speaking out.
Duration:00:57:44
David Herle on a pivotal meeting for Trudeau and his party
10/22/2024
Plus: A Harvard scientist describes “S2”, which has a pretty boring name for an event that once boiled oceans and levelled mountains on earth.
Also: More than a hundred women soccer players sign an open letter, calling on FIFA to drop its sponsorship deal with a Saudi company. Canadian captain Jessie Fleming says FIFA is choosing money over women’s safety and the safety of the planet.
Duration:01:08:20