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As It Happens

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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.

Location:

Canada, ON

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.

Language:

English

Contact:

CBC Audience Relations P.O. Box 500, Station A Toronto, ON Canada M5W 1E6 866-481-5718


Episodes
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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Canada’s Public Safety Minister on foreign interference

1/28/2025
Plus: Receding alpine ice reveals a beautifully preserved forest of 6,000 year old trees, and its secrets are both thrilling and frightening. Also: We hear from Washington Post theatre critic Naveen Kumar who temporarily lost the ability to sit, and how standing changed his perspective on the medium he's spent so long covering.

Duration:01:02:15

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The sudden and chaotic arrival of DeepSeek

1/27/2025
Plus: Beth Shapiro of the bioscience firm Colossal on the ultimate de-extinction project…bringing the dodo back from the dead. Also: Months after far-right rioters burst through its doors, Liverpool's Spellow Library is open to the public once again.

Duration:00:59:21

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The mayor of Windsor, Ontario on a changing border reality

1/24/2025
Plus: Gwenyth Paltrow went skiing, they made a musical about it. Now it’s blowing up. Also: Donald Trump says fentanyl from Canada is a problem, we take a look at what’s real about that and what isn’t.

Duration:00:59:02

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How Trump’s threats are landing at an Ontario factory

1/23/2025
Plus: How Oscar-nominated costume designer Linda Muir created Nosferatu’s creepy and obsessively period-accurate outfits. Also: Today is the first day same-sex couples can legally get married in Thailand. We reach a transgender man on his wedding day, about what today means for his life, and his country.

Duration:00:58:01

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A US Navy vet trying to get refugees out of Afghanistan

1/22/2025
Plus: Two New Zealand fishermen knew they had a big one on the line, but they didn’t expect to find a shark along for the ride. Also: Jordan Heber, the Santa Monica painter creating watercolours of lost homes.

Duration:01:01:34

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What Gaza looks like as the ceasefire takes hold

1/21/2025
Plus: A photographer and model dive deep to get some pictures on the deck of a sunken ship -- and the results are breathtaking and record-breaking. Also: We reach the former prosecutor who helped put Leonard Peltier in prison, then campaigned for his release.

Duration:01:03:02

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Contending with Donald Trump on Day One

1/20/2025
Interviews with Canada’s Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Jonathan Wilkinson, Thomas A. Saenz of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and more.

Duration:01:07:30

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TikTok and its creators up against the clock

1/17/2025
Plus: A New Zealand woman sets a new world record for sprinting - on a track covered with Lego. Also: Some LA residents who had just gotten into housing find themselves right back where they started thanks to the wildfires; and an expert provides a nuanced perspective on the ban of Red Dye #3.

Duration:00:57:53