As It Happens

Nov 19 2024 70 ep. 56 mins 7k
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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.

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A BC mayor on the “bomb cyclone” and climate change

Nov 19 2024 68 mins  
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.

A surgeon in Kyiv on 1000 days (or more) of war

Nov 18 2024 66 mins  
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. 

How the Maori rights movement grabbed the world’s attention

Nov 17 2024 60 mins  
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.

A strike shows how much small business counts on the mail

Nov 14 2024 70 mins  
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.

An ex-prosecutor on the “absurd” choice of Matt Gaetz for AG

Nov 13 2024 53 mins  
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

Catherine McKenna from COP29: “I’m not gonna sugarcoat it”

Nov 12 2024 60 mins  
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.

Ontario gets in early on Trump-style trade rhetoric

Nov 11 2024 52 mins  
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.

A doctor in Beirut on the unfolding crisis in his hospital

Nov 10 2024 60 mins  
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. 

As the lights go out in Cuba, a farmer wonders what’s next

Nov 07 2024 60 mins  
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.

Why kicking TikTok out of Canada may do more harm than good

Nov 06 2024 51 mins  
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.