As It Happens

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News that’s not afraid of fun. Meet 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. Hosted by Nil Köksal and Chris Howden, find out why As It Happens is one of Canada’s longest-running and most beloved shows. (Ahem, we literally helped make the beaver a national symbol.)

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Yesterday · 51 min
CFB Wainwright fire victim’s mom: 'My heart just dropped'
After flames engulfed an Alberta military base on Saturday, our guest waited anxiously for news of her son, Private Aidan Goulding. Hours later, she learned he was among the young soldiers killed. Fresh from his weekend victory, we ask Pete Fry -- Vancouver's first Green Party mayor-elect -- how he plans to get a handle on the desperation in the beautiful city. After months of anticipation and apprehension, it's referendum day in Alberta -- and a ballot count
Friday · 1 hr 2 min
Cornell prof says school’s reckoning is a long time coming
A Cornell professor is leading a no-confidence vote against the university administration over what she says is a culture of inaction around sexual assault and harassment on campus, which she's experienced first hand. Months ago, anti-government protests in Albania started out peacefully, but lately, they’ve turned violent. One demonstrator tells us he still believes taking to the streets is the only way forward. With the vote on the Alberta separation questi
Thursday · 1 hr 2 min
A separatist’s view of Alberta’s referendum
Ahead of Monday's vote, an Alberta separatist tells us part of him would be sad to leave Canada, but he still believes the province will be better off going it alone.  A reporter describes the horrific scene at a school in Peshawar, where dozens of children and a teacher were killed after the roof collapsed during the school day. Indigenous communities in Minnesota are bringing back cultural burning practices — and the man leading the project says it wil
Wednesday · 54 min
Why an alleged pipeline saboteur is being accused of war crimes
A Ukrainian national is on trial in Germany for blowing up the Nord Stream gas pipelines, which risks creating tension between the two normally-cozy allies.  New dress code rules in Azerbaijan effectively ban students and teachers from wearing the hijab at school in the name of secularism. The co-founder of the long-defunct "Spy" magazine celebrates 40 years since it was founded, by republishing old articles about one of its most frequent targets: the ma
October 13 · 1 hr 1 min
Witness to Six Flags death wants to set the record straight
Rollercoasters are closed across the U.S. and Canada after a man is thrown to his death from a ride at a Six Flags amusement park in Georgia. Our guest had just been on that coaster — and tells us what he saw from the ground.  Saudi Arabia strikes an oil facility in the Houthi-controlled capital of Yemen in retaliation for multiple attacks on Riyadh's international airport. And an analyst tells us the tit-for-tat risks fuelling a wider conflict.  A
October 12 · 46 min
U.S. plan to buy Russian diesel, “a deal with the devil”
U.S. president Donald Trump announces a plan to buy diesel from Russia and an "energy ceasefire," but it doesn’t take long for Ukraine’s president to accuse Russia of attacking six energy facilities across the country. We speak to an Alaskan woman who is reburying her aunt today, over a hundred years after she died at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. As women across Canada face shortages of estrogen patches, the founder of a menopause support group says
October 9 · 59 min
A Fort Hood survivor reacts to livestreamed execution plans
A retired U.S. Army Sergeant who was shot seven times in the Fort Hood Massacre says he has no problem with his shooter being executed, but he balks at the Pentagon's plans to livestream his death by firing squad.  Geely wants to become the first Chinese mass-market electric car brand to gain a foothold in Canada, which is creating anxiety for boosters of the domestic auto industry. A human rights lawyer says there's no one more deserving of the Nobel Pe
October 8 · 1 hr 1 min
Alleged torture victim applauds new charges against Maduro
An American who says he was electrocuted and threatened with execution in a Venezuelan prison welcomes new torture charges against the country's deposed president, Nicolas Maduro.  The eviction of an 87-year-old woman drove people in Spain into the streets in protest, and our guest says the woman's death has only made them angrier.  Steelworkers in Hamilton, Ontario are starting to get their layoff notices from Stelco. A father of two tells us his f
October 7 · 59 min
The son of an Oct. 7 victim delivers a plea for peace
On the anniversary of her murder, the son of Canadian-Israeli peace activist Vivian Silver reflects on the lessons she left behind and tells us her memory should not be used to justify violence.  A psychiatrist reflects on the Carney government's decision to allow medical assistance in dying to people with conditions that will eventually leave them unable to ask for it, but to deny it to patients suffering solely from mental illness.  Stand-up comic
October 6 · 58 min
U.S. suspect ‘encouraged and aided’ mass shooter in Canada
The FBI announces the arrest of a Washington State resident who allegedly spent at least six months in contact with the shooter who killed eight people in Tumbler Ridge, B.C.  A young woman from Okinawa tells us why she joined protests after a U.S. Marine allegedly killed a local woman. She tells us it's time for the American military to leave the island for good.  A Canadian scientist who works with the winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Physics
October 5 · 54 min
His father was kidnapped by a cartel in Mexico
Months after ten people employed by a Canadian mining company in Mexico were kidnapped, our guest's father remains unaccounted for. Now, he's asking the RCMP to get involved — and get his family some answers.  For weeks now, high school students and educators in France have been demanding better classroom conditions. We speak with a teacher about the violence in the streets and what's in store with more nationwide protests set for tomorrow.  A Toron
October 2 · 56 min
Her client survived execution months before Christa Pike
We hear from a lawyer whose client lived through a botched lethal injection in Tennessee just a few months before the state made another failed attempt to execute an inmate this week. Days before Quebeckers go to the polls, a political reporter in the province explains how its next premier could win with less than a third of the vote.  After witnessing a plane crash, a group of skydivers in Wisconsin made the spontaneous decision to jump to the aid of th
October 1 · 59 min
A botched lethal injection reignites death penalty debate
A reporter describes the agonizing, failed attempts to execute Tennessee inmate Christa Pike — and tells us how the state's Republican governor is responding. On social media, a Milwaukee comedian said Norm Macdonald wasn't funny; that resulted in a targeted campaign of "swatting," during which police have shown up to his house 55 times. A blind man is taking the British Museum to court because it doesn’t offer live audio-described tours of the Bayeux Tapes
September 30 · 45 min
What the withdrawal of U.S. troops means for Iraq
American forces have now pulled out of their last posts in Iraq and for many in the country, it's a belated moment of celebration after what felt like an endless war.  Peru's Humboldt penguins face a worsening food shortage, as a potential "super" El Nino rapidly warms the waters where they feed.   We remember Canadian radio pioneer Dave Marsden, the legendary former musical director of Toronto's groundbreaking station CFNY. We
September 30 · 25 min
Special Episode: Community, culture and 'country food'
Nil Köksal speaks with director Malaya Qaunirq Chapman about her new documentary "Nirilaurta: Let Us Eat." She takes us to kitchen tables in Taloyoak, Nunavut, where food is as much about culture as it is about sustenance. On the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we'll hear how generations of community members are striving to preserve their way of life in the face of sky-high food and gas prices -- and why access to food straight from the land is so crucial.
September 29 · 59 min
How student journalists broke the story of the ‘Cornell 7’
Two years after an alleged gang rape on Cornell University campus, prosecutors are reopening the investigation — and the new attention is largely thanks to reporting by student journalists.  Former Canadian spies and security officials want Parliamentarians to get to the bottom of what really happened to diplomats plagued with "Havana Syndrome" and whether Ottawa did enough to help them.  An American ban on some Canadian imports is now in effect — a
September 28 · 51 min
Women’s hockey is coming to prime time
If you thought "Hockey Night in Canada" had hung up its skates forever, not so! It will be back on the CBC, and the Professional Women's Hockey League is getting top billing, which three-time Olympian Sami Jo Small says it’s a long time coming.  Hamilton, Ontario mayor Andrea Horwath reacts to the news that hundreds of the city’s steel-workers will be laid off — and the plant owners are blaming the ongoing trade war.  Since they were convicted of mu
September 25 · 1 hr 5 min
His debut novel was a hit. But was it written by AI?
A Quebec writer’s work divides the literary community, after it's alleged that he wrote his acclaimed novel with the help of AI. One writer says his peers are frustrated -- and grieving. Donald Trump and Xi Jinping wrap up their Washington summit without major policy developments -- but former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig says that doesn't mean the Chinese leader didn't score a big win. A former student at one of India’s top women’s colleges was among hun
September 24 · 1 hr 1 min
Is it time for Canada to quit StarLink?
Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada reducing its dependence on the US includes finding alternatives for Elon Musk's StarLink — and our guest applauds his spatial awareness. Amnesty International accuses the Parti Quebecois of breaking international law because of how some of its members treated a psychiatrist who criticized the party's leadership.  Award-winning hip hop artist Haviah Mighty tells us about getting life-saving heart surgery in her early
September 23 · 56 min
A detained journalist marks 25 years behind bars
Eritrean-Swedish journalist Dawit Isaak was imprisoned in 2001 for calling for calling democratic reforms in Eritrea. We'll talk to his daughter — who hasn't seen him since she was seven years old.  British Columbia's Conservatives have gone through months of infighting, but their new interim leader says yesterday's snap election call has united the party.  He was paralyzed after heart surgery — and the late activist and wheelchair user Gerry Post s

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