As It Happens

CBC

Hosts Nil Köksal and Chris Howden take you on a trip around the world with CBC Radio's As It Happens. Hear from the people at the centre of the stories of the day — from the urgent to the utterly strange.

  • 57 minutes 49 seconds
    Canada and Mexico at odds over the cartels and terrorism

    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.

    4 February 2025, 5:10 am
  • 1 hour 33 seconds
    What a 30 day tariff reprieve means for Canada

    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.

    3 February 2025, 5:10 am
  • 1 hour 20 seconds
    How tariffs look from the Michigan side of the border

    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.

    31 January 2025, 5:10 am
  • 1 hour 3 seconds
    Skating coach Elin Schran on an unimaginable loss

    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

    30 January 2025, 5:10 am
  • 58 minutes 15 seconds
    A reporter on the ground for a tragedy in India

    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. 

    29 January 2025, 5:10 am
  • 1 hour 2 minutes
    Canada’s Public Safety Minister on foreign interference

    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.

    28 January 2025, 5:10 am
  • 59 minutes 21 seconds
    The sudden and chaotic arrival of DeepSeek

    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.

    27 January 2025, 5:10 am
  • 59 minutes 2 seconds
    The mayor of Windsor, Ontario on a changing border reality

    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.

    24 January 2025, 5:10 am
  • 58 minutes 1 second
    How Trump’s threats are landing at an Ontario factory

    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.

    23 January 2025, 5:10 am
  • 1 hour 1 minute
    A US Navy vet trying to get refugees out of Afghanistan

    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.

    22 January 2025, 5:10 am
  • 1 hour 3 minutes
    What Gaza looks like as the ceasefire takes hold

    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.

    21 January 2025, 5:10 am
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