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.

  • 1 hour 3 minutes
    The border library that was once a symbol of friendship

    Plus: As Heathrow Airport goes down, a British teacher scrambles to bring students home from Spain. 

     

    Also: A journalist in Khartoum tells us what the army's retaking of the presidential palace could mean for the deadly civil war in Sudan that's approaching the two year mark. 

    21 March 2025, 11:40 pm
  • 57 minutes 45 seconds
    A new trade war victim: Canada’s geoduck harvest

    Plus: A conversation with the man who listed his Washington DC townhouse…with the help of a perfectly scaled LEGO recreation.  

     

    Also: Kenneth Stern helped craft an internationally recognized definition of antisemitism. Now he’s concerned with how it’s being applied.

    20 March 2025, 11:40 pm
  • 1 hour 28 seconds
    Tesla curbed at the Vancouver International Auto Show

    Plus: Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are back on earth after nine months. A former astronaut takes us inside that kind of extended stay.

     

    Also: Vermont Senator Peter Welch on how tariffs and uncertainty are hurting his state.

    19 March 2025, 11:40 pm
  • 59 minutes 4 seconds
    Chaos and devastation at a Gaza City hospital

    Plus: Canadian soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan joins Queen and Herbie Hancock at this year’s prestigious Polar Music Prize.

     

    Also: As Mark Carney begins his time as Prime Minister - the Conservative shadow minister for ethics Michael Barrett says he's being anything but transparent about his financial holdings.

    18 March 2025, 11:40 pm
  • 59 minutes 36 seconds
    Toronto’s mayor wades into the trade war

    Plus: Satirical news site The Beaverton celebrates 15 years during a fertile and fraught time for news satire. 

     

    Also: A US federal judge orders the Trump administration to halt deportations under the Alien Enemies Act -- including flights that had already left the country. But those planes did not turn back -- and Washington is unapologetic. Georgetown law professor David Super weighs in. 

    17 March 2025, 11:40 pm
  • 1 hour 9 minutes
    Meet Mark Carney's new cabinet

    Plus: An Indiana dad says he's grateful his daughter is alive after she spent nearly a week trapped and badly injured in her car. 


    Also: A Saskatoon fire fighter fears burnout as he and his colleagues respond to 15 to 20 overdose calls a day; and animal lovers in Michigan try to solve the mystery of a snowy owl that’s inexplicably bright orange.

    14 March 2025, 11:40 pm
  • 1 hour 3 minutes
    Canola farmers fearful of U.S. tariffs…and Chinese ones too

    Plus: New York Times fashion critic Vanessa Friedman on Donatella Versace’s remarkable tenure as chief creative officer at the iconic fashion house. 


    Also: Canada’s labour minister Steven MacKinnon promises protections for workers; Yukoners mourn the loss of a beloved community hub to fire; and Christians and Muslims alike celebrate the conversion of a St. John’s church into a much-needed mosque.

    13 March 2025, 11:40 pm
  • 1 hour 5 minutes
    B.C. recruiting American healthcare workers amidst trade war

    Plus: A Columbia professor says the detention of student activist Mahmoud Khalil sets a terrifying precedent — and educators have a duty to speak out.


    Also: A Ukrainian government advisor anxiously awaits Russia's response to a U.S. brokered ceasefire; a friend remembers South African anti-apartheid playwright Athol Fugard; and Saturn solidifies its status as the Moon King of our solar system.

    12 March 2025, 11:40 am
  • 1 hour 2 minutes
    A Quebec metal manufacturer on the toll of Trump’s trade war

    Plus: The Canadian women’s rugby team makes the pitch for better funding — and says it could be a game changer when it comes to winning the world cup.


    Also: A lawyer representing victims of the Philippines drug war reacts to former president Rodrigo Duterte’s arrest; an ancient canoe unearthed in New Zealand could hold the answers Moriori people have been looking for; and the owner of an Alberta newspaper mourns its closure and celebrates more than a century in print.

    11 March 2025, 11:40 pm
  • 1 hour 14 seconds
    A Trudeau critic on the Liberals’ future with Mark Carney

    “Closure”: After 80 years, an Ontario woman shares her relief after learning where her great uncle, who went missing in action during WW2, was buried.


    Irish street busker, Tilly Cripwell, describes her fight to stop passersby from touching the breasts of a statue of Molly Malone; a Severance fan -- facing stage-4 cancer -- meets the show’s cast; and what recent fighting in Syria means for the country’s prospects for peace.

    10 March 2025, 11:40 pm
  • 1 hour 2 minutes
    The “relief” of the Liberals finally choosing a new leader

    Hockey Night in Canada - in Inuktitut. Pujjuut Kusugak on making history this weekend when he’ll provide colour commentary in his mother tongue.

    The head of the U.S. trade association for distilled spirits on Canadian provinces pulling American booze from their shelves; the Vegetable Orchestra sets a new record; a journalist in Lesotho on Donald Trump’s suggestion that no one’s ever heard of the African nation; and why there can only be one “Captain Clutch.”

    8 March 2025, 12:10 am
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