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.

  • 50 minutes 43 seconds
    Why a Canada Post strike is more than inconvenient for many

    Plus: King Charles samples kava on his trip to Samoa, sparking hopes the South Pacific intoxicant could one day be legalized. 


    Also: A protester in Seoul describes the energy in the crowd as they call for the resignation of South Korea's president for declaring martial law.

    4 December 2024, 5:10 am
  • 59 minutes 14 seconds
    The political crisis behind a shocking move in South Korea

    Plus: An Iowa man who melted hearts with his effort to create new Christmas memories of his wife of 53 years. 


    Also: Rising sea levels on the island of Carriacou have turned a inland cemetery into a shoreline graveyard. Now, Grenada is making its case before the International Court of Justice, demanding for accountability on the climate crisis. 

    3 December 2024, 5:10 am
  • 59 minutes 11 seconds
    Canada’s Auditor General on those pandemic business loans

    Plus: Belgian sex worker Mel Meliciousss on the country’s landmark decision granting health insurance, parental leave and sick pay. 


    Also: Why “brain rot” is the Oxford University Press Word of the Year.

    2 December 2024, 5:10 am
  • 59 minutes 33 seconds
    Small business owner paying a price for Liberals’ GST break

    Plus: A British penguin called ‘Flop’ regains her footing, thanks to the use of an improvised baby bouncer and some help from a Canadian zoo. 


    Also: Two Irish librarians cook their way through hundreds of years of occasionally-questionable recipes; A Canadian man travelling with medical-use cannabis products is sentenced to life in prison in Dubai; and teenage journalist Leo Puglisi questions Australia’s new social media ban.

    29 November 2024, 5:10 am
  • 59 minutes 33 seconds
    A Lebanese MP on finding hope in an already shaky ceasefire

    Plus: Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Yes! A “Turkey Bomber” tells us about her Thanksgiving tradition of airdropping frozen birds to rural Alaskans. 


    Also: A new study suggests that a single injection could revolutionize care for asthma and COPD sufferers; and a Newfoundland woman celebrates the Senate’s passage of an intimate partner violence bill bearing her name.

    28 November 2024, 5:10 am
  • 1 hour 44 seconds
    Mexico takes a different tone with Trump, and Canada

    Plus: A 12 year old takes on her Colorado school district, lobbying for the return of a pandemic casualty: snow days. 


    Also: A doctor tells us how he ended up starting a program to refurbish pacemakers. And why reusing those devices could improve the lives of people who can't afford them otherwise.

    27 November 2024, 5:10 am
  • 1 hour 4 minutes
    A former Deputy Prime Minister on responding to Trump

    Plus: The “selfie bear” went viral for all the wrong reasons. But now she’s finally been released back into the wild. 


    Also: Aaron David Miller on the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hezbollah.

    26 November 2024, 5:10 am
  • 1 hour 3 minutes
    COP29 climate conference ends in disagreement over financing

    Plus: Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya on what another Trump presidency means for the world — and what democracy means to her. 

    Also: HarperCollins strikes a deal allowing its authors’ work to be used to train artificial intelligence; a doctor makes a pitch for CPR mannequins with breasts; and an archaeologist challenges widespread beliefs about when alphabetic writing first emerged.

    25 November 2024, 5:10 am
  • 1 hour 12 minutes
    What a “Freedom Convoy” conviction means for protest rights

    Plus: An anti-monarchist weighs in on the price tag of King Charles III’s £72 million coronation.


    Also: A Los Angeles school district promises to be a sanctuary for students facing the threat of deportation; and why the appearance of multiple “doomsday” fish on U.S. shores is actually good news.

    22 November 2024, 5:10 am
  • 1 hour 4 minutes
    What the Israeli PM’s arrest warrant does & doesn’t change

    Plus: “Words I never thought I’d say.” Maurizio Cattelan’s banana duct-taped to a wall fetches $6.2 million USD at auction.


    Also: Police are encircling an abandoned South African gold mine, hoping to arrest an untold number of illegal miners currently inside. And their tactics have advocates worried for the Zama zamas’ safety.

    21 November 2024, 5:10 am
  • 1 hour 8 minutes
    A BC mayor on the “bomb cyclone” and climate change

    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.

    20 November 2024, 5:10 am
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