As It Happens
CBC Podcasts & Radio On-Demand
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 is a national symbol.)
New episodes Monday to Friday by 7:30 pm E.T.
Location:
Canada, ON
Networks:
CBC Podcasts & Radio On-Demand
Description:
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 is a national symbol.) New episodes Monday to Friday by 7:30 pm E.T.
Twitter:
@cbcasithappens
Language:
English
Contact:
CBC Audience Relations P.O. Box 500, Station A Toronto, ON Canada M5W 1E6 866-481-5718
Website:
http://www.cbc.ca/asithappens/
Email:
aih@cbc.ca
Episodes
Mark Carney lays out his agenda, the auto sector takes a hit
5/2/2025
Plus: A leaked uniform design sends Brazilian football fans (actually pretty much all of Brazil) into a frenzy.
Duration:00:43:32
Special Episode: Joseph Hillel
5/2/2025
The Haitian-born filmmaker takes Nil inside a theatre festival in Port-au-Prince that's been happening for more than twenty years...in the face of earthquakes, hurricanes, cholera, presidential assassinations, and gang warfare. It's a triumph of artistry against all odds -- and it inspired his new documentary, "At All Kosts."
Duration:00:28:23
The lawyer representing mistakenly deported Abrego Garcia
5/1/2025
Plus: Erin O’Toole on how Mark Carney needs to approach Donald Trump (and what he thinks about Pierre Poilievre’s future).
Duration:01:08:56
The man who intervened after the Vancouver attack
4/30/2025
Plus: A village in England unites around an abandoned couch. We hear from the photographer who inspired the community to put the "love" in loveseat.
Also: Conservative MP Greg McLean on what Mark Carney’s government needs to do to work with Alberta.
Duration:01:04:05
A historic election sends the parties on new paths
4/29/2025
Nil speaks with Liberal Patty Hajdu, Conservative Chris D’Entremont and the NDP’s Heather MacPherson about what happens next.
Duration:01:01:53
Challenges and new experiences on Election Day
4/28/2025
Plus: A B.C. pilot tells the story of his harrowing crash into the Sea of Cortez near La Paz, Mexico.
Also: Evidence from an archaeological site in Britain reveals the gnarly death of an ancient gladiator. And yes, there were lions involved.
Duration:00:50:12
Special Episode: Natalie Halla and Manizha Bakhtari
4/25/2025
According to the Taliban, Manizha Bakhtari no longer represents Afghanistan abroad. But that hasn't stopped the country's one-time top diplomat in Austria from keeping the doors of its embassy in Vienna open and now her efforts are the subject of the new documentary, The Last Ambassador. Nil Köksal sits down with Bakhtari and director Natalie Halla on the eve of three Canadian screenings.
Duration:00:28:22
Éric Grenier on the polls and the home stretch
4/25/2025
Plus: Judy Kurtz from The Hill prepares for a White House Correspondents Dinner unlike any other.
Also: Nearly four years after the Lytton wildfire wiped out most of her village, Mayor Denise O'Connor gives a tour of her new home.
Duration:00:46:14
Catherine McKenna on Carney, Trump and the “51st state”
4/24/2025
Plus: After scientists created "olo" -- a colour they say no one else can see, artist Stuart Semple created "yolo". And he says it can be yours for a small price.
Also: We remember tireless B.C. drug and addiction advocate Trey Helton.
Duration:00:59:05
A trial gets underway, but could it really change hockey?
4/23/2025
Plus: Nil reaches Nardwuar the Human Serviette, who’s snagged more interviews with Canadian political leaders during this campaign than anyone.
Also: Up until 2015, academics at Oxford drank wine out of a chalice made from the human skull -- likely that of an enslaved woman. Archeologist Dan Hicks uncovered that history and says it's now his goal to make sure this woman is given back her dignity and humanity.
Duration:00:59:35
Intrigue builds ahead of a historic conclave
4/22/2025
Plus: How getting stuck in quicksand led to a rom-com worthy love story for a Michigan couple.
Also: Canadian author Robin Stevenson’s book Pride Puppy is at the centre of a Supreme Court decision on 2SLGTBQ+ books in schools. She says she was shocked to hear a Justice repeat the false claim that her alphabet book -- about a puppy at a Pride parade -- included a mention of bondage.
Duration:01:02:04
Phil Fontaine on the meaning of a Pope’s apology
4/21/2025
Plus: Did the search for extraterrestrial life just take a huge leap? We reach Cambridge University’s Nikku Madhusudhan to explore the possibility.
Also: As spring struggles to break through, we bring you the late, great Fireside Al Maitland’s reading of Oscar Wilde’s The Selfish Giant.
Duration:01:04:11
The challenge ahead for Pierre Poilievre
4/18/2025
Plus: Game, Set and Match medieval style. We hear about Australian efforts to revive Real Tennis, a move to bring the sport back to it’s Henry VIII roots.
Also: A special edition of As It Happened, diving into the archives for some “new discoveries”.
Duration:01:16:08
Green Party co-Leader Elizabeth May makes her case
4/17/2025
Plus: At the San Diego zoo, elephants go viral when video captures their touching and fascinating reaction to an earthquake.
Also: Filmmaker Sepideh Farsi on the death of her new documentary’s subject: 25 year old Gazan photojournalist Fatima Hassouna, reported killed in an Israeli airstrike.
Duration:00:43:21
Scott Reid on Green Party’s exclusion from debates
4/16/2025
Plus: A Michigan bookstore gets a lot of unexpected help moving its entire inventory.
Also: Ahead of the inaugural game of the new Northern Super League, founder and soccer star Diana Matheson tells Nil it's been years in the making to get to the first professional women's soccer game ever played on Canadian soil. But now that we're here, she knows Canada is ready.
Duration:01:11:26
The White House versus Harvard University
4/15/2025
Plus: Boston Globe reporter Billy Baker investigates a shockingly violent woodpecker terrorizing Rockport, Mass.
Also: It was no surprise that Paige Beuckers was picked first overall at last night's WNBA draft -- least of all to Gary Knox, a dad who just happened to be at the right place at the right time and predict her stardom way back in 2013, when she was in the sixth grade.
Duration:00:58:25
The White House doubles down on a deportation mistake
4/14/2025
Plus: CBC's Kate McKenna tells us about stumbling onto a story of campaign “dirty tricks” in an Ottawa bar.
Also: Speaking of watering holes, An Edinburgh man embarks on an ambitious project: creating miniature versions of some 300 pubs across the city. And he says attention to detail is the key to his success.
Duration:00:59:31
What Canadian mayors say is missing from the campaign
4/11/2025
Plus: Canadian Will Nediger writes his name in the history books -- in pen -- by taking second-place at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament.
Also: Nil talks to Paul Wells about what the veteran political journalist thinks of the campaign so far, and what he’s looking for in the weeks ahead.
Duration:01:03:48
An investigation gets underway in the Dominican Republic
4/10/2025
Plus: A French presidential hopeful says migrants could be deported to Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, islands off the coast of Newfoundland.
Also: Alasdair Spark says he’s solved the mystery of that deeply creepy (and conspiracy theory-provoking) final scene in The Shining.
Duration:01:07:52
Tariffs put China and its business partners in a tough spot
4/9/2025
Plus: We follow up with the starting pitcher for one of two absolutely terrible teams who both ended epic losing streaks this week.
Also: The mother of an Indigenous woman killed by police in New Brunswick tells us about her efforts to effect change in policing -- and about how one police chief on the other side of the country has responded.
Duration:01:03:06