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As It Happens

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.)


New episodes Monday to Friday by 7:30 pm E.T.

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  • We reach a student caught in Nepal’s crackdown on protests
    Sep 9 2025

    Tens of thousands of young people in Nepal push back hard when the government threatens to ban social media -- but our guest says what they're really fighting for -- is fundamental change.


    Israel's surprise attack on Hamas officials in Qatar surprises and outrages world leaders -- and terrifies a journalist, who was sheltering with his family a few hundred meters away.


    With more unhoused people living in encampments in Barrie, Ontario, the mayor declares a state of emergency -- and explains why he thinks that's the right call.


    Some people from Annapolis County, Nova Scotia were given the green light to return home today, after weeks of uncertainty caused by wildfires -- but one woman tells us the decision isn't that simple.


    He was in "Jaws: The Revenge", and he's also won 2 Oscars. Michael Caine is unpredictable -- as he's just proven yet again, by refusing to stay retired at 92.


    A Kentucky woman tells us about giving emergency CPR to a patient she discovered in a dumpster: a dangerously drunk baby raccoon.


    As It Happens, the Tuesday Edition. Radio that's glad she seized a wasted opportunity.

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Is the world ready for a wearable, AI “friend”?
    Sep 8 2025

    A new wearable A-I pendant called Friend -- which is meant to be your friend -- has turned out to be more of a frenemy at best. A tech writer tells us about his toxic relationship with it.


    Russia unleashes its largest-ever drone attack on Ukraine. A shaken teacher in Kyiv tells me about how he escaped from his apartment building, when it became a target.


    Tens of thousands of people have been forced to evacuate in eastern Pakistan; a reporter there describes the apocalyptic extent of this year's monsoon-season flooding.

    The '80s rock group Foreigner makes things awkward, by RSVP-ing as Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's wedding band, even though they weren't invited in the first place.


    Toronto is in a cat-and-mouse game with vandals who have cut down a speed camera seven times now. A local tells us a second camera pointed at that first camera hasn't made a bit of difference.


    Growth opportunity. Scientists uncover a clue to the evolutionary origins of the thing protruding

    from the forehead of a ratfish -- a fleshy, bulbous appendage equipped with teeth and used, disturbingly, during mating.


    As It Happens, the Monday Edition. Radio that warns you not to click on this attachment.

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    56 mins
  • Mark Carney gives the industry an offramp from electric cars
    Sep 5 2025

    The Prime Minister pauses a plan that would have forced automakers to hit minimum sales levels for electric vehicles. An insider says that's great for the industry -- despite being bad for the environment.


    After yesterday's deadly knife attack, Manitoba MLA and Hollow Water First Nation band member Ian Bushie tells us how his community is bearing up against the unbearable.


    A bipartisan group of politicians calls for change, after Florida’s wildlife agency allowed a giant manta ray to be yanked out of its habitat and sent to a marine park on the other side of the world.


    A newly discovered portrait of the enigmatic Earl of Southampton has a heart on the back that's been covered over with a black spear -- suggesting a certain playwright might have been played wrong.


    We'll introduce you to a 50-year-old Edmonton woman who just set a world land-speed record -- travelling at well over 200 kilometers an hour on a motorcycle.


    A man named Mark Zuckerberg is suing another man named Mark Zuckerberg for repeatedly booting him off Facebook for "impersonating a celebrity".


    As It Happens, the Friday Edition. Radio that fears this is just the tip of the Zuckerberg.

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    59 mins
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