• As It Happens

  • By: CBC
  • Podcast

  • Summary

  • Nightly news that’s not afraid of fun. Every weeknight hosts Nil Köksal and Chris Howden bring you the 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. Find out why As It Happens is one of Canada’s longest-running and most beloved shows.

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Episodes
  • A former UN peacekeeper on a “difficult moment” in Lebanon
    Oct 15 2024

    Plus: Scandal rocks the World Conker Championship, with the newly crowned King Conker accused of using steel chestnuts.


    Also: A New York Times report casts China’s panda breeding program in a light that’s anything but black and white; and what a K Pop scandal means for some of the world’s most popular music.

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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • A new level in Canada’s diplomatic row with India
    Oct 14 2024

    Plus: Ratatouille – the movie – inspires a Tik Tok creator to do the "stupidest thing" she’s ever done with her engineering degree.


    Also: UNICEF’s James Elder on Israel’s latest strikes in Gaza and an imperilled polio vaccine campaign; and we reach a relief worker in North Carolina dealing with storm damage…and misinformation.

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    53 mins
  • Political and legal fights over clean water on First Nations
    Oct 11 2024

    Plus: What the Hubble telescope is revealing about Jupiter’s “crimson vortex”, a gargantuan 100-year-old storm.


    Also: Tampa Bay Times reporter Ian Hodgson on covering the hurricane that toppled a crane onto his newsroom; and UnESCO recognizes Halifax’s historic Africville neighbourhood.

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    59 mins

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