• As It Happens

  • By: CBC
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As It Happens

By: CBC
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  • 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
  • Are cancer-warning labels on alcohol a good idea?

    Are cancer-warning labels on alcohol a good idea?
    Jan 3 2025

    An orca who famously carried around her dead calf for weeks in 2018 is now repeating that behaviour after the recent death of her newborn calf.


    In September, Carol Off was back in our studio to speak with Nil about her latest book, “At a Loss for Words: Conversation in an Age of Rage.” In it, the former host of As It Happens looks at six words (freedom, democracy, truth, woke, choice and taxes) and how their meaning has been distorted and politicized. She offers insight on how to reclaim those words -- and what’s at risk, if we're unable to do so.
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    49 mins
  • Hosting the Sugar Bowl, the day after a terrorist attack

    Hosting the Sugar Bowl, the day after a terrorist attack
    Jan 2 2025

    “Kinda feels like it was my house that burned down.” A former employee of Telegraph Cove, BC’s whale museum is heartbroken when it’s destroyed by fire.


    We revisit Nil’s feature-length conversation with R. Renee Hess. The hockey fan and author spoke to players, hockey parents, NHL employees and journalists for a collection of essays published last year. It’s called, "Blackness Is a Gift I Can Give Her: On Race, Community, and Black Women in Hockey," and includes her own journey in a sport that, as she writes, doesn’t always love her back.
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    52 mins
  • Special Episode: Unexpected stories

    Special Episode: Unexpected stories
    Jan 2 2025

    We go back to the archives to dig up the stories and guests who took us by surprise.
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    1 hr and 17 mins

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