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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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Episodes
  • A major defeat at the Supreme Court for Donald Trump
    Jun 30 2026

    A lawyer who fought to protect birthright citizenship in the US says today’s Supreme Court decision is a win for her clients -- and the American constitution


    Anti-immigrant protesters in South Africa set today as an arbitrary deadline for undocumented people to leave the country. A local activist says the anger is misplaced -- and it is causing real fear.


    Increasingly, people who are representing themselves in court are turning to AI. A lawyer tells us that’s becoming a problem -- because, more often than not, AI doesn't know what it's talking about.


    Former Blue Jay Bo Bichette was back in Toronto last night for the first time since signing with the Mets -- and the Canadian crowd brought him to tears.


    New research of Neanderthal DNA suggests our ancestors did not, in fact, go extinct due to inbreeding -- because they had no qualms about going forth and multiplying.

    Wolfgang Porsche, a bigwig at the car company, just wanted to dig through a significant landmark in Austria to make a tunnel only he could use, and for some reason, the locals didn't dig it.


    As It Happens, the Tuesday Edition. Radio that's there when Porsche comes to shove.

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    45 mins
  • They saved lives off the coast of British Columbia
    Jun 29 2026

    Six people are presumed dead after a charter boat sank in British Columbia -- but things would have been even worse if a couple sailing by hadn’t done what they could to save everyone they could.


    A resident of Fort Simpson in the Northwest Territories tells us evacuating due to wildfire is never easy -- but her community is one of many that's getting a lot of practice.


    Just hours before two earthquakes hit Venezuela, Beatriz Ochoa arrived in Caracas for a vacation. Now the aid worker is trying to help in any way she can.


    Mauro Eustáquio tells us what it was like to watch his little brother Stephen make Canadian soccer history, with a jaw-dropping stoppage time goal against South Africa.


    The first dinosaur bone ever found in Antarctica is unearthed -- not from the ground, but from a drawer in a British museum.


    The latest on an Alaskan man named Dan Sullivan who's trying to run against Senator Dan Sullivan -- whose name was on the ballot, then off the ballot, and is now back on.


    As It Happens, the Monday Edition. Radio that thinks having two Dan Sullivans is kind of redun-Dan.

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    43 mins
  • A PM’s daughter remembers her time in 24 Sussex Drive
    Jun 26 2026

    Former resident of 24 Sussex Catherine Clark tells us she's cautiously optimistic that the vacant and crumbling official residence of the Prime Minister may be restored at last.


    The US Supreme Court gives Donald Trump the green light to end legal protections for hundreds of thousands of people from Haiti and Syria — panicking families who were building a life in the U.S.


    Record temperatures are killing people across Europe. And the UN's Global Chief Heat Officer Eleni Myrivili says it's time for leaders, and the voters who elect them, to start thinking past the heat of the moment.


    When Jill Tucker went to a World Cup watch party to cheer on Cape Verde, she didn't expect to run into one of her former students from Cape Verde — who, it turned out, had spent decades searching for her.


    The tickle finger of fate. It turns out, apes love to laugh — especially when they’re tickled. And so researchers got busy tickling them, to track the evolution of the chuckle.


    That's another fine Messi they've gotten us into. A huge new statue depicting soccer superstar Lionel Messi has one major problem: the phallic World Cup trophy the sculptor erected between his knees.


    As It Happens, the Friday Edition. Radio that's not sure who gave this thing the groin light.

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    44 mins
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