• Why so many Americans are calling New Brunswick’s archivist
    May 4 2026

    Ottawa's new law restoring citizenship to so called "Lost Canadians" — is prompting a flood of calls from Americans looking to get proof of their Canadian citizenship.


    Canada announces new military funding for Ukraine — and one analyst tells us the cash infusion is timely, given Russia's faltering campaign.


    Researchers say that, by the turn of the next century, New Orleans will be a vulnerable island in the Gulf of Mexico — so now is the time to relocate the entire city.


    Palestinian-Canadian artist Samar Hejazi is the designer behind the two hundred very shiny mannequin heads on display at tonight's Met Gala exhibit. She'll reflect on what they'll reflect.


    The competitors were trembling with excitement before Saturday's thrilling Chihuahua races in Calgary. And most of them trembled afterwards too, for whatever reason.


    At last, scientists believe they've figured out why male mayflies consistently perform a bizarre dance in the air —which sometimes lands them inside your mouth.


    As It Happens, the Monday Edition. Radio that knows sometimes a bug puts itself in your ear.

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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Special Episode: "My Father and Qaddafi"
    May 3 2026

    When Jihan Kikhia was six, her father went to Cairo for a human rights conference. He never came back. Jihan and her mother sit down with Nil Köksa in the "As It Happens" studio for a conversation about her new documentary: "My Father and Qaddafi." It follows her search for answers about how her father became an official in Muammar Qaddafi's government, then a leader of the democratic opposition movement and, ultimately, a target.

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    28 mins
  • Special Episode: "Saigon Story"
    May 2 2026

    Nil Köksal speaks with director Kim Nguyen about his new documentary "Saigon Story: Two Shootings in the Forest Kingdom." In it, he pulls back the curtain on one of the most famous images from the Vietnam War: Saigon Execution. The film explores how the act of violence captured in that picture, and its aftermath, have rippled through generations, and tells the stories of those who've had to live with its impact.

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    24 mins
  • Is this a new vision for climate action?
    May 1 2026

    In the midst of the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, France's envoy for climate explains how his country's timely plan to ditch oil, coal and gas completely is going to work.


    Researchers at McGill University have no problem with the federal government protecting young people against online harms -- they just want young people to have a say in writing those laws.


    Our guest shares his anxiety about an upcoming U.S. Supreme Court decision that could lead to the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Haitians, including him and his family.


    A shelter in Fredericton, New Brunswick once welcomed everyone. Now it's shut down. We'll find out where the people who relied on it will be sleeping tonight.


    We'll pay tribute to the late Mattel toy designer Roger Sweet -- who created a toy that muscled its way into the hearts and rec rooms of millions: the super-buff superhero He-Man.


    A filmmaker is forced to check his Oscar, after airport security claims it could be used as a weapon. And then the airline promptly loses it.


    As It Happens, the Friday Edition. Radio that supposes they were worried it could become a mile-high club.

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    43 mins
  • Blue Jays’ Davis Schneider on mission to stop opioid deaths
    Apr 30 2026

    Three million Albertans discover the personal info they entrusted to provincial elections officials has wound up in the hands of a separatist group and Calgary professor Tom Keenan says that’s a betrayal.


    In honour of his late brother, Toronto Blue Jays star Davis Schneider partners with the makers of Narcan — the nasal spray that can reverse an opioid overdose.


    The head of the UN’s humanitarian agency Tom Fletcher says governments would rather spend on war than aid — even when there’s more than enough money to help millions of people in need.

    Canada's Public Sector Integrity Commissioner tells us her office is worn down by a flood of complaints — and it needs more than a trickle of new funding.


    Jonathan Wilkinson will go from being a North Vancouver MP to Canada’s new Ambassador to the EU. He gives us the diplomatic answer to a big question: should Canada join?


    A veteran war correspondent tells us that, nowadays, a press flak jacket puts a target on a journalist's back — and she's calling for independent investigations into the killings of reporters in war zones.


    Visitors flock to a San Francisco pier to see a local celebrity who's really throwing his weight around: the stout, unflappable, one-tonne sea lion known as "Chonkers."


    As It Happens, the Thursday edition. Radio that hopes the docks don't succumb to his pier pressure.

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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • He’s taking on OpenAI for the Tumbler Ridge families
    Apr 29 2026

    The families of the victims of the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge are suing OpenAI for not alerting authorities to the shooter's troubling use of its chatbot. Their lawyer tells us, unlike CEO Sam Altman, he's met with the families -- and they're prepared for a fight.


    Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew is vowing to ban AI chatbots and social media for anyone under the age of sixteen. He'll tell us how he's planning to make his proposal work IRL.


    A Polish-Belarusian journalist and activist is finally free after being held in a labour camp in Belarus. A colleague tells us what it was like to lay eyes on his friend for the first time in years.


    After discovering a touching letter to a grand-daughter left in a book, a Washington D.C. woman goes to great lengths to track down the recipient she knew only as "Jackie."


    A farmer tells us she definitely knew her ewe Teemu was pregnant -- but she had no idea just how pregnant...


    A surprising study reveals that urban birds react differently to different genders -- and, for some reason, are noticeably more frightened of women.


    As It Happens, the Wednesday Edition. Radio that serves up the surly bird special.

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    43 mins
  • Conservative Finance Critic Jasraj Hallan
    Apr 28 2026

    The Liberal government is painting a rosy picture of Canada's financial situation — but we'll ask the Conservative finance critic for his assessment of the spring economic statement.


    There's a lot of talk about petitions and referendums on the subject of Alberta separating from Canada — but a new poll of Albertans suggests that actual support for the idea remains tepid.


    A winner in this year’s World Press Photo Contest tells us about her work documenting labour abuses in Saudi Arabia — including a mother and her daughter who was forced to live for years without legally existing.


    A colleague remembers American diplomat Lionel Rosenblatt — who led an unsanctioned trip to Vietnam in the last days of the war, to get hundreds of Vietnamese civilians safely out.


    A Winnipeg woman was mid-chat with friends not far from her house when she suddenly found herself armpit-deep underground. She'll share the hole story.


    A group of customers sue Trader Joe's after a discovery that made them angry and sleepy: they learned the store had sold them half-caf coffee without divulging that it was half-caf.


    As It Happens, the Tuesday Edition. Radio that figures you can stir that coffee — but it won't stir you.

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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • This economist sees a big problem with Carney’s latest idea
    Apr 27 2026

    An economist casts a skeptical eye on the federal government's new sovereign wealth fund — and critics who are calling it a "debt fund" may have a point.


    The King has made the first official royal visit to the U.S. in 20 years and our guest tells us the monarch has his work cut out for him as a guest of the unpredictable American president.


    A Washington Post reporter who was at the White House Correspondents' Dinner when a gunman entered the building says she's been processing what happened by digging into how it happened.


    Classical music fans around the world are heartbroken at the death of American conductor Michael Tilson Thomas. A fellow at the training orchestra he founded describes his profound impact.


    Researchers witness a peaceful transfer of power from one naked mole rat queen to another, upending the assumption that such successions are always violent affairs.


    A group of Alberta researchers determine that the sensation that makes you feel your house is haunted may be caused by groaning pipes rather than vengeful phantoms.


    As It Happens, the Monday Edition. Radio that's glad they finished their séance project.

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    1 hr and 4 mins