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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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Plus: We revisit Nil’s conversation with British broadcaster Mishal Husain, whose memoir brings her journalistic skills to bear on own family's story.And as we build toward The Shepherd on December 24, tonight’s reading is another “Fireside” Al Maitland classic: The Gift of the Magi.
Plus: We reach a medic in Italy who helped rescue a caver trapped deep in the dreaded Bueno Fonteno Abyss.Also: Our holiday readings continue. Tonight, former As It Happens host Barbara Budd reads from ‘Who Has Seen the Wind’.
Plus: The director of National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation brings the holiday classic home…to Montreal. Also: For 40 years, CBC producer Karen Levine told some of radio's most moving stories, and amplified women's voices on and off the air. Today, she's been appointed to the Order of Canada -- and says she's thrilled at the honour.
Plus: Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson is free after Denmark refuses a Japanese extradition request — and he says he's ready to get back to work.Also: Ex-Liberal MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes says the PM’s feud with Chrystia Freeland is part of a troubling and potentially anti-feminist pattern; and a Wendat lyricist helps reimagine the Huron Carol through an Indigenous lens.
Plus: New archeological evidence of a horrific cannibal attack that shows the lengths our predecessors might have gone to dehumanize their enemy.Also: Postal workers get set to return to work -- but given the backlog and the holiday rush, a small business owner tells us it won't do him much good.
Plus: An ancient stone tablet of the ten commandments goes up for auction, minus one commandment. It’s still very expensive. Also: Why Switzerland is reinvesting millions in its incredibly comprehensive system of nuclear shelters; and at a combined age of 202 years and 271 days, Marjorie Fiterman and Bernie Littman are the oldest recorded newlyweds ever.
1Plus: Scrim the stray dog has become a New Orleans folk hero. We reach the person working day and night to track him down. Also: We reach Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey, as he negotiates a historic energy deal with Quebec.
Plus: She helped restore the artwork of Notre-Dame de Paris. Today she sang there as part of a workers choir. Also: The Washington Post’s Dan Diamond brings us the latest on Luigi Mangione and we remember the late, great Amazing Kreskin.
Plus: Kwame Alexander remembers difficult and joyful days with his former teacher, the legendary poet Nikki Giovanni.Also: Dahlia Scheindlin on Benjamin Netanyahu’s day in court.
Plus: We reach Michael Jarman…winner of the 2024 Microsoft Excel World Championship -- a huge achievement that comes with an even huger belt. Also: NDP leader Jagmeet Singh on why he thinks elements of the proposed GST holiday should become permanent.
Plus: We speak to Nathalie Provost, survivor of the mass shooting at Montreal's École Polytechnique, 35 years after the day that changed her life. Also: We remember Mary McGee -- who shattered gender barriers by becoming the first American woman to race motorcycles. Haley Watson, who directed the ESPN documentary ‘Motorcycle Mary’, tells us she was a force of nature both on and off the track.
Nil Köksal talks to the acclaimed director and the NBC News correspondent about their documentary ‘Separated’. It chronicles the Trump administration’s migrant family separation policy.
Plus: A retired German Shepherd named Bear springs into action to help rescue an injured man who was hurt and lost in the woods. Also: New York Times reporter Corey Kilgannon on the epic manhunt underway in Manhattan.
Plus: King Charles samples kava on his trip to Samoa, sparking hopes the South Pacific intoxicant could one day be legalized. Also: A protester in Seoul describes the energy in the crowd as they call for the resignation of South Korea's president for declaring martial law.
Plus: An Iowa man who melted hearts with his effort to create new Christmas memories of his wife of 53 years. Also: Rising sea levels on the island of Carriacou have turned a inland cemetery into a shoreline graveyard. Now, Grenada is making its case before the International Court of Justice, demanding for accountability on the climate crisis.
Plus: Belgian sex worker Mel Meliciousss on the country’s landmark decision granting health insurance, parental leave and sick pay. Also: Why “brain rot” is the Oxford University Press Word of the Year.
Plus: A British penguin called ‘Flop’ regains her footing, thanks to the use of an improvised baby bouncer and some help from a Canadian zoo. Also: Two Irish librarians cook their way through hundreds of years of occasionally-questionable recipes; A Canadian man travelling with medical-use cannabis products is sentenced to life in prison in Dubai; and teenage journalist Leo Puglisi questions Australia’s new social media ban.
Plus: Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Yes! A “Turkey Bomber” tells us about her Thanksgiving tradition of airdropping frozen birds to rural Alaskans. Also: A new study suggests that a single injection could revolutionize care for asthma and COPD sufferers; and a Newfoundland woman celebrates the Senate’s passage of an intimate partner violence bill bearing her name.
Plus: A 12 year old takes on her Colorado school district, lobbying for the return of a pandemic casualty: snow days. Also: A doctor tells us how he ended up starting a program to refurbish pacemakers. And why reusing those devices could improve the lives of people who can't afford them otherwise.
Plus: The “selfie bear” went viral for all the wrong reasons. But now she’s finally been released back into the wild. Also: Aaron David Miller on the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hezbollah.
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CBC falsifies and spreads misinformation. Don't take anything reported as fact. Frankly, they're a disgusting outlet and should be disbanded.
I work in daily staffing for one of the biggest healthcare systems in the Minneapolis and metro area. What the nurse said about shifts, expectations, too many hours, back to back nights and days, it's supposed to be 2 full days between, it's all 100% true. I worked in hospital nursing at the beginning of the pandemic and transferred to doing clinical staffing. Same situation. However, the staffing part should not be seen as the fault of staffers, we are exhausted and getting burnt out as well. We sometimes have about half of the staff we need. So many have left, staff out due to COVID, early retirement you name it we are short. We are often put in the situation of having to ask staff to work overtime, extra days, a few extra hours, come in early, stay late... We are experiencing fatigue also, unwanted overtime, missing vacations (I'm supposed on vacation but will work today to get caught up) so I can't imagine how are staff are feeling.
why do people use profanity. wtf how can you ask such a brain dead question.
how dare cbc ask stupid questions of African nations about global warming when they are trying to supply Europe with natural gas and prosper. first world countries are the ones that have caused global warming. white privilege idiots.
Roger the botanist is the funnest man alive.
So this interviewer is loudly proclaiming her anti-Israel bias! Hamas is using civilians as human shields & then blaming Israel when those civilians, whom they endangered, are hurt or killed. HAMAS IS CAUSING THIS!
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With regards to the boy's OD, CBC really wanted to run down the police actions. I suggest if anyone has questions they read the report of the IIO rather than listen to the CBC's usual bias
To say someone of a different creed cannot use your culture's music is the same as saying white people can't play the blues, or rap, or that black people can't sing country music. This person's views are intolerant.
where is Jeff Douglas???
another episode without Jeff. I LOVE Carol but dang I miss Jeff.
I honestly don't like listening when Jeff isn't there. I still do and all but it's seriously not the same without him.
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The reason we have a deer problem in Wisconsin is due to a lack of natural predators such as bears, bobcat, wolves, and cougar. #don'tkillthebears
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this is poor journalism, unprofessional.
This is not the episode as in the description.
The music that was played between stories on Feb 23 was so beautiful... are there links to it somewhere?