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As It Happens
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 Happ...
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Her mother was forced to give her up. Is an apology enough?
It took over 50 years — but the U.K. government is finally apologizing for pressuring tens of thousands of new mothers to give their babies up for ado...
A Canadian held in ICE detention tells his story
A Canadian was just released from an ICE detention centre where he spent the last eight months. He tells us he's glad to be out -- and eager to make s...
Will safe water finally flow to First Nations without it?
The federal government tables new legislation designed to ensure access to safe drinking water for First Nations. We ask the Indigenous Services Minis...
A racism scandal rocks one of Canada’s biggest police forces
Montreal Police investigate their own amid allegations of racial profiling, discrimination and violence. A community organizer tells us people should...
The perfect outcome for a Bosnian Canadian soccer fan
Canada's men's soccer team plays its first FIFA World Cup game at home. We reach a fan in Toronto with divided loyalties.
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The stock market offering poised to break records
SpaceX goes public tomorrow. Elon Musk is promising investors a chance to own a piece of the future. Our guest says everyone needs to come back down t...
Another UK city consumed by riots
A city councilor in the Northern Irish city appeals for calm, after a night of violent anti-immigrant rioting in which families were forced from their...
Can the beautiful game outshine its bountiful controversies?
A longtime soccer correspondent tells us he's ready to cover this year's big tournament — but worrying that a never-ending list of FIFA controversies...
Can the beautiful game outshine its bountiful controversies?
A longtime soccer correspondent tells us he's ready to cover this year's big tournament — but worrying that a never-ending list of FIFA controversies...
The Conservative Party’s unity pitch in Alberta
Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre makes his case for Alberta to remain in Canada — and says Liberal governments should shoulder the blame for increas...
Quebec mulls energy drink ban for kids after teen’s death
Quebec tables a bill that would ban the sale of energy drinks to anyone under the age of 16 — something Zachary Miron's parents and their community ha...
What to know about Canada’s new AI strategy
The Prime Minister unveils a new AI strategy that he says will help Canada catch up with the rest of the world. Our guest says it's a start, but it co...
Has the European Union’s ‘era of deportations’ begun?
The European Union has finalized key elements of its strictest-ever immigration agreement, prompting right-wing politician Charlie Weimers to pronounc...
As trade negotiations heat up, what’s the right strategy?
The Prime Minister's team says it wants to renew the free-trade deal with the US and Mexico. We'll ask the trade representative once berated by the US...
A cricket scandal in Canada hits home for a growing game
Cricket's international governing body suspends Cricket Canada for financial and governance issues; we'll speak to the CBC journalist, and avid cricke...
A drone hits a NATO ally. What happens next?
Romania's foreign minister says there's no doubt in her mind that an armed Russian drone hit an apartment building in her country -- and believes NATO...
Front row seats…or are they?
New York and New Jersey investigate allegations that FIFA is misleading soccer fans -- and unfairly inflating World Cup ticket prices.
Why Steven Guilbeault has had enough
The Liberal MP and former environment minister announces he's leaving politics -- and says the government's approach to environmental policy is at the...
Workers treating Ebola patients face violent attack in Congo
While trying to spread the word about Ebola safety in Congo, our guest and his colleagues were attacked by a mob that later set fire to a hospital. He...
What the Pope thinks about Artificial Intelligence
In a papal first, Pope Leo formally presents his view on artificial intelligence -- and the man behind a Catholic AI tool tells us he's listening.
The Alberta sovereignty debate gets going
Alberta announces a vote on whether to hold a vote on whether to separate -- and a former Conservative cabinet minister tells us about his plan to con...
How the pullback of crucial funding helped fuel an outbreak
A former U.S. health official tells us international cuts, and the shutdown of USAID, is hampering the response to the growing Ebola outbreak in Congo...
What’s behind the indictment of a former Cuban leader?
The United States indicts former Cuban President Raul Castro on criminal charges -- to the delight of a former Miami prosecutor who worked on the case...
What another deadly mass shooting leaves in its wake
San Diego is mourning after a shooting at its largest mosque -- and we speak to a community leader who, like so many other Muslims, is processing the...
Lessons not learned from last Ebola outbreak
The Democratic Republic of Congo is battling a rare and deadly strain of the Ebola virus. An aid worker in Kinshasa who lived through the last outbrea...
Canada’s Environment Minister defends the pipeline deal
Ottawa has reached a new carbon-pricing agreement with Alberta; we'll ask Julie Dabrusin whether the feds are setting the bar for big polluters too lo...
A setback for Alberta separatists
An Alberta court sides with First Nations and quashes a pro-separation petition -- which means the idea for a province-wide referendum on leaving Cana...
The extraordinary scene playing out in Manila
Gunfire erupts inside the Philippine Senate, where a senator is hiding out, trying to avoid a warrant from the International Criminal Court -- a strat...
How long can Keir Starmer hang on?
The British Prime Minister is facing calls to step down, including from within his own cabinet. But a Labour MP explains why he believes the party lea...
Why this isn’t COVID all over again
An infectious disease specialist weighs in, as more Canadians who were on the cruise ship that suffered a hantavirus outbreak return home.
How to survive a tornado, and what happens next
A Mississippi woman hunkered down in her bathtub. She tells us that just those few minutes rendered her community unrecognizable.
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Alberta separatism hits close to home for Jason Kenney
The former Alberta premier tells us he's lawyering up — after a separatist group allegedly shared the personal information of millions of Albertans, i...
How CNN’s Ted Turner changed the media landscape forever
In the latest controversy for OpenAI, Canada's privacy commissioner says the company broke the law by training ChatGPT on "vast amounts" of users' per...
New Governor General a ‘hero’ to her former law clerk
Canada's next Governor General will be former Supreme Court justice and war crimes prosecutor Louise Arbour. One of her former clerks tells us this ap...
Why so many Americans are calling New Brunswick’s archivist
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 Cana...
Special Episode: "My Father and Qaddafi"
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 Köksal i...
Special Episode: "Saigon Story"
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 cur...
Is this a new vision for climate action?
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 com...
Blue Jays’ Davis Schneider on mission to stop opioid deaths
Three million Albertans discover the personal info they entrusted to provincial elections officials has wound up in the hands of a separatist group an...
He’s taking on OpenAI for the Tumbler Ridge families
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...