As It Happens

By: CBC
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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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Episodes
  • A conversation with Canada’s Ambassador to Lebanon

    A conversation with Canada’s Ambassador to Lebanon
    Oct 4 2024

    Plus: "The most famous bar you've never heard of" hosted gangsters in Goodfellas and Mae West on stage. We check in as it celebrates 195 years.


    Also: The prospect of a generic version or the Gilead’s PrEP treatment raises hopes and causes controversy; and at the San Diego Zoo two male flamingos make ideal foster parents.

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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • An exoneration for a 1973 murder he didn’t commit

    An exoneration for a 1973 murder he didn’t commit
    Oct 3 2024

    Plus: Fat Bear Week in Alaska’s Katmai National Park & Preserve gets off to a grizzly – and grisly – start.


    Also: Why vulnerable children with complex needs in Ontario’s state care are living in hotels, airBnBs, offices, and trailers; and an exhibit in Vienna’s central library reveals the random stuff people have left in books over the decades.

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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • A family from Lebanon, in limbo in Paris

    A family from Lebanon, in limbo in Paris
    Oct 2 2024

    Plus: We meet an entomologist studying the tiny rove beetle who just – much to his own surprise – got an $800K MacArthur Fellowship.


    Also: How people in Asheville, North Carolina are grappling with a new reality: their city is not as safe as they once believed.
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    57 mins
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No pun intended. ;)

I listen to this when walking. I love the silly puns along with the news.

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