A fire burning near Pikangikum First Nation in Ontario has knocked out the electricity -- making a bad situation worse for people waiting to evacuate. Chief Paddy Peters tells us this wouldn't have happened if the government had given more warning.

A new UN report suggests hundreds of people in Gaza have been killed over a six-week span at or near aid-distribution sites. Our guest says that leaves Palestinians there in an impossible situation. 

A librarian tells us that Alberta's new rules governing school libraries will rob young people of access to books that speak to their experience. 

Two years after England's famed Sycamore Gap tree was felled by vandals, an installation featuring a large section of the trunk has been unveiled.

U-S President Donald Trump threatens Canada -- again -- with another tariff hike. Even as the two countries are talking at the negotiating table. 

The president of an organization representing Canadian manufacturers says his members are already hurting -- but hope for a deal springs eternal. 

Critics say Alberta’s new policies for school libraries are simple book-banning -- but the province’s education minister tells us he's trying to protect kids from explicit content. 

35 years after the start of what's commonly known as the Oka Crisis, Mohawk activist and artist Ellen Gabriel reflects on the police and military siege on her community. The Kanehsatà:ke Nation negotiator says that siege was a moment of awakening for Canada, and Indigenous people -- but that far too little has changed since. 

Regardless of blistering heat or blistering blisters, our guest is trying to become the first woman to walk from the southernmost tip of South America to the top of North America.

As It Happens, the Friday Edition. Radio that warns: she does tend to ramble.

The head of UNAIDS says it is painful -- and cruel -- to watch life-saving progress erode because of Donald Trump's abrupt cuts to funding. She tells us there are solutions, but they'll only work if countries like Canada step in to fill the void.

Amid the immigration crackdown in the U.S., one Quebec border crossing sees a surge in asylum applications. A woman who works with news arrivals from Haiti tells us about the fears of the families showing up at her door. 

Researchers in California develop a new underwater microscope and our guest says it's already bringing fragile coral ecosystems into focus -- in their natural habitat -- instead of a lab. 

After a Newfoundland couple stuck a message in a bottle, they didn't think about it much -- until it ended up in the hands of another couple, all the way across the Atlantic Ocean, 13 years later.  

Heathrow Airport sets out to capture the magic of the airport by commissioning a subtle soundtrack that incorporates the sounds of the airport, to be played on repeat at the airport.

Chimpanzees in Zambia appear to be sticking grass in their ears as a kind of fashion trend -- which they may have learned from humans. And also: in their rumps. Which it appears they taught themselves. 

As It Happens, the Thursday Edition. Radio that salutes them for blades-ing a trail. 

After a barrage of drone attacks from Russia, a Ukrainian MP in Kyiv calls a timely renewal of support from the U.S. "a matter of pure survival." 

Choked by wildfire smoke, a Manitoba Cree community works to get its most vulnerable people out to safety. But their deputy chief tells us that won't happen until his people have somewhere safe to go.

Toronto is considering new colour-coded signage to alert prospective renters to bad landlords. A tenant advocate explains why she thinks that public shaming could help. 

How the threat of American tariffs on Asian imports is already shrinking profits for the independent grocers who serve immigrant communities in the US. 

When he lost his sight, a young man in San Francisco man immediately set out to be the best blind skateboarder around. Two years after his death, the city is honouring his legacy. 

Bodyguards protecting the prime minister of Sweden are potentially endangering the prime minister of Sweden -- by posting their runs to a fitness app, repeatedly revealing exactly where he is.

As It Happens, the Tuesday Edition. Radio that knows if you forget where the PM is, his guards will jog your memory.

Members of the Canadian military are accused of being part of an extremist plot. An expert says the case should serve as a clear-wake up call to growing anti-government sentiment and radicalization in the ranks.

Dozens of people are still missing in Texas. The Archbishop of San Antonio talks to us about the long process of healing ahead for the families and friends of the victims of the flash floods.

An army veteran says she can't stop thinking about the children who died at Camp Mystic -- and how an outdoor siren alert system could have saved their lives. So she's doing everything she can to get one built.

Early detection is key to reducing the destruction done by wildfires. A group of young inventors is hoping to help -- with a device that's shaped like a pine cone. 

A man falls into a deep crevasse in the Swiss Alps, and is rescued thanks to the immeasurable courage, and relentless yapping, of his tiny dog.

A groundskeeper at an English football club goes viral for his recent artistic designs on the pitch, created using the most delicate of tools: a riding lawn mower. 

As It Happens, the Tuesday Edition. Radio that likes its lawns like it likes its pie: a la mowed.

The owner of an RV park in Kerrville, TX tells us about trying to rescue campers after the deadly flash floods hit -- and her fears that so many victims are still unaccounted for.

And a Texas rescue volunteer tells us about trekking through mud for hours in the hopes of finding flood survivors. She says that in all her years as a first responder, she's never seen anything like this. 

An unpresidented situation. His Canadian-born wife was at what she thought was her final green card interview when she was detained by ICE -- and now, a one-time Trump supporter says he wishes he could take his vote back.

A new raid-zone d'etre. A Los Angeles website was once dedicated to covering the city's taco restaurants; now it's a crucial news source for anyone keeping track of ICE raids in the city. 

Seine bathing. We'll hear from a delighted Parisian -- who was among the first to take a dip in the newly cleaned up Seine River this weekend.

And...For 100 years, Canadians have enjoyed the simple, not to say boring, pleasures of the Jersey Milk chocolate bar -- but now, the figurative chocolate udder has run dry.

As It Happens, the Monday Edition. Radio that marks the end of a cocoa-dependent relationship.

People in Lynn Lake, Manitoba are forced to leave their town because of an out-of-control wildfire -- just two weeks after they were allowed to return after fleeing another out-of-control wildfire.

Our guest tells us what the passage of Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" -- with its deep cuts to Medicaid -- is likely to mean for millions of Americans with disabilities, including him. 

A Palestinian student was accepted to a Canadian university master's program, on scholarship -- but she can't leave Gaza City until Ottawa comes through with her student visa. And she's hardly the only one. 

A community in Newfoundland and Labrador got some good news this week: for the first time in decades, part of the town now has clean water coming out of their faucets. 

Cowbirds skip the hassles of hatching and rearing their young by leaving their eggs in other birds' nests. Now, new research shows how the cowbird chicks find their way back to their own kind -- after flipping their foster parents the bird. 

Guyana is confronting the legacy of a deadly 1978 cult tragedy, where more than 900 people died. A private tour company has recently started taking visitors to see the site. A guide tells us he's proud of the work -- even if survivors are giving it mixed reviews.

The legal director for the National Council of Canadian Muslims talks about opening her email to see a video of an attack on a Muslim woman at a pizza parlour in Oshawa, Ontario. A horrifying incident she tells us is, disturbingly, not rare. 

An inquiry finds British colonizers in Australia committed genocide against Indigenous people. A witness at the commission says reckoning with that past is the first step in moving forward.

In response to a growing rat problem, Toronto considers taking a page out of New York City’s book -- and appointing a “rat czar" to get the vermin under control.

Scientists catalogue the traits that give me -- I mean, someone -- the indefinable yet indisputable quality of “coolness.” And the results are surprisingly conclusive.

We'll hear from a reporter who was there to capture the chaotic reaction outside the courthouse. 

The head of a French hotel and restaurant association reacts to the country's new limits on outdoor smoking -- by saying that if they come for his patios, it would be a drag. 

On the fourth anniversary of the deadly fire in Lytton, B.C., one first responder tells us he and his team have learned to be prepared to fight off new fires all the time -- as they had to do just this week. 

Remembering the late Jimmy Swaggart's appearance on this program in 1987, when he accused fellow televangelist Jim Bakker of immoral character -- just months before his own catastrophic fall from grace. 

A British musician explains how she created a haunting piece of music with an orchestra made up of more than 80 species of moths. 

And…Thousands of Norwegians were told they'd won millions in the lottery -- only for the lottery CEO to tell them they hadn't, and apologize for accidentally putting the decimal point in the wrong place. 

As It Happens, the Wednesday Edition. Radio that thinks that took a lotto nerve.

A volunteer at a radio station south of the border goes all in on Canada Day by programming twenty-four hours of exclusively Canadian music. 

In a bid to thwart talk of separation, a new petition is asking Albertans if they want to stay in Canada. The former politician behind that push tells us why he's confident the result will go his way.

We'll revisit my interview with the CEO of Metis Crossing in Smokey River, Alberta -- when the wildlife park was celebrating the birth of 7 new bison calves, a century-and-a-half after the last wild bison were seen there.

A cross-border rivalry between the top-ranking jogglers in Canada and the U.S. -- as in, joggers who juggle -- wasn't always a toss-up. 

From our archives, a conversation with the 9-year-old who found the largest maple leaf ever recorded -- which turns out to be a real rake-up call. 

And...the way she gives the cake really takes the cake. Every Canada Day, a baker in one Ontario community makes a cake big enough to feed thousands. We'll talk to her as her massive cake makes the high-stakes journey from the kitchen to the centre of town.

As It Happens, the Tuesday Edition. Radio that knows the thing about a layer cake is it always ends in tiers.