As It Happens

A Royal Canadian Navy sailor is rescued after going missing -- in the Pacific Ocean; we'll talk to a commander on a ship that got the mayday call. 

The Alberta government has used the notwithstanding clause yet again, this time to push through laws that will affect young transgender people. A trans advocate tells us it's too much -- and they've gone too far. 

A Liberal MP says he has concerns about an Alberta-built pipeline -- but Conservative attempts to get MPs like him to break from the federal government aren't going to fly. 

Australia enacts the world's first social media ban for children under the age of sixteen; one woman tells us that for her son, who has a disability, it's like losing a lifeline. 

We'll remember Sophie Kinsella, whose "Confessions of a Shopaholic" novels earned her legions of fans. Her editor tells us the author was as special as her books. 

After we heard about a rank ginkgo tree in a Nova Scotia historic garden, we heard from you about your own gingko struggles -- and how you odour-came them. 

As It Happens, the Wednesday Edition. Radio that turns over an "ew" leaf.

A Virginia farmer tells us what he thinks of Washington's 12 billion dollar aid package -- and whether it can actually help save farms collapsing under the weight of the U.S. President's tariffs.

Maryland's top public defender tells us the heating at a youth jail in Baltimore has been broken for weeks in winter temperatures -- says the state should not be freezing those young people out.

Dozens of students have been rescued after last month's mass kidnapping in Nigeria, but many are still being held captive -- and fears of a similar fate mean many more children across the country are being forced to abandon school altogether. 

An activist says a giant yellow cedar that was recently cut down in B.C. should have been protected under the law -- and its disappearance exposes gaps in the province's promise to safeguard its forests. 

For decades, a ginkgo tree on the grounds of Nova Scotia's Annapolis Royal Historic Gardens has been feted, as in celebrated -- but this year it's being fetid as in: it reeks. 

A world record number of golden retrievers gather in a park in Argentina -- but they were so incredibly chill it seemed like barking was arf-limits. 

As It Happens, the Tuesday Edition. Radio that knows silence is goldens. 

Last week, it seemed Netflix had made a deal to take over Warner Bros. -- but now, Paramount Skydance has swooped in with a surprise hostile takeover bid.

New numbers show that already high rates of over-crowding in Ontario jails are getting worse. And our guest warns that promised bail and sentencing reforms will just exacerbate the problem.

His app lets anonymous users report sightings of U.S. ICE agents; now, he's suing Trump officials, alleging the administration pressured Apple to bury it. 

A U.S. public health researcher believes cervical cancer can be eliminated in her lifetime -- and says an expansion of at-home HPV tests could help achieve that goal. 

A B.C. couple is working around the clock to reunite a lost house cat that disappeared six months ago with its worried owner, all the way in Oklahoma --before Christmas.

An English landscape photographer went to the beach to capture images of some washed-up shipping containers -- and discovered the cargo was lots and lots of unripened bananas. 

As It Happens, the Monday edition. Radio that rolls with the bunches.

As It Happens host Nil Köksal speaks with Yoruba Richen about her new documentary about the life of Joan Little, an unlikely civil rights figure who became the first woman in U.S. history to be acquitted of murder on the basis that she was defending herself from sexual assault.

The Netflix-Warner Brothers merger is a multi-billion dollar blockbuster -- a business journalist tells us what the deal might mean for where -- and what kind of blockbusters -- you'll be watching from here on out.

The chair of the expert panel advising the government on reaching net-zero goals says he had no choice but to resign -- because he doesn't feel like anyone in power was listening. 

A student editor was floored by the University of Alabama's decision to pulled the plug on publications focused on women and Black campus life, citing new federal limits on DEI initiatives.

For the first time in generations, Siletz tribal members in Oregon got the opportunity to salvage a whale; our guest tells us about an emotional day on the beach.

We remember Frank Gehry -- the Canadian-born architect whose daring and imaginative style re-defined what a building could be. 

After almost 15 years of planning, Detroit finally gets its two-and-a-half ton, 11-foot-tall sculpture of science fiction icon "Robocop". 

As It Happens, the Friday edition. Radio that follows a statue of no limitations. 

Donald Trump says he could let the Canada-US-Mexico trade deal expire -- but our guest, the president of the Business Council of Canada, argues the agreement is crucial to American and Canadian prosperity. 

A new trove of thousands of photos shows the horrors of detention under the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. 

British Columbia makes a move to seize three properties from the group it says is using them for crime -- that group being the Hell's Angels. 

Even if you don't know his name, you know his songs -- a fellow Stax Records musician tells us about the legendary guitarist and songwriter Steve Cropper. 

An Arizona lineman confronts a bear that has climbed a power pole and cannot, or will not, get down -- and discovers the most effective way to convince it is by prodding it with a stick. 

If you've ever been told you sound like a "dying walrus" when you thought you were outdoing Celine, Sharon Marnell wants you in her musical group. It's called the Tuneless Choir. 

As It Happens, the Thursday edition. Radio that believes everyone deserves some tenor loving care. 

A Somali-American says his community is living in fear, after a series of ugly comments by U.S. President Donald Trump -- language he says need to be called out as racism, pure and simple.

The ICC's first chief prosecutor says American strikes on alleged Venezuelan drug boats are definitely illegal -- and possibly a war crime. 

One family's hopes of bringing their adopted daughter from Kenya to Canada to celebrate Christmas with her grandparents are fading -- after two failed attempts to secure a travel visa for her. 

Pioneering sociologist Kai Erikson spent his life studying and validating the effects of collective trauma -- work, his friend tells us, that drew on his own compassion.

We'll talk to the winner of this year's un-prestigious Turnip Prize, which honours the worst and laziest artist in Britain -- if he can be bothered to pick up the phone. 

Police get multiple complaints about a Brantford, Ontario resident who put up signs denying the existence of Santa Claus during the town's Santa Claus parade -- proving you give some people a grinch, and they'll take a mile. 

As It Happens, the Wednesday Edition. Radio that guesses he's some kind of rebel without a Claus. 

Before the Prime Minister even arrived at a Special Chiefs Meeting today, the Assembly of First Nations had already voted to oppose Ottawa's pipeline agreement with Alberta. 

After getting hundreds of thousands of signatures, Alberta's 'Forever Canadian' petition will be submitted to the provincial legislature. The man who started it says he hopes it will put any question of separation to rest.

The U.S. delegation presented Vladimir Putin with an amended peace plan today; a journalist tells us that a workable deal with Russia is still a long way off -- but we could be seeing the beginning of the end of the war.

Christmas will be pretty bleak this year in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario -- where hundreds of steelworkers are facing unemployment, in large part because of Donald Trump's trade war. 

 Biologists have come up with a new way to do health check-ups on North Atlantic right whales by collecting the spray from their blowholes.

An outdoor rink in Italy is built around a bronze of Luciano Pavarotti, so he appears to be knee-deep in ice -- and that's getting a chilly reception from the legendary opera singer's widow.

As It Happens, the Tuesday Edition. Radio that guesses someone's got cold feet.

The man accused of killing a member of the National Guard served in a CIA-backed paramilitary group in Afghanistan called the "Zero Units"; we'll find out what that is, and what those who served with him are saying about the attack.

A Toronto man says he doesn't know if anything from his childhood home was saved from the catastrophic fire in Hong Kong -- but he's grateful to know for sure that his parents and his sister all survived. 

On World AIDS Day, a doctor tells us about new HIV-prevention guidelines -- and why he believes his fellow physicians need to stop being so judgmental about who gets the pre-exposure drug protocol, PrEP.

An Alberta man recalls the day he can't forget 65 years ago -- when he was on a school bus that was hit by a train, killing 17 of his classmates. 

For the first time in club history, the Vancouver Whitecaps are headed to an MLS Cup final. Two fans tell us they're not afraid of Inter Miami -- or its star player, Lionel Messi.

Time Magazine quotes a truly shocking statement from the US ambassador to Canada from a very reliable source -- by which I mean a reliably funny, entirely satirical Canadian website. 

As It Happens, the Monday Edition. Radio that suggests you to be careful what you swallow -- could be a joking hazard. 

After Donald Trump's threats to annex Greenland, Denmark's Foreign Affairs Ministry establishes a new "night watch" of bureaucrats -- who keep an eye on the U.S. President after hours. 

A B.C. Indigenous leader says he's not interested in sitting down with a minister from Alberta's government -- because he is never going to support a bitumen pipeline. 

There are furious calls for accountability after a video the UN is calling an "apparent summary execution" by Israeli border police is broadcast. A human rights advocate tells us that accountability won't happen. 

After months of pressure, Nova Scotia releases a draft report from a special panel on environmental racism. Our guest tells us it's about time the province answers the call for a formal apology.

Archeologists say they now have hard evidence that a ring of large pits discovered near Stonehenge were made by humans some 4,000 years ago -- but why is still a mystery. 

A South Korean man was charged with theft after taking about a dollar's worth of treats from the office refrigerator -- and after his employer takes him to court, he finds himself snack-dab in the middle of a major case. 

As It Happens, the Friday Edition. Radio that shares an embarrassment of fridges.