As It Happens

Energy production in the Arctic is on Prime Minister Carney's latest list of nation-building projects; We'll speak with the woman in charge of the Inuit-owned clean energy corporation with big plans for Iqaluit. 

It may have Indigenous backing but a liquefied natural gas facility fast-tracked by Ottawa is facing tough opposition from several First Nations in B.C.

When a room-rental company suddenly went bankrupt, an Arkansas man found his family's suitcases unceremoniously dumped in the hall -- but he tells us that wasn't about to stop them from staying the night.

 As Iran suffers through its worst drought in decades, all possibilities are on the table for the city of Tehran, population ten million -- including total evacuation. 

Paris marks the tenth anniversary of the massacre at the Bataclan; our guest tells us he still can't bring himself to go to the ceremony at the site where his son was killed.  

They clipped her wings to keep it at a wildlife sanctuary in England -- but a young flamingo tested them by escaping and flying all the way to France, and they passed with flying colours.

As It Happens, the Thursday edition. Radio that guesses she gave them the pink slip.

The U.S. government shutdown cut off funding for a crucial food program; a grocery store owner says he's heartbroken to see his customers suffering -- and he has a special message for Donald Trump. 

A survivor of a deadly typhoon in the Philippines tells us about the day she lost her home -- and how she's hoping to make fossil fuel giants pay. 

A small-town Kansas newspaper receives a hefty settlement and an apology -- two years after local police raided its offices and the home of its editor. 

The widow of Alex Tilley -- inventor of the Tilley hat -- tells us what elevated the cotton duck cap from sailing accessory to Canadian classic.

We've picked a pack of tickled pipers. 374 bagpipers, to be exact -- who came together in Australia to play along to a certain AC/DC song, at an event that turned out to be a big honking deal. 

You had us at 'gull-oh'. A scientist plays to our love of seagull stories with new research into the best method of scaring one off when they are trying to eat your food -- one of which is a roaring success. 

As It Happens, the Wednesday Edition. Radio that's always moving the gull posts. 

Two separate explosions shake the capitals of India and Pakistan in as many days. An expert helps us make sense of what those bombings could mean for the fragile peace in the region.

After Quebec passes a bill reforming the way they're paid, hundreds of doctors apply to be able to work in Ontario. 

The largely untold story of two First World War veterans who each lost a leg in the war -- and then hiked across Canada in the 1920s to raise awareness about disability rights.  

An avid trail runner in Wyoming ran into trouble for taking a restricted path -- and was stunned to receive an unexpected pardon from the President of the United States.  

We speak to the manager of a Manchester pub who helped to bust an insidious conspiracy of quiz night cheats.

A mystery man strolls across the Purdue University campus, covered in what appeared to be peanut butter -- and everyone finds it jarring.

As It Happens, the Tuesday Edition. Radio that salutes a guy who appears to be a smooth operator.

Canada loses its gold star for measles elimination. A doctor in Alberta tells us how that happened, and what has to happen now to keep one of the world's most infectious diseases under control. 

Donald Trump has welcomed Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa at the White House -- and our guest says it's one of the most significant moments in his country's history. 

As the November skies turn gloomy, we'll remember the nautical disaster that spawned a Canadian classic -- with the daughter of the man who immortalized it.  

55 years after he was shot by the National Guard at Kent State University, John Cleary has died. A fellow survivor tells us what she wants people to remember about that day...and about her friend. 

The husband-and-wife team behind a West Chezzetcook, Nova Scotia food truck get their minds deep-fried when a mystery order comes in from three thousand kilometers away. 

A photograph of a chic young man wearing a fedora outside the recently-burgled Louvre sparks feverish speculation -- until he's revealed to be none other than...a chic young man standing around outside the Louvre in a fedora. 

As It Happens, the Monday Edition. Radio that considers this case clothed. 

As Brazil unveils a much-anticipated fund to preserve tropical rainforests around the world, Norway’s environment minister tells us why his county has pledged billions -- and why he thinks everyone will benefit. 

A political analyst from Sudan tells us what a ceasefire could mean for her country -- but she says she's not holding her breath just yet.

A Vancouver woman explains why she's added her personal stamp to a petition to save the only post office in the city’s Chinatown ... which is set to close next week. 

An orphaned baby llama has found a new home at an animal sanctuary in B.C. -- but six-week-old Peanut is struggling to find her place in the pack. 

They were derided as an invasive species -- but new research proves that iguanas were living on one Mexican island well before humans showed up. 

If you win a lottery in Paris, you could be buried among the legends in one of the city's deteriorating cemeteries -- but it's gonna cost you. 

As It Happens, the Friday edition. Radio that knows sometimes you have to take one for the tomb.

An educational toy company takes its case against the U.S. President's tariffs all the way to the Supreme Court.

In Chicago, ICE agents arrest a daycare teacher in front of the kids. An alderman tells us that shattered people's sense of safety, not just at one school, but at schools across the city. 

A scientist in Italy tells us how she convinced volunteers to let her bury them face down in the snow for more than half an hour. 

A lion on the loose caused panic, questions, and panicked questions in Ireland -- before it turned out the suspect had already been collared. 

In a story that sounds like someone from another country's idea of what happens in this country, a Mountie uses a Canadian flag to help steer a moose to safety. 

At last, the UK loosens its rules for lawyers -- and allows them not to wear hot, uncomfortable horsehair wigs in court, if they're really itching not to.

As It Happens, the Thursday edition. Radio that knew the system was wigged. 

In a historic victory, New Yorkers elect Zohran Mamdani as their next mayor -- thanks, in part, to a surge of young voters. One 24-year-old tells us why she jumped to help him run. 

A fellow Nova Scotia candidate says he did everything he could to get his friend Chris d'Entremont elected as a Conservative -- so it's a serious betrayal that he crossed the floor to the Liberals.

A controversial new proposal would see teachers in Germany educating students on a subject that hasn't been on the curriculum for a long time: wartime preparedness. 

We'll get hold of a Catholic Priest from Chicago in the middle of his weeks-long trek to Ellis Island, New York -- to send a message of support for immigrant rights.

A TikToker rates pedestrians on their sidewalk manners, becoming a social media darling in the process -- and you may find his sidewalk criticisms to be a real change of pace.  

People are still very upset about the shocking jewelry heist at the Louvre -- and now, they're arguing that the museum has never really had security down to a fine art.

As It Happens, the Wednesday Edition. Radio that eavesdrops on a Louvre's quarrel. 

The Liberals brag that their brand-new budget is big and bold. Opposition leaders have have some less-positive adjectives to describe it. And now a Conservative MP has left caucus over it. 

One of the big winners in today's federal budget is the Canadian military. We'll ask a defence analyst if this new financial attention compensates for what he feels were years of neglect.

Kelowna is the first Canadian city to be named a UNESCO "Creative City of Gastronomy". The head of a First Nation pushed for the title -- and says he's savouring the success. 

A journalist who wrote several books about the late Dick Cheney reflects on how the most powerful Vice President in American history wanted to be remembered -- and how he'll actually be remembered. 

The next stop on this week's Hometown series is Vulcan, Alberta -- where they leaned in to their inadvertent "Star Trek" connection, sat back, and watched the Spocks fly.

Scientists have finally discovered precisely how mosquitoes court and have sex -- and all it took was staring at close-up footage, frame by frame, in agonizing slow motion, for literally hundreds of hours.

As It Happens, the Tuesday Edition. Radio that's proud to announce: no more guess-ti-mating!

Before tomorrow's federal budget, Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canadians are going to have to make some "sacrifices" -- which is not what anyone who's already making sacrifices wants to hear. 

It's already created a crisis for families that rely on federal food assistance -- and now, the U.S. government shutdown is threatening the child care program many of those same families depend on.

The late actor Björn Andrésen reluctantly found fame as director Luchino Visconti's "most beautiful boy in the world". A friend tells us that's not how he wanted to be known, or remembered.

We'll take you to Tantramar, New Brunswick -- in the first of a weeklong series on smaller communities across Canada, and the controversies, characters, and cultures that defy their size. 

A tourist returns a human skull he stole from an Austrian cathedral decades ago -- which reminded us of the inebriated Beatles fan who thought better of a theft nearly 50 years later.

A New York man doesn't just talk a good game, he talks the best game: after 20 years of complex computing, he's revealed the Boggle board that would contain the most possible words. 

As It Happens, the Monday Edition. Radio that minds the Boggle.

Amid a messy breakup with the U-S, Canada looks elsewhere -- and our guest says today's meeting between Prime Minister Mark Carney and Chinese President Xi Jinping suggests the start of a new chapter. 

As the UN reports on mass killings and executions in the Sudanese city of El Fasher, families struggle to reach their loved ones there. A D.C. woman tells us she hasn't slept for days waiting for news of her uncle. 

All systems goo. According to science, when you zone out, it's not just all the thoughts leaving your brain -- a certain amount of cerebrospinal fluid gloops out as well. 

We have just learned that bats in Georgia glow -- and not only that, but a bunch of them glow in precisely the same way. A researcher tells us this new information is illuminating in every sense. 

If you're trying to figure out how to fulfill your responsibility as a Toronto Blue Jays fan and as the parent of a trick-or-treater, an Ontario man says it's like taking candy from a ... neighbour. 

As It Happens, the Halloween edition, Radio that listens for things that go ump in the night.