As It Happens

Revisit some of our past conversations with Academy Award winners, fans and even the owner of a Matthew McConaughey-inspired parrot.

Plus: An immigration lawyer on the influx of calls from 2SLGBTQ+ Americans who want to move to Canada, because they don't feel safe in their country. 

Also: Greek protesters demand justice, two years after the country's worst rail disaster killed 57 people; and a sendoff for the town clerk of Heart's Content, Newfoundland and Labrador, who’s held the job for more than 50 years.

Plus: A pair of newlyweds explain why they chose to forgo running water and electricity for six months to become caretakers of a remote Irish island.

Also: A tribute to Shawna Forester Smith, who advocated for better patient care from her bed in a Winnipeg chronic-care unit; the German Catholic Church condemns a carnival float in Cologne that draws attention to sexual abuse in the church; and how a man in England, got a pothole fixed -- by making it look like someone is stuck upside-down, inside it.

Plus: “We don’t have a political agenda. We’re trying to feed the country.” Farmers sue U.S. Agriculture Dept after it removes online climate data.

Also: “It was as if the sky just exploded.” We take a visit to Europe’s newest Dark Sky sanctuary, the Scottish Isle of Rum; A Saskatchewan social worker on the province’s plan to classify drug-related items as street weapons; Dallas Arcand wins his fourth hoop dancing world championship; and a trio of Canadian-first surgeries will see a Vancouver ophthalmologist put a tooth in his patients’ eyes, in the hope that it will restore their sight.

Plus: John McCann (aka The Philly Captain) explains the demise of the so-called “p00p game”. Don’t worry, it will all make sense. 

Also: The manager of a community-based theatre in the Jenin Refugee Camp tells us about the Israeli military's displacement of some 40,000 Palestinians from their homes in the occupied West Bank -- and about why his family is staying put.

Plus: One man’s battle to have his right to own a raccoon as a pet enshrined in law. 

Also: People in Bowden, Alberta are in a 51st state of mind as a pro-merger billboard goes up, causing headaches for the town’s mayor.

Plus: Five hockey fans drive from Winnipeg to Boston for the 4 Nations Face-Off final, to cheer on Team Canada and their friend, player Seth Jarvis.

Also: The earliest known cookbook by a Black American woman gets a new edition; paleontologists discover the 30-million-year-old skull of "the king of the ancient Egyptian forest”; why one public health expert thinks changes to BC’s safer supply program could mean the its effective demise; and how snow in Montreal has kept one wheelchair user stuck at home.

Plus: An Italian tour guide shares his concerns as visitors get an up close, and potentially dangerous, look at an erupting Mount Etna.

Also: A hockey fan on the Canadian/US matchup at the 4 Nations final; Nova Scotia’s auditor general on new legislation that would let the Province fire her without cause; and a historic ocean liner that once regularly crossed the Atlantic, takes its final voyage.

Plus: Former Olympian Christina Lustenberger describes what it was like to reach the highest point of the Rocky Mountains, and then ski back down.

Also: What happens when a moose shows up at your door; a Ukrainian reflects on her country’s prospects for peace and its relationship with the US; and a reporter breaks down the charges against Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, and the allegations he took part in a coup and plot to kill his political rivals. 

Plus: Facundo Iglesia from the Buenos Aires Herald on a crypto scandal and Argentina’s leader. 

Also: We revisit the “Giga Pearl”. It holds the Guinness World Record as the largest authenticated natural pearl. The massive, iridescent gemstone has traveled from the Philippines to Mississauga, then to the U.S. for appraisal, and now it’s back in the Greater Toronto Area for an exclusive luxury art exhibit.