As It Happens

A DNC delegate on the Democrats’ mood in Chicago

Plus: “He believed he was filling the gap.” A former producer on the approach that made Phil Donahue a talk show innovator.

Also: How to keep swimming at 100; a tribute to cookie impresario Wally Amos and giant sea scorpions!

Also: “It’s really universal.” Research suggests humans experience two periods of rapid aging: around 44 and 60 years old. 

Plus: A Saskatchewan town offers would-be residents $30,000 to build new homes; pressing pause — even for a few seconds — can help defuse an argument; and a teenager walks from Texas to Washington, D.C. to raise awareness on behalf of Social Security beneficiaries like his grandmother.

Also: “You definitely feel small.” A European Space Agency scientist tells us about the effort required to get the ESA’s Juice explorer to Jupiter. 

Plus: A town councillor in Ontario calls on the province to declare intimate partner violence an epidemic; former MP Monte Solberg mourns longtime Conservative politician Chuck Strahl; and Lucky the lobster is hitchhiking from PEI to Alberta, with a trap in tow.

Also: “I wasn’t finished yet!” Five-time paralympian and two-time medalist Katarina Roxon on representing Canada in the pool at yet another games. 

Plus: The sister of a Nova Scotia firefighter who died after a training exercise tells us what would help keep first responders safe; a rival-turned-friend pays tribute to the late Marlene Catterall, Canada’s first female chief government whip; and 12-year-old Lucy Moore nets herself a Master Angler award in Maryland.

Also: “I knew it was something special.” A Florida woman collecting trash in the wake of Hurricane Debby discovers a WWII-era message in a bottle. 

Plus: Economist editor Shashank Joshi on Ukraine’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk region; an Indigenous man in northern Manitoba walks 100 kilometres after yet another train is cancelled; and a friend pays tribute to the late activist Eddie Canales, whose efforts helped save the lives of migrants along the U.S. border.

Also: “I’ve room in the car!” We hear from the Irish fan who drove Olympic gold medal rowers Paul O'Donovan and Fintan McCarthy home from the airport.

Plus: A human rights advocate in Israel weighs in on the alleged abuse of a Palestinian man at the Sde Teiman detention camp; a young climate change activist says she feels tokenized by Nova Scotia’s government; and Scotland’s Una Cameron tells us about shearing 517 sheep in a row.

Plus: “They are incredible at what they do.” Canadian B-girl Mary Fogarty on watching Japan’s Ami claim breaking gold in the sport’s first Olympics.

Also: A tribute to Russian pianist and anti-war activist Pavel Kushnir, who died after a hunger strike in a Russian jail; and planetary scientist Edwin Kite on the prospect of terraforming Mars using a glitter-like substance.

Plus: A cybersquatter’s early bet on the Dems’ Presidential ticket just paid off. And Kamala Harris & Tim Walz aren’t the first pair he’s picked. 

Also: Exiled Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont appears in Spain, then promptly vanishes; and a friend and colleague pays tribute to Sheila Kussner, founder of the groundbreaking cancer support network Hope & Cope.

Plus: “I really felt like I was a pigeon.” The creator of a statue soon to occupy a prime spot on New York’s High Line lets us in on his process. 

Also: French drag queen Nicky Doll on why she’s suing a prominent British pundit; a progressive Thai political party is forced to disband; and Shreyas Royal, the 15 year old who just became Britain’s youngest ever chess Grandmaster.

Plus: A startling fossil discovery offers new clues about what snakes were getting up to millions of years ago. 

Also: A Canadian visiting family in Lebanon decides to stay despite Canada’s warning to citizens; and now that Google has been ruled an illegal monopoly, Vanderbilt law professor Rebecca Haw Allensworth weighs in on whether the search giant could be broken up into smaller companies.