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.