Plus: Why “the idiot’s apostrophe” was long verboten in proper German, and now no longer is... Also: Death row inmate Richard Glossip is taking his case to the Supreme Court, saying he deserves a new trial... something many Republicans -- including Oklahoma state representative Kevin McDugle -- agree with; and a Canadian takes home Wildlife Photographer of the Year for a pic that captures small creatures and hidden places that aren’t often celebrated.
Oct 09, 2024•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus: Geoffrey Hinton – “The Godfather of AI” – on his Nobel win and the irony of being celebrated for a creation he warns could destroy the world. Also: A lawyer representing First Nations tells us clean water should be considered a fundamental right in Canada, not a luxury; and two massive pumpkins, one giant mystery in West Kelowna, BC.
Oct 08, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus: We speak with an Israeli and a Palestinian whose lives changed forever one year ago.
Oct 07, 2024•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus: "The most famous bar you've never heard of" hosted gangsters in Goodfellas and Mae West on stage. We check in as it celebrates 195 years. Also: The prospect of a generic version or the Gilead’s PrEP treatment raises hopes and causes controversy; and at the San Diego Zoo two male flamingos make ideal foster parents.
Oct 04, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus: Fat Bear Week in Alaska’s Katmai National Park & Preserve gets off to a grizzly – and grisly – start. Also: Why vulnerable children with complex needs in Ontario’s state care are living in hotels, airBnBs, offices, and trailers; and an exhibit in Vienna’s central library reveals the random stuff people have left in books over the decades.
Oct 03, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus: We meet an entomologist studying the tiny rove beetle who just – much to his own surprise – got an $800K MacArthur Fellowship. Also: How people in Asheville, North Carolina are grappling with a new reality: their city is not as safe as they once believed.
Oct 02, 2024•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus: A look at Iran’s strategy and what comes next in the region with Ali Vaez, Iran Project Director with the International Crisis Group. Also: A former friend of JD Vance tells us what to expect as he squares off with Tim Walz; and three Senators say they have a plan to put a dent in Canada’s doctor shortage.
Oct 01, 2024•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus: “A swagger nine miles wide.” Singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell on the influence and charisma of country music legend Kris Kristofferson. Also: We hear from a resident of Yiftah, Israel near the border with Lebanon; and what a win for the far-right in Austria says about Europe’s shifting politics.
Sep 30, 2024•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast For the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation Nil Köksal speaks with the Cree writer about residential school and preserving his language.
Sep 30, 2024•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus: We reach the person responsible for correcting an 85 year old typo on a memorial to Anne, Charlotte and Emily Brontë. And: Despite a federal indictment, New York mayor Eric Adams says he's staying on the job. We hear from a city councillor from his own party who says it's time for him to go.
Sep 27, 2024•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Nil Köksal’s conversation with the BBC journalist about her book Broken Threads: My Family from Empire to Independence
Sep 27, 2024•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus: “Big Sam.” The paleontologist who helped get an enormous, 600 pound dinosaur skull out of the ground in Alberta. Also: Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen on how to make the online world safer for kids; and a national park in Iceland suspends ice cave tours after a deadly accident, and the rise of “last chance” tourism.
Sep 26, 2024•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus: “It’s gonna have to be a boot.” A local cobbler gets an unusual call from an English aristocrat…and finds himself making footwear for a camel. Also: How fish and octopuses team up to catch dinner; a new study shows startling disparity in the costs charged for medical procedures on men and women; and botanists turn to extreme paramotorists to reach rare plants.
Sep 25, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus: A single rat threatens the ecological balance of an entire Alaskan island. We meet the woman trying to track it down. Also: Looking into the present and future of Hezbollah; the artist behind a startling photograph of thousands of dead birds wins Bird Photographer of the Year; and Calgary brewers make beer from the aftermath of wildfires.
Sep 24, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus: A new study aims to pick apart the role of nature vs. nurture when it comes to fussy eating. Also: Humanitarian groups are calling for action in response to allegations the United Arab Emirates isn't just helping with relief efforts in Sudan -- but also fueling the civil war, by supplying arms; and we speak to a diver working on the dangerous job of clearing hundreds of tires form the St. Lawrence river.
Sep 23, 2024•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus: A NASA scientist was shrieking in her lab as years of hard work paid off and she was able to recreate the spider-like structures on Mars. Also: Two years after the country’s economy collapsed, and protestors invaded the presidential palace -- and its pool -- Sri Lankans are set to elect a leader this weekend; and we speak with the daughter-in-law of Montréal jazz legend Rufus Nathaniel Rockhead, owner of Rockhead's Paradise, the first Black-owned jazz club in Montréal.
Sep 20, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus: “We’re kind of used to curveballs.“ A surgeon who normally works on horses does a first-of-its-kind operation on a baby rhino. Also: The Teamsters say they've decided not to endorse either Presidential Candidate in the US elections - after decades of supporting Democrats. The head of the union's Black caucus explains why his organization is backing Harris anyway; and an artist finds a modern muse in his paintings of junk food.
Sep 19, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus: “It’s such a universal instrument.” Filmmaker Theo Schear and world-renowned harpist Mary Lattimore pull some strings to create a harp emoji. Also: A Sudanese-Canadian man says his sister died waiting for approval to come to Canada; TikToker Talia Cadet tells us what’s at stake for creators like her as a U.S. court considers the country’s proposed ban on the Chinese-owned platform; and a new type of parasitoid wasp burrows inside fruit fly abdomens to lay its eggs....
Sep 18, 2024•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus: A small town in Finland does a 180 on technology in the classroom. We speak to the parent (a neuropsychologist) who helped make it happen. Also: Nunavut MP Lori Idlout speaks out after 6 Indigenous people die at the hands of police in an 11-day span.
Sep 17, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus: We get a tour of the truly bizarre events at Europe’s “tram Olympics” courtesy of the event’s founder, Wieland Stumpf. Also: Michaela Mabinty DePrince overcame nearly unimaginable odds to blaze a trail in the world of dance. We remember her with Tamara Rojo, artistic director of the San Francisco Ballet; and Reno, Nevada is the site of a real life Succession drama for Rupert Murdoch and his heirs, we’ll set the scene with The New York Times’ Jim Rutenberg.
Sep 16, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus: “You’re perfect”. How an Irish self-described “blond ginger” went from marathons to mullet competition. Also: We reach the woman whose one-on-one encounter with the Premier of Nova Scotia helped the province declare domestic violence an “epidemic”; and an epic whale rescue off the coast of B.C.
Sep 13, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus: “It was like having the Mona Lisa in your living room.” Except it was a portrait of Winston Churchill. And it was stolen. Also: Astronaut Dave Williams on the Polaris Dawn space walk and why he thinks people will be living full time on the moon within 50 years; a Newfoundland mayor tells us why he padlocked the doors to the local church; and we revisit the Ig Nobels…which celebrate "achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think."
Sep 12, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus: An all-incarcerated jury is set to judge the entrants at Sing Sing Correctional Facility’s first film festival. Also: the story behind the Yousuf Karsh portrait of Winston Churchill, stolen from Ottawa and found in Italy; how an Alberta town got an oil sands company to pay for 15 new homes; and we revisit the muddiest day in Canadian football history.
Sep 11, 2024•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus: “The pressure is very great this time“. Allan Lichtman’s model picks Presidential winners. He defends this year’s pick…and takes on his critics. Also: Anthony Daniels - aka C-3P0 - remembers when he first met James Earl Jones; a Toronto man is proud that his father is part of the Venezuelan opposition challenging Nicolas Maduro. But with his dad holed up in an embassy under threat of arrest, he's also very worried for his safety; and scientists are working on bread baked from wheat modifie...
Sep 10, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus: “If I was doing any better it’d be illegal.” A Hampton Beach Lobster Roll Eating competitor on the Heimlich manoeuvre that saved his life. Also: One of Peter Nygard’s accusers reacts to the sentence handed down to a man the judge described as a “sexual predator”; tension in the Italian town that banned cricket; and MORE listeners take Chris to task over the usefulness of a tiny vacuum cleaner.
Sep 09, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast In a feature interview, Nil Köksal speaks to Iranian filmmaker Leila Amini about her sister’s journey to become a singer — and the film it inspired. Living in Iran, and married to a less than supportive husband, Nasreen Amini’s dream isn’t just unlikely, it’s dangerous. With translation from ‘A Sisters’ Tale’ producer, Afsaneh Salari, Leila explains what compelled Nasreen to pursue her singing goals against all odds — and what it’s like to see the documentary they made together premier at ...
Sep 07, 2024•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus: Paralympian Nicholas Bennett wins gold in the pool for the second time, and gives all of the credit to his sister – who is also his coach. Also: Fellow Olympic marathoner remembers Rebecca Cheptegei, who she says showed no signs of abuse; U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Haiti; Thousands of Indigenous artifacts may be improperly stored across Ontario; and Chris defends the uselessness of tiny vacuums.
Sep 06, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus: “The Michael Jordan of advertising”. We remember Jim Riswold, the man behind era-defining Nike ads from Bo Knows to It’s gotta be the shoes. Also: Booze finally comes to corner stores in Ontario, we check in to see how business is flowing on day one; and why one French lawmaker is calling Emmanuel Macron's pick for Prime Minister is "one of the worst choices" he could have made.
Sep 05, 2024•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plus: “Violent, scary and out of a horror mystery.” A shark researcher investigates a grisly – and unusual – case. Also: Grenfell Tower families get a final report into the deadly disaster; Paraguay finally gets a sex ed curriculum, but it’s not the one many were hoping for; and designers in Vancouver aren’t happy about a FIFA World Cup design contest.
Sep 04, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this extended version of their conversation, Nil Köksal welcomes the former As It Happens host back to the studio to talk about her new book. Carol spent 16 years hosting the program. In her new book – At A Loss for Words: Conversation in an Age of Rage – she goes deep into her life story and decades of experience as a journalist to examine six words whose meaning she says has been distorted over the years…and think about how to reclaim them.
Sep 03, 2024•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
