Nightly news that’s not afraid of fun. Every weeknight hosts Nil Köksal and Chris Howden bring you the people at the centre of the day’s most hard-hitting, hilarious and heartbreaking stories: powerful leaders, proud eccentrics and ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. And plenty of puns too. Find out why As It Happens is one of Canada’s longest-running and most beloved shows.
Plus: We revisit Nil’s conversation with British broadcaster Mishal Husain, whose memoir brings her journalistic skills to bear on own family's story. And as we build toward The Shepherd on December 24, tonight’s reading is another “Fireside” Al Maitland classic: The Gift of the Magi.
Plus: We reach a medic in Italy who helped rescue a caver trapped deep in the dreaded Bueno Fonteno Abyss. Also: Our holiday readings continue. Tonight, former As It Happens host Barbara Budd reads from ‘Who Has Seen the Wind’.
Plus: The director of National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation brings the holiday classic home…to Montreal. Also: For 40 years, CBC producer Karen Levine told some of radio's most moving stories, and amplified women's voices on and off the air. Today, she's been appointed to the Order of Canada -- and says she's thrilled at the honour.
Plus: Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson is free after Denmark refuses a Japanese extradition request — and he says he's ready to get back to work. Also: Ex-Liberal MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes says the PM’s feud with Chrystia Freeland is part of a troubling and potentially anti-feminist pattern; and a Wendat lyricist helps reimagine the Huron Carol through an Indigenous lens.
Plus: New archeological evidence of a horrific cannibal attack that shows the lengths our predecessors might have gone to dehumanize their enemy. Also: Postal workers get set to return to work -- but given the backlog and the holiday rush, a small business owner tells us it won't do him much good.
Plus: An ancient stone tablet of the ten commandments goes up for auction, minus one commandment. It’s still very expensive. Also: Why Switzerland is reinvesting millions in its incredibly comprehensive system of nuclear shelters; and at a combined age of 202 years and 271 days, Marjorie Fiterman and Bernie Littman are the oldest recorded newlyweds ever.
Plus: Scrim the stray dog has become a New Orleans folk hero. We reach the person working day and night to track him down. Also: We reach Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey, as he negotiates a historic energy deal with Quebec.
Plus: She helped restore the artwork of Notre-Dame de Paris. Today she sang there as part of a workers choir. Also: The Washington Post’s Dan Diamond brings us the latest on Luigi Mangione and we remember the late, great Amazing Kreskin.
Plus: Kwame Alexander remembers difficult and joyful days with his former teacher, the legendary poet Nikki Giovanni. Also: Dahlia Scheindlin on Benjamin Netanyahu’s day in court.
Plus: We reach Michael Jarman…winner of the 2024 Microsoft Excel World Championship -- a huge achievement that comes with an even huger belt. Also: NDP leader Jagmeet Singh on why he thinks elements of the proposed GST holiday should become permanent.
Plus: We speak to Nathalie Provost, survivor of the mass shooting at Montreal's École Polytechnique, 35 years after the day that changed her life. Also: We remember Mary McGee -- who shattered gender barriers by becoming the first American woman to race motorcycles. Haley Watson, who directed the ESPN documentary ‘Motorcycle Mary’, tells us she was a force of nature both on and off the track.
Nil Köksal talks to the acclaimed director and the NBC News correspondent about their documentary ‘Separated’. It chronicles the Trump administration’s migrant family separation policy.
Plus: A retired German Shepherd named Bear springs into action to help rescue an injured man who was hurt and lost in the woods. Also: New York Times reporter Corey Kilgannon on the epic manhunt underway in Manhattan.
Plus: King Charles samples kava on his trip to Samoa, sparking hopes the South Pacific intoxicant could one day be legalized. Also: A protester in Seoul describes the energy in the crowd as they call for the resignation of South Korea's president for declaring martial law.
Plus: An Iowa man who melted hearts with his effort to create new Christmas memories of his wife of 53 years. Also: Rising sea levels on the island of Carriacou have turned a inland cemetery into a shoreline graveyard. Now, Grenada is making its case before the International Court of Justice, demanding for accountability on the climate crisis.
Plus: Belgian sex worker Mel Meliciousss on the country’s landmark decision granting health insurance, parental leave and sick pay. Also: Why “brain rot” is the Oxford University Press Word of the Year.
Plus: A British penguin called ‘Flop’ regains her footing, thanks to the use of an improvised baby bouncer and some help from a Canadian zoo. Also: Two Irish librarians cook their way through hundreds of years of occasionally-questionable recipes; A Canadian man travelling with medical-use cannabis products is sentenced to life in prison in Dubai; and teenage journalist Leo Puglisi questions Australia’s new social media ban.
