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As It Happens·Q&A François-Philippe Champagne is fresh off a trip to Washington, D.C., and he says Canada has a lot of U.S. allies in the trade war. ‘Tariffs will undermine the security and competitiveness of America,’ says François-Philippe ChampagneSheena Goodyear · CBC Radio · Posted: Feb 11, 2025 5:51 PMContinue Reading

As It Happens A newly discovered species of fungus takes control of cave-dwelling spiders in Ireland and Northern Ireland, similar to the exploding zombie ant fungus that inspired The Last of Us. Newly discovered species has similarities to the exploding ant fungus that inspired The Last of Us Sheena GoodyearContinue Reading

As It Happens The Only Girl The Orchestra, about Orin O’Brien’s career as the first woman in the highly esteemed New York Philharmonic orchestra, is nominated for an Academy Award. The Only Girl In the Orchestra nominated for Best Documentary Short Film at the Academy Awards Sheena Goodyear · CBCContinue Reading

As It Happens The historic English town of Lichfield was rocked in January when residents discovered an enormous heap of trash piled up on a road. Now they’re left asking: who could have done this? Towering heap of trash was ‘taller than the average person by several feet,’ says residentContinue Reading

As It Happens Before he was a staple of CBC Radio, Jeff Douglas was best known as Joe from Molson’s wildly popular “I am Canadian!” television commercials. Now, 25 years later — amid a looming trade war with the U.S., threats to Canada’s national sovereignty and a swelling of CanadianContinue Reading

As It Happens While in town to shoot a Christmas movie, the brothers found out there was a nearby trivia night based on Camp Rock and Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam, the Disney Channel musical TV movies that helped propel them into superstardom. ‘I was not calm,’ says self-styled Jonatic. ‘IContinue Reading

As It Happens6:33Why a photojournalist travelled the world to take pictures of McDonald’s A few years ago, Gary He was standing in a McDonald’s in a Moroccan village during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, when he had a eureka moment. The New York-based writer and photojournalist noticed the fastContinue Reading

As It Happens What’s 66-million-year-old vomit like? A lot more pleasant than the fresh stuff, says paleontologist Jesper Milan. ‘It doesn’t look disgusting at all,’ paleontologist Jesper Milan says of the fossilized vomit Sheena Goodyear · CBC Radio · Posted: Jan 30, 2025 6:07 PM EST | Last Updated: JanuaryContinue Reading

As It Happens When a shark egg appeared one day in a shark tank at a Louisiana aquarium, staff were puzzled. That’s because the tank only has two sharks in it — and they’re both female.  Female sharks can store sperm from previous sexual encounters — or procreate without male assistanceContinue Reading