As It Happens

Fort Hood survivor Alonzo Lunsford confronts plans to livestream his attacker’s execution. China specialist Elizabeth Donkervoort examines Geely’s push into Canada’s EV market. Human rights lawyer Jessica Neuwirth celebrates Navi Pillay’s Nobel recognition and legacy on war crimes. Plus, Dolly Parton sings Jolene in Welsh, dogs and sleep, a disputed ICE shooting, and a lost class ring returned decades later.

Matthew Heath, an American who says he was tortured in a Venezuelan prison, welcomes new charges against Nicolás Maduro. Ukrainian journalist Maxim Hudushko describes deadly strikes and life in Kramatorsk. Veterinarian Joe Hollins discusses Jonathan, the nearly 194-year-old tortoise. Catherine Hayfield recalls her sister Margaret Hamilton’s Apollo legacy, while workers, renters and a reluctant candidate confront uncertain futures.

Yonatan Zygin, peace activist and son of Vivian Silver, remembers her legacy and urges peace. Researcher Matt Fillingham explores sex differences in pain, while Richard Gibson celebrates the wētāpunga’s conservation comeback. Liz Mealy discusses comedians’ backlash to a SiriusXM overhaul. Paul Markey recalls an AI-guided mountain rescue, and Mark David Jacobs revisits a forgotten Scottish talking picture.

Seth Stern, a press-freedom advocate, warns a major media merger could threaten journalistic independence. Michael Crick, a veteran British journalist and Jeffrey Archer biographer, revisits the politician-author’s spectacular scandals. Astrophysicist Erin O'Sullivan explores neutrinos and the hidden universe. Laurel Kurta fights to save Alberta’s eccentric Gopher Hole Museum. Plus, Okinawan protests, a school sold by mistake, and Finland’s search for the world’s best nose.

A family presses Canadian authorities for answers after a miner is kidnapped in Mexico. French students and teachers protest unsafe, underfunded schools, while a privacy company warns Canada’s lawful access bill could drive it abroad. Salvage experts tackle a WWII shipwreck packed with explosives, and debates rage over Florida taxes, Arctic military readiness, and a decidedly alluring praying mantis.

Maria Deliberato, an ACLU capital-defence attorney, recounts a botched execution and the renewed death-penalty debate. Cathy Senet, a CBC Quebec politics reporter, examines a fractured election. Ryan O’Grady, a former South Sudan banker, describes his shocking release after months detained in Dubai. Skydivers race to a crash, children’s author Julia Donaldson introduces Gruffalo Granny, and thieves discover their “computer chips” are sand.

Will Puckett, a Nashville reporter, recounts a botched Tennessee execution that reignited debate over lethal injection. Yusuf Ali Osman, a blind disability-rights advocate, challenges the British Museum over access to the Bayeux Tapestry. Space researcher Yelena Birchich explains how astronauts’ stress and resilience will be studied in orbit. Plus, swatting, Brazil’s femicide crisis, Indigenous art and insects’ hidden roles.

Iraqi political analyst Raed Jarrar examines the long-delayed U.S. withdrawal, elite fears, and Iraq’s struggle amid regional power conflicts. Ecologist Susana Cardenas Alaiza reports on Humboldt penguins facing food shortages and climate threats. Historian Liz Ellis discusses her MacArthur Fellowship and Indigenous scholarship. Broadcaster Alan Cross remembers CFNY pioneer Dave Marsden, alongside newly released Stevie Wonder recordings.

Malaya Qaunirq Chapman is an Inuit filmmaker and storyteller whose work celebrates culture, community and foodways. She discusses her documentary Nirilaurta: Let Us Eat, childhood food insecurity, and the vital role of country food. The conversation explores hunting, family recipes, intergenerational teaching, soaring northern costs, and why authentic Inuit storytelling matters.

Student journalist Sophia Dasser, editor-in-chief of The Cornell Daily Sun, discusses reporting that helped reopen a sexual-assault investigation and exposed Cornell’s opaque disciplinary process. Media-policy advocate Raj Shone tackles the NHL’s shrinking free-TV access. Radio host and community advocate Ginny Sims speaks about a Surrey station shooting, gang recruitment and calls for deportation. Plus, Havana Syndrome, beer tariffs, Cargill’s COVID failures and an underwater gannet photo.