As It Happens from CBC Radio Podcast
1) One of the biggest movie mergers ever gets a plot twist
Last week, it seemed Netflix had made a deal to take over Warner Bros. -- but now, Paramount Skydance has swooped in with a surprise hostile takeover bid.New numbers show that already high rates of ov...Show More
2) Special Episode: Free Joan Little
As It Happens host Nil Köksal speaks with Yoruba Richen about her new documentary about the life of Joan Little, an unlikely civil rights figure who became the first woman in U.S. histo...Show More
3) Is it “That’s All Folks?” for movies in theatres?
The Netflix-Warner Brothers merger is a multi-billion dollar blockbuster -- a business journalist tells us what the deal might mean for where -- and what kind of blockbusters -- you'll be watching fro...Show More
4) Is North American free trade on its last legs?
Donald Trump says he could let the Canada-US-Mexico trade deal expire -- but our guest, the president of the Business Council of Canada, argues the agreement is crucial to American and Canadian prospe...Show More
5) Trump rattles a Somali community, including his supporters
A Somali-American says his community is living in fear, after a series of ugly comments by U.S. President Donald Trump -- language he says need to be called out as racism, pure and simple.The ICC's fi...Show More
6) Mark Carney’s trouble building consensus on major projects
Before the Prime Minister even arrived at a Special Chiefs Meeting today, the Assembly of First Nations had already voted to oppose Ottawa's pipeline agreement with Alberta. After getting hundred...Show More
7) An alleged gunman’s roots in the secretive Zero Units
The man accused of killing a member of the National Guard served in a CIA-backed paramilitary group in Afghanistan called the "Zero Units"; we'll find out what that is, and what those who served with ...Show More
8) As Denmark sleeps, the ‘night watch’ keeps tabs on Trump
After Donald Trump's threats to annex Greenland, Denmark's Foreign Affairs Ministry establishes a new "night watch" of bureaucrats -- who keep an eye on the U.S. President after hours. A B.C. Ind...Show More
9) How much agreement is there really about a new pipeline?
Alberta and Ottawa gleefully shake hands on an agreement that promises to fast-track a pipeline project. We'll ask Calgary's only Liberal MP if this newly chummy relationship between Mark Carney and D...Show More
10) The questions raised by a shooting near the White House
The White House went into lockdown this afternoon after two members of the National Guard were shot in Washington; we'll get the latest from the U.S. capital.A reporter in describes the catastrophic s...Show More