Debt, deficit and affordability: inside Canada’s 2026 budget

Prime Minister Mark Carney's government says its 2026 budget has Canadians' best interests at heart. We'll ask the Conservative industry critic for his assessment.

A Hong Kong court adds a decade onto the sentence of pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong; a fellow activist who's known him since childhood worries about the toll that will take on her friend.

With Democrats about to control both houses of the U.S. Congress, a former advisor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tells us what that means for Canada -- and the trade war with President Trump.

At first a Baltimore photographer didn't believe a stranger would leave him money. Then he heard how she'd felt about the pictures he'd taken in the wake of police killings of Black men.

The Court for the Arbitration of Sport has announced Russia's hockey team must be allowed to play abroad. A former arbitrator at the court says that doesn't mean the Canadian government can't block the Russian team from coming to the World Junior Championships later this year.

Nackawic, New Brunswick is so connected to forestry there's a giant axe sticking out of the downtown. But now the town's only mill has been shut down. A laid-off worker tells us what will happen if things don't turn around for the industry.

They met when they ran into each other on a flight. And then the human pilot whose plane hit a great blue heron refused to rest until the bird was back in the air.

As It Happens, the Thursday Edition. Radio that could tell you stories that would make your heron stand on end.