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As It Happens Podcast Transcripts

CBC · 243 episodes with transcripts

News that’s not afraid of fun. Meet 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.

Spoken has transcripts of 243 As It Happens episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from July 7, 2026.

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What Mark Carney can accomplish as NATO meets

July 7, 2026

Katie Simpson (0:00)

The firehose of news from America can feel like a lot these days.

Paul Hunter (0:04)

If you're trying to figure out what to make of it all, we got you.

Katie Simpson (0:08)

I'm Katie Simpson.

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