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A Canadian veteran responds to Americans’ military mockery

2 Sep 2026 · 46 min

A former Canadian Armed Forces officer who served alongside Americans in Afghanistan tells us the constant anti-Canada rhetoric from the Trump administration is disturbing.

Florida is executing death-row inmates at a record-breaking pace. A priest who counsels those inmates says state politicians are politicizing people's lives — and deaths.

As investors sell off their government bonds at breakneck speed, one economist tells us the Bank of Canada is right to hold interest rates steady, even as a trade war and real wars shake the foundations of the global economy.

Canadian scientists spent years investigating what's killing billions of sea stars in the Pacific. Now, they know what's responsible; they just have to figure out how to stop it.

For the second time, now, 91-year-old Dale "Grey Beard" Sanders becomes the oldest person to complete the Appalachian Trail. He tells us that even after more than seventy falls along the way, he's feeling pretty good.

The population of the comical flightless parrot known as the kakapo is bouncing back — after what's been referred to as a "mating frenzy."

As It Happens, the Wednesday Edition. Radio that's glad they're not afraid to ruffle some feathers.