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EPISODE · Apr 15, 2026 · 58 MIN

The conflict many feel the rest of the world is ignoring

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As Sudan enters its fourth year of civil war, a Sudanese Canadian tells us what her family had to endure to escape and what the world is losing by ignoring the humanitarian crisis there.The war in Iran has left thousands of civilian sailors trapped on vessels in the Persian — with no idea of when they'll be free.A lawmaker in Maine tells us about the new bill that could make her state the first in the U.S. to pause the development of large AI data centres.Marionettist Ronnie Burkett remembers a children's television legend, puppeteer Sid Krofft — and the hilarious, hallucinatory programming he and his brother Marty created.Adam Wilkie isn't an elite athlete, but he is training to match an Olympic swimming champion's winning time from 50 years ago — because the champion was his late father.A Japanese fire official is suspended for standard workplace infraction that doesn't appear in the employee handbook: designing his own board games and forcing his colleagues in the fire station to play them.As It Happens, the Wednesday Edition. Radio that thinks they were living with a fool's pair of dice.

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