About That

Andrew Chang goes beyond the headlines and explains the major news stories everybody is talking about.

Curated by: CBC News (801 videos)

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Tracks in this Playlist

• How a FlyDubai flight survived a hijacking attempt against impossible odds | About That
• Did Donald Trump get what he wanted in Greenland? | About That
• Why Trump’s potash threat against Canada isn’t as bizarre as it sounds | About That
• Can Canada turn its airports into money-making machines? | About That
• A reasonable person's guide to how AI destroys humanity | About That
• Can Canada actually win a trade war with the U.S.? | About That
• Why the Nepal flash flood was almost impossible to predict | About That
• Will Bessent's bond market intervention make U.S. inflation worse? | About That
• The U.S. threatens Iran with ‘economic D-Day’ | About That
• Why booze is at the centre of Canada-U.S. trade talks | About That
• $30K US dead or alive: Iran's new bounty on U.S. soldiers | About That
• Is Trump choosing North Korea over South Korea? | About That
• Why Trump may struggle to find another Karoline Leavitt | About That
• Can Count Binface defeat Britain's Nigel Farage in this byelection? | About That
• How long can Anthony Fauci stay silent? | About That
• Is Trump's new 'Truth API' insider trading? | About That
• Will a 64-team FIFA World Cup kill the game? | About That
• Why was this Bangkok bar fire so deadly? | About That
• Why Trump is on the brink of selling F-35s to Turkey | About That
• Why Britain's PM Keir Starmer had no choice but to resign | About That
• New report reveals deadliest design flaws that doomed the Titan submersible | About That
• Why some homeowners are falling into a mortgage payment trap they can't escape | About That
• SpaceX: The IPO where the math doesn't matter | About That
• Why Belfast is burning | About That
• This is why Trump is so hard to interview | About That
• Forced labor? How the U.S. found a brand new rationale for tariffs | About That
• How hard was it for Trump to ace his cognitive test? | About That
• Is Ebola in North America? | About That
• Trump's new $1.776B 'Anti-Weaponization Fund' is a wild ride | About That
• Does Canada have a personal bankruptcy problem? | About That
• Why the U.S. 'silver bullet' strategy isn't working against Iran | About That
• How hantavirus locked down this cruise ship — indefinitely | About That
• Stop calling Canada's latest big idea a sovereign wealth fund | About That
• Why Trump’s missile math doesn’t work | About That
• How Japan is rebuilding its war machine | About That
• What is China's endgame for the war in Iran? | About That
• Why you can't just 'fully' reopen the Strait of Hormuz | About That
• Did Canada’s Mark Carney just ‘manipulate’ his way to a Liberal majority? | About That
• Is this U.S. blockade Trump’s riskiest move yet? | About That
• Inside the U.S.-Iran ceasefire that everybody interprets differently | About That
• Is Ukraine about to enter the war in the Middle East? | About That
• Is the U.S. about to make a major military mistake? | About That
• Is Iran getting rich from its oil blockade in the Strait of Hormuz? | About That
• Why regime change in Iran was never in the cards | About That
• The moment a plane smashed into a fire truck at LaGuardia Airport | About That
• Why Alberta’s separation from Canada is almost impossible | About That
• Is Iran waging underwater war for the Strait of Hormuz? | About That
• Why can't the U.S. just take over the Strait of Hormuz? | About That
• How high will the U.S.-Israel war with Iran push gas prices? | About That
• The unanswered question in the U.S.-Israel war on Iran: Why? | About That
• How Iran is strangling the world's oil supply | About That
• How Israel and the U.S. killed Iran's supreme leader | About That
• I just watched the longest state of the union speech ever | About That
• Will El Mencho's cartel wage 'total war' against Mexico? | About That
• The fatal flaw that makes Trump's tariffs illegal | About That
• Arrested: The fall of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor | About That
• How Colbert went to war with CBS and the FCC | About That
• Why is the U.S. cutting Cuba off from the rest of the world? | About That
• Tumbler Ridge: How one of the deadliest mass shootings in Canadian history unfolded | About That
• Who abducted Savannah Guthrie’s mother? | About That
• Trump's 10% credit card cap: good idea or 'economic disaster'? | About That
• Was Alex Pretti a 'would-be assassin’? We break down the footage of fatal ICE shooting | About That
• Why Trump just blocked Canada from his 'Board of Peace' | About That
• Why Trump just threatened Canada in Davos | About That
• Canada in the ‘new world order’: leaving the U.S. behind? | About That
• ‘Insurrection’?: How Minnesota is being singled out in ‘largest’ crackdown ‘ever’ | About That
• Why is Trump considering war with Iran? | About That
• Can Trump really get Venezuela’s oil flowing again? | About That
• Self-defence? A breakdown of the fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis | About That
• Did the U.S. really just kidnap Venezuela’s president? | About That
• Why a U.S. ground invasion of Venezuela would be a disaster | About That
• Are floor-crossers traitors? | About That
• Australia mass shooting: How it happened | About That
• Will ‘Trump Accounts’ make U.S. kids $1 million by age 28? | About That
• How Canada’s Big 6 banks made a ton of money in 2025 | About That
• Is Europe rearming for war with Russia? | About That
• Will a fishing boat spark a crisis between China and Japan? | About That
• The absurd way Texas and California hope to game the 2026 midterms | About That
• Trump vows retribution: Washington D.C. National Guard shooting | About That
• If the AI bubble pops, will the whole U.S. economy go with it? | About That
• How one reporter’s question struck at the core of U.S.-Saudi relations | About That
• Is the U.S. starving for Canadian travellers? | About That
• The impossible math behind Trump's $2,000 tariff rebate plan | About That
• Why Trump threatened to sue the BBC for $1B US | About That
• Are Trump’s global tariffs illegal? | About That
• How Democrats won U.S. election night 2025 | About That
• China’s spy joke with South Korea that sounded like a warning | About That
• How China uses its buying power as a trade war weapon | About That
• The ‘nuclear option’: How Alberta's UCP quelled teacher unrest ... for good? | About That
• Why Trump just ‘terminated’ Canada-U.S. trade talks | About That
• How 3 women beat Singapore’s strict protest laws | About That
• Why French ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy is now in jail | About That
• How thieves pulled off a brazen crown jewel heist at the Louvre | About That
• How China won the rare earth race against the U.S. | About That
• Why is gold hitting record highs? | About That
• How Israel and Hamas finally reached a hostage deal | About That
• Has Mark Carney cracked the Trump playbook? | About That
• Why Trump is at war with Venezuela | About That
• Is the U.S. now willing to go to war for Qatar? | About That
• How Trump's Gaza peace plan is an ultimatum for Hamas | About That