Carol Off leaving CBC Radio’s As It Happens

TORONTO — CBC/Radio-Canada announced yesterday veteran CBC journalist and longtime radio host Carol Off (above) will be stepping down from hosting the CBC Radio One program As It Happens (AIH) to focus on developing new original projects for CBC. Off has hosted the national current affairs show since 2006. Her last day as host will be Friday, Feb. 25. “It’s been a wild and wonderful ride but it’s time for someone else to take AIH for a spin. After a decade and a half and — I estimate — 25,000 interviews, I want to do something else,” Off said in...