As It Happens

Plus: “Big Sam.” The paleontologist who helped get an enormous, 600 pound dinosaur skull out of the ground in Alberta. 

Also: Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen on how to make the online world safer for kids; and a national park in Iceland suspends ice cave tours after a deadly accident, and the rise of “last chance” tourism.

Plus: “It’s gonna have to be a boot.” A local cobbler gets an unusual call from an English aristocrat…and finds himself making footwear for a camel.

Also: How fish and octopuses team up to catch dinner; a new study shows startling disparity in the costs charged for medical procedures on men and women; and botanists turn to extreme paramotorists to reach rare plants.

Plus: A single rat threatens the ecological balance of an entire Alaskan island. We meet the woman trying to track it down. 

Also: Looking into the present and future of Hezbollah; the artist behind a startling photograph of thousands of dead birds wins Bird Photographer of the Year; and Calgary brewers make beer from the aftermath of wildfires.

Plus: A new study aims to pick apart the role of nature vs. nurture when it comes to fussy eating. Also: Humanitarian groups are calling for action in response to allegations the United Arab Emirates isn't just helping with relief efforts in Sudan -- but also fueling the civil war, by supplying arms; and we speak to a diver working on the dangerous job of clearing hundreds of tires form the St. Lawrence river.

Plus: A NASA scientist was shrieking in her lab as years of hard work paid off and she was able to recreate the spider-like structures on Mars. Also: Two years after the country’s economy collapsed, and protestors invaded the presidential palace -- and its pool -- Sri Lankans are set to elect a leader this weekend; and we speak with the daughter-in-law of Montréal jazz legend Rufus Nathaniel Rockhead, owner of Rockhead's Paradise, the first Black-owned jazz club in Montréal.

Plus: “We’re kind of used to curveballs.“ A surgeon who normally works on horses does a first-of-its-kind operation on a baby rhino. 

Also: The Teamsters say they've decided not to endorse either Presidential Candidate in the US elections - after decades of supporting Democrats. The head of the union's Black caucus explains why his organization is backing Harris anyway; and an artist finds a modern muse in his paintings of junk food.

Plus: “It’s such a universal instrument.” Filmmaker Theo Schear and world-renowned harpist Mary Lattimore pull some strings to create a harp emoji. 

Also: A Sudanese-Canadian man says his sister died waiting for approval to come to Canada; TikToker Talia Cadet tells us what’s at stake for creators like her as a U.S. court considers the country’s proposed ban on the Chinese-owned platform; and a new type of parasitoid wasp burrows inside fruit fly abdomens to lay its eggs.

Plus: A small town in Finland does a 180 on technology in the classroom. We speak to the parent (a neuropsychologist) who helped make it happen. 

Also: Nunavut MP Lori Idlout speaks out after 6 Indigenous people die at the hands of police in an 11-day span.

Plus: We get a tour of the truly bizarre events at Europe’s “tram Olympics” courtesy of the event’s founder, Wieland Stumpf. 

Also: Michaela Mabinty DePrince overcame nearly unimaginable odds to blaze a trail in the world of dance. We remember her with Tamara Rojo, artistic director of the San Francisco Ballet; and Reno, Nevada is the site of a real life Succession drama for Rupert Murdoch and his heirs, we’ll set the scene with The New York Times’ Jim Rutenberg.

 Plus: “You’re perfect”. How an Irish self-described “blond ginger” went from marathons to mullet competition. 

Also: We reach the woman whose one-on-one encounter with the Premier of Nova Scotia helped the province declare domestic violence an “epidemic”; and an epic whale rescue off the coast of B.C.