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As It Happens Dr. David Stack, an equine veterinary surgeon, led the team that conducted keyhole surgery to repair a white rhino’s fractured leg near Liverpool, England.  When Amara the white rhino suffered a fracture, her keepers weren’t sure what to do Sheena Goodyear · CBC Radio · Posted: SepContinue Reading

As It Happens In February, Canada launched a program help the immediate family members of Canadian citizens and permanent residents. As of Wednesday, not a single person has arrived in Canada, or even been approved to come. 7 months after Canada launched a program to bring people from Sudan, noneContinue Reading

As It Happens This year’s winners included a study that explores the feasibility of using pigeons to guide missiles, an experiment that saw scientists explode a paper bag next to a cat standing on the back of a cow, and a paper that explores the swimming abilities of dead trout.Continue Reading

As It Happens7:39Man who received world’s 1st eye and face transplant says it changed his life Aaron James can’t stop looking at himself in the mirror. The 47-year-old U.S. military veteran and electrical lineman  was badly injured in a workplace accident in June 2021 that destroyed his left eye, chin, nose,Continue Reading

As It Happens6:31Rebecca Cheptegei is the 3rd elite female athlete killed in Kenya since 2021 WARNING: This article contains details of domestic violence. Joan Chelimo Melly keeps wondering if there’s something she could have done to save Rebecca Cheptegei’s life. Cheptegei, a 33-year-old Ugandan Olympic runner and mother of two girls, diedContinue Reading

As It Happens When marine biologist James A. Sulikowski started monitoring the migration of endangered porbeagle sharks, he didn’t expect he would end up investigating a murder mystery. Study suggests porbeagle sharks, thought to be apex predators, may also be prey Sheena Goodyear · CBC Radio · Posted: Sep 04,Continue Reading

As It Happens Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo’s plans to keep the Olympic rings on the Eiffel Tower permanently has drawn the ire of some Parisians, French politicians, and the descendants of the man who designed the iconic structure.  Descendants of architect Gustave Eiffel call on mayor to put her plan toContinue Reading

When former CBC host Carol Off started writing a book calling on people to reclaim the word “freedom” from the far right, she thought she would be dismissed as naive. Then Kamala Harris began her run to become U.S. president. “The first thing out of her [Harris’s] mouth, practically, was freedom,”Continue Reading

A 121-year-old postcard that ended up in the right place at the wrong time has brought far-flung family members together for the first time.  Earlier this month, a postcard dated Aug. 23, 1903, and affixed with a King Edward VII stamp, arrived at the Swansea Building Society, a member-owned financial institution inContinue Reading