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'I am afraid,' says Myanmar protester hiding from armed military police outside his home

As Shain spoke to CBC Radio in hushed tones about the bloody crackdown in Myanmar, he could see the military police outside his apartment with guns and flashlights, searching for protesters to arrest.
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Lemons, spices and sour milk: How a restaurant critic trained herself to smell again after COVID-19

When New York Times restaurant critic Tejal Rao lost her sense of smell after getting COVID-19, she used a technique called "smell training" to get it back.
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Captain charged after saving migrants in Mediterranean says people are still drowning

Dariush Beigui's ship, The Iuventa, has saved thousands of people from drowning in the Mediterranean Sea, and he denies allegations that he worked with smugglers.
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Great apes at the San Diego Zoo have received their COVID-19 vaccines

Nine lucky Californians didn't even have to wait in line to get their COVID-19 doses. 
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These PhD students won a prize for rapping about molecular clusters on a rooftop

University of Helsinki graduate student Jakub Kubecka has won Science magazine’s annual “Dance your PhD” contest for his video Molecular Clusters, which he wrote and performed with fellow students Ivo Neefjes and Vitus Besel.
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As It Happens: Friday Edition

March 5, 2021
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Sipekne'katik chief says he won't play by Ottawa's rules for Mi'kmaw fishery

Sipekne'katik Chief Mike Sack has no intention of falling in line with the federal government’s edict on Indigenous fisheries.
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That time an intern saved a pelican by reaching down its 'slimy' throat for a swallowed phone

Some interns fetch coffee. But Emma McCarthy fetched a cellphone out of the belly of a pelican.
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As It Happens: Thursday Edition

March 4, 2021
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Toronto man mourns 'brave' sister, among 3 killed on way home from Afghan TV station

Shahnaz Raufi Mohmand bravely pursued a career in Afghanistan's media despite the tremendous risks, her brother said. And for that, she paid the ultimate price.  
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Scientists have virtually unfolded a 17th-century locked letter for the 1st time

Hundreds of years ago, letter writers would secure their secrets through the elaborate art of "letterlocking." Now, for the first time, researchers read these secrets from 17th-century Europe without physically opening the letter, using virtual reality technology.
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'Beautiful' harlequin frogs bred outside Panama for the 1st time

Andrew Gray is now a proud caretaker of 23 "absolutely stunning frogs." The British scientist led the team that successfully bred critically endangered variable harlequin toads in captivity outside their country of origin for the first time.
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As It Happens: Wednesday Edition

March 3, 2021
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Bunny Wailer's music 'lives on in us,' says friend and collaborator Sly Dunbar

Bunny Wailer, a reggae luminary who was the last surviving member of the legendary group The Wailers, died Tuesday at a hospital in St. Andrew, Jamaica, after suffering a stroke. He was 73. 
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Family hopes to get citrus-squirting word 'orbisculate' into dictionary to honour father

If you've ever found yourself at a loss for words after being squirted in the eye by a fruit, Hilary Krieger has a suggestion: "orbisculate." But don't bother looking it up in the dictionary — at least not yet. 
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'Things are going to be great': Whitehorse Bhangra dancer celebrates his COVID-19 vaccine

Whitehorse is the first capital city in Canada to open its vaccine clinics to people 18 and up. 
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As It Happens: The Tuesday Edition

March 2, 2021
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This 29-year-old cancer survivor is joining the 1st all-civilian space mission

As a little girl, Hayley Arceneaux wanted to go to space. But as a cancer survivor with a titanium prosthesis in one leg, she figured that dream was out of her reach.
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Oldest man to swim ice mile says January dip in Ireland's River Shannon was 'fairly cold'

Ger Purcell thought his friend was out of his mind when he suggested that the 66-year-old Irish man should continue his longtime summer pastime of swimming outdoors into the winter months. Now he holds the Guinness World Record for the oldest male athlete to complete an ice mile.
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Foot greetings and face condoms: Germans coin 1,200 new words about the pandemic

People in Germany have coined more than 1,200 new words related to life under COVID-19 since the pandemic began, according to the Leibniz Institute for the German Language.
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Plumber drives from New Jersey to Texas with his family to help with storm repairs

A plumber and his family drove 22 hours from New Jersey to Texas to help repair people's homes after a devastating winter storm.
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As It Happens: Monday Edition

March 1, 2021
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Daniel Prude's brother 'outraged' that police officers won't be charged in his death

Joe Prude would like to see the Rochester, N.Y., police officers who held down his brother Daniel Prude until he stopped breathing charged with murder, and he's not done fighting for justice. On Tuesday, a grand jury ruled that the officers involved in the 41-year-old Black man's death will face no criminal charges.
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Mysterious old photos of Alaska a 'beautiful gift,' says one of people pictured

Jennifer Skupin had nearly forgotten about the trove of 60-year-old photographs that she found at a Dutch flea market a decade ago until she cleaned out her cupboard. Now, she's tracked down the people pictured.
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As It Happens: Friday Edition

Feb. 26, 2021
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