Sheena Goodyear

Journalist

Sheena Goodyear is a web journalist with CBC Radio's As It Happens in Toronto. She is equally comfortable tackling complex and emotionally difficult stories that hold truth to power, or spinning quirky yarns about the weird and wonderful things people get up to all over the world. She has a particular passion for highlighting stories from LGBTQ communities. Originally from Newfoundland and Labrador, her work has appeared on CBC News, Sun Media, the Globe & Mail, the Toronto Star, VICE News and more. You can reach her at sheena.goodyear@cbc.ca

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These male flamingos are 'doing a great job' raising a chick together

Two male flamingos at the San Diego Zoo recently started acting as if they were incubating an egg together, taking turns sitting on an empty nest. So staff gave them a real egg to hatch.

She's a loser, baby. Why this Democrat is running a race she knows she can't win

Kate Barr is 100 per cent certain she’s not going to win her state Senate race in North Carolina, but she isn’t about to let that slow her down.
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Only the U.S. can stop an all-out war in the Middle East, says Iran analyst

As violence ramps up between Israel and its foes in the Middle East, one expert says the U.S. is the only country with the influence to stop this from escalating into an all-out war.

Residential school robbed him of the Cree stories from his childhood. But he got them back

When Solomon Ratt was a little boy, he spent his winter nights in a log cabin in rural Saskatchewan, curled up under blankets with siblings, listening to his mother tell stories in Cree. That all ended when he was sent off to the Indian Residential School in Prince Albert, Sask.

How the Partition of India shaped BBC host Mishal Husain's family history, and sense of self

In her new book, BBC journalist Mishal Husain tells the story of her own family. But in doing so, she says she’s also telling “the story of many families.”

Octopuses hunt alongside fish, but will wallop them if they fall out of line

Despite their reputation as loners, it turns out octopuses will happily hunt in groups with other species — as long as everyone knows who’s boss. 

Picture of 4,000 dead birds in Toronto wins international photography award

Toronto conservation photographer Patricia Homonylo won the 2024 Bird Photographer of the Year award for a "beautiful and tragic" image that shows the massive scale of deadly bird-window collisions in the city.

Uncrustables oil painting sells for $6.8K, showcasing an appetite for junk food art

Noah Verrier has carved out a niche for himself with his old-fashioned paintings of modern munchies, like fast food takeout highly processed frozen fare. And he’s far from alone.

What do you do when a rhino breaks a leg? Call a horse doctor, of course

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. 

Behold the harp emoji, brought to you by a famed harpist and a prolific emoji advocate

The harp emoji is the brainchild of beloved harpist Mary Lattimore and filmmaker Theo Schear, the man behind such emoji hits as juice box, disco ball, and Italian hand gesture.