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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 science communication, and 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 [email protected]

    Latest from Sheena Goodyear

    In this Iron Age society, husbands moved in with their wives' families, not other way around

    Geneticist Lara Cassidy wasn’t surprised to find several generations of the same family buried in an Iron Age cemetery near Dorset, England. But she was quite surprised to find most of them were related along a single matrilineal line.
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    U.K. restaurant selling $177 pineapple pizza says that's the price for 'terrible judgment'

    People who prefer their pizza peppered with pineapples will have to pay a pretty penny for the pleasure at a pizzeria in Norwich, England.
    As It Happens

    Dozens of bodies retrieved from South Africa mine after months-long police standoff

    First responders pulled dozens of bodies and hundreds of emaciated survivors from an abandoned gold mine this week, bringing a grisly end to a months-long standoff with illegal miners and their families.
    As It Happens

    Minister Ahmed Hussen optimistic about Syria's future after trip to border

    While the world waits to see how Syria's new leadership will govern the war-torn country, Canadian International Development Minister Ahmed Hussen says there's "absolutely no question" they are a step up from the Bashar al-Assad regime.
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    Does your cacio e pepe turn out lumpy? Try this 'scientifically optimized' pasta recipe

    Physicist Ivan Di Terlizzi wasn't having much luck perfecting cacio e pepe in the kitchen, so he instead decided to perfect it in a lab.
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    Ghanaians call on fashion brands to step up after fire guts world's largest used clothing market

    A Jan. 2 blaze ripped through Kantamanto Market in Ghana's capital city of Accra, destroying millions of items of used clothing, and jeopardizing the livelihoods of more than 300,000 people.
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    Beloved donkey who was animation model for Shrek has died at the age of 30

    Perry — the miniature donkey who was the animation model for the iconic character voiced by Eddie Murphy in the movie Shrek — has died.
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    Someone keeps leaving plates of peeled bananas on a British street corner

    Cassie Brummitt can’t remember exactly when she first saw the bananas.
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    Belinda the surprisingly busy sea sponge takes a whole day to sneeze

    Belinda the sea sponge may be inanimate, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a lot going on in her life.
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    Netherlands releases list of 425,000 suspected Nazi collaborators online

    Rinke Smedinga has known for decades that his father was a Nazi collaborator. Now, thanks to a new online archive, that information is available to anyone with an internet connection.
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