Sheena Goodyear

Toronto

Digital Producer at Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)

Digital Producer at As It Happens

Digital producer @CBCAsItHappens | [email protected] | https://t.co/mn0ScNoyrZ

Articles

George Floyd’s cousin is keeping his legacy alive 5 years after his murder

1 month ago | businessandamerica.com | Sheena Goodyear

Shareeduh McGee is trying to make sure her cousin’s murder continues to bring about positive change in the world, even as people in power work to undo the progress that’s been made in his name.
Eurovision fans built a sauna and drove it 3,000 km to the grand final

1 month ago | businessandamerica.com | Sheena Goodyear

Robin Nyman’s road trip to the grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest was less about the destination, and more about the friends he made along the way in the sauna attached to the back of his car. Nyman and his friends are supporting Sweden’s Eurovision hopeful KAJ and their songBara Bada Bastu, an upbeat ode to Northern European sauna culture.
‘We deserve a lot better,’ U.S. Navy Lt. says as Trump ramps up transgender military purge

1 month ago | businessandamerica.com | Sheena Goodyear

After 17 years of serving their country in the U.S. Navy, Lt. Rae Timberlake faced a stark choice — leave the military, or be kicked out. After some soul searching, Timberlake opted for the former, in the hopes that, at the very least, they will get severance pay and an honourable discharge.
Journalist Ekaterina Barabash describes her harrowing escape from Russia

1 month ago | businessandamerica.com | Sheena Goodyear

When journalist Ekaterina Barabash started planning her escape from Russia, she couldn’t bear to slip away forever without first saying goodbye to her elderly mother. “I had to tell her before my escape. She was the only one,” Barabash, 63, told As It Happens host Nil Kӧksal. “I was sure that it would be me who would calm her, and I thought she would be crying. But everything happened in the opposite.
Dance Your PhD winner channels his inner Kylie Minogue to explain food science

1 month ago | kamumedya.com | Sheena Goodyear

As It HappensA University of Helsinki food scientist is this year’s winner of Science magazine’s annual Dance Your PhD contest, which has academics ditch their lab coats for latex as they explain their dissertations with movement and song.
Man with terminal cancer aims to spend his remaining time volunteering in every U.S. state - Atin Ito | Ontario’s First Filipino Community Newspaper – Trusted News and Stories for the Filipino-Canadian Community

2 months ago | atinitonews.com | Doy Santos |Sheena Goodyear

“I spent so much time, you know, working and trying to make a lot of money, that I didn’t do a lot of volunteering. I did not help a lot of fellow people,” Ruch, 55, told As It Happens host Nil Kӧksal. “I can’t go back and change that.
Man making miniatures of every pub in Edinburgh has his work cut out for him

2 months ago | cbc.ca | Sheena Goodyear

As It Happens·NewKeith Crawley’s goal is to make a miniature version of every pub in Edinburgh. That’s a tall order for a Scottish city that boasts, according to some local tourism sites, at least 385 of them, in all different shapes and sizes. The Scottish city has hundreds of pubs, many of which are, architecturally speaking, ‘higgledy-piggledey'Artist Keith Crawley's goal is to make tiny replicas of every pub in Edinburgh.
Duty-free shops struggle to make ends meet as Canadians steer clear of U.S. | CBC Radio

2 months ago | cbc.ca | Sheena Goodyear

As It Happens·New Duty-free shops across the country, still recovering from pandemic travel restrictions, are reporting massive drops in business in recent months as Canadians increasingly avoid travelling to the U.S. Already badly hit by pandemic travel closures, the stores are now dealing with a new existential threat Sheena Goodyear · CBC Radio · Posted: Apr 11, 2025 5:57 PM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago A Canadian duty-free shop at the U.S. border crossing in Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle,...
How Blondie's Clem Burke altered the course of Fred Armisen's life

2 months ago | cbc.ca | Sheena Goodyear

As It Happens7:30How Blondie's Clem Burke altered the course of Fred Armisen's lifeFrom the moment Fred Armisen first laid eyes on Clem Burke — rocking out on Saturday Night Live with his Beatles haircut and big, red drums — his life was forever changed. Burke, the iconic Blondie drummer, has died at the age of 70 after what his band called "a private battle with cancer."Unlike many other drummers of his time, Armisen says Burke was larger than life, never taking a backseat to his bandmates.
Neither of these baseball teams has won a game in years. That's about to change

2 months ago | cbc.ca | Sheena Goodyear

As It Happens·New Two New York City teams on years-long losing streaks are about to face off in one sports commentator has called "possibly the most electric college baseball game in history." This week marks a ‘historic’ game between some of the losingest teams in colleague baseball Sheena Goodyear · CBC Radio · Posted: Apr 07, 2025 5:06 PM EDT | Last Updated: 6 minutes ago Brandon Deynes of the Lehman College Lightning, which, as of April 7, 2025, was riding a 42-game losing streak spanning...