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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 sheena.goodyear@cbc.ca

    Latest from Sheena Goodyear

    'We deserve a lot better,' U.S. Navy Lt. says as Trump ramps up transgender military purge

    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.
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    Journalist Ekaterina Barabash describes her harrowing escape from Russia

    Barabash was on house arrest and facing imprisonment for speaking out against Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Now, she is safe in Paris after a tumultuous and clandestine escape, orchestrated with the help of Reporters Without Borders.
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    Dance Your PhD winner channels his inner Kylie Minogue to explain food science

    A 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.
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    Archdiocese of Toronto official glad to see Pope Leo 'leading with peace' 

    Pope Leo XIV’s first words when he greeted his followers at the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, were: “Peace be with all of you." For Neil MacCarthy, spokesperson for the Archdiocese of Toronto, that's positive sign of what’s to come.
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    This game is like fantasy football, but for picking a pope

    Fantapapa co-creator Mauro Vanetti says the game pokes fun at papal politics, but not the Catholic faith.
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    Sotheby's postpones Buddhist gems auction that India called 'colonial exploitation'

    A set of Buddhist gems that were once mixed with the cremated remains of the Buddha will not be auctioned off to the highest bidder this week as planned.
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    Scientists discover 18th-century Austrian mummy was embalmed through the rectum

    Scientists have figured out how the body of an 18th-century Austrian vicar has remained so well-preserved for nearly 300 years — and it’s unlike anything they’ve seen before.
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    Trump's fixation on wrongly deported man's tattoos nothing but a distraction, says lawyer

    U.S. President Donald Trump is trying to paint Kilmar Abrego Garcia as a criminal with gang tattoos and a history of violence. But his lawyer says the administration is just trying to distract from the fact that it deported him by mistake, and is flouting court orders to bring him back.
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    She felt like life had no meaning — so she started screaming like a gull

    A personal loss taught Anna Brynald to chase her dreams, no matter how silly. So she signed up for the 2025 European Gull Screech Championship, and won gold.
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    NDP's Heather McPherson held her seat in Edmonton. But she's grieving her party's losses

    Heather McPherson held onto her seat in Edmonton Strathcona during Monday’s federal election, but it was a bittersweet victory for the NDP MP.
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