Plus: “We’re kind of used to curveballs.“ A surgeon who normally works on horses does a first-of-its-kind operation on a baby rhino.

Also: The Teamsters say they've decided not to endorse either Presidential Candidate in the US elections - after decades of supporting Democrats. The head of the union's Black caucus explains why his organization is backing Harris anyway; and an artist finds a modern muse in his paintings of junk food.

Plus: “It’s such a universal instrument.” Filmmaker Theo Schear and world-renowned harpist Mary Lattimore pull some strings to create a harp emoji.

Also: A Sudanese-Canadian man says his sister died waiting for approval to come to Canada; TikToker Talia Cadet tells us what’s at stake for creators like her as a U.S. court considers the country’s proposed ban on the Chinese-owned platform; and a new type of parasitoid wasp burrows inside fruit fly abdomens to lay its eggs.

Plus: A small town in Finland does a 180 on technology in the classroom. We speak to the parent (a neuropsychologist) who helped make it happen.

Also: Nunavut MP Lori Idlout speaks out after 6 Indigenous people die at the hands of police in an 11-day span.

Plus: We get a tour of the truly bizarre events at Europe’s “tram Olympics” courtesy of the event’s founder, Wieland Stumpf.

Also: Michaela Mabinty DePrince overcame nearly unimaginable odds to blaze a trail in the world of dance. We remember her with Tamara Rojo, artistic director of the San Francisco Ballet; and Reno, Nevada is the site of a real life Succession drama for Rupert Murdoch and his heirs, we’ll set the scene with The New York Times’ Jim Rutenberg.

Plus: “You’re perfect”. How an Irish self-described “blond ginger” went from marathons to mullet competition.

Also: We reach the woman whose one-on-one encounter with the Premier of Nova Scotia helped the province declare domestic violence an “epidemic”; and an epic whale rescue off the coast of B.C.

Plus: “It was like having the Mona Lisa in your living room.” Except it was a portrait of Winston Churchill. And it was stolen.

Also: Astronaut Dave Williams on the Polaris Dawn space walk and why he thinks people will be living full time on the moon within 50 years; a Newfoundland mayor tells us why he padlocked the doors to the local church; and we revisit the Ig Nobels…which celebrate "achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think."

Plus: An all-incarcerated jury is set to judge the entrants at Sing Sing Correctional Facility’s first film festival.

Also: the story behind the Yousuf Karsh portrait of Winston Churchill, stolen from Ottawa and found in Italy; how an Alberta town got an oil sands company to pay for 15 new homes; and we revisit the muddiest day in Canadian football history.

Plus: “The pressure is very great this time“. Allan Lichtman’s model picks Presidential winners. He defends this year’s pick…and takes on his critics.

Also: Anthony Daniels - aka C-3P0 - remembers when he first met James Earl Jones; a Toronto man is proud that his father is part of the Venezuelan opposition challenging Nicolas Maduro. But with his dad holed up in an embassy under threat of arrest, he's also very worried for his safety; and scientists are working on bread baked from wheat modified to grow in extreme weather.