Black Holes and Boundless Spirit

A steely-eyed Ontario grocery shopper has been Identifying products that are labeled Canadian -- but are actually American.  And she wants Ottawa to do more to deter so-called "maplewashing".

"No class" action. Students at Dalhousie University in limbo as lockout continues. A lockout means classes are suspended. A professor tells us instructors and students are equally eager to get the semester started.

Running on empty. The mayor of Conception Bay South in Newfoundland and Labrador says it came as a huge shock to hear his town had mere hours until it was completely out of water -- mere weeks after facing the threat of fire.

A pigment of their imaginations. Researchers in Costa Rica could hardly believe the images of an entirely orange shark -- and are discussing it in some pretty colourful language.

Beauty and the beasts. An Indigenous weaver in Alaska is making the ultra-popular Labubu a lot less monstrous -- by crafting custom regalia for them.

And...I'd like to propose an avocado toast. And a British supermarket chain wants to help with that; it's deploying new high-tech scanners that will tell me whether an avocado is ripe enough to mash.

As It Happens, the Wednesday Edition. Radio that tried to make guacamole with an unripe avocado, but it was too hard.