Meet the mules carrying midterm ballots in the Grand Canyon

We hear from an elections official in Arizona who is overseeing the effort to carry U.S. midterm ballots from the bottom of the Grand Canyon -- by mule.

An 18-year-old in Afghanistan was awarded a full-ride scholarship to study in Canada. All she wants is to return to a classroom -- but Ottawa rejected her study permit.

The Ontario government has paused a crucial student aid program -- leaving a father training to become a paramedic -- in a crisis of his own.

Gary Tyler is a celebrated textile artist -- but at 17 years old, he was sentenced to death for a murder he has always maintained he didn't commit. He tells us how quilting saved his sanity.

Animal rescuers in Virginia have finally determined why a seemingly uninjured red-shouldered hawk couldn't fly. And the answer is: it ate way too many free-range chickens.

Out of detention but still unable to do her job, one of Egypt's few remaining independent journalists says she still believes in the power of publishing the truth.

Sixty years after he first laid eyes on it, an Ontario man has donated more than half a million dollars to build a new sundial at York University.

And... Scientists are delighted to discover a bull and donkey who have become a thriving same-sex, different-species couple.

As It Happens, the Tuesday Edition. Radio that believes the donkey was lucky to find someone who was ready, willing, and a bull.