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The Montreal filmmakers behind "The Girl Who Cried Pearls" tell us all about their Academy Award win for Best Animated Short Film. As oil prices climb, Donald Trump insists NATO countries could help reopen the Strait of Hormuz — suggesting refusal would be "very bad" for the alliance. But not all NATO members are convinced. The facts of life-giving. A new study shows dangerous — but largely preventable — pregnancy-related complications often happen outside labor and delivery, threatening lives. A recently discovered tape labelled "fish noises" turns out to be the oldest-known recording of humpback whales — and lets us hear what the oceans sounded like in 1949. For years, anti-cruising laws in cities across the US tried to keep lowriders off the roads. But now, the customized cars and the people who love them are getting their due, in the form of a new U.S. postage stamp.After two lost episodes of "Dr. Who" are discovered in a private archive, a TV historian tells us what it takes to keep classic film from getting lost in time. A renowned Italian museum is bending the rules — and letting visually impaired visitors touch some of their most famous sculptures.

American officials claim they've got the situation under control -- but a former diplomat tells us that Iran throttling the Strait of Hormuz could spell political disaster for Donald Trump.An Iranian strike hit a Canadian bunker on a military base in Kuwait, almost two weeks ago. No one was hurt, but the government said nothing about it -- and the Conservatives' defence critic says that's a problem. Bill Kurtis has deployed his dulcet tones on the airwaves for six decades now; tonight, he'll tell us about leaving his gig as the judge and scorekeeper of the NPR news quiz show "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!"This weekend, director Geeta Gandbhir is up for two Oscars; she's nominated in both the short and feature-length documentary categories. Nil talks to her about her short doc "The Devil is Busy" -- which covers one day at Georgia abortion clinic -- and her feature "The Perfect Neighbour," which tells the story of a neighbourhood shooting through police bodycam footage.A new high-tech glass floor for basketball courts is great at blasting your retinas with statistics and ads and graphics -- but it turns out to be not great at having basketball played on it. As It Happens, the Friday edition. Radio that finds itself in contempt of court. 

Police in London, Ontario are searching for someone they say was driving around downtown handing out free drugs -- and triggering a wave of overdoses on the doorstep of a local outreach centre. History in the unmaking. American and Israeli strikes have severely damaged at least four cultural and historical landmarks in Iran. An Iranian-Canadian scholar she says it's heartbreaking to watch -- but eerily familiar. When two young women left a cinema in the early 70s, they found an abandoned newborn. And now, half a century later, they’ve all reunited. A Norwegian researcher has not-so-fond childhood memories of getting his tongue stuck to a frozen pole. Now that he’s all grown up, he’s delving into the science -- to tackle tundra tongue. Colm Dalton can tell you what makes a real Irish pub -- because he's been to more than a hundred of them on four continents, as he attempts to drink at every single one on Earth. Scientists discover that we blink unconsciously to the beat of music -- although so far, they've only tested that theory on the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. As It Happens, the Thursday Edition. Radio that thinks they should start thinking outside the Bach...s.