Plus: “One vote, one beer”. We reach a A New York bar that’s one of many businesses across the country with an election day reward for voters.

Also: By means ferret or foul... A cloned black-footed ferret has given birth -- bringing back a bloodline that had gone extinct and sparking hope for the future of the critically endangered species.

Plus: A Wales man on why he chose to promote men’s health…not by growing a moustache…but by creating a giant “phallus” map using the Strava app.

Also: On election night, Kamala Harris will watch the results roll in at her alma mater: Howard University. And the student newspaper's editor-in-chief tells us there's a palpable energy on campus today.

Plus: A retired Scottish police officer’s quest to find a home for his collection of thousands and thousands of bricks.

Also: Why giant rats (wearing tiny backpacks) may be the next frontier in sniffing out smuggled goods.

Plus: The strange saga of Quasi, a giant hand-shaped sculpture that divided Wellington, New Zealand…and is now on its way out of town.

Also: Beloved Montreal political cartoonist Terry Mosher pays tribute to John Little – the painter who immortalized Quebec winter streetscapes.

Plus: A Calgary man manages to up the ante on Halloween, challenging his own home’s structural integrity by giving away thousands of 2L pop bottles.

And: New York officially legalizes jaywalking, a term Gersh Kuntzman of Streetsblog NYC says you shouldn’t even use.

Plus: It’s a nay from them. A new crop of British MPs challenge “bobbing” and other (frankly strange) parliamentary traditions.

And: A petition filed to Ecuador's copyright office makes an unprecedented request to recognize one of the country's forests as the co-creator of a newly released song. Writer Robert Macfarlane tells us it's only natural.

Plus: A short piece of music written on a tiny card appears to be a lost work by Frédéric Chopin.

And: In Lebanon, displaced people find shelter and support in the country's historic old movie theatres; and with Georgians on the streets of Tblisi a politician who led a team of EU observers tells us about the “democratic backsliding” taking place.

Plus: A team of Belgian ultrarunners set a truly punishing record by running a 6.7 kilometre loop every hour ... until they just can't anymore.

And: Samar Abu Elouf sits down with Nil in studio. The Palestinian photojournalist and New York Times contributor was honoured this week by Canadian Journalists for Free Expression.