• Mulgrave mayor says coyotes are gone, but they may be causing problems in another community
    Jan 10 2025

    Mayor Ron Chisholm tells Jeff Douglas how Mulgrave's coyote problem was solved, but now he's hearing the community of Canso is dealing with a similar issue.

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    7 mins
  • St. FX student starts petition to increase abortion access at Antigonish hospital
    Jan 10 2025

    Sophia Kydd is a third year student at St. Francis Xavier University. She found that in her adopted town of Antigonish, women have no real access to a surgical abortion and must travel to Halifax if they need one. Sophia spoke with Jeff Douglas about this, and the petition she started to try and promote change.

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    11 mins
  • Two winter enthusiasts tell us why they love getting outside this time of year
    Jan 10 2025

    Winter is here, and there's lots of activities to take advantage of around the province. Jeff Douglas speaks to Dalhousie professor John Cameron and family doctor John Chiasson about ways they enjoy the outdoors in the winter.

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    11 mins
  • That charge on your receipt, when you buy ground beef -- it's mainly because of the meat. But...
    Jan 9 2025

    ...did they also weigh the packaging, and charge you for that as if it was also made of meat? CBC business reporter Sophia Harris tells guest host Preston Mulligan how she took a small scale into grocery stores to see if customers are always getting what they pay for. And she found cases where they're not.

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    8 mins
  • Coalition of advocates requests urgent meeting with provincial ministers to address gender based violence
    Jan 9 2025

    Their letter, signed by more than a dozen people in the gender based violence sector, is addressed to Justice Minister Becky Druhan and Leah Martin, the minister responsible for the advisory council on the status of women act. The coalition also hopes to meet with Premier Tim Houston. Guest host Preston Mulligan spoke with two people in the coalition, Kristina Fifield and Sue Bookchin.

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    18 mins
  • Independent defence analyst Ken Hansen on Trump's plans for Greenland, Panama, and Canada
    Jan 8 2025

    Ken talks with guest host Preston Mulligan, after we hear some memorable moments (maybe too many) from US President-elect Donald Trump's meandering news conference January 7th in Mar-a-Lago.

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    22 mins
  • Trudeau announces he'll step down, and the Mainstreet Spinbusters react
    Jan 6 2025

    Guest host Preston Mulligan talks with Barbara Emodi, Michelle Coffin, and Chris Lydon.

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    38 mins
  • The Healthy Relationships for Youth program aims to shift the culture of gender-based violence
    Jan 3 2025

    After yet another tragic incident of gender-based, intimate-partner violence - experts remind us that violent relationships rarely start out that way. We take a look at one program from the Antigonish Women’s Resource Centre and Sexual Assault Services Association, called the Healthy Relationships for Youth program. It hopes to shift the culture by helping young people teach their peers to recognize the signs of an unhealthy relationship and to how get out before it leads to violence. Moraig MacGillivray is the operations manager of the association. She spoke with host, Jeff Douglas, about this initiative.


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    11 mins