Information Morning - Cape Breton

This weeks Cape Breton Current Affairs Correspondent Emily Latimer stops by the YMCA's community garden in Westmount. Seniors and kids will be working together to grow a vegetable garden this summer.

The Gaelic Immersion School in Mabou is wrapping up its first year of success, Information Morning's Josefa Cameron paid them a visit to find out how it went.

The Department of Health has launched a live dashboard that gives real-time running data on things like surgeries, ambulance offload times and continuing care admissions. These are numbers the province has collected in the past, but not released publicly. We take a tour of the site with the minister of health.

This weeks Cape Breton Current Affairs Correspondent Emily Latimer heads over to the Coast Guard College in Westmount to speak with members of the Royal Navy who are in town to test out their skills in the marine navigation simulator.

An abandoned building in the town of Cheticamp is at the centre of an effort to improve and beautify the village for residents and tourists.

Ronald LaBelle is a former Associate Professor of French and Acadian Studies at CBU and our Acadian Column contributor.

The McNeil government imposed a contract on teachers. Now the courts have struck down that law. We talk to the head of the Teachers Union, Paul Wozny, about what a recent court decision means, in terms of back pay for teachers.

We have reaction from the housing minister to the provincial auditor general's report that says the government is not making efficient use of the public housing system at a time when there's a desperate need for affordable housing.

Wayne MacKay will join us to look at a court decision that could have major repercussions for labour relations in this province when it comes to back wages for teachers..

The Nova Scotia Auditor General Kim Adair is urging the government to tidy up its governance of public housing and make better use of public assets to provide people with a place to live.