Information Morning - Cape Breton

The Ingonish Library needs a new home and the CBRL is looking at the local fire hall.

The number of people at risk from homelessness or living without a home is up substantially in eastern Nova Scotia, including Cape Breton.

Note: The audio contains both segments on this story.

We invite the three provincial party leaders to come on the show and talk about what they're offering voters. The NDP and Liberals agreed to join us - and we hear the second of those conversations, with Liberal Leader Zach Churchill. 

The Inverness County Centre for the Arts has a new strategic plan that calls for more of everything, including funding. We speak with the Executive Director Beth Ryan.

When people are struggling to put food on the table, sometimes other priorities get set aside, like getting a haircut. Clients of the North Sydney Food Bank will no longer have to make that choice. 

We've invited all the candidates across Cape Breton to take part in our candidates' roundtables so you can hear from them first hand. For Sydney-Membertou, we hear from Derek Mombourquette, Brian MacArthur, and Alison Aho.

As the provincial election campaign continues, Claudia Chender stops by our studio to talk about what the NDP can offer you this November 26th.

A Toronto based solar developer is in Cape Breton to meet with people in the East Bay and Glace Bay areas, where they're proposing community solar projects. 

Former US President Donald Trump is set to return to the White House. We speak with a political watcher in Pennsylvania about the latest, and where America goes from here.

We dip into the archives with our former community historian, the late Jim Saint Clair, for a look back at an early Cape Breton shipwreck at the mouth of the Bras d'Or Lakes.