Information Morning - Cape Breton

The Lumière Art at Night Festival is happening Saturday night. Art installations and "live" performances will be on display throughout downtown Sydney. Shashwat Trivedi, an international student at CBU, and one of the people leading an Indian Street Play project called "Who You Gonna Call?", describes their presentation.

We set the stage for round two of a unique fundraiser at the Highland Arts Theatre in Sydney. Wesley Colford is the Artistic and Executive Director of the HAT. Colford explains their bold fundraising idea to make its presentations free for all.

Former Mount Saint Vincent communications prof and long time political observer Barbara Emodie loves minority governments, and she tells us why and how it's actually a really good thing for Canadians.

Learn more about the Sydney Airport offering COVID-19 testing, and why so many Cape Breton businesses are seeking testing kits for their employees. Mike MacKinnon is the CEO of the J.A. Douglas McCurdy Airport, and Kathleen Yurchesyn is with the Cape Breton Regional Chamber of Commerce.

In our column on the Acadians of Cape Breton... we look across the ocean to France to delve into the deep connections between those there and here. Ronald Labelle, a senior scholar at CBU, and a former Associate Professor of French and Acadian Studies, is our guide.

We navigate our way through the Archives and find our way to the St. Peter's Canal and a trip that Jim St. Clair and Steve Sutherland took in September of 2007... in this edition of the "Best of Then and Now".

The rink in Baddeck may close next season if much needed repairs aren't made. John Trickett, President of the Board of the Victoria Highland Civic Centre, tells us the facility needs millions of dollars of repairs, and describes what the volunteer board are facing.

Some modest gains for the Liberals across the country, and some losses in NS as Canada heads back to a Liberal minority government. In Cape Breton-Canso, Liberal Mike Kelloway was re-elected to Parliament last night. We called MP-elect Kelloway for reaction to his win.

CBU political science professor, and our go-to political commentator Tom Urbaniak shares his thoughts on riding results, and another Liberal minority government.

In a close contest, Liberal Jaime Battiste defeated Conservative rival Eddie Orrell to retain his seat in parliament for the riding of Sydney-Victoria. MP-elect Jaime Battiste talks about his victory, and the Liberal's minority government.