Information Morning - Cape Breton

Mountain Pine Adventures has installed a zip line in South Harbour on the Cabot Trail

Data from a US climate science organization shows that Atlantic Canada, especially areas near the coast, is especially susceptible to climate change-related temperature spikes. 

The Society's museum is at Colliery Lands Park - the former site of the Number 12 mine.

They will be holding two lectures, the first one by Dr. Lachlan MacKinnon on August 13. Kassandra Spooner-Lockyer will have a lecture on August 15.

In our column on Acadian culture, Ronald LaBelle takes a look at the lobster in Acadian history and culture.

There's a new shellfish being caught and sold by fishers in Cape Breton. We hear about whelk and the launch of the fishery.

The CBRM is developing new pre-approved house plans to speed up the building permit application process and they're looking for your input. 

Post Media offered to buy some of the Saltwire's chain of newspapers but there are lots of questions that need to be answered. We sit down with Lisa Taylor, an award winning journalist and Professor of Journalism at King's College in Halifax.

The Village of Baddeck is drawing more water than allowed from its well and sending partially treated sewage into the Bras d'Or Lake, which has put a hold on new development. Now the village commission is not happy with a limited offer of financial help from Victoria County.

The Cape Breton Food Hub has a new Executive Director and more than half a million dollars in new funding. 

For the next three years there will be no hunt and the right's based harvest has been suspended as well. We speak with the moose management coordinator for UINR about reaction from the Mi'kmaq community.