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24-year-old Rosalee Doucette-MacNeil is a multi-disciplinary artist from Eskasoni. A few years ago, Rosalee found herself drawn to sweetgrass, despite not knowing much about it. She now uses it in her art and is teaching others how to find and harvest sweetgrass sustainably. Rosalee spoke with the CBC's Brittany Wentzell

A new welcome sign at Chisholm Park in Antigonish now includes the town's original Mi'kmaq name: Nalikitquniejk. Cultural historian and knowledge keeper Trevor Gould talks about how the name changed over the centuries and what it means to reclaim it. Trevor is a band councillor at nearby Paqtnkek First Nation. 

Film reviewer Carsten Knox joins us to talk about what's new in cinemas. Plus two of the weirdest movies he could find streaming, one about bigfoot, the other about beavers!  

For some universities in the province, the annual homecoming weekend has brought more than its fair share of revelry. Rowdy street parties have become an annual headache for neighbours living around universities. Last year, Dalhousie launched a ‘joint task force’ with HRM to address the unsanctioned street gatherings once and for all. We check in on the plan of attack for this weekend.

Will special diets like the Mediterranean diet or the Okinawa diet make you live longer and healthier? Maybe... but new research shows parts of the world with the most centenarians owe their remarkably long lives a lot more to clerical errors and pension fraud. 

Mansour's Menswear in Amherst is turning 100 today. We hear about how four generations of this family have run their business, and about the very early days of pedaling their wears - by foot or by horse and buggy - to lumber camps farms and lobster plants

A pair of teachers on the South Shore are trying to flag down Ryan Reynolds. Beth Gillis and Darcie Moore are planning a retirement send-off for their colleague, Bob Hazelton. The only problem is for his retirement, Bob wants to meet Ryan Reynolds. Reynolds partnered with the Terry Fox Foundation earlier this year, a charity close to Bob's heart. 

The people living in tents on University Avenue near Dalhousie have to move before November 1. We talk to Halifax's director of housing and homelessness about what went into this decision, and the city's plan is for the unhoused community as the weather turns colder. 

Designating Clayton Park as a Pallet shelter site has unsettled some people living nearby, since the location is close to a school, a library, and two sports facilities. It's not the first shelter village to draw concerns from neighbours. We hear how Beacon House staff had to work diligently to shift perceptions about a Pallet shelter site in Lower Sackville. 

Darce Fardy was a journalist and champion of freedom of information. In his 80s, Darce was diagnosed with dementia and started writing about life with the disease for the Chronicle Herald. His son, Peter Fardy, talks about how those writings have been collected for a new book.