The province is reducing claw backs for people on social assistance who work, live with family, or receive child support. Shelley Petit is chair of New Brunswick Coalition for Persons with Disabilities she speaks with host Julia Wright about what's missing from yesterday's announcement.

Dee Stubbs-Lee is the New Brunswick Museum's only full-time conservator. But over the summer, she had another set of hands. Emma Griffiths is a masters student from Queen's University.

Some people are upset with the Higgs government for its recent pandemic management. Host Julia Wright speaks with Simon Bacon, a behavioural medicine professor at Concordia University about this growing anger. He studies how people respond to public health policy.

Manju Varma is the province's newly appointed commissioner on systemic racism.

Chris Curwin is with the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada - New Brunswick chapter, and the Saint John Astronomy Club. He also runs the Astronomy by the Bay social media channels.

Kim Ospechook with Axil Gardens speaking with the CBC's Cindy Grant.

Host Julia Wright speaks with artist Rhonda Simmons, a descendent of Black Loyalists, about her exhibit. Mind, Body, Spirit of the Enslaved focuses on what enslaved people stood for and were about. Simmons says they were constantly underestimated.

Some brand new buildings planned for Waterloo Village aim to help people who are housing insecure. Host Julia Wright speaks with Kevin McDonald. McDonald chairs of the board of Steepleview Developments Incorporated. The group is behind a new development set for 31 Cliff Street in Waterloo Village.

With rising COVID cases and hospitalizations host Julia Wright asks immunologist Rod Russell about how a vaccinated person should change their behaviors. We hear which activities he thinks are risky and which are fairly safe.

The last stretch of the Fundy Trail Parkway is open, the Alma Connector Road, that joins St. Martins to Alma. It's a very personal milestone for Beverley Franklin who's father the later Mitchell Franklin worked on the Fundy Trail for decades. She tells host Julia Wright with this milestone means to her.