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Glace Bay school band leaves Sunday to play in Florida at Disney World. Every three years the students get the opportunity of a lifetime to play at Disney World. It took a lot of hard work, fundraising and dedication to have this opportunity and they told us what they did to make it happen.

Lasting landscapes it's an opportunity to preserve historic land; as part of that, the Nova Scotia Nature Trust put some funding aside called The Nature Fund that is to encourage conservation partners and other levels of government to step up and help them reach a really ambitious target of protecting 17 percent of Canada by 2020. There is a fundraising campaign underway now to get them closer to that goal.

Bonnie Sutherland the executive director of Nova Scotia in Nature Trust

Now the public donates some money and governments donate some money toward this project but it turns out that there's an unexpected four hundred thousand dollars on the table. If the trust can raise a

We have a new segment called `Vital Conversations.' This is a series of panel discussions with young Cape Bretoner's who have either won, or have been nominated for the Vital Awards...which are sponsored by the NextGen Leadership Society, in collaboration with the Cape Breton Partnership.

Richmond County councillor James Goyetche, represents district 1, which includes Petit De Grat and Arichat East.

Photographer Warren Gordon celebrates 45 years snapping photos. He has captured some of the most iconic images of this island...from the winding Cabot Trail to the deep in the coal mines.

Christina Lamey, chair of Hockey Nova Scotia's women's executive, speaks about the closure of the Canadian Women's Hockey League.

Sydney Victoria MP Mark Eyking says things have gone too far with the SNC-Lavalin scandal.

In part two of our conversation with Michelle Sylliboy, the We'koqma'q artist talks about how her new exhibition of photographs, and her new book of poetry, were inspired by the written language of her ancestors.

An unusual art exhibition opens at the Cape Breton Centre for Craft and Design this weekend. We'koqma'q artist Michelle Sylliboy asked people, "If you could speak to a whale, what would you say?" She then carved those messages onto whale bones using Mi'kmaw hieroglyphics.

This week, Cape Breton composer Scott MacMillan will present a new electric guitar concerto as part of a Symphony Nova Scotia concert with Ashley MacIsaac.