Mainstreet Cape Breton

Seeking Council is our weekly spotlight on municipal politics in Cape Breton. We spoke with Victoria County councillors Larry Dauphinee and Wayne Budge.

CBRM councillors voted unanimously to release the minutes of four in-camera meetings; but decided against releasing audio tapes of those in camera meetings. Tom Urbaniak is a professor of political science at Cape Breton University. He spoke to us about these in-camera meetings.

When are closed door meeting acceptable at the municipal level? Can they decide anything, or do they have to come out of cmera..go public again to make a motion..or can they make motions and vote ont hem in camera?

Darren Bruckswagger says municipalities are at a disadvantage because they don't have caucus meetings as provincial and federal elected officials do

This municipallllllity has gone to in camera session a number of times....what do you read into that...a secretive council..,Does a municipality need this mechansim?

How should we be thinking about this?

-30-

Cassidy Bernard was found dead in her home on the First Nation on October 24th. The RCMP has not said the death was a homicide; they describe it as suspicious.

In part two of our new series 'Stories from Work' Joan Weeks chats with waitress Brenda Goldie. She lives in Halifax and is currently working at a well known coffee chain.

Seeking Council is our weekly spotlight on municipal politics in Cape Breton. We spoke with Port Hawkesbury Mayor Brenda Chisholm-Beaton.

Two World War One veterans tell their stories in their own voices. Audio courtesy of Ron Caplan.

Drake Batherson made his NHL debut Thursday for the Senators in fine form. He had the winning goal for Ottawa in a 2-1 victory at home over the Detroit Red Wings. He took some time today to talk to Wendy Bergfeldt.

It's take your child to work day! At CBC Cape Breton we welcomed Gabe Sutherland & Erin Williams. Gabe shadowed Information Morning and Erin stuck around for Mainstreet. Here she is chatting with Wendy Bergfeldt.

In part one of our new series 'Stories from Work' Joan Weeks takes us to visit Borden's Barber Shop in Whitney Pier.

This Sunday, just before the moment of silence that will mark 100 years since Armistice, people observing Remembrance Day services will hear "The Last Post." A British Bugle call, it was first played for a funeral in Canada in the 1800's. Since the end of the First World War, it has become tied to public Nov 11th Commemorations. It's a practice that did not start with the military. It began with an anonymous bugler, somewhere on the streets of London in 1919.

Alwyn Turner is a cultural historian who has written several books about military music, including "The Last Post: Music, Remembrance and the Great War." He joins us from his office in Chichester, West Sussex, England.