Mainstreet Cape Breton

Cape Breton is looking at getting a PET Scanner for the Cape Breton Cancer Care Centre. The technology is advanced and can save lives. It could also save many people from traveling to Halifax who may be too ill or may not be able to afford it. For more about this, we spoke to Dr. Elwood MacMullin. He's the Medical Director of the Cape Breton Cancer Care Centre and the Co-Lead of Cancer Care for the Eastern Health Zone of Nova Scotia.

The island's female hockey association has been awarded $50,000 to help increase diversity, equity and inclusion in the sport.

We chat with Alexander MacLeod about his new collection of short stories.

For the past several years, a group of women have presented their own hand made awards to some of the unsung heroes behind the East Coast Music Awards -- the mothers of the artists on stage. We get the story from one of the first recipients of the EC-MAMA award, Debbie Mullins.

Cabaret opens on Thursday night at the Highland Arts Theatre in Sydney. We talk with the show production team about the history of the production, and why it still has resonance today.

We drop by an English conversation group hosted by the YMCA's YREACH immigrant settlement program and meet some of the new Cape Bretoners taking part.

We update the Cape Breton Music Industry Cooperative's efforts to launch a Cape Breton Music Hall of Fame.

With Cape Breton University set to create new degree programs in social work, we ask about the role social workers play on our island.

The Breton Ability Centre in Sydney River has plans to develop a public walking trail on its property with the help of $10,000 from the Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation's community investment program.

We delve into the pages of a new Cape Breton literary magazine, with a conversation with editor and publisher James Thompson.