Mainstreet Cape Breton

Today, the Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi'kmaq Chiefs extended a state of emergency until Tuesday, September 29th. This follows incidents surrounding the Mi'kmaq lobster fishery near Digby. In the meantime, the lead of the Land, Wildlife and Forestry Department chief Rod Googoo issued a release about the moose hunt. Chief Googoo joined Mainstreet to tell us about that.

We are continuing our roundtables with people who are putting their names forward to represent Cape Breton. We're in Cape Breton Regional Municipality in District 5, which is commonly known as the downtown area of Sydney. Five people are running in this district and they are Christina Joe, Nigel Kearns, Shawn Lesnick, Eldon MacDonald, and Scott MacQuarrie.

We are continuing our roundtables with people who are putting their names forward to represent Cape Breton. We're in Cape Breton Regional Municipality in District 5, which is commonly known as the downtown area of Sydney. Five people are running in this district and they are Christina Joe, Nigel Kearns, Shawn Lesnick, Eldon MacDonald, and Scott MacQuarrie.

We look at District 4 in the CBRM. A little less than 10 thousand people live in the area. It covers roughly 54 square kilometers. This is a largely residential district, single family dwellings, although there is industrial and commercial development in the area. It includes the: communities of Edwardsville and Westmount, part of the community of Coxheath, the community of Sydney River, and Prime Brook north of Highway 125. There are three candidates in this district and the candidates are Yianni Harbis, Donelda Johnson, and incumbent Steve Gillespie.

We have two Cape Breton icons of sorts. These two comedians do everything from comedic videos,

music and Digital creators for CBC Comedy. Justine Williamson and Greg Vardy, also known as Tracy and Martina are with us to fill us in on their next project.

Over the next few weeks, we'll be talking to the people running for office in various municipal districts in the CRBM and across the island.

For our very first candidates debate - we're going to hear from the candidates in district 2 of the CBRM.

That's the district that takes in North Sydney, Little Bras d'Or, Point Aconi, Millville and Southside Boularderie.

There are two people running - the incumbent, Earlene MacMullin, and Jim Dunphy.

Biologist Jessica MacSween is leading a kick-netting event for youth. Kick-netting is a technique used to sample macroinvertebrates in waterways. This technique helps us better understand the health of a stream.

A new 7,700 square foot welcome/cultural centre will be built and will be opened year round. It will include such things as an orientation exhibit, archive, and gift shop. A new 500 square foot shingle mill will also be built and be fully operational.

There will also be multiple renovations to other structures around the museum such as their current visitor centre. That will be used to preserve the Gaelic Nova Scotia provincial collection.

The filmmaker behind the documentary about the Gabarus seawall, Only 78, has a new film showing as part of the Halifax Film Festival. Citizen of Moria, by Jawad Mir and Ahmad Ebrahimi , tells the story of Ahmad's experience in Europe's worst Refugee Detention Camp, Moria, and his hopes of finding asylum in Europe or Canada.

The Celtic Colours International Festival has announced the line up for its 2020 event "At Home", a series of concerts streamed to your home.