Mainstreet Cape Breton

We preview a new online play by playwright Scott Sharplin and director Sheila Christie that uses Zoom to connect performers with audience members. The production was created for this year's Lumiere Art at Night festival.

We check in with Cape Breton University Students' Union president Amrinder Singh to find out what frosh week looked like this year, and how students are coping with remote learning.

We meet one of the owners of "La Shed", a new art gallery that opened this summer in the small sea-side community of Gabarus.

Bargain hunters can return to the weekly flea market at the North Sydney mall this Sunday. General manager Jim Corbett explains the pandemic measures that will be in place.

Festival artistic director Rebecca Slayter Silver gives us preview, with a run down of this year's stellar line-up, and plans for hosting authors and audience members amid the pandemic.

Paula MacNeil is the new Chief Executive Officer of the the Cape Breton Regional Hospital Foundation.

As school band programs try to figure out what pandemic protocols to put in place to keep students safe, the president of the Nova Scotia Band Association shares the latest research on how to reduce aerosol spread in music rooms.

As we launch a new season of the People's School, Prof. Tom Urbaniak looks at how the lessons of our elders who were refugees or displaced persons as children can help us build healthier, more welcoming communities today.

Chairmen of the Library Fundraising committee Pat Bates joined Mainstreet to talk about some of the updates on where their committee is on the new library project. He also spoke about how this topic could be a talking point in the upcoming municipal election.

The CBRM heavy garbage pickup will happen next month. A date has not yet been chosen.That will be announced after the contract is awarded for the work. The CBC's George Mortimer spoke with Francis Campbell CBRM Solid Waste Manager. Charlotte Campbell is a crafter and she spoke with George about how she's been able to recover and refurbish a lot of stuff from heavy garbage over the past 10 years.