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The 33rd annual Halifax Fringe Festival is just around the corner. It begins on Aug. 30 and runs until Sept. 10. Venue locations range from places like the Neptune Theatre to the Cambridge Battery. Host Jeff Douglas spoke with Sara Graham, the executive director of Halifax Fridge to learn more.

Tory Rushton is the Minister of Natural Resources and Renewables. He spoke with Jeff Douglas about the provincial government's stance on the Atlantic Loop project, the province's net-zero goals, and working with the federal government.

Retired history teacher Teresa Kewachuk helps run The Thinkers Lodge in Pugwash. It's a think-tank of sorts formed in the 1950s connected to Joseph Rotblat, The Manhattan Project, and the international movement to ban nuclear weapons.

August marks two years since the United States and its allies left Afghanistan and the Taliban took over. Just last week, the Taliban issued a decree banning girls as young as Grade 3 from classrooms. Murwarid Ziayee, with the Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan spoke with host Jeff Douglas about why there's an extreme need for more international support.

There's an investigation underway to determine whether or not the old Morvan Road dump in the south-end of Shelburne has contributed to high cancer rates and deaths in the nearby, largely African Nova Scotian, community. Mainstreet's Alex Guye went down there to learn more about the study from people involved during a recent town hall.

The Nova Scotia branch of the Canadian Federation of Students is planning an event and inviting student organizers and activists from across Halifax to come "together in the hopes of building a radical student community together." Host Jeff Douglas spoke with Aideen Reynolds, the Nova Scotia chair, about why now is the right time to rebuild a strong student movement.

You might be noticing you can't access or share news stories on Facebook or Instagram anymore. In response to Canada's new Online News Act, their parent company Meta has started blocking Canadian news from their sites. Host Jeff Douglas spoke with Tim Bousquet, the editor of the Halifax Examiner, about how it's affecting independent online news organizations.

The writer Jane Friedman made headlines earlier this month when she discovered fraudulent books were available on Amazon under her name. She suspects they were written by AI, and has had a hard time getting them taken down. Host Jeff Douglas spoke with Phil Moscovitch, president of the Writers Federation of Nova Scotia, to discuss challenges AI poses for writers.

A story of queer homecoming won this year's Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award. Its author, KR Byggdin, joins host Jeff Douglas to talk about their debut novel Wonder World in advance of a reading and conversation at the Glitter Bean Cafe in Halifax.

It's believed there are some 27,000 Canadian soldiers still missing in action with no known grave. According to St. Mary's University archaeology professor Aaron Taylor, Canada does not actively search for MIAs. He joined host Jeff Douglas to explain why he wants that to change.